ASU Ni
no impact
on East
Campus
Politically, East Campus has long been regarded as UNL's
silent minority.
The atmosphere on the ag campus is subdued. Parking isn't
critical, classes are smaller and life is slower than on City
Campus.
And ASUN has never had a very big impact on East
Campus.
In fact four of the five senators from East Campus this
year-two from Home Economics and three from Agriculture
didn't find enough nu1atton in student government to
bother running for anotier term.
The fifth senator is a graduating senior.
Agriculture Sen. Don Timm said he is not running for
re-election because he can "devote my time to better use."
Timm said too much time is spent debating unimportant
business in senate and not enough on forming goals and
communicating with students at the grass roots level
ASUN will be defunct within a year unless it begins
performing "some really honest-to-goodness services for
students, " Timm predicted.
Agriculture Sen. Phil Lamb, another who is dropping out,
said ASUN is ineffective because it says a lot, but doesn't
come through with any specific action.
Lamb said college advisory boards are the media for future
educational reform, not ASUN.
Home Economics Sen. Nancy Gustafson said she does not
seek re-election because she wants "to see a lot get done for
Home Ec and ASUN isn't the way."
She said ASUN should cut down its size, as the new
constitution would do, so it would be easier for people to
work together.
The ASUN presidential candidates all have ideas to improve
student government's reputation on East Campus.
At a debate attended by about 30 people in Burr Hall
Wednesday, Student Cause candidate Bruce Beech er said he
would get ASUN senators to speak at East Campus living units.
Beecher said ASUN has to recognize that East and City
Campuses are separate entities, although the two have strong
ties. He said City Campus senators need more exposure to East
Campus so they can represent ag campus students better.
All University Party candidate Roy Baldwin disagreed with
Beecher, saying, "We need to get away from treating East
Campus as a special place."
He said students aren't interested in ASUN because it
doesn't do anything exciting. . '
Student Interest Party candidate Steve Christensen said he
would hold ASUN meetings on East Campus every other week,
and also distribute a weekly ASUN newsletter on East
Campus.
Concerned Students candidate Bill Schwartzkopf said he
favors free bus service between City and East Campuses.
Whatever the plans of candidates to integrate East Campus
more effectively into student government, it's clear from an
informal Daily Nebraskan telephone survey that there's a lot
of work to do in that area.
Twenty students were called-10 from Agriculture College
and 10 from Home Economics-and the predominant theme of
the interviews was indifference.
NEBPIRG seeks fee support
About 1,200 students have signed a
petition giving their support to funding the
Nebraska Public Interest Research Group
(NEBPIRG).
Local coordinator Dee Canar said the
petition has been a good means of bringing
NEBPIRG to the attention of students.
Students will have to make a decision
whether to support funding NEBPIRG
Wednesday when they vote on ballot issues.
Students will be asked on the ballot if
they will give $1.50 per semester to fund
NEBPIRG. ' " '
Canar said the students circulating the
petition have had considerable success in
convincing students to support NEBPIRG.
Canar said NEBPIRG must remain
politically independent. She said this could
not be done if it were funded by ASUN
Senate, as suggested by ASUN presidential
candidate Bill Schwartzkopf. "We need to be
in a post ion so that we can state our goals
without any outside pressure," she added.
The coordinator said the research group
will not get hung up on minor issues but
handle things such as environmental and
consumer issues.
Canar said even if a majority cf students
vote to support the group, it doesn't mean it
will automatically go on the tuition
statement.
The regents would have to be consulted
about the best way to go about collecting
the money, she said. "We thought an
addition to the tuition statement would be
the best way since we already have the
program for Active Commitment to
Education (PACE) precedent here," Canar
added.
It could be arranged so that only those
students who supported NEBPIRG would
pay the $1.50 on their tuition statement, she
said.
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Ballot w7 poll students on mandatory fees
Students will be polled Wednesday on a question
debated often in the University community, and
more recently in the Nebraska Legislature-student
fees.
Voters will be asked to indicate which of the
following activities they feel are deserving of
continued mandatory student fee support:
1) student health ($21 per semester from students
carrying four hours or more);
2) Nebraska Union ($3 from all students for both
operation and programming;;
3) the Daily Nebraskan (1.25 from all students);
4) intramurals and recreation ($4 from ail students);
6) ASUN (SO cents from al students).
As with all ASUN referendum, the student fee
question was placed on Wednesday's ballot by an
ASUN Senate resolution According to ASUN first
vice president Michele Coyle, the senate voted
unanimously to put the question to students via a
proposal by Sen. Bruce Beecher, currently a
candidate for ASUN's top spot
Sha said the referendum wording was developed
by a special ad hoc committee, including Beecher and
two other presidential hopefuls, Roy Baldwin and
Stave Cbristansen.
Current ASUN Present Steve Fowler said students
wil! be voting on only the fees which have been "the
most critical or controversial."
Regarding fee support for ASUN, Fowler
explained that white the organiztion is guaranteed
only 39 cents in fees each year, they have access to
another 50 cents from the unallocated student fee
fund.
ASUN has received this extra 50 cents for each of
the last three years. Fowler reported. "We felt it
would be more honest to include the total amount
for the vote," he added.
Although student sentiment will be measured by
the referendum, the Board of Regents actually
assesses all mandatory student fees.
Full time students will be indicating support for
only $33.05 of the $51.50 they pay in fees each
semester. Not included in the referendum is
student fee support for bonds issued to build the
University Health Center and the Nebraska Union, a
building equipment fund for additional Union
facilities and the remaining unallocated fee money.
Court aTTirms
constitution
ballot
The Student Court Friday refused to
postpone the upcoming referendum on the
proposed ASUN constitution. The suit to
postpone was brought by Dennis Confer and
Terry Braye against the ASUN Electoral
Commission.
Braye and Confer argued that Duane
Sneddeker, ASUN Electoral Corrmissioner,
had failed to comply with the present
constitution. They said the document
requires all proposed amendments to be
puUiai wd fit one wk txtsnsiz bztors the
election. The proposed new constitution is
being published for the third time Monday,
in the Daily Nebraskan. It also appeared in
the Da3y Nebraskan on March 10 and March
Id
Bill Killion, counsel for the commission,
said the constitution differentiates between
amendments and rewritten documents. He
said the rules currently make no provision
for publication of the latter.
In ruling against Confer and Braye, Chief
Justice Mike Rumbaugh said "the question is
one of interpretation. We believe the
constitution dearly deltniates between
amendments and new constitutions."
He said the constitution does not require
publication of new documents, only
amendments.
Parties,
candidates
may watch
polling
In connection with the
upcoming ASUN elections.
Election Commissioner Duane
Sneddeker announced Friday
that 'The election commission
would like to make clear tc all
candidates that they have the
right to send observers to the
polling places on election day
in their behalf.
"The Commission would
like to request, however, that
candidates affiliated with
parties send only one observer
for each party per polling place
if they decide to send
someone. We ask this in order
to keep down any possible
congestion at the polls.
"The Commission would
also like to stress that no
observer shall campaign while
he is observing. Any indication
of partisan interest will be
construed as campaigning. Any
observer who cannot conform
to these stipulations will be
asked to leave the polling
place."
MONDAY, MARCH 20, 1972
THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
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