Task Force says
keep Union clean
by Marsha Kahm
"Keep It Clean. Your Union,
That Is."
Although a mild request at
most, the sign bearing these
words is a little more unusual
than others in the union. The
paper on which they are
printed will be recycled.
The campaign to keep the
Nebraska Union clean is one of
many projects that the
Environmental Task Force, a
committee formed by an
ASUN resolution last May, will
undertake this year.
The idea for the committee
was formed by former NU
student Diane Theisen Beecher
because she "saw a lack of
anybody on campus trying to
develop any environmental
policy at the University." She
said it went back to the old
cliche of starting in "your own
backyard."
The Task Force will be
guided by a steering committee
of students and faculty
appointed by ASUN and the
President's office.
There have been several
organizational meetings over
the summer and the first open
meeting will be held September
21 in the Union. 4We're trying
to set up a structure for the
task force and get a general
bearing, as to where we're
going," Beecher said. "We want
a lot of input outside of the
steering committee."
Beecher said the steering
committee will establish
priorities so the task force will
be accomplishing things and
not scattering its resources.
Five areas have been
designated by the committee as
areas of emphasis. They are air,
water, solid waste, campus
improvement and public
relations.
"One of the most important
areas is the campus,"
emphasized Beecher.
"Although its sounds simple,
the University is becoming an
asphalt campus and someone
has to direct himself toward
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Correction: Today's Council
on Student Life meeting will
be held at 5 p.m. in Schramm
Hall, not in the Nebraska
Union as printed in yesterday's
Daily Nebraskan.
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improving the situation."
The task force will
investigate areas important in
preserving the environment.
According to Beecher, the
possibility of a mass transit
system will be considered.
The steering committee will
operate openly, Beecher said.
Anyone will be able to air
complaints at task force
meetings.
Dennis Confer, a member of
the solid waste sub-committee,
said that the area has been
divided into two smaller
categories-waste dumped into
drains and waste trucked off
campus, such as paper, food
and other solids.
The possibility of recycling
paper waste will be
investigated, according to
Confer, because a lot of the
trucked-out waste is paper.
"We figure since the University
has two full-time garbage
trucks there is about 50 tons of
garbage sent out of here a
week."
In addition, the members
had toyed with the idea of
urging that all campus mail be
sent in reusable standard
envelopes.
Another idea of Confer's is
to find an interested student to
ride along with the garbage
truck and determine the
sources of garbage.
The campus improvement
area will mainly be focused on
the Union according to Gail
Folda, a member of the
sub-committee. "We have had a
lot of complaints about the
Union being an eyesore and
since so many people use it and
so many visitors see it, it would
be good to alleviate that
eyesore."
The air sub-committee will
work on the problems of open
burning, the UNL power plant
and spraying.
Other specific problems the
steering committee has decided
to work with are waste
chemicals, the poultry farm,
parking and visual pollution.
rtenbach wins
University of Nebraska-Lincoln anti-war
activist Ronald Kurtenbach headed for the fair
Wednesday afternoon, pamphlets in hand.
The 29-year old graduate student in English
was arrested Thursday and charged with
disorderly conduct after attempting to do the
same thing- distribute literature.
Tables turned in Kurtenbach's favor
Wednesday morning, however, when Federal
District Judge Warren K. Urbom issued a
temporary injunction against the Nebraska
State Fair Board and fair manager Henry
Brandt enjoining them from prohibiting
Kurtenbach to distribute a one page sheet on
the draft on the fair grounds.
The injunction was in effect only until the
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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER
Senators seek priorities
by Carol Strasser
At a weekend retreat, far
from the campus hassle,
student senators will decide the
direction priorities for the
1971-72 ASUN senate.
The Sept. 10-11 retreat at
the Esther K. Newman Camp
south of Louisville will provide
senators with updated
information on summer
projects and an introduction to
liaison people in the University
community. Groups of
senators will discuss priorities
using input from those senators
who attended the National
Student Association (NSA)
conference in August.
"If something significant is
to come from this Senate, it's
absolutely essential that we
work out priorities and know
the people we're working with,"
said Michele Coyle, ASUN 1st
Vice President, at the Senate's
first meeting Wednesday.
