Tpk T *H «g Nebraskan WEATHER Today, sunny and mild, southwest wind 5-15 miles per hour, with a record or near record high in the low to mid 60s. Tonight, mostly dear, tow 25-30. Wednesday, party doudy and cooler, high near 50 INDEX News Digest.2 Editorial.4 Sports.7 Arts & Entertainment.9 Classifieds.12 December 11, 1990 University of Nebraska-Lincoln Vol. 90 No. 72 Parking consultants present UNL findings By Sara Bauder Schott Senior Reporter Consultants studying parking at the University of Nebraska Lincoln presented their find ings Monday to the Parking Advisory Committee, but their recommenda tions will have to wait. Dick Kenney, vice president of Walker Parking Consultants of Min neapolis, said the consultants cannot make recommendations until they know how parking fits in with the long-range plans of the university. Kenney is meeting with a group trying to update those plans today. He said he should have a better idea of where the university wants to go after the meeting. UNL has a shortage of 3,700 park ing spaces on its two campuses, Kenney said. East Campus actually has a sur plus of about 300 parking spaces, he said. In the study, the consultants found that commuter students are the last priority in parking. Faculty and staff members and residence hall students have their parking demand satisfied, and faculty members get the most convenient parking, he said. Fraternity and sorority members “have their own way” of dealing with parking problems, Kenney said. The greek houses need about 1,700 spots, but request only 700 each year, he said. The lack of commuter spots only can be solved by an expanded shuttle bus system, unless the university is ready to build parking structures all over campus, Kenney said. Reserved parking got a mixed review from the students surveyed by consultants, Kenney said. “Those who have it think it’s great, and those who don’t think it’s the worst thing to ever happen,” he said. Kenney said his personal feeling is that reserved parking is an inefficient use of space. The most efficient way to use parking spaces is to keep them full all the time, Kenney said. Re served parking means fewer people can park in certain areas, he said. Complaints about the lack of visi tor parking are not prompted by a shortage of spaces, Kenney said, but rather by students taking the visitor spots. Students must be kept out of visi torparking spaces, Kenney said. That can be done either through enforce ment or raising meter rates so high that students can’t afford to park there, he said. Another problem, confrontations between vehicles and pedestrians on 16th and 17th streets, has more to do with traffic than parking, Kenney said. Possible solutions to that would be added traffic signals, or to close the two streets, he said. Ray Coffey, business manager for UNL, said the NU Board of Regents and NU President-elect and UNL Chancellor Martin Massengale sup port closing the streets. The group looking at the long-range plans takes for granted the idea that the streets eventually will be closed, he said. O’Brien edges Sapp for NU regent seat By Adeana Leftin Staff Reporter In a race that came down to the wire, Nancy O’Brien defeated Lee Sapp for the District 2 seal Brian Shellito/Daily Nebraskan on the NU Board of Regents. In a recount Friday, O’Brien, a 1 member of the Metropolitan Techni cal Community College Board of ; Directors in Omaha, defeated Sapp, 1 an Omaha businessman, 36,531-36,268 votes, said Vickie Edwards, Douglas 1 County election commissioner. Original election results had showed O’Brien in the lead with 36,506 votes over Sapp, with 36,174 votes, Ed wards said. I Because the difference between ' the tallies was less than 1 percent, ' Nebraska state law required that the ballots be recounted, she said. I In an interview after the original election results were released, O’Brien ’ attributed her lead to “hard work” and 1 said she tried to express her qualifica- j lions to the people. 1 And, she said, she didn’t think Sapp was prepared to be a regent. “He wants to run the university ( See RECOUNTon 6 s Staci McKee/Daily Nebraskan This is December? Chemistiy graduate student Joelle Welleman’s (left) and geology graduate student Heidi Lange sit in front of the NU Coliseum enjoying the warm weather Monday afternoon. Classes urged, not campuses Officials: Out-state education would help non-traditional students By Tabitha Hiner Staff Reporter Continuing education classes for non-traditional students would benefit the communities they serve and wouldn’t lead to separate campuses, UNL and Kearney State College officials said. Irv Omtvedl, vice chancellor for igriculture and natural resources at he University of Nebraska-Lincoln, said that the goal for the proposed cooperative education centers would xc to benefit non-tiadiliona! students vho want to finish degrees or help vith their jobs. A comprehensive