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On the first day ... Jon Waller/DN University of Nebraska-Lincoln students wound their way through the masses in front of Avery Hall Monday morning on the way to class. Monday was tne first day of classes at the university. The 1994-95 academic year concludes May 5. W here can yon get this much food for S2.99? \i Kggrnll I’alace, get a III (.1 helping oTNueet 'N Snur ( liicken ith Tried rice and egg roll. sl.l>5 tor ( rah rangnon (f»). I* id I np (o onr conxenieiil enslomer parking ln( or call Tor Tree deli\er\ al 477-(|%J ^pennion • 16th \ ”\N ” on campus CAMPUS REP WANTED | The nations leader ncilege marketing® I seeking an energetic, entrepreneurial I student tor the posllonot campus rep Nc> sales involved. Place advertising on bulletin boards tor companies such as American Expreseand Microsoft. Great part-time job earnings Chooee your own hours; 4-8 hours per week required. Cal: Campus Rep Program American Passage Medta Corp, 215 W. Harrison, Seattle, WA98110 4*7-2434 Ext 4444 trail m Back To School • Outdoor Footwear • Bauer In Line Skates • Cycling Clothing Bookbags Merrell Sandals Full Line of Bikes Closest Bike Shop to Campus BIKE & FITNESS CENTER 427 S. 13th Open7Day#' 435-2322 3321 Pioneers Blvd. AWeek 488-2101 arvJW^Biiiy Wolff TRAIL "V— John Dietrich TRAIL Budget, UNO college top ASUN concerns By Melanie Brandert Staff Reporter The engineering debate and the up coming budget discussions in the Ne braska Legislature will be the two main issues before ASUN President Andrew Loudon this year. Loudon, who has been president of the Association of Stu dents of the Univer sity of Nebraska since April, said ASUN passed a res olution last semes ter opposing the cre ation of a separate undergraduate engi neering college at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. A task force is farther studying the need to establish a separate engineering college at UNO. The group will make recommendations to University of Ne braska President Dennis Smith this fall. Loudon said ASUN’s Government Liaison Committee would lobby state senators and Nebraska taxpayers to con vince them that another engineering college in Omaha wasawasteof money. During the past five years, Loudon said, 50 percent of NU’s engineering graduates couldn’t find a job in their field in Nebraska. “Nebraska is graduating twice as many graduates as it needs,” he said. Loudon said he disagreed with the argument that businesses in Omaha needed an engineering college there to retrain their employees. Employees al ready are taking UNL classes inOmaha through satellite hook-ups and televi sions, he said. “It’s a duplication of services al ready provided,” Loudon said. The engineering college at UNL costs $12 million to operate, he said. A separate engineering college at UNO half the size of UNL’s college would cost another $6 million to operate. Loudon questioned who would fund the proposed engineering college at UNO. The Nebraska Legislature will be forced to make cuts from the state bud get, he said, because of a $96 million shortfall in state funds that is expected -a The most convincing argument we can make to the Legislature is that budget cuts hurt the students’ education. —Loudon ASUN president -ff to occur during the next two years. Aside from the engineering debate, that budget shortfall will be another focus of student government this year, Loudon said. GLC members will lobby against university budget cuts to the Legisla ture’s Appropriations Committee, he said. The Legislature will approve the NU budget for 1996-1997 this spring. Student government lobbyists will enlist the assistance of students, Loudon said. Students should talk with slate senators and ask them to explain how budget cuts would alTcct their educa tion, he said. “The most convincing argument wc can make to the Legislature is that budget cuts hurt the students’ educa tion,” he said. He said ASUN would have to make sure UNL had a “lean and clean” budget in order to prevent budget cuts in other areas. “I don’t think wc have a lot of fat in our programs,” Loudon said. “(But) if we do, we need to get rid of it.” The first ASUN meeting of the se mester will be Wednesday evening. During the meeting, senators will ori ent themselves with the Legislative budget process. The group also will fill the chair manship for the Committee for Fees Allocation on Wednesday night,hc said. Loudon said he did not think the senate would encounter any major prob lems this year. He said he was opt im istic about the senators’ ideas for the upcom ing year. “We have a very excited senate.” UNL will do polar study By Ken Paulman Staff Reporter The university has won a three year, $12.4 million contract for polar research. Chancellor Graham Spanier announced at a press conference Mon day. The National Science Foundation, who awarded the University of Nc braska-Lincoln with the grant, has the option of renewing the contract for a fourth and fifth year, Spanier said. The money will be used to provide logisti cal support and expertise for teams conducting polar research. If renewed, the grant would total more than $21.8 million—the largest single research grant in the universi ty’s history, Spanier said. The contract will re-establish the Polar IccCoring Office, or PICO, which originated at UNL in 1974 and operat ed here until 1988, when the operation was moved to the University of Alaska at Fairbanks. Although PICO was based in Alas ka, the office continued to operate on a sealed-down basis at UNL and was known as the Snow and lee Research Group. The primary focus of the research will be the drilling and coring of the polar ice regions in Greenland and Antarctica, as well as high mountain glaciers. These core samples arc a record of the Earth’s climate and environmental history and have enabled scientists to reconstruct the Earth’s climate for the past 100,000 years, said PriscillaGrcw, UNL’s vice chancellor for research. About IS to 20 professionals out side UNL will ioin the former Snow and Ice Research Groupon the project, which will operate from the Whittier Building. Polk i 10 poki Beginning midnight Thursday 2:10 p.m. — Accident, Area 10, $200 damage 3:07 p.m. — Stolen credit card, 425 Uni versity Terrace ,,ems,aken-715N 16th St, $350 loss 6:09 pjn.—Selleck Residence Hall food dock, property recovered. Beginning midnight Friday 1:20pjn.—Accidental alarm, 1229 R St 4:22 pjn. — Money taken, Nebraska Union, $600 loss 4:43 pjn. — Possession of fireworks, West lot, Administration Building. 5:50 pjn. — Bike stolen, Cather Resi dence Hall, $200 loss. 6:06 pjn. — Intoxicated person, north east comer of 17th and R streets, taken to detoxification center. 6:31 p.m. — Disturbance, 721 K St. 7:30 p.m. — Injury, Memorial Stadium 11:46p.m.—Prank phone calls, Neihardt Residence Center. Beginning midnight Saturday 2:52 a.m.—Sign damaged, 39and East Campus Loop, $25 damage 4:19 a.m. — Injury, Campus Recreation Center. 2:53 p.m. — Damage to vehicle, 519 N 16th st., $200 damage 4:12 p.m.—Prank phone calls, Neihardt Residence Center 4:17 pm. — Accidental alarm 4:27 pm. — Injury/sickness, Hamilton Hall, person transported to Lincoln Gen era! Hospital. 6:26 p.m.—Damage to vehicle, 14th and New Hampshire streets, $90 damage 9:30 pm. — WaUet taken, Broyhill Foun tain, $62 loss 11:15 p.m. — Vandalism, Harper Schramm-Smith Area 3 parking lot, $500 damage. Beginning midnight Sunday 1.09 am. — Outside police assistance, 21st and P streets. 8:41 am. — Alarm/fire, overheated mo tor, Avery Had, $1,500 damage 1:30 pm. — Accident, Areal 7D, South Stadium, $250 damage 2:56 pm.—Shirts taken, 715 N. l6thSt. $550 loss. 10:27 p.m.—Prank phone cads, Neihardt Residence Center