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Street work
could expand
UNL parking
By Trish Spencer
Staff Reporter
The Lincoln City Council soon
will decide the fate of the 10th
Street viaduct near Memorial
Stadium, which could mean 500 more
parking spaces for student motorists
by 1992, if the university’s proposal
wins.
The proposal supported by the NU
Board of Regents, one of four the
council will consider, calls for a new
viaduct on 9th Street and closing off
10th Street to local traffic. This would
enable the university to make the
10th Street area into hard-surface
parking, UNL Business Manager Ray
Coffey said.
Under that option, the University
of Nebraska-Lincoln would lose 100
120 parking spaces on the north side
of U Street, on V Street, on the west
side of the stadium and on 10th and S
streets near the 501 Building. But up
to 500 new spaces could be created
along what is now 10th Street.
The option would remove a por
tion of UNL’s 501 Building, the pri
vately owned University Publishing
Co. at 9th and V streets, and the UNL
Hide building, which now is used for
storage.
The proposal fits UNL’s Prelimi
nary Master Plan, which would con
nect 9th and 10th streets to 14th Street
and link UNL to the future Holdrege
Bypass.
According to the Lincoln Public
Works and Utilities Department, a
1989 study of the 10th Street viaduct
led to proposals to replace it for safety
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pedestrian, rail and vehicular traffic. Below are four of the proposed viaduct improvements which are I
expected to reduce the accident rate, congestion and air pollution.
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Proposal 1:
The viaduct would not be
replaced, but made into a
road which crosses the
mainline railroad tracks.
A new connection to Avery
Avenue would also be
constructed.
Proposal 2:
The viaduct would be
replaced at lowest cost
possible with simplest
roadways. Avery Avenue
would be replaced by
extending 9th and 10th
streets to 14th Street.
Proposal 3:
Same changes as
proposal 2, but viaduct
would be replaced with
two separate viaducts that
would combine before
reaching Charleston
Street.
Proposal 4:
Viaduct would be replaced
with one extending from
10th Street to Charleston
Avenue. Tenth Street,
from U to V streets, would
be vacated. Avery Avenue
would extend from 9th to
14th streets.
reasons and to make it compatible
with the future Holdrege Bypass, which
will connect 9th and 27th streets.
The 10th Street viaduct, which was
built in 1909, is considered “a defi
nite safety hazard to pedestrian, rail
and vehicular traffic,” according to
the department.
On a scale of 1 to 100, with 70
being the minimum acceptability for
safety, the viaduct rates a 5.7.
Four options arc being considered
to replace the aging viaduct, includ
ing construction of:
• An al-gradc crossing for 10th
Street with a new connection to Avery
Avenue at a cost of $1.3 million.
• Another viaduct at about the
same location and a replacement for
Avery Avenue from 9th to 14th streets
at a cost of S4.34 million.
• A “split” viaduct of two separate
structures that would join on the north
end and a replacement for Avery
Avenue from 9th to 14th streets at a
cost of $4.65 million.
• The NU-backed viaduct on 9th
Street to curve west over mainline
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railroad tracks and a replacement lor
Avery Avenue from 9lh to 14th streets
at a cost of S5.45 million.
Coffey said the options not sup
ported by the university do not ad
dress the dangers now associated with
10th Street. They would add to the
street’s speed and traffic problems,
he said.
From 9th and Q streets to 14th
Street and Avery Avenue, 180 acci
dents were reported from 1987 to
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Committee
to explore
NCAA bill
By Julie Skar
Staff Reporter
he passage of a Nebraska bill
requiring the NCAA to use due
process has prompted other
states to follow suit and has forced the
NCAA to establish a committee to
investigate the bill’s implications, a
Nebraska senator said.
Pressure from the stales has spurred
the NCAA to develop a committee
headed by former Supreme Court Chief
Justice Warren Burger, said Sen. Ernie
Chambers of Omaha. The committee
was set up to investigate all aspects of
due process, Chambers said.
Rick Evrard of the NCAA con
firmed that an infractions committee
was established.
“The committee which began two
to three weeks ago was formed to
review and enforce the laws associ
ated with due process,” he said.
Evrard also expressed concern
regarding the public’s view of due
process.
“I think that the NCAA believes
that the issue of due process is misun
derstood by the public.”
Nevada is the first state to follow
Nebraska’s lead and enact the law.
Kansas, home of the NCAA, has a
proposal on the table and Florida,
California, Illinois, Iowa, South Caro
lina and Missouri are considering
similar legislation. Chambers said.
He said that when he proposed the
bill in the Nebraska Legislature, he
told opposing senators that, “if we
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ASUN urges student appointment to commission
By Adeana Leftin
Staff Reporter
After an hour of debate and two amend
ments, ASUN passed the original ver
sion of a resolution encouraging Gov.
