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After the debate, Luther was not
satisfied, so he did more research.
Since 1990, he has written five
major articles and been interviewed
by such publications as the New
York Times and Time magazine.
Luther is trying to speak for the
people, he said, and trying to find a
solution to the problems of small
towns.
“Frank Popper is saying ‘They
have failed, let go, let them col
lapse, let them die,”’ Luther said.
“What I’m doing is working very
hard to bring to small towns infor
mation on how they can determine
their own future.”
Last semester, Luther partici
pated in an exchange with the
College of Technology in Dublin,
Ireland. While there, he worked
with students to design a rural
village called Skibbereen.
He also traveled around Wales,
Scotland and England, doing
research on European rural policies.
“They have a completely
different approach,” he said. “You
don’t find a lot of ghost towns in
Ireland and Great Britain. You
don’t find communities being aban
doned.”
Instead, European policies aim to
preserve rural areas, he said.
Such policies devote money to
rural regions for small community
survival, he said.
“They are also encouraging a
regional development planning,
which is something that Nebraska
definitely needs to look at,” he said.
Luther is working with the
Nebraska Development Network
and the University’s Center for
Rural Community Revitalization to
develop a policy for rural settle
ments in Nebraska.
“If a small community in
Nebraska, or anywhere, wishes to I
survive, wishes to persist, we have
an obligation to work with them,”
he said. “They may not be willing
to undertake the cost that it takes to
survive, but at least we have an
obligation to help them make that
intelligent decision.”
Last summer, Luther was the
head of a national conference in
Lincoln about sustainable commu
nities. The conference brought
people together to share stories of
how they have kept their small
towns alive.
“All they’ve heard before in the
press is Frank Popper’s ‘Buffalo
Commons,”’ Luther said. “It’s all
doom and gloom, and the sky is
falling, and you’re going to die and
wither and go away. You never hear
any stories about communities that
are doing OK.
“The people out in small towns
in western Nebraska ... read the
stuff Frank Popper is saying about
‘you’re going to die; there’s no
hope,’ and they’re picking up and
leaving.”
“It fits right in with movies like
‘Dances With Wolves’ because it’s
an environmentalist solution,” he
said. “It’s a very trendy and yuppie
sort of concept.
“It’s not real popular in the small
towns that he’s talking about
eliminating.”
Although a great deal of Luther’s
time has been spent with small
towns, his other interests range in
size and subject from the World’s
Fair to fly fishing.
He also enjoys riding his
motorcycle “at the maximum
permissible speed.”
“It’s the closest I can get to
flying without leaving the ground.
And after 280 combat missions in
Vietnam in a helicopter, I won’t fly
in a small plane.
“I’m an old poker player, and I
think my turn is coming.” '
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conference.The groups were com
posed of UNL students, faculty and
administrators.
The participants in the discussion
groups emphasized that gay and les
bian students cannot overcome homo
phobia alone— they need help from
UNL faculty and administrators.
“It’s not just students’ responsibil
ity to educate,” said Paul Moore, a
senior speech communication major.
UNL housing low for Big 8
By Taryn Gilster
Staff Reporter
Some students will be happy to
hear that the University of Nebraska
Lincoln ranks seventh in the Big Eight
— for housing rates.
Doug Zatechka, director of the
housing office, said he was unsure
why most of the other Big Eight
schools’ rates were higher than UNL’s
rates.
The estimated rankings for Big
Eight housing rates, from highest to
lowest, are: Colorado, Oklahoma,
Missouri, Kansas, Iowa State, Okla
homa State, Nebraska and Kansas
State.
“I attribute our low cost to our
management efforts to try to hold
down costs for students,” Zatechka
said. “We work hard to keep low
custodial services, conserve utilities
and offer good, yet inexpensive food
menus.”
Housing rates at UNL were raised
by 3.4 percent, or by $95 dollars, for
the 1992-93 school year.
A typical UNL residence hall room
for two students, with a 30-mcal plan,
now costs $2,820 a school year. With
the 3.4-percent increase, next year’s
rates will be $2,915, or $10 more a
month.
While UNL’s rates remained low
this year, some schools, such as the
University of Kansas, Kansas State
University and the University of
Missouri, have increased rates dra
matically.
Ken Stoner, director of housing at
KU, said it was difficult to give direct
reasons for the increase in rates.
“There are many reasons for the
higher rates,” Stoner said. “Basically
we’ve been underpriced for so many
years that any increase looks like a
big increase.
“We’re still below the Big Eight
average.”
Zatechka said UNL’s housing rates
increased because of a 4-percent sal
ary increase, effective July 1, for some
employees. Zatechka said he also
expected food and utility costs to rise.
“Overall, we’re pleased with the
small rate increase,” Zatechka said.
“Students have a lot of financial prob
lems the way it is.
Regents to study Beadle bid in J une
By Susie Arth about $23.7 million. biochemists’ test lubes and apply it
Staff Reporter If the bid is approved, he said, for public use.
— construction will start immediately. The purpose of combining these
Groundbreaking for the George W. Bob Carpenter, campus architect, fields is to take research a step further
Beadle Center is scheduled to begin said he expected the bid to be about by commercializing it, Omtvedt said,
this summer, a UNL official said. $19 million. He said he thought the “We want to apply our research
Irv Omtvedt, vice chancellor for center would be completed by July where it can be picked up in the
the Institute of Agriculture and Natu- 1994. private sector,” he said,
ral Resources, said a date would be The Beadle Center, which will be Total cost for the center, its green
set after bids for construction were located on Vine Street between 19th houses and utilities will be about S31.6
received and approved by the NU and 20th streets, will combirte the million.
Board of Regents. research and education of biochemis- Omtvedt said the center would put
The board is scheduled to meet try, biotechnology and chemical UNL in an elite class of research and
June 13 to consider the bids, he said, engineering inonebuilding,Omtvedt marketing.
Omtvedt, the administrative coor- said. “U brings the university trom a
dinator for the Beadle Center, said For example, he said, chemical mediocre base and puls us on the
the budget for the center itself was engineers will take the research from cutting edge,” he said.
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