Group mentalities
Events in Seward, Lincoln help bring communities together for holiday
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By Sean McCarthy
Staff Reporter
Grab a beach towel and pack your
cooler (leave out the beer if you’re
going to Holmes Lake) because the
Fourth of July holiday falls on us
Friday.
As in the past, the all-day festivi
ties at Holmes Lake, 70th and Van
Dorn streets, and in Seward will like
ly draw the biggest crowds in south
east Nebraska.
Reward’s traditional Grand Parade
is scheduled for 4 p.m. Friday. The
firewoiks display is scheduled to start
at 10 p.m. in Plum Creek Park. Arts
and crafts will be displayed in
Courthouse Square. Ejections to all
events will be posted in the city.
The best way to get around
though, is to follow the crowds. It’s a
fairly small town, so everything is rel
atively close.
Softball, volleyball, bands and
cop-dunking should entertain the
large crowds at Holmes Lake. Sand
volleyball and softball tournaments
are scheduled throughout the day. A
“Dunk a Cop” booth will be set up
from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m..
The celebration will have a better
selection of bands than they have had
in the past. Christian rock group
Common Ground, folk band Aspen
and KRNU staples Rascal Basket are
among the groups that are scheduled
to play. The Lincoln Municipal Band
is scheduled to perform at 8:30 p.m,,
The big event, the fireworks dis
play, is scheduled to begin approxi
mately at 10 p.m.. The display will be
broadcast live on CableVision
Channel 5. As in the past couple of
years, the display will be set to music,
broadcast on KNET-FM (95.1).
If bumper-to-bumper traffic irks
you, then stay away from Holmes
Lake. The weather is predicted to be
around 85 degrees, perfect weather
for walking or biking.
Another way to avoid traffic is to
take the free shuttle bus. The buses
will make round trips from the
Lincoln East High School parking lot,
1000 South 70th street, to the intersec
tion of Van Dorn Street and Normal
Boulevard from 4:30 p.m. to 12:30
a.m.
There are also a lot of clearings
near the lake, making it easy to catch
the display without the crowds.
Overall, the Independence Day
holiday should offer something for
everyone, except traffic-haters.
Diversity program focus of new budget I
By Tasha E. Kelter
Staff Reporter
Diversity and distance education
programs at the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln will benefit most
from a budget reallocation announced
by Chancellor James Moeser.
Supported by UNL’s Academic
Planning Committee, the plan will
give $781,000 to distance education
and outreach programs and $709,000
to diversity programs. The honors
program will receive$620,000 and
information technology enhancement
will receive $604,000.
Moeser developed the plan last
year with a budget advisory commit
tee, which comprised administration
members, Eric Marintzer (former
ASUN president), John Wunder
r
(Academic Planning committee
chairman) and Peter Bleed
(Academic Senate president).
Moeser has earmarked $400,000
for a program called Targets of
Opportunity Fund, which will help to
recruit more minorities and senior
women for faculty and administrative
positions.
More than $6 million will go
toward developing a cooperative ven
ture of several UNL colleges, called
the Plant Science Initiative, which
will help Nebraska emerge more
competitively in the field of plant sci
ence.
Moeser said accomplishing the
reallocations took difficult reductions
in funding.
Four full-time-equivalent staff
positions were eliminated in the first
year of the budget plan, and 41 vacant
positions were out. In addition, oper
ating expenditures and administrative
costs” were cut. Thirty-five current
positions and 10 vacant positions are
expected to be cut in the second year
of the budget.
John Benson, director of
Institutional Research and Planning,
said the new allocations should be
viewed as a balanced set of decisions
that support each other.
“We need to look at the whole
palette of decisions,” he said. “They
all really work together to strengthen
the university.”
Benson said he thought the all the
reallocations would effect the univer
sity in a positive manner.
“I think what came out of [the
reallocation process] will have a sig
nificant effect on the campus and
really move the campus forward.”
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