RHA approves committee
to discuss, solve problems
By David Burchell
Staff Reporter
Recognizing flaws in the organi
zation of FINK Week, the Residence
Hall Association voted Sunday night
to create an ad-hoc committee to
improve RHA’s Orientation Week.
The bill states that the program
“has traditionally suffered from a
lack of long-range planning, central
coordination and communication
between complexes and with hous
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The committee will discuss prob
lems with past orientation weeks and
ways that the program can be organ
ized over the summer.
One problem has been that organ
izers of the former FINK (Friends
Introducing New Kids) Week were
not around in the summer to deal with
problems, said Giles Schildt, RHA
vice president.
Last year, Schildt said, no one was
appointed to lead the program when
summer began. Nobody was inter
ested at the time, he said.
As a result, no official from the
program was available to answer
questions about the program as a whole
over the summer.
Part of the problem is high turn
over among senators, he said. Only
about six of the 40 seats were filled by
incumbents this year, Schildt said.
Consequently, few senators think
they have the experience to lead a
function such as orientation week, he
said.
In other RHA business, Schildt
said that many positions still are open
on RHA senate.
At least one senator’s scat is open
for each hall, he said.
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[ UNL sponsors NATO nitrate workshop
The University of Nebraska
Lincoln is sponsoring a workshop
through Thursday on “Nitrate
Contamination: Exposure, Conse
quences and Control.”
About 50 experts on nitrate
contamination of groundwater from
the North Atlantic Treaty Organi
zation are in Lincoln for the NATO
Advanced Research Workshop at
the Comhusker Hotel, 333 S. 13th
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The workshop is designed to
discuss the magnitude, health ef
Ifects and high cost of controlling
nitrate contamination of ground
water.
The experts from NATO coun
tries wili present their views in
sessions at which the risks associ
ated with nitrate contamination will
be evaluated and ways of control
moving nitrates from drinking water
will be discussed.
The NATO workshop is one of
about 50 advanced research work
shops sponsored by NATO in par
ticipant countries each year.
UNL Chancellor and Interim NU
President Martin Massengale hosted
the opening session of the work
shop Sunday night. State Sen. Loran
Schmit of Bellwood will discuss
Nebraska’s water problems before
the group today.
Financing for the NATO work
shop is provided by NATO, the
Nebraska Water Quality Research
Initiative, the National Science
Foundation, the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency, the U.S. De
partment of Agriculture and sev
eral UNL sources, including the
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Beginning midnight Friday,
Sept 7
12:18 a.m. - Obscene phone calls,
Schramm Residence Hall.
8:33 a.m. - Accidentally tripped
security alarm, NU president’s
residence.
9:54 a.m. - Party slapped, third
degree assault, Selleck Quadrangle.
3:17 p.m. -- Theft of car battery,
18th and R streets, $50.
3:56 p.m. - Theft of purse from
McCollum Hall, $60.
11:20 p.m. - Follow-up on ob
scene phone calls, Schramm Resi
dence Hall.
Beginning midnight Saturday,
Sept. 8
12:44 a.m. - Money found, Abel
Residence Hall maintenance of
fice, $262.50.
2:27 a.m. - Damaged reserve stall
sign, Sandoz Residence Hall lot,
$10.
11:46 a.m. - Cash stolen, Tau
Kappa Epsilon, $160.
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Kappa Epsilon, $21.
4:56 p.m. - Check stolen, Tau
Kappa Epsilon, $1.
5:22 p.m. - Table stolen, Sigma
Alpha Mu, $100.
6:13 p.m. ~ Net cut down, banner
tom, Memorial Stadium, $700.
6:25 p.m. -- Glass in door broken,
Nebraska Union, $300.
8:32 p.m ~ Car pushed out of the
stall, Harper-Schramm-Smith com
plex, no damage noted.
8:49 p.m. -- Car damaged, Sandoz
Residence Hall meters, $50.
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director, said guidelines for estab
lishing the priorities were academic
programs, building evaluations,
campus priorities and emergency
needs.
The top priority project is renova
tion of Burnett Hall on UNL’s City
Campus, which is estimated to cost
$5.9 million.
The project started in 1989 as a
project to remove asbestos from
Burnett, Pazdcrka said. The asbestos
removal required more work than
anticipated, he said, when workers
discovered the need for repairs to
electrical wiring, plumbing and other
utilities in the building. A total reno
vation of the more than 40-year-old
building is necessary, he said.
Utility improvements for UNL and
the Institute of Agriculture and Natu
ral Resources at a cost of $3.2 million
ranked as second priority, followed
by renovation of the University of
Nebraska at Omaha’s Arts and Sci
ences building at $8.6 million.
Other capital construction projects
and their estimated costs include, in
order of priority:
• $6.5 million for universitywide
projects to meet fire and safety codes.
• $5.2 million for a classroom
building at KSC.
• $23.5 million for construction
and renovation of the Basic Science
Research facility at the University of
Nebraska Medical Center.
• $6.7 million for renovation and
replacement of greenhouses at UNL
East and City campuses.
• $2.9 million for the Agricultural
Research and Development Center
headquarters building at Mead. The
regents combined the 13th priority,
$4.9 million for UNL and IANR re
search facility projects, with this
project, narrowing the priorities list
to 13.
• S2.7 million for improvement of
substandard classrooms and class
laboratories throughout the univer
sity.
• S1.9 million for remodeling of
Allwine Hall at UNO.
• $9.7 million for renovation to
Richards Hall at UNL.
• $3.6 million for renovation of
KSC’s Copeland Hall.
• $1 million for completion of
Phase II of the Walter Scott Engi
neering Center link at UNL.
In other business, the regents:
• Fired Dolores Martin, a UNL
associate professor of economics, citing
failure to perform faculty duties.
• Amended Board of Regents
bylaws to allow more than 12 voting
members on the presidential search
committee. The board then voted to
allow the Kearney State College fac
ulty representative on the committee
to vote.
• Approved the design document
for Phase III of the Campus Recrea
tion project to renovate the Coliseum
and Mabel Lee Hall.
• Approved development of the
Rural Health Education Network by
UNMC.
• Approved Hawkins Construc
tion Company’s bid of about $9.3
million to construct the Fine Arts
Education Building at UNO. Ground
breaking is expected in early October
with completion set for the fall of
1992.
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the affirmative steps it has taken” to
observe those standards, set in Ne
braska Revised Statute 72-1275.
State funds cannot be invested in
businesses investing in South Africa
unless they satisfy certain standards.
The business must not have segre
gated eating or work facilities, must
have fair employment practices for
all employees, must have equal pay
for all employees doing equal or
comparable work and must develop
training programs to prepare minori
ties for supervisory, administrative,
clerical and technical jobs. They also
must include representation of mi
norities in management and supervi
sory positions in proportion to their
percentage of the total population,
and must improve the quality of
employees’ lives outside work, in
cluding housing, transportation, edu
cation, recreation and health care.
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today without a Macintosh. Sometimes I have so many
assignments, that I barely have time for sleep. Yet my
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without making sacrifices.
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