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• "I Running men ■ f M V I J The backups get their turn this ^ I I I ^ ^ spring at Nebraska running back. T ^ SPORTS, PAGE 16 N e braskan — ^ mML* *MLm Seventeen-year-old Lang Lang •Menday, April 11,2000 dailyneb.com Vol 99, Issue 137 ^rforms tonight at *e Johmy Carson Theater. A&E, PAGE 9 / ties 7ay} Next year’s parking prices to rise ■ State legislators give approval to raise fees to pay for new garages at UNL. ByJillZeman Staff writer Legislators gave the thumbs-up to a resolu tion Monday that will fund of the construction of a new parking garage at 17th and R streets. But with the good comes the bad, as prices of parking permits are on the rise to help pay for the project, said Dan Carpenter, interim director of parking and transit services. Senators voted 40-0 to adopt LR495, intro duced April 5 by Sen. Roger Wehrbein of Plattsmouth. Wehrbein, the Appropriations Committee chairman, said the project will be funded through the sale of 20-year revenue bonds. Carpenter said it was necessary to raise the price of parking permits because it will attract investors to purchase bonds. In order for people to ihvest in the new parking garage, the department of Parking and Transit Services must show how it will gener ate enough money to pay off the bonds, he said. The main sources of revenue right now are parking permits, citations and university park ing meter collection, Carpenter said. The amount of money received from park ing meters and citations fluctuates from year to year, so the most solid source is the parking permits, he said. Faculty and staff members requesting a reserved parking spot will face the largest increase, as a 12-month permit will cost $660, compared with $480 for 1999-00. Reserved faculty and staff permits will be available for $264, a $60 increase from this year. A reserved student parking permit will cost $405 for nine months, compared to $315 this year and a non-reserved student permit will be $ 162, up from $ 117 last year. Perimeter parking for nine months will cost $72, compared with $45 this year. The construction project, valued at more than $17 million, will contain a minimum of 1,200 parking stalls, Carpenter said. But he emphasized the new parking garage will not create additional parking spaces for Please see PARKING on 7 — .——■ HI. . Some: UNL parking services David Jane/DN Heather Glenboski/DN CHEMISTRY LECTURER BILL McLaughlin was awarded the Outstanding Educator Award for large classes for the second year in a row. As a thank you to his students, of whom he says, “They really do inspire me,” he bought 375 cookies from Subway. McLaughlin shows he’s more than a lecturer * | ' • Editor’s Note: This is the second of two profiles looking at the achievements of the winners of the ASUN Outstanding Educator Awards. By Veronica Daehn Staff writer A purple Trek bicycle leans against an old wood en table. Dusty textbooks sit comfortably, seemingly untouched, on the shelves that line the office walls. There is an old wooden chalkboard, freestanding in the middle of the room. On the top left-hand cor ner hangs a calendar depicting Albert Einstein. Opposite, an outdated cowboy hat. An abandoned Diet Coke can sits alone atop another shelf. Nearby is a coffee pot, a Cappucino maker, a black midget refrigerator and a seemingly overused microwave. An orange basketball hides in the comer behind a wooden chair. There are assorted posters and postcards taped to the walls. One says: TEACH PEACE. Another: FEAR NO ART. There is a sign hung on the interior office door that reads: SCIENCE IS HERE. The words are inside an arrow. The arrow points to where one man sits. *** Inside the smaller secondary office, Bill McLaughlin is on the phone. A teaching assistant waits to talk to him outside, and another student, who could pass for a secretary, sits typing at a computer. She says she is helping McLaughlin write abook. He writes textbooks in the summer, the woman says. This will be his seventh. More unused books line the shelves. They are Please see McLAUGHLlN^n 7 Race labels difficult to define By Margaret Behm Staff writer When describing the race of a person, words are powerful. Words such as Hispanic, Chicano and Latino may confuse or even offend people. Adelaida Martinez, who is from Ecuador, said she was sur )f prised when she discovered that the } United States identifies people by their race. “I find it amusing when I get a form from this university, and it asks me to identify myself by race,” said Martinez, a professor of modem languages and literature. “That is something that no one asks in my country.” ine country ^ that a person is fl born in is an * identifying factor in many countries, Martinez said. The term Latino is inclusive and means that a person is of Hispanic descent and bom in the United States, Martinez said. 1 Miguel Carranza said the term Latino is viewed upon most favorably by people because | it reflects the f nationalities it represents. Hispanic is not viewed on as favorably as Latino, because the govern ment placed it on people, Carranza said. “It’s a term that gained favor by the federal government in the 1970s,” said Carranza, associate professor of Please see LABELS on 8