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Law & Order A L OOK A T CRIME ON CAMPUS AND IN THE COMMUNITY Minors ticketed at Montigo Bay From Staff Reports Police conducting a tavern check Wednesday night arrested five minors at Montigo Bay, 14th and O streets. The minors, all females, were seated at the same booth. On the table were four glasses of draw beer, two pitchers and a Zima alcoholic beverage, police reports said. The officer, who made the check just before 11 p.m., reported that he didn’t think the women appeared to be 21 years old. When he asked them for identification, four produced fake piec es of identification, and the other had none. All of the minors live in Lincoln. Three are 19 years old, and the othertwo arc 18. Police charged all five with being minors in possession. Four also were charged with providing false iden tification. Sgt. Ann Hcermann said the charges were misdemeanors, punishable with fines and/or probation. That decision is up to the courts, she said. Tavem checks are done randomly at an officer’s discretion, she said, de pending on how much time the officer has and whether the tavem has had problems with minors in the past. Heermann said she was unaware of any earlier problems at Montigo Bay. Man accused of public nudity From Staff Reports A man was arrested on a charge of indecent exposure at the Holmes Lake dog run area Wednesday night, police reports said. A woman sitting on a picnic table in the area at 5 p.m. reported seeing the man walk by a first time, clothed. A few minutes later, she saw the man walking toward her, naked. The woman left the area and went to the Holmes Lake Golf Course to call police. Police arrested Steven Scheneman, 46, at the scene a short time later. The woman returned and identified him as the same man that had approached her earlier. Longtime vendor leaves stadium Donation too big for hot dog seller By Josh Wfrnmer Staff Reporter The installation of the HuskerVision instant replay screens in Memorial Stadium creates a new horizon for NU football, but at the same time itsignals the end of at least one long-standing tradition. Fairbury Hot Dogs have been served in the stadium during Conihusker foot ball games since 1962. But when the athletic department asked each vendor for a yearly finan cial contribution, Fairbury decided to discontinue hot dog sales inside the stadium. Chris Peterson, associate athletic director of external operations for the university, said the athletic depart ment asked vendors for an annual $30,000 donation in the form of cash or product. The donations from the about 16 sponsors will go to pay for the HuskerVision screens, which costabout $4 million to run. Most sponsors sign a three-year contract with the chance to renew the contract at the end of the first year. Tom Roode, owner of Roode Pack ing, Fairbury’s parent company, said his business “simply can’t afford" the contribution. Fairbury, he said, sells about 3,000 pounds of hot dogs per game, which adds up to21,000 pounds per season. In all, he said Fairbury made about $4,000 to $5,000 a year from stadium hot dogs sales. Matched with a $30,000 contribution, he said the company could not justify the expenditure. “I have a little bit of a concern how (the need to pay for the HuskerVision screens) comes in with the conces sions in the stadium,” Roodc said. Fairbury was approached before any of the other potential vendors and offered the opportunity to retain their place in the stadium, Peterson said. Roodc said he was approached in late February and gave his refusal in March. “In a business sense, we went out of our way to try to make the deal work for them,” Peterson said. “We were very open-minded to allow things that they’ve done in the past to count to ward the $30,000.” When Fairbury announced its deci sion to depart, the athletic department chose Armour Hot Dogs as the stadi um’s new vendor. “Our goal was and still is to keep as much money in the state of Nebraska as we possibly can,” Peterson said. Roode, for one, is not angry about the athletic department’s decision. “I’m not bitter about it; ‘disap pointed’ would be a good word,” he uln a business sense, we went out of our way to try to make the deal work for them. We were very open-minded to allow things that they've done in the past to count toward the $30,000. ” CHAD PETERSON associate athletic director of external operations said. 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