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volume 111, issue 062
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From left, Matthew White, Leah Hollibaugh and her boyfriend, Dylan Bacon, all in their early 20s, watch an online video of the Occupy Wall Street crackdown in Manhattan, one of many posted by witnesses. The three and other members of Occupy Lincoln have been carefully watching police clashes with protesters across the country, but most said they were even more committed to the movement.
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Despite rumors of demolition plans, UNL officials say Brace Laboratory will remain standing while university awaits additional renovation funding Elias Youngquist Daily Nebraskan
One creaking footstep up the wooden stairs announces movement to all of Brace Laboratory. Surprisingly the 112-year-old stairs are holding up well. The green linoleum cannot say the same. In places it’s held together by duct tape. Unlike most labs, the building smells of dusty disuse and century-old wood, rather than chemical agents and machinery. All but one room in this ancient laboratory is empty and unused, leaving many to question the building’s future. Since 2010, Brace
Laboratory has sat empty because of the exodus of physics majors to Jorgensen Hall. Only one room on the first floor is in use — as a landscape architecture, design and architecture design studio. However, until funding can be found, the building will remain in its current state, according to Ted Weidner, the assistant vice chancellor for facilities management and planning. Construction for the $79,000 building began in June 1904 and was completed in late 1905. Christened as the Brace Laboratory of Physics on Feb. 15, 1906, the only building to top its age is
the nearby Architecture Hall, teaching in the 1800s with built in 1892. the nice woodworking and This history for many pro- this cool banister.” fessors and Like many students is a aged buildThe ceilings major reason the were high and ings, they apprecibuilding held ate the build- the floors were secrets that ing. further added creaky. It was kind “The ceilto the charings were of like living in the acter of the high and the 1920s.” laboratory. floors were “The other Timothy Gay creaky,” said unl physics and astronomy professor cool thing Timothy Gay, was the ata physics and tic,” Gay astronomy professor who said. “You could go in the worked frequently in the lab. fourth-floor attic. It was “It was kind of like living in the 1920s. There was this brace: old auditorium that was like
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Lutheran Center choir member Bridget Jones, a junior actuarial science major, sings along with fellow choir members Wednesday. “I really enjoyed singing in the choir and sharing peace with the clown that was there for the party that day,” said Caleb Fangmeier, a member of the church and
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a senior computer science and physics major. While the focus of the party was to celebrate the past, White said he wants to use it to build for the future.
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company in town. As a member of the protest’s daily nebraskan media team, Chandler said, After two months of she keeps tabs on all the marching, sit-ins and news and helps deliver camping in public parks in it to the rest of the camp protest of income inequal- during campwide meetings ity and the power that pro- held every few days. Several others got up testers say corporations wield over politicians and in the earliest hours of government, Occupy Wall the morning to watch the Street and the dozens of Manhattan crackdown as protests it inspired in cities it happened via online across the country appear streaming video, alerted by to be wearing out their social media like Twitter. Tuesday evening, particiwelcome. Early Tuesday morning, pants on the steps of the police swept through the mall’s sidewalks were still original Occupy encamp- watching those videos on a ment in New York City, ar- laptop. Dana Garrison, a junior resting 140 and completely agriculture education maclearing Manhattan’s Zuccotti Park of the tent city jor at the University of Nebraska-Linthat has coln, joked Having more called the about the park home people involved widespread for two is just powerful in itself. movement months. to curb They would feel a lot M a y o r some OcM i c h a e l more discouraged if Bloomberg they were alone in this.” cupy protests when cited saniif she tation and Dana Garrison asked was paying unl student, occupy lincoln member health conattention cerns at to recent the cramped park as justinews. fication for the raid in the “Which city?” she asked middle of the night. Across the country, po- with a smile. But while hundreds of lice in Oakland, Calif., have clashed with protesters, protesters across the counfilling the streets down- try have been arrested after town with clouds of tear resisting law enforcement gas and the booms of flash efforts, Occupy Lincoln grenades as they try to dis- doesn’t fit in that pattern, band the Occupy Oakland with only four related arcamp there. Some gas can- rests in the past month isters caused injuries, but after a sit-in at the downas in New York, the police town Wells Fargo buildcited public health con- ing. Marchers then praised cerns, as well as a shoot- Lincoln Police’s handling ing last week that occurred of that incident and have often pointed to a polite near the camp. The list goes on, with relationship between the arrests in Denver this department and Occupy last weekend after 2,000 Lincoln. “There’s been a really marched downtown and some tried to set up tents good dialogue, I think that’s in a public park. Portland, how we should say it,” said Los Angeles and other cit- Garrison, who was in Denies have also seen increas- ver with several other Ocingly impatient city gov- cupy Lincoln members this past weekend and saw the ernments. Members of Occupy Lin- clash between officers and coln, the city’s own exten- protesters. “They’re doing sion of the movement that their job the way that it is camped out on the Cen- should be done.” That has included helptennial Mall north of the ing the camp understand Capitol, have been watchthe few rules of camping ing closely. “Oh yeah, I’ve been all occupy: over it,” said Jen Chandler, who works at an insurance
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Lutheran Center celebrates 60 years, looks to the future On Nov. 13, the Lutheran Student Center celebrated 60 years of dedicated service to the students of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The center, nestled behind Selleck Quadrangle and across the street from Neihardt Residence Hall, hosted a birthday bash Sunday to celebrate its history and launched a fundraising campaign in honor of its years on campus. “It’s great to be in a place that has such a long history of mission and ministry,” The Rev. Adam White said. “I think that sometimes we are in such a big hurry to get to the future that we fail to kind of see how our lives are shaped by the possibility of what others have laid before us.” The center’s birthday bash was full of pizza, cakes, checkered table cloths and even a clown. The party drew about 80 guests and members to celebrate the rich history of the church.
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