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Administration vacancies filled over summer break ROUNDUP from page 9 After Phillips assaulted his girlfriend, a de bate broke out on whether he should be al lowed to play for the football team again. Under the new recommendations, Phillips would have faced a one-year ban on playing forUNL. Some of the other task force recommen dations were: • the adoption of a zero-tolerance policy toward abusive or violent behavior that dis rupts the community by threatening the health and safety of any person. • consistently enforcing existing policies dealing with alcohol on campus. The task force pointed to a correlation between alco hol and violence. It also said the policy on alcohol was sound, but the enforcement was not. • punishing a student for all infractions of the Student Code of Conduct. The task force said that often when students are charged with more than one infraction, they receive punishment only for one. • tracking all academic dishonesty reports. • holding the athletic department respon sible for providing a harassment-free envi ronment, which will include help from an external consultant. ■ Within the university system, the NU Board of Regents approved a $36.1 million improvement project to add skyboxes to Memorial Stadium. , The skyboxes would have 40 revenue generating seating areas. NU Athletic Director Bill Byrne said the skyboxes could possibly be ready for the 1999 football season, but would definitely be ready by the year 2000. Passing the pigskin, Bob Devaney, athletic director emeritus and former Husker coach, has donated memorabilia from his coaching days to the University of Nebraska Archives. Devaney coached Nebraska to back-to back national championships in 1971 and 1972. ■ An event within Lincoln that generated national attention was the July 16 execution of convicted child-killer John Joubert. Joubert was sentenced to die in the elec tric chair for the 1983 murder of two boys in Sarpy County. Joubert was the second to die in Nebraska’s electric chair in two years. On Sept. 2,1992, Harold Lamont Otey was ex ecuted for the rape and murder of an Omaha woman. Like Otey, there were revelers outside the penitentiary celebrating the execution, but this time, the crowd was not as loud and bois terous. There was a small group of people pro testing, but law enforcement officials created a 15-foot barrier between the two sides. ;: There are 11 men currently on death row in Nebraska. All are awaiting court appeals in different courts. Football tickets sell out fast TICKETS from page 14 moved last year, Bynum said. Hie past two seasons, student ticket holders have complained about the hassles of getting their tickets for the student migration game and the bowl game. Students were angry that the athletic depart ment only allocated 500 Fiesta Bowl tickets for them, the university was given 12,500 total. Students who traveled to Boulder, Colo., to watch Nebraska play the University of Colorado last year complained that long ticket lines kept them from watching the first part of the game. Bell said CU’s stadium wasn’t equipped to handle the large number of visiting fans in a shot time. Wildcat Stadium, the site of this year’s mi gration game at Kansas State, won’t be much better, she said. “The main thing is not to show up 15 min utes before game time,” Bell said. The long wait, she said, was to make sure the students who won tickets in the lottery were the same ones using them. Giving tickets to stu dents the day of the game keeps them from sell ing tickets to non-students. “It keeps the student migration game a stu dent migration game,” Bell said. “That’s what the game was designed for.” renmeter permits remain PARKING from page 6 If not, Jason Bynum, vice president of the Association of Students at the University of Ne braska, has advice. “Get a house close to campus and buy a bike, or find someone with a sticker and car pool,” he said. Last year, students who exhausted those op tions breathed a sigh of relief when the univer sity decided to build a 600-stall parking garage near Memorial Stadium. This year, they might gasp in panic after they realize that construction space for the parking garage will actually gobble up more parking spaces in the interim. McDowell said the university sold 400 fewer permits this year because of the construction. Bynum said students probably weren’t aware that die parking spots would be taken, or even that a garage was planned. He said the university was doing its best not to eat up more parking than necessary during construction. “It’s a pretty good system, because they’re not shutting down the whole lot. They’re only going to build half at a time,” Bynum said. McDowell said construction would start Oct. 28 and would continue through August 1997. The garage will charge about 50 cents an hour per car and there will be a fee cap for all-day parking. No permits are necessary. Revenue generated from the garage will be used to expand parking on other parts of cam pus, McDowell said. Until then, McDowell said that anyone with complaints about parking should come to ASUN meetings on Wednesday nights in the Nebraska Union. If you can find a parking spot near the union, that is. 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