Rec center sets sights
on student awareness
By Ann Mary Landis
Staff Reporter
Before she become an aero
bics instructor last year at the
Lee and Helene Sapp Campus
Recreation Center, Amy Lucht
didn’t know just how much the
center had to offer.
Now as president of the
Campus Recreation Advisory
Council, Lucht plans to makes
sure other students don’t miss out
on the rec center’s services.
The council’s main goal for
this year is to make students
more aware of everything the rec
center offers. Lucht said she
hoped the students visiting the
rec center will take better advan
tage of opportunities there.
She said she especially wants
to promote its newest additions:
the climbing wall and power pac
ing, an aerobics class that uses
stationary bikes.
Michael Kring, secretary of
the council, also wants to pro
mote the rec center, particularly
its strongest programs.
“I would like to see more pub
licity. Students really need to
know what’s available,” Kring
said.
The Office of Campus
Recreation has one of the biggest
intramural programs in the coun
try, he said. It also offers aerobic
classes, club sports and activi
ties.
A University of Nebraska
Lincoln survey taken in the
spring of 1996 hinted at the pop
ularity of the rec center. Almost
80 percent of students polled said
they had used the rec center in
the past year. The Omnibus
Survey was conducted by the
UNL Bureau of Sociological
Research.
Although the rec center
attracts many students, Kring
said he wanted students to use a
greater variety of its services.
Even people who use it don’t
realize everything the center
offers, he said.
Although Lucht is the only
returning member of the adviso
ry council, she said she was opti
u
I would like to see
more publicity.
Students really need
to know what s
available”
Michael Kring
rec center council secretary
mistic about the group.
“I’m really excited about this
year,” she said. “We can have a
very positive impact on the rec
center.”
Stan Campbell, campus recre
ation director, said the council
members could make substantial
changes, particularly because
they have clout with him. Last
year, they were influential in get
ting the center to install a climb
ing wall and offer power pacing.
“I can’t think of a time when
we’ve gone against a recommen
dation from the council,”
Campbell said.
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ment department at UNL, said Max
Kirk, associate professor of con
struction management.
The Engineering News Record,
an engineering magazine, named
the department one of the top five
construction management programs
in the nation five years ago, Kirk
said, and the department has grown
since that announcement.
Seaburg said Omaha’s construc
tion engineering technology depart
ment, with 162 students enrolled
this fall, is the largest in Omaha’s
engineering college.
Both construction programs
require students to complete fewer
math and engineering courses than
they would take through the new
construction engineering program,
he said. Many construction compa
nies have expressed a need for stu
dents with better engineering skills,
Seaburg said.
But Kirk said part of the con
struction management program’s
popularity at UNL is its emphasis on
management instead of engineering.
Construction management stu
dents take architecture, engineering,
business and construction courses
in order to effectively communicate
with all entities involved in con
struction projects, he said.
Well-rounded construction man
agers can “bring it all together,” he
said, and engineers cannot fill that
role.
As a result, Nebraska graduates
in construction management are in
high demand, Kirk said.
Kirk said he couldn’t comment
on the new proposal for a construc
tion engineering department
because he is a member on the UNL
Curriculum Committee, which
reviews all proposed changes in uni
versity curriculum. But he said the
committee voted down one proposal
for construction engineering last
year and asked its proponents to
review the idea before resubmitting
a proposal.
Seaburg said administrators now
studying the proposal for construc
tion engineering continue to exam
ine the strengths and weaknesses of
both existing construction programs
and will tailor the new engineering
program to fill any education gaps.
The UNL civil engineering
department, which offers civil engi
neering degrees through Lincoln
and Omaha campuses, will also
contribute to the new program.
Ray Moore, civil engineering
department head, said the new con
struction engineering proposal fits
into a “major theme that seems to be
emerging” in Omaha - the theme of
focusing on construction and infra
structure - for both construction and
civil engineering academic pro
grams.
Seaburg said the Omaha loca
tion allows the disciplines a wealth
of opportunities to collaborate with
businesses.
“Omaha is really the home of
major construction companies and
design firms,” he said, “It’s the envi
ronment in which an extremely
strong construction program can be
developed.”
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