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II ALTERNATIVE TUN V) J ’£23 $28 S r mm „ _ You loved it. so we brought it back! —r m Centro Plaza 48th & R466-1201 I St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church Newman Center The Student Parish on Campus - 16th & Q -- Sunday Mass Schedule 10:00am, 11:00am, and 5:30 pm Daily Mass Schedule M-Thurs: 7:00am, 10:00pm; Fri: 7am, 5pm Confessions: M-Thurs: 9:30 pm; Sal. 4-5pm; Sun. 5pm. • — — — tKxxuhrrhothrrH 7*,^ - Comer of 9th & "O" Come in and try one of our specials! ^ I * Monday: $1.25 Domestic Longnecks | * Tuesday: 500 Busch Light Draws * Wednesday: $1.50 Antifreeze Drinks (house drink) * Thursday: 250 Taco's * Friday: l/31b Gutbuster and fries $2.00, $3 Busch Pitchers ♦Bring this ad in for $1 .(X) off a pitcher* ■ mm mm mm mm mm mm mm mm mm mm mm mm mm mm mm mm mm mm mm mm mm mm m A DECE 1 Bug-eating bats reside in Lincoln I By Mark Baldridge Staff Reporter Does the Capitol Building have bats in its belfry? Patricia Freeman thinks it’s possible. Freeman, curator of zoology at the University of Nebraska State Muse um, is an authority on bats. “I think there are certainly some bats there in the summer time, I’m not sure they’re year-round,” she said. Freeman said large numbers of bats have passed through Nebraska in the last month or so in their annual migration. “Every fall the animals that are farther north go south,” she said, “You’ve probably seen geese doing the same thing.” • The animals may stop over in homes as well, but Freeman said the bats were no cause for alarm. Though some people feel uneasy about bats, Freeman said the uneasi ness was a misunderstanding. “Anything we don’t know much about tends to get bad press," she said. Of a thousand species of bats, only three are blood-eaters, she said, and all of these “vampire” bats live in South and Central America. Although rabies can be contracted from bat bites. Freeman said that in the past 40 years—in Canada and the United States—only 14 verified cas es of rabies in humans have been transmitted by bats. “You have a better chance of win ning at Lotto,” she said. Freeman said all bats in Nebraska are insect-eaters. That should make them more welcome in an agricultur al area, she said. “A favorite food of the big brown bat is the cucumber beetle,” she said. “The larval stage of the beetle is the com root worm, a huge agricultural pest.” Bats in Nebraska also eat stink bugs and leaf hoppers, as well as mosquitoes, she said. And an individ ual bat consumes insects in large num bers. “If you don’t save bats you’re go ing to eliminate a huge predator on agricultural pests,” she said. Bat droppings are extremely ni trogenous, she said, and highly prized as a fertilizer. “In fact,” she said, “in the Civil War, there were efforts to mine bat guano to use in the manufacture of gunpowder.” But, if a bat should take up tempo rary residence in your home, Freeman advises caution. “Don’t poison them,” she said. “Anything that kills a bat kills a hu man, only more slowly.” Some homeowners don’t mind the guest, Freeman said, and build bat boxes — like a birdhouse for bats to attract them. But if you really want to get rid of them, “watch and see where they come in and out of the house,” she said. Brian Shellt<yDN Then, when the bats are gone, simply block the hole. But Freeman said homeowners should beware that in June and July the bats may be raising babies. Block ing the exit will cause abandoned babies to starve. ^ Jim Weverka, manager of Animal Control in Lincoln, said his company could take care of homeowners’ bat oroblems. “If people find bats in their room they can open the window and see if they fly out,” he said. “Otherwise they can call Animal Control.” A bat on the ground can be easily captured in a coffee can, he said, because bats cannot take flight from a standing position on the ground. “They have to climb up on some thing to get a gliding start,” he said. Animal Control captured about three or four bats last month, he said. “That’s pretty common this time of year,” he said. Animal Control treats the bats hu manely and releases them afler cap ture, he said. Green space forum scheduled By Becky Becher Staff Reporter UNL students and faculty can ex Kress their views on Chancellor Gra am Spanier’s proposed green space during an open forum next week. Next Wednes day, ASUN will sponsor the forum on Spanier’s pro posal to replace the faculty parking lot north of the Nebras f ka Union with a landscaped area. The forum will be at noon, Sept. 29, in the main lobby of the Nebraska Union. Forum organizer and Arts and Sci ence senator, Deb Silhacek, said Spanier declined an invitation to at tend the forum. Silhacek said she had hoped that Spanier’s attendance would have at tracted more people ami more ques tions resulting in more answers. Silhacek said that by declining her invitation to the forum, Spanier was sending a message that he did not care about University of Nebraska-Lin coln student and faculty opinion on the green space. In other business. Association of Students of the University of Nebras ka President Keith Benes vetoed a bill asking the NU Board of Regents to consider the renovation of Richard’s Hall a higher priority on the regent’s capital construction list. Benes said the regents would not be voting on the list until next year. $10.97 Cassettes $6.97 Tools and other hardware On sale at Twisters Hammer down big savings on Tool's latest- and other new releases — Undertow ’ Prices effective through 10-6-93 -- Athlete Continued from Page 1 he said. “He didn’t know the out come of the case, and I think Kenny went through so much.” In the Baldwin case, Jones said questions still needed to be an swered. “Of course he was in the wrong, but no one came to Scott Baldwin’s rescue,” Jones said. “I’m still angry because the people in Omaha, Ne braska, just let the case fade away? Osborne said athletes were not immune from coverage, but they were allowed to make mistakes like any other person. “If you fumble or score a touch down, you understand you’re go ing to be a hero or a goat,” he said. “But I hate to have off-the-field matters made public. “But if that same amount of coverage would be given to anoth er student. I’ve got no problems with it.” Jones said athletes were viewed only as athletes and not as students most of the time. “People are watching you to see if you do good, and some watch to see if you do bad. Once you make a mistake, people won’t forget.” Bender said if the news was of interest to the public, it was worthy of being published. “The athletes have some control over their lives,” he said. “They can live fairly quietly and avoid the t. y didn’t have to become athletes. They could have done other things.” Osborne said it was difficult for athletes to stay out of the spotlight because of all the coverage they received. “Somehow athletes are expect ed to be above reproach in so many areas,” he said. Osborne said he wanted his play ers to go through a normal four years of college. “I’d like to see them go four years without a lot of scrutiny, where they can make some mis takes and also do some good things.”