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UNL professor opposes new Lied park
Says he prefers parking to flowers
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Senior Reporter_
At least one University of Nebraska-Lin
coln laculty member prefers new park
ing spaces to a new park.
_Gordon Karels, a professor of finance and a
V/ ✓ I former member of UNL’s
Parking Advisory Commit
tee, said he opposed the
university’s plans for Mad
den Garden, a park that would
remove about 2(X) parking
spaces from campus.
The park would be on the
land that extends from 12th Street to 13th
Street, and from Q Street to R Street.
Karels said that same area was identified last
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year by a Parking Consulting Study as the most
desirable location l or a campus parking garage.
A pledge of S10(),(K)0 already has been made
to the university for the park.
Karels said former UNL Business Manager
Ray Coffey had estimated a cost of $300,000
for removing an existing parking lot at the site
in preparation for landscaping.
“Economically, it just doesn’t make sense,”
Karels said.
Jack Goebel, vice chancellor for business
and finance at UNL, was out of town Thursday
and could not be reached loir comment.
In a letter to the Daily Nebraskan, Karels
said he would prefer to “expand the size and
attractiveness” of the parking lot and make it
_See PARKING on 6
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Perspectives in steel
Crane workers from E.O. Peters Inc. stand by as “Greenpoint,” the newest sculpture at
City Campus, is hoisted between Burnett and Andrews hails. This portion of the sculpture
will be joined with an identical piece and will stand at a slight tilt.
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UNL’s treasure
remains in hiding
Apollo 009 must
not be forgotten,
some officials say
By Dionne Searcey
Senior Editor
Space officials fear the Univer
sity of Ncbraska-Lincoln will
forget about the Apollo 009,
which has been in storage since Janu
ary.
“The worst thing that could hap
pen is for it to be forgotten,” said Max
Ary, director of the Kansas
Cosmospherc and Space Center in
Hutchinson, Kan.
The capsule has severely deterio
rated because it was exposed to 20
years of extreme temperatures when
it was placed on display outside Morri 11
Hall in 1972.
University officials stored the cap
sule in Landscape Services on East
Campus last winter to prevent ex
treme temperatures from further dani
aging the capsule.
But Ary said the capsule would
continue to corrode even though it
was indoors.
“They can’t leave it in a building
for the rest of its life,” Ary said.
And, he said, the historical value
of the capsule is being lost if no one
can view it.
“Is that truly taking responsibility
for a national artifact that has been
entrusted to the university?” Ary said.
The Apollo (X)9 Hew in an unmanned
suborbital test flight in 1966.
NU Regent Rosemary Skrupa of
Omaha said thccapsule would remain
in storage indefinitely because the
university couldn’t afford to restore
the capsule.
“We are doing the socially respon
sible thing in accordance with what
wccan fiscally handle rightnow,” she
said.
NU Regent Don Blank of McCook
said the university was open to sug
gestions for restoration plans.
“If someone has a thought or idea
for restoration, we’ll keep our options
open,” he said.
The cosmosphcrc made two offers
last year to obtain the Apollo 009
from the university so experts there
could restore the capsule. University
officials declined both limes saying
they wanted to keep the capsule at
UNL.
“Kids loved that thing. They’d run
up and touch it,” Skrupa said. “Thai’s
why I can’t condone it going out of
state.”
The university has no plans to re
store the capsule, she said, because its
restoration is a low priority during (
tough financial times.
University officials will continue
to look for grants to fund restoration,
she said, so UNL can keep the cap
sule.
Lillian Kozloski, a curator at the
National Air and Space Museum in
Wash ing ton, D .C., sa i d U N L obla i ned
the capsule before the Smithsonian
Institution was responsible for all of
NASA’s space artifacts.
The university, not the
Smithsonian, holds the title to the
Apollo()09, she said. And any capsule
from the Apollo mission is in high
demand by museums worldwide,
Ko/.loski said.
“Japanese folks would die to have
a genuine Apollo spacecraft, and we
don’t have one to loan them,” she
said.
If UNL decides to give up the
Apollo (X)9, she said, the Smithsonian
would gladly accept it.
“We would always have open amis.
That’s historic evidence,” she said.
“It is a treasure. It’s too bad the folks
there don’t know what they have.”
larget oi police probe
seeking public apology
By Chuck Green
Senior Reporter_
An African-American student
who was targeted by a police
investigation into the disap
pearance of another UNL student is
not pointing fingers atadministrators,
but docs want an apology.
Mitchell Strong, a freshman from
New York City, was one of five Afri
- can-Amcrican male students ques
lioned by police about the disappear
ance of University of Nebraska-Lin
coln freshman Candice Harms, who
has been missing since Sept, 22.
Strong and four other African
American males—all of whom were f
enrolled in the same anthropology
class as Harms— were contacted and
questioned by police. Investigators
then look photographs of the students.
See STRONG on 6