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f'&- 'i| '-■> ■ ■ UNL’s sociology depart ment will celebrate 100 years with speaker, display. BylaraLuehiari Staff writer The University of Nebraska Lincoln sociology department will commemorate 100 years of existence on Friday and Saturday with speeches, a lunch buffet and a display in OldfatherHall. UNL’s program is considered the 15th best in the nation, said David Johnson, director of the sociology department’s Bureau of Sociological Research. Three of the sociology depart ment’s graduates have beeft presidents of the American Sociological Association. The department has graduated nearly 1,000 students with bachelor’s degrees and 300 masters and doctoral students. Johnson has been at UNL for 31 years and said more women and inter national faculty have joined the sociol ogy department since he came to UNL. Professor Mary Jo Deegan, who has studied the history of the sociolo gy department, said issues studied 100 years ago still are being studied today. The department received an award for teaching in 1996, the publications of the research program are of high quality and the department has been serving the community successfully, she said. The department’s celebration will start at 7:30 p.m. Friday with a speech by Joe R. Feagin, president of the American Sociological Association. Feagin will speak on future changes in the United States and their implications for sociology in the Steinhart Room at the Lied Center for Performing Arts. Feagin, a sociology professor at the University of Florida, has pub lished 44 books with an emphasis on American relations and urban policy issues. J. Allen Williams, professor and chairman of the UNL sociology department, will also speak. On Saturday, a daylong sympo sium will be held at the Wick Alumni Center, 1520 R St. A $ 12 lunch buffet will be served. Reservations are required. All other conference events are free and open to the public. As part of the conference, memo ries of the last 100 years will be set up in the department on the seventh floor of Oldfather Hall and the Wick Alumni Center. A memorial service will be held at 3 p.m. Friday for Nicholas Babchuck, a professor emeritus of sociology who died in July. The service will be held in the Dudley Bailey Library, 228 Andrews Hall. For more information on the cele bration call the sociology department at (402) 472-3631. Committee seeks parking input ■ Parking committe will decide how to pay for new garages near campus. By Jason Shallenberger Staff writer Students concerned about the price of parking at UNL can share their opin ions with the Parking Advisory Committee members via e-mail. Nick Burns, a senior biological systems engineering major and acting off-campus representative for the Parking Advisory Committee, said he would like to give students the oppor tunity to be heard. Bums said he wanted to show stu dents what projected price structures would look like for next year before Friday’s 3 p.m. meeting in the Nebraska Union. He said he hoped to get students’ reactions to considered fees. The committee will recommend 2000-01 parking fees and talk to the University of Nebraska-Lmcoln Business and Finance Office. Bums said he hoped a large num ber of students would e-mail him at unl_parking@hotmail.com with any parking-related concerns they have, |SOpen to opinions ZThe Parking Advisory Committee is seeking student input on projected parking permit fees for 2000-2001. over one year ^ 1 Source: Business and Finance Office but he didn’t think there would be a strong response. “I expect to see around 50 or fewer, but I wish they would prove me wrong,” Bums said. Parking fees will rise next year, Bums said, but the increase will affect only certain parking-permit holders. Bums said the increases in the fees will help pay for additional spaces on and around campus, but it was hard to solve space problems without raising the costs. “How do you satisfy checkbooks and the ability to park, when check books always win?” Bums said. A parking garage is planned for 17th and R streets. Burns said the money to pay for this garage and future garages had to be raised somewhere. “We really crunched die numbers hard, and we know the students want a parking garage, but we have to pay for it somehow, and (raising permit costs) seems to be the best way,” he said. James Specht, chairman of the parking committee, said the commit tee was made up of faculty, staff mem bers and students, which he said he thought represented most groups at the UNL. Specht said the parking garage was proposed because construction around campus caused serious parking prob lems. “With all of the building on down town campus, we are losing a large number of parking spaces, which means we must build up,” Specht said. Hie Parking Advisory Committee also will discuss a plan to base the parking fees for faculty and staff mem bers «n their salaries. This proposal will not affect student rates. H .