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_April 15, 1996
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Frank Kuhn, assistant director of operations of the Nebraska Union, is retiring after 37 years. Kuhn has been chosen
as the adviser of the year.
The cutting edge
Barber/director finishes stint at UNL
By Micnaeia Pieler
Staff Reporter
At the end of this month, a UNL director
who came to the university as a barber 37
years ago will leave campus to retire.
Frank Kuhn, assistant director of opera
tions at the Nebraska Union for the last 20
years, said he enjoyed his unusual start at the
University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
“It was a funny time,” said Kuhn, 61.
“The barber shop kept us four barbers busy.”
The five-chair salon in the basement of
the Nebraska Union made sense in the 1960s,
lie said.
“All the ROTC students were required to
have their hair cut every two weeks,” he said.
After eight years — and after having
shaved the young Ben Nelson (now gover
nor of Nebraska) and Don Wesely (now a
state senator from Lincoln)—Kuhn decided
he wanted to do something else with his li fc.
“And I got the best of all limes for this
"I've always enjoyed working
with students. They always
have neiv and exciting
ideas. ”
FRANK KUHN
assistant union director
decision — I left right before the hippie era
where people didn’t want to have their hair
cut anymore.”
Kuhn enrolled in classes and earned his
business degree at age 41.
Having a wi fe and three kids, taking classes
and being the night manager of the union
made those years hectic, he said.
“I went to school during the day, worked
at night and often studied until two or three
in (he morning,” he said. “Those were the
times when I took a book with me when I
went to the restroom.”
The efforts, however, were worth it, he
said. They guaranteed him a job that he says
has one great plus, working with students.
“I’ve always enjoyed working with stu
dents,” he said. “They always have new and
exciting ideas.”
During his years at UNL, Kuhn has served
as an adviser to the Union Board, which
recently named him Adviser of the Year.,
Kuhn was also adviser to a group of Malay
sian students. . .
One of the most exciting times at the
Nebraska Union was during the Vietnam
War, he said.
“The union played a pretty important role
for the Vietnam protest,” he said. “It was the
protest place for students and always packed
with protesters.”
See KUHN on 7
Ordinance
forces some
out of homes
Housing department acts
when neighbors complain
By Chad Lorenz
Senior Reporter ——
A city zoning ordinance that limits the num
ber of unrelated people who can live together is
designed to keep Lincoln streets clear of park
ing congestion.
But it also can clear t
students out of their “OlW pCVSOH
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visor of the Lincoln said (fliS
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family can live with
only two unrelated Cat" lot. ”
people in the same jab tiideit
dwelling. A family can E IUI,BI1
consist of one person, Housing supervisor
so a maximum of three
unrelated people may r~ -
live together.
Jen Forseth, a senior special and physical
education major, said she lost two roommates
because of the ordinance.
Last semester, Forseth’s landlord told her
and her four roommates that two of them had to
move out of their five-bedroom duplex on Knox
Street, she said.
One moved back to Omaha and one moved
in with a sister, Forseth said.
“The other three of us didn’t have anywhere
to go, so it was easiest for them.”
The five had not been informed about the
ordinance when they signed the lease.
“We all five signed the lease, and the land
lord knew that we weren’t all related,” she said.
Forseth said police had told her that neigh
bors had called and complained about the room
mates’ cars being too close to their driveways.
Turek said the ordinance was only enforced
ifthehousingdepartmcntgotacomplaint.Typi
cally, those complaints come from neighbors
about cars congesting the street.
About 90 percent of the time, students are the
ones who violate the ordinance, he said.
“They park in front of mailboxes, or people
come home and find their driveway blocked,”
Turek said. “That irritates neighbors.
“One person called and said (his street)
looked like a used car lot.”
One family in a house probably has one or
two cars, Turek said, but unrelated people who
live together often have their own cars.
If those four people are students, they will
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Bombing anniversary worries federal workers
By Erin Schulte
Start Reporter " '
At the James Denny Federal Build
ing in Lincoln, an X-ray machine,
magnetometer and security guards
Oklahoma
City
greet both the pub
lic and federal em
ployees at the door.
All packages re
ceived in the mail
are screened, and
roving guards pa
trol the outside of
the building.
In the year since
the bombing of the
Alfred P. Murrah
Federal Building in Oklahoma City,
Okla., federal buildings across the na
tion, including in Lincoln, have since
tightened security.
After the Oklahoma City bombing
Security tightened throughout year
on April 19, 1995, President Clinton
issued a directive to review security
measures in federal buildings.
Joe Avary, chief deputy at the U.S.
Marshal’s office in Omaha, said al
though he could not reveal specific
security improvements in individual
buildings, many security measures had
been enacted.
In Lincoln, the most noticeable
change was moving an X-ray machine
for purses and briefcasesand a magne
tometer (like the ones walked through
at airports) to the first floor.
The machines, which cost about
$35,000, had previously been on the
second floor, where the general public
usually did not go, Avary said.
Workers in the federal buildingand
the public have to go through the mag
netomcter every time they enter the
building because the alternate door
has been sealed shut, Avary said.
Federal building employees agree
that increased security is annoying but
makes them feel safer.
Eugene dock, agriculture repre
sentative in Sen. Bob Kerrey’s office
at the federal building, said the need
for increased security was disappoint
ing but necessary.
“In view of the fact of what hap
pened in Oklahoma and that terrorism
seems to be with us, I feel much more
secure knowing that we do have some
one iooking over us,” he said.
“I will admit that at first it seemed
like a pain, but the advantage of know
ing people won’t be able to walk in
with weapons is well worth the added
time it takes to get in.”
Another improvement, Glock said,
was making vehicles at the loading
dock check in with security.
One situation — parking — that
had to be changed in other cities stayed
the same in Lincoln.
Because the bomb that exploded in
Oklahoma was in a parked vehicle
outside the building, parking was re
moved from around many federal
buildings.
Omaha removed parking from
around its federal building, but around
the federal building in Lincoln, “No
Parking” signs have always been
posted.
Another simple change was made
at the buildingtodeter potential bomb
ings by removing the trash cans from
the first fUx>r.
Avary said bombers saw trash cans
as easy places to hide bombs.
“If someone has to leave a package
in the middle of the floor, it’s much
more obvious,” Avary said.
The General Services Administra
tion, which is in charge of security at
federal buildings, has concentrated its
efforts on hiringguards to patrol build
ings, said Bond Faulwcll, deputy re
gional administrator of GSE.
Eight hundred guards were hired
nationwide, at a cost of about $15 an
hour per guard, Faulwcll said. GSE
plans to hire 600 federal protective
officers soon, he said.
A national total of $32.4 million
has been spent on extra security mea
sures since the bombing, Faul well said,
and another $77.5 million will be spent
See BOMBING on 8