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By Veronica Daehn
Staff writer
ASUN President Andy Schuerman
said the fate of UNO Student President
Jon Shradar should be up to the stu
dents.
Shradar, who also serves as the stu
dent regent at the University of
Nebraska at Omaha, was ticketed
Saturday night on suspicion of disorder
ly conduct at the first home Maverick
football game.
Schuerman said while he does not
know all the details, Shradar should be
held responsible for his actions.
Shradar, 21, told the Daily
Nebraskan on Thursday that he could
not comment at the request of his attor
ney.
According to an Omaha police
report, Shradar had “glazed and blood
shot eyes” Saturday night and smelled
like alcohol. The report said Shradar
told officers he had been drinking.
The incident happened around 8:40
p.m., the report said, as Shradar walked
to the visitor section and began “dis
playing fighting gestures and attempt
ing to incite the crowd... to violence.”
According to the Omaha World
Herald, Shradar said he was bare chest
ed and wearing only a kilt, the standard
attire at football games for Theta Chi
Fraternity members.
Once on the side of Northwest
Missouri State University fans, Shradar
went up into the bleachers “where a
fight ensued,” the report said.
A woman swung at the UNO stu
dent president and an off-duty Omaha
police officer then pulled Shradar away
from the crowd onto the ground.
The report said Shradar was hand
cuffed “due to (his) violent and unpre
dictable nature at the time of the inci
dent.”
Meg Fricke, an Omaha Police
Department officer, said Shradar told
police he was the student body presi
dent and a friend of important people.
Shradar also said he was “doing
nothing but cheering the team on,”
Fricke said.
No UNOtadministrators were avail
able to comment Thursday on Shradar’s
future. ^
Schuerman said any sanctions
imposed should be done by UNO stu
dents. No penalties should come from
the NU Board of Regents or UNO
administration, he said.
Marlene Beyke, ASUN director of
development, said no ASUN executive
member has ever been involved in a
fight or alcohol-related incident like
this.
Eric Marintzer, 1996-97 ASUN
president, however, was arrested for
drunk driving in November of his term.
Beyke said if a student body presi
dent or another executive member gets
in trouble with the law, the case could go
before ASUN’s judicial board.
If that happens, she said, the mem
ber will most likely be removed from
office, as ASUN.bylaws mandate.
Schuerman said if anything like this
ever happened at ASUN it would be
handled “right here.”
“If it would happen to me, I would
be treated like any other student,” he
said.
Wesely approves plan
to develop near park
By Josh Knaub
Staffwriter
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City growth and environmental
concerns will be balanced in a develop
ment near Wilderness Park, Mayor Don
Wesely said Thursday.
“The heahh of our economy is very
important for our city, but die health of
our environment is a priority, too,”
Wesely said.
Wesely said the construction of
Horizon Business Center near South
14th Street and Pine Lake Road will not
increase the water level of any flood.
The development is on a flood
plain.
Steve Henrichsen, a planner in the
city information and planning depart
ment. said because a “no net rise”
approach will be used, the development
would not raise a flood’s water level.
The approach is more strict than
city and federal standards for flood
plain construction. This means the
developers will remove dirt from the
site to compensate for the addition of
buildings.
Wesely announced he had signed
resolutions passed tty die city council on
Aug. 30 allowing construction to begin.
Plans for the development were
unanimously approved by the
Lincoln/Lancaster County Planning
Commission.
The business center will be a
529,000-square-foot complex of ware
houses, offices and retail shops.
Wesely said he appreciated the
involvement of citizens concerned
about the development’s environmental
impact
“They have raised some issues that
need to be addressed, and I believe die
developers have addressed those con
cerns,” Wesely said
He said the new construction would
not have'u negative impact on
Wilderness Park.
The city currently owns a 17-acre
buffer zone between the site and
Wilderness Park. The zone is on the
site’s north side.
The area’s west side is bordered by
railroad tracks.
The site’s developers have agreed to
plant trees along the site’s west edge to
further shield Wilderness Park.
“By the time you add in the setback
between the tracks and the buildings,
there are more than two blocks between
Wilderness Park and the closest build
ing,’’Wesely said.
The construction will be just south
of land reserved for Lincoln’s new high
school.
In a related action, Wesely said the
city has applied for federal emergency
management funds to purchase ease
ments near Wilderness Park.
These easements would prevent
development and preserve the Salt
Creek flood plain.
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