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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER
ASUN asks study of senate
The threat of losing student
fee support and complaints
about its organization
prompted a move Wednesday
by ASUN to initiate an
investigation into alternative
forms of student government
and financing.
In a unanimous vote, ASUN
appointed an ad hoc
committee to study the Senate
structure. "The goals of the
ASG plans political meet
ASUN Pres. Steve Fowler
was among over 100 student
body presidents who this week
called for an emergency
conference to organize
students as voting delegates to
the national political party
nominating conventions in
1972. .
The purpose of the
Emergency Conference for
New Voters, organized by the
Association of Student
Governments, (ASG), is to
propose a strategy for
participation in the
conventions, Fowler said.
The conference is scheduled
for Dec. 3-5 at Loyola
University in Chicago. It will
be the last national gathering
of students before the delegate
selection process begins, as
early as February in some
Union
policing:
not the
answer
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committee could be the
complete restructuring of
ASUN," said ASUN 1st Vice
Pres. Michele Coyle.
Sen. Mike Berns, who
introduced a resolution calling
for the study, said it's possible
that student fee support will be
lost and, if ASUN acts now,
the student senate will know
the available alternatives.
Sen. Doug Beckwith
states.
The conference will include
workshops and seminars to
discuss voter registration and
political organization. A series
of speakers will discuss election
issues.
"Unless we begin the task
immediately of organizing
students within the party
processes, we will find
ourselves totally excluded from
the delegate selections and the
Presidential nominating
procedures," said Duane
Draper, ASG President.
Draper claimed that in both
major parties, officials are
thwarting the reform
movements within the parties,
and many members would seek
to isolate newly-enfranchised
voters from the party
procedures.
Nebraska Union . . . mess "portrays the University and the students in a poor and
Policing is not the answer to
keeping the Nebraska Union
Lounge clean, Union Board
members decided at their last
meeting.
Members agreed that the
problem should be dealt with
indirectly through public
relations measures and
community pressure.
"The problem is one the
board can't really deal with for
it is a problem of personal
behavior," Alan Bennett, Union
director and staff
representative to the Board
said.
It is hard to find places for
concurred that many student
governments have lost student
fee support. Sen. Patti
Kaminski added that "ASUN
obviously has a lot of problems
and doesn't represent all the
students."
The committee will report
back to ASUN by the middle
of February.
Because there are five
vacant Senate seats, ASUN
suspended the rules to elect
Senators to an Interviewing
Committee. In a move to
streamline meetings, the
committee was established last
week to interview applicants
and submit three candidates
for each seat to the Senate for
a vote.
The six-member committee
will sit for six weeks. There are
four vacancies in Teachers
College and one in Graduate
and Professional. Anyone
interested should contact the
ASUN office in the Nebraska
Union.
Resolutions tabled until
next week would create an
Office of Student Attorney to
provide students legal service
and would allow ASUN to join
the National Student Lobby
which would aid the campus in
organizing effective political
action.
This week's ASUN meeting
lasted only 45 minutes.
students to eat in the Union,
Bennett said. There are not
enough seats in the Crib and
the cafeteria so the floor in the
lounge has become a table, he
explained.
Bennett saiu there is a rule
against food in the lounge but
that space pressures have
forced the staff to overlook the
rule.
The worst problem is
between 1 1 a.m. and 1:30 or 2
p.m., Bennett said.
"It is hard for the staff to
police down there," he said.
"There's a little verbal hassle
KSC's sex conference
meets little resistance
Sexual attitudes, morals,
abortion and venereal disease
are among the topics to be
disc'ussed at Kearney State
College during a two-week
"Sexpo '71" conference which
began Monday.
However, the president of
the KSC student government
said that the conference is of a
less controversial nature than
the recent UNL Human
Sexuality Conference and as a
result is meeting little
resistance.
Scott Sidwell said the
conference, organized by the
KSC Associated Women
Students (AWS), has been the
target of some opposing letters
in the local Kearney paper. He
attributed the concern to
people's identification of the
conference with the UNL
conference. Kearney is 150
miles west of Lincoln.
He said AWS has sponsored
similar conferences for the past
two years and met little
opposition. AWS is financed by
student fees.
While the UNL conference
Uni College may
receive grant
by Linda Larson
University College, a
degree-granting college
proposed for UNL, is still the
likely candidate for a Ford
Foundation grant received
earlier this year, Walter
Bruning, assistant dean of
faculties said in a recent
interview.
Interim Chancellor C. Peter
Magrath will probably make a
final decision by December 1,
he said.
The $250,000 grant,
going on with the people
cleaning up down there now.
The staff is reluctant to hassle
people.
"We can't legislate where
people can do what," Bennett
said. It has been found that
some students like to study in
the Crib and some like to eat in
the lounge, he said.
The problem was brought to
the attention of the Union
Board by a letter from Interim
Chancellor C. Peter Magrath.
He said the mess "portrays
the University and the students
in a poor and unjustified
light."
included nationally prominent
women's liberationists, gay
speakers and same-sex
relationship advocates, the
KSC conference involves
mostly local personalities. In
addition, Sexpo '71 focuses
more on the biological and
psychological aspects of human
sexuality, skirting the
sociological emphasis of the
UNL conference.
The keynote speaker of the
conference is James Leslie
McCary, author of "Human
Sexuality" and president of the
Southwestern Psychological
Association.
The rest of the week is filled
with speeches and numerous
rap sessions. The sessions cover
a range of topics, including
reproduction, childbirth,
pregnancy, personal concerns,
psychological differences,
abortion, unwanted children,
unwed mothers, and venereal
diseases.
KSC faculty and local
Kearney ministers will aid
their particular expertise as
leaders of many of the rap
sessions.
expected to be matched by
UNL, will be allotted in three
yearly installments. It was not
granted specifically for
University College but for any
innovative' improvements in
undergraduage education,
according to Bruning.
"It wasn't given with the
idea that we'd just hire a
couple more professors and do
things the same way," Bruning
said. "We want its use to have a
significant impact on a large
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unjustified light."