Housing director takes extra job
By Matt Woody
Staff Reporter
The UNL director of housing
has taken what may be the first of
many steps into student affairs ad
ministration. \
Doug Zatechka recently added
the responsibilities of assistant vice
chancellor for student affairs to his
housing duties.
Zatechka, who has been hous
ing director during his 15 years at
the University of Nebraska-Lin
coln, discounted the idea of his new
job being a promotion. However,
he said, it could be a stepping stone
to more work in student affairs.
James Griesen, vice chancellor
for student affairs, created the job
to gain additional administrative
help for projects demanding atten
tion in the office.
The appointment to the position
is temporary; it will last two years.
Zatechka will work full time in
student affairs and continue part
time in housing.
He said the housing staff would
continue without him, and added
that the move would not reduce the
attention given to students who
come to the housing office with
questions or problems.
“I think it’s going to affect my
job in housing,” Zatechka said. “I
don’tthink it’s going to affect hous
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ing.
Glen Schumann, assistant di
rector of housing for maintenance,
will become the associate director
of housing and will oversee routine
housing duties.
The immediate project for
Zatechka will be developing an
identification card similar to stu
dents’ cards'for faculty and staff,
Griesen said.
Zatechka also will begin serv
ing on committees, such as the
Campus Planning Committee. The
committee deals with UNL’s long
term goals, such as completing
renovations and building construc
tion.
He will also add his expertise to
student-related issues, such as cam
pus safety, police and parking.
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Election
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and Perot starts winning 10, 15, 20
percent of the vote, his votes then
conceivably would be the critical ones
to determine if (Bill)Clinton or (Presi
dent) Bush wins outright.”
To win the presidency, a candidate
must receive a majority — 270 — of
the Electoral College votes cast. Elec
toral votes are acquired by winning in
individual states.
Nebraska has five electoral votes,
while California has 54 and Texas has
32.
If no candidate wins at least 270
votes, the election is decided in the
House of Representatives. Each state
receives one vote, and a candidate
must receive 26 of the 50 votes to
become president.
. If Perot campaigns actively be
tween now and Nov. 3, he might
gather enough votes to prevent Bush
or Clinton from winning in the gen
eral election, Sittig said.
“Perot c lai ms he docsn ’ t want to be
a spoiler, but he may very well be,” he
said.
“I assume if Perot docs nothing
else, he will probably get 2, 3, 4
percent of the popular vote, and the
most in any one state would be 6 or 8
or 10 percent,” he said. “B ut if he now
engages in four or five weeks of strenu
ous campaigning and expends mil
lions of dollars and appears in any or
all of the debates in prime-time cov
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Perot claims he doesn’t
want to be a spoiler;
but he may very well
be.
— Sittig
political science professor
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erage, then I’d boost Perot up to the 8
to 10 to 12 (percent) category.
“And if there would be some dra
matic event in one of those debates—
if he would look extremely good or
Bush or Clinton would look bad, then
I’d consider Perot in the 16 to 18 to 20
percent category.”
Sittig said Perot’s entry probably
would benefit Bush more than Clinton.
Voters who are interested in change
but who are not strongly attached to
Clinton might shift their support to
Perot, he said.
But Perot’s decision to run gave
neither candidate a clear advantage,
he said.
“It won’t have an effect in a single
direction — it’s not going to posi
tively help Bush and hurt Clinton —
it’s going to lake away from them if
Perot goes from 5 to 15 percent of the
vote,” he said. “But I think it’s going
to take away more from Clinton than
Bush.”
Sittig predicted that Perot could
win at most 20 percent of the vote. He
will likely receive between 8 and 12
percent, he said.
Drug
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hallucinations. In high doses, it can
lead to a coma and eventual death.
People have reported needing
medical attention after taking “moon
flower,” Bullock said, but no deaths
in Lincoln have been reported yet. •
“We want to alert people about it,”
he said. “It’s not what you think it is,
and it is highly dangerous.”
Ron Lundy, an investigator with
the University of Ncbraska-Lincoln
Police Department, said he had not
seen the drug on campus, but was
certain it existed.
“Whatever is in the city is going to
be on the university campus,” he said.
Geir Friisoe, supervisor of the state
noxious weed program in the Ne
braska Department of Agriculture,
said jimsonwced grew naturally in
Nebraska and many other states.
The weed has several medical uses,
Friisoe said.
Jimsonwced, he said, is used in a
sedative called Hyoscyaminc. It also
is used in Atropine, a counteractive
agent for several poisons.
Friisoe said many farmers were
aware of the drug because it had been
known to poison livestock when it
grew on farms.
The jimsonwced plant, he said,
grows up to five feet tall, has a white,
funnel-shaped flower and emanates a
bad odor.
Trains
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According to the study, Missouri
Pacific Railroad now uses a Union
Pacific track that runs from about
1 Oth Street east to 33rd Street to serve
Lincoln Lumber, Hyland Lumber and
Kamptcrtcr Products Inc.
The route cuts through the north
ern part of C i ty Cam pus and separates
the Harper-Schramm-Smith Complex,
a few fraternities and sororities, the
Devancy Sports Center and State Fair
Park from the rest of the campus.
Trainsoflcn stopon this route wl lilc
waiting to cross onto another track,
and students sometimes crawl under
cars to make it to class on time, the
report stated. The trains also back up
traffic in the area.
Both problems could be taken care
of if Missouri Pacific abandoned part
or all of the track, the study con
cluded. In either case, Missouri
Pacific’s customers would continue
to be served.
Missouri Pacific trains would be
rerouted to a new track or an existing
one operated by another railroad com -
pany.
This change would eliminate the
need for 15 existing railroad crossings
and a proposed crossing at Avery
Avenue. Crossings from Missouri
Pacific’s 10th to 33rd streets route
would be abandoned.
The board now must decide whether
it wants to pursue the project, said
Roger Figard, executive director of
the transportation safety district.
“The next step is for our staff and
other city staff members to try and
select a consultant to study the project
and its cost,” he said.
Figard said the board would have
to approve the consultant.
If the district goes ahead with the
project, he said, the details would
have to be settled.
“We’ll need to look at cost ben
efits, the railroads themselves and
their customers,” Figard said.
After considering all of those fac
tors, he said, the board should have a
definite rerouting plan with a firm
estimate of its cost.
“It would be equally gratifying to
UNL, the city and the railroads to
eliminate the crossings,” Figard said.
“There would be a lot less conflict."
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