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Life’s a bench
Students take time out Wednesday to study in the plaza north of the Lied Center for Per
forming Arts. From top to bottom, the students are: Krista Mowrey, a sophomore pre
dental nygiene major, James Volkmer, a senior finance major and Erik Skaden, a
sophomore finance major.
New regulations
concern officials
NCAA, state law
may contradict
By Jeremy Fitzpatrick
Senior Reporter
UNL athletic officials intend to
walk the tightrope of comply
ing with NCAA regulations and
a new Nebraska law, but that might
cost 13 football players their eligibil
ity, an official said.
A1 Papik, assistant athletic direc
tor for administrative services, said
the University of Ncbraska-Lincoln
was moving to devise a plan of action
that would allow it be in compliance
with both LB69, a law that goes into
effect June 1, and NCAA scholarship
regulations.
NCAA regulations prohibit uni
versities from having more than 92
scholarship athletes in football and
14 in basketball. Any students who
receive need-based aid or grants —
from their universities or from the
government — arc counted as schol
arship players.
For example, a student who par
ticipated in varsity competition and
did not receive a scholarship from
UNL, but received a need -based grant
from the federal government, still
would be counted as one of the uni
versity’s scholarship players.
LB69 will require UNL to allow
its athletes to receive all of the aid
they arc eligible for, including grants.
Because UNL already is at its schol
arship limit for both its football and
basketball programs, Papik said, that
could pul UNL in violation of NCAA
rules.
“What really happens if we get
hurt by this is we’ll have more players
on scholarship than the NCAA per
mits,” he said.
Papik said 13 non-scholarship
football players this year redshirted,
or did not participate in varsity com
petition, and received federal aid. If
those students did nrt receive schol
arships from UNL and applied for
federal aid again next year, he said,
they might not be able to play be
cause UNL intends to comply with
NCAA regulations.
“Then I think we would not allow
them to participate in football,” he
said. “It appears that might be the
case.”
But Papik said he could not be
certain what would happen until he
received the NCAA’s final ruling on
UNL’s dilemma.
He said Dick Wood, NU general
counsel, was formulating UNL’s fi
nal interpretation of the situation. The
NCaA will respond to P c interpreta
tion and inform UNL if the university
would be violating NCAA bylaws by
going over the NCAA’s scholarship
limit.
The university then will check with
football coach Tom Osborne, men’s
basketball coach Danny Nee and
women’s basketball coach Angela
Beck to determine how many players
on their teams arc not on scholarship
and intend to apply for aid, he said.
If the NCAA docs not allow UNL
to go over the scholarship limit, Papik
said, then players who were not on
scholarship but received aid would
not be able to play. He said if the
NCAA held to its position, the uni
versity would have to allow the play
ers to receive aid because of LB69,
but would not be able to let them play
because of NCAA rules.
The conflict might drive the ath
letes from their sports, Papik said.
“If there’s no possibility of play
ing, who would stay out?” he said.
Papik said the athletic department
intended to have a plan to deal with
the scholarship dilemma by Aug. 1,
before players report Aug. 10.
University parking permit prices to increase
Department to use
money to finance
safety projects
By Cindy Kimbrough
Senior Reporter
The university is not pulling a
fast one on students by increas
ing the price of remote parking
permits by $7, an official said.
Ray Coffey, the University of
iNeoraska-Lincom s Business manager,
said the Parking Advisory Board
decided on the increase in December.
, Coffey said the board decided lo
merge $10 remote parking permits
with $20 night parking permits, and
chargc$15forthc
new combined
permits.
An additional $2
also was added lo
the cost of all UNL
parking permits to
be used to improve
lighting and safely, he said.
wun me comoinca permits, ^oi
fey said, students will be able to park
in remote lots and use the shuttle
buses, as well as park after 4 p.m. in
faculty or student lots that arc not 24
hour enforcement lots.
Yancy Gamer, a student member
of the parking advisory board last
semester, said the decision to com
bine the two permits was not that big
of an item in December.
Gamer said advisory board mem
bers did not make a big deal about the
increase because it dealt with such a
Lincoln considers keeping trolley
Official says cars
could connect city
By Taryn Gilster
Staff Reporter
Lincolnites had the chance early
this week to view an authentic
trolley car of the type that could
operate on a 1.6-milc downtown
Lincoln circuit.
If one man’s dream becomes real
ity, the trolley car could become a
permanent addition.
Ira Schreibcr, president of Signs
Inc., said he had seen trolleys of this
type in some U.S. cities. He con
tacted Lou Shields, program consult
ant for the historic Haymarkel Dis
trict. Together they coordinated the
Lincoln Vintage Trolleys Associa
tion.
Schreibcr said the trolleys would
provide the glue for a disjointed
downtown Lincoln.
“We have many small districts like
a theater area, shopping area and
museum area,” he said. “A trolley
would be a binder, transporting people
and attracting tourists.
Shields said the trolley might pro
vide a 30 to 70 percent increase in
growth for downtown Lincoln. She
said it might even fill some vacant
buildings along its route.
Approval from the city is needed
before the plan becomes a reality,
Schreibcr said.
“We need to see if the community
is interested in it, find sources of
funding from citizens, conduct an
operation study, look at routing pos
sibilities and propose a cost for fund
ing,” he said.
The scenario, Schreibcr said, would
be to have two trolleys with enough
room for 45 people to sit and 66 to
stand. The trolleys would run on a 7 1/
2-minutc schedule.
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small amount ol money — about $5.
When considering that a parking
fine is $15, he said, the change docs
not seem that big a deal.
The decision was made more for
the administrative ease of combining
the two permits, Gamer said, because
night and remote permit holders
seemed to use the same spaces any
way.
Coffey said the additional cost for
remote parking permits was not un
reasonable, considering the increased
benefits students would have by park
ing closer to campus at night.
The combined permit also is good
for students buying night permits
because they gel more benefits and a
$3 price decrease.
Coffey said the decision was not
new; it was reviewed by the parking
advisory in December, but has been
ignored since then.
“It probably just got lost in the
shuffle over the $20 (proposed over
all parking) increase, he said.
LA police officers found not
guilty in Rodney King beating trial.
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Opinion 4
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