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UNL freshmen rally for student tickets
Frannie Sprouls Daily Nebraskan
About 20 University of Nebraska-Lincoln freshmen met outside of Memorial Stadium on Friday to rally for student football tickets. The ultimate goal of the rally was to allow for freshmen voices to be heard. Much of
the outrage focused on the amount of seats made available to UNL students. “We want to see an increase of students in the stadium,” said Tanner Vonnahme, a freshman general studies major and the creator of the UNL Student Rally for Tickets Facebook event. A lot of freshmen “didn’t even have a chance” to get
student tickets, Vonnahme said. Tom Osborne, NU athletic director, met with the students just outside the stadium. Osborne answered questions, assuring students “we will do what we can” and apologized for the problem. “It shows they care,” said Jim McManus , another freshman general studies major.
On Friday, Huskers.com announced 200 more tickets would be available to students. “We’ve helped every person on the waiting list, so this is an additional 200 tickets,” said Chris Anderson, associate athletic director for community relations. The tickets are in the East Stadium student section and
are standing room only. The price is the same as the regular season ticket price: $147 plus a processing fee. Anderson said East Stadium was the best place to add standing room for students; they couldn’t be added on to the west side because of the television truck. “We’ve tried to be as helpful as possible and tried to
get more freshmen in the stadium,” she said. “This is all we can safely do.” Students are also trying to get signatures on a petition demanding more student tickets. Tyler Hatfield, a freshman
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New facilities Irene impacts students accommodate I was just worried NU athletes about my plenty of time to watch the storm lumber toDaily nebraskan ward their homes. Both More than a week after students and their famihitting the East Coast, lies said they were more the effect of Tropical fortunate than many afStorm Irene is carved ter the floods receded. across more than a dozen states. At least 44 Before the storm “I was following it deaths are attributed to pretty closely,” said MiIrene. A few thousand chael Dunn, a junior homes and businesses are still without power, sociology major from according to wtnh.com, Bethel, Conn., located and hundreds of roads about 20 miles from have been washed the coast and 10 miles away by flooding. The from the New York bordamage will likely der. In fact, Dunn said, make the storm one of he told his parents and the nation’s most ex- sister about the storm’s pensive natural disas- approach. “Mike sent a text sayters. ing, ‘Are you getting Even after it weakready for the hurriened below hurricane level, Irene was par- cane?’ I replied, ‘What ticularly damaging due hurricane?’” said Mito its size — more than chael’s mother Rose500 miles wide — and mary Dunn by phone. moved very slowly, “He was more worried with about half the about it than we were.” She decided to stay speed of the average partly because there hurricane on the eastern seaboard, accord- were no evacuation oring to The New York ders for her area, she Times. This allowed it said, in contrast to sevto dump several inches eral areas of New Jerof rain as it moved up sey and New York. “The other thing the coast over several is, I’ve lived here my days. whole life,” Rosemary For two University of Nebraska-Lincoln stu- Dunn said. “When dents, one from Con- we’ve had (storms like necticut, the other from this), they haven’t been New York, they had very dangerous.” Nevertheless, the Dan Holtmeyer
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Student athletes at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln will have two new sports facilities to swing, shoot and sweat inside this fall. Athletes from the men’s and women’s Husker basketball teams will have a new place to hone their skills in the $18.7 million, 71,420-squarefoot facility called the Hendricks Training Complex, according to a UNL press release. The building extends from the south side of the Bob Devaney Sports Center. The Hendricks Training Complex contains multiple practice courts for both teams and makes room for a new wrestling facility and a new strength complex and nutrition area. Its construction also allowed for 4,000 square feet of renovated space inside the Devaney. Sluggers on the baseball and softball teams can practice inside the new $4.75 million Haymarket Park Training Facility near both Haymarket Park and Bowlin Stadium. The 22,000-square-foot facility — to be completed this month — will house a large practice area, batting cages and pitching tunnels, as well as restrooms and a storage room. The new practice spaces free up practice congestion for the athletes, and, one official hopes, they can help the athletic department continue its symbiotic financial relationship with the university. “If the only lab you can get for your biology major is at 3:30 p.m. and that’s when your (basketball) practice is, sometimes you had to miss practice,” said John Ingram, associate athletic director. That kind of scenario seemed commonplace for members of the men’s and women’s basketball teams
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In the past we have had to share facilities with a number of different teams.” cory burleson NU baseball catcher
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the past few years because of practice schedule trade-offs, Ingram said. Every semester the teams would have to switch between morning and afternoon practice schedules, which, he said, disrupted school schedules for the students. The men’s and women’s teams not only competed with each other for the space, but the Devaney also housed many other university events, Ingram said. With the Hendricks Traning Complex, each of the teams will have its own practice courts, he said. The baseball and softball teams saw similar practicetime troubles previously that the new facilities might resolve. “In the past we have had to share facilities with a number of different teams, limiting the number of hours and space we could practice in the colder months,” said Cory Burleson, a senior finance major and catcher on the Husker baseball team. Burleson said he and his teammates are excited to use the new indoor baseball practice facility and have a space of their own to practice on. With the new facility, Burleson said the team can spend
The other thing is, I’ve lived here my whole life. When we’ve had (storms like this), they haven’t been very dangerous.” rosemary dunn
mother of unl student keviin dunn
Athletes: see page 4
parents, really. Is the house going to hold up? Are my parents going to be OK?”
Kevin luparello
sophomore political science major
family made sure there was nothing outside that could blow around and stocked up on easily prepared food and cash, in case the ATMs stopped working. In Rockville Centre, N.Y., on the other side of Long Island Sound from the Dunns, Denise and Ed Luparello were stocking up on food, batteries and gasoline — stores were out of generators and plywood for windows — after deciding to stick it out, Denise Luparello said in a phone interview. “The night of the hurricane, (local officials) said where you are at 5 p.m. is probably where you should stay,” she said. “This house is 100 years old, and we’ve been through a couple other storms,” she added. The rest of the family, and anywhere else they could have gone, was in the mandatory evacuation zone, she said. “So we decided, ‘Well, we’re just going to stay here and see how it goes.” As the storm’s edge crossed over the town, they kept in “constant contact” with their son, Kevin Luparello,
a sophomore political science major. “I was just worried about my parents, really,” he said, asking himself, “Is the house going to hold up? Are my parents going to be OK?” ‘There is no help coming.’
The storm hit at about 3 p.m., Denise Luparello said, adding that as Irene moved along, both the rain and the trees outside were “completely horizontal” from the wind. “It lasted at least 12 hours, constant, constant wind and rain,” she said, adding that those were sleepless hours. “At 11 o’clock that night, the local officials’ announcements changed from a general ‘Stay where you are’ to the more ominous ‘If you’re in trouble now, there is no help coming,’” she said. Kevin said he gathered as much from talking to his parents as the storm hit: a lot of wind and rain. “My mom said, ‘Thank God our basement didn’t flood,’” he said. “They said the house was holding up, everything was OK.” In Connecticut,
irene: see page 5
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