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Student group leases Morrill Hall gift shop By Amie Haggar Staff Reporter After about four months of nego tiations, the Association ofCollegiate Entrepreneurs will reopen the Morrill Hall gift shop today on a one-year trial basis. ACE, a student organization that focuses on learning business innova tion, and the University of Nebraska Lincoln signed an agreement Friday afternoon giving ACE the lease to the shop. Paul Carlson, associate vice chan cellor for business and finance, said the gift shop, which previously was run by the university, had been closed since April because the store’s high operating costs exceeded its sales. Robin Anderson, director of the Nebraska Center for Entrepreneur ship, said if ACE didn’t make a prof it after the first year, the university would resume control of the shop. Otherwise, he said, ACE will be able to renew its lease. ACE President John Gustafson said the negotiating process to get the lease was long. “We had to negotiate with the uni versity to purchase the gift shop,” he said. “When you negotiate with them, so many people need to approve ev erything. It has definitely been an experience.” Suraya Kamelian, manager of the new gift shop, said the long negotia tion process had been difficult be cause she was eager to put her ideas to work. “I was disheartened because it took a while, but now I’m very excited to get started,” she said. Rich Rice, who has served as coun sel to ACE for the negotiations, said he tried to make the final contract benefit ACE members. “We have been drafting amend ments and trying to make the agree ment a little more palatable to the students,” Rice said. Gustafson said one major prob lem during negotiations was decid ing how to distribute profits ACE would make from merchandise left in the shop by the university. “(UNL) wanted us to buy every thing at full value. We had to find a way to negotiate that,” Gustafson said. “The university has always been very supportive of us, but the prob lem was trying to come to terms with what we could afford and what they were willing to work with.” The agreement states ACE will give half of the profits from the uni versity’s merchandise to UNL. “ACE wanted to buy the entire inventory at a percentage, but the university would rather get half of the profits,” Carlson said. “At the end of the year the remaining inven tory will become the university’s to do with it what they please.” As part of lease payments, ACE pays the university 5 percent of all profits and $3 per square foot in the shop for utilities, he said. Rice said because ACE had a much broader purpose than simply running the gift shop, the ACE division run ning the gift shop would start a not for-profit organization to collect shop profits and other donations. The profits remaining after ACE pays the lease will go to the museum, scholarships for ACE members and ACE projects, Gustafson said. Running the shop will provide in valuable experience for ACE mem bers, many of whom are hoping to have their own businesses in the fu ture, Gustafson said. “Everyone sees this as a learning laboratory where students can partic ipate in the actual planning and oper ation of the store,” he said. Carlson said ACE members were qualified to operate the shop. “The students have the expertise and capabilities to make the shop successful. They are very strong and capable people,” Carlson said. Rice said he expected students to increase sales and to turn a profit. “It’s a matter of getting better merchandising and marketing more,” he said. Not only will students have the opportunity to show their skills in the enterprise, but the university also can boast about the possibilities for stu dent-run businesses to other institu tions, Rice said. “This is a great opportunity for the university and for the students to have a student-run business,” he said. “I think it will be a neat thing to show off to other educational institu tions.” RHA tables fund increase By Mindy L. Letter Staff Reporter The Residence Hall Association tabled a resolution Sunday that would have raised its student fund alloca tion $5 per resident. Residents' contribution to to RHA’s central administration would have been raised from $1.50 to $3 per student for increased services. The remaining fund increase would have gone to individual residence halls and floors to be used for social events and other functions. RHA officers said most of the halls supported the action. Sarah Wilmer, president of Cather Pound Residence Hall, said residents at her hall want ed more of the increased revenues to go to the halls and to the floors. But she said residents in her hall support ed the increase. ., .. The measure was tabled because members did not have time to dis cuss the resolution in detail, said Kris Larson, rha s vice presiaeni. In other business, John Benson, director of Institutional Research and Planning, and Kim Todd, architect for Campus Landscaping Services, spoke to RHA members about park ing concerns. Todd and Benson presented a 20 year UNL campus plan to RHA that emphasized parking garages and pushing parking to the perimeters of campus. Benson said that shuttle buses could provide most of the intercam pus transportation and that City Cam pus might have a campus loop design similar to that of East Campus in the future. Todd said even though everything in the 20-year plan was arbitrary and depended on cooperation with the City of Lincoln, planners would like to see a campus with parking garages and a strong amount of pedestrian accessibility to both residents and commuter students. Grant Continued from Page 1 can schools or groups of schools in the program, Levitov said. The 16 schools abroad that will serve as UNL’s European partners are in: Arhus, Denmark; Antwerp, Belgium; Bochum, Germany; Bolo gna, Italy; Coimbra, Portugal; Cork, Ireland; Hull, Great Britain; Leipzig, Germany; Lille, France; Madrid, Spain; and Thessaloniki, Greece. In Utrecht, Netherlands, the host university, two schools are part of the program. Strasbourg, France, hosts three universities. Students can choose from those 16 European schools, Levitov said, where they must study EC issues deal ing with areas such as contemporary European history, environmentalism, sociology or refugee policy. The consortium of American schools received a $135,000 lump sum, he said. Each university will have the opportunity to distribute money next fall to two students who apply for the grant. Money will be available the fol lowing year as well, he said. Levitov did not know whether the program would continue after the 1995-95 school year. “The hope is that after the end of the two-year process, relationships will be sustained," Levitov said, “and faculty members will continue to do research together." December Graduation Personalized Graduation Announcements includes your name and degree package of 30 $42.00 Generic Graduation Announcements Package of 10 $5.95 Name Cards to match generic graduation announcements package of 50 $7.35 Please allow 10 business days for delivery. . 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