study of xistsccondary education in Nebraska cautioned that there was a chance the centers would become separate cam >uses and that legislation should be lasscd to prevent this. “People were ill inking ahead,” 3mtvcdt said. “I think it would be a cal mistake if we could bring these centers on with the idea that we were iringing in four new institutions.” Centers in Scottsbluff, North Platte, 3rand Island and Norfolk are in vari >us stages of development. The report states that “legislation hould contain language that specifi cally prohibits centers from becom ing free-standing, degree-granting institutions of higher education.” The consulting firm Widrnayer and Associates of Chicago presented the “44 - / think it would be a real mistake if we could bring these centers on with the idea that we were bringing in four new institutions. Omtvedt UNL vice chancellor for agriculture and natural re sources -ff - report to a legislative study commit tee in November. Omtvedt said the writers of the report may have been concerned about Kearney State’s current class offer ing in Grand Island. Keamey State College, which will join the NU system July 1, 1991, offers classes at the old Walnut Junior High School in Grand Island, said Gene Koepke, vice president of aca demic affairs ai KSC. Koepke said 55 courses arc of fered al the junior high. “The program we have in Grand Island is basically for the working man or woman who is tied lo the community and is not mobile,” Koepke said. Although it is possible for students to earn degrees* without leaving the junior high, Koepke said, it would take a minimum of 13 semesters to earn one and only a few degrees could be earned in that way “It’s conceivable for a person to cam a degree in that manner, but it would be a very slow, frustrating process because there aren’t enough courses taught there,” Koepke said. General courses arc offered in Grand Island, but upper-level classes gener ally don’t have enough student inter est to be taught at the junior high, he said. So most students at one lime must go to KSC to cam their degrees, Koepke said. If the education centers arc cre ated, KSC would continue its Grand * Island program, but move classes from the junior high to Grand Island Col See CENTERS on 6 Three parties register plans to run for ASUN By Jennifer O’Cilka Senior Reporter With three months to go before student voters cast their ballots for AS UN representatives, three parties have de clared their intentions to run. Bart Vitek, chairman of the Electoral Com mission, said that two of the groups have been approved by the Association of Students of the University of Nebraska. The KEG party has not yet been apptoved by ASUN, but has filed the necessary applica tions with the Electoral Commission, Vitek said. HORIZN and ENERGY have been ap proved by the senate. Two or more people who want to run for ASUN executive, senate or advisory board positions can run together as a student election group, Vitek said. These groups must file an application that includes the name — not exceeding six letters —of the party, the color used for campaigning, a non-discrimination clause and the names of two contact people. Also, the groups must write a brief purpose statement. ENERGY listed J. Matt Wickless, an ASUN criminal justice senator, and Wendy Nielsen, senior, French and English secondary educa tion major, as contact people. The purpose of ENERGY is “to bring together a diverse group of students who share a common goal of want ing to better ASUN. We, the students of EN ERGY, believe we can provide effective lead- I ership in the coming year.” ! HORIZN’s stated purpose is “to give stu dents a more non-polilicized senate slate to i vote for. This is only senate (candidates), no < executives or advisory board, and we will focus primarily on minority involvement, a : more equitable alcohol policy on campus and 1 positive campaigning.” One of the group’s 5 contact people is Colin Theis, a sophomore < English major. ' The KEG party contact and purpose state ment could not be released because the party 1 has not been approved yet by the senate. Vitek said he thought changes it\ Electoral 1 Commission policy had been explained well to candidates and others. “Hopefully, there won’t * >e any problems. There may be some questions lince it’s so new,” Vitek said. The election rules governing contribution cstrictions and dates for campaigning were : hanged. According to the rules, parties may file up to ;ix months before the elections, which are on tfarch 13, 1991. On Jan. 14, the groups can ;tart advertising, organizing and posting brief mllines of their goals in the ASUN office vindow. Starting Feb. 14, which is the filing dead ine, the groups can have booths in the Ne >raska Union and wear buttons, butcannot post >anncrs or signs. Two weeks before the election, the parties nay begin putting up posters around campus.