UNL students join drive to save one million pop tabs
By Jennifer Groen
Staff Reporter
UNL students have been saving
pop can tabs all semester, and now
they know why,
Adam Naber, a freshman engineer
ing major at the University of Nebras
ka-Lincoln, began saving pop can tabs
to help pay the medical bills of a girl
from Sutton who was on dialysis.
After appealing to residence hall
students to pitch in by collecting their
pop tops to help the girl, Naber col
lected about 500 tabs.
Naber brought the philanthropic
project with him from Kearney, where
his family had been collecting tabs.
But as his collection of tabs piled
up, he discovered the story behind his
efforts was somewhat distorted. He
heard the needy-girl story was just a
rumor.
After some investigation, Naber
uncovered the mystery of why the
project got started.
Last year, Jolene Heurctz, a math
teacher at Silvcrlake Elementary
School in Bladen, wanted her fifth
grade class to see what one million
looked like. She decided to have her
class save tabs from cans and then
display them in a 7-foot plastic con
tainer.
Heuretz said because the class al
ready was saving the tabs, they decid
ed to put them to good use.
Heuretz said she learned two area
girls needed financial help to pay
their costly medical bills. A 15-year
old girl had leukemia, and an 11 -year
old girl had received a bone marrow
Police Report
Beginning midnight Monday
11:05 a.m. — Clock stolen, C.Y.
Thompson Library, $15.
11:05 a.m. — Phone stolen, C.Y.
Thompson Library, $25.
1:59 p.m. — Bike stolen, 601 N.
16th St., $400.
2:39 p.m.—Car accident, 17th and
R streets, $3,000.
9:27 p.m. — Bike stolen, Burnett
Hall, $1,400.
10:37 p.m. — Book bag and con
tents stolen, Love Library, $193,
$140 recovered.
11:20 p.m. — Person intoxicated,
Nebraska Union, taken to Detox.
11:57 p.m. — Theft from car, 12th
and Q streets, $150 loss, $100
damage.
Beginning midnight Tuesday
4:07 a.m. — Personal stereo sto
len, Selleck Residence Hall, $207.
3:20 p.m. — Wallet stolen, Abel
Residence Hall, $45.
3:46 p.m. — Hit-and-run accident,
16th and W streets, $1,500.
4:05 p.m. — Purse stolen, Nelle
Cochrane Woods Art Building, $38.
4:19 p.m.—Calculator stolen, Abel
Residence Hall, $179.
4:43 p.m. — Follow-up on larceny
from Nebraska Bookstore, case
cleared with one arrest.
5:25 p.m. — Person wanted on
warrant, Nebraska Bookstore, tak
en to Lancaster County Jail.
7:44 p.m. — Bike stolen, Sandoz
Residence Hall, $560.
Rec center puchases new Stairmasters
From Staff Reports
Students and faculty will find cheat
ing on their workouts a little harder
this semester.
The Campus Recreation Ccn ter has
purchased four new Stairmasters that
have a 45 degree incline.
“The incline creates a more com
fortable position to take longer steps
and eliminates the ability to cheat,”
said Ed Epps, a Stairmaster sales rep
resentative.
To use the machine, exercisers re
cline on a bench, using two hand grips
for support. The amount of resistance
can be adjusted by adding or subtract
ing weights.
The machine can be programmed
for both a short, high-intensity work
out and a long, low-intensity work
out. The high- and low-intensity work
outs are reached by varying levels of
speed.
“You have to go faster to keep the
weights up,” Epps said.
Epps said the old Stairmasters were
easier to use and that many exercisers
would prefer them to the new ones at
first.
“But they’ll get more efficient as
they go along,” he said. “It’s a better
workout.”
The Stairmasters were purchased
for about $3,000 each.
Candidate
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dates to the regents.
Once the finalists are named, the
regents probably will meet with them
within a week.The regents are ex
pected to select the new NU president
at a special meeting early in Novem
ber.
Interviews between the finalists
and the NU Board of Regents will
take place in Lincoln. Chancellors
from the four NU campuses, senior
administration officials and members
of the press probably will have a
chance to meet the finalists at that
time, he said.
However, it’s not certain the re
gents will meet with finalists next
week, Milliken said.
The 18-memberprcsidcntial search
committee is made up of NU faculty
and administrators, community lead
ers and one university student.
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We would still appre
ciate help from the
university.
— Heuretz
math teller
transplant to counteract her anemia.
Other towns and institutions, such
as UNL, have been helping the class
collect the tabs.
About 500,000 tabs have been col
lected so far, Heuretz said.
Heuretz’s class, which has been
collecting the tabs for about a year,
plans to recycle the tabs once they
reach the one million mark. They plan
to donate the money from the tabs to
help pay for the girls’ medical bills.
While the cause may not be the one
Naber originally intended to help with,
he said he was glad to help with either
cause.
Heuretz said she was grateful for
the assistance.
“We would still appreciate help
from the university,” she said.
Trial
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the ground was exposed and many
footsteps could have trampled poten
tial evidence.
“I feel comfortable searching by
myself,” he said. “I trust myself.”
Doetker, equipped with a metal
detector, found the top of a tube of
lipstick.
He also found ashes under a pile of
sawdust-like material. The ashes were
white and were “extremely hard” to
distinguish from the snow that sur
rounded them in the earlier searches.
During the trial, Lacey introduced
the lipstick tube and items found in
the pile as evidence.
The items introduced were: a hook
Doetker said was a bra hook, a round
metal object with “Lee” written on it,
a round tip of what Doetker said was
a belt buckle, a snap, a piece of a
mirror, partially burnt vegetation,
eyelets and other burned matter.
Helvie objected to all such evi
dence introduced by the prosecution
but was overruled by Lancaster Coun
ty District Judge Donald Endacott
each time.
The trial will resume Friday at
8:30 a.m. and end at noon.
Capitol
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Hohenstcin said he had not heard of
them hanging lights at the Capitol for
at least the past 25 years.
The book said the incident oc
curred in 1967 or 1968.
Smith, a seven-year employee at
the Capitol, said after Boye’s book
was published, visitors expected to
see ghosts in the building.
“School children will come in ask
ing for ghosts, and you hate to break
their little hearts,” she said.
Smith said she had doubts about
Capitol ghosts.
But the building is filled with nooks
and crannies where spooks might feel
right at home.
Creepy corners, eerie stairwells, a
dark basement and unused rooms have
caused some workers to question their
beliefs in spirits, she said.
Often, Smith said, the wind whips
through 14 stories of elevator shaft
making an eerie whistle.
The stairwells are creepy, too, she
said, because the fire stairs climb
from the second floor to the 14th
floor.
“That’s a big, empty space,” she
said.
And sometimes open windows are
found, Smith said, in rooms where
windows are not supposed to be
opened.
The unexplained phenomena in the
Capitol can, for the most part, be
explained, she said.
“All the strange noises and all the
strange goings on have all been ulti
mately explained by a window left
open or by a door left open,” she said.
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