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Editor’s note: Today is the second in a two-part look at how UNL’s new 12 year plan will reshape City and East campuses. By Jessica Fargen Staff writer Add several large, stately columns and a new natural sciences complex. Divide East Campus by along, grassy mall to stroll along. Subtract the tractor testing track, and Biochemistry Hall and take away a few parking lots. What you get is East Campus under UNDs Preliminary Master Plan, which will give face lifts to City and East cam puses over the next 12 years and beyond. Russell Butler, vice president of EDAW, a Denver architecture firm, said parking, academic buildings and recre ation fields will not disappear, they just will be rearranged amid new buildings. Similar to City Campus, East formic alert will ham a mall avton/linn from its union. The mall will provide more direct access to the union. Buildings now in the path of the East Union Mall, such as die Natural Resource Hall and Water Resource Lab, will be relocated. A parking structure will be built east of Chase Hall to compensate for lost paridng lots. An academic building will be built south of the new parking struc ture. The academic building will com pensate for some of the buildings destroyed in the East Union Mall con struction. The Maxwell Arboretum will extend north, stopping at the Animal Science Building. Butler said several small buildingsand greenhouses will be relocated to the area north ofthe Animal Science Building. ; ?. East of fee union mall and west of fee Animal Science Building, where fee livestock judging pavilion, Forestry Service building and a parking lot are now, a Natural Resource Sciences Center will be built. Edna McBreen, associate vice chancellor for the Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources, said fee addition of the Natural Science Resource Center tkftdd be a huge asset to East Campus. The resource center will be conve nient because natural resource buildings would be grouped together. Another asset to the campus will be a recreation center twice fee size of fee existing one. The new center will be built where Biochemistry Hall now sits. Butler said most of fee functions of fee hall have been transferred to the Beadle Center. The Activities Building may be turned into a residence hall if it is need ed, Butler said. r our ugniea recreanon neias win De built directly east of the extended arboretum. A parking lot will replace die existing fields. Between the Clifford Hardin Center for Continuing Education and the Nebraska Educational Telecommunications Center, a National Center for Information Technologies and Education will be built Butler said the tractor testing track will be replaced by a parking lot and possibly a new building. The new campus will be surround ed on all sides, but die west side will have a 50 feet width of wooded walking trail. The foliage will serve as a buffer from the surrounding traffic. Isolating the campus from traffic is a goal of East and City campus plans, Butler said. Motorists will be able to enter the campus from 48th Street on Francis We are trying to pull both these campuses together so we are one university” Edna McBreen IANR associate vice chancellor Street. The north entrance will be on 37th Street instead of the current 39th Street entrance. The Dental College entrance will be removed. Visitors will use the formal entrance either from 34* Street or between 37* and 38* streets. The addition of columns will pro vide “a more collegiate looking charac ter” artH tie Pact f atomic to ritv Campus, which already has columns, Butler said Both campuses will have similar low stone walls designating their boundaries. A stronger connection between the two campuses is something the University of Nebraska-Lincoln needs, McBreensaid McBreen said her biggest concern about the plan was whether it would solve the parking problems that occur when people travel between the two campuses. “If faculty on the East Campus need to go down to City Campus for a meeting, they have to have a way to get there real fast and have to have a parking spot,” McBreen said “We are trying to pull both these campuses together so we are one imiver sity” Survey: School4o-Work program tops with parents By Todd Anderson Senior staff writer Nebraska parents are happy with the federally funded School-to-Work program, Gov. Ben Nelson announced during his weekly teleconference Tuesday morning. According to a survey com missioned by the Nebraska Department of Economic Development, 86 percent of Nebraska parents think the School-to-Work and School-to Career programs are beneficial for Nebraska’s students. Nelson said the results of the survey showed the success of the program, which is funded by fed eral grants and private dona Six hundred parents, From Nebraska’s 93 counties, were asked a series of questions dur ing phone surveys conducted by Arizona State University in July. More than half the parents said they were familiar with the program initiative, which seeks to bring together business lead ers, educators and students through internships and present tations. It also provides guid ance in training for skills and career opportunities. Ninety-two percent of those polled said schools should be more geared to teaching students job skills like teamwork and organization, and nearly 10 per cent said they would