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I Spring Breakdown
Fort Lauderdale, S. Padre,
Daytona, & Winter Park: 21
Cancun: 18 on cruise ships
Mexico; Mexico does
not have a
J Ft. Lauderdale
South Padre Island
Flight from Omaha to Harlington, Tex.- $393
midweek, $443 weekend. (2 weeks advance notice).
From Kansas City-$182 midweek, $202 weekend.
(3 weeks advance notice).
*Motel rooms are more than $70 per night,
s*- Cancun
Out of Kansas City packages: 3 night
double downtown-$269, 3 night double on
the beach is $339. 1 week double
downtown-$359.
Flight from Lincoln-$271
midweek, $308 weekends.
Minimum motel-over $70 a
night; damage deposit
required.
Daytona Beach
Flight from Lincoln-$271
midweek, $319 weekends
(2 week advance notice).
Source: Good
Lite, Tour &
Travel.
John anice/Deliv Nebraakan
Spring Break
Students seek fun, sun, snow, low air fares
By Trish Spencer
Staff Reporter
About every four years, spring break
ers set out in search of new destina
tions, and this year it’s Mexico or
bust, according to Lincoln travel agents.
South Padre Island, Texas, has been the
Spring Break hot spot for about 10 years,
Laurie Clark of Younkers Travel Agency
said, but this year students in search of warm
beaches are headed for Cancun, Mexico.
Many of the flights to Cancun were booked
before Christmas because of the low-priced
flights students were able to obtain out of
Kansas City, Mo., Leslie Randecker of
Younkers Travel Agency said.
The beach at Cancun is one of its main
attractions, she said. In addition, students
like the low prices they find in Mexico and
enjoy being in a foreign country without
traveling far from the United States.
Low prices also attract many students to
skiing resorts in Colorado. Barb Ludwig of
Lincoln Tour and Travel said Winter Park,
Colo., is a popular Spring Break destination
because students can take Amtrak directly
there from Lincoln.
Florida and Texas still receive the main
onslaught of spring breakers each year, but
some students find it hard to vacation in
Florida because regulations do not allow
anyone under age 21, or 25 in some cases, to
rent a hotel room, Clark said.
Sgt. Bill Tillard of the Daytona Beach
Police Department said the age restrictions
were implemented to curb the problems
caused by alcohol.
Only .5 percent of Daytona spring break
ers actually arc arrested, with most of the
arrests for public consumption of alcohol,
disorderly conduct resulting from alcohol
and other liquor law violations, Tillard said.
The event, which Tillard compared to
“hosting Super Bowls for eight weeks,”
takes a special task force to keep things
See SPRING BREAK on 3
Cigarette tax
funds battle
I lighting up
| By Dionne Searcey
I Staff Reporter
Tough competition for cigarette tax reve
nues that NU is relying on for capital
construction is putting a damper on
prospects for building the George W. Beadle
Center for Genetics and Biomaterials Research.
The Nebraska Legislature’s Appropriations
Committee will hear testimony today on about
five bills vying for Nebraska cigarette tax reve
nues.
The University of Nebraska is requesting $6
million from the stale to provide matching
funds for construction of the Beadle Center.
The 56 million is needed to match $17.7 mil
lion in federal funds.
Gov. Ben Nelson said NU might have to use
money within its own budget to finance the 56
million in matching funds for construction of
the Beadle Center, billed as a facility to give
Nebraska foremost biotechnology research
capabilities.
NU Regent Don Blank of McCook said
Nelson was simply stating an “absolute worst
case scenario” and did not propose that the
university use money from its own budget.
Blank said Nelson intends to “keep his op
tions open” when deciding budgetary issues.
Nelson has suggested that the cigarette tax
funds be used for Drison construction
Marion O’Leary, director of the Center for
Biological Chemistry at the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln, said the university could
! not finance the $6 million for a utilities exten
sion and a greenhouse for the center out of its
own budget, because money in the budget is
committed to departments, programs and people
at NU.
O’Leary said that if NU does not receive the
matching funds from the state, construction
plans might be delayed. He said U.S. Depart
ment of Agriculture federal funds must be used
this year or could be lost.
