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Susan Moser of Lincoln, left, and Bill Hines of New York share a laugh alongside a plump, sculptured man in the
Haymarket on Sunday.
Valentino’s to warm Husker fans’ bellies
Departure of Runza
opens the oven door
for pizza at NU games
By Josh Wimmer
Staff Reporter
Two of America’s favorite pastimes will
meet in Memorial Stadium this fall: pizza and
football.
This year, Valentino’s will be serving giant
slices of pizza during football games.
The main reason for the decision was the
departure of Runza restaurants from serving
concessions at the games.
Valentino’s was offered a chance at Runza’s
spot because of its notable local popularity and
because it has worked with the athletic depart
ment serving pizza at the Bob Dcvancy Sports
Center for the past two years, said Gary Fourakcr,
assistant athletic director for business affairs.
“We’ve worked with Valentino’s at Dcvancy
before,” Fouraker said. “We talked to Pizza Hut
and Valentino’s. Valentino’s was the First to
commit.”
Valentino’s and the athletic department will
be working together to market the pizza, Fouraker
said.
The fans at the late-autumn games might be
cold, but the pizza won’t be, said Tony Messinco,
president ofValcntino’s Inc. Newovens arc being
installed in the stadium to guarantee warmth and
freshness, he said.
Mcssinco said finding a way to make sure the
pizzas were fresh was challenging.
“It was felt that ovens needed to be installed in
the stadium as opposed to mak ing them at another
location and transporting them," Messineo said.
“In addition to helping us get the pizzas to the
fans more quickly, the ovens will ensure that the
pizzas meet our standards of quality and fresh
ness,” he said.
The pizza will be served at the first home game
agaiast UCLA on Sept. 17. It will be sold in giant
slices for $2 a piece, Valentino’s manager Tom
Harrison said.
A substantial portion of the pizza sales will
support the athletic department.
Runza decided to stop selling concessions in
the stadium because of the athletic department’s
request for an annual $30,000 contribution from
each vendor.
Renee Ford, head of public rclatioas for Runza.
said Runza’s yearly budget simply was not great
enough to allow for such a contribution.
However, she said, Runza will be selling con
cessions at strategic locations outside of the stadi
um, including tne Big Red Shop and in the
parking lot of Tires Inc.
“(The decision to depart) was a mutual deci
sion between ourselves and the university,” she
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said. “We wish Valentino’s the best of luck.”
University cafeterias have started offering
Valentino’s pizza as well this year. That decision,
according to Fouraker, was unrelated.
Valentino’s Inc. was first opened in Lincoln
more than 35 years ago and has corporate-owned
stores in Omaha, Lincoln and Grand Island.
Fundsneeded
for memorial
for Harms
By Catherine Blalock
Staff Reporter ~
Fund-raisers for ihc Candice Harms memorial
have collected $3,000 so far. Their goal is$15,000.
Kim Todd, campus landscape architect, said
that although the fund was $12,000 shori, the
drive’s organizers hoped to start construction in
the summer of 1995.
That is a reasonable starting date, she said, if
the money is raised this school year.
Andrew Loudon, president of the Association
of Students of the University of Nebraska, said he
hoped the money would be raised by November or
December. Loudon first proposed building the
memorial to Harms, a University of Nebraska
Lincoln freshman who was murdered two years
ago.
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I truly believe the UNL
students will be generous.
—Loudon
ASUN president
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“I truly believe the UNL students will be
generous,” Loudon said.
Shelly Byrne, who directs fund-raising for the
Student Foundation Committee, saidonly $3,000
had been raised because few students and faculty
members were at the university during the sum
mer.
Todd said the memorial, which would take
three months to build, would be a seating wall.
Todd has been working with the Harms family
and the Student Foundation Committee.
She said she chose a wall as the memorial
because people could gather by it. That is fitting,
Todd said, because Harms was a people person.
“The more seating, the more people can gath
er,” she said.
The memorial will be built in the northwest
comer of North Plaza Park, located north of the
City Union. It will be about 35 feet long and 24 to
30 inches high.
“Mr. and Mrs. Harms want some typcofdcsign
on top,” Byrne said.
Byrne said her committee was planning a
kickoff to announce the fund-raising campaign
for the memorial. The fund-raising committee
already has had a phone drive, which included
calling graduating seniors.
It also sent out letters to college dcaas, to
administrators and to students in residence halls
and greek organizations.
“We’ll probably do another phone drive.”
Byrne said.
Anyone who would like to donate to the drive
can contact the University Foundation or the
ASUN office. Student organizations interested in
helping with the fund-raising can contact the
ASUN office.
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