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FRIDAY
December 10, 1999
Tan* Season!.
Partly sunny, high 45. Clojqfpgnight low 25.
Regents vote on
UNK-Pepsi deal
■ The contract would be
similar to UNL’s, but on a
smaller scale.
By Kimberly Sweet
Senior staff writer
The University of Nebraska at
Kearney is scheduled to make the Pepsi
triumvirate at NU complete.
The NU Board of Regents is set to
vote on whether Pepsi Cola should have
an exclusive license with the University
of Nebraska at Kearney at Saturday’s
NU Board of Regents meeting in Varner
HaB.
If approved, Pepsi Cola would have
exclusive contracts at three campuses in
the NU system: UNK, the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln and the University of
Nebraska at Omaha, said Randal Haack,
vice chancellor for business and finance
at UNK
The contract would give Pepsi Cola
the exclusive right to serve soft drinks
manufactured by Pepsi on die Kearney
campus - including in the cafeterias and
vending machines on campus, as well as
during events with concession stands.
UNK will receive $75,000 a year
from the soft drink company for 10
years in exchange for serving exclusive
ly Pepsi products.
Pepsi will also pay UNK a supple
mental license fee of 50 percent of the
annual gross sales it makes on Pepsi
products.
Those fees added to the monetary
benefits the university will receive
through marketing and promotional
support, scoreboard sponsorship and
other types of support will give the uni
versity an extra $1.8 million, Haack
said.
“All of this comes down to a busi
ness decision,” Haack said. “It’s a better
decision to go to a pouring contract.”
Previously, individual vendors were
responsible for the campus’ soft drink
needs.
Group plans
research protest
From staff reports
Protesters plan to have a place at
this weekend’s University of
Nebraska Board of Regents meeting.
The regents have not altered their
original agenda to formally accom
modate those who want to have a say
over the university’s use of fetal tis
sue in medical research, said Joseph
Rowson, associate to NU President
Dennis Smith.
But members of the Nebraska
Right to Life organization plan fO
have representatives at the nieeting,
said Julie Schmit-Albin, executive
director of the organization.
They will comment during the
portion of the meeting left open for
public comment.
People have also called about
picketing in front of Varner Hall,
where the meeting will take place,
Schmit-Albin said.
Both the campuses in Lincoln and
Omaha have contracts with Pepsi,
Haack said, but that wasn’t die main rea
son the university agreed to the contract.
“We are certainly aware that the
Omaha and Lincoln campuses have
gone that way - other institutions have
as well,” he said. “Our contracts were
coming up, and this seemed like a good
time to do it”
While UNL’s Pepsi contract has
brought millions of dollars to the school
to use for scholarships and student pro
grams, Haack said, the amount of
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NGA DINH, a sophomore biochemistry major at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, helps Lancaster
Manor residents writs Christmas cards on Thursday. Dinh, along with other LeaderShape partici
pants, volunteers her time once a month to community service projects.
UNL helps extend power of U.N.-affiliated Web site
By Kimberly Sweet
Senior staff writer
Sometimes interesting where the
University of Nebraska-Lincoln shows
»P
One probably wouldn’t expect to
•ee a link to the university’s Web page
while searching die Web site for the
United Nations Educational, Scientific
and Cultural Organization-the largest
organization dedicated to education
worldwide.
But, thanks to a conversation that
started in an English pub nearly five
years ago, UNL is responsible for main
taining a site that receives half a millkm
hits a month from people around the
world.
The hits come from people explor
ing the UNESCO site -
http://www. unesco. org/ - to find infor
mation on a variety of sources.
The 185-member UNESCO,
founded the same year as the United
Nations, promotes collaboration among
nations through education, science, cul
ture and communication. The United
States is not a member of the organiza
tion.
Some may explore the organiza
tion’s site looking for information on
how to achieve equal-pay status. Others
may be searching for information on toe
number of unschooled chikfeen across
the world
Today, the University of Nebraska
operates a link cm the Wfeb site that peo
ple around the world can click on to get
a quicker connection.
To do so, elide on “mirrors.” If the
main Web she in Paris goes down, traf
fic from around the world spills onto the
sheUNLmaintains until his fixed
Jim Emal, computing coordinator
for die University ofNebraska, estimat
ed that 5,000 to 7,000 of those people
plug into UNL’s Web site from
UNESCO’s home page.
That’s a lot of free publicity, consid
ering people around the world are
exploring the site, Emal said
“It’s one of those intangible dungs,”
u
It’s helping to promote the university and
doing a great thing for education.”
JillFoner
software engineer manager for Nebraska Educational Television
he said. “You don’t know where on
UNLh site they end up going.”
UNESCO’s site was born not long
after the World Wide Wfeb came ahve in
1994. The organization, which is based
in Paris, decided it wanted a place (Mi the
Wfeb and recruited IBM to help design a
site. Trying to activate the site and main
tain it proved more difficult, however.
At a meeting at the British Open Air
University in London, the largest dis
tance-education school in die world,
Emal was partnered with a man who
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