“If we did not get the $6 million, we’ll be in
jeopardy,” O’Leary said.
Irv Omtvcdt, vice chancellor for the Insti
tute of Agriculture and Natural Resources,
agreed, saying, “You can’t go back and ask for
additional USDA funding if the state can’t
satisfy what you’ve already got.”
The project’s total estimated cost is S37
million.
Omtvedt said questions have been raised
about moving the center from its planned loca
tion at 19th and Vine streets to East Campus to
reduce costs. But the building’s architects have
not given “serious consideration” to an alterna
tive locations, and therefore, do not know if
this would reduce construction costs, he said.
Former student
jailed, harassed
volleyball player
By Tabitha Hiner
Senior Reporter
Lancaster County District
Court judge sent a former
University of Nebraska-Lin
coln student to the Lancaster County
Jail on Thursday for harassing a
Nebraska volleyball player.
Judge Jeffre Cheuvront found that
David Brinegar violated an injunc
tion order forbidding him from hav
ing contact with Janet Kruse.
Brinegar will be detained until Sept
21 or earlier if he agrees to comply
with a restraining order that was placed
on him Feb. 20 and modified Feb. 26,
according to the confinement order.
While he is imprisoned, Brinegar
only can make phone calls to his
attorney, the District Court clerk, his
family and people who signify in
writing they want to receive calls
from him, the order states.
The phone calls are to be dialed by
jail personnel, according to the order.
See COURT on 3
Is Saddam gay ? Page 4
Husker men’s sprints coach
says running outdoors should
make a difference in meet at
Louisiana State. Page 6.
Gymnast defies odds against
recovery. Page 7.
Honky-tonk piano man en
chants crowd. Page 8.
Copoelia’ brings love and doll
to life. Page 9.
INDEX
Wire 2
Opinion 4
Sports 6
A&E 8
Classifieds # 10
‘Right direction, ’ Papik says
Report’s in; NCAA making changes
By Michael Hannon
Staff Reporter
Although the recommendations
in the Knight Foundation
Commission on Intercollegiate
Athletics’ report are basically sound,
the NCAA already is working to
achieve many of them, according to
some University of Nebraska offi
cials.
“In general, I support it (the re
port),” said A1 Fapik, Nebraska assis
tant athletic director for administra
tive services and NCAA compliance
coordinator. “I think it is in the right
direction, but it is the direction in
which collegiate athletics has been
going in the past three years.”
The commission report, which was
released Tuesday, suggested that
college administrators have independ
ent control of athletic departments
and their finances.
Commission members also charged
that collegiate athletics have become
ruled by television network contracts
and private fund raising.
Academic standards were suggested
by the commission, including requir
ing student athletes to be scheduled to
graduate within five years.
James O’Hanlon, University of
Nebraska-Lincoln representative to
the NCAA, said, “You have to be
careful not to put requirements on
student athletes that other students
don’t have to meet.”
Current measures to enforce aca
demic standards for student athletes
are performing satisfactorily,
O’Hanlon said, adding he had not
read the report yet.
Papik said graduation rates and
academic profiles of student athletes
at UNL are the same as those for the
general student population.
He said UNL’s record is satisfac
tory. Other issues of concern now are
being worked out, he said.
The commission suggested that
institutions be subjected to outside
audits to ensure compliance with the
recommendations.
O’Hanlon said he agrees with the
commission’s recommendations for
independent audits of athletic depart
ments but added that the policy re
sembles a program recently started
by the NCAA.
The NCAA is beginning a pro
gram for the certification of athletic
departments, O’Hanlon said, and UNL
is among the institutions that have
volunteered for it.
Papik said the commission spent
$2 million and 18 months to come up
with suggestions that already are being
discussed.
“I wasn’t surprised by anything I
heard,” Papik said. But the report
“will be an additional force that will
put more pressure on college presi
dents to become involved.”
Papik said he supports the com
mission’s call for academic standards,
fiscal integrity and certification and
that athletic departments complete
self-studies to indicate they are finan
cially responsible.
NU Athletic Director Bob Deva
ney said he did not think the stale of v
college athletics is as bad as the re
port indicated.
