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Keyuo to Success
After being thrown into the fire as a freshman last
season, NU’s Keyuo Craver, now a starter, is get
ting the hang of this comerback thing. PAGE 7
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From the Ashes September 31,1999
Despite a fire in its renovated building, Omaha’s
Blue Bam Theatre is determined to continue its SUNSHINE ALL THE |ME
tradition of cutting-edge productions. PAGE 9 Mostly sunny, high 70. Clear torught, low 43.
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JESSICA HUTCHINSON, a freshman performance theater major and Matthew Bross, a sophomore performance theater major, study Monday
on a patch of grass near “Tom Notebook.” Monday’s highs were in the lower 60s.
Police tackle gameday parking
By Jake Bleed «
Senior staff writer
" To solve their parking problem,, many foot- ° Naming Curve. As We get towards the end of the
ban fens have opted to park illegally on gameday yeQr (parking problems) Will decline.”
- only to Fmd then cars impounded later. s ' \r or /
A special police detail assigned to handle »
parking and traffic problems during home foot- . ~K)N ARP
ball games has stayed busy in the past two week- Lincoln police sergeant
ends, issuing more than 1,300 parking tickets and ————
towing 126 illegally parked cars. with plenty of problems, Sgt. Mike Woolman Other streets needed for traffic are 8th, 9th,
Police towed 66 cars from around Memorial said. He said traffic problems can stall cars mov- 10th and 16th streets, among others.
Stadium on Saturday and issued 544 parking ing in and out of Lincoln as far as Interstate 80. Woolman said parking stalls along major
tickets. For this reason, police reroute traffic on some streets covered with hooded no-parking signs
The first home game of the season, Sept. 11, of Lincoln’s main arteries for football Saturdays, attract illegal parkers. Woolman said police
yielded 763 parking tickets and 60 towed cars. Woolman said parking along these routes and the towed cars from these temporarily illegal parking
Sixty officers are assigned to the detail every streets adjoining them was strictly enforced to spots,
home game. They work with five public service keep traffic moving. Despite the large number of cars towed and
officers assigned to only deal with parking viola- Sixth Street, between Vine and Charleston tickets given, police received only one complaint
tions. streets, is needed to relieve traffic on Highway over the weekend.
Moving 77,826 people in and out of 34, Woolman said, but is often full of illegally -
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Program
will give
students
safe rides
Student-generated
NU on Wheels will
begin in October
By Veronica Daehn
Staff writer
A program designed to make the roads safer
plans to do so by keeping drunken students
from driving.
But the program is not just for students who
have had too much to drink.
NU on Wheels, a free, safe-ride-home pro
gram, begins Oct. 14 in cooperation with
National Collegiate Alcohol Awareness Week
and is available to all UNL students.
With the help of Project Care, Husker Cab
Inc. will be giving free taxi rides to University
J ofNebraska-Lincoln students from 11 p.m. to 3
a.m. Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights
through May.
Program coordinator Molly Schmitz said
the program’s mission is “to save lives and pre
vent injuries by offering students a safe alterna
tive to drunken driving and other threatening
situations.”
To use the free program, students should
call (402) 475-RIDE and tell the operator where
they need to be picked up and where they live.
Students must have their student IDs with
them and must be going home, Schmitz said.
“I’m excited for it to be up and running,”
Schmitz said.
Brett Stohs, NU on Wheels co-founder, said
the idea for the program came in March 1998 at
a leadership and vision development program
called LeaderShape.
Stohs, a junior political science and math
major, said those attending LeaderShape were
asked to have a vision in mind before leaving for
the retreat.
Although he didn’t have NU on Wheels in
mind yet, Stohs knew he wanted his vision to
involve alcohol.
LeaderShape came a week after Gamma
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Agency blames Platte s rising temperatures on the sun
By Josh Knaub
Staffwriter
The Environmental Protection
Agency said it blames a single polluter
for reducing the quality of the water in
the Platte River.
But, unlike others blamed for soil
ing the environment, this polluter can
not be fined or ordered to stop heating
the water.
That's because this polluter is the
sun.
In a letter sent to Nebraska offi
cials, the EPA said it might require
Nebraska to take action against the sun,
which it blamed for rising water tem
peratures in a stretch of the Platte that
covers the central third of the state.
In a press conference Monday, Gov.
Mike Johanns said the EPA’s attempts
to regulate so-called sun pollution were
“utterly ridiculous federal foolishness.”
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“How can the state regulate temper
atures from a natural source?” Johanns
asked.
Johanns said the EPA had ignored
requests from the Nebraska
Department of Environmental Quality
and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
to drop the issue.
Mike Lender, director of the
Nebraska Department of
Environmental Quality, said the EPA
has requested, but not yet required,
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Nebraska to develop a plan to manage
sun pollution on the Platte.
“I told the EPA we will not develop
a plan,” Lender said.
He said the reason he refused to
develop a plan was because the portion
of the river in question periodically
went dry during the summer before
dams, which regulate water flow, were
built upstream.
Heat pollution can negatively affect
plants and animals in or near a river.
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Lender said if heat pollution came
from a man-made source, such as a
pipe that released hot water, the state
could require a permit to prevent ele
vated temperatures.
“In the case of the sun, I don’t know
who to ask to submit an application for
a permit so we can regulate the impact
on water temperatures,” Lender said.
He said the EPA action was taken in
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