Audience performs at workshop
By Matthew Waite
Staff Reporter
Playing games is what it’s all about.
Audience participation is a must.
Lunacy and comedy are the results.
When it is done, everyone’s sides hurt
from laughing. And it is all made up
on the spot— no scripts.
But University of Nebraska-Lin
coln students don’t need to go to a
comedy club to experience this. Each
Friday, the Nebraska Union becomes
a comedy club where members of the
audience are the performers.
“It’s not like stand-up and it’s not
like theater,” Greg Tavares said.
Tavares, 25, is a theater graduate stu
dent and the comedy workshop in
structor.
The workshops arc staged from 10
to 11:30 p.m. Fridays in the Crib area,
next to Burger King. Tavares and his
group move all the chairs and tables
from the room for their workshop.
They need all the space they can
get.
“We do lots of silly games and
warm-ups,” Tavares said. “It’s a total
workshop situation where nothing is
expected from anybody. We don’t
know what we’re going to do.”
Beginning midnight Tuesday
3:08 a.m. — Sprinkler and alarm
systems activated, Harper Resi
dence Hall. Three students were in
the fifth-floor study lounge of Harp
er Hall when the sprinkler heads
began gushing water, soaking the
students and their books and set
ting off the fire alarms. Reports
Tavares also said the workshop
had certain rules.
“Everybody warms up,” he said.
“Not everybody has to play, but ev
erybody has to warm-up because the
warm-up is silly. It’s like camp
games.”
Patrick Tuttle, 23, also a theater
fgraduate student, is a workshop regu
ar.
“It’s something that I’ve always
wanted to do,” he said, “to break out
of a shell to be able to expose myself
a lot.”
The workshop was created last year
during the spring semester when a
group of four theater graduate stu
dents, including Tavares and Tuttle,
started getting together on a regular
basis.
Sharon Bigelow, 28, was part of
the original group. She was also the
only female.
She said playing the typical “girly”
role wasn’t for her, she wanted to be
the evil stepmother.
This year the group wanted to get
more people involved.
“It’sgrowing,” Tavares said. “Lots
of people just come to watch, and lots
come to play.”
Tuttle said he wanted people to
- Police Report —
indicate the sprinkler heads were
‘ since their installation,
j leading to their activation.
_ i, $3,000.
7:05 a.m. — Larceny, Oldfather
Hall, $5.
2:23_p.m.—Books stolen, Univer
sity Bookstore, $420, recovered.
4:21 p.m. — Hood ornament sto
len, Sandoz Residence Hail, $50.
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We’re very normal
people. We Just have
this need to take our
clothes off every now
and then.
— Tuttle
theater graduate student
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think differently about the workshop.
“We don’t want to be just a bunch
of theater people gccking out,” Tuttle
said. “That’s what everybody thinks
all theater people do and we don’t.
We’re very normal people. We just
have this need to lake our clothes off
every now and then.”
Bigelow said baring all wasn’t the
only enjoyable aspect of the work
shop.
“It’s also really fun to get past the
normal, logical way of thinking and
that’s what I like about this," Bigelow
said. “It brings out your impulses.”
Tavares said his workshop served
as an alternative to the bar scene or
other Friday night activities.
“It’s a safe thing because there is
no alcohol,” Tavares said.
5:35 p.m. — Hood ornament sto
len, 14th and Vine streets, $50.
8:25jxm. — Wallet stolen, Cam
pus Recreation Center, $17.
9:53 p.m. — Wallet stolen, Cam
pus Recreation Center, $65 loss,
$15 recovered.
10:52 p.m. — Backpack stolen,
Love Library, $129.
Malone
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be there,” he said, noting that one
home had been sold. “It looks like the
project will be a success.”
Patterson said a batch of new homes
in the middle of an old, diverse neigh
borhood affects residents differently
than a similar development in a new,
uniform suburb.
“There is a much more diverse set
of interests here,” he said. “Here,
you’ve got a large student population,
a population of workers, profession
als. ...”
Morgan, who coordinates the
Malone Village development for the
city, said the redevelopment of the
Malone area was the last part of the
huge, ongoing Radial Reuse Project.
In the mid-1970s, Lincoln voters
turned down a controversial proposal
to build a radial parkway, much like
Capitol Parkway, paralleling
Comhusker Highway from downtown
to 84th Street.
The city already had acquired much
of the land needed for the road, so
when the plan was scrapped, the Ra
dial Reuse Project was bom. Across
the northern fringe of the city stretch
a series of parks, bike paths and new
homes developed on Radial Reuse
land, Morgan said.
