Semester begins amid influx of campus construction projects
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If you’re running late for
class and looking for a shortcut,
watch out
Unless you feel like scaling
the chain-link fences scattered
across campus, you’ll have to
take the sidewalk.
But many of die detours will
soon come to an end, as several
campus construction projects
are slated to finish in the 2000
01 academic year.
Richards Hall is the first of
the buildings scheduled for
completion, as the $8.7 million
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renovation should finish up in
September, said Howard Parker,
UNL facilities planning and
construction manager.
The building, which was
only partially handicapped
accessible before renovation,
will now have new elevators and
be completely accessible, he
said.
Other changes to the build
ing include new lighting, air
conditioning, windows and
walls, Parker said.
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that has quickly transformed
into a nearly complete building
is the Kauffman Residential
Center, which is north of the
Nebraska Union.
The $14.7 million project,
which will house the J.D.
Edwards Honors Program, is set
to finish in January, said Tracy
Aksamit, assistant manager of
architectural and engineering
services.
Along with dormitory-style
suites, the center will hold facul
ty members’ and administra
tors’ offices, classrooms and a
dining hall, she said.
Ground was broken for the
center in July 1999, and, if all
goes as planned, students will
be able to move in for the fall
2001 semes
ter, she said.
While
new struc
tures are
going up
around cam
pus, two
buildings will
be coming
down this
fall.
After the
new Teachers
College
building is
completed,
Bancroft and
Lyman halls
will be
demolished.
The new
Teachers
College
building,
which will
connect
Mabel Lee
and Henzlik halls,
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the Kauffman
Residential
CenterJust
north of the
Nebraska
Union. The
$14.7 million
honors pro*
gram building
should be com
pleted in
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students could
move in by the
Ml of2001,
said Tracy
Aksami^ assis
tant manager
of architectural
and engineer
ing services.
is scheduled to be completed in
July.
Other projects beginning
this semester are the construc
tion of a parking structure at
17th and R streets, a newly locat
ed journalism and mass com
muni cations building and a new
chemical engineering building,
Parker said.
The journalism building,
Anderson Hall, will be in the for
mer Security Mutual Life build
ing at Centennial Mall and Q
streets, Parker said.
Othmer Hall, the chemical
engineering building that broke
ground Tuesday, will be between
16th and 17th streets and Vine
Street, Parker said.
The current influx of con
struction projects
is the largest in the history of the
University of Nebraska-Lincoln,
Parker said.
“The face of the campus will
be greatly improved in die next
five years,’’ he said.
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BYjlLLZEMAN_
Everyone knows raising fac
ulty salaries costs money.
The question that is now
being debated is whose pockets
the money should come from:
the students or the taxpayers.
The University of Nebraska
Board of Regents has taken a
step in one direction at its July
meeting by requesting from the
Legislature a 5.22 percent
increase in faculty salaries for
both 2001-02 and 2002-03.The
board also passed a resolution
that formally commits the
regents to bringing faculty
salaries above the midpoint of
the university's peers.
But raising salaries to this
level cannot be achieved
through state aid alone, and the
weight may fall on the shoul
ders of the students, said Joel
Schafer, president of the
Association of Students of the
University of Nebraska.
Schafer said he supported a
reasonable increase, and his
actions within ASUN will
depend on how high the tuition
jumps.
He may propose a
Government
L i a i 8 o n
Committee
directive to
lobby for the
university’s
proposed
budget
request to
the
“ASUN doesn’t have a lot of direct
political power, but I think the
Legislature is interested in what stu
dent government has to say. ”
Hal Hansen
Government Liaison Committee Chairman
L.Cgi3iaiUIC,
but Schafer said he needed to
discuss the issue with members
of ASUN and other students
first
Schafer said senators will
not take a stance on the tuition
increase until they know how
big the increase will be.
The regents' budget must be
approved by the Legislature and
Gov. Mike Johanns. From that
the regents will figure how
much of a tuition raise is need
ed, Schafer said.
"It's hard to say if and when
we'U know anything,” he said.
Government Liaison
Committee Chairman Hal
Hansen said he thought it was
important for ASUN to evaluate
the university’s actions, partic
ularly those involving tuition
\ \
increases.
"Some are reasonable, some
are excessive,” he said. "Student
government’s job is to decide
which is which.”
Hansen said the senate
must determine where the
money will go and if poorer stu
dents will be able to afford
tuition.
If ASUN passes a directive to
lobby for or against a tuition
increase, Hansen said, the
group will contact state sena
tors, university administrators
and regents to share its view
points.
"ASUN doesn’t have a lot of
direct political power,” Hansen
said, "but I think the Legislature
is interested in what student
government has to say.”
Man caught with his alleged sex victim
BY JOSH FUNK
A well-known Lincoln author
and youth volunteer accused of
child molestation remained in jail
Wednesday afternoon after the
court seized his $10,000 bail for
violating the bond’s no-contact
provisions.
Police arrested Thomas Frye,
43, early last Friday when he was
found with the 9-year-old boy
who accused him of sexual
assault in February.
Frye, 6139 Kearney St., had
been barred from seeing the boy
by both the conditions of his
bond and a protection order filed
in February.
District Court Judge Bernard
McGinn assessed a new $300,000
bond with the same conditions
for the first-degree sexual assault
charge and a $25,000 bond for
violating the protection order, a
misdemeanor
Lancaster County Sheriff
Deputy Todd Duncan testified
that he found Frye’s empty car
parked where a bicycle path
k
intersects 98th Street shortly after
1 am on Friday.
Frye then approached the
officer from the west, Duncan
said.
Frye said he was alone, but
Duncan said he was suspicious of
Frye’s story and wanted to check
the bicycle trail for other people.
Frye then admitted to Duncan
that he was there with the boy.
Frye and the boy were there to
visit die grave of the boy's dog.
The boy had become dis
traught about his dog’s death after
watching the movie “My Dog
Skip," the boy's mother testified.
The mother said that she had
pleaded with Frye to come talk to
her son that night because she
thought Frye could calm him
down. She gave Frye permission
to take her son to the grave site
but stayed home because she had
been ill with the flu.
The boy’s mother said she
believes that nothing happened
between Frye and her son. Both
the boy and his mother gave
sworn depositions in June stating
that the original allegations woe
falsp
Frye had been counseling the
boy since last September, and his
mother said she felt her son had
been improving.
In February when the allega
tions were made, the boy had
been hospitalized for depression
and behavioral problems.
His mother said the boy was
adjusting to new medications
when the allegations were made.
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