SPORTS
Clearance, Clarence
Shane Lavy and the NU men’s track and field
team had a disappointing weekend, finishing
fourth at the Big 12 Championships. PAGE 9
A & E
Ever-present
Everclear is back, in case anyone cares. More
importantly, it headlines a bill of better acts: Soul
Coughing, DJ Spooky and Redman. PAGE 12
MON »AY
February 22,1999
Follow Your Snows
Intermittent snow, high 32. Cloudy tonight, low 20.
. VOL. 98~ COVERING THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA-LINCOLN SINCE 1901 NO.106
- ^ Matt Miller/DN
BRIAN POWERS, a junior computer engineering major, sets the rack during a nine-ball pool tournament in the new pool hall in the
basement of the Nebraska Union last Thursday. The room is not finished yet, but temporary billiard lights were hung and a few of
the tables were set up for the pool tournament.
New rec room plays to student interest
By Sandi Alswager
Staff writer
It's the newest hangout for pinball wiz
ards, video game addicts and maybe even
shuffleboard sharks.
Because of the new and improved
Nebraska Union recreation room, which
opened this semester during the first week
of classes, students have more options for
fun.
Marv Buysman. recreation and build
ing night manager, said the new recreation
room would give students a good selection
of things to do.
“The new location will benefit the
recreation room by being off of the main
entrance, the bookstore and the market.
The traffic (going in and out) will help it,”
he said.
The recreation room has several video
games including the popular game
“Legends of Gauntlet.”
Rotation pool tables with eight- and
nine-ball options, a snooker table, which is
another type of billiard game, darts, table
soccer and air hockey will be available as
soon as staff is hired for that area.
Buysman also wants to add shuffle
board, a golf video game and crane games
- those that allow students to pull out
prizes such as candy and toys.
“Some games will not be here right
away,” Buysman said. “It will take a while
to get a feel of what the students want.”
Three televisions, all of which are
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Honors hall
will be linked
with tunnel
By Lindsay Young
Senior editor
The regents approved adding a tunnel to the plans of
the Esther L. Kauffman Residential Center on Saturday.
University officials told the NU Board of Regents
the addition would benefit the university, saving it
money and allowing the honors students living in the
hall to more easily
mingle with other stu
dents.
The tunnel would
provide access from
the Kauffman
Residential Center to
Selleck Quadrangle
for dining services.
In the original
plan, food was going
to be brought to the
hall every day.
The tunnel would
also encourage the
students to interact
u
We have
everything
to gain
and nothing
to lose ”
Charles Wilson
Lincoln regent
with belleck residents, University ot Nebraska-Lincom
Housing Director Doug Zatechka said.
Students living in the honors hall would be isolated
from other students, which the tunnel would help pre
vent. Zatechka said having no tunnel could have caused
an elitist atmosphere.
Zatechka said the cost to maintain the tunnel would
be “virtually nothing.” He said the tunnel would save the
university money because UNL would not need to hire
additional maintenance and dining workers for the new
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Investigation
of teen murder
lacks suspects
By Josh Funk
Senior staff writer
Police had no new information Sunday about the
murder of a Lincoln teen-ager as they continued to look
for suspects.
Brandon Pickinpaugh, 17, was found in the parking
lot of a south Lincoln fast-food restaurant late
Thursday.
A McDonald’s customer found Pickinpaugh lying
on the ground outside his car and called police at 9:35
p.m.. Chief Tom Casady said.
When medical units arrived at Van Dorn Plaza. 48th
and Van Dorn streets, they detected a faint pulse on
Pickinpaugh. and he was taken to BryanLGH Medical
Center East, where he died. Lancaster County Attorney
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s i t operators
Lori Simpson/DN
CARRIE KNIEVEL, a switchboard operator and senior speech pathology
major, answers a caller’s question in her second-floor office of
Nebraska Hall last Thursday. Knievel has worked at the switchboard
for 21/2 years, while her brother Jeff has worked there for 11/2 years.
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NU switchboard workers
field potpourri of questions
By Jessica Fargen
Senior staff writer
Any time a substantial amount of snow falls, phone opera
tors are deluged with calls from anxious students with the
question: Do we have school today?
But UNL and Lincoln phone operators do a lot more than
tha from their office on the second floor of Nebraska Hall,
v' Twenty-six phone operators - 13 of whom are students -
run the switchboard for people who call from the university,
state, city and county offices. Calls from ofi ,umpus for infor
mation are routed to a switchboard in Mansfield, Ohio.
Besides retrieving phone numbers, these operators can tell
you where to take your newspapers to be recycled or the
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