^ mSk • i Gas station burglarized, vandalized Police responding to an alarm early Monday morning discovered $5,100 in cash missing from a gas station, Ofc. Katherine Finnell said. About 4:20 a.m., an alarm sounded at Overland Station, 2805 NW. 48th St., Finnell said. When they arrived^police found that a window on the north side of the building had been knocked out with a rock. In addition to the monetary loss, $280 in damages was caused, Finnell said. Police have no suspects and no witnesses. Man attacked in his apartment A 21-year-old man was attacked after investigating a noise in his apartment Sunday night. Richard Mason, 3831 St. Paul Apt. 2, said when he investigated the sound of broken glass in the front of his home, three men kicked in the door, Finnell said. He was then beaten with a base ball bat by one of the men, while the other two trashed his apartment with baseball bats, Finnell said. Mason knew two of the men, Finnell said. Police photographed Mason’s injuries, but they had not been list ed on a report, Finnell said. No arrests have been made, but police have suspects, Finnell said. Police have no suspects in vandalism A string of crimes hit the area of 21st and B streets sometime between Saturday night and early Sunday morning. Within that time, police responded to seven reports of slashed tires, two larcenies from auto and a stolen car, Finnell said. A 1987 Blue Pontiac 6000 was taken from 1217 S. 21st St. A car stereo was taken from another car in the area, and another car was broken into, causing $650 damage, Finnell said. Police had no suspects as of Monday evening. - Compiled by staff writer Michelle Starr Stadium location gets council’s approval COUNCIL from page 1< dents. She said the neighborhood hoped concerts at the new stadium and parking in the neighborhood by University of Nebraska-Lincoln. students would be prohibited. Ann Harrell, aide to the mayor, said she thought it would be unwise for the council to agree to the requests. The council doesn’t yet realize what the future may bring for the stadium, Harrell said. It would be best to keep as many doors open as possible. Nebraska Baseball Coach Dave Van Horn said he’s been anxiously waiting for the council to approve the location of the stadium so con struction can begin. “This is'a big day for Nebraska baseball,” Van Horn said. “I’m a lit tle relieved. I’m looking forward to watching it go up.” Van Horn said the complex will be important to the Cornhusker baseball and softball teams and the city of Lincoln because it also pro vides a venue for a minor-league baseball team. “It’s outstanding for the commu nity” he said. “They can see a game and then go eat dinner in the Haymarket. It will also be a real pretty addition to downtown.” Van Horn said he hopes his team will be playing baseball in the stadi um by next March. “It’ll be one of the best stadiums in the Big 12,” he said. “We’re real ly excited.” Along with approving the loca tion of the new stadium, the council also approved construction of a pedestrian bridge. ” This is a big day for Nebraska baseball.” Dave Van Horn UNL baseball coach The bridge will link the stadium to the Haymarket and downtown Lincoln, area bike trails and over pass railroad tracks, making the trek from the stadium to downtown Lincoln a safer one, Harrell said. However, when the council passed the ordinance approving construction of the bridge, it also promised completion of the $2.4 million project by Sept. 1,2001. Councilman Jon Camp said the promise made him uneasy. He said the city is currently $1.1 million short of the $2.4 million fig ure. “I want to support this project; I do support it,” Camp said. “But I’m having a big problem with this $1.1 million shortfall.” He also said he was worried about possible legal problems that could result if construction of the bridge wasn’t completed by the promised date. Camp proposed the City Council amend the bridge ordi nance so the bridge wouldn’t have to be completed by Sept. 1. The motion to amend the ordi nance failed. Senior editor Dane Stickney contributed to this report. Lydia S. Gonzales/DN STEPHANIE WATKINS, a senior accounting major, delivers a mock business plan during a weekend business plan competition spon sored by the Nebraska Center for Entrepreneurship. The event lured students from 23 colleges from across the nation. Event draws students from 23 colleges to UNL BUSINESS from page 1 Many of the judges are local Lincoln business leaders. Students from the area can establish impor tant contacts in the business com munity, Sebora said. “ArchRival placed third, but they ended up with enough con tacts and investors to start up,” he said. “Students know it is possible. That is why so many participate.” The first-place winners in the undergraduate category received $7,500. Graduate-level winners received $10,000. The competition concluded with the finals and awards cere mony on Saturday. UNL’s undergraduate team placed third. The $1,000 in prize money may not go far toward establishing her dream, but Stephanie Watkins said she was confident her experience in the competition would one day lead to a successful business venture. Miami University of Oxford, Ohio, won first place for the undergraduate division. Loyola University in Chicago got second place and the University of Michigan got honorable mention. First place in the graduate competition went to the University of Georgia. The University of Texas won second, the University of Manitoba won third place and San Diego State University won honorable mention.