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SHUTS ttl Power pacing ;Viva la raza! September 11,1997 The Office of Campus Recreation is offering a Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month this week new class this year that combines bicycling with end with mariachi and Latino cuisine at the DITTO aerobics for a vigorous workout. PAGE 9 Hispanic Heritage Festival. PAGE 12 Mostly sunny, high 80. Clear tonight, low 60. VOL. 97 COVERING THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA-LINCOLN SINCE 1901 NO. 13 Kiewit gives to NU project Technology building receives $15 million. By Erin Gibson Senior Reporter Omaha businessman Peter Kiewit Jr. pledged $15 million Wednesday to help build the new University of Nebraska Institute of Information Science, Technology and Engineering building in Omaha. Kiewit is chairman of the $415 million Kiewit Foundation - the largest private investment founda tion in Nebraska - which was creat ed from the assets of the late Omaha millionaire Peter Kiewit Sr. *NU filsident Dennis Smith said ' he wiU recommend the NU Board of Regents rename the new. building The Peter Kiewit Institute of Information Science, Technology and Engineering. The announcement came during the groundbreaking ceremony for the 192,000-square-foot building, which will be built at Ak-Sar-Ben near 68th and Pacific streets. When completed in August 1999, the building will house acade mic and research programs through the University of Nebraska Lincoln’s College of Engineering and Technology and the University of Nebraska at Omaha’s College of Information Science and Technology. University officials said the institute also will create partner ships between top Nebraska busi nesses and university academic and \ research endeavors. “This institute represents a part nership unique in every sense,” Smith said in a statement. “It must support business and industry. ... It must educate in a state-of-the-art mode, and it must be steeped in excellence from the day its doors open.” - 1:7? ■ • • owi ; t • Walter Scott Jr., president and chairman of Peter Kiewit Sons Inc., said in a statement the institute should become one of the top 10, information science, technology an<i engineering programs in the nation. Scott, also chairman of the insti tute’s Board of Policy Advisers, said the institute’s curriculums must meet the needs defined by business and industry leaders, and the insti tute should aggressively recruit the best students in its field. “The impact on our city and our state could be tremendous,” Scott Please see BUILDING on 7 occupancy —-,---_i_3U-\ By Sarah Baker Assignment Reporter Being in Love isn’t as popular as it used to be, and as a result, University Housing may be forced to close a residence hall on East^ Campus. Love Memorial Hall, a 56-year-old, co-op residence hall at the University of Nebraska Lincoln, may be shut down because of low occupancy numbers. Heather Swanson, a pre-nursing junior and Love Memorial Hall vice president, said the number of students interested in living in the Please see LOVE on 3 . : ' ' - ” . $ ■ . : -< Sandy Summers/DN ABOVE: KANDY PICARD, left, a sophomore wildlife aed fisheries major, and Heather Swanson, a junior nursing major, hang out with other residents In Lose Memorial Hail on Wednesday. TOP: KATTIE JOLLY, right, a freshman biology major, and % Anne McCormick, a freshman music education major, pro fliol* lnn«*li VilaaJnAOfl^u jRmiiinii weunesuay. ' * *i ^ ® ' Advising center unveiled ■ The three-room office in Andrews Hall provides undergraduate assistance for English majors. By Ted Taylor Assignment Reporter Two storage closets and a profes sor’s old office never had so much potential for assisting academic excellence. But Wednesday, English depart ment officials unveiled the culmina tion of a six-week summer project that turned three relatively unused rooms into the new English Undergraduate Advising Center. • On the first floor of Andrews Hall in Room 123, the new three room office will serve as a place where English majors - or anyone taking English courses - can come to relax, meet and receive academic assistance. English department Chairwoman Linda Pratt, who was one of about 10 people on hand for die ribbon-cutting ceremony Wednesday, said the center was needed for everyone who passes through Andrews Hall each year. “We wanted them to have the space and hospitality needed to pro vide a good atmosphere for advising and otter activities,” she said. Those activities include being the new meeting place for Sigma Tau Delta, the English national honorary and the University of Nebraska Lincoln’s Undergraduate English Society. Deanne Hyde, a senior English literature major and president of the Undergraduate English Society, said that she was excited to get things going in the new office. Please see CENTER on 6 Coca-Cola banned By Todd Anderson Staff Reporter ---^ During this year’s homecoming celebration, student organizations at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln will uselawn displays to advertise spirit, pride and enthusiasm - but not Coca-Cola. Jane Scarrow, event organizer, told student organizations at a meet ing Wednesday that because of Pepsi Cola Co.’s contract with UNL, any organization using the Coca-Cola name in its lawn display would be disqualified from the lawn-display competition. “This is something Pepsi has asked us to do as a sponsor,” Scarrow said. This year’s homecoming celebra tion, given the theme Pillars of Strength, will be void of any partici pation from Coca-Cola, in accor dance with stipulations made in the contract 'governing beverage sales on * campus. According to the contract the uni versity signed with Pepsi, the compa ny has full rights for Any event spon sored by the university. Homecoming events fall under that category, including the lawn-display contest. Some homecoming organizers for UNL’s greek houses said the anti Coke policy wouldn’t interfere with their plans. Tina Navratil, homecom ing chairwoman for Alpha Xi Delta Sorority, said she couldn’t remember anytime a beverage logo ever had been used on her house’s lawn dis play. “Essentially, I don’t think it would affect anything we would have planned,” she said. “I guess it’s just a nit-picky tiling.” Jeff Benda, social chairman for Please see BAN on 6 Read the Daily Nebraskan oh the World Wide Web at http:! / www.unl.edu /DailyNeb ■ - ■ ■ ' • • 'j • •/.'.* • . '* ' '