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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 (
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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
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/ 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
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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.