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(S00) 777-0112 SJ\ www.sta-travel.com_ I 1 ' "a ter7 ««'309” How *27^ flatftaiimttwM* mm‘459” How *367” Schwinn High limber «w *539" Now *412” flu^MOOinill BIKES | l CROSS BIKES BOY16ET 2*01/2 PRICE ‘SS!SS‘ U-Locki 20% off JUI Clofliiiif on Sale louftr Summer Imi I Open 'til 7pm MeiwUy-lliurMUv Technology costs to increase tuition TUITION from page 1 to existing computer labs by the fall. No formal plans now exist to spend the annual $3 million, he said, but “we’re going to be pressured to get more stuff started,” Hendrickson said. He said the amount of fees col lected by 1999 could finance the con stant upgrading of campus computer labs, enhancing library services and improving technology in classrooms. A new student computer lab could be built in C.Y. Thompson Library on East Campus, he said. The university will seek student, faculty and staff input on budgeting the collected fees, Hendrickson said. Curt Ruwe, ASUN president-elect, said the ASUN fully supported the technology fee at its meeting before spring break. “We wouldn’t support it if they were going to throw $5 at us,” Ruwe said, but die incremental raise will allow students to adjust. Starting with the $2 fall increase, students will reap important benefits from the increased technology fee, he said. The ASUN lists a computer lab for Love Library and a 24-hour com puter lab on East Campu$ as priori ties. Ruwe said every top research school in the Big 12 Conference now has a technology fee, except for the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and the University of Kansas. Even at $5, UNL’s fee will be among the cheapest for students, he said. To further support students, the administration plans to submit its bud get for spending money raised by the technology fee to an ASUN commit tee. “They have to hear a student voice on this,” Ruwe said. The committee, which has not yet been formed, will then choose whether to support the budget, but will have no official power to allocate funds. Ruwe said the ASUN has asked for funds raised by the university’s pos sible beverage contract to also go to ward technology spending on campus. Hendrickson said he asked for the fee increase without expecting any technology funding from the possible beverage contract. He was not in volved in contract negotiations and did not know if possible funds had been earmarked for technology, he said. The NU Board of Regents will not vote on the fee increase, but it will hear a report on the increase at its meeting Saturday at Varner Hall on East Cam pus. No typical spring break for Lincoln church group TRIP from page 1 sity. Kyle Bond, one of the trip’s leaders, has been taking such trips since 1987. He said he started go ing because of the friendships he had developed in the college group and “the whole idea of the adven ture intrigued me.” Kelly Dieckmann, a part-time student at Southeast Community College, said the venture was her second climbing trip. The group left the cabin at 8 every morning and didn’t return until about 5 p.m. each day, she said. The group spent most of its mornings biking, and in the after noon they were rock climbing, Dieckmann said. Thi| trip was the first climbing and biking trip that Jay Kunz, a senior mechanical engineering major at UNL, had ever taken. “It was exciting. It really got my juices flowing,” he said. Kunz said the best part of the trip was getting to know the other people he went with. The Berean college group is planning trips to Palisades Park in South Dakota in April and to Vedauwoo, a climbing site in Wyo ming, in May. law a Order < / ^ - Assault From the folks who told you not to talk to strangers, another slogan may be coming: “Don’t hug Strang ___ M ers. A woman in the 300 block of South 26th Street told police that she was approached by a man be tween 9:50 p.m. and 10:10 p.m. Saturday in her driveway. The man didn’t ask her for money or valuables—he asked her for a hug. Politely, she obliged and hugged the man, who then pro ceeded to fondle her breasts. Lincoln Police Sgt. Ann Heermann said police have a sus pect and are now looking for him. Burglary A passer-by with a cellular phone managed to help police nab a burglar. Lincoln Police Sgt. Ann Heermann said police were called to BB & R Pawn, 1701 O St. Sun day about midnight to a burglary in progress. A passer-by on O Street said he watched a man break a window and take 1 “boombox” He then watched the n in run south. Whan police arrived, they searched the area and found Javier Sanchez, a 25-year-old transient, walking down O Street between 17th and 18th streets. Heermann said Sanchez had two large radios — valued at $155 together — in his hands and glass fragments in his hair. Damage to the store was $750. Sanchez was arrested and jailed on suspicion of burglary. Buzz ON THE Fuzz: Radar Watch Lincoln ’xilice radar units will be on Norr al Boulevard between 48th and 5 jth streets and Superior between ' 4th and 27th streets to day. On Wednesday, radar units will be at 01 i Cheney Road between 14th at.d 27th streets and on Sumne. Street between 20th to 27th streets.