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
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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
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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
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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.
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However, handling all of the dif
ferent recycling materials that go to
many different places can become
complex.
Another complex part of recycl ing
is its economic impact, he said.
Recycling could save the universi
ty money, he said, because it would
decrease the amount of garbage picked
up daily.
In the short term, however, recy
cling can be costly because of the
initial capital expenditures of trash
cans and equipment for moving recy
cled goods.
Neither Ekart nor Jack Goebel,
vice chancellor for business and fi
nance, could estimate the cost of the
recycling changes, but Goebel said
the university would do its best to
fund the recycling program.
“It does not have to cost more for
recycling,” he said. “Over the long
haul, you may even be able to save a
few dollars.
“At some point in time, it is very
probable recycling will be cheaper
than taking something to the landfill
because garbage fees keep going up.”
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