The Malone project, she said, was
the last parcel of that land to be devel
oped.
Trago Park, Malone Village and
UNL’s Beadle Center area had been
filled with housing once, Morgan raid.
But the properties withered during
years of indecision over the radial
highway project and university plans
to expand.
“A lot of homes were badly deteri
orated because nobody invested in
those properties,” she said. “They had
an uncertain future.”
Jacobsen
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Conference in August that U.S. Attor
ney General Janet Reno attended and
Nelson chaired.
“We all know we have problems,
but we need to address them,”
Jacobsen said. “We need a governor
that is more than ceremonial in his
duties.”
Jacobsen criticized Nelson for “sit
ting on the sidelines” and not support
ing an anti-crime package submitted
to the Legislature by Attorney Gener
al Don Stenberg
Nelson was idle while state sena
tors diluted Stenberg’s once-tough
proposal that eventually called tor
boot camps for less serious and first
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Eventually, the university and city
came to own much of the land. In
1987, a committee comprised of city,
UNL and neighborhood representa
tives met to decide how far the univer
sity would expand to the east and what
would be done with the remaining
land.
“The idea was to come to some
agreement as to how far the university
would develop,” Morgan said, “to
come up with a buffer.
Fifteen months of meetings pro
duced Trago Park, which lies between
UNL’s Beadle Center and Malone
Village. ,
Morgan called the consensus
building between the city, UNL and
the neighborhood a long but fruitful
process.
“Everyone became more aware of
everyone clse’s needs," she said. “Ev
eryone agreed this was the best solu
tion for all of the parties.”
She said that when the idea for
Malone Village was formed, design
ers had in mind a low-density, resi
dential area, made up of homes de
signed to resemble other houses in the
neighborhood.
“It was not the desire of the neigh
borhood to just build housing for stu
dents," Morgan said, “as much as we
love them.
“We thought there was a need and
potential to bring back families, fac
ulty, graduate students,” she said. “We
think we will capture these various
raartefr"
time offenders, he said.
Jacobsen also said if he were elect
ed he would put emphasis on growth
of the state’s agricultural sector in
promoting economic development.
“Agriculture is the number one
industry in Nebraska,” the GOP can
didate said. “We need to utilize that
industry as we go out across the coun
try.”
State government could be run like
a big business, he said, and the chief
executive officer of that corporation
must also be S good manager.
That is not occurring with the cur
rent administration, Jacobsen said.
“There is simply not good man
agement right now,” he said. “We
need someone who’ll be a manager—
and get things done.”
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RHA rejects grassy area
because of safety reasons
By Mindy L. Loiter
Staff Reporter
The Residence Hall Associa
tion passed a resolution Sunday to
oppose the removal of the parking
lot north of the Nebraska Union for
the creation of a green space.
University of
Nebraska-Lin
coln Chancel
lor Graham
Spanier has
proposed Lot
17A be elimi
nated and be
replaced by an
open, grassy quadrangle.
The resolution passed by a vote
of 18-1 with five abstentions. It was
amended three times during de
bate.
RHA tabled the resolution at its
Sept. 19 meeting to gather opinion
from students in the halls. RHA
senators said they found student
residents opposed removal of the
parking space.
Neihardt Sen. Jocelyn Breinster
said most residents in her hall op
posed the removal of the parking
lot because of safety concerns.
She said students at Neihardt
thought the money could best be
used to fix Richards Hall and other
UNL buildings that were in disre
pair.
Pound President Sarah Wilmer
said she held a meeting on creation
of the green space. She said no one
she talked to supported the park.
“A lot of the green space we
have now on campus isn’t used,"
she said.
The students also raised the is
sue of maintaining UNL’s current
green space, she said.
Wilmer also said the students
were concerned about the overall
safety on campus.
Burr President Doug Olson said
students on East Campus were con
cerned with the removal of the lot
because they used it when they had
night classes.
Removal of that lot created a
real safety concern for those stu
dents, he said.
Selleck Senator Ngai Cheng
Leong said students at Selleck Hall
supported the creation of the green
area.
He said in a survey of 20 percent
of the students at Selleck Hall, 57
percent of the students said they
supported removing the lot.
RHA President Raquel Wright
said she met with UNL Director of
Housing Doug Zatechka about the
resolution.
She said Zatechka had several
concerns about supplementary staff
who worked in the residence halls
and parked in the lot north of the
student union.
"He was particularly concerned
about women kitchen workers who
came to work before the sun rose
and leA work a Aer the sun set,’’ she
said.
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