Fitness centers contend
for students’ business
By Nicole Sheets
Staff Reporter__
Competition inside a gym is natu
ral. But some Lincoln fitness centers
have been competing outside the gym
for student members.
Stan Campbell, director of the
Campus Recreation Center, said high
quality and low membership costs
kept students coming to the rec cen
ter.
But other fitness center managers
say their facilites still draw UNL stu
dents’ business.
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This Is more than Just
a fitness facility, and
for the money, you
Just can't beat It
— Campbell
director of the Campus
Recreation Center
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Facility-wise, the campus facili
ties offer as much as any other facility
in town with a variety of classes and
options for the students,” Campbell
said.
“This is more than just a fitness
facility, and for the money, you just
can’t beat if”
Each semester, students pay $39.98
in nonrefundable fees to fund the fee
center.
Other club memberships can cost
hundreds of dollars for the same mem
bership period. For example, the
YMCA, 1039 P St., charges £26 per
month, and Jazzercize, 6802 P St.,
costs $23 for 12 classes.
Prairie Life Center, 1305 S. 70th
St., has a $250 to $300 initiation fee in
addition to its monthly membership
fee.
Membership fees for one month at
Gold’s Gym, 4760 Leighton Ave.,
cost $25; three-month memberships
cost $69.95. There is no initiation fee.
Campbell said the high costs of
other gyms led 80 percent of UNL
students to use the rec center. More
than 3,300 students and faculty mem
bers work mit at the rec center each
day, he said.
Ladd Lake, a senior biology and
psychology major, said he used the,
rec center because his student fees
already paid for it.
Lake said he also liked the conve
nient location and quality equipment.
“I think the rec center is one of the
nicest facilities in Lincoln,” Lake said.
Angie Deming, a sophomore phys
ical therapy major and member of
Gold’s Gym said she preferred the rec
center to ofT-campus gyms.
“It's so big and there are so many
fun activities,” Deming said. “It’s all
people my own age so it’s easier to
exercise.”
Kim Bourn, a juniorin the College
of Arts and Sciences, said knowl
edgeable instructors and the wide
range of workout times attracted her
to Jazzercise.
“Jazzercise has lots of classes to
choose from. I can go almost every
hour between 6:30 a.m. and 8:30
p.m.,” she said. “When you’ve gone
to a class like Jazzercise for so long,
the campus classes just don’t com
Dare.”
Lee Ann Robb, manager of New
Lady Fitness, 121 Cherry Hill Blvd.,
said her all-women club attracted fe
male students who didn’t like the
social aspect of the rec center.
“Since it’s only open to women,
it’s not a meat market here, and the
girls don’t have to worry about what
they look like or who they might see,”
Robb said.
Robb said 40 percent of her clien
tele were UNL students.
Despite the $199 initiation fee and
monthly fee of $19.93, Robb said she
believed it was worth the extra mon
ey.
New Lady Fitness members often
use the club to get away from the
college atmosphere.
“Plus, we have plenty of parking
spaces for o
pus facilities," Robb said.
But some local recreation v«uKia
don’t even consider students as pro
spective clients.
Terry Seymour, manager at Prairie
Life Center, said his facil ity was aimed
at families.
Even though Prairie Life Center
offers many of the same equipment
and activities as the rec center,
Seymour said he didn’t view the rec
center as a competitor.
A recently opened club doesn’t
look to attract students, either.
Jean Gerlach, director at Belmont
Recreation Center, 3425 N. 14th St.,
said her club would try to attract other
members.
’’Belmont has enough nonstudents
and older adults that we don’t feel any
competition from the campus rec,”
Getiach said.
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Green space plan to be discussed at open forum
From Staff Reports
An open forum about Chancellor Gra
ham Spanier’s green space proposal will be
held at noon Wednesday in tne Nebraska
Union main lobby.
Association ofStudents of the University
of Nebraska senators Doug Oxley and Deb
Silhacek said Paul Carlson, UNL director of
Operations Analysis, would answer ques
tions about the plan.
The green space—a flat, grassy area—
would replace the parking lot north of the
union. AS UN members have passed a reso
lution against the proposal.
Oxley said the cost of the proposed project
was a student concern.
“We need to know what projects we’re
giving up to have this aesthetic change,” he
said.
Contest winner will be first to register by phone
From Staff Reports
UNL sophomore Brandy Schmitt was
named as the winner of the Voice Response
Registration Naming Contest Monday.
Earl Hawkey, director of Registration
Records, and Donna Liss, project manager
for Student Information System, named
Schmitt after her entry, called “hTRoll, was
chosen from 159 entries by a Voice Re
sponse Advisory Group.
