Remodeled bakery brings in business
By Tasha E. Kelter
Staff Reporter
It is really hard to miss.
From the windows to the neon
lights to the tile pillar, the new
bakery in the Nebraska Union
caught many an eye in its first week
of operation since renovation.
“It’s very well-accepted,” said
Richard Williams, director of food
service for the union.
While under construction, the
bakery spent last semester in the
middle of the union.
With the new bakery, students
still can get doughnuts, muffins,
fresh fruit, sandwiches, soda, cof
fee, tea, cappuccino and espresso.
New to the menu, however, is fro
zen yogurt.
Now, everything is self-service
except for bakery items,
cappuccino, espresso and the fro
/xn yugun.
The change to self-service has
been advantageous, Williams said.
“You don’t have to stand in line
just to say you want a bottle of
pop,” he said. And now that there
are two cash registers, Williams
said, customers can be in and out
faster.
The total cost of construction
wasabout $70,000, includingcquip
ment, the contractor, asbestos re
moval, electrical work and minor
plumbing.
The entire corner where the old
bakery sat was gutted when remod
eling started last August.
“We expanded a few feet and
remodeled,” said Kerry Stueck,
manager of retail sales for food
service. “Anybody that had seen it
before could tell that it really
changed.”
At the bakery’s grand opening
Thursday, Joan Leitzel, interim
chancellor, and James Griescn, vice
chancellor for student affairs,
pushed the button to open the
bakery’s gate. Afterwards, free fro
Tanna Kinnaman/DN
Katherine Sedlacek looks at the variety of coffees in the
remodeled bakery Friday. Sedlacek is a sophomore
majoring in hotel management, international business
and tour and travel.
zen yogurt was given out.
“Everybody thought it looked
nice,” Stueck said. “They really
liked the brightness and the col
ors.”
Business has boomed since the
relocation, with 32 percent more
customers coming in than this time
last year, Williams said.
He said the remodeling and the
added cash register made for the
belter business.
“It’s difficult to walk by there
and not look at the bakery,” Will
iams said. “It’s still very compact
—a lot ofthings in that little corner
shop.”
Challenges to become
priorities, Smith says
By Julie Sobczyk
Senior Reporter
Rcgaininga $7 million state appro
priation and establ ishing a philosophy
-1 major at the Uni
I versily of Ne
braska at Kearney
are two major con
cerns before the
University of Ne
braska, its presi
dent said Satur
day,
NU President
\ Dennis Smith told
- the Board of Re
gents that the two initiatives, both
denied by different authorities last
week, are now among the university’s
top priorities.
Smith said the university needed to
lobby the Nebraska Legislature for a
$7 million appropriation for faculty
and staff raises.
Gov. Ben Nelson denied the S7
million request in his budget plan last
week. The money would fund a 4
percent salary increase promised to
faculty at the University of Nebraska
at Omaha and the University of Ne
braska Medical Center.
“This is our top priority in this
year’s session,” Smith said. “This is a
serious challenge to the university and
poses a major dilemma for all our our
campuses.”
The increases are needed to keep
salaries comparable to that of peer
institutions, Smith said.
Last year, a 4 percent salary in
crease was awarded after Nelson’s
veto of the increase was overridden.
But the increase did not carry over to
this year.
The other major concern Smith
outlined was bouncing back from the
denial of a philosophy major at UNK.
Last Thursday, the Coordinating
Commission for Postsecondary Edu
cation denied UNK.’s proposal for a
philosophy degree. The regents had
approved the major in July.
“I’mobviously very disappointed,”
Smith said. “I hope this doesn’t signal
a power struggle between the board
and the commission.”
The commission denied the pro
posal because of duplication with a
philosophy major at Hastings Col
lege. The major would not have re
quired any additional funding.
“I don’t know how we can come
back with a proposal that makes any
more sense,” he said.
Regent Charles Wilson of Lincoln
said he was “very distressed” about
the commission’s rejection.
“For that to be considered duplica
tion, there is simply no connection.”
Regents
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In other business, the board:
• Elected Regent Don Blank of
McCook chairman of the board. In a
secret vote, five regents supported
Blank and three abstained from vot
ing.
• Elected Regent Chuck
Hassebrook of Walthill vice chairman
of the board. He also received five
I
votes and three abstentions.
• Approved a $20 increase in stu
dent fees for UNL to help finance the
Nebraska Union expansion and reno
vation project. The increase would
not start until 1998.
• Approved revenue bonds for resi
dence hall improvements.
• Congratulated Joan Leitzel for
her work as interim chancellor, and
volleyball coach Terry Pettit and foot
ball coach Tom Osborne for their na
tional championships.
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