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—ASUN ELECTIONS—
Parties,
officials
disagree
By Veronica Daehn
stajj writer
Getting more students involved on campus
seems to be a central theme in the ASUN student
government election this year.
But some campus administrators said they are
leery of the ideas being proposed.
Impact presidential candidate John Conley
wants to improve accessibility to the Culture
Center. A-Team candidate Joel Schafer would
,, implement a new
U Studeflt freshman orientation
program.
involvement Heath Mello, of
Empower, would
lies within improve the
Commuter Services
the Student Lounge and sponsor
a weeklong festival.
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get involved.
Conley said he
wants to look into
renovations that would attach the Culture Center,
now at 333 N. 14* St, to the Nebraska Union.
Students who use the Culture Center feel seg
regated because they’re not in the union, Conley
said.
And improving the building is hard to justify
because the land is “tagged for development,” he
said.
Daryl Swanson, Nebraska Union director, said
he didn’t know if joining the center with the union
would be a good idea.
“Anything is feasible, depending on how much
money is available,” Swanson said. “But the city
union no longer has any expansion direction.”
If the union did undergo another renovation to
add on die Culture Center, Swanson said, the only
space available would the parking lot on the east
side.
The addition would require the support of all
students, Swanson said, because student fees most
likely would increase.
Schafer said he wants to get new students
involved on campus as soon as they get here.
He wants to implement a freshman orientation
program similar to one at Creighton University in
Omaha, he said.
Students would arrive at the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln two or three days before the
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Competition
■ Teams from 23 colleges
square off in business
competition in Lincoln.
By Jacob Kruger
Staff writer
UNL students Stephanie Watkins
and Stacy Eikenhorst took Watkins’
love for dance, turned it into a busi
ness venture and entered it into the
annual business plan competition last
weekend.
The two senior accounting majors
came away with third place.
The plan was a dance troupe and
studio owned and operated by
Watkins and Eikenhorst.
The annual Business Plan
Competition and Productivity
Improvement Competition was held
with the Heartland Conference on
Free Enterprise on Thursday through
Saturday.
Twenty-three college teams in
graduate and undergraduate divisions
competed for prize money. The com
petition started Thursday night with
display boards, PowerPoint displays,
cocktails and hors d’oeuvres suitable
to the grandeur of the Comhusker
Hotel, 333 S. 13th St
The business plans included ideas
such as a water purification system, a
body-fluid clean-up kit and improved
conveyor belts.
University of Arizona students
planned a brewery designed for any
univarsity’s student body. Decor and
the servers’ uniforms could be cus
tomized in any schoql’s colors.
The team from Salisbury State
University in Maryland proposed a
beach towel and accessories supplier.
The company would not only
manufacture and market the items,
but it would also embroider for corpo
rate clients. The plan included selling
die products in existing retail stores.
About 25 percent of the competi
tors in die 12-year history of the con
test end up going into business, said
Terry Sebora, from the Nebraska
Center for Entrepreneurship.
Design firm ArchRival, 140 N. 8*
St., was started by University of
Nebraska-Lincoln graduates Clint
Runge and Charles Hull. Runge and
Hull placed third in the competition
two years ago, Sebora said.
The second day of competition
consisted of a 20-minute presentation
and a 20-minute question-and-answer
segment. Watkins and Eikenhorst
said the presentation was die most dif
ficult part.
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WITH THE AFTERNOON sunlight streaming in, staff members at the Shelden Memorial Art gallery make adjustments to a display of works
by UNL production designer Richard Eckersley. The main gallery will have a brief exhibit showing book covers created by Eckersley.
— CITY COUNCIL
Council approves new stadium
By Cara Pesek
Staff writer
To the joy of some Lincoln residents and
the sorrow of others, the City Council passed a
series of eight ordinances Monday approving
the lease agreement on a new baseball stadium.
Councilwoman Annette McRoy cast the
only dissenting vote for all of the ordinances,
which included zoning, the location of the
facilities and building a pedestrian bridge.
With some hesitation, the council approved
the proposed site for the new stadium at 6th and
Charleston streets.
Many residents of the North Bottoms
neighborhood voiced their concern over the
location of the stadium when the ordinances
were up for public hearing last week.
Residents pointed out that their neighbor
hood was only 100 feet from the future con
struction site.
“The neighborhood has never been against
Photo courtesy of NU Sports Information
THE CITY COUNCIL Monday approved the location of a new baseball stadium. The stadium
will house the NU baseball and softball teams, as well as a minor league baseball team.
baseball coming to Lincoln,” said Sheryl
Burbach, president to the North Bottoms
neighborhood association. “But we think the
city could do this in a less intrusive and more
fiscally prudent way.”
After the ordinances were passed, Burbach
said she hoped the city council would listen to
several requests of the North Bottoms resi
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