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Photos by Damon Lee/DN This house near 22nd and Vine streets houses six UNL students who chose off-campus living as a cheaper alternative to residence hall living. — LL--- > People that own houses monopolize. $675 is too much for this house, (but) it’s close to campus. As a whole, people are getting ripped off. —Brian Larson UNL student ----99 " Houses Continued from Page 1 people. Joseph Turek, city housing supervisor, said enforcing the ordinance was difficult. “Thai’s where we run into some prob lems,” he said. “It’s very lough to prove. The courts are ndt satisfied with hearsay evi dence.” Most complaints come from neighbors, Turek said, who see a lot of cars parked by houses. But that isn’t enough evidence to prove a violation exists. “To say there is a car in front of the house (isn’t enough),” he said. “There’s no way you can prove that this person is not related to anyone in the building.” City inspectors investigate all complaints, Turck said, but the only way to find out about a violation is if the tenants admit it. Complaints are forwarded to the city attorney’s office, he said. Officials in the city attorney’s office said offenders could be prosecuted, but that prosecution wasn’t very common. Living illegally probably isn’t a big deterrent for people moving off campus, but UNL official said there were many benefits to staying on campus. Doug Zatcchka, director of housing, said most students moved off campus between their sophomore and junior years. He said free cable TV service, phone service and food were just a few of the many residence hall benefits for students. • But students living in old off-campus houses aren’t necessarily belter off, he said. ■ '■■■ -« ■"■■■■■ ■' ■■ ^ I UNL senior John Brewer stands next to the wail of beer cans he and his roommates erected in their house. Brewer said the alcohol ban in the residence halls was one incentive to move off campus. Sometimes, you get what you pay tor, he said. “We try to offer the kinds of services to students that surveys indicate.” The cost of residence hall living isn’t out of line for all the services offered, Zatechka said, but some students arc belter off living off campus. “For some students it may be cheaper,” he said. “For a lot, it’s not cheaper. Most students don’t add up all the costs.” Zatechka said his job was frustrating at limes. As of Jan. 31,975 of the 3900 students who lived in residence halls were uppcrclass students. The growing trend at UNL and other colleges is for people to move off campus, he said, but he is trying lo figure out ways lo keep students on campus. “How to keep more students on campus is probably the great question around the country,” he said. Next fall, Cathcr Residence Hall will be converted into uppcrclass student housing. Single rooms will be offered with additional services, he said. That change, in addition to the 24*hour visitation policy, will help keep students on campus, Zatechka said. Kelly Wicscler said the 24-hour policy wouldn’t have made him slay in the resi dence halls because the old 14-hour policy wasn’t enforced. “It went on anyway,” he said. “We disobeyed those rules.” Kelly agreed. “People were in the rooms anyway,” she said. “Like you really want your boyfriend in there with your roommate.” Proposed plan to benefit City and East campuses By Sarah Scalet Stgff Reporter _ The UNL Parking Advisory Committee Thursday discussed its 1993-94 budget proposal, which could create additional parking spaces but also would increase the cost of parking permits. inc Duagei, ' presented by in i'* terim parking administrator I Mike Cacak, proposed addi tional com muter parking lots on both University of Ncbraska Lincoln campuses. The budget also included re striping an existing lot on City Campus to allow room for more stalls, Cacak said. He said re-striping the lot would decrease the number of spaces lost during a 10th Street construction project in progress. However, part of the estimated $475,000 price tag for these three projects could come from an in crease in parking permits for all permit holders. Permit prices could increase $ 10 per year or $6 per semester, Cacak said. However, these increases arc not definite. The committee will discuss and vote on the budget March 11. % In other business, Kim Todd of UNL landscape architecture and John Benson, director of institu tional research and planning, out lined 10- and 20-year facilities plans for UNL. On East Campus, the plan would complete the East Campus loop and create a new main entrance to campus, Todd said. The plan would notchange park ing much on East Campus, Todd said, but would have a greater ef fect on City Campus. The plan for City Campus in cludes a loop similar to the one on East Campus, making use of exist ing city streets, Todd said. GLC sounds off for students Lobbyists present concerns, issues to state senators By Michelle Leary Senior Reporter __, University of Nebraska-Lincoln student leaders hope to meet with the members of the Legislature’s Appro priations Committee in an effort to combat a 5 percent budget cut pro posal, a student lobbyist said. Chris Peterson, a Government Li aison Committee lobbyist said, “We want to express our concerns and make senators aware of the implications of their decisions.” Petefson was referring to a deci sion made Monday by the Legislature’s Appropriations Com mittee. The committee approved a preliminary recommendation to cut the University of Nebraska’s budget by almost $14 million. AS UN President Andrew Sigerson agreed with Peterson, saying that it was tremendously unfortunate that the committee made the recommen dation. \ “The decision showed^ true lack of understanding of what the univer sity provides to the state, as well as students,” Sigerson said. Peterson saidGLC members hoped _ ______ to voice students’ BUDGET concerns to the committee through lobbying. GLC’s underly ing lobbying strat egy is to develop a _ . J relationship be tween the student lobbyists and Appropriations Com mittee members, Peterson said. State Sen. David Landis of Lin coln said GLC was a helpful organi zation that provided good informa tion. “We leam a lot from students that we wouldn't find out from university faculty and staff,” Landis said. Herefcrred specifically to the prob lems students voiced, including those related to the financial aid office and problems wi th getting essential classes for graduation. * Students can tell you about these things much better,” Landis said. Peterson said, “A lot of times sena tors might not understand every side of an issue. We want to make them understand this issue.” - “It’s important that (state senators) know that appropriations for educa tion today at the university are an investment into the future,” Peterson said. “Sometimes 1 think they lose sight of that. “This is only the beginning of our campaign against the (proposed) bud get cuts.” In addition to meeting with state senators, Peterson said GLC would sponsor a news conference Tuesday at 9 a.m. at the State Capitol building. Student regents from all four univer sity campuses will be present. “Our primary concern is to get as much publicity as possible in order to convince state senators that the university's budget is more than a line item request,” Sigerson said. GLC members also hope to start a student letter-writing campaign to the senators as the March 9 public hear ing for the proposal nears.