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LINCOLN FIREFIGHTER Dustin Witherspoon stands ready with a fire hose while fire fighter John Lemke pries open the hood of a pickup that caught fire near 66th and 0 streets at about
11 a.m. Thursday. The owner of the truck, Rheao Timblin, was not injured in the fire.
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Students invited to meet
regents, have free lunch
Today, students have the opportu
nity to meet with the University of
Nebraska Board of Regents.
The regents will be on campus for
a campus tour, and ASUN is provid
ing a free lunch for students who
would like to voice their opinions to
the regents.
The lunch will be held at noon in
the Nebraska Union. The room will
be posted.
UPC accepting applications
for event funding
The University Program Council
is accepting applications from stu
dent organizations and event cooidi
nators for money to help support their
events and programs.
To apply, organizations need to
complete an application form and
make a presentation to UPC’s Fund
Allocation Committee.
Applications are available at the
UPC office, 134 Nebraska Union,
and at both Student Involvement
offices, 200 Nebraska Union and 300
Nebraska East Union.
Applications usually need to be
submitted five weeks before the date
of the event, but the committee con
siders late applications.
The committee usually funds
things such as publicity costs, per
former fees, room and equipment
rental charges and postage.
For more information, students
can contact Tom St. Germain at 472
8146.
TRIO brings rally to campus
for students of low-income
families
Students from TRIO programs
across the state will take part in a
rally Saturday at the Nebraska Union.
TRIO programs are federally
funded programs that offer support
services to students from low-income
families.
TRIO programs include Talent
Search, Upward Bound and
Educational Opportunity Centers.
The rally will include students
from the University of Nebraska
Lincoln, Creighton University, the
University of Nebraska at Kearney
and Wayne State College.
There will be workshops on
resume writing, job searching, stress
management, college life and estab
lishing healthy relationships.
A representative from Sen. Chuck
Hagel’s office and a UNL TRIO
alumnus will be the keynote speak
ers.
TRIO programs served more than
5,000 Nebraska students this year.
Two UNL teams to compete
at business competition
Two UNL teams will join college
students from across the nation at the
12th-annual business plan competi
tion today and Saturday.
Graduate students Pam Edwards
and Todd Chromzak and seniors
Stephanie Watkins and Stacy
Eikenhorst will be presenting their
start-up plans for businesses.
UNL is one of only five colleges
nationwide that holds an open busi
ness plan competition, said Terry
Sebora, director of the Nebraska
Center for Entrepreneurship.
Local accountants, investors and
bankers, as well as small-business
people, will judge the entries. Four
teams will advance to the finals,
which will be Saturday at the
Comhusker Hotel, 333 S. 13th St.
The top prize winner in the grad
uate division will get $10,000. The
top winner in the undergraduate divi
sion will get $7,500.
Sebora said some businesses
actually start as a result of the contest.
“These are real plans for real
businesses,” he said.
Compiled by staff writers
Veronica Daehn and Sara Salkeld
and senior editor Lindsay Young
two cars damaged
A fire engulfed a garage witl|
two cars in it Wednesday morning
at about 6:15.
A total of $24,500 damagcf
was done to the cars and the
garage rented by two women at
1588 S. Cotner Blvd., Lincoln
Police Ofc. Katherine Finnell
said.
The Lincoln Fire Department
said the fire started in the garage;
and the department is continuing
investigations.
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Police search for man
accused of exposing himself
A woman working in the
drive-thru at Subway, 2929 State
Fair Park Road, reportedly saw a
man indecently exposing himself
Tuesday evening, Finnell said.
When she leaned out the
restaurant window to give him the
Pepsi he ordered, she said the man
was masturbating, Finnell said.
Police believe this incident to
be related to another indecent
exposure incident with similar
characteristics.
The man was reportedly
described as being about 6-feet
tall with brown hair and between
the ages of 35 and 45. He report
edly was wearing a white shirt,
gray shorts and glasses, FinneQ
said.
He was reportedly driving a
blue, early 1990s Dodge Van|
Finnell said.
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Derek Lippincott
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