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Regent Prokop discusses
responsibility, visitation
Topics from the responsibility of
Regent to coed visitation concerned
Regent Robert Prokop in an informal
discussion wit h students and faculty in
Smith Hall Monday night.
Prokop said his primary
responsibility as Regent was to the
people who elected him. Decisions
must be based on the best views of the
people of a Regent's district, he said.
The Wilber native said his second
obligation is to the faculty of the
University. A Regent must look out
for the interests of those who are
doing a good job, he said.
The third obligation is "to the
students, he said. -'Students need to be
able to get Regent's to listen to them,"
Prokop added. "That's why Fm here.""
Commenting on the coed living
program in Schramm Hall, Prokop said
he was originally in favor of the idea.
But, he added that contact with
people in his district -during the
campaign had moderated his views.
Prokop, a resident pathologist at
the University of Nebraska Medical
Center in Omaha, lamented that
campuses across the country -are
strongholds of political thought but
that only a few students are involved
in political action.
I started my campaign with
students, supporting the student
view, the Regent said. But, you
people didn't support me and I have to
be responsible to the people who did
elect me."
One student suggested that perhaps
students were not motivated
politically because they have so little
control over their own lives. Be
suggested students cannot br expected
to be responsible when the "burden of
responsibility is suddenly lifted from
their shoulders."
Prokop answered that he thought
the 18 -year-old vote would give
students a good bit more political
responsibility. He suggested that
students try to relate their views on
University events to people in their
hometowns.
-'Education of people about what is
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happening at the University is very
important,'" Prokop said. 1t would
certainly make my iob easier."
Stephen L. Rozman. the political
science teacher the Regents fired
recently for his participation in the
anti-war protests last spring,
ouestioned Prokop about his stand
against tenure. He asked what
protection faculty members would
have from arbitrary action by the
Regents if there were no tenure
The Regent answered that he
favored setting up a system where
faculty members would be hired
through short term contracts. If they
felt they were treated unfairly, they
mould have recourse through the
federal courts.
In answer to another .question
Prokop said that the University could
not have internal control as long as it
is state supported. For the University
community to control itself without
an outside board of Regents would
require a privately financed school, he
added.
Fieldliouse bill
faces floor test
A measure -creating a special excise
tax on cigarets to fund a new
University fjeldhouse will get its first
lest on the Legislature floor
Wednesday.
LB 7, sponsored by State Sen.
Roland Luedtke, calls foT an
additional five cent tax on cigarets,
half of which would be appropriated
for a fieldhouse and half for a new
state office building. The excise would
Taise the cigarette tax to 13 -cents a
pack.
Although the bill breezed through
committee with help from testimony
by Athletic Director Bob Devaney,
some opposition may be encountered
on the floor by senators who feel the
fieldhouse shouldn't rate priority over
other badly needed University
construction projects.
by CAROL GOETSCHIUS
Staff Write
ASUS President Stew Timald has
called a special Student Senate
meeting for 4 p.m, Wednesday to try
to settle the controversy over student
representation on the Search
Committee for a new campus
president.
The Search Committee held its first
meeting Monday afternoon minus one
student representative mho has been
declared ineligible to serve on the
committee.
The Council on Student life earlier
Monday denied last ditch effort by
John K. Hansen, an NU sophomore, to
overturn a ruling by the Office of
Student Affairs that he is ineligible for
the Search Committee because he is a
part -time student,
IN AN EXTRAORDINARY 7:30
a.m. Monday meeting, CSL voted 7-M
not to hear Hansen's final appeal
Hansen first took his appeal Sunday to
the Standing Committee on Student
Organizations, mhich sustained the
Student Affairs Office ruling.
Ti aid said a new student
representative for the Search
Committee mill be picked from a let
of seven candidates presented at last
Wednesday's meeting by the Senate
Interviem-ing Committee.
However, A SI N Sen, Bill Behmer
said he mill suggest that the Senate
pass a resolution to reaffirm the
appointment of Hansen. Many
senators feel the full-time student rule
shouldn't have been invoked in this
case, he said .
Hansen is a reporter for The
Informer, an underground newspaper
at the University. A native of Newman
Grove, be has been active in the
anti-war movement throughout the
past year, and has participated in
several demonstrations.
ft appears that the administration
is arbitrarily stsing its pom-er and is
imposing its own criteria after ASUN
has set its criteria. It appears that there
are people higher up m ho dont want
me on the oommirree." Hansen said.
AN ELIGIBILITY check by the
Office of Student Affairs found
Hansen is only taking SO hours this
semester and is ineligible to participate
in extracurricular activities.
In a letter to Steve Trwald Friday ,
Ron Gierhan of the Student Affairs
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Office said the search uomtmuee nas
been designated as an extracurricular
activity. The Campus Handbook states
that participants m extracurricular
activities must be full-time students.
Usually the faculty adviser for an
extracurricular committee or activity
mill ask the Student Academic
Services and Student Affairs offices to
make an eligibility check on all
candidates, Gierhan said.
The fact that ASUN didn't request
an eligibility check mas brought to the
attention of Chancellor D. B. Varaer,
mho requested the Academic Services
office and Student Affairs to make the
check, Gierhan said.
Walter H. Braning, assistant dean of
faculties, said Hansen's adviser in
Teacher's College, Associate Prof.
Loren R. Bonneau, reported that
Hansen is only a part-time student.
The other student representatives
on the Search Committee, Eric
Hultnun and Steve Timald, did inert
the eligibility requirements, Gierhan
said.
IN HIS APPEAL before CSL,
Hansen questioned mhether the Search
Committee is an extracurricuuir
activity and claimed that this
classification should have been
resolved before student representatives
m-ere chosen.
Eligibility requirements m-ere
applied after the students were chosen
and m-erenl stated inVarner's directive
to Timald, he said. Hansen raised the
question of m-hy the eligibility check
mas made and attributed it to
personalities and politics.
CSL decided not to hear Hansen's
ipjv-il because it felt that the Standing
Committee "did a thorough and
conscientious job,"" said John W.
Robinson, chairman.
The Standing Committee turned
down Hansen's appeal because it
agreed that the Search Committee is
an extracurricular activity, that it was
an ""oversight and not a case of
misinformation" that no eligibility
check mas made, said Meg Hal,
chairman.
The mew points brought out before
CSL m'erent "sufficiently compelling
reasons" to hear the appeal, added
Robinson.
