Thursday, September 6, 1934
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Daily Nebraskan
ASTOJ rejects facunltty suggestion
to disconttaae mise of down slips
By Kcxia Scdcrbcrg
Dtiljr Ntbr&tkan EttfT Editor
ASUN voted unanimously Wed
nesday night not to eliminate
down slips for a one-year period.
The resolution was brought to
the council by the faculty senate
and, if passed, may have gone
into effect this year.
Sen. Ken Bukowski said some
faculty members do not think
down slips are necessary because
students who attend classes
usually know how they are doing
and those who skip classes can
guess the grade they are getting.
Sen. Ross Davidson said some
students need down slips as an
incentive to do better. He said
this especially is true of some
freshmen. Down slips, he said,
"hit them like a sledge hammer"
and "wakes those people up a lit
tle bit"
Sen. Paul Charelli said he is
concerned that some students
actually do not have any idea
how they are doing in classes
because their work is not returned
to them. Me said down slips force
the faculty member to make an
estimate on students' grades by
mid-semester.
Down slips also give students a
chance to see if a grading mistake
has been made up to mid-semester,
Sen. Laura Harvey said. She
said it is easier to correct an error
at that time than at the end of the
semester..
Because of the long weekend,
no other business was brought to
ASUN. However, Mark Scudder,
president, reported during a per
sonal interview last Friday that
the council is:
Looking into the administra
tion's suggestion to make summer
orientation mandatory.-Scudder
said some senators from their
areas won't be able to take time
off from summer jobs.
Hoping to get started on book
store construction.
Suggesting that a Student
Recreation Center be put on a list
for priority construction.
Planning for the Government
Liason Committee to sponsor a
voter registration drive on Sept.
10 to 14 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Booths will be set up in the Neb
raska Union on Monday, Tuesday
and Wednesday and at the East
Union Thursday and Friday.
'Space invaders' await Union home
Computers are space invaders
and, in the Nebraska Union, space
is hard to come by.
Mary Marcy, president of the
Union Board, said a new compu
ter room may satisfy the needs of
women and handicapped persons
but would reduce lounge size and
could displace television viewers.
"Anytime we install a new pro
ject or service we displace some
one," Marcy said. "Who do we
displace?"
Under the new option, compu
ters would be put in the television
lounge across from Union Square.
Reconstruction could make the
center available 24 hours and
make it accessible to the handi
capped. Television viewers would
be moved to the northwest corner
of the lounge.
However, television viewers at
the south end of the lounge may
also be moved. Marcy said this
space may be needed for pro
gramming because the lounge will
be smaller.
Marcy said the plan is an alter
native to revamping the first floor
women's lounge. The board decid
ed to convert the lounge last Feb
ruary despite 1 78 signature gath
ered in protest to the change.
Marcy said the board doesnt
think the first plan is bad, but
thinks the second plan shows a
stronger commitment to the handi
capped. However, she said other
buildings on campus will have
computers available for the han
dicapped. The Union is not legally
required to provide the service,
she said.
Mark Edens, second vice presi
dent of ASUN, said most handi
capped students live in Selleck
Hall. He said it would be easier for
them to get to the union than
other buildings. Accessibility to
the building's computers is im
portant, he said.
Both ASUN and Panhellenic As
sociation support having compu
ters in the Nebraska Union, but
neither has said which plan it
prefers.
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National and international news
from the Reuter News Report
after entendecl aliscence
MOSCOW Soviet President Konstantin Chernenko, who
has been out of public view for more than seven weeks,
appeared in a film on Soviet television Wednesday. The official
television film showed Chernenko walking unaided but ap
pearing flushed and unsteady as he delivered a four-minute
speech and awarded medals to three Soviet cosmonauts at a
Kremlin ceremony. Chernenko,. who turns 73 this month, has
not been seen in public since he was reported to have gone on
vacation July 15 and there had been growing speculation in
Moscow that he was seriously ilL
Commenting on Tass reports about the ceremony, issued
several hours before the television broadcast, Western diplo
mats said Chernenko's reappearance would dampen specula
tion about the gravity of his health problems. In his speech,
Chernenko made a fresh appeal to the United States to accept
Soviet terms for negotiations on a treaty banning the militari
zation of outer space, Tass said.
Cattle antibiotics may hurt humans
BOSTON The widespread practice of feeding antibiotics to
cattle to speed their growth creates potentially deadly bacteria
that can infect humans, the Federal Centers for Disease Con
trol reported Wednesday. The report in the New England
Journal of Medicine also said the bacteria themselves are
immune to antibiotic treatment. The study, which said 17
people became sick and one died because a herd of South
Dakota cattle was fed antibiotics, is a blow against the ILS.
cattle industry. The 30-year-old practice of using antibiotics in
animal feed has been a boom to the U.S, livestock industry and
pharmaceutical companies. For years, scientists have warned
that the constant presence of the antibiotics in those animals
could encourage bacteria to develop a resistance to the drugs.
Researchers feared that the resistant strains would then begin
to infect humans, making it difficult for doctors to cure them.
Since 1970 the Federal Food and Drug Administration has
tried to restrict the practice. But each time Congress has
blocked the attempt, accepting the industry's argument that
there is no solid evidence to back up scientists' fears.
Dr. Scott Holmberg and his colleagues at the CDC in Atlanta
say they now have that evidence. The drug-resistant illness
surfaced Dec. 13, 1032, when & 29-year-old South Dakota
woman and her 3-year-old daughter became severely ill after
eating hamburger. When they were hospitalized, doctors found
they were suffering from salmonella, a type of bacteria respon
sible for food poisoning. Inside the bacteria, CDC investigators
would later identify a tiny ring of genetic material that made
the bacteria immune to antibiotics. That ring served as a fin
gerprint that let investigators track the resistant bacteria
across six states and eventually pinpoint the dairy herd owner
who had helped create the resistant strain by feeding small
amounts of antibiotics to his cattle.
ondole announces freeze plan
PORTLAND, Ore. Walter Mondale carried his peace offen
sive from a polite audience of war veterans in Salt Lake City
Wednesday morning to a lusty crowd here that roared appro
val of his proposals for a nuclear arms freeze. The Democratic
presidential nominee told both groups that a3 president he
promptly would invite the Soviet leaders to summit talks in
Geneva to negotiate a mutual verifiable freeze of the arms
race. He told an American Legion coventkm in Salt Lake City
that he would declare a unilateral pause on all nuclear and
space weapons testing and invite the Soviets to do the same. In
Portland, despite a steady rain, thousands cf people cheered
Mondale and his running mate Geraldine Ferraro, who joined
him here after her own swing through the Pacific Northwest.
Mondale pressed his attack on Reagan as the only president
since the atomic bomb was first dropped who has failed to
negotiate an arms control agreement.
Reagan defends reMgous stand
NEW YORK In an exchange of letters with writer and
television producer Norman Iear, President Reagan has defend
ed his stand on prayer in public schools and has emphasized
that hejs not using his office as a pulpit for one religion over all
others." Religion remains a central issue m the presidential
campaign despite attempts by Reagan's advisers, who view it as
a "political hot potato to plav it down. The president has been
accused of exploiting his religbus beliefs and deliberately blur
ring the separation of church and state. He recently has come
under attack on the issue from Democratic rival Walter Mon
dale. Reagan said he can recall no instance when he tried to
convert others "or impose mv beliefs on those of other faiths.' It
was true, one of his letters said, that he had addressed a
number of religious groups, but always at their invitation. The
letters, three from Lear, were written in May, June and Jul'.
Keagan replied twice.