Big Red Welcome
to rock the block
By Amy Keller
Staff Reporter
The university is urging 3,500 new
students to start a successful school year
with a party.
Big Red Welcome, an all-day festi
val for new and returning University of
Nebraska-Lincoln students, will
include activities ranging from orienta
tion assemblies to a block party with a
Run-DMC concert.
From 1 to 3 p.m. Sunday, students
can go on tours of City and East cam
puses to f nd out where their classes are.
Also at 1 p.m., students in the
University Honors Program and
University Foundations Program who
participated in summer reading will dis
cuss “The Alchemist” by Paulo Coelho
with professors. Students will gather in
groups of eight each with a faculty
member, which will let each student
meet a professor before school starts,
said Pat McBride, director of New
Student Enrollment.
At 4 p.m., a new student convoca
tion in the Lied Center for Performing
Arts will include speeches from
Nebraska Football Coach Tom
Osborne, Chancellor James Moeser
and a performance by the Comhusker
Marching Band.
The block party will begin at 5 p.m.
on R Street from 12th to 14th streets.
Pepsi will serve free refreshments to
kick off the its first year as UNL’s offi
cial beverage company.
Other sponsors of the party include
the University Bookstore, Fairbury
Brand Hot Dogs, National Bank of
Commerce, Gallup, Apple Computer
andKFRX, 102.7-FM.
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McBride said this year’s Big Red
Welcome will be different because there
has never been a block party. “The pri
mary difference is the welcome festival
on R Street. It was held on the green
space or in Devaney before.”
Students can stop at more than 225
booths from restaurants, businesses and
organizations, said Bill Anderson, the
1997 Big Red Welcome coordinator.
The UNL Yell Squad, Scarlet and
Cream Singers, and Scarlet Sensations
will also perform, followed by groups
from the Lincoln area. These include
Kid Quarkstar, Beyond and China Digs,
which will lead up to the headline act,
Run-DMC.
The concert and block party will
end about 9 p.m. Sunday to give the
booth participants time to clear the
booths to reopen R Street for traffic
Monday.
Housing has enough room
By Sarah Baker
Assignment Reporter
Students who dread the thought of
living in a residence hall TV lounge
during their first semester of college
can rest a little easier. Although all 13
UNL residence halls will be full for
the fall semester, the number of stu
dents living in the halls has decreased.
Doug Zatechka, housing director,
said he would be surprised to have
students living in TV lounges.
“There are still housing contracts
coining in at this late time, so none of
this data is concrete,” Zatechka said.
“But from what I have seen so far, I
don’t think we will have any lounge
assignments.”
Although final numbers aren’t
available for the semester, the
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Department of Housing provided ten
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tative figures. As of Aug. 2, housing is
using 4,900 spaces this year, com
pared with 5,083 this time last year, a
difference of 183 spaces. Of the 4,900
spaces in use, 800 are single rooms.
- Though the number of freshmen
entering the halls has dropped, the
housing department has seen more
returning students this year. Housing
calculated that 1,749 students are
returning to the halls this year, com
pared with 1,579 last year.
Although options are limited,
Zatechka said, university housing
won’t turn away any students.
“Everyone will get some kind of liv
ing accommodations,” he said.
Students who aren’t assigned to
their preferred room may move into a
triple room instead, especially if their
contracts arrive late, Zatechka said. In
past years, these students likely would
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Parking services make changes
By Darren Ivy
Staff Reporter
Many students think of UNL
Parking and Transit Services as the
bad guys on campus, but Parking
Services Manager Tad McDowell said
his employees are just doing their
jobs.
“People think we give tickets for
the money,” McDowell said. “We give
tickets because we have to maintain
order on campus. If we didn’t give
tickets, we would have people parking
on the lawn and wherever else they
could find a spot.”
To try to clean up their bad guy
image, UNL Parking Services has
made several changes including mak
ing it easier to pick up permits, resur
facing parking lots, changing several
streets and meters and adding a new
parking garage.
Upperclassmen know that picking
up parking permits has been a
painstaking task in the past. Students
have waited more than 30 minutes for
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Commuter permits
are almost sold out
By Darren Ivy
Staff Reporter
Students who want a space in
one of UNL’s green commuter lots
are out of luck.
As of Wednesday morning,
Parking and Transit Services
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