University regents to visit
UNL, meet with students
By Erin Schulte
Senior Reporter
Students can give the NU Board of
Regents a piece of their minds and get
a free lunch at the same time Friday.
Regents will meet with University
of Nebraska-Lincoln students at 11:45
a.m. at the Wick Alumni Center as part
of their annual campus tour.
They will spend the morning at
UNL touring buildings, meeting stu
dents and hearing presentations.
At 8:30 a.m., the regents will meet
with Chancellor James Moeser at the
Canfield Administration Building.
At 9 a.m„ they will meet with stu
dents and faculty at the College of
Business Administration. The regents
will watch a presentation on student
advising at 10:15 a jn. in Oldfather Hall
Room 107 and will make their last stop
before lunch at Love Library, where
they will visit the Electronic Scholars
Center.
At their Saturday meeting, the re
gents will hear a report on progress of
design and development projects for
the $37.5-million Information Sci
ences, Technology and Engineering
building at the University of Nebraska
at Omaha.
The board also will hear gender eq
uity reports from all four campuses,
including one from the UNL
Chancellor’s Commission on the Sta
tus of Women.
Business items on the agenda in
clude:
—Authorizing the use of qualified
university professional staff to perform
architectural and engineering services
for an Institute of Agriculture and
Natural Resources project with an es
timated cost of over $100,000.
—Approving the sole-source pur
chase of a Toshiba Multipurpose An
giography/Fluoroscopy Imaging Sys
tem from Cassing Diagnostic Imaging
for $450,000 for the University of Ne
braska Medical Center.
— Approving the service agree
ment for a fixed MRI Scanner contrib
uted by FONAR QUAD as part of a
research grant to the Department of
Radiology at UNMC.
The board meets at 8:30 a.m. Sat
urday morning in the basement meet
ing room of Varner Hall on East Cam
pus.
Past Nebraska newspaper publisher
grants $1.15 million gift to UNL
From Staff Reports
Journalism, honors and environ
mental students will benefit from a
$1.15 million gift to an NU fund-rais
ing campaign from a former Nebraska
newspaper publisher.
Harold and Marian Andersen, co
chairpersons of “Campaign Nebraska,”
donated the money to support the Uni
versity of Nebraska Foundation’s
$250-million campaign goal.
Andersen, former publisher and
chairman of the Omaha World-Herald,
and his wire, a UNLjoumalism gradu
ate, marked $500,000 for the Univer
sity of Nebraska-Lincoln College of
Journalism and Mass Communica
tions. The money will go toward pur
chasing the college’s new home in the
current Security Mutual Life Building,
200 N. Centennial Mall.
The UNL Institute of Agriculture
and Natural Resources will receive
$150,000 as an endowment to fund
projects to publicize and encourage
soil and water conservation. And
$500,000 will go toward creating an
honors scholarship.
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Companies want soda rights
Three major brands answer JJNL proposal request
By Erin Schulte
Senior Reporter
Wading through 300-page pro
posals, university administrators are
knee-deep in offers from three bot
tling companies for exclusive pour
ing rights at UNL.
Coke, Pepsi and Midcontinent
Bottlers, which makes 7Up, all re
sponded to a request for proposals
sent out last month.
Consultants hired by the Univer
sity of Nebraska-Lincoln are now
evaluating the proposals and will
give reports to the university in early
January, said James Main, assistant
vice chancellor for business and fi
nance.
“It’s a lot of information to di
gest, record and get clarification
on,” Main said.
And there is still the possibility
that the university will not approve
exclusive rights at all, he said.
“That’s always been an option,”
Main said. “We need to figure out
what equals the consequence of giv
ing up choice.”
Another option, Main said,
would be to have one location on
campus that sold the opposite bev
erage “for a a die-hard that had to
have a Diet Coke instead of a Diet
Pepsi.”
Beverage companies with exclu
sive pouring rights usually provide
millions of dollars to ensure their
products will be the only brand sold
on campus.
Recently, universities around the
country have signed contracts with
Coke for about $28 million and
Pepsi for $14 million.
Main said profits from the con
tract would be pumped back into the
university in the form of scholar
ships, campus programs, improved
facilities or technology.
Student input is still being con
sidered, Main said.
“I’ve heard the side of the coin
that addresses the lack of choice,
and the flip side that says if there is
significant benefit to be gained, it
might be worth it,” Main said.
“I heard one student say ‘If I was
going to get a scholarship, I
wouldn’t mind walking a couple
blocks to get a Coke or a Pepsi.”
Jim Griesen, vice chancellor for
student affairs, was put in charge of
collecting student opinions.
Griesen said he asked the Bu
reau of Sociological Research at
UNL to conduct random phone sur
veys with UNL students.
About 400 students called last
week were asked what their first
preference would be among all na
tionally-advertised soft drinks, wa
ters Juices and sports drinks. They
were then asked, “If you couldn’t
get your first choice, what would
you drink?”
A similar 300 students
was taken when the university was
trying to decide what food franchise
to put in the spot that currently be
longs to Amigos in Nebraska
Union.
The pouring contract would not
affect areas of the university like
research, Main said. For example,
4f Pepsi asked the university to re
search com syrup for its colas, and
the university had pouring rights
with Coke, the university could ac
cept the Pepsi research grant and
Coke could not interfere. .
Main said he hopes to finish with
the proposals and be ready to take
a plan to the Jan. 18 NU Board of
Regents meeting. A finalized con
tract, if the university decides to
take one, would probably not be
drawn up until spring.
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