By David Ochsner, Scarlet Editor
Plans continue to take shape for the anticipated Nebraska Union expansion project, according to Kim Todd, interim director of physical campus planning and landscape architect.
Todd said said students will be an important part of the process, and noted that a project team being assembled by Daryl Swanson, director of the Nebraska Union, includes a student majority.
"I will attend the ASUN meeting on Oct. 25 to get student input," said Todd, "and we will start our first meetings with the design team with intensive sessions Oct. 26 and 27." Architects for the union project are Sinclair Hille & Associates of Lincoln teamed with Sasaki & Associates of Boston.
Because the expansion will occur to the north of the union, the Broyhill fountain will be removed. Todd said the Broyhills, who contributed money toward the construction of the fountain in memory of their daughter, will be included in the discussions of the union expansion project.
Artist Maya Lin, who is best known for her award-winning design of the Vietnam Memorial in Washington, D.C., has expressed interest in designing the water feature for the union expansion. "We want the new water feature to be something that is still attractive in the winter," said Todd.
Todd said designs for the union expansion will be drawn up during the winter, and work on construction documents should begin in early summer of 1996. Construction is slated to begin in late fall of 1996.
Richards Hall to Be Accessible
The first floor of Richards Hall will made accessible this fall with the construction of wheelchair ramps on the south entrance of the building.
The ramp design, which was approved by the UNL Aesthetic Review Committee, will feature two ramps, positioned on east and west sides of the south door, which will be fitted with an automatic opening device. The project also will include the installation of a unisex bathroom on the first floor that will be handicapped accessible.
Todd said the construction will occur this fall, and the first floor will be accessible for the second semester. One art class with a disabled student now meets at the old Taco Inn building because of the lack of accessibility.
Todd said the ramp project is envisioned as a temporary solution, since a major renovation of Richards Hall is a priority for capital construction funds.
"The ramps are temporary in the sense that we need to make the
building accessible now, but we don't want to do something that would
limit renovation in the future.
By Karen Hart Underwood, News & Information
The Parking Advisory Committee voted to recommend building a 600-stall parking garage west of Memorial Stadium at its monthly meeting Tuesday. They will present their plan to the Board of Regents in December.
The site for the proposed garage is the Area 10 lot west of Memorial Stadium, said Tad McDowell, manager of parking services. McDowell said bridge construction scheduled for the next few years will eliminate nearly 300 parking spaces in city lots west of the stadium, and added that increasing enrollment and fewer parking areas close to campus contribute to the need for a parking garage.
McDowell said the proposed multilevel parking garage will cost $5.4 million, and the university will issue revenue bonds to pay for construction.
In other business, the committee heard from Shawntell Hurtgen, ASUN president, who requested additional parking meters be added on East Campus. The committee brainstormed on developing a student one-permit parking system that would reduce administrative costs and be easier for students to use.
The committee also discussed ways to eliminate counterfeit permits.
Currently, individuals caught using a counterfeit permit have their car
towed, are given a $100 fine and have their parking privileges revoked
for one year. These measures haven't curbed the number of counterfeit
permits found each year. The committee decided to study the Student Code
of Conduct to determine whether or not using counterfeit permits is a
violation.
By Kim Hachiya, News & Information
The fall campus safety walk scored two firsts Oct. 10. A record number of people attended and a record amount of campus was walked.
Joan Konecky, chair of the Parking Advisory Committee, said she and others who organized the first of this year's two walks really wanted to cover a lot of ground and they wanted to visit parts of campus that have not been viewed during past walks.
So, 28 folks started out from the remote lot at 14th and New Hampshire streets about 10:35 p.m. and walked (after first waiting for a train at 14th Street) to the Campus Recreation Center. The group also walked through the Reunion lots, the lot north of Nebraska Hall, the lots east of Abel-Sandoz, the east side of the Beadle Center, the lots just north of 18th and R streets, the lots south of R Street and finally all the way to the commuter lot south of the Daywatch at 19th and R.
From there, the group bused back to east side of Memorial Stadium, where it walked south between the stadium and Avery, between Manter and Richards toward Architecture, back northeast between Woods and Sheldon north to Hamilton. There, they viewed the dark and foreboding Cather garden just west of Love Library. After crossing under the Love Link, the group trouped across the fountain plaza and moved east on S Street to 16th, south to R and then west to 14th and R, where a bus picked everyone up for a return trip to the New Hampshire lot starting point.
Along the way, burned out bulbs, overgrown vegetation and other general concerns were noted.
As the night wore on, folks dropped out. By 1 a.m., Konecky and others decided to reschedule a walk for East Campus to later this fall so that campus can be walked as thoroughly as the City Campus.
The walk was co-sponsored by the Parking Advisory Committee, the
Police Advisory Committee and the Campus Safety Committee. Among those
attending were representatives from Parking Services, UNL Police and
Landscape Services. Paul Carlson, interim vice chancellor for business
and finance, and Del Weed, campus safety officer, also attended as did a
number of students and others interested in the event.
Sellmyer said committee members are now checking with references for
each of the candidates. The committee will continue its deliberations
with the goal of announcing a short list of candidates to be presented to
University President L. Dennis Smith sometime in November, Sellmyer said.
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