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-flow crowd will have a place to go, and cus
tomers won’t have to stand in line any longer,
she said.
Barry’s owner Mike Webb said he was con
fident the bar would retain its reputation as the.
“place to be” before football games.
“I don’t think that will change,” he said.
“No, we’re happy guys.”
Smith said she has done business before with
the owner of the Denny’s building. Their brain
storming for a way to turn the empty building
into a profit-maker blossomed into the idea fa*
a beer garden.
On Saturday, Smith said, Lincoln radio sta
tion KKNB-FM, (104.1) will broadcast live
from the site. There will be a food court with
Runzas, hamburgers, com dogs and nachos.
And, of course, they’ll have beer, Bloody Marys
and mixed drinks both indoors and outside.
Some may question whether the ambiance
of an old Denny’s will get fans pumped up be
fore a game.
Smith said they doctored up the building and
the parking lot, which seats about 450 people.
Beer companies have donated football para
phernalia and signs, an outdoor-seating section
has been fenced off, and a coat of red paint has
been slapped on. But the thing that will attract
people to the 50 Yard Bar is probably the loca
tion, Smith said.
“We can provide a real safe passage to the
stadium, because they can walk under the via
duct instead of having to cross 10th Street,”
Smith said.
Iguana’s owners aren’t worried about keep
ing crazed fens from getting drunk and disor
derly, Smith said.
“We don’t have a problem shutting people
off because we’ve owned Iguana’s for so long,”
Smith said.
Memorial Stadium goes smoke free
By Darben Ivy
Staff Reporter
Fans heading to Memorial Stadium to
watch the Comhuskers strive for a third con
secutive national championship will have
cleaner air to breathe and a clearer enforce
ment of the same rules that have been estab
lished in the past.
Old rules that will be more strictly en
forced include the bans on alcoholic bever
ages on all campus property and on umbrel
las, coolers and backpacks in the stadium.
A new interpretation of the no-smoking
rule and additional medical help outside the
stadium also will be noticeable changes in
and around Memorial Stadium this year.
“We had a number of complaints about
people who were smoking in non-smoking
areas so we decided it was time to change
our policy,” said Butch Hug, director of
events.
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The new smoking policy states that smok
ing will be prohibited inside Memorial Sta
dium. Previously, the stadium had designated
smoking areas. People who smoke outside
of the stadium will be allowed readmission
as long as they have their ticket stubs.
Hug said people who disobeyed this rule
would be reminded of the rule and then asked
to smoke outside the stadium
And where there’s smoke this year, there
also will be the Lincoln Fire Department.
Outside the stadium, the Lincoln Fire
Department will be testing out their new
Medi-bike patrols. A paramedic and an emer
gency medical technician will patrol the cam
pus and downtown areas near the stadium
Saturday on bikes equipped with medical
supplies.
Jim Bopp, fire department paramedic,
said the department started the Medi-bike
patrol because it would be too difficult to get
a fire engine through the crowds on game
days.
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inspire women voters
By Erin Gibson
Staff Reporter
More than 20 Nebraska women’s groups will
come together this weekend to motivate women
voters for the Nov. 5 election, which they fear
could mark record-low showings at the polls.
Only 45 percent of eligible women voters
turned out for the 1992 presidential election, and
16 million fewer women voted in 1994 mid-term
elections.
In response to the dwindling turnout, the
Nebraska Women Vote ’96 Coalition will kick
off its statewide campaign “Women — Thke
Charge of Your Power—Vote!” at 9 a.m. Sat
urday on the north steps of the State Capitol.
Scheduled speakers include Lt. Gov. Kim
Robak, former Lincoln Mayor Helen Boosalis,
Lincoln City Councilwoman Coleen Seng,
Omaha City Councilwoman Brenda Council and
Lincoln activist Pat Lahr Smith.
Bonnie Coffey, executive director of the Lin
coln-Lancaster Women’s Commission, which
helps sponsor the event, said Saturday’s cam
paign was an important effort to improve poor
voter turnout.
“My goal is to have every woman of voting
age in Lancaster county and the state of Ne
braska register and vote,” Coffey said.
Statistics from the Vote ’96 national head
quarters in Washington estimate 54 million
American women did not vote in 1994.
Nebraska ranked a distant 27th among states
in the percentage of women voters over die last
three presidential elections, she said.
“Women are fed up with politics and are
convinced that their votes don’t count,” Coffey
said. “Women have no idea they have the power
to make a difference between an election’s win
ners and losers.”
Participants in Saturday’s rally said they in
tend to reverse the fallacy of the powerless
woman voter.
This year marks the 76th anniversary of
women’s suffrage in the United States. On Aug.
2,1919, Nebraska was the 14th state to ratify
the 19th Amendment to the U.S Constitution,
which granted women the right to vote.
State Sen. LaVon Crosby of Lincoln, who is
scheduled to speak at the kick off, said voting
was a “precious privilege.”
“It doesn’t seem intelligent to me not to
vote,” she said.
Crosby’s mother-in-law received a
bachelor’s degree from UNL in 1908 and had
two children before she was given the right to
vote, Crosby said.
“Women could do anything (in 1908), but
they could not say who was elected,” she said.
Women today must seize the power to vote
and thank the women who left the legacy of the
right to vote, she said.
Jani Gray, executive director of the Nebraska
Commission on the Status of Women, said cur
rent statistics show that neither men nor women
are seizing the voting power and overall voting
participation is declining nationwide.
In 1968, 63 percent of the eligible popula
tion voted in the presidential election, opposed
to 55 percent in die 1992 election.
Women ages 18 to 24 historically have the
lowest voter turnout, Gray said. Only 22 per
cent of those eligible actually vote.
Gray said women need to be aware of the
statistics if they want them to improve.
The Nebraska campaign also coordinates
with a nationwide Women’s Vote Project ’96.
Both projects are nonprofit, nonpartisan,
noncandidate efforts that include media message
and voter registration campaigns.
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