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[?—;—n —--I I-i-1 |-1 Student proposes $ 10 million garage By Heather Sinor and Mindy L. Leiter Staff Reporters Mark Goldfcdcr has a solution for UNL students’ parking woes: a S10 million parking garage. And ifGoldfedcr, an ASUN repre . sentative to the Parking Advisory Committee, gets his way, the parking garage may become reality. Goldfedcr, a sophomorechem istry major, pre sented his pro posal for a cam pus parking ga rage at Thursday’s Parking Advisory Board meeting. The idea foraparkinggaragccame from parking forums Goldfcdcr orga nized in the residence halls, fraterni ties and sororities. The forums gave students a chance to voice their con cerns about parking on campus and to give input about what they would like to see done, he said. More than 50 students attended the forums to complain about not having enough parking stalls, parking lots that were oversold and parking spaces that were too small to park their ve hicles in, Goldfcdcr said. With plans under way to tear down the 10th Street viaduct and extend Holdrcge Street, he said, about 450 out of 962 parking places on campus will be lost. To compensate for the loss of those spots, Goldfeder proposed building a four- to five-level parking garage north of the Power Plant at 14th and Avery streets and west of the Harper Schramm-Smith Complex on prop erty owned by the university. Goldfeder said the garage could hold as many as 2,000 vehicles. The garage would offer a central location, shuttle service and the low est rates possible, he said. Goldfeder said the estimated cost to students for permits would be any where from $300 to $800 for a guar anteed stall in the garage. Because the board docs not have the funding in its budget to undertake this plan, he said, the garage would have to pay for itself. Goldfeder had proposed issuing a S10-million bond paid back at the rate of $1 million every year. But this is not feasible, he said, because the garage’s revenue would be only about $400,000 to $500,000 a year. Goldfcdcr said he hoped to raise the money to build the garage through donations. He said he would try to meet with UNL Chancellor Graham Spanicr to discuss ways to finance the garage. In other business, Tom Johnson, chairman of the Parking Advisory Committee, announced that the park ing lot constructed at 19th and S streets for the Beadle Center would be opened for temporary use. Rain delayed con struction on the lot. The lot will create about 370 park ing spaces for permits numbered 1,2 and 20 and will be available until the Beadle Center opens, he said. Clinton maintains lead in race, professors say Bush’s answers needed to attack the issues better By Susie Arth Senior Reporter Americans may have witnessed Bill Clinton deliver the knockout blows to President Bush and Ross Perot in Thursday night’s presidential debate in Rich mond, Va., three UNL professors said. * John Comer, a political science professor at the University of Nc braska-Lincoln, said Bush was run ning outoftimeand opportunities to re verse Clinton’s wave of popularity. “Unless something extraordinary happens, I think the Clinton lead will hold up,” he said. Comer said he thought Bush was loo passive to make any progress in the polls. “I expected (Bush) to go on the attack, and he did not do that,” he said. “The president did a respectable job, but it wasn’t a home run.” Clinton will keep a comfortable lead in the polls, Comer said, because he addressed the issues better than his two opponents did. Clinton’s stance on education was especially impressive, he said. “The Clinton responses were sharper, more specific and more re sponsive to the longings that were expressed in the audience,” Comer said. Robert Sittig, a political science professor at UNL, said he thought Clinton won Thursday’s debate be cause he was more confident in his See DEBATE on 3 --—— ■ . — ..-a. — —— - - * *■-- .-. —.— " ■ — - ’ n . . # t - • i »-» , . William Lauer/DN r ut another shrimp on the Barbie Ellen Reich, left, Karen Hindhede, Cindy Douglas and Irene Meaker have lunch with Barbie Thursday afternoon at Broyhill Plaza. Members of the Guerrilla Girls, a group that promotes women’s issues, barbequed the dolls to protest the new talking Barbie doll. One of the doll’s phrases is “Math class is tough,” a phrase the protesters say perpetuates stereotypes about women and undermines their potential. - I UNL enrollment increases and decreases from last year ■ - $3r / ' ^ I \ figure includes enrollment at UNO. ^ -I J and UNL. Source: NU Institutional Research and Planning Source: NU Office of Public Affairs\ Brian Shellito/DN Some UNL colleges see big changes in enrollment By Dan McKinney Staff Reporter While total enrollment at the University of Ncbraska-Lincoln for the fall se mester has remained fairly stablecom pared with last fall, individual colleges at UNL saw significant changes in enrollment. According to central administration’s Of fice of Institutional Research and Planning, 24,573 students enrolled at UNL this semester, down from 24,670 in the 1991 fall semester — a drop of about 0.2 percent. A slight decrease in the number of high school graduates in the slate coupled with an increased number of out-of-state students ac counted for the enrollment stability, said James Gricsen, vice chancellor for student affairs. As the number of high school seniors in the state has dropped from 20,143 in 1987 to 18,272 1 in 1992, so has the number of new in-state freshmen attending classes at UNL. That num ber decreased from 2,939 to 2,778 in the same period. See ENROLLMENT on 3
