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As the administrator with major
responsibility for supervision of the
Women's Resource Center and as the
associate director of the Nebraska Un
ions, I Z3 extremely disappointed by
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the editorial entitled Women's Re
source Center ingoring majority's needs"
(Daily Nebraskan, Feb. 3). The Daily
Nebraskan should depend on fair and
objective treatment of fact as the basis
for its credibility, and when the editor
either is unaware or ignores facts in
his editorial comment the paper is, of
course, the weaker for it.
For those readers who value facts,
the case of the Union Board and the
women's lounge users is a simple one.
A flyer was placed in the first floor
lounge of the Nebraska Union notify
ing users of a potential change of func
tion for the space. The notice also
encouraged interested students to share
their reactions with the Nebraska Union
Board. This is one of many techniques
which the board has us?d to secure
input from students prior to making
decisions. Some women who use the
lounge responded to the request for
input by starting a petition to urge the
Union Board not to change the func
tion of the lounge. The women needed
somewhere to place the petition so it
would be accessible to those who wished
to sign it, and they asked to place it in
the Women's Resource Center. I per
sonally gave permission for them to do
this so that the objective of the Union
Board to get reaction could be achieved.
. It is important to realize that provid
ing a convenient place for a petition
does not imply endorsement; it merely
implies service to a group of students.
After the petition was presented to the
ojuCGring opinion
Union Board, a Daily Nebraskan repor
ter visited the women s Resource Cen
ter and wa3 told that the WRC had, in
fact, not taken a position concerning
the lounge function but rather they
were providing space for the petition
to be kept as a service to interested
women. What happened with that infor
mation I can only speculate. For wha
tever reason, the editorial was not
based on fact since it stated, ". . . the
WRC i3 leading the campaign that
could, if successful, keep the Nebraska
Union from having a 24-hour compu
ter center."
There is another point to be made in
this case. There are 170 women who
signed a petition asking the Union
Board to continue the first floor wo
men's lounge. Are they "at it ngain" and
i3 it "hard to figure out just how much
value" they have as the editorial stated
mistakenly about the Women's Resource
Center? Are these women "ignoring
majority's needs" as the headline stated?
Or, are these 170 women simply res
ponding to a request for input by regis-'
tering their opinions? Is their partici
pation in the decision-making process
of this university an act which a news
paper editor should deplore? While I
wa3 angered by the writer's inability to
use facts in the editorial, I was sick
ened by the implication that the women
who responded to a request to partici
pate in institutional decision-making
somehow shouldn't have.
I hope the Daily Nebraskan simply
made a mistake in not getting the
facts. I hope the implication that the
open forum isn't important was accid
ental. At the very least, an apology
would seem to be in order to the
Women's Resource Center and the 170
women whose only sin was to give their
opinion when it was requested.
Sara Boatman
Director, Campus Activities and
Programs
Associate Director, Nebraska Unions
erminaL site dilemma needs student input
We students who complain about
our inability to effect changes in uni
versity affairs which affect our lives
now have an opportunity to put up or
shut up.
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I suggest we put up.
Control Data donated 260 computer
terminals to dear old NU. One hundred
of those are fated to serve the general
UNL population (that's us, kids).
Those terminals will be placed in resi
dence halls and, perhaps, in the Neb
raska Union.
Details remain to be resolved, how
ever: their resolution should rest on
student demands.
The Nebraska Union Board is inter
ested in providing space for some of
the terminals. Just where they would
go and how many hours of the day they
will be available is still up for debate.
Students who will be affected by the
outcome of that debate should make
known to decision makers (Le. the
Union Board) just what their needs
are.
A recent petition drive against using
the women's lounge on the first floor of
the union for the computer
facility is an excellent example of what
students should do. A large number of
people use that lounge; they did not
wish to relinquish the right to continue
doing so. Those who initiated the peti
tion drive were eminently correct in
speaking out for themselves the
union is public space, they are the pub
lic. They spoke in defense of their
interests. They are to be applauded.
Interested students should consider
several questions. What need is there
for a computer terminal facility in
the union? How much student
fee money will it take to provide daily
maintenance of the proposed facility,
pay for utilities, provide security if it is
to be open 24 hours and execute any
necessary renovations? With the pro
posed facilities in residence halls and
the existing 24-hour facilities at Neb
raska Hall, would a 24-hour service in
the union be superfluous? ,
Nebraska Union Director Daryl Swan
son said if 24-hour access" is not criti
cal, the whole building is open for con
sideration. Because practically every
square inch of space in the union is
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displaced no matter where the facility
ends up.
A need for increased computer ter
minal availability definitely exists, as
current facilities are proving inade
quate to meet the growing demand.
Officials are prepared to accept stu
dent advice oh the issue of whether a
facility in the union is worth the
money, work and worry it would re
quire. Swanson said he is indifferent about
the location of the proposed facility.
He said he's more interested in student
interests, because the union is public
space. Students who care should take
that as an invitation to make their
desires known, much as the initiators
of the women's lounge petition did.
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