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Chi Phi
says it’s
on track
■ After a rough year, fraternity
members have worked to gain
respect for their organization.
ByEricRineer
Staff writer
Members of Chi Phi Fraternity say they are
back on track after being hit with a number of dis
ciplinary sanctums nearly a year ago.
hi January, Chi Phi experienced a low point in
its chapter’s history when a drunken sophomore
female student fell from one of Chi Phi’s third
story windows after an off-campus initiation party.
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln Judicial
Affairs responded to the event in February by
imposing ly sanctions on Chi Flu and evicting
dboot half of its members.
Forty-two members were evicted, and 37
staged and freed the consequences. The fraternity
now 1«b 31 members living in its house. Ten mem
bers live outside the house.
Other sanctions included placing Chi Phi on
conduct probation until May 2001 and fairing a
graduate assistant to live at Chi Phi to monitor the
fraternity^ compliance with die university code of
conduct
Jaron Luttich, Chi Phi president, said he felt
the sanctions were a learning experience and also a
challenge that his fraternity welcomed.
“We had to learn a lot very quickly,” Luttich
said. “Right now, the status of the house is more
positive &an ever.”
Linda Schwartzkopf, director of Greek
Affairs, said Chi Phi is heading in the right direc
tion.
“I think the group is working very hard to meet
both the university’s expectations and the expecta
tions of their national organization,” Schwartzkopf
said.
Rosemary Blum, director of Judicial Affairs,
said she was impressed at Chi Phi’s efforts in keep
ing the office informed of its progress.
“Chi Phi took it, that step, before I even had a
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MKENEAL,aRNU or Wheels driver, waits to pick up a student near 16* and It streets Saturday night. Neal, also a UNL senior music major,
said Saturday aiptits load to bp busiest for the safe-ride-home program.
Taxi rides running smoothly
By Jake Bleed
Senior staff writer
Driving students home from bars or parties
on weekend nights sounds like a messy, thank
less job.
The drunken college student stereotype -
noisy and sick - quickly jumps to mind.
But after almost a month of service, drivers
in the NU on Wheels program have little to :
complain about. !
Two UNL students, graduate student Darren
Petersen and senior music major Mike Neal,
were hired by Husker Cabs Inc. to work exclu
sively for NU on Wheels. j
Along with two full-time Husker Cab dri
vers, the two UNL students work two or three 1
«
You gotta look at the whole system. Every once in a
while you ’re going to get a bad apple.”
Jerry Lyons
NU on Wheels driver
lights a week making sure students, drunk or tl
lot, have a safe ride home. V * . - ,
NU on Wheels offers free cab rides to a
University of Nebraska-Lincoln students and n
heir friends from 11 pm to 3 a.m. on Thursday b
hrough Saturday.
Petersen said he hasn’t had many problems, ~
hat riders are grateful and that he even enjoys
lejob.
A minor fight between one ofhisridecs ami -
nother man was the only problem Petersen
amed and one he dismissed as the normal
ehavior of drunks.
“People have been drinking, but they aren’t
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Regents hear how NU could sa\
■ Coordinating campus
computer systems could
save money, official says.
By Kimberly Sweet
Senior staff writer
The University of Nebraska could
fifi its pockets with about an extra $15
million by coordinating business func
tions between its four campuses.
That was die news delivered to the
NU Board of Regents on Friday by a
task force appointed to find out where
the university could realize more
administrative efficiency.
The task force, made up of busi
ness people from the private sector and
administrators from the four campus
es, identified three areas where NU
could see big savings.
NU could save up to $5 million by
centralizing its computing functions,
said David Lechner, vice president for
business and finance and a member of
the committee.
To do this, the university would
need to centralize decision-making cm
what kind of computer hardware and
software to buy.
“Without collaboration of systems,
we’re going to have duplication,”
Lechner said.
The four campuses should work
together to set common computing pri
orities, he said.
“We have to setup a prioritization
system,” Lechner said. “We can’t
afford to move forward as four sepa
rate campuses.”
Another area where the university
could coordinate functions is in pur
chasing. Three million dollars could be
saved if the four campuses standard
ized their purchasing procedures,
Lechner said.
Enhancing computer systems to
increase purchasing online will save
paper and money, he said.
The task force also looked for
areas where the University of
Nebraska could bring in additional
revenue. Strengthening distance edu
cation programs could be a potential
money-maker, said Beth Klosterman,
a member of the task force from David
City.
Right now, the university has cut
ting-edge technology that makes its
distance education programs innova
tive, Klosterman said.
But NU needs to take advantage of
the position it is in to provide distance
education to the state, the nation and
the world, she said.
“We have a competitive edge
because of the technology we have,”
Klosterman said. “That margin is
going to disappear if we don’t move
forward fast”
Klosterman said efforts need to be
made to form a team that will position
NU to enter the market of distance
education.
The regents will take the commit
tee’s recommendations under consid
eration and discuss them at coming
meetings, said Nancy O’Brien, chair
woman of the regents.
The task force was formed to
determine how the university can save
money in business operations to free
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