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By Alan Phelps
Senior Reporter
One of Lincoln’s oldest neigh
borhoods is getting a facelift.
Malone Village — eight
acres of housing rising around 22nd
and S streets, at the edge of the Uni
versity of Nebraska-Lincoln campus
— is the last step in a nearly 20-year
redevelopment project stretching
across northern Lincoln.
One 24-unit apartment house, 10
townhomes and 20 single-family
homes are being built by a private
developer on city-owned land, said
Diane Morgan, a program coordina
tor in Lincoln’s urban development
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department.
Prices for the
houses, meant
to attract fami
lies to the area,
will range
from $60,000
up to about
$80,000.
While
Malone Vil
lage is not a
low-income project, Morgan said,
some financial assistance is avail
able. For example, the city will for
give the cost of the lot—from $3,000
to $7,500—for buyers who live in the
homes at least five years.
Morgan said the city also would
pick up the tab for site preparation and
the installation of utilities. After that,
her office will monitor the progress of
the development.
Jerry urenemeier of All Service
Realty, the realtor contracted to sell
the homes, said the development had
a great deal of potential.
“I think it’s about finding the right
people,” he said.
A few of the homes, built by high
school students as industrial arts
projects, stand at the edge of the con
struction zone. One house has been,
sold, Grenemeier said. He said he
thought the selling would begin to
gather steam.
“What we’re hoping is a few units
Set sold and pick up the momentum,”
e said.
Grenemeier said he had received a
number of inquiries about the homes,
including some from people already
living in the Malone neighborhood.
“They like them,” he said.
Ed Patterson, president of the
Malone Neighborhood Association,
said area residents were looking for
ward to their new neighbors.
“I think, basically, that it should be
well-received if they can get it devel
oped and sold to people who will be
dedicated to using the properties as
homes,” he said.
There had been some doubt among
neighborhood residents, Patterson
said, that single-family homes would
sell well in an area many thought
well-suited to student apartment hous
es.
“But it looks like the demand will
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Sexual disease s
low profile led
to big epidemic
By Rebecca Oltmans
Staff Reporter
Six years ago, when the University Health
Center diagnosed someone with HPV—
human papillomavirus, commonly called
genital warts — they could tell the person the
name of the disease, but that was about it.
Little information was available about the
sexually transmitted disease, beyond the fact
that it was highly contagious.
Linda Lewis, a physician’s assistant at the
health center, is one of eight full-time practitio
ners at the health center. Lewis diagnoses at
least three cases of genital warts each week, she
said.
Students diagnosed with the disease are left
with many questions.
“They feel angry, guilty and frustrated when
they find out,” Lewis said, “and they want
answers.”
More detailed information about the disease
has finally allowed Lewis to answer some of
those questions. The information became avail
able not because the number of cases has in
creased steadily for the last several years, but
because the disease itself now is receiving more
attention.
HPV became prominent about the same
time as HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.
“Youdieof HIV.so HP V took aback scat for
a while,” Lewis said.
“We, as doctors, are in the infancy stage of
understanding HPV,” she said.
Six years ago, some practitioners saw HPV
as insignificant. That perception is changing,
Lewis said, partly because of the large number
of people with the disease.
According to the Centers for Disease Con
trol, 24 million to 40 million Americans arc
diagnosed with the disease annually. An esti
mated 40 percent of American women arc
infected with the incurable disease.
An abnormal Pap Smear can be a warning
sign of HPV for women, Lewis said. Because
women are supposed to have the exam annual
ly, more women are diagnosed with or are
aware of the disease.
“If there was a similar annual exam for men,
we would diagnose more men with the virus,”
Lewis said.
HPV testing for men is expensive, Lewis
said, but swabbing the penis with vinegar and
looking for while spots can indicate whether a
person is infected. People who think they have
. the disease should be examined by a physician,
she said.
The health center cannot accurately esti
mate how many students at UNL have the
disease, Lewis said, because many students go
to other clinics for testing.
