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Organization
plans to run
group office
3 groups fighting
for resource center
By Jeremy Fitzpatrick
Senior Reporter
Members of the Women’s Resource
Center organized in a group called the
Collective said at their weekly meet
ing Thursday that they considered themselves
to be running the WRC and planned to continue
to do so.
“We’re meeting, and we’re still making
decisions,” Cindy Douglas, a graduate sociol
ogy student and group member, said.
Three groups — the Collective, the WRC
Advisory Board and the UNL-hircd WRC
Coordinator — have been fighting for control
of the WRC. The Collective is not a recognized
student organization at the University of Ne
braska-Lincoln.
On Monday, Marilyn Bugcnhagcn, director
of the Campus Activities and Programs office,
dissolved the WRC Advisory Board because of
the infighting over who was in charge of the
WRC. A new board will be appointed in the
fall.
James Gricscn, vice chancellor for student
affairs, said his office previously had recog -
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Up the down staircase
Bruce Anderson, an agronomy professor, runs stairs in the Activities building on East Campus Thursday
during the lunch hour.
10th Street pedestrian overpass to be built
By Sean Green
Senior Reporter
Construction will begin this fall
on a pedestrian overpass that
will run alongside the planned
10th Street viaduct, a city official
said.
The overpass will be accessible to
pedestrians, bicyclists and those who
use wheelchairs, said Bruce Michael
son, head of the Public Works De
partment’s Design Engineering Divi
sion.
City officials hope the overpass
will be completed by the spring of
1993, Michaelson said, giving pedes
trians access over the railroad area
while the new 10th Street viaduct is
being built.
To meet the requirements of the
Americans with Disabilities Act, he
said, the pedestrian overpass would
include a level resting area about every
40 feet for people who use wheel
chairs.
While the overpass will have level
areas off to the sides, he said, the
center portion of the bridge will have
a consistent grade for bicycle riders.
Michaclson said that as far as city
officials knew, the project was the
only one of its kind in the nation.
The overpass designers worked
closely with several University of
Ncbraska-Lincoln officials, he said,
including Kim Todd, a campus land
scape architect with UNL’s Land
scape Services.
The total cost of the new bridge
and the pedestrian overpass should be
$6 million, Michaclson said.
Funds to pay for the project will be
shared between the Federal Highway
Administration, the city of Lincoln
and other agencies, he said.
The pedestrian overpass probably
will account for 10 to 15 percent of
the total cost.
Construction on the bridge is sched
uled to begin after the last home
Nebraska football game of the 1993
season, he said. The viaduct should
Basketball dance squad
draws student interest
By Melissa Dunne
Staff Reporter _
More than 330 UNL students
expressed interest this week
in a dance squad that will
perform during halftimes of Nebraska
home basketball games.
“I think that (the dance squad)
would be an asset to the university in
terms of spirit,” said Carol Grell, an
academic adviser and sponsor of the
dance squad.
“There really seems to be a need
for some group to provide entertain
ment during basketball games.”
Although the University of Ne
braska-Lincoln had a dance squad
called the Huskerettes seven or eight
years ago, the squad was disbanded
for “various and sundry” reasons, Grell
said.
“We are planning to start all over
with a new name and a positive im
age,” she said at an informational
meeting Monday.
Grell also said she planned to work
with the yell squad and flag corps.
“Our goal is not to compete with
these groups, but to complement them
and work together,” she said.
The dance squad has received an
excellent response, Grell said. About
230 women attended the informa
tional meeting, she said, and at least
100 more have contacted her.
Only full-time students are eli
gible for the squad. They must have a
cumulative GPA of 2.0 and pay a $10
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be completed before the first football
game in 1994.
Michaelson said there was no doubt
that the existing 10th Street bridge
needed to be replaced.
“It is still capable of maintaining
the 10-ton limit, but it’s in very poor
condition,” he said.
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In a rcccni federal sufficiency
evaluation, he said, the bridge re
ceived a rating of 5.7 on a scale of
100, with 70 being adequate.
Clarification: Loan exit interviews for
graduating seniors who have received
Stafford, Perkins or supplemental loans
for students will be today, Tuesday and
Wednesday
Robbery suspects appre
hended on O Street. Page 3
Husker baseball team faces
its first conference road test this
weekend at Missouri. Page 7
Australian band baby animals
ready to set the stage for Van
Halen’s Sunday concert. Page 9
New nine-screen theater
blasts off in downtown Lincoln.
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INDEX
Wire 2
Opinion 4
Sports 7
A & E 9
Classifieds 10
I Vandals spray paint
messages at stadium
UNL police say
no suspects yet
in investigation
From Stall Reports
An unknown party spray painted
several Memorial Stadium
doors Wednesday with female
biological sypibols and the message
“Keep your hands off our bodies,” a
UNL police official said.
Lt. Mylo Bushing said the Univer
sity of Nebraska-Lincoln Police
Department received a call at 9:39
p.m. about a suspicious party at the
stadium.
He said police found the building
damaged, but no one was in the area.
The message and the symbols, spray
painted in blue, were found on all the
doors on the east side of the stadium,
he said.
A brick was thrown through the
windows of the south doors, Bushing
said. A female biological sign was
painted on the brick, he said, and a
note with the same message was at
tached.
The Bob Devancy/Tom Osborne
Monument was spray painted with
the message “Fight to unite,” he said.
“We don’t know who called the
dispatcher,” Bushing said. “We have
no suspects, but we are still investi
gating.
“We don’t want to make any specu
lations at this point,” he said.
