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The Faculty Senate, in
March resolution, petitioned
the Board of Regents for an
Academic Constitutional
Convention. Saturday the idea
had its result-the Regents
announced formation of a
"Study Committee on
University Governance" for
NU's three campuses.
The difference between the
convention requested in the
Senate's resolution and the
Regent's committee is basically
one of semantics, according to
Wallace C. Peterson, chairman
of the Economics Department
and an original sponsor of the
Senate resolution.
The Regents essentially
accepted the recommendations
of an inter-campus committee
of students, faculty and an
administrator, he added. This
committee had presented their
recommendations to the Board
in April.
The one change was the
Regents refusal to participate
in the study directly, Peterson
said. Calling this "somewhat of
a disappointment," he reported
that the Regents felt they
could not participate because
of their interpretation of their
legal position.
Each Regent will have a
representative on the
committee. Three students,
three faculty and three
administrators will also be
chosen from each of the
University's three campuses.
The members will be
announced at the Regents June
meeting, according to
Chancellor D. B. Varner.
This summer the committee
will study the rights and
Nehraskan
For the second time this spring University students have
demonstrated overwhelming support for continuing use of
student fees to support the Daily Nebraskan.
Preliminary results of a poll conducted by the Student
Affairs Office at the request of the Board of Regents showed
that 76.5 per cent of the respondents said it was appropriate
that student fee money be used to subsidize the Daily
Nebraskan. The remainder of the respondents thought it -was
inappropriate that the newspaper receive student fees.
The poll, conducted Wednesday, April 28 in 9:30 a.m.
classes on both Lincoln campuses, was filled out by 4,852
students.
A vote taken earlier in April at the ASUN Spring Election
showed that 77.7 per cent of the voters favored continuing
student fee support of the Daily Nebraskan. About 4,200
student participated in the ASUN vote.
A poll at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, also
requested by the Regents, showed that 47 per cent of the
respondents thought it appropriate that student fees be used
to support the UNO student newspaper, The Gateway. About
31 per cent said that the student fee subsidy of the Gateway
was not appropriate and 21 per cent were undecided.
The Regents have said that results of the polls on the two
student newspapers will be advisory- not be binding on the
student bodies and the Board.
Non-resident tuition
A bill to provide a clear-cut distinction between resident
and non-resident status for the purpose of tuition payment at
the Nebraska state colleges and the University is now pending
in the State Legislature.
LB 408, introduced by Omaha Sen. Richard Proud,
provides strict definitions of residency. According to the
measure, a person must have "established a home in Nebraska
where he is habitually present" in order to pay resident
tuition.
To gain residency in this way a person must go to school
for one year in the state as a non-resident and pay Nebraska
sales and income taxes and have registered anautomobile Juring
that time. In addition Tie must have registered to vote and have
on file an affidavit that he intends to make Nebraska his home.
If a person has lived in the state as a resident with His
parents and they move, he has the option of remaining in the
state and continue to pay the lower resident tuition rates.
Children, husbands or wives of persons who qualify as
residents can also pay resident rates at state schools.
Dependents of members of the staff of state colleges and
universities who move to the state immediately before the
beginning of a school term qualify for resident status.
Proud's bill is designed to alleviate resident status confusion
that led one NU Law College graduate to file suit against the
University Soard of Regents several months ago asking for
residency status.
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r e s p o n sbUiwV",w tsstudents,
faculties, administrators and
the Regents on the Lincoln,
Omaha and Medical College
campuses.
It can recommed changes in
the Regents by-laws which will
be subject to the sanction and
approval of the Board,
Peterson said.
He continued, "Hopefully,
they will also go to other parts
of the University for
ratification."
The committee will also
investigate the campuses'
internal organization, such
specific problem areas as
disruptive activity and
intercampus relations, and
appropriate channels of
authority. The latter area
includes student disciplinary
activity and the hiring,
promotion, tenure, a
non-reappoin tment and
dismissal of faculty, the
inter-campus committee's
proposal to the Regents' states.
The Faculty Senate's
resolution calling for the
convention was an outgrowth
of the controversy following
the Regents' decision not to
rehire Stephen L. Rozman,
assistant professor of political
science.
Procedures for handling
cases of faculty dismissal or
non-reappointment from the
Faculty Senate's Academic
Privilege and Tenure
Committee were held Saturday
for future action. The
procedures which were to serve
as an interim guide have not
been considered by the Omaha
or Medical College faculties.
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MONDAY, MAY 10, 1971
Those rumors were true
Dorm
Months of rumors finally
came true over the weekend
when the Board of Regents,
with little advance notification,
raised room and board rates for
dormitory students $60 a year
to $940. -
Ely Meyerson, Housing
Office director, said Sunday he
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rates hik
feels the 7 per cent increase,
that goes in effect in
September "is reasonable
considering we haven't had an
increase for two years." The
rates went up $80 two years
ago.
Noting his office has tried
to operate the residence halls
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as efficiently as possible,
Meyerson said he hopes the
increased rates will not scare
off any students.
University dormitory
occupancy ranged from near
1 00 per cent last fall to about
93 per cent now. President
Joseph Soshnik said Saturday
that these figures indicate that
students consider the present
rates to be fair.
Soshnik said the new
increase is needed to cover
higher operating costs and to
keep up payments on the
money NU borrowed to build
the residence halls. He said
room and board rates must pay
for all dormitory operations,
including labor costs.
The increase in rates,
according to Soshnik, is
primarily due to higher costs of
food and minimum wages.
The campus President said
University room and board
rates this year are "about at
the middle of the Big Eight
group. He said that most of
the other schools in the
conference would probaby
increase their dormitory rates
for next year.
Barry Pilger, an Arts and
Sciences senior and chairman
of the Housing Policy
Committee (HPC), said the
increased rates" will cause
residence hall students to more
candidly assess their situation
to see if they really want to
live in the halls another year."
Pilger said if the Housing
Office raises the rates, then it
should be more responsive to
students. "The Housing Office
has never actively pursued a
social regulations policy that
the students want," he
charged.
Although he said the
increased rates were warranted,
Pilger was disturbed that
Meyerson did not consult the
HPC about the new rates. The
committee, whose charge is to
consider all housing matters
concerning students, consists
of seven students and five
faculty-administrators.
Meyerson said that he did
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