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Daily Nebraskan Wednesday, November 3,1993 Students’ dollars bring businesses downtown By Ann Stack Staff Reporter University of Nebraska-Lincoln students don’t have very far to look for a good time. It’s looking for them. Several new clubs, restaurants and stores have opened updowntown, most within walking distance of campus. Other places that have been in Lin coln for several years have been ren ovated or relocated to cater to Lin coln’s college community. Neil Powell, business recruiter of the Downtown Lincoln Association, said he’d seen a renewed interest in downtown activity. “I think some of those businesses certainly want to be aware of the college market; they want to cater to the university,” Powell said. “A new breed of retailers are looking at the downtown area.” Easy Street opened last May. The nightclub, which plays hip-hop and top-40 dance music, has enjoyed con siderable success with the college crowd, Easy Street employee Raymond Abdallah said. “Mario (Abdallah, Easy Street manager) opened close to the college because 80 percent of the crowd we James Mehslmg/DN get are college kids,” Raymond Abdullah said. Easy Street offers college nights every Thursday and Sunday, when those 18 and over are admitted. Another nightclub. The Edge, moved recently. Previously located on 9th and P streets, the club “outgrew itself’ and moved to a new location, 227 N. 9th St., Manager Steve Pope said. “We went from a 150-pcrson dance floor to one that could hold 200-400 people,” Pope said. “We have a big ger stage so we can hold national bands now, a bigger bar, a better 1 ight show and better sound.” The Edge is geared primarily to ward young people, Pope said. This accounts for the variety of all-ages events, such as performances by na tional bands and after-hours dancing every Friday and Saturday from 1 a.m. to 4 a.m. While nightclubs and bars are pop ular attractions, local entrepreneurs are trying their luck with other types of enjoyment. The Centrum Plaza, which has been open for 11 years, is becoming popu lar again, partly because of new shops. Jack Irons, Centrum owner, said because of a drastic pick-up in the economy, the Centrum lowered its rent, which has made a significant difference in business. Some of the new attractions in the Centrum are Carmel Com; the Burger Bam; So.o.o Gute, a German restau rant; and Hot Hot Hot, a Mexican specialty store. Irons said another reason the Cen trum has rediscovered success was partly because of downtown revital ization. “Businesses want to be downtown — Lincoln is downtown now. The college crowd helps with that a lot,” he said. “The college students are the lifeline of the downtown.” Another new shop is The Caffe Caper, which opened Sept. 9 at 245 N. 13th St. in the Gunny’s building. The new coffeehouse was opened by co-owners Jan Havranek and Becky Nelson. “We wanted to open a more West Coast-style espresso shop that fea tured specialty coffees,” Havranek said. “We did a lot of research and reading, and studied shops in Boul der, (Colo.), Seattle and Portland (Ore.), before we opened.” Havranek said she’d seen a revital ization in the specialty shops opening downtown, helped in part by the num ber of college students the town at tracts. But she said Caffe Caper did not cater especially to college stu dents; instead, they catered to a wide spectrum of ages. Beckv Smith, co-owner of Igua nas, said the bar would be expanding to include an indoor beergarden, more Eool tables and a window into azzari’s, a new pizza eatery that opened Sept. 20. Lazari’s co-owners, University of Nebraska-Lincoln graduates Doug Henningsen and D.J. Rezac, said they picked the location because of its access to campus. General education requirement implementation to be discussed By Matthew Waite Staff Reporter A bill supporting general educa tion requirements is slated for debate at the ASUN meeting Wednesday. Association of Students of the University of Nebraska Presi dent Keith Bcncs said he expected the bill to take a long time to de bate. Benes said the University General Education PlanningCommittee made recommendations for general educa tion requirements, but any proposed requirements would have to be ap proved by individual colleges. “(The committee doesn’t) have the power to just dictate,” Bcnes said. Bencs said the proposed bill sup ported implementing the general ed ucation curriculum, including cours es in integrative studies and informa tion discovery and retrieval. Such courses would teach writing, oral expression and critical thinking skills. Bencs said the general require ments would not create new classes or add to the number of hours needed to graduate. “It will just be a matter of just changing the way a class is set up or identifying the classes that fulfill (the general education requirements).” Trial Continued from Page 1 calling two FBI special agents to the witness stand. Richard Bucchelc, a laboratory agent from Virginia, said pieces of nylon found in soil samples matched the kind of fabric in the green B.U.M. Equipment jacket Harms was believed to be wearing when she disappeared. Prosecutors have alleged Scott Barney, also charged in the case, and Bjorklund burned Harms’ clothing. Bucchele said charred greenish blue debris was found in ash sent to the FBI by the Lincoln police. Many women’s clothing items also were found in the soil samples, Buechele said. “1 found numerous hooks, snaps, eyelets that I felt may have originated from articles of clothing,” he said. District Judge Donald Endacott accepted evidence including zippers, rivets, shoe eyelets, thread and clo sure-type hooks. Buechele said although the cloth ing items found in the debris matched the prosecutor’s descript ion of Harms ’ clothing, the items could have come from any kind of clothing. Open Continued from Page 1 ings, she said. “We’re damned if we do and damned if we don’t,” Skrupa said. “They’re making a eunuch out of the board of regents.” In addition, Skrupa said this pres idential selection process was differ ent from when Martin Massengale was chosen as NU president in 1990. The board knew what to expect from Massengale because he served as chancellor of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln before Graham Spanier, Skrupa said. “We don’t know these people,” Skrupa said. “That is why these deci sion are important.” Skrupa said she thought the pub lic’s interest in the proceedings gave it the right to be informed about them. “I think (the public) has the right because they are paying the bills,” she said. Regent Charles Wilson of Lincoln said he agreed the meetings should be as open as possible. But regents should still consider the candidates’ rights to privacy and confidentiality, he said. “We are all committed to as open a process as possible,” Wilson said. Millikcn said the decision to have open interviews would not affect the interviews. “I don’t know if it will change that much, whether it was open or closed,” he said. RiDERS iNTHE SKY Locally sponsored by KZUM 89.3 FM and Kinko’s Copies. FRiDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1993, 8 P.M. 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