SPORTS
The Swiney patrol
Erwin Swiney battled through pain to play a big
game against Washington. He looks for more of
the same against Oklahoma State. PAGE 9
A & E
Punk plaza
Four young entrepreneurs have joined forces
(and cash) to build a fully operational punk
epicenter in downtown Lincoln. PAGE 7
TUES >AY
September 29, 1998
Hazy Shades of Fall
Partly cloudy, high 87. Cloudy tonight, low 63.
City OKs
$10,000
to defend
lawsuit
By Adam Klinker
Staff writer
The Lincoln City Council voted unanimously
Monday to use SI0,000 to defend against a law
suit filed by anti-abortion rights protesters.
The money will be moved from the city's gen
eral fund into a legal fund, establishing a contract
with Rembolt, Ludtke and Berger, a Lincoln law
firm hired to defend the city in the case.
The suit was filed Sept. 23 in U.S. District
Court by the anti-abortion rights group Rescue
the Heartland. It says an ordinance passed Sept.
14 that outlaws picketmg on religious premises is
unconstitutional.
Mayor Mike Johanns vetoed the ordinance,
but the City Council overturned it in a 5-2 vote on
Sept. 21.
Wednesday, a nearing will be held at 2 p.m. in
U.S. District Court for an injunction against the
city, filed by Rescue the Heartland members
along with their lawsuit against the city.
Lincoln City Attorney Bill Austin said if the
judge granted the injunction, the city would be
prevented from enforcing the ordinance against
picketmg.
Attorney Dan Klaus of Rembolt, Ludtke and
Berger will represent the city.
In turn, the firm has enlisted the help of the
Washington, D.C.-based law firm Wilmer, Cutler
and Pickering.
If the latter firm is allowed and it accepts the
case, it would do pro bono work for the city,
including research and writing briefs, Austin
said.
Austin said the firm employs more than 275
lawyers in nine different areas of legal work and
is known internationally for its pro bono work.
Please see LAWSUIT on 6
REINER BOSMAN AND SANDER NOOIJ, both theoretical physics majors from Amsterdam, Netherlands, will bike from Valentine^ Norfolkas
part of their international exchange project, which looks at the culture of bicycles. Bosman and Nooij plan to leave Lincoln this week.
Dutch duo spokes-men for trip
By Josh Funk
Senior staff writer
In the spirit of exploration and understand
ing, two Dutchmen came to Nebraska to “see
the emptiness” - by bicycle.
The two UNL students plan to ride their
bicycles about 187 miles through the sparsely
populated area between Valentine and Norfolk
this week as part of an international exchange
project to study the scientific and cultural
aspects of the bicycle.
On their ride, Sander Nooij and Reinier
Bosman hope to meet some interesting people
and see the wide-open spaces of Nebraska's
Sandhills.
“We are looking for Forrest Gump on
wheels,” Bosman said when describing his
ideal interview on the road.
Robert Fuller, one of three American pro
ject directors and a UNL physics professor,
said the project uses the bicycle to study scien
tific and cultural concepts.
Project participants will use their research
to create a CD-ROM program that will be a
Please see BICYCLE on 6
They have no idea
that they can pedal
for hours without
seeing anybody
Robert Fuller
physics professor
Campus plan prompts parking changes
By Lindsay Young
Senior staff writer
On the heels of the announcement
in early September of the 12-year
Preliminary Master Plan for UNL
comes the advent of another master
plan: the future of parking.
The parking plan, which will coin
cide with the 12-year plan, will
involve three new parking garages on
the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
City Campus and two on East
Campus.
The parking plan will incorporate
the cost of the structures, the use of
shuttles from the structures and the
structures themselves.
Tad McDowell, manager of
Parking and Transit Services, and
James Main, assistant vice chancellor
for business and finance, announced
Monday at the Parking Advisory
Committee meeting that the plan may
be presented at the committee’s
October meeting.
Similar plans are being drafted for
the other NU campuses.
The need for parking structures on
the perimeters of both UNL campuses
is a result of the possible elimination
of about 4,000 parking spots because
of construction.
UNL's Preliminary Master Plan
will create a more pedestrian-friendly
and aesthetic campus by decreasing
the number of streets running through
campus, McDowell said.
Parking lots are the main areas at
UNL that can be developed in that
plan, McDowell said.
Some of the construction projects
proposed under UNL's master plan
include a new visitors center, a new
honors residence hall and an addition
to the athletic department, all of which
will knock out much-needed spaces,
Main said.
Main estimated the cost of the
parking structures to be about S50 mil
lion. He said consultants are looking at
the best way to pay for the bonds that
will cover the cost of the structures.
“You are going to see a vast change
in the cost of parking on campus,”
Main said.
But, he assured the committee, the
increase in the cost of permits will not
happen overnight.
Plans already are in the works for
a structure on City Campus at 14th
Street and Avery Avenue that will cost
about $13 million. McDowell hopes to
have those plans on the NU Board of
Regents' December agenda for
approval.
In other business, McDowell said
Parking Services is working on
upgrading its electronic ticket writers
to better identify vehicles that are reg
istered with the university and that
hold permits.
That may cut the hassle of the
process permit holders must go
through to reduce a $25 ticket for not
displaying a hang tag to a $5 ticket
after proving the car is registered.
Alfred Arth, a professor in the
Teachers College and Academic
Senate representative, said he was
proposing the formation of a senate ad
hoc committee to write more user
friendly regulations regarding the
absence of a parking hang tag.
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