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Jerry Williams of Husker Glass Co. works on the skywalk at 12th and O streets.
O Street upgrades continuing
By Tasha Ludwig
Staff Reporter
While a new skywalk between
12th and 13 th streets may be the
most visible sign of improvements
along O Street, a separate project
by the Parks and Recreation Ad
ministration is working to beautify
the area.
The O Street Beautification
Project, sponsored by the parks
administration, is scheduled to be
complete by July and will include
landscaping and a new sidewalk.
The project also will include a
hiker/biker trail on West P Street,
said Larry Group of the Parks and
Recreation Administration.
While the Downtown Lincoln
Association’s skywalk was funded
with bond issue money set aside by
voters, $70,000 to $80,000 worth
of state and federal grants fund the
beautification project.
“Its purpose is to beautify cir
culation patterns,” Group said.
The project has been in the
works for 10 to 15 years, and in
cludes landscaping as well as com
plete realignment of the curbing
for the two-mile stretch from First
Street to NW 22nd Street. That
stretch of West O is a major en
trance to Lincoln.
“This whole community has
been neglected. The purpose is to
give a nice entrance (into the city),”
Group said.
Group said he and the task force
created to investigate landscaping
possibilities had realized there were
many potential problems.
The placement of underground
utility lines has been recognized as
a potential problem, he said, be
cause the beautification project
calls for the planting of various
trees and shrubs along O Street
behind the sidewalk.
Landscaping on West P Street
will take place later, depending on
funds available, Group said.
Although the project is sched
uled to be completed by July, the
planting of the trees and shrubs
will not take place until fall, at the
earliest, with the spring of 1996
being more probable.
Views on environment
subject of new class
By Stacie Renner
Staff Reporter
Imagine nearly 200 “tree-huggers
and environment rapers” trying to
understand each others’ views.
That’s exactly what the College of
Agriculture and Natural Resources is
trying to do through a new class.
Agricultural Sciences 103, in its
first year, is designed to give students
tants, teach the course, for the most
part.
The class involves no structured
testing. Grades are based on atten
dance and assignments inside and
outside of the classroom. Waldren
said the class was supposed to foster
dialogue and debate.
“Most of our classes in the college
are content-oriented so we want to
show them the big picture,” Waldren
an overview of ag
ricultural sciences
and natural re
sources, agronomy
professor Rick
Waldren said.
All agricultural
science and natural
resource majors are
required to take the
class, and about 190
students are en
rolled. The class
touches on issues
such as animal
rights, fisheries and
wildlife, conserva
tion and water
rights.
“We now have
agricultural science and
natural resource
degrees so we want to
develop a course to show
the commonalities. ”
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RICK WALDREN
agronomy professor
said.
Betsy
Dierberger, as
sistant instructor
in the agronomy
department, said
lectures ad
dressed topics
that students
might already
know about.
The class re
ceived an unen
thusiastic re
sponse from
some students.
Some said the
structure was too
“We now have agricultural sci
ence and natural resource degrees so
we want to develop a course to show
the commonalities,” Waldren said.
Often, he said, the groups view
each other as “tree-huggers” and “en
vironment rapers,” but they aren’t all
that different.
The departments of forestry, fish
eries and wildlife, biological systems
engineering, animal science, plant
pathology, horticulture, agronomy
and agricultural communications are
represented by their departments’ in
structors.
There has never been a class that
required all studies, which was a con
cern of the faculty, Waldren said.
Faculty, rather than graduate assis
loose.
“Don’t just give A’s for sitting
there,” said Matt Hasenauer, a junior
agricultural education major.
Hasenauer said grades besides those
for attendance would help.
Travis Fries said a textbook would
be useful, maybe even quizzes.
But he said the class was benefi
cial.
“It shows all the different views of
things we need to be aware of. It’s
made for us to make our own judg
ments of things,” Fries said.
Tony Kaufman, a sophomore bio
logical systems engineering major, said
the class was all common knowledge.
Adam Olson, freshman agricul
tural business major, agreed.
“It wasted my time,” he said.
Wages
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wages.
The Association of Students of the
University of Nebraska is consider
ing the unions’ budget. CFA has rec
ommended a 5 percent increase for
the wages.
The Campus Recreation Center
also requested an increase for student
wages from CFA, but was denied.
Griesen said Campus Rec may
rebudget to pay for increases, but it
was too soon to tell.
Griesen said that in housing, the
wage increases were going to posi
tions that were harder to fill, such as
food service. He said housing had
few problems filling positions that
did not require manual labor.
Katie Sweeney, an I.D. checker in
Selleck Hall, said she worked on
campus for many reasons, including
convenience.
“You get to know a lot the people
that come in,” said Sweeney, a fresh
man international affairs major.
“People come up to you on campus
and say ‘hey, checkout girl.’”
Sweeney said she did not mind
“You get to know a lot the people that come in.
People come up to you on campus and say ‘hey'
checkout girl.
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KATIE SWEENEY
Freshman international affairs major
working in the residence halls for
lower pay, but said she would come
back because of the pay increase.
In the Nebraska Unions, the raises
would be for all student workers start
ing at the minimum wage, Swanson
said. With the CFA increase, he said,
the unions would start all student
employees at $4.50 an hour.
Swanson said the intent of the 10
percent increase was to raise student
wages at all levels. He said increas
ing the lowest wage would help com
press the area between it and the next
wage level.
Jobs in the unions starting at the
lowest pay include information desk
workers, student custodians and rec
reation area workers, such as those at
the bowling alley on east campus,
Swanson said.
Wages across campus are rising to
combat the loss of student workers to
the fast-food restaurants, Swanson
said.
“We’re not isolated by this,” he
said.
Squirrels
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for electrical wires.
Cars that are rarely used and in
storage are the most likely victims
for squirrel damage. But he said it
was unusual for a squirrel to build a
nest in a car, especially one that was
driven every day. Squirrels usually
build nests in tree cavities.
“It sounds like a misaligned squir
rel,” he said.
Now that administrators don’t have
assigned parking, Mulnix and Currin
don’t park in the “lot by the big oak
tree” where Mulnix’s car attracted
the baby squirrels.
, On Monday afternoon, the lot by
the oak tree was empty. Three squir
rel nests were visible from the ground.
Perched on an overhanging branch, a
single brown squirrel sat washing its
tail, peering down at the lot below.
The squirrel did not respond to
questions.
Mulnix said his feelings for squir
rels were indifferent, but he felt at
tached to the three squirrels in a “fa
therly way.”
After the incident, Currin said he
was never contacted by the squirrels.
“They never sent me a birth an
nouncement,” he said. “I felt kind of
bad I wasn’t included, but I under
stand.”
This spring, to avoid serving as
maternity ward for the squirrel fam
ily, Currin said he would put a “No
vacancy” sign under his van.
“I hope they can read English.”
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