Welcome events attract new students in big numoers
By Justin Fisher _ _
Staff Reporter
The success of this weekend’s Big
Red Welcome exceeded past years,
event organizers said.
Lisa Schmidt, director of admis
sions at the University of Ncbraska
Lincoln, said this year’s Big Red
Welcome was the “biggest and best
ever.”
Pat McBride, director of New Stu
dent Enrollment, said about 1,500
students attended the All University
Welcome, and about 3,000 came to
the festival at the Bob Dcvancy Sjxms
Center. He also said event organizers
served 1,500 hot dogs Friday evening
at the picnic by Broyhill Fountain.
Deb Dohmen, the student organiz
er of this year’s Big Red Welcome,
said she credited the high attendance
to increased publicity during New Stu
dent Enrollment and in residence halls
and grcck houses.
Pledge educators from Delta Gam
ma Sorority, Jessica Bettger and
Megan Mullin, brought their new
pledge class to the welcome to help the
new students discover what the uni
versity had to offer.
One pledge, Karcy Vering of
Colleyvillc, Texas, said, “All the en
ergy makes me very excited for the
football games to start.”
UNL Chancellor Graham Spanicr
and Andrew Loudon, president of the
Association of Studentsof the Univer
sity of Nebraska, tried to draw upon
the energy Friday during their wel
coming addresses.
Both speakers stressed the impor
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tancc of getting involved in campus
organizations and getting to know
university faculty and staff.
The festival, held at the indoor
track in the Devaney Center, offered
students the opportunity to put Spanier
and Loudon’s words to work. Stu
dents could sign up to get involved in
many campus activities.
Ann Burnett, director of speech
and debate at UNL, said the welcome
was a “good opportunity to get our
name out on campus.”_
But more important to many stu
dents was the free stuff at the festival.
Local eateries offered a taste of their
food, and students made away with
pens, cups and other goodies.
A few students took home even
more.
Brenda Robbins of Burwcll won a
stereo compact disc player in a draw
ing.
Twana Harris, a graduate student
from California State University at
Long Beach, said the welcoming ac
tivities did a good job to “make people
who are not from here feel welcome.”
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By James Hruska
Staff Reporter
Few regulations govembicyclc. in
line skate and skateboard use on cam
pus, parking advisory chairman Daryl
Swanson said.
Several regulations were consid
ered last semester, but so far none have
been enacted. Uni versity ofNcbraska
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Last January, the Parking Advisory
Committee, at its monthly meeting,
discussed the hazards ofbicycle traffic
on campus pedestrian paths. The group
discussed several plans that would
eliminate bike traffic in certain areas
of the campus.
Some plans suggested creating dis
mount zones, which arc areas of cam
pus where bikes can’t be ridden. The
zones would be designated in congest
ed areas of campus.
Swanson said no plans to create
bicycle regulations were on the park
ing advisory committee’s agenda for
this year. But the issue could re-emerge
if students or faculty brought it up.
“We would invite the interested
community to bring it back on the
table,” he said.
Caublc said nc warned 10 see
similar to one used at the Un i versity of
Colorado in Boulder. At that school,
bike racks arc brought to a few central
locations near or on campus.
The central location oHjikes makes
them easy for police to protect from
thieves, he said. Pol ice have had a hard
time watching bikes that arc scattered
and locked to signs, trees and build
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