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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
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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
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occupancy
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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
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fisheries major, and Heather Swanson, a junior nursing
major, hang out with other residents In Lose Memorial Hail
on Wednesday.
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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.
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Coca-Cola banned
By Todd Anderson
Staff Reporter
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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
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