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Red will win
The Huskers will face a Red Raider team looking
for an upset Saturday at 12:30 p.m. at Memorial
Stadium. PAGE 11
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A-jigglin’ baby
Wednesday nights at the Royal Grove are the
stuff of sailor boy and girl dreams as strippers
exhibit exactly what they’re made of. PAGE 15
October 17*; 1997
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Nil may add Norfolk to program
By Erin Gibson
Senior Reporter
i The University of Nebraska
i Lincoln will expand its distance educa
tion program to Norfolk cm Dec. 1 iftbe
NU Board of Regents approves a lease
agreement today.
Beginning Nov. 15, the university
would pay annual rental, operations and
. management fees for 20 years to lease
? 6,050 square feet of space m Norfolk’s
new Lifelong Learning Center on the
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X The first-year rental fee would be
* about $57,000 and would increase by 2
f percent each year thereafter. The opera
tions and maintenance fee would start at
about $21,000.
Regents will vote on the measure at
8:30 a.m. in Varner Hall.
Irv Omtvedt, UNL vice chancellor
for attended education, said the center
would save as "an excellent outreach
point for the university in northeast
Nebraska.”
“It opens up a better opportunity for
us to serve the people of the state,”
Omtvedt said. “We can be much more
effective.”
Norfolk is more accessible to most
people living in northeast Nebraska
than the university's Institute of
Agriculture and Natural Resources’
Northeast Research and Extension
~ Center headquarters in Concord, which
would move Dec. 1 to the new centa,
Omtvedt said.
The university also keeps success
ful extension centers in Grand Island's
College Park, Scottsbluff and North
Platte.
The new, convenient location
should further increase enrollment in
NU credit and noncredit courses,
Omtvedtsaid- ;
The center also will provide NU
with bigger classrooms and better tech
nology to facilitate teaching extended
education courses, he said.
Bob Fritschen, director of the uni
versity’s northeast center, said the
“beautiful’’new center includes 12
classrooms ftat were built in part with a
$1 million donation from Norfolk
native andcelebrity Johnny Carson.
Two of the classrooms include two
way video and satellite hookups for
teaching distance education courses,
Fritschen said.
The center also includes new office
space that will accommodate the NU
Northeast Research and Extension
Colter headquarters, which is part of
the NU Institute of Agriculture and
Natural Resources.
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Fritschen said the center's 11 facul
ty members were excited about the 42
mile move from Concord to the Norfolk
offices because they will "be able to
seme more people."
NU will share space in the center
with extended education offices of
Wayne State College, Northeast
Community College and the Madison
County Extension Office, which will
move from Battle Creek.
The regents’ agenda also includes:
■ A proposal to ask Gov. Ben
Nelson for $197,000 to maintain 55
acres of land in Omaha's Ak-Sar-Ben,
which were given to the University of
Nebraska at Omaha by First Data
Resources.
NU President Dennis Smith
promised a legislative committee in
April he would seek no more state fund
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pep rally
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By Kimberly Swartz
StaffReporter
Bright lights surrounded the stage
where about five men wore simulated
beer bellies under their red sweat
shirts.
With Chicago accents thicker than
their mustaches, they talked and joked
of the inevitable “Husk-erse” victory
against Texas Tech while drinking
simulated beers.
ihen, with more movement from
their bellies than their tegs, the troupe
started dancing.
Though reminiscent of a popular
“Saturday Night Live” skit, members
of Phi Gamma Delta Fraternity took
first place in the Husker Howl compe
tition at the homecoming pep rally.
“I didn’t expect so many people to
show up, but we made a lot of people
laugh,” freshman Mark Moody, one
of the winners, said.
Sophomore Brian Feller, who
breakdanced on the concrete, said,
“The dance pulled it together, but the
ground was harder than I thought.”
% After their win, Tom Scott, who
played Chris Farley in the skit, said he
really wanted the victory.
“We came in fourth last year, and I
wanted to come back this year and
win,” Scott said. “I wanted it bad.”
Husker Howl finalists, dressed as
characters from “Saturday Night
Live,” “The Brady Bunch” and New
Kids on the Block, produced cheers
and laughter at Thursday night’s
homecoming pep rally.