Ben Nelson to appoint a student to the new
Nebraska Coordinating Commission for
Postsecondary Education._
The resolution ex- f AQI lAI I
presses the opinion that j :
because students will be 1 1
affected by the commis
sion, a student should be
on it. It then urges Nelson
to appoint a student.
Some senators thought
the resolution did not have enough strength.
College of Law Sen. William Collins said
he wanted to “toughen up" the resolution.
He suggested adding an amendment re
spectfully requesting UNL Interim Chancellor
Jack Goebel to convey AS UN’s feelings about
appointing a student to the commission in
written and verbal form to the governor.
The senate passed the amendment, then an
hour of debate later, it passed a second amend
ment striking the first. It then passed the origi
nal resolution.
James Gricscn, vice chancellor for student
affairs, said requesting the chancellor to con
vey AS UN’s feelings to the governor would
not be proper protocol.
He said it would be as if ASUN was asking
Goebel to be its “message carrier.”
“ASUN should deliver its own messages,”
Griescn said.
Government Liaison Chair Andrew Siger
son called the request a “dangerous situation.”
If Goebel approached Nelson, Sigerson said, it
would appear he was acting in the interest of
the University of Nebraska-Lincoln only.
He said that if other institutions requested a
student's appointment, it wouldn’t help “steam
roll” Nelson’s decision.
Nelson will have the power to appoint the 11
members of the strengthened Nebraska Coor
dinating Commission for Postsecondary Edu
cation approved by voters in November. The
bill under consideration in the Nebraska Legis
lature to empower the commission would not
require a student member.
If the governor thought there would be any
internal problems, Sigerson said. Nelson
wouldn’t consider appointing a student.
Association of Suidents of the University of
Nebraska President Andy Massey agreed.
“I would urge the students to do it on their
own and not ask the chancellor,” he said.
Business Sen. Rob Broomfield, who au
thored the bill, said ASUN should be the one to
convey its feelings to the governor.
“We need to show state government that
ASUN can stand on its own two feet,” he said.
Teachers College Sen. Steve Thomlison ar
gued that ASUN would have been only re
questing the chancellor to speak with Nelson
on behalf of a student representative.
“It’s not like we’re demanding it,” he said.
“We’re respectf ully requesting. He can always
say no.”
Corrections: An article in Tues
day's Daily Nebraskan incorrectly
implied that all of the University of
Nebraska's money from the state
cigarette tax would be used for the
Beadle Center. The money will be
used for several projects.
A quotation in Tuesday’s letter
by Kevin Coulson was incomplete.
It should have read, "When faced
with a choice, the business will make
every move which is expected to
bring a marginal profit, and will re
ject every choice which is expected
to bring a marginal loss."
Christine Rosser, who appeared
in Wednesday’s photo of the pro
test on Broyhill Plaza, is a sopho
more in mechanical engineering.
Her major was reported incorrectly.
The Daily Nebraskan regrets
these errors.
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Miseducation rap
Speaker says system, history, dictionary full of lies
By Kim Spurlock
Staff Reporter
Americans arc miscducated
about the history of America,
drawing their sources, which
often don’t often tell the truth, from a
biased Western culture, KRS-ONE
rapper Kris Parker said Wednesday
night.
Parker, giving a lecture tilled “Sleep
Techniques’’ in the Nebraska Union,
said a prime example of this is that
many Americans still believe that
Christopher Columbus discovered
America.
“If you were given a test and it said
who discovered America, you would
say Christopher Columbus in order to
pass the test,” Parker said.
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system in the United States, he said, is
that students accept what they are
told without questioning, which prom
ulgates the misinformation.
“When you go through your entire
life using memory, you are not think
ing, you are accepting.... The first
thing that is taken away is your com
mon sense,” Parker said to about 400
people in the Centennial Ballt x>m.
The expectation upon the culmi
nation of an education career — gradu
ation — also is misguided, he said.
Parker said a student’s degree “looks
good on your wall,” but doesn’t get
the graduate a job.
“That’s one of the biggest misedu
cations in the school system,” he said.
“You don’t get jobs because of a
piece of paper; you get jobs with
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family.”
Parker said the educational system
is built on lies. Professors arc “just as
dumb as we arc,” he said, because
they also were taught lies.
Lies always come with explana
tions, Parker said, to keep people from
questioning them.
“The truth comes to the point and
is in very thin book form. Lies are in
big thick books ... how many of you
have them big thick books for class?”
Parker asked.
Parker said the Oxford Dictionary,
the most respected dictionary in the
educational system, is full of lies.
One basic lie comes from the biased
point of view of its writer, a man.
The Oxford Dictionary states that
a man is a human, but does not say
that a woman also is a human. The