Campus Watch promotes
self-defense, awareness
By Tasha E. Kelter
Staff Reporter
Lincoln may already be high on
the list of America’s safest cities, but
the Association of Students of the
University of Nebraska i& trying to
increase the safety level for UNL stu
dents on and off campus.
The new program, Campus Watch,
was the brainchild of recent UNL
graduate Boon Lee Lim. The plan
will be set in motion this year by
ASUN President Shawntell Hurtgen.
“It resembles Neighborhood
Watch,” Hurtgen said.
Part of the program’s goal is to
make the campus seem more like a
community, she said.
Lim’s original goal was to provide
a safer campus environment with the
participation of UNL students, lac
ulty and staff, Hurtgen said.
The plan will be carried out in two
phases. Beginning in September, the
first phase will promote awareness of
already available safety resources,
such as the Campus Escort Program.
Hurtgen and other A SUN mem
bers then will meet with other organi
zations to divide responsibilities.
The second phase, which probably
will begin next semester, will teach
students, faculty and staff about safety
and include self-defense classes and
seminars with UNL Police. Sessions
will concentrate on crime prevention.
Those classes, Hurtgen said, will
teach students to keep themselves and
their neighbors safe.
At the end of the year, she said,
A SUN will re-evaluate the program
and decide what should be added to or
dropped from the program.
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Union Thursday.
Salmon finds a parking place
By Thor Schrock
Staff Reporter
Mystery salmon
stops by Lincoln
on way to Omaha
Students and staff who thought
they saw a large salmon on wheels
parked on the comer of 15th and S
stseets Thursday morning didn’t
just need another cup of coffee.
The fish arrived on campus
Wednesday night and was illegally
parked Thursday morning in front
of Nebraska Union on S street.
No (me seemed to have any idea
what the fish was for or why it was
there, but it caught the attention of
curious passersby.
Jeff Stout of UNL Landscape
Services didn’t know where die
huge fiberglass salmon had come
from but had the earliest fish sight
ing.
“I got here about six this morn
ing, and it was here,” he said.
“This was definitely done by a
master angler.”
No one knew anything about
the cast-away at the neighboring
Alpha Phi Sorority, but one mem
ber thought there was something
fishy about the situation.
“Is this for real?” she said over
“I can't imagme who would put a big fish in
the middle of the road."
BJtENNA KLEMPKA
senior exercise science major
the phone. “You’ve got to be jok
ing. A big fish? No, I won’t give
you py name. Who is this,? for
real?”
About 10 a.m., Lincoln Police
Public Service Officer Dave
Haumont stopped to investigate the
fish story.
But before things got too slip
pery, Eric Whittenbach, a member
of the National Ecological Asso
ciation, was available to explain
what was going on.
The fish, Whittenbach ex
plained, is making a cross-country
tour with the Northwest Ecosys
tem Alliance as part of the Endan
gered Salmon Adventure.
The $20,000, giant, walk
through salmon named Fin was
designed to educate people about a
House of Representatives proposal
that would remove key provisions
of the Endangered Species Act.
The 1,300-pound fiberglass
salmon was first placed near
Broyhill Fountain, but was moved
toitsillegal parkingspace Wednes
day night by three students on in
line skates. j .%*
One passer-by student seemed
confused by the silver, open
mouthed swimmer on wheels.
"I can ’ t imagine who would put
a big fish in the middle of the
road,” said Brenda KJcmpka, a se
nior exercise science major.
After the officer was sure
Wittenbach intended to move the
giant salmon back to the plaza, he
said: “That’s good because I would
sure hate to have to move it for
you.”
Lisa Williams, president of
Ecology Now, said Fin would be
stocked with educational tools to
educate children at the Nebraska
State Fair today.
Fin will appear later this evening
at McFoster’s Natural Kind Cafe, a
vegetarian eatery in Omaha.
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County Red Cross
will move from old
Delta Upsilon house
From Staff Reports _
The Lancaster County Red Cross
is moving after more than 35 years in
what was once Delta Upsilon frater
nity.
The Red Cross building, 1702 E
St., is now for sale. Plans are to relo
cate to a renovated or new, larger site.
“Programs have exceeded the
building capacity, and parking is at a
premium in the Near South neighbor
hood,” Executive Director Bob
Fairbank said in a press release.
“Building expansion at this loca
tion is not feasible without damaging
the architecture and without infring
ing on ‘green space’ requirements in
city codes,” he said.
Delta Upsilon fraternity, now at
1548 Vine St., built the building in
1938. After the fraternity moved out
in 1959, the building became a nurs
ing home for one year before being
taken over by the Red Cross.
Neighborhood members are at
tempting to have the building desig
nated as a historic landmark.