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Angie Stutheit, a junior fine arts major, paints an assignment in class Tuesday morning.
The art class is held in the old Taco Inn building at 13th and R streets because Richards
Hall is not handicap accessible.
Richards Hall gets ramp
By Rebecca Oltmans
Staff Reporter
The Foundations Design 111
class doesn’t meet in Richards Hall,
the art building.
Instead, its 22 members, includ
ing one handicapped student, meet
in the old Taco Inn building at 13th
and R streets because Richards Hall
is not handicap accessible.
It isn’t much of an inconve
nience, said Karen Kune, the course
teacher. Except for the days she has
to carry all the student projects
I across campus. And except on the
| days she would like the class to pop
! over to the Sheldon Art Gallery or
| observe other classes drawing or
painting.
But because of renovations to
j Richards Hall that will begin in the
i next few days, this may be the last
semester an alternative site will be
j necessary.
Richards Hall will be handicap
] accessible to the first floor and
equipped with a handicap restroom
“But it won't feel like a ramp, ” he said. “It’s
more like a grand entrance. ”
BARRY SHULL
Architect
by next semester, said Barry Shull,
architect and project manager.
A ramp will be built on the south
side of the building, he said.
“But it won’t feel like a ramp,”
he said. “It’s more like a grand
entrance.”
The ramp will be built to comply
both with American Disabilities Act
requirements and to complement
the elegance of Richard Hall’s clas
sic design, he said.
The ramp will run almost the
length of the building on either side
of the entrance, he said, and will be
built up and over existing stairs.
Because plans exist for a total
renovation of the building if fund
ing becomes available, the ramp is
considered a temporary structure.
That is why it is important for the
building’s existing elements to be
left intact, said Howard Parker,
manager of architectural and engi
neering services.
The handicap-accessible
restroom will be on the first floor,
j ust nort h of t he women ’ s rest room,
Shull said. It will be a unisex
restroom with a special sink and
more than the required 5 feet mini
mum of turning room, he said.
The projects are funded by the
Institutional Research and Planning
Department. The estimated cost of
the ramp is $46,000, and the cost of
the restroom is between $12,000
and $15,000, Shull said.
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Law&Order
Bullets hit west Lincoln home
By Jeff Zeleny
Senior Reporter
Thirteen bullets struek a house and
another shell landed in the bathtub of
a neighboring house in a west Lincoln
drive-by shooting late Monday night,
police said.
Residents of a home at 107W.FSt.
told police they heard multiple gun
shots at about 10:30 and a car squeal
ing its tires as it drove away. The three
adults and one infant in the home —
where bullets riddled theeastand north
side — were not injured.
No one was present in the home at
115 W. F St., where a bullet pen
etrated an interior wall and shot into a
bathtub.
Lincoln police Sgt. Ann Heermann
said Tuesday the shooting did not ap
pear to be random. Shots also were
fired at the first home Oct. 6, Heermann
said.
Two vehicles also were hit in the
gunfire, which came from a 9mm pis
tol, Heermann said. Bullet casings
were found in the intersection near the
homes.
Heermann said the residents of the
house did not see the shooters. Police
had no definite suspects Tuesday.
Phishy arrests
While the band Phish grooved at
Pershing Auditorium this weekend,
many of their groupies were cited by
police for suspected drug use.
The Boston band told Lincoln po
lice before the concert that vendors
who are not affiliated with the group
might distribute narcotics before the
Saturday concert.
Lincoln police Capt. Jim Peschong
said the tip led to more than 40 cita
tions for using marijuana, consuming
alcohol and having false identifica
tion. Peschong said it was uncommon
for bands to contact police.
“Most groups don’t do that, even if
they have a following of people in
volved in illegal activity,” Peschong
said, praising the band. “I certainly
wouldn’t have any problem with the
group coming back to Lincoln again.”
There was one arrest for dispens
ing intoxicated vapors and another for
intent to deliver a controlled substance.
Pol ice also confiscated five suspected
mushrooms—a drug that looks like a
dried mushroom but is a narcotic.
“You can eat them or chew them,”
Peschong said, “They are not real com
mon in the Lincoln area.”
Police arrested five people for us
ing nitrous oxide, an intoxicant simi
lar to laughing gas. Vendors sold bal
loons filled with the oxide. The oxide
depletes the supply of oxygen to the
brain, he said, and can be deadly.
Phish, which has a strong follow
ing similar to that of the Grateful Dead,
had never performed in Lincoln.
Peschong said Saturday’s concert had
more arrests than usual but also fea
tured a different type of music than is
usually played in Lincoln.
Harms
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The six-page document, filed Dec.
6, 1993, details the events that took
place on the night of Harms’ murder.
The nine men and three women on
the jury spent Tuesday listening to
police testimony regarding the details
of the murder.
Stan and Pat Harms sat through the
civil trial Tuesday as investigators
recounted the grizzly details of their
daughter’s slaying. Throughout the
first-degree murder trial in 1993, the
Harms were not in the courtroom be
cause they were sequestered witnesses.
Barney was represented in court by
his attorney, Michael Hansen.
Bjorklund, who is representing him
self in the case, was not present. He is
one of 12 inmates on Nebraska’s death
row.
The lawsuit concludes by stating
that Harms’ family has “suffered emo
tional distress more severe than any
reasonable person could be expected
to endure.”
Andrew Strotman, the Harms' fam
ily attorney, deferred comment Tues
day night until after the case has been
settled.
Testimony resumes today at 9 a.m.
The jury is expected to begin delib
erations today.
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