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by JIM PEDERSEN
Staff Writer
The 49 state Senators have
been meeting for nearly a
month now, but already the
Unicameral is involved with
about a dozen measures directly
affecting the University of
Nebraska.
This week the Legislature
reviewed a bill proposing
investment funds available for
student loans which had earlier
been killed by the Banking,
Commerce and Insurance
Committee.
LB 152, introduced by Sen.
Terry Carpenter of Scottsbluff ,
had been killed in committee
by 5-3 vote. Carpenter,
however, convinced the
Legislature to bring the
measure to the floor for full
consideration.
The bill would provide for a
state government group to
make long term, low-interest
loans to Nebraska residents
seeking higher education at any
private or public institution in
the state but with full
guarantee of repayment.
Carpenter told the
Legislature the bill would help
eliminate the "class system"
now existing in higher
education. He pointed out that
economically disadvantaged
youths, especially blacks,
Mexican-Americans and
Indians don't have educational
opportunities.
"That's what's wrong with
this country," he added, and
what "threatens to blow it
up."
In action on University-connected
bills during January, the
Education Committee killed
another Carpenter-sponsored
The deadline for student
organizations to show that
their membership practices
comply with the Board of
Regents' anti-discrimination
policy has been extended from
Feb 1 to Feb. 15.
An organization will lose its
f satiefv the Reeents' request
regarding national groups, the
University will be writing to
national organizations that
have chapters on the NU
campus, according to Brown.
Student Affairs is also
requesting that' organizations
Discrimination policy
deadline extended
official University sanction at
the end of the 1970-71
academic year if it does not
comply with the Regents'
policy by Feb. 15, according to
Russell Brown, dean for
student development.
Presidents of student
organizations are being asked
by the office of Student
Affairs to sign a statement that
their organization is open to
individuals from all racial and
ethnic minority groups.
As directed by the Regents,
campus organizations with
national affiliations are being
asked to affirm that the policy
of the national organization
places no racial restrictions on
membership selection. In order
include a detailed description
of membership selection.
Brown said this information
will be used to investigate the
possibility that certain
procedures may afford a high
potential for racial
discrimination.
The Regents, in response to
recommendations by
Chancellor D. B. Varner, in
December ordered student
organizations to comply with
the University's anti-discrimination
policy.
The Regents action
followed the release of a report
on racial discrimination
prepared by John W.
Robinson, associate dean of
Arts and Sciences.
New, improved,
better than ever
In an effort to expand services to the University immunity
the Daily Nebraskan has picked up a new theme song- There 11 Be
SThif Seethe paper will be published Monday through
Friday, SSrfSng to editor Mick Moriarty. This change to a
five-day publishing schedule allows better coverage and better
.wtt2"tf Places the paper in readers' hands almost
two hors eariie? than last semester. Papers should be in University
talw SenJ. wmplain that they leave the campus before the
Daily Nebraskan is delivered. Moriarty said. . ,
Moriartv also announced the addition of On the Kght, a
column by conservative William F. Buckley, Jr. Buckley will offer
an alternative side to liberal columnists Frank Mankiewicz and
Tom Braden, Moriarty said. .
Their in-depth reports will continue to appear in the Daily
Nebraskan second semester.
Hopefully, columns will also come from University faculty and
community leaders, Moriarty said. He anticipates additional
participation from the faculty.
Another change, from letterpress to offset printing, accounts for
the new look of todays's paper. Moriarty said the offset process
allows more and better-looking pictures as well as clearer copies ot
the paper.
Arbor Printing Company will produce the paper this semester.
The Journal-Star Printing Company has printed the paper tor
several decades. . .
Moriarty asked for student reaction to the changes and the
paper.
bill which would have required
the Legislature to approve
faculty tenure plans proposed
by the Board of Regents by a
7-0 vote. When Carpenter tried
to revive the bill, the
Legislature defeated the
motion 25-16 with three
abstentions and five absentees.
The Education Committee
is currently holding a third
Carpenter bill which would
give preference in admission to
the University Medical School
to students who agree to take
their internship and practice
medicine in Nebraska for at
least three years following
graduation.
The committee decided to
defer final judgement on the
bill at the request of
Chancellor D. B. Varner.
Varner asked that the bill be
held until the Medical School
submits to the Regents a plan
of action to deal with the
shortage of doctors in
Nebraska.
In a statement to the
committee, Varner said his
understanding of the intent of
the bill is to "improve the
supply of health care personnel
serving the State of Nebraska
with particular emphasis on
improving the outstate health
care situation. All of us at the
University of Nebraska are in
complete agreement with this
objective."
Or. Cecil Wittson of the
Medical School will submit a
plan to the Regents at their
Feb. 6 meeting.
The Legislature will hold
hearings on numerous bills
concerning the University next
week. Among them are:
-LB 400, Feb. 9, before the
Education Committee. The
bill, sponsored by Sen. David
Stahmer of Omaha, would
require all students in public
institutions to take a minimum
of six hours of state and local
government instruction before
they could be granted a
baccalaureate degree.
-LB 70, Feb. 10, before the
Budget Committee. This
measure, sponsored by
Carpenter, would prohibit the
use of University fees, for the
purpose of financing a student
newspaper.
-LB 208 Feb. 10, before
the Urban Affairs Committee.
Sen. P. J. Morgan of Omaha is
sponsoring this bill to repeal
the current state statute which
grants the University power to
take over land within three
miles of existing campus
boundaries. The repeal effort is
primarily concerned with
possible expansion of the UNO
campus.
LB 255 Feb 10, before
the Labor Committee. The
measure, sponsored by
Carpenter, provides that all
salaries of state employees,
including University
employees, in excess of
$18,000 would have to be
approved by the Legislature. A
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