By Susie Arth
Senior Reporter
Atrip to the Orange Bowl means
many things to the University
of Nebraska: satisfaction for
winning the Big Eight Conference,
national recognition and money.
Gary Fouraker, assistant athletic
director for business affairs, said
Nebraska’s trip to the Orange Bowl
meant S4.2 million for Big Eight col
leges.
Of that S4.2 million, one portion is
given to Nebraska’s athletic depart
UNL’s part of revenue to go to general fund
ment for the costs it will incur during
its trip to Miami.
This year’s allowance, he said, is
about $1 million.
“The Si million is a flat fee for the
basics of the trip,” Fouraker said. “A
big chunk of that goes to transporta
tion.”
Buses, airplane charters and hotels
for the football team and band arc all
taken out of the $1 million, he said.
The remainder of the $4.2 million
is divided equally among the schools
in the Big Eight.
In addition, NU’s athletic depart
ment will receive money from Kan
sas’ trip to the Aloha Bowl and
Colorado’s trip to the Fiesta Bowl,
Fourakcr said.
The Aloha Bowl will pay $750,(XX)
for Kansas’ appearance and the Fiesta
Bowl will pay $3 million for
Colorado’s.
Fourakcr said he was uncertain
how much money the Big Eight would
decide to give to the two schools for
their travel expenses, but he hoped it
would be decided within a week.
Fouraker said revenue from the
bowl games would go into-thc athletic
department’s general fund, which
helps support other sports.
But M ike Mulnix, executive direc
tor of university relations, said it was
important to keep a close eye on where
the bowl revenues were spent and
make certain spending did not get out
of hand.
The Orange Bowl committee re
quires each participating school to
send its administrative party, but it is
necessary to keep spending to a mini
mum, Mulnix said.
When the university spends more
than its designated amount, money
that could have been spent elsewhere
is gone.
“We’re looking at two things,” he
said. “The bottom line of the athletic
department and the bottom line of the
university.”
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Sydney Turner, mother and UNL student, tries to get her son Nicholas, 4, to take a nap after picking him up from
day care.
Kids on campus
UNL child care helps students balance classes, parenthood
By Kristin Armstrong
Staff Reporter
For some students, homework means
abandoning their history or calculus
books in favor of reading “Green
Eggs and Ham” or “Curious George Goes
to the Hospital” to restless children.
Roger Uuccht is among the many UNL
students who also arc parents. Along with
the pressures every college student faces,
Uuccht must deal with child care, ear
infections and colds. Somewhere in
between, he must find lime to study.
When Uuccht, a senior advertising
major who is going to school full time;
first found out his girlfriend, Cindy, was
pregnant, he was scared, he said. He
wondered how they could afford a baby.
After considering their options, they
decided to get married and have the child.
“I decided that I didn’t want to give up
a child just for me,” he said.
The Uttcchts now have a 4-year-old,
Kyle, and on Nov. 8, Cindy gave birth to
their second son, Jordan Ray.
Uuccht said having Jordan this close to
finals was stressful, but it was nothing he
couldn’t handle.
“Compared to normal finals time, it is
a little more stressful,” he said. “I’m used
to studying after Kyle goes to bed, but
Jordan wakes up at different times and
cries — it makes it difficult to concen
trate.”
Both Uttecht and his wife have jobs, he
as a bartender, and she as a beautician.
Uttecht receives financial aid through the
University of Ncbraska-Lincoln. Because
he has children, Uttecht said he received
more money.
“But I wouldn’t recommend having a
child just to get a Pell Grant,” he said.
The financial aid Uttecht receives
enables him to afford child care, as well
as attend class.
But getting his children to and from
child care is another story, Uttecht said.
The schedule he and his wife have worked
out sometimes interferes with his meet
ings for group projects.
Finding affordable and reliable child
care often is as frustrating as midterm
exams, he said. The university owns and
operates two programs that Uttecht said
he trusted.
The Child Care Project in the YWCA
building at 1432 N St. and the Child
Development Lab on East Campus are
programs that cater to students and
university staff members who havp
children. In both programs, there is
limited space for children whose parents
are not staff or students.
The child development lab, part of the
department of human development and
the family, also is called the Ruth Staples
lab. It is open Monday through Friday
from 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
The center offers both day care and
nursery school. In the nursery school, up
to 18 students are in each class, with five
lab teachers and one faculty member, lab
secretary Izetta Jones said.
In the day care, about 22 children are
in each class, with eight lab teachers and
one faculty member at all times.
The lab teachers arc both graduate and
undergraduate students in the college of
human development and the family, and
most are nursing majors, Jones said.
Payments of $271 per child arc made
each month, with a total of four payments
a semester.
The other child care program operated
by the university is the Child Care Project.
This program operates Monday
through Friday from 7 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Prices vary according to the age of the
child. Child care for an infant can run
about $90 a week because of the supervi
sion an infant must have. Child care for a
kindergartener is less, about $72 a week.
Both programs have long waiting lists,
said Barb Vigil, director of the Child Care
Project.
For that reason, students must enroll
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Sigerson asks
regents to take
stand on prayer
By Andy Raun ^
Staff Reporter
UNL’sstudcntgovcmmcnt president said
Thursday that he would ask the NU
Board of Regents to take a stand on
prayer at commencement during the board’s
monthly meeting Saturday.
Andrew Sigerson, ASUN
president and student re
gent for the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln, said he
wanted the regents to pass a
resolution favoring reten
tion of the invocation and
benediction at commcnce
lenccmcntCommittee voted
suikc me prayers from commence
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UNL organizes
Harms service
at Kimball Hall
From Staff Reports
A memorial service for University of Ne
braska-Lincoln student Candice Harms
will be Monday at 8 p.m. in Kimball
Hall.
Harms, a UNL freshman, had been missing
since Sept. 22. Her body was found Sunday a
few miles southeast of Lincoln.
Two suspects are in custody in connection
with her disappearance and death.
The memorial service, organized by the
Office of Student Affairs at UNL, is open to the
public.
Funeral services for Harms will be 10 a.m.
Saturday at St. Mary’s Catholic Church at 14th
and K streets.
AMJJN reports
few violations
of dead week
By Angie Brunkow
Staff Reporter
Few students have reported dead week
violations this semester because of in
creased awareness of the policy on cam
pus, an ASUN senator said.
Leslie Strong, chairwoman of the Associa
tion of Students of the University of Nebraska’s
Academic Committee, said only two students
had reported dead week violations this year. In
past semesters, Strong said, at least five to 10
students reported violations.
“Reports arc slow compared to other years,”
she said.
Strong said she could not release informa
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