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rjCcuizar AMERICAS CRAFTED PERFORMANCE Sx 1 The 10,000 watt pavement pounding Lanzar Demo Van filled with the latest amps and speakers from Lanzar, it's an experience you won't soon forget! Saturday, August 19th 11:00 am - 5:00 pm All Lanzar Will Be On Sale! ^WmiSTOM cucntoniics l 56th & O Street • Lincoln ) Washington leaves jail on bond By Jeff Zeleny Senior Reporter After spending 13 days in jail on an attempted second-degree murder charge, Riley Washington, a wingback for the Nebraska football team, posted a $ 10,000 cash bond Tuesday and was released. Lancaster County Jail officials de cnned Wednesday to say who posted the required 10 per cent ofthe $100,000 bond for the Uni versity of Nebras ka-Lincoln junior. Nebraska coach Tom Osborne said Wednesday that he Washington taucea witnwasn mgton after he was released from jail but would not spec ulate on his return to the team. “That’s something we’ll have to wait and see legally what happens,” Osborne said after practice. “There are a lot of things we need to visit.” Washington, 22, was charged in connection with what police have called a gang-related shooting Aug. 2. He also is charged in the same incident with using a weapon to commit a felony. Washington, who excels in both football and track, turned himself into police Aug. 3 after a fight at the Kwik Shop at 27th and W streets. Police allege that before he fired several shots, Washington told JermaineCole: “Your life is gone.” Washington has denied shooting Cole. Washington’s lawyer, Chief Public Defender Scott Helvie, has said evidence would prove he was innocent and that he didn’t have a gun at the scene. Police said the late-night incident began when Washington and former NU wingback Abdul Muhammad con fronted Cole outside the convenience store. Fists flew between Muhammad and Cole before Washington allegedly stepped in and fired shots, police said in an arrest warrant. Lincoln police said the shooting was being investigated as gang-relat ed because department records indi cate Cole, Muhammad and Washing ton are suspected as having gang ties. NU Athletic Director Bill Byrne has said the shooting was part of a three-year feud between Comhusker football players and a group of Lincoln men, including Cole. Osborne told the Omaha World Herald last week that Washington felt discouraged because he saw little hope of being freed before trial. “It doesn’t seem like anybody can raise bail,” Osborne told The World Herald. “I can’t do anything. And anybody representative of our athletic interests can’t do anything. So we’re ham strung.” Washington’s preliminary hearing is scheduled for Aug. 31 at 3 p.m.. hours before Nebraska opens its 1995 football season at Oklahoma State in Stillwater, Okla. “Riley will concentrate on clearing his name and continuing his education at Nebraska this fall,” Osborne said Wednesday in a statement. “I will not speculate on his return to the football field until I have had a chance to talk to Riley and his attorney.” Firm to be chosen to expand union By Ted Taylor Staff Reporter After being approved by various groups and boards this summer, the Nebraska Union expansion project is ready to begin. But first, it needs an architect. The project was approved this sum mer by the NU Board of Regents, the Nebraska Coordinating Commission for Post-secondary Education and the Legislature’s executive council. Daryl Swanson, director ofNebras ka Unions, said 11 firms applied for the job, and the list was narrowed to four last week. Although the list is confidential, Swanson said it is dominated by Lin coln and Omaha firms. A firm should be selected by next month, he said. James Van Horn, NU vice presi dent for business and finance, said a committee of senior administrators and the chancellor would select an archi tect. The regents will have the final approval. “If that goes as planned,” Swanson said, “ We should have completed blue prints and designs by September 1996.” The expansion — which should be complete by fall 1998 — has three parts: new additions, renovation and maintenance. The project will bring more recre ation and leisure space, a 300-seat auditorium, and more space for out side businesses. The food court will increase by 30 percent, the bookstore will be larger, and Daily Nebraskan offices will move and expand. The maintenance will improve handicap accessibility and remove as bestos, Swanson said. Nebraska Union will expand about 50 feet north, which will require the removal of Memorial Plaza and Broyhill Fountain. “We would definitely construct a new plaza and fountain,” Swanson said, “but it would just extend a little farther into the greenspace area.” In March, 70 percent of the students who voted in the Association of Stu dents of the University of Nebraska election voted in favor of the union expansion. 55 percent said they wouldn’t mind the $20 increase per student each semester to help fund the project. “That vote of confidence from the students was all we needed before bringing the proposal before the board,” Swanson said. s*