The countiy band Full Choke per
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WHILE AT THE H0MEC0RMH6 PEP RALLY on East Campus, Lisa Wlating, left, Andrea Darling and Marcy
Petefmann, members of Kappa Alpha Theta Sorority, clap and cheer as members of the Comhusker Marching
Band play the fight song, “There Is Ho Place Like Hebraska.”
formed before the Husker Howl
finals, as contestants wanned up their
acts in the chilly weather. Hiis was the
first year the pep rally was outside.
Husker Howl pits student groups,
residence halls and greek houses
against one another to perform the
best cheer or skit. The winners are
awarded homecoming participation
points.
Dana Canfield, an NU cheer
leader, sang “When You Say Nothing
At All,” solo with Full Choke.
“I love to sin!” Canfield said.
“But I was nervous, but 1 needed the,
practice.”
The Scarlet Sensation and the
UNL Yell Squad danced and flipped
in the air as students, coaches and ath
letes clapped their hands yelling,
“Lets go Buskers.”
* Head football coach Tom
Osborne addressed the crowd and
thanked them for their support and
enthusiasm. He said he appreciated
students support in the stadium and
especially at the pep rally.
“Some people look at players as
objects, but we have to remember that
they are just like you,” Osborne said.
“They have the same problems, feel
ings and emotions you face, and they,
understand when you are behind them
and when you’re not”
The Busker Howl finals began
with a performance from Beta Theta
Pi Fraternity. Members sang “Crazy
for NIT’ and said, “Nebraska is super
keen.” Freshman Aaron DuPree
dressed in a yellow plaid shirt with his
blue jeans rolled to his knees, and red
and-blue bowling shoes.
“It was a ton of fun dressing up
like total dorks,” DuPree said.
The finalists from the seventh
floor of Smith Residence Hall per
formed a skit in paisley and bellbot
toms. Six students dressed and
danced as die Brady Bunch.
The group had a little more prac
tice than the other finalists. Monday
night they performed and sang to a
Parking Services employee to get out
of two parking tickets, said senior
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Purchases
may open
new offices
By Erin Gibson
Senior Reporter
At a cost of $2.16 million, UNL
wants to purchase the Reunion
Building and renovate the former Tau
Kappa Epsilon Fraternity house at 420
University Terrace.
The Reunion Building, now
owned by the University Foundation,
could provide museum and office
space for the university, officials said.
The former fraternity house would
house the Academic Senate Office,
Ethnic Studies, the Office of
International Affairs, International
Studies and Summer Sessions.
The NU Board of Regents will
vote on whether to approve the two
^j§b&ftftB.£:30 a.m. meeting today
in Varner Hall.
Paul Carlson, University of
Nebraska-Lincoln associate vice
chancellor for business and finance,
said the groups that would move to the
old TKE house must vacate their cur
rent offices, which will be demolished
to make room for a new Mary Riepma
Ross Film Theater and Visitors Center.
About $890,000 in renovations to
the house’s 15,240 square feet of space
are necessary to meet building codes
and provide a functional layout for its
new occupants, he said.
Last October, regents approved
acquiring the land and the house at a
cost of $300,000 after the TKE frater
nity placed the house up for sale
because of financial woes.
He said some of the house’s pro
posed new occupants are “some peo
ple who really need space and are
going to need it pretty quickly.”
Carlson said no date has been set to
begin theater construction, but project
discussions continue.
But Karen Griffin, Academic
Senate coordinator, said she and many
senate members are wary of the move.
- “I would rather stay where we are
right now,” she said. “The TKE house
is a little bit on the edge ef campus.”
Griffin said she fears the inconve
nient location will keep faculty from
using the senate office frequently.
But the senate must move to the
new location to accommodate con
struction of the new film theater,
which former Chancellor Graham
Spanier planned.
“We have been told, at this point,
there’s really not any other space avail
able (for the senate) on campus,”
Griffin said.
Carlson said no university organi
zations are scheduled to move into die
Reunion Building, which die universi
ty hopes to purchase for$l .27 million.
The mostly empty building holds
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