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City meter rates double i
By Mkhelk Starr
Staff writer
Students planning to park on R
Street should be prepared for the 100
percent increase in meter fees.
Since Monday afternoon, 1,400
new electronic meter heads have con
tinued to replace the old spring-run
meters in two sections of the city, one
on campus.
This is the first phase, expected to
be completed Friday, of the city’s plan
to change the meters and increase die
rates. A second phase to replace the
remaining 600 meters is planned for
next year, and approval will come
from the City Council, said Mark
Garrett, a traffic engineer for Lincoln
Public Works.
Wednesday, the meters were
changed in the Haymarket, Garrett
said.
But the price is too high, said Tom
Silik, a sophomore math major.
“Say you paid $2 a day, that’s 10
bucks a week,” Silik said. “That’s $320
a semester. That’s a liver.”
Garrett said the new electronic
meters, maintained and serviced by
the Lincoln Public Works Department,
were installed to increase turnaround
in parking.
The idea behind the increase was
to encourage long-term parkers to
park farther away in parking garages
or on streets without meters, Garrett
said.
But the increase in cost is not
going to change parking behavior, said
Vilaphon Chan, a senior international
affairs major.
“People are going to plug their
Please see PARKING on 3
ASUN executives,
senators inducted
By Sara Salkekl
Staff writer
Wednesday was a day of endings
and beginnings at the Association of
Students of the University of
Nebraska 2000-2001 Inauguration.
President Joel Schafer, First Vice
President Riley Peterson and Second
Vice President Amy Ellis were sworn
into their respective executive offices,
along with the newest group ofASUN
senators, at the Wick Alumni Center.
Before any of the senators were
announced, ASUN’s 1999-2000
President Andy Schuerman devoted
time to honor 1999-2000 Arts and
Sciences Sen. Natalie Hoover with
the Outstanding ASUN senator
award.
Please see ASUN on 10
_ Heather Glenboski/DN
CECILY ROMETO AND Mike Butterfield comfort each other after hearing the results of the run-off. Empower lost
both portions of the election, ending two months of long days and hard work.
inside the ,
campaign
Election ends in flurry
of emotion for Empower
By Lindsay Young
Senior editor
With the cell phone still to her ear,
Cecily Rometo shakes her head a cou
ple of times; next to her, Mike
^ Butterfield falls to his knees on the
_ sidewalk outside Mainstreet Cafe.
Jake Wobig, can^P*up$&*fcr,
puts his hand on Butterfield’s shoul
der.
After a few more seconds,
Rometo says thanks and hangs up the
call.
A pause. Two reporters keep their
distance standing against the outside
of the bar. Two photographers start
shooting pictures.
“I can’t remember the numbers...
We lost.”
Butterfield’s hands go to his head.
“Oh my god,” seeps slowly out of his
mouth.
After some silence, a long group
hug and some pacing, Rometo says:
“We’re done; screw it. That’s all I’m
saying.”
Then, with a laugh, “Oh, we didn’t
come in first. Shit happens.”
***
Meanwhile, Heath Mello sits at
the weekly Association of Students of
the University of Nebraska meeting,
listening to a debate on student fee
use.
As a senator, he has to attend.
But he already knows about his
loss. He was pulled out of the meeting
for a call from the Electoral
Commission.
A few moments before, Empower
treasurer Andy Mixan had the cell
phone. He sat next to Mello, then Duff
presidential candidate Jason Kidd and
then Impact second vice presidential
candidate Amy Ellis, who also was
waiting for a call.
The call came. Mixan took it, but
came back shortly saying, “They
won’t tell me, they need to talk to
you.”
Campaign manager Sarah
Kippenbrock, as well as another sup
porter, waited in the hallway for
Mello, who, after finding out he lost
to Joel Schafer of A-Team and that
Butterfield lost to Ellis, went back to
the senate meeting.
Mello tells those sitting near him,
including Kidd, who reacts: “What
the hell happened?”
But Mello said he tried to abstain
from showing any kind of disappoint
ment. Instead, a little later, he gets up
and walks around, taking a “breather.”
In the hallways of the union, he
ran into Impact party members, who
he said looked “happy for their cause
of not getting me elected”
“It made me feel good about
myself knowing I didn’t do anything
irate or do anything that went against
certain parties or certain people for
the sake of bitterness or for the sake of
revenge or anything,” Mello said.
“... My view of John Conley is
not a good one. My view of Impact is
Please see EMPOWER on 7
Unite party wins residence hall election
By Katie Mueting
Staff writer
Had 45 more students voted in
Wednesday’s RHA elections, next
year’s senate may have been steered in a
different direction.
The Unite party’s presidential can
didate, Rebecca Minshull, and vice
presidential candidate, Tiffany Quinze,
won the Residence Hall Association
election.
Unite received 47.5 percent of die
840 votes cast. Vision presidential can
didate Jason Ball and vice presidential
candidate Rebecca Overgaard received
42.1 percent of the vote.
Minshull, a junior who lives in
Love Memorial Residence Hall, said
Unite’s first order of business will be to
identify expected behavioral conduct
for senators.
Although the Residence Hall
Association has not had problems with
this issue in the past, Minshull said it is
important to have expectations avail
able to reference in case problems arise.
The 1999-2000 RHA senate con
sidered a similar bill, but it failed.
Ball, a senior who lives in Pound
Residence Hall, said he was impressed
with the high voter turnout.
Total voter turnout was 19.6 per
cent, with Unite receiving 399 votes
and 354 going to Vision. But Ball said
he was disappointed with die results.
“We were hoping to win pretty
decently,” Ball said. “I thought we
would probably do a little better.”
Ball said he will “slow down a bit,”
but he would like to help Quinze, a
friend of his, as vice president.
“I’ll try to help her technologically,”
Ball said.
Part of Vision’s platform was to
improve residence hall computer labs
and the RHA Web site.
Vision’s secretary candidate, Jodi
Harper, ran unopposed. She received
628 votes - 75 percent. Harper, a fresh
man of Neihardt Residence Hall, said
she will work to implement Vision’s
platform of improving technology.
Harper said she is not worried
about working with die opposing party
members.
“As a whole we will be able to build
the Residence Hall Association and get
quite a bit accomplished in the next
year.”
And the
winners are...
RHA president:Rebecca Minshull
RHA vice president: Tiffany Quinze
RHA secretary: Jodi Harper
(president, senator)*
Harper: Andrew Moeller
Schramm: Taelyn Sauer
Smith: Melanie Mitzel, Erin Moss
Abel: Andy Krejci, Justin Peterson
Sandoz: Becky Logan, Jessica Hegr
Neihardt: Andrew Warta,
Allison McGee/Lindy Gustafson
Cather: n/f, Richard Brown
Pound: Katie Fraass, Gwen Tietgen
Selleck: nA, Ben Smith
Burr-Fedde: Brad Robertson, n/f
_*Not all positions were filled_
