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COVERING THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA SINCE 1901 VOL. 94 NO. 120 -March 9 1995
I IMPACT shreds LETTUCE
Hurtgen claims
ASUN presidency
By Paula Lavigne
Senior Reporter
Although Shawntell Hurtgen lost her
voice Wednesday night, she won the ASUN
presidential candidacy by a 54 percent ma
jority vote.
Hurtgen’s IMPACT party won 27 out of
31 senate seats. IMPACT members Steve
Korell and Brent Goertzen also won first
and second-vice presidential seats.
Hurtgen’s voice was weak, she said, but
the impact her party made on the University
of Nebraska-Lincoln and the Association of
Students of the University of Nebraska was
strong.
Organization and trying to reach out to
every student at the university pushed IM
PACT over the edge, she said.
The party also decided to wait until the
final days before the election to push its
platform by distributing letters and buttons
and hanging banners, she said, so it would
not peak too early.
“A lot of times, when the students make
it to election time, they’re sick of hearing
about it,” she said. “We wanted to make
sure we were out on campus and all over
today.”
IMPACT spent more money than any
other party, about $1,200, which Hurtgen
said allowed them to reach more students.
Hurtgen, current ASUN Government
Liaison Committee chairwoman, said she
was confident throughout the race, but her
nervousness showed in the final hours.
-“It was a mixture of anxiousness, ner
vousness and excitement,” she said. “I didn ’t
know until I got the phone call. I had my
campaign manager answer the phone.
More than 100 people gathered at
Sherry’s Dining, Dancing and Romancing
on 32nd and Comhusker streets Tuesday
night to congratulate the IMPACT candi
dates.
Andrew Loudon, current ASUN presi
dent, said Hurtgen’s election proved that
UNL students wanted conservative leader
ship.
“Voters realized she was part of the last
administration,” he said, “and it reaffirms
their confidence in ASUN.”
Jay Calderon/DN
Andrew Loudon congratulates Shawntell Hurtgen after she won the ASUN presedential candidacy Wednesday night.
Voter turnout up;
IMPACT sweeps
large part of ballot
By Matthew Waite
Senior Reporter
Student voting numbers edged up slightly
in the ASUN elections Wednesday, gaining
only 1.2 percent of the eligible voters over
last year’s dismal turnout.
Of the 22,180 eligible voters, 2,806
turned out to vote. Last year, of the 22,629
eligible voters, 2,611 people voted, which
amounted to the lowest voter turnout in
three years.
Stacy Lovelace, the electoral board chair
woman, said the increase in voter turnout
was due to the four good presidential candi
dates on the ballot. She said another contri
bution was that all candidates were on the
ballot — presidential write-in campaigns
being harder to rally support for than on
ballot campaigns.
IMPACT won by taking 54 percent of
the president/first vice president vote, ac
cording to unofficial results. IMPACT was
followed by LETTUCE with 34 percent.
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Parking still feasible
ujnl considers
three locations
ByMatthew Waite
Senior Reporter
There’s still hope for a parking
garage on campus.
The idea is still being discussed,
said Paul Carlson, interim vice chan
cellor for business and finance.
“It’s not a dead issue,” he said.
“There’s still a need for it.”
Three sites are being considered,
he said. One site is east of the Ne
braska Union; another is west of the
union; the third site is where the
visitor’s parking lot next to the
Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity now
sits.
“We’re going back to the drawing
board,” Carlson said.
He said he hoped to have a pro
posal ready in the next few months.
Of the three sites on Carlson’s list.
only one was considered in a lengthy
report commissioned by John Goebel,
former vice chancellor for business
and finance.
The University of Nebraska-Lin
coln City Campus Parking Structure
Study listed 14 acceptable sites ac
cording to criteria set by the vice
chancellor. Carlson said those sites
were reviewed, and four were settled
on.
Carlson said the study, which
called for a parking structure in the
south center of campus, was still good
and that the needs outlined in it were
still valid.
The only site left on the original
list of potential sites has had a rough
history. The parking lot between the
Nebraska Union and the Alpha Phi
Sorority has been considered the prime
site for the garage.
In January, Carlson forwarded a
program statement to the NU Board
of Regents, outlining a general plan
for a $5.5 million, 450-space parking
garage.
“It’s not a dead issue.
There’s still a need for
it.”
m
PAUL CARLSON
vice chancellor for business and
finance
Chancellor Graham Spanier pulled
the agenda item, citing opposition
from Alpha Phi and the Nebraska
State Historical Society, which would
have been neighbors to the structure.
Carlson said he had met with the
Historical Society and was told that
they did not want to be left out of the
structure’s planning.
Also, he said he had not talked to
Alpha Phi since the program state
ment was removed but would if the
university decided to go back to the
site east of the union.
Pyramid scheme flier
could cause problems
By Brian Jensen
Staff Reporter
Beware of the Husker Power Gift
Club.
That was the message both the
Nebraska Athletic Department and
Nebraska Attorney General’s office
were trying to get across to students
in an effort to stop the promotion of
an illegal pyramid scheme.
The club bears the Husker name
—claiming that a person’s contribu
tion to the scheme will benefit the
Husker Boosters, Assistant Attorney
General Paul Potadle said.
Boyd Epley, assistant athletic di
rector, said the pyramid would hurt
fund-raising efforts and confuse boost
ers.
“I’m disappointed someone would
use our name and profit off it,” he
said. “It kind of hurts.”
Epley said a flier containing infor
mation about the gift club was brought ~
to the athletic department about three
weeks ago by UNL police. The board
of directors discussed the flier at its
meeting before taking any action.
Dan Parsons, special assistant to
the attorney general, said the athletic
department contacted his office. He
said the office tried to contact the six
people whose names were listed on
the flier.
Parsons said those people were
informed of the Nebraska Deceptive
Trade Practices Act and warned that
if the pyramid continued, the attor
ney general’s office could take legal
action to stop it.
Under the act, both individuals
and businesses in Nebraska can be
prosecuted for participation in such
schemes. Fines can be as high as
$2,000 per person each time someone
new is recruited for the scheme,
Potadle said in a press release.
He would not comment on whether
any further action would be taken.
