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r 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 stimulation in student government to bother running for another 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 realty 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 baHot if they will give $1.50 per semester to fund NEBPIRG. s' 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 postion 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 of 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. J A. J. VII. 7 s """v7 K " Ballot will 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 ($21 per semester from students carrying four hours or more); 2) Nebraska Union ($S from all students for both operation and programming); 3) the Daily Nebraskan (1.2S from all students); 4) tntramurals and recreation ($4 from all students); 6) ASUN (SO cents from all 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 She said the referendum wording was developed by a special ad hoc committee, mdudina Beecher and two other presidential hopefuls, Roy Baldwin and Steve Christensen. Current ASUN Present Steve Fowler said students wiH be voting on only the fees which have been "the most critical or controversial.'' Regarding fee support for ASUN, Fowler explained that while the organiztion is guarantrsd only 30 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 win 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 faci lities and the rema ining unallocated fee money. Court affirms 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 Commissioner, had failed to comply with the present constitution. They said the document requires all proposed amendments to be published at one week intervals before ine election. The proposed new constitution is being published for the third time Monday, in the Daily Nebraskan. It also appeared in the Daily Nebraskan on March 10 and March 16. Bill Kill ion, counsel for the commission, said the constitution differentiates between amendments and re-written 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 clearly deliniates 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 to all candidates that they have the right to send observers to the polling places on election day in their behalf. "Tha CcTsmiscicn 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 2C, 1972 THE DAILY NEBRASKAN PAGE 3