RALLY from Page 1
Some students have even been
forced to miss classes because they
were driving around looking for park
ing places when class began, he said.
It’s a bunch of crap," Bruning
said.
Bart Vitek, a senator from the
College of Business Administration,
told students that some of die parking
lots arc located too far from campus.
Vitek said the university should
provide shuttle buses to bring stu
dents to campus.
While senators spoke at the rally,
members of Early Warning! passed
out flyers suggesting students get to
campus in ways less damaging to the
environment.
Nell Eckersiey, publicist for the
student group, said the solution ® the
parking problem is not to build more
parking spaces, but to have more
students nde bicycles and use public
transportation.
Eckersiey said money spent to
build more parking spaces could be
better used to make bicycle paths and
increase public transportation serv
ices.
AS UN senators also circulated
petitions during the rally that de
manded Chancellor Martin Massen
gale and Goebel give "immediate
and priority attention" to the parking
situation.
Hill said he didn t know how
many students signed the petitions,
which will continue to be circulated.
Massengale and James Griesen,
vice chancellor for student affairs,
were out of town and could not be
reached for comment
Lt John Burke, UNL parking
administrator, said ho was pleased
that the puking rally went peace
fully.
“Everyone has a right to express
their concern," he said.
Burke said he thinks the rally and
student input at recent Parking Advi
sory Committee emergency sessions
has caused officials to work more
quickly at reaching parking solu
tions.
At the second emergency session,
Burke said, students expressed safety
concerns about lighting for the Area 1
lot southwest of 19th and Vine
streets.
Engineers and architects now are
working on a $39,000 lighting design
for that lot with money that has been
taken from parking development
funds, he said. *
Although lighting projects for
other lots also arc being studied
Burke said, student concerns made
lighting that lot a high priority.
Burke said the Area 3 lot at 14th
and New Hampshire streets also has
been converted from a residence hall
parking lot to a residence hall and
commuter student parking lot
I nat change was made iucsday,
Burke said, and a UNL, police officer
directed between 75 anq 100 students
from die Area 20 lot to the Area 3 lot
Wednesday. Both permit holders
from areas 3 and 20 will be able to use
that lot, he said.
Another change made Wednesday
created about 50 commuter stalls
west of the Business Services Center,
he said.
Burke said the lot, which was pre
viously vacant and used by semi
trucks unloading supplies at the cen
ter's dock, will be open to Area 20
permit holders.
The lot was not extended any far
ther north than it is now because
semi-truck drivers will need the re
maining area to back up to the cen
ter's loading docks, he said.
Another 66 stalls will be available
in the lot north of the power plant to
all permit holders, Burke said.
That lot previously had been
closed because some cars parked
there suffered minor paint damage
from mist released by power plant
. coolers.
Signs, which were ordered
Wednesday, will be posted to warh
drivers of the mist The lot will be
* opened when the signs arrive, he said.
Burke said he also is studying the
feasibility of adding a shuttle bus and
building a parking structure.
But he said some of the larger
parking projects will require more
money than is available now.
”3 think it's time to look for legis
lative aid,” lie said.
FORUM from Page 1
Lincoln Mayor Bill Harris said the
city is focusing an anti-drug and anti
urng campaign on Lincoln junior
nigh schools because 'that age group
is where most habits are formed.
The Mayor's Youth Advisory
Committee, composed of junior high
students from around the city, is one
project that has prompted many ideas
for combatting drugs and gangs,
Harris said.
He said the city also has assigned
one member of the Lincoln Police
force, officer John Ways, to deal only
with drugs and gangs.
Gray said providing successful
role models or ‘mentors” for young
Macks and learning to internet with
them is the key to combatting drugs
and gangs.
Building more jails and hiring
inert? police officers is not the an
swer, he said.
WYOMING from Page 1
personal contact with students, more
publications and travel farther to try
to recruit Hispanic students and all
student groups.
This year, UNL has a total enroll
ment of23,926, according to UNL’s
Institute of Research and Planning.
Of that number, 21,965 are non-His
panic whites and 255, or 1 percent,
are of Hispanic origin.
The university defines Hispanic
"a person of Mexican, Puerto Rican,
Cuban, Central or South American or
other Spanish culture or origin, re
gardless of race."
Jimmi Smith, director of the Of
fice of Multi-Cultural Affairs, said
his office tries to "encourage stu
dents to let them know that our uni
versity could serve their needs," but
he said it'does not actually try to
recruit minority students to UNL.
Instead, the office encourages stu
dents, including Hispanic students in
western Nebraska, to go on to any
secondary institution.
"We do travel out west," Smith
said. He said his office began visiting
western Nebraska in 1971 and has
continued to do so periodically.
While in western Nebraska, he said,
the staff talks especially to Hispanic
and other minority students. Since
1971, however, "our resources have
dwindled. You want to do more but
there are fewer resources," Smith
said.
"We push the institution to bring
in more students of color," Smith
said.
Part of the reason Panhandle His
panics go to UW, he said, is that many
of them feel more akin to zhat univer
sity
Miles said students in western
Nebraska may go to UW because of
demographics, economics and
knowledge of the schools.
Schmidt said many teachers in
western Nebraska are graduates of
the University of Wyoming, so stu
dents are exposed to UW through
them.
UW officials aren’t much mote
aggressive than UNL officials,
Schmidt said. Many Hitpa^c stu
dents wish to attend UW because it’s
closer and it’sagood school, she mid.
Smith and Schmidt agreed that
word-of-mouth recruitment may be
the best recruitment for UNL.
“If every minority (student)
brought another minority student to
campus, we could double our (minor
ity enrollment) almost immedi
ately,'’ Smith said.
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