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f A - ^ ----- V A SPORTS I lam/ •z*£m —2nd cold Eric Piatkowski hopes to Tuesday I continue to warm up after a <se/*j n disappointing performance owls against Appalachian State. J^esdafawSy* ^ Page 7 high around 45. NU officials ponder change in residency requirements By Ann Stack Staff Reporter Out-of-state students seeking lower tu ition at UNL may find themselves wait ing longer than the traditional six months to establ ish residency, a university ofTic ial said. Members of the University of Nebraska Board of Regents, who have been discussing the issue for several months, have said Nebras ka’s residency requirements are more lax than those in other states. The board is looking for a way to change that. J.B. Milliken, corporation secretary for the regents, said the board would meet in January to decide whether to ask the Nebraska Legisla ture to change the requirements. Board members say the current require ments are too liberal, Milliken said, and are considering setting additional criteria for out of-state students who are looking to establish residency and pay in-state tuition. Regent Nancy Hoch of Nebraska City said the residency requirements should be changed because the university was being shortchanged. Out-of-state students can establish Nebras ka residency quickly and generally pay less to attend NU than at other universities, she said. But these students typically do not stay in Nebraska to work, she said. Other universities have tougher standards and higher out-of-state tuition. Colorado law requires a non-resident to wait 12 months before establishing residency. The student must be 21 years of age, married or an emancipated minor before beginning the 12 month waiting period. At the University of Colorado at Boulder, residents pay $6,414 per year, compared to the $15,920 non-residents pay. CU has 16,988 resident and 8,025 non-resident students. Nebraska’s 2,790 non-resident students pay $9,123 per year. The 21,905 residents attending UNL pay $5,778 for a year. Students must now be 19 years old or eman cipated and have lived in Nebraska for a min imum of 180 days, or six months, immediately before the time residency is granted. Tim Alvarez, assistant director for first-time students, said the student must establ ish certain requirements immediately after arriving at Ne braska. This includes fulfilling three of the follow ing requirements: • a valid Nebraska drivers’ license. • a checking or savings account. • registration to vote in the state. • employment in the state. • a car and license plates registered in the state. • income withheld for taxes. “Nebraska’s one of the few states with such easy requirements,” Alvarez said. “Since I’m a taxpayer, I don’t think it’s fair, but, on the other hand, we want (non-residents) here. It’saCatch 22.” Students seeking in-state tuition now will be unaffected by any changes, Milliken said. “The standards they would be required to meet would be the same ones they entered the institution under,” he said. Because of the low number of out-of-state students attending UNL, Milliken said he thought enrollment would be unaffected by any changes the board made. Themes® Goodie tt/DN Jay Tschetter, artist and designer of the “Iron Horse Legacy” brick mural at the Burlington Northern Train Station. Fired up Area sculptor builds his masterpieces one brick at a time By Paula Lavigne Staff Reporter__ For sculptor Jay Tschetter, his work is “just another brick in the wall.” Tschetter, creator of the brick mu ral “Iron Horse Legacy” at the Burlington Northern Train Station in the Haymarket, is working on five additional brick murals for the Haymarket area. The five murals will depict tum-of-thc-centu ry scenes of the area when it was a warehouse district, Tschetter said. He said the project would require about 500 hours of work. Tschetter, formerly a brick mason, decided to change his occupa tion after seeing a picture of abrick sculpture in a magazine. “(Brick sculpting) kind of chose me,” he said. “I was a bricklayer and an artist. I was going between masonry work and art for 20 years.” “When I did see the first picture, I had a ‘Eureka!’ experience,” he said. “It was my calling.” Tschetter said the difference between brick sculpting and clay or wood sculpting was the size of the finished work. “You can do grand-scale sculpting,” he said. “It allows you to get really big. You can easily incorporate it into architecture.” Brick sculpting is used to portray the illusion of three dimensions by giving fiat sculptures a “little bit of depth,” Tschetter said. The process involved in brick sculpting requires “wet brick,” which has not been fired, he said. By using reinforced sculpting tools, details such as trees and window ledg es can be carved into the brick. The brick sculpture is then fired and ready to mount. So far, Tschetter said, his most important project was a mural called “Pioneers of Light,” located at the Gateway Arch in St. Louis. The mural depicts western frontier photography from scenes from the Oregon Trail. Tschetter said he was suiprised by the reaction he received from bringing this art form to Lincoln. “The response has been very warm,” he See BRICK on 6 Med Center works on anti-AIDS drug By Alan Phelps Sonior Rooortor_ University of Nebraska Medical Center researchers are collaborating with Rus sian counterparts to develop and poten tially market adrug that may suppress the AIDS virus. William Bemdt, vice chancellor for aca demic affairs at UNMC in Omaha, said a group of Russian scientists offered UNMC the drug because the Russians had no way to market it. Saturday, the NU Board of Regents autho rized the med center to accept ownership of the drug from the Russians in exchange for 45 percent of potential sale proceeds. Bemdt said the Russian connection came through Mario Stevenson, a UNMC AIDS re searcher and professor in the department of pathology and microbiology. One of the scien tists in Stevenson’s lab is a Russian who worked on the drug with other Russians. The drug, which has not yet been named, has been found to inhibit the virus that causes AIDS in a test tube, Bemdt said. The next step for researchers is to test the drug in animals to determine the drug’s toxicity. Toxicity is always a significant issue to worry about when developing a new drug, he said. “It’s rare to have a drug come along that doesn’t have some toxicity,” Bemdt said. The question usually concerns the severity and fre quency of toxic side effects. The National Institutes of Health is working independently with the drug, Bemdt said, and is about to begin animal safety tests. He said he didn’t know when or if the drug might be tested on humans because it still was in the developmental stage. Nonetheless, Bemdt said, the research is an exciting opportunity for the med center to work with foreign scientists. “It’s an exciting venture, there’s no ques tion,” he said. ‘The drug probably has a mech anism different from others on the market.” Regents OK above-average raises tor UNL athletic othcials By Steve Smith Senior Rmxtrtm_ Next year, four University of Nebraska-Lincoln athletic de partment members will receive raises higher than the projected aver age NU salary increase, the NU Board of Regents decided Saturday. The four athletic department staff members — Don Bryant, A1 Papik, David Selig and Barbara Hibner — will receive salary increases of at least 5 percent for the coming year. Generally, employees in the NU system will receive a 1.3 percent sal ary increase in 1994, said Randy Haack, director for budgets and anal ysis. That figure is based on the average of salary increases that university employees have requested for the next year, Haack said. No other NU system salary increases have been approved and will not be granted until after Jan. 1, he said. Assistant Athletic Director A1 Papik, who will receive a 14.6percent increase for his new position as senior associate athletic director, received the highest salary increase. Papik’s and the other athletic de partment staff members’ salary in creases were approved at the regent’s meeting Saturday. The raises will be given to the following: •Papik’s salary will increase from $61,100 to $70,000 a year. • Selig, athletic manager, who will become assistant athletic direc tor and get an 11.6 percent increase, from $44,800 to $50,000 a year. • Bryant, an assistant athletic di rector, who will become an associate athletic director and receive a 5 per cent raise, from $70,550 to $74,078 a year. • Hibner, whose title will change from assistant athletic director to as sociate athletic director, who will earn $53,760 a year, a 5 percent raise from her current salary of $51,200 a year. Because the athletic department is a self-supporting organization, Haack said its salary increases had no bear ing on the 1.3 percent average. The regents are required to ap prove the athletic department em ployees’ salary increases, Haack said, but the university average doesn’t necessarily serve as a guide for athlet ic department increases. The athletic department, which is supported by ticket sales, television appearance revenue and other sourc es, will fund the salary increases, Haack said. - . See RAISES on 3