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Regents to hear CUE? THURS., OCT. 15, 1970 LINCOLN, NEB. $30,000 Senate After an hour of discussion and dissection, the ASUN Senate Wednesday approved without opposition the largest budget in student government history $30,000. The budget is now subject to approval of Peter Wirtz, Director of Student Activities, and Russell H. Brown, Dean of Student Development, before it is finally accepted by President Joseph Soshnik. Eighty cents per student per Student senate may vote on use of funds for Davis The Student Senate will probably decide next Wednes day afternoon whether to use ASUN funds to help bring Michael Davis to campus. Davis, the University of Michigan graduate student who was denied a job as a philosophy instructor at the University of Nebraska, said recently he has accepted an invitation to speak on campus the last week of October. However the question of which student group will finance the Davis speech, estimated to cost about $200, remained in question Wednes day. A new student group, the Free Speech Movement, has said it will raise the money by soliciting private donations if necessary. That group would rather that either ASUN or the Nebraska Union Program Council finances or at least hlp pay for the trip. The resolution on use of ASUN funds was introduced at the Wednesday Senate meeting in an unusual way. Whenever three per cent of the full-time students enrolled at NU (about 600 this -year) sign a petition requesting that the Senate pass a resolution, the student Senate is bound to at least consider that resolu tion. Several members of the Free Speech Movement have been circulating the petitions the last several days, and presented the petitions with about 600 signatures at the Wednesday meeting. The Committee for Un disrupted Education (CUE) announced Wednesday that they have requested an ap pearance before the Board of Regents at which time they will disclose "all facts" relating to last May's student strike. Richard Recker, CUE treasurer, would not comment on the nature of the facts they ' wish to present to the Regents. Recker made the CUE an nouncement at Wednesday's Student Senate meeting. In addition to requesting a approves regular semester and fifteen cents per student per summer semester is made available to the senate for its activities through student fees. Revisions to the budget presented last week included providing $1,000 for a proposed Rural American Conference to be held in the spring semester. Five hundred dollars was . allocated to the Legal Rights Committee to cover committee expenses and the possible The resolution requests: "that student fees shall be ex pended to enaible Duvis's im mediate presence on campus to address the academic com munity and that an invitation shall be extended to the Board of Regents to appoint a representative to reply in open debate." GSL begins second year News Analysis by GARY SEACREST Nebraskan Staff Writer The Council on Student Life which last year attacked racism on the campus threatened the status quo of the Greek system and liberated freshmen women begins its se cond year this week. CSL was hailed last year as the dream of all students student control over student life. But once CSL started making policy many student organizations complained that It had too much power. Despite these claims, many questions remain concerning how the Council will use its power. The Board of Regents gave CSL policy-making power over student social and out-of-classroom activities, subject to approval by the Regents. However, CSL produced little policy output in its first year. The Council, with its student majority, spent much of Its hearing b e f o r e the Regents, Recker said CUE has sent their report on last May's three-day voluntary strike to the Legislative Council, the Legislative Budget Committee, the Legislative Fiscal Analyst and the state auditor. CUE was organized last May in opposition to the student strike. CUE is not an official campus organization but has filed a letter of intent to be come one. Recker termed the report of the special ASUN committee, VOL 94, NO. 18 budget retention of an attorney, if needed. The Legislative Liaison Committee, the Electoral Commission and the ASUN of ' fice appropriations received budget cuts. The Liaison and Electoral Commission were both sliced $500 and ASUN of fices expenses lessened by $200. Editor Kelley, Baker of The Nebraskan offered subscrip tions of the campus newspaper to the Liaison Committee at a reduced rate in view of their cut funds. The subscriptions are to be sent to the members of the Nebraska Legislature. Proposed expenditures were figured at $29,902.36, but for the sake of bookkeeping, the figure was rounded to $30,000, the maximum allotted to ASUN through student fees. The bulk of the budget was divided among salaries, $5,209.80; the Student Economic Develop ment Committee, $3,400; Com-. mittee on Human Rights, $3,775; the Time Out, $2,490; World in Revolution $1,500, and Rural American Conferences. time organizing itself and stu dying various campus pro blems. No charges Lancaster County Attor ney Paul Douglas Wednes day said he will not file charges In connection with the forcible entry of the University Military and Naval Science Building lust May. The names of five or six students had been fur nished to Douglas last week by the University. Douglas said he had in formed Gail Gade, director of campus security, that there was nothing in the evidence presented him to show that any of the in dividuals broke into the building or did any damage. investigating last May's ASUN expenditures, as "neither surprising nor especially enlightening." . In recent weeks there has been a heated controversy whether student fees were used to support last May's strike activity. Peter Wirtz, Student Ac tivities Director, said Wednes day that the state auditor's of fice has conducted an audit of the ASUN account in the Stu dent Activities office. Wirtz said he does not know the results of the audit. Commenting on CUE'S an nouncement, ASUN President Steve Tiwald said, "After in vestigation by several groups and committees, I believe full disclosure of the facts has taken place." if ww rV: r& j." II J i 1 V jg.! r HEP students "HEP gives most of us a chance to receive some thing we never had an opportunity to get before an education." See story page 6. CSL Chairman John W. Robinson succinctly explained the lack of policymaking: "You have to study a problem before you can acton it." However, significant action could come from CSL very soon. CSL's Ad Hoc Committee on Racial Discrimination, which nearly produced cardiac arrest in the Greek system last semester, Is expected to finish their report this month. The Committee has been in vestigating all student organizations to determine if the organization's membership is open to persons of all races and what steps the group has taken to eliminate racial pre judice. The Ad Hoc Committee could recommend to CSL pro bation or suspension for any organization whose policies or actions are unsatisfactory. The Committee's Chairman Russell Brown said recently that the Committee has not decided yet If it will apply sanctions against any He said he will be happy to attend the Regents' meeting. "I would like to see this matter cleared up once and for all." The report of the ASUN committee, investigating strike expenditures, did not conclude whether student fee money was used in ASUN-supported strike activity. ASUN expenditures from May to August totaled $3,333 according to the report. However, no effort was made to determine if these expen ditures were used for strike activity. In the same period ASUN expenditures exceeded income by $753, according to the report. One of the members of the Turn to page 3 X' 1 ( 1 organization. The Council has also been asked by President Joseph Soshnik to study three recom mendations of the Spelts Com mission, which Investigated last spring's disturbances at the University. The Spelts Commission pnpwifih thn CSL will be studying for possible action are: The University should change its rules on s'udent conduct which are now too general and pa'ernalistic. Acts which are prohibited and max imum penalties for violations shcu'd be specified. The organization of Student Affairs should be altered to clearly separate counseling functions fror.i those cf factual Investigation, prosecution, and adjudication in situations potentially re quiring disciplinary action. The possibility should be explored cf Improving channels of communication between students and staff by decen tralizing non-discinlinary stu Turn to page S