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Donate blood, give the gift of life in next week’s Red Gross blood drive By Andrew Lucas Staff Reporter Blood may not be a commodity that most people want to part with, but giving blood is a simple way to help save a life. Campus Red Cross will have a blood drive Tuesday and Wednesday in the Centennial Room of the Ne braska Union. The drive is open to students and the public and will be from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. “Anyone from the community can come in,” said Jennifer Allen, chair woman of the blood drive. People interested can make an appointment, but walk-ins also are welcome. “It usually takes about an hour to an hour and fifteen minutes,” said Allen, a senior biology and pre-med major. Blood donors can come to the union ThE HAyWMRkET A26 P Street (402) 477-2171 to be registered. They must give a blood sample and answer a few ques tions about their health. Donors must weigh more than 110 pounds and be older than 17. Nurses from the American Red Cross and the Community Blood Bank will work at the drive. Julie Duerfeldt, a junior in the Teachers College, said potential do nors should not be worried about get ting AIDS by donating blood. “There has never been a case of someone getting AIDS from giving blood,” Duerfeldt said. People who have received a tattoo within the last year or who have been out of the country within the last year are not eligible to give blood. People on antibiotics also are not eligible. About a pint of blood is drawn and then tested. Donors will be sent a card telling them their blood type. The blood also is tested for the HIV virus, and the donor is contacted if the re sults are positive. Once collected and tested, the blood is used by the American Red Cross and the Community Blood Bank. Blood is in high demand because it is used for bums, accident victims and surgeries, Allen said. The blood type O-negative has the highest demand because of its com patibility. Blood also can be sepa rated for other uses. “Different parts of the blood can be used for different things,” Allen said. The Eagle radio station will broad cast a live promotion at the blood drive. “They (students) might get to be on the radio,” Allen said. “If nothing else,” she said, “they get the pleasure of knowing they’re helping someone out.” Lawmakers move slowly on economic package From The Associated Press A senator from Omaha predicts that a highly touted computer manu facturing company won’t build a pro posed $1.3 billion plant near Omaha. “I’ll bet you $50 that Micron is not coming to Omaha,” Sen. Ernie Cham bers told Omaha colleague Sen. Eric Will during floor debate on three economic incentive bills. “You’re gonna grovel and give away everything we have,” Cham bers said Thursday. The chief sponsor of the three bills aimed at sweetening the pot for Mi cron Technologies Inc., Speaker of the Legislature Ron Withem of Papillion, said he’s pleased with signs of progress he saw during the vote on two amendments offered to one of the bills. Each amendment mustered only 11 affirmative votes. At issue was Eddyville Sen. Jim Jones’ attempt to restrict a zoning provision of the bill from 10 miles to two miles. The amendment failed 11 32. A Coordsen amendment to in crease the number of jobs needed to qualify for the tax breaks and other incentives failed 11-22. “I think we found out that there’s probably 10 or 11 senators who aren’t supporting the bills,” Withem said. Omaha is one of three finalists for the new plant. Oklahoma City and Utah County, Utah, are the other two finalists. Micron is expected to select a site for its proposed plant by March 1. The bills comprise the bait aimed at luring Micron or any other com pany that would agree to invest at least $50 million and employ at least 500 people. East Campus issues main topic of debate By Beth Narans Staff Reporter A debate sponsored by East Campus groups on East Campus stayed on that theme for much of the time Thursday. East Campus issues, such as parking, availability of core classes WE and renova tions for the campus’ union and rec center were discussed. The first de bate in this year’s race for tne asujn presidency was sponsored by UNL Collegiate 4-H, Block and Bridle and the College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources Advisory Board. The parties took turns touting their ideas for the campus. ACCESS presidential candidate Chad Pekron suggested moving some ASUN offices to East Cam pus. He also raised the possibility of adding a food court to the union. CUT COST presidential candi date Mark McGoveran applied his idea of not requiring class atten dance to East Campus. Some stu dents have trouble commuting