The Senate began its
meeting without a quorum, but
one was obtained about 1 5
into the session. Twenty -five of
the thirty thTee senators
elected last spring were present
at the meeting chaired by Pres.
Steve Fowler, Coyle and 2nd
Vice Pres. Rod Hernandez.
Two Senate seats, from
Teachers College and Graduate
College, are vacant due to
resignations. Any interested
persons are asked to contact
the ASUN office in the
Nebraska Museum plans
cenfennial environmental sfudy
by Randy Beam
The University of Nebraska State Museum is
heading into its second hundred years with an
eye toward environmental studies, according to
Director C. Bertrand Schultz.
The museum's role in this pursuit is quite
appropriate. The resources of this showcase of
the past will be invaluable, he asserted, when
trying to ascertain both where man has been
and where he is going.
The museum, in one sense, is similar to the
library-a place where the research and findings
of many are gathered and made available for
others to use. This, however, has not always
been t he case.
Until 1 94 1 . there was no such thing as an all
University museum. Even though a $1,000
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Student Union.
Besides the Senate
vacancies, ASUN will be
holding interviews for the
position of chairman of the
following committees: student
Tribunal, Educational Reform
Committee, Publications Board
and Legal Rights.
There are openings for
undergraduate and graduate
students in 16 other ASUN
committees which must be
filled within the next two
weeks, Coyle said. Applications
and additional information
is available at the ASUN office.
In other action, ASUN
confirmed the appointments of
Dave Rasmussen, Deb Loers,
Terry Braye, John Humlicek and
Meg Hall to the Council on
Student Life.
The Senate also approved
the appointments of Mike
Eyster, Stuart Miller and Laura
Renard to the Housing Policy
Committee. Both organizations
have their first meetings
Thursday.
Three resolutions,
introduced and tabled until
next week, call for the
endorsement of PACE
Program of Active
Commitment to Education), a
public apology from the
Administration for the
inconvenience of the long
registration lines and for
immediate action to see that
any student who wants to
attend the football games this
fall can purchase a ticket.
leaflet injunction
fair ended Wednesday night.
In granting the injunction. L'rbom said the
action concerned only Kurtenbach, and is not a
class action.
Judge Urbom had denied a request by
Kurtenbach's attorney Donald Burchard for a
restraining order against the board and Brandt
late Tuesday afternoon. At that time Urbom
stated he had not had the opportunity to
consider other legal opinions issued in similar
cases.
Kurtenbach faces an Oct. 13 trial on a
disorderly conduct charge in regard to
Thursday's incident. The temporary injunction
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The Senators heard brief
reports on the summer progress
of plans for the Oct. 5-9 Time
Out Conference on "Human
Sexuality."
The progress of fund-raising
for the PACE low-income
scholarship program was
discussed (see Sept. 8 Daily
Nebraskan) along with plans for
future fund drives among
faculty and businessmen.
In the next week, Senators
will be asked to explain the
PACE program in Greek houses
and dormitories, said Ann
Pedersen, co-chairman of the
PACE committee. Students
will be asked to contribute to
the program when tuition
statments are sent out next
week.
John Humlicek will present
a report at next Wednesday's
ASUN meeting on the Legal
Rights committee's plan for a
campus ombudsman. The
committee is considering the
feasibility of hiring an
ombudsman as a channel to
redress grievances of students
and other members of the
University community with a
minimum of red tape.
For the first time, student
senators and presidents of
campus organizations have
been invited to the Regents
Reception Sept. 13 in the
Union, Fowler said. The
reception usually involves only
the University Board of
Regents, faculty and
administrators, he said.
appropriation by the Board of Regents on June
14, 1871 established a one-room exhibit
gallery in University Hall, research collections were
still kept by individual departments. When
Schultz took over in 1941, the Regents
upgraded the museum's role, making it
responsible for all departmental research
collections.
The museum grew with the University.
Today collections worth several million dollars
reside in two campus buildings, including two
floors of Nebraska Hall, the present home of
some 3 million research specimens from eight
museum divisions.
Combining collections and research materials
from many University departments has been
the most significant step in the museum's walk
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