Phase III of OCR project
moved to Mabel Lee Hall
By Victoria Ayotte
Senior Reporter
The Appropriations Committee of
the Nebraska Legislature on Thurs
day approved housing Phase III of the
Office of Cam pus
Recreation project
in Mabel Lee Hall
instead of the NU
Coliseum.
University of
Nebraska-Lincoln
Vice Chancellors
James Griescn and
Jack Goebel pro
posed the changes, _
which they said were necessary after
re-evaluation of the project.
Phase III of the project had called
for renovation of the Coliseum to
contain olficcs, labs and storage for
the School of Health, Physical Edu
cation and Recreation; a training room
for athletics; classrooms; space for
the women’s intercollegiate volley
ball and softball programs; men’s and
women’s locker rooms and saunas; a
combative arts room; and a multi
purpose courts and activity room.
i
In the measure approving the proj
ect, the Coliseum had been named as
the location for Phase III. Griesen and
Goebel requested that Mabel Lee be
included after they found the Coli
seum would not meet the needs of the
project.
Seating capacity for the volleyball
arena needs to be greater than what
could be accommodated in the origi
nal plan, Griesen said. The aesthetics
of the building also would be harmed
by the Coliseum’s renovation, he said.
Cost also was a factor in the deci
sion. Phase III, projected to cost $5.9
million, would cost $200,000 more
than expected if the Coliseum were
retained as the cite.
If Mabel Lee were used, a savings
of $440,000 is expected, bringing the
total cost down to $5.46 million.
University officials found that
remodeling Mabel Lee “might be a
better way to do the job,” Goebel
said.
The project is financed by the
athletic department and operation costs
are paid for by student fees. No tax
dollars are used, Griesen said.
Program makes UNL
a smaller community
By Cindy Wostrel
Staff Reporter
A new program on the Univer
sity of Nebraska-Lincoln campus
would make the university a
“smaller community” if all goes
well, according to the director of
the Counseling Center.
Vernon Williams said Thurs
day the program, ‘‘Common
Ground,” would bring students and
faculty members together in cam
pus living units to talk about topics
that concern them.
Faculty members came up with
the idea when they asked, “What
could we do to make this campus
seem more like a community?”
Williams said.
the program would allow fac
ulty members to talk about movies
or lectures with interested students,
he said. The topic could be any
thing intellectual, he said, from
social issues to politics.
Williams said he would like to
believe the whole campus will
become involved in the program,
but he’s not sure how many people
actually will participate.
The group hopes to sponsor a
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Thursday. Such action had been taken
by the Legislature before in a case
where the bill originally had been on
final reading, was returned to select
file, and again advanced to final read
ing, he said.
Senators then advanced the bill to
final reading and passed it.
Sen. Don Wesely of Lincoln sup
ported the advancement He said he
understood the action taken by La
bed/ and other supporters of the motion,
Sens. Carol Pirsch, Lorraine Langford
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two years in advance of the year in
which the courses arc offered.
Scou said the multi-cultural course
still is in the “idea stage.” She said it
has not even gone through AS UN’s
Curriculum and Instruction Commit
tee.
Several other Midwestern univer
sities are in the process of approving
a required cultural diversity course or
already have one in place.
Ernest Champion, associate pro
fessor of political science at Bowling
Green Slate University in Ohio, said
his university is close to making cul
tural diversity courses a requirement.
But he said BGSU’s program is
different from others because students
and Jennie Robak, as “desire to seek
revenge.”
The bill is important, Wcsely said,
especially to North Omaha.
“I know the intent is to hurt Emic
(Chambers)... but let’s think about
who we are hurting here,” Wesely
said.
Pirsch said the 3 1/2-hour filibus
ter was “reflective of the frustra
tion” she and other senators felt at
other filibusters which worked against
their bills.
Pirsch said she found she has the
“guts” for filibustering, “but I’ve
discovered I don’t have the heart for
it.” _ ____
aren’t forced to take an ethnic studies
course. Instead, students can take
courses in history, English, geogra
phy or political science that specifi
cally deal with cultural diversity. For
example, students can take an Eng
lish course in black literature or a
Chicano-Amcrican history course.
Champion said his department has
been working on the course for al
most five years, and it will be avail
able for incoming freshmen in 1991.
Gerri Parreaull, College of Liberal
Arts curriculum coordinator at the
University of Minnesota, said the
college has a two-course requirement
for all its students except those trying
to cam bachelor of science degrees.
She said students pursuing a science
degree do not have the requirement
because it would add too much to
their required course list.
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have an impact.
“Anybody that saw us walking
down the street, saw the signs and
responded, whether negative, posi
tive or apathetic,” she said.
Diane Shur, a crane painter for
National Crane Corporation of
Waverly, said more people should
have been involved, especially
women of color and poor women,
because they arc most affected.
Shur, who is from Omaha, said
women who do manual labor have
a hard lime keeping their jobs if
denied reproductive rights.
Eldonna Rayburn, a coordina
tor of the National Student Action
Day and member of UNL’s Stu
dents for Choice, which sponsored
the event, said it was important to
get students involved.
“Students will be student lead
ers,” she said. “If they are active
now then they wi 11 be active later. ’ ’
Group protests low numbers
of minority and women faculty
By Kara Wells
Staff Refjoner
Members of the Multi-Cultural
Legal Society had a petition drive
Thursday to protest the low num
ber of minority and women faculty
members at the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln.
Shirley Jones, co-chairperson of
the society, said the group wants to
encourage UNL administrators to
hire more racial minorities and
women.
A survey recently conducted by
the Omaha World-Herald shows
UNL has the fewest number of
black faculty professors, eight, in
the Big Eight.
The members handed out black
arm bands at the College of Law on
East Campus and asked students to
sign a petition encouraging UNL
administrators to hire a more di
verse faculty.
Jones said the society wants to
get as many signatures as possible.
The petition will be given to Har
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