be tween the East and City campuses, he said. LETTUCE, which had all three candidates at the debate, suggested that more University Program Council social functions occur on East Campus. IMPACT, which also had all candidates present, suggested more metered parking for East Campus, as well as more labs and recitations to go with core classes. AH* parties spoke-about attain^ ing more student involvement in ASUN. The ACCESS party was asked about its negative view of greek involvement in campus govern ment. Pekron said he apologized for offending any greeks, but he said he felt greeks had taken over ASUN and that non-greeks weren’t given a chance to show whether they could be effective leaders on campus. LETTUCE vice-presidential candidate Andy Smith rebutted Pekron’s statement by saying that until any other groups showed they could lead, greeks would remain in charge. Smith said his party was 99 percent greek. Student fees also were an issue. McGoveran said he hoped to ease students’ financial burden. He said he wanted to make advisers responsible for mistakes made in class schedules and to eliminate late fees for tuition and housing. Shawntell Hurtgen, presiden tial candidate for IMPACT, said she had been a part of the Commit tee for Fee Allocations and that her party would work with administra tion and student senators to keep fees reasonable. IMPACT representatives re sponded to most questions by say ing they were glad the other parties agreed with their platform. “We’re all in agreement,” Matt Kissler, LETTUCE’S second vice presidential candidate, said. “Now let’s move on." McGoveran said he found it in teresting that IMPACT was taking credit for all the ideas, even though they were the last party to come out a platform. ■ . Lie Awake Saturday, February 18 • 10 pm Nebraska Union • Centennial Ballroom FREE to UNL Students w/ ID • $3 Public Scrunch Continued from Page 1 partments should not have to lay off regular employees. If they could not find alternate funds, he said, they may cut hours worked by temporaries or eliminate some services. “Any time we’re going to impact costs on the university and our bud get, of course we’re concerned,” he said. “At this point, it’s a wait-and see approach to see what happens to this proposal.” Swanson said ,as a department manager, he had mixed emotions about the increase. “I’d feel good for the employees’ group affected,” he said. “We can all r*u ^uupuu...Mi\u muDiiJDiYi; 3 great ways to enjoy your evening 1) Dinner Buffet (Pizza, Pasta, Breadsticks, & Dessert) Monday-Sunday, 5-8 P.M. 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Emily Wilber, a student employ ment specialist at the Student Em ployment and Internship Center, said a wage increase could entice more students to work in a department. But others would have to downsize due to tight budgets, she said. Regents Continued from Page 1 to him. “It’s a good thing for us to get out of Varner Hall,” he said. Regent Robert Allen of Hastings said he was excited about the tour but would have a lot of questions about items not on the tour. He said, how ever, he would remember where he was. “I’ve got to be on my good man ners,” he said. Allen said he would ask about deferred maintenance at Richards and Burnett halls. He said he was glad to have the $40 million Beadle Center at UNL, but having it only several blocks from the two halls was “embarrass ing, if not disgusting.” Regent Charles Wilson of Lincoln said the tour was a chance for faculty and students to bring the regents up to speed on what was happening on their campus. Wilson said an all-day tour of each campus would be better than a five minute report from each of the chan cellors. The tour of UNL coincides with the regents’ meeting Saturday in Varner Hall. Business items fill the regents’ agenda this month. Items on the sched ule Saturday are: • The regents will consider a pro posal to raise room and board rates for residence halls at UNL and the University of Nebraska at Kearney. Under the proposal, UNL room and board rates for a double-room, 20 meal plan would go from $3,145 to $3,350, a 6.5 percent increase. • The board will consider the ap proval of a bid to purchase a $349,250 Immunocytometry System. The sys tem would sort plant chromosomes, nuclei, animal cells, bacteria and other microorganisms. The equipment would be part of the Beadle Center for Biotechnology. • The board also will hear finan cial statements and enrollment fig ures from the four campuses. The budget items contain current infor mation about budgets, gifts and grants available to the campuses. According to the agenda, the NU system has 50 percent of its total budget remaining with six months left in the current fiscal year.