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Diane Nelson to hurl
hot dogs at halftime.
By Josh Funk
Assignment Reporter
Nebraska’s first lady will schling
wieners and T-shirts for a good cause
| at Saturday’s Husker football game.
% Diane Nelson will help observe
^America Recycles Day by manning
Fairbury Food Products* der wiener
schlinger at halftime. The hot dog
I shaped cannon uses air pressure to
5 launch projectiles into the stands.
All 76,000 fans will have the
chance to celebrate America
Recycles Day by helping the ushers
recycle all the plastic stadium pups.
After each home football game,
ushers and cleanup crews collect'
about 5,000 Cups, University Of
Nebraska-Lincoln Recycling director'
Dale Ekart said. After the Clips are
T collected, they are processed into a
new product.
The theme of this year’s recycling
J day is Keep Recycling Working: Buy
Recycled.
“We want to make people more
aware of recycling,” Ekart said.
UNL buys products with recycled j
content to support responsible envi
ronmental policies, Ekart said.
The city also buys recycled prod
ucts whenever it is economically fea
sible and there is no loss of quality,
Gene Hanlan, the city’s recycling
manager, said. -
Thousands of products with recy
cled content are available on the mar
ket today, he said.
Lincoln also has other events
planned to raise awareness of recy
cling and recycled products.
Today the Lincoln Chamber of
Commerce is sponsoring a recycled
products show from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m.
at the Cooperative Extension or
•Service.1. . : > m sni bsl
' On Saturday, those interested-in •"*
more information can attend an open
house at Midland Recycling from 9
a.m. to 11 a.m.
There also will be displays set up
at Gateway Mall throughout the day.
Last year, Lincoln collected
10,336,000 pounds of recyclable
material during its fiscal year, Hanlan
said.
Students getting rise
out of elevator work i
By Darren Ivy
Staff Reporter
Some University of Nebraska
Lincoln students have encountered
, inconveniences while trying to get to
their residence hall rooms this semes
" tohstnjction,ojf ne\y, elevators.in
Ahel, Sandoz and Spaith residence
halls are keeping residents grounded.
“I usually have to wait forever, so
I end up taking the stairs,” said Jamie
Jessen, a junior middle school educa
tion major and student assistant on
the sixth floor of Sandoz.
;■ The $1.8 million project, paid for
1 with bonds sold by UNL, will replace
old equipment in the top part of the
elevator shafts with new computer
ized devices. When the project is
completed, 16 elevators will be
redone and one elevator will have a
video camera in it.
Travis Buel, a sophomore
mechanical engineering major and
student assistant on the fifth floor of
Abel, said he will be glad when work
ers finish construction on the 32
' year-old elevators.
“I feel safe in the elevators, but
sometimes I wonder if I am going to
1 get stuck,” Buel said.
He has been stuck in the Abel ele
vators four times, ho said, but his
most memorable instance happened
this year when a group of student
! ; assistants were stuck on the Abel
south elevator for 20 minutes.
“Everyone in Abel could have had
a party since we were all stuck in the
elevators,” Buel said.
While work is being done in Abel
north, Sandoz and Smith, students
are limited to one elevator in each
’ haU.
The other elevators in these halls
i will be finished second semester. The
elevators in Abel south will be started
, next fall and finished by May 1999,
said Glen Schumann, associate direc
tor of housing for maintenance.
Some students living in Harper
and Schramm residence halls said
they are happy with new elevators
installed there last summer.
, Brian Kunkel, a junior economics
and finance major and student assis
tant on Harper’s sixth floor, said he
s has already noticed better reliability
and quicker service.
Kunkei said the*student assistants
1 in Harper haven’t had any problems
with people getting stuck in elevators
except during power outages last
month.
Andy Schwindt, a sophomore
history major who lives in Harper,
said he has noticed the elevators are
more reliable, but didn’t think they
were any faster.
Construction on Cather and ,
Pound residence hall elevators vyi!!
begin this summer. These halls yydjl v
take moVe tithe because door open
ings have to be cut in the concrete ele
vator shafts so elevators can stop on
every floor, Schumann said.
Because of the unreliability, slow
speed and old age of the elevators,
UNL began researching and planning
for new elevators three years ago,
Schumann said. He said the elevators
were old, but were still safe.
When completed, the new eleva
tors will be faster, more reliable and
more modern, Schumann said. He
said the elevators will travel faster
between floors so students may not
even notice a difference.
11 Will lUtVUlg UUCC C1CV4
tors rather than two,” he said.
Another new feature on the eleva
tors will be a load-leveling mecha
nism.
Schumann said the .old elevators
tended to get overloaded with weight
and would shut down. But with load
leveling, the new elevators will beep
and not move if they contain too
much weight. , rv v '• • j • $
Another benefit to the modern
equipment is fewer-maintenance
problems, Schumann said.
But along with the modern eleva
tors comes the need to take care of
them. Schumann said UNL currently
spends $70,000 to $ 100,000 a year on
elevator maintenance. Vandalism of
the elevators accounts for a large sum
of the money, he said.
Elevator doors are common van
dalism targets, Schumann said.
He said it is important to prevent
this vandalism because the opening
and closing of doors causes the most
wear on elevators.
“An elevator is only as good as its
doors,” Schumann said.
To try to prevent vandalism to the
doors, residence hall officials will
experiment with a video camera in an
Abel elevator, Schumann said.
Beginning next semester, a cam
era will be installed in the new Abel
north elevator. Schumann said he
thinks a camera will reduce vandal
ism damages by $25,000 a year.
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