As winner of the contest, Schmitt will be
the first student to register on the system in
early March. She also received a backpack
with school supplies, a cordless telephone
and $50 worth of long distance calls.
Second-place winner Judy Nienkamp will
be the second person to register on the
system and will receive a $50 gift certificate
for the University Bookstore.
The Student Information System will
allow students to register for classes by
telephone starting March 14.
The svstem also will allow students to
drop and add classes, change the grading
option of their classes, and access their
schedules.
Involvement Fair promotes groups on, off campus
From Staff Raparta_
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s
first Involvement Fair will be Wednesday in
the Centennial Ballroom of the Nebraska
- Union.
Kim Hobson, student organization con
sultant, said the fair, which runs from 11
a.m. to 4 p.m., would feature a variety of
student organizations, volunteer agencies
and university departments.
The fair is designed to encourage student
involvement in activities on and off campus.
Hobson said students sometimes had a
hard time joining organizations because they
didn’t know what activities were available.
The fair will help students find out how to
participate in a variety of organizations, she
Mid.
But the fair will not benefit only students,
Hobson said.
The Fair will help organizations adver
tise and gain recruits, she said.
’There’s a whole philosophy that states:
‘Students outside the classroom and outside
the campus, using extra-curricular activities
as a co-curriculum, have an enhancement
for academic pursuits as a student,”* Hobson
said. ’This Involvement Fair will hopefully
help them link with an organization.**
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Members are making reference
calls this week about the candidates,
he said.
The questions being asked are not
on behalf of any particular groups’
interests, Thew said.
“There hasn’t been a student inter
est, a faculty interest. It’s been a
university interest,” he said. “Instead
of being divisive, we’ve thought of
the university first instead of this group
and that group.”
The job title for president, as de
scribed in the advertisement, says:
“The President is the ChiefExecutive
Officer of the University, responsible
for developing, articulating, and im
plementing the long-range goals and
strategies for the University.”
Ueda said a president provided
direction, focus, emphasis and over
all management of the university sys
tem.
Many universities have no presi
dent, he said, but most universities
have some sort of leader.
The titles may vary from school to
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would wait 14 days before making a
decision on a new execution date. The
execution date probably would then
be set at least 30 days later, she said.
Attorneys working on Otey’s case
said another appeal would be filed.
James Mowbray, one of Otey’s law
yers, said he was encouraged by the
circuit court split vote, which indicat
ed to him that Otey’s appeal had some
merit.
“Within a week or so we might
know which direction we are going”
with an appeal strategy, Mowbray
said.
Otey could ask the appeal s tribunal
to rehear the case, ask the full circuit
court to review it or seek immediate
review by the U.S. Supreme Court,
Stenberg said.
Stenberg said that once an execu
tion date was set, the remaining flurry
of appeals probably could be handled
within a few days.
Nelson Potter, a University of Ne
Presidents of the University
of Nebraska:
Allen R. Benton —1871-76
Edmund B. Fairfield—1876-82
Henry Hitchcock —1882-83
Irving J. Manatt—1884-88
Charles E. Bessey—1881-91
James H. Canfield —1891-95
George E. MacLean—1895-99
Charles E. Bessey—1899-1900
Benjamin Andrews —1900-08
Samuel Avery —1909-27
Edgar A. Burnett—1927-38
Chauncey Boucher —1938-46
Reuben Gustavson —1946-53
John R. Selleck —1953-54
Clifford R. Hardin —1954-68
Mark Hobson — 1968-69
Durward B. Varner —1969-77
Ronald Roskens —1977-89
Martin Massengale — 1989
present
school, Ueda said, but such universi
ties do have chancellors or deans who
assume the responsibilities an NU
president assumes. “Somewhere in
the system there is going to be a
primary leader,” he said.
braska-Lincoln prolessor who regu
larly works with Otey as a volunteer
teacher, said he regretted the deci
sion.
“What it means is that the court
refuses to consider issues of basic
fairness,” he said, referring to
Stenberg’s role on the pardons board.
“There’s a question whether due
process rights extend beyond the trial,
out basic fairness standards should
apply to such a hearing.”
Fran Kaye, a UNL English profes
sor and member ofNebraskans Against
the Death Penalty, said executing Otey
would not be a good move.
“I’ve heard Stenberg’s line about
how people are tired of waiting for
justice,” she said. “Well, executing
someone isn’t justice ”
Kaye said executions were just a
way of diverting attention from the
real causes of crime, such as poverty.
“ Justice is not strapping somebody
down who is helpless and kill ing them
with a bolt of electricity,” she said.
The Aisodsted Preu contributed to this
report
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