The real danger of genital warts, she said,
occurs when the disease goes undetected. Lewis
said sixty different strains of HPV have been
identified.
Some strains of the disease arc undetectable
without clinical diagnosis and go untreated for
years. While some strains remain mostly a
nuisance, others eventually can lead to cancer
of the cervix and urethra.
Because some immune systems prevent an
infected person from showing symptoms, some
people can have the disease for years without
ever knowing it, Lewis said. But even without
visible symptoms they can transmit the disease.
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Eye on nature
Freshman art major Mike VanCleave works on a sketch of the plants In the Sculpture Garden near the Sheldon
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Petition challenges ASUN on green space
By Jody Holzworth
Staff Reporter
Two UNL students are going out on a limb
for green space on campus.
Ecology Now members Kimberly
Haskett, a senior computer science major, and
Mark Peterson, a senior biological systems
engineering major, are gathering student sup
port to turn the lot north of the Nebraska Union
into a green space.
Haskett and Peterson began circulating a
petition Thursday in favor of Chancellor Gra
nam Spanicr’s green space proposal.
“After hearing the negative reaction to the
green space at the ASUN meeting last week, we
decided to prove that there is support for it on
campus,” Haskett said.
The Association of Students of the Univer
sity of Nebraska voted to oppose Spanicr’s
proposal earlier this month.
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Replacing that parking lot
with green space Is one of
the best Improvement
projects this campus could
do.
— Peterson
Ecology Now president
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Although ASUN opposed the idea, Haskett
and Peterson said they found other students
supported the idea. The petition drive gathered
357 signatures in less than a week.
“We found a lot of support." Haskett said.
“There didn’t seem to be quite the opposition
on campus as in ASUN. Over half the students
I approached signed the petition."
Haskett urged senators at the ASUN meet
ing Wednesday to reconsider the issue. But she
said senators seemed inattentive during her
speech.
Peterson said opposition to removing the
parking lot stemmed from 155 facultv members
and, indirectly, students, who would have to
park elsewhere. However, Peterson said, bene
fits of the green space outweigh the cost of
losing parking on campus.
“Replacing that parking lot with green space
is one of the best improvement projects this
campus could do,” Peterson said.
The green space could be used for club
activities, bands and concerts. Shakespeare on
the green, tossing footballs or studying, he said.
Peterson said two parking lots used to exist
on both sides of Love Library. Those parking
lots were converted to green space several years
ago and have remained an aesthetically pleas
ing change, he said.
UJNL graduate enters race tor governor
By Steve smith
Senior Reporter
Alan Jacobsen promised to put the brakes
on growing state government and to
provide “no-nonsense crime legislation”
as he launched his campaign for governor
Friday in Lincoln.
Jacobsen made his gubernatorial bid official
with stops in Lincoln, Omaha, Scottsbluff,
Kearney and Grand Island on Friday.
Jacobsen, 39, is the former chairman of the
Lancaster County Republ ican Party and owns a
roofing business and marina in Lincoln.
Gene Spence, an Omaha businessman, is the
only other Republican who has announced his
intention to run for theGOP nomination and the
chance to face Gov. Ben Nelson in a probable
re-election bid.
In his stint as Republican Party chairman,
Jacobsen said he saw state government for what
it rcally was — big and getting bigger.
“State government is bloated, top-heavy and
cumbersome,” he said. “The bottom line is that
it’s too expensive.
“It has too many layers of highly paid man
agement and there’s a tremendous amount of
duplication,’’ he said. “I believe we need some
one to go in and bring it back under control.”
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Jacobsen, a University of Nebraska-Lincoln
graduate, was raised on a farm and lived in
Unadilla and McCool Junction before moving
with his family to Lincoln. He founded A-J
Roofing and Waterproofing Co. in 1983.
Jacobsen said Nelson had not shown lough
leadership to stop the trend of increasing crime
in Nebraska.
“The governor’s response to growing drug
and gang problems was to call in the attorney
general for a feel-good conference in Omaha,’’
he said, referring to the Youth and Violence
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