Parking services ease
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permits, McDowell said.
To speed this process up, stu
dents who live in the residence halls
will be able to pick up their permits
when they check into their rooms.
Students who reserved text
books through the University Book
Store also will be able to pick up
their permits when they pick up their
books.
“We hope these changes will be
a positive change from multi-hour
waits students have experienced in
the past,” McDowell said.
Besides a smoother pickup of
permits, parking services has made
other changes and improvements.
The lots on 19th and R streets, 17th
and Q streets, and 21st and Vine
streets were paved this year, paid for
with money from a bond issue three
years ago.
Facilities Management project
manager and civil engineer Dick
O’Hearn said that bond issue was
approved for $2.2 million, but just
more than $1 million was all that
was needed for the 19 lots that were
redone.
Another change is the UNL bus
shuttle service not making a stop
inside the U loop on the main cam
pus. McDowell said the waiting area
was moved to 14th Street between
Vine Street and U Street to cut a few
minutes off the shuttle schedule and
to save some wear on the vehicles.
Changing meters is another task
of parking services. By the end of
fall, all campus meters will be elec
tronic. McDowell said this should
improve the accuracy of meters. He
said the meters will either be on time
or they won’t work at all.
A final change was done to
make roads safer for pedestrians and
to address heavy traffic. Two streets,
Avery Street and 15th Street between
S and U streets, were made one way
Aug. 11. Avery Street is now one
way to the east.
McDowell said the street was
made one way because the street had
too much traffic and it was difficult
for pedestrians to cross.
Another change will include
additional green commuter parking
along the south side of Avery Street.
Fifteenth Street between S Street
and U Street is one way to the north.
McDowell said 15th Street was too
narrow and had possible safety prob
lems.
“It was a serious accident wait
ing to happen,” McDowell said.
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Burnett ready for classes
■ A $5.78 MILLION
renovation includes 19
modem classrooms and an
elevator.
By Amy Keller
Staff Reporter
This semester students will find a
new building on campus - inside the
same old shell of Burnett Hall.
Burnett Hall, home to psychology,
history, political science and other
classes on City Campus, will be
reopened Monday after 1 Vi years of
interior renovation. Now that the reno
vation is finished, the asphalt north of
the building is being removed to make
room for landscaping.
“This is a great example of how
you can take an old dilapidated build
ing and completely renovate it and
make it good for another 50 to 100
years, said Howard Parker, director of
facilities planning and construction.
Parker said everything from ceil
ings to floors was removed from the
hall and new structures were built. The
walls, heating, ventilating and air con
ditioners were also replaced.
Asbestos was removed, class
. rooms and restrooms were remodeled,
and the basement was waterproofed to
prevent leaking problems that hap
pened in the past.
The university installed 19 modem
classrooms and a multimedia center.
Although the original Burnett Hall
never had an elevator, the renovated
one does, which makes the building
handicapped accessible.
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nearly all the equipment in the build
ing was bought especially for the hall,
Parker said.
The renovations cost $5.78 mil
lion, and were funded with money
appropriated to UNL by the
Legislature.With the building’s open
ing comes another renovation:
Landscaping will replace asphalt
north of Burnett.
Woody Haecker, project manager
for Burnett construction, said the
asphalt was laid as a place for con
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ing truck. The area behind Oldfather Hall and beside Burnett Hall will be
opened up for a green space.
struction workers’ materials during the
renovation. Now that the renovation is
complete, the asphalt is no longer
needed. It is being removed so the
building can be surrounded by green
ery, as it was before the construction.
When Burnett first closed for con
struction, botany greenhouses north of
the hall were removed as a separate
project.
No date has been set for the com
pletion of landscaping, but Kevin
Herr, manager of architectural ser
vices, has drawn a proposed layout.
The sidewalks will form an X-shape
and be surrounded by grass and plants.
Landscaping should begin after the
asphalt is removed.
UNO leader seeks UNL alliance
By Sarah Baker
Staff Reporter
Newly appointed University of
Nebraska at Omaha Chancellor
Nancy Belck has big plans for the
future of the relationship between
UNO and UNL.
“I believe it is critical for us to
recognize the strengths of both
campuses and use those strengths
to benefit all of the schools,” Belck
said. “Although UNL is the older,
historic campus, and UNO is the
new, urban campus, we must real
ize that these colleges have differ
ent missions, different scopes, and
attract different kinds of students,
and use those differences to work
together.”
Belck, who has been the chan
cellor at Southern Illinois
University in Edwardsville for
three years, said she has had expe
rience working with multiple-col
lege campuses in the past and
hopes for strong lines of communi
cation to continue to develop
between the Nebraska schools.
B.J. Reed, who led the chancel
lor search committee and who is
chairman of UNO’s public admin
istration department, said Belck’s
dynamic personality struck him
during her first interview.
“I think she has a good grasp on
the key issues that an urban univer
sity like UNO faces,” Reed said.
Reed also said Belck had a pos
itive stand on the future of relations
between UNO and the University
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cooperative colleges
are a great way to
bridge the gap
between schools
Nancy Belck
new UNO chancellor
“She comes from a perspective
where she is not worrying about so
called tensions between the univer
sities,” Reed said. “She is focused
on a role in system collaboration.
She is not here to create headaches;
she is here to solve problems.”
Belck said she realized that
there is always some competition
between schools like UNO and
UNL, but she hopes to get past that.
“There is always going to be
some tension in a situation like
this,” Belck said. “But I think with
cooperation, we can work to over
come that.”
Belck plans to spend her first
few months at the university visit
ing all of the different departments
on the UNO campus to hear what
faculty and students’ goals are for
the future of the university.
“I plan to take time to listen,”
she said. “I want to hear what other
people’s goals are.”
Some of the major issues that
are on Belck’s list of goals for UNO
include the planned 600-bed resi
dence hall, as well as the College of
Information Science and
Technology in conjunction with
UNL.
“I think these cooperative col
leges are a great way to bridge the
gap between schools,” Belck said.
NU President L. Dennis Smith
said Belck’s willingness to cooper
ate was one of the reasons that he
chose her for the chancellor posi
tion.
“Aside from her extensive expe
rience, people skills and knowl
edge of urban universities like
UNO, our views for the future of
the Nebraska schools coincided.”
Smith said she was truly the
best candidate for the job.
“The search committee gave me
three excellent candidates for the
position,” he said. “I got a lot of
responses from the surrounding
business community. Nancy came
out on top.”
Belck plans to make visits to
UNL, the University of Nebraska at
Kearney and the University of
Nebraska Medical Center.
“I want to see what has been
done on all the campuses in the
past, and then build on that,” Belck
said. “The longer I am here, the
more ways I can find to work
together.”
Belck officially begins her
chancellor duties Sept. 1. She is the
first woman to assume the position
in UNO’s 89-year history.
