The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current, October 16, 1992, Image 1

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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
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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.
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