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Jubilation September 2 [7,1999
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Garage gets
endorsement
■ The Parking Advisory
Committee votes 7-2 in favor
of adding 1,200 spaces.
ByAimee Green
Staff writer
The Parking Advisory Committee
voted Friday afternoon to recom
mend that a parking garage be built at
the comer of 17th and R streets.
After much discussion, the mem
bers voted 7-2 in favor of the garage.
The addition of the parking
garage would add 1,200 spaces, said
Dan Carpenter, interim director of
Parking and Transit Services.
This will help alleviate the park
ing shortage City Campus will have
^by 2001, he said. City Campus will
los&about 561 spots by 2001 because
of construction projects.
In the next year, about 200 of
those stalls will be displaced by con
struction.
Carpenter also presented a report
to the committee on the number of
parking permits issued this year com
pared to the number of spaces avail
able.
Although 13,391 parking stalls
were available on both campuses,
Parking and Transit Services issued
13,771 permits.
Of the 1,461 stalls available as
blue parking areas - or resident non
reserved spots - on City Campus,
parking services issued 3,185 resi
dent non-reserved permits.
The spaces in the garage would be
for non-reserved permits until 4 p.m.
daily, he said. After 4 p.m., the garage
would also be open to the general
public.
Stan Campbell, representing the
University Association for
Administrative Development, pre
sented the pros of building the
garage.
The garage would provide cov
ered parking, reduce pedestrian
vehicular conflict on campus and be a
10-minute walk from the center of
campus, he said.
“City Campus is landlocked,” he
said. “You can stack parking.”
Nick Burns, representing the
Association of Students of the
University of Nebraska, presented
the cons of construction.
It would be away from the acade
mic core of campus, athletic events
and downtown, which would mean
more people walking to their destina
tions.
Parking permit rates would
increase, possibly up to hundreds of
dollars more an academic year, Bums
said.
Safety will also be a concern
because parking garages don’t offer
much visibility, he said.
Carpenter addressed this concern
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Police say one man
made obscene calls
By Jake Bleed
Senior staff writer
Police suspect the same man is
behind 12 obscene and threatening
phone calls made to UNL women last
week, Sgt. Bill Manning said.
Twenty obscene phone calls
received by female students in resi
dence halls and sorority houses have
been reported to University of
Nebraska-Lincoln police since school
began, Manning said.
A man placed a call Wednesday to a
freshman student in Schramm
Residence Hall.
“At the beginning, he just sounded
like a college student,” the student said.
The student said the man first asked
for her roommate, then called the stu
dent by name, telling her he’d been
watching her and that if she hung up,
he’d rape her.
The student hung up and called
police. When police arrived, the student
told diem another female student who
fcfc
//e called me by
name. I was pretty
scared
UNL STUDENT
lived in her hall reported getting a simi
lar phone call.
The student said others in her hall
also received calls Wednesday.
“All the others said he’d asked their
name. He called me by name,” she said.
“I was pretty scared.”
The student said she spent that night
at a friend’s place off campus but
returned the following night.
“It was still kind of hard to sleep,”
she said. “I came from a small town
where everyone knows everyone, and
no one would do anything like this.”
She said police told her they suspect
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Liz Meacham/DN
MARCHERS STROLL down a campus sidewalk toward the Haymarket on Friday evening during the Light the
Night Leukemia Walk, sponsored by the Leukemia Society. More than 100 people participated in the event.
Walk raises hope, funds
By Becky Jacobsen
Staff writer
Red and white balloons scat
tered the sky, and for just one night,
hope didn’t just flicker, it floated.
The Light the Night Leukemia
Walk, sponsored by the Leukemia
Society, was held in Lincoln on
Friday night.
More than 100 walkers partici
pated in the two-mile walk, which
started in Memorial Stadium,
wound through the Haymarket and
ended back at the stadium. The
walk raised $4,000, which will go
toward research.
Light the Night Leukemia Walk
is a national celebration in memory
of people who have died of
leukemia and a tribute to those who
have survived the illness. Cancer
survivors carried white balloons,
and other walkers carried red ones.
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I believe that in my lifetime, I will see the
cure for cancer come about ”
Gov. Mike Johanns
The walk also commemorated
the Leukemia Society’s 50th
anniversary.
People benefiting from cancer
research were on hand to share their
stories and lend their support to the
cause.
Janice Decker of Ulysses was
diagnosed with leukemia on Jan.
16,1998. Six months later she went
into remission.
Decker’s husband of 15 years,
David Decker, was scared and
denied the fact that she was sick.
Even though Janice Decker is in
complete remission, David Decker
still feels nervous about her illness.
“It’s still in the back of your
mind, as to whether or not it’s going
to come back,” he said. “With
things like that, you just have to
pray to God and try to go on.”
Janice Decker said it was her
faith that helped her fight leukemia.
“I always felt that God was
there fighting it with me, and I was
always content with that,” she said.
“I never was afraid, I just always
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Kerrey, high school students meet
■ Overcrowded schools
and the $ 100 million bond
issue were discussed.
By Jake Bleed
Senior staff writer
About 40 high school students
from across Lincoln were back in
school Saturday afternoon to talk
with Sen. Bob Kerrey about school
overcrowding.
The meeting comes before a $100
million bond is set to go before
Lincoln voters Oct. 5. The bond
would provide money for two new
high schools in Lincoln.
Yes! On Schools, a local organi
zation campaigning in support of the
bond issue, organized Saturday’s 3
p.m. meeting in Lincoln East High
School’s commons area.
“Kerrey wanted to visit with some
students to get their take on what’s
happening with schools in Lincoln,”
said Ken Winston, Yes! On Schools’
campaign manager.
The students’ opinions were sim
ple: Lincoln needs more schools.
“There are hallways that are so
incredibly crowded, I’m always late
for class,” said Stephanie Tomkins,
Lincoln High School junior.
Other students complained that
classrooms often lacked enough
desks, class sizes were too big for
teachers to handle, and too many stu
dents made joining extracurricular
programs too competitive.
But the students’ most vocal
moment came in response to a ques
tion from Kerrey.
“How common is it to have a class
with 30 to 35 students in it?” asked
Kerrey, who graduated from Lincoln
Northeast High School in 1961.
To Kerrey’s surprise, the students
answered in a rumble loud enough to
make hearing individual voices
impossible.
Lincoln’s growth over the past 20
years has increased enrollment in the
city’s schools.
Portable classrooms are a com
mon sight outside permanent school
buildings. Kerrey said enrollment in
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