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
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' 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.
