The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current, February 18, 1998, Page 3, Image 3

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    Campus
rec denied
fee request
By Jessica Fargen
Assignment Reporter
The Campus Recreation Center
asked the Committee for Fees
Allocation for a nearly $ 1.32 increase
each semester for student fees, but
Tuesday CFA recommended about a 13
cent - or .35 percent - increase.
CFA members said they were look
ing out for students’ pocketbooks amid
the large increase in student fees, stem
ming mainly from the Nebraska
Unions’ budget request
Matt Eickman, CFA member, said
it was ‘“wise for students’ interest to
wait another year.”
The increase in funds is mainly for
administrative costs and utilities, which
are necessary to keep the facility run
rung, Eickman said.
Stan Campbell, director of campus
rec said, “Utilities, administrative over
head, maintenance - those are things
that have to be done. We will have to cut
something in order to fund those.”
Members also said those increases
reflected inflation costs, which were out
of campus rec’s control.
Campbell said campus rec was ask
ing for more money from its operating
budget to keep the climbing wall open
extra hours and sustain the hours of pro
grams such as injury prevention.
But CFA members questioned the
need to increase climbing wall hours.
“If (students) really desire to use it
they find the time to use it,” Bill
Schellpeper, CFA member, said.
Campbell said because campus rec
may not get the additional one-dollar
for its facility fund each semester, pro
jects such as repair of tennis courts,
construction of more outside basketball
and sand volleyball courts, and pur
Please see CFA on 6
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rWe would like to
welcome the
following individuals
to our firm:
Trudy Ide
Maureen McCrudden
Leah Musselman
John Olenberger
Jeff Roth
Sarah Wurtele
Conoratulations!
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Robbers met with bigger gun
Two would-be robbers were out-‘
gunned by a service-station clerk
early Tuesday morning.
Two Lincoln 17-year-olds entered
the Amoco station at Northwest 12th
and West Adams streets at 2 a.m.,
brandishing a small revolver, Lincoln
Police Sgt. Todd Beam said.Then the
clerk pulled out his own weapon and
chased the two boys off firing a shot
in the air outside the store.
After the boys fled, police caught
up to them near the scene. They were
arrested and held for attempted rob
bery.
Description aids request
A clerk’s calm disposition and
good eye helped catch the man who
robbed the Tanning Zone on North
66th Street just before 10 p.m.
Monday.
The robber waited in front of the
store until the last customer left. Then
he went inside, threatened the clerk
and left with the money, Beam said.
Using the clerk’s description of
the suspect and his vehicle, police
tracked the robber to the Days Inn on
Northwest 12th Street by 1:30 a.m.
Tuesday.
Matthew G. Birchett, 21, of
Dewitt, was arrested for robbery.
Woman loses $18,000 ring < *
An Omaha woman took off i g
$20,000 in diamond rings to wash her g
hands at Jabrisco restaurant Feb. 5 < £
and she hasn’t seen them since. £
She accidentally left the rings, £
valued at $ 18,000 and $2,000, Beam £
said. *
Both rings feature a central dia- *
mond accented by smaller stones, i *
The $18,000 ring featured rose-cut J
diamonds, and it is believed to be her < -
wedding ring. 1*
The woman, 47, was in Lincoln |
for a career fair.
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$10,000 worth of goods stolen *
Burglars stole $10,000 in cash S *
and property from a home on the I*
5300 block of West Zeamer 1*
Boulevard Monday. *
The thieves gained entry by *
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breaking a glass door panel and : k
unlocking the door, Beam said.
They took two televisions, two
VCRs, jewelry and $2,000 cash.
Compiled by Senior Reporter
Josh Funk.
4 Diversity in History I
? ^ Editor’s note: Each day during Black History Month, the Daily Nebraskan
P will tell the story of a minority who made an important contribution in
P America’s history.
PBecause, when the Boston University law school
graduate first ran for office in 1966, a political expert
told her: “You’ve got too much going against you.
You’re black. You’re a woman. And you’re large. People
really don’t like that image;
Because the Houston native won that race to become
the first black woman in the Texas state Senate;
P"± Because she excelled and was reelected as state
p*± senator in 1968 and was elected the first black Texas
delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1972;
a***? Because sh« served as a member of the House -
Judiciary Committee and the House Committee on
Q # Government Operations and gained national
P9^ recognition with a televised speech during House
p*^ impeachment hearings on President Richard Nixon;
- ^ Because she refused to seek re-election in 1977
so she could return to academia and teach for 16
■s* J* years at the University of Texas at Austin’s Lyndon
B. Johnson School of Public Affairs;
•£<3 Because, after accepting an honoray degree
• from Harvard University, she told the crowd of
her vision for an America “as good as its '
promise;"
Because, in 1994, President Bill Clinton
awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom,
pjf the highest award given to a U.S. civilian;
■^3 Barbara Charllne Jordan is known as an
extraordinary national leader whose bold voice and
outstanding moral conscience influenced three
decades of national policy before her death in 1996.
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