Photo Courtesy of Chris Hartley
BROYHILL BREW: Students from Neihardt Residence Center attempt to turn Broyhill Fountain into a
witch's brew after their Halloween party Monday night. Students from the residence hall used dry ice dur
ing a party with trick-or-treaters from Lincoln.They disposed the left-over dry ice into the fountain after
the party.
Final Antelope hearing held
BY SHARON KOLBERT
With more than 1,200 public meet
ings held in the past four years to discuss
the proposed Antelope Valley project, the
Lincoln City Council held the final public
hearing Monday night.
About 40 people attended the meet
ing to express their opinions on the pro
posed $ 175-million dollar building plan.
Nearly 20 people spoke in favor of the
plan, which would redirect traffic and
floodwater in the heart of Lincoln.
More than a dozen spoke against the
plan, saying they feared the expense and
impact upon the neighboring communi
ties.
Michelle Waite, University of
Nebraska-Lincoln assistant to the chan
cellor for community relations, spoke on
behalf of Interim Chancellor Harvey
Perlman, who was unable to attend the
City Council meeting. Waite reiterated
Perlman’s support of the Antelope Valley
plan.
“A strong research university attracts
new business and growth,” Waite said.
Part of the Antelope Valley project will
free the area between Vine, R, 17th and
18th streets for university construction,
including six new planned research labs.
In expressing the chancellor’s support
for the project, Waite said an expansion of
the research facilities at the university
will encourage economic growth in the
area.
Council Chairman Jerry Shoecraft
asked Waite about the possibility of the
UNL campus' becoming more isolated
from the rest of the community by the
new Antelope Valley structures.
Waite said part of the atmosphere of
an academic environment is having stu
dents and faculty in close proximity and
that the Antelope Valley project would
promote such an atmosphere.
Tim Francis, a Lincoln resident who
spoke at the public hearing, agreed with
Waite.
Francis lives in the Malone neighbor
hood east of City Campus and said the
Antelope Valley project would benefit his
neighborhood by providing a more dis
tinct border between the university prop
erty and the residential area.
"We look forward to being able to pro
mote our neighborhood as something
other that student housing,” Francis said.
Not all of those in attendance were in
complete agreement with the Antelope
Valley proposal.
Phase one of the project would
require six to 10 years to complete and
Councilman Jonathan Cook expressed
his concern about the flexibility of such a
long-range plan.
During the proceedings,
Councilwoman Annette McRoy asked
both sides how the plan compared with
the failed Northeast Radial plan.
That Northeast Radial plan was con
ceived in 1952, and after the public voted
it down in 1981, it left the city with nearly
83 acres of acquired property.
John Harris, a member of the City
Impact organization, criticized the Joint
Antelope Valley Authority for not dis
cussing the needs of the residents in the
affected area.
“Everyone talks about driveways and
railroad tracks, but no one talks about the
people,” Harris said. “If Antelope Valley
doesn’t address these issues, it doesn’t do
any good.”
At the end of the hearing the council
tabled the matter. It will vote on the
Antelope Valley proposal next Monday.
Seeking a perfect pumpkin
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WILLCOX, Ariz.-The
trick and the treat at
Hunsdon Farms is finding
the perfect pumpkin.
Thousands of people
flock to the massive pump
kin patch in southeastern
Arizona every Halloween
and venture through the
sea of orange with the goal
of picking that just-right
jack-o-lantem to carve for
Halloween.
Carla Chadwick and her
family make the two-hour
trek from Tucson every
year.
“It’s good for them to
come out here and see
where they come from,”
said Chadwick, at the farm
with her 13-year-old son
and her daughter and
niece, both 7. “The kids get
a kick out of it and they
leave very tired."
Cory and Julie Hunsdon
started growing pumpkins
in the early 1980s after
someone said it was a good
way to make money during
Halloween. Their operation
has since blossomed to 22
acres and this year’s
bumper crop will produce
3,000 to 5,000 pumpkins
peracre.
On weekends through
October the Hunsdons
offer customers you-pick
hay rides for about 2,000 to
2,500 people a day.
Weekdays, folks walk out
into some of the fields
themselves.
“I drive the tractor a lot,
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but I can hear the kids
going, ‘Pumpkins!’” Cory
Hunsdon said. “Little kids
usually pick a bigger pump
, kin than they need” - and
frequently ones nearly as
big as they are.
Many customers, par
ticularly children, are over
whelmed, he said.
“They can’t make up
their mind. It’s like, ‘OK,
there’s a million pumpkins
here to look at, and which
one do we want?”’ he said
Generally, an adult will
buy the large ones for a
party, “to set out and make a
statement, or a display,” he
said
About 30 percent of this
year’s crop will be sold to
customers who pick their
own.
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the decision: Trick-or-treat, or sit and read?
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“People are much more
relaxed about their costumes,”
Lewis said. “It’s been very
untypical.”
Lewis said that most people
have already picked up their
costumes. Fringe and Tassel
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14 are all having costume par
ties to commemorate the holi
day.
"Halloween is one of our
two biggest nights; the other is
New Year’s,” the Q supervisor
David Stopp said. The Q's cos
tume party boasts $700 in
prizes. The club, at 226 S. 9th St.,
is open to people 19 and over
and has a $6 cover charge.
Club 1427, at 1427 O St., also
is expecting a large turnout for
its costume party, which starts
at 9 p.m. The cover charge is $5,
and the party is open to people
21 and over.
"The regular® usually come
in and whoop it up,” manager
Jake Balcom said.
Studio 14 could not be
reached for comment on its
party.
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Carty Tegt a junior textiles, dotting and design major, pieces together a Mary Poppins costume Monday
night at Fringe and lassel.Tegt plans to spend Halloween with her friends.
Marijuana easier
to get than beer
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BOSTON - Northeastern University junior Robert
Devaney says many of his fellow students have trou
ble buying beer at nearby bars - but no problem get
ting marijuana.
“It’s the alternative to drinking,” Devaney said
Monday. "To get alcohol, someone is going to make
sure you’re of age, whereas marijuana is easily avail
able. I would definitely say it's a big problem on cam
pus.”
Marijuana use among college students rose 22
percent between 1993 and 1999, according to a study
released this week by the Harvard School of Public
Health.
Seven years ago, 12.9 percent of students claimed
to have used marijuana in the previous month. Last
year, the figure was 15.7 percent
The research was based on the responses of more
that 14,000 students selected randomly from 119
four-year colleges in 40 states.
“I think it shows the need for colleges to approach
this problem, but it also shows the need to beef up the
programs earlier - in high schools and even middle
schools,” said Dr. Henry Wechsler, who headed the
study.
The increase was reported among all races and
types of students, though the study found that mari
juana users are typically single and white. Marijuana
use was higher among students who participate in
other high-risk behaviors, such as binge drinking, cig
arette smoking and having multiple sexual partners,
the study found.
Marijuana use was highest at colleges in the
Northeast and lowest in Southern colleges. It was also
highest at colleges classified as “very competitive,"
and lowest at those considered “not competitive.”
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