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Farmers aren’t willing to sell their
black dirt either, Varley said, because
their topsoil is too valuable to them.
“It’s difficult, it’s time consuming
and it’s costly,” he said.
A load of black dirt from his pit,
Varley said, would ctistabout $100
per truckload. KenncbecSvould cost
four times as much, he said, possibly
adding up to $30,000 to the bid.
“We grow good grass, nice grass in
our black dirt,” he said., “For some
reason they have to have this special
stuff.”
Howard Parker, a representative of
the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
facilities management, said the spe
cial dirt was being used to avoid future
maintenance costs.
“If you build a building out of
cheap materials, it’s cheap at the off
set, but over the life of the building it
costs you more. It’s more mainte
nance,” he said. “It’s called life cycle
costs.”
Parker compared the North Plaza
Park project with construction of a
university building.
“We spend more on things like
structure. All the way down to the
doorknobs is a heavier, higher quali
ty,” he said. “It’s the same thing with
the soil.”
He said a cheaper soil would re
quire more fertilization, maintenance
and irrigation to support the fescue
grass, trees, shrubs and a perennial
flower bed.
“(Cheap soil) ends up costing you
more,” he said.
Scheer also said he knew where
Kennebec could be found.
“I know places where developers
are developing some homes, "and
they’re excavating an area to put a
lake in,” he said. “The dirt they’re
excavating is the dirt we need.
He said Kennebec dirt would be
more environmentally safe for UNL,
because it would not require the chem
icals and pesticides regular dirt would.
Aside from the dirt issue, Scheer
stressed two other concerns toward
developing the North Plaza Park
project. Securing the construction area
and adhering to the set schedule, he
said, was of vital importance.
Because students would be on cam
pus during the summer, Scheer re
quired a secure and orderly site. In
order to comply with„UNL’s schedule,
construction will begin May 9.
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NRoll was at full capacity — all 48
lines filled by students. The numbers
dwindled as the hour went by. At the
bottom half of the hour. Hawkey said,
the lines were only half-full.
Moylan, who got through on her
first try, said NRoll was much easier
than the old way.
“I remember back when 1 was a
sophomore, and I had to get up at 5:30
in the morning to be at the (UNL)
administration building to get a time
card,” she said. “If you got the end of
the line, you didn’t get the time card
you wanted.
“If you don’t get a good time, you
don’t get your class and... you wasted
all that time,” Moylan said.
NRoll will reduce the frustration
with long lines and errors involved in
general registration and drop and add,
she said.
“(There isn’t the problem of) go
ing through the old drop and add when
you think you have your class and you
don’t and you have to go through it
again,” she said.
Moylan said NRoll was simple.
“All you had to do was look through
(the schedule of classes), write (your
class numbers) down and call it in,”
she said.
Graduate students’ and seniors’
priority registration dates are March
14, 15 and 16. Juniors have priority
March 17, 18 and 28; sophomores,
March 29,30,31; Freshman. April 1,
4 and 5.
_Police Report
Beginning midnight Saturday
9:30 a.m. — Miscellaneous, Selleck
Hall dock
4:20 a.m. — Doors tampered with,
State Museum/State Fairgrounds, $60
damage
4:27 a.m.—Miscellaneous, Abel Hall.
Beginning midnight Sunday
10:54 a.m. — Hit-and-run accident,
area 5 lot, 1125 N 16th St., Phi Mu
Sorority, $100 damage
2:02 p.m. — Miscellaneous, Wick
Alumni Center
5:54 p.m. — Accident, area 2 lot near
Abel Hall, $300 damage
11:28 p.m. — Graffiti, Love Library
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