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VOL. 96 COVERING THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA-LINCOLN SINCE 1901 NO. 131
keeping the
Careful Counse
Regents’ consent
needed to Improve
grass practice Held
By Erin Gibson
Senior Reporter
The University of Nebraska Athletic
Department wants to replace the grass
practice field between Buck Beltzer
Field and Cook Pavilion, and will ask
the NU Board of Regents to approve
the project Saturday.
John Ingram, director of facilities
for athletics, said the new $557,000
practice field would use an innovative
SportsGrass system that resists wear
from heavy traffic and keeps the field
safe for athletes.
“We just have a terrible time keep
ing up the quality of practice fields for
football,” Ingram said.
The department tested in a 7,500
,square-feet patch of the practice field
last year. The test showed the natural
turf SportsGrass system kept the qual
ity of the practice surface higher than
the current clay-based turf.
Though it uses natural turf, it in
cludes a sand and peat moss mixture in
the grass’s root zone, he said. The re
sulting turf can withstand rigorous drills
without the surface becoming uneven.
The current field becomes very un
even late in the fall, he said, when the
cool weather causes the grass to be
come dormant, and football practice
continues to wear off remaining grass.
The athletes tend to turn their
ankles, twist their feet, and hurt their
knees on such an uneven surface,
Ingram said. The department could use
heavy equipment to roll and level the
field, but the resulting field would be
“hard as a parking lot.”
The new SportsGrass field’s sand
base creates a subsurface drainage
system that will keep the field’s sur
face well-drained and level, Ingram
said.
_ In other planned action at the re
a
We just have a
terrible time
keeping up the
quality of practice
fields for football ”
John Ingram
director of facilities for athletics
gents’ meeting:
■ The board will vote on the re
maining seven renovation projects
proposed for the $95 million major
renovation and deferred maintenance
initiative on all four NU campuses.
The board has already approved nine
of 16 projects proposed, including
renovations to Love Library South
and Richards Hall on the UNL cam
pus.
■ The board will hear a report on
the increase in student fees caused by
the new technology fee for UNL. The
fee will start at $2 per credit hour in
fall 1997, increase to $4 per credit hour
in fall 1998, and increase to $5 per
credit hour in fall 1999.
■ The board will vote whether to
accept the proposed merger of
Omaha’s Clarkson Hospital and the
University of Nebraska Medical
Center’s University Hospital in Omaha.
Approval would allow both hospitals,
which are across the street from each
other, to operate jointly under the di
rection of a common operating board.
Photo Illustration by Matt Miller/DN
Grievers cope in their own ways
Editor’s note: This week the
Daily Nebraskan focused on the
stories of those who grieved over
the death of a loved one.
In today’s story, the Daily Ne
braskan consulted a professional
psychologist about grieving.
By Joshua Gillin
Senior News Editor
Death hurts.
And angers. And frightens. It is
a constant reminder to the living just
how precious life really is.
The Harms family knows. So
does Jan Berringer, Ann Taylor and
the Tiemey family.
So does Kathleen McCoy.
McCoy, coordinator of the clini
cal doctorate program at the Cali
fornia School of Professional Psy
chology in Los Angeles, said she un
derstood the pain the family and
friends of the deceased felt. She said
the four stories presented in the
Daily Nebraskan during the past
four days all were typical of such
cases.
They were typical, McCoy said.
because every person felt the pain
of grieving for someone who will
never return.
“Grief and recovery from a loss
doesn’t happen in a straight line,”
she said. “Each person must deal
with their loss in their own time
frame and own way.”
McCoy said there were five
stages to the grieving process, and
every person’s way of meeting those
stages and moving on is different.
Traditionally, she said, a person
Please see GRIEFon 3
Juggler juices up his performance
By Amy Keller
Staff Reporter
Eight rings soared in the air 10 feet above
his head Thursday night as Corey Hoelker calmly
juggled them in perfect syncopation.
The sophomore architecture student put on
a juggling demonstration and gave lessons in the
College of Architecture third-floor “bam” Thurs
day.
Thursday’s event was sponsored by Alpha
Rho Chi, the professional architecture fraternity.
Hoelker said he decided to do the demonstra
tion because the fraternity wanted to do a social
project.
Hoelker, a 1993 silver-medal winner in the
International Juggling Association national con
vention in Fargo, N.D., awed more than 20 fel
low architecture students who watched with rapt
attention as he showed his various juggling tech
«
I spent six hours working on my routine every day.
Now I haven't practiced for six months."
Corey Hoelker
juggler
niques.
He hurled tennis balls, matchboxes, bean
bags, pins and rings through the air, as well as
“the diablo,” an hourglass shaped piece of wood
balanced on a thin string.
Several of the tricks included Hoelker’s
roommate, Dan Dixon, who also is a juggler.
Dixon and Hoelker stood across the room from
each other and passed six pins back and forth,
throwing them under their legs and spinning
around between throws.
Dixon’s cousin, Jeff Dixon, a junior in high
school, was visiting campus this week and also
juggles. He joined Hoelker in his demonstration.
Although Jeff Dixon had met Hoelker just a day
before, he said it was easy to juggle together
because jugglers use conventional rhythms.
Hoelker said he taught himself to juggle from
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Lane Hickenbottem/DN
COREY HOELKER, a sophomore architecture major,
performs a juggling act Thursday afternoon.
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