move their children to a school that partici pates in the initiative. Congress created the School to-Work program in 1994 and granted Nebraska five years of funding, which will be cut off by 2000. At that time, Nelson said* state and additional private fund ing will be used to operate the program. The program has been in place for three years and has been paid for by more than $17 million in federal funds and $24 million in private funds. More than 8,500 businesses and 1,315 public and private schools take part in Nebraska’s program. Nelson said the program was important not only for teaching students the career skills they need to succeed, but also for keeping workers in Nebraska. He said he will announce in the next few weeks the launch of a private venture of his own to boost support for career skills and job retention in Nebraska. The governor would not describe the new program, which he plans to develop with the help of state and private funding. Complete results of the sur vey can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.stc.ded. state, ne. us/s urvey.html. The following is a list of goals ASUN has set, and the progress It has made. 1. Continue commitment to dtarsity through sponsored events and increased communication with the campus community. - Senators are contacting speakers for Homecoming Week, OcL 12-17. President Sara Russd sad ,;i ASUN is considering an American Inden speaker to hep raise awareness of the University of Nebraska Linoolnls handng of American Indten remains. 2. Maintain regular campus wide community service projects. - ASUNls first service project wi be Sept 27 at 8 am at Memorial Stadum. 3. Enhance technological services to students. - ASUN apportnents board is lootag tor students wto Web design experience to work on the senates World Wide Web page. Those interested can pick itp an appicafion in toe ASUN office, 115 Nebraska Union. Al appointment appicabons are due Friday at 4 pm 4. Research options to make student evaluations more effective. - Kara Slaughter, chairwoman of toe Academic Committee, and Russel are dfecussing suggestions brought by students, faculty members and staff. ASUTft goal is to begin a irivwsty wide course and advising evaluafion. 5. Address campus parking concerns. - ASUN senators are oonhnung to research and dscuss campus parking concerns. 6. Continue efforts to unite City and East campuses. - The Special Topics CommMee is researching possHfies to have al student organizations have at least one monthly meeing on East Campus. Russel said Campus Coalfon meefings, student meefings wifii (yie delegate from each student otgtrizaion,wia*Btnate this year between Ctyand East campuses. 7. Create a larger representation of students through outreach initiatives. - Last week, ASLM senators voted to send Russeffsrequest to create a new student assembly to the Special Topicvs Commltee. Russel said the committee mibok over toe bylaw and bring to the senate floor any concerns or changes. The new assembly would be a check and balance measure to student government and woiid ensure agood cross-section of residence hal, commuter and greek students. 8. Raise awareness of the proposed spendng lid amendment to the Nebraska Constitution and the bitmedate effects Imposed on ONI. and Ns students. -The NU Board of Regents passed a resduion on Friday!) oppose toe spendng id amendnenttoat would reduce state eductefonal aid. Russel said ASUN w! work wito members of SAtudents Against toe Ud,anew^fomied student organizsionconcertralrigteetforts on lobbying against toe oonsfitolional amendment proposed for the November state etodion bakt 9. Lobby for student input and concern regardteg the ASUN government party system. ,? -Town hal meefings ar»|iktgorganized to discuss toe process of student government etecfiqns. 10. Work to promote aloohoi awflrcnoos and education cupus wide. -AmemorialscholarahEpiomoIngafoohoi education and awareness is baitg created to remember UNLstodentlJuaCodffloaCockson, who was a junior pm<xxxjpatfonai therapy major and member of Gtenro PN Beta Soto% was Ued in a car accident by a drunken (frwer. ASUN donated $300toward Ifin nnlnmtim I rescnoarsrtpt MaitHaney/DN >; m - -.-—.. .. ' ' From Staff Reports \ ; International students interested in filling elected positions in the International Students Organization must submit their paperwork by the end of next week. Nomination forms are available for the offices of president, execu tive vice president, vice president for programs and activities, vice president for affirmative action and women’s affairs, treasurer and gen eral secretary. The forms can be picked up at International Affairs, 1237 R St., and must be turned in there by 5 pjn. on Sept J8. Applicants must be full-time students and must have completed 12 undergraduate hours or nine graduate hours in order to be eligi ble. Officers serve on the board for one year and work as liaisons between the international student organization and the university. The . committee also coordinates events within the organization, said Amruta Kshatriya, president of ISO. “This organization has been active over the last 10 years,” Kshatriya said. “The major role has been to bridge, gaps between cul tures by coordinating activities through international affairs.” Campaigning is allowed until 12 p.m. on Sept. 24. Elections will be on Sept. 25 in die Nebraska Union.