Henry hopes for fast start
on Goya program, budget
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ASUN President Ann Henry.. .said she plans to shake
ASUN from apathy.
by Steve Strasser
Ann Henry, a 20-year-old pre-medical major
from Lincoln, has a small plurality of a record
low ASUN election vote and the platform of
the Get Off Your Apathy (GOYA) party
behind her as she starts her term as student
government president.
If those seem meager tools with which to
fashion ASUN into a respectable government,
at least Henry should enjoy support from the
student senate: 21 of the 35 members of the
new senate were GOYA candidates.
Henry's 11-vote victory margin is the only
mandate her GOYA party platform has, yet she
plans to start work immediately on GOYA
proposals such as the student regent bill,
educational reform and the student lawyer.
Henry also said in an interview that she plans
to apply her party's slogan to the ASUN senate
itself, shaking it loose from its usual apathy.
In order to get an early jump on her
program, Henry said she would start
immediately to draw up the ASUN budget for
next year, aiming at July 1 as a date to submit
it to the UNL administration.
The traditional date for submission of the
new budget is August 1. Bruce Beecher, former
ASUN president, did not submit his budget
until September and some student
organizations didn't receive money until
January.
Henry said she hopes to get off to a faster
start.
"We'll push, if we need to, to get people
going this spring," Henry said. "We want the
new committee chairmen to find out what
they're interested in and start working now, not
next fall."
She said she hopes to get the ASUN Budget
Committee involved in drafting the new budget,
in order to provide a wider range of input into
the process. Traditionally most work on the
new budget is done by the executive staff.
Henry said her most immediate concern was
bringing State Sen. Richard Marvel's student
regent bill to a vote in the Unicameral. The bill
was killed in committee on March 16, but was
resurrected and placed on general file on March
28.
Henry was co-chairman of the ASUN
Legislative Liaison Committee which is seeing
the bill through the Legislature.
"There's a chance it will pass," Henry said,
"but not much of one."
The question of the feasibility of a student
lawyer, the most heated issue in the campaign,
has been answered by the election, it is feasible,
Henry said.
She said ASUN's Legal Rights Committee
was in the process of getting a professional
lawyer to draw up the plan, which would
provide a student-fees-sponsored lawyer to
work for ASUN.
"We're going to make sure our proposal is
legal before we go ahead," Henry said. She said
the proposal would "hopefully" be ready in
two weeks and that it would be included in the
new ASUN budget.
Henry said GOYA's educational reform
planks, which included reforms in the
advisor-advisee relationship between students
and faculty and creation of a centralized career
advising office, would be a high priority.
"We've got to start working on ed reform
now," she said. "But it takes a lot of time and
hard work to make these proposals gain
acceptance."
Henry said ASUN would start an intensive
"sell-job" this spring to persuade students to
join the ASUN Ko-op.
She said the machine that produces Ko-op
identification cards would be brought to UNL
living units regularly and that ASUN would
sponsor a hard-hitting campaign to sell
freshmen on the Ko-op idea next fall.
To increase student participation in
government Henry said she also hopes to
establish ways to directly contact freshmen
next fall in an effort to get them to join student
government.
She said she believes one wav to do this
might be to acquire files on freshmen indicating
the new students' areas of interest. ASUN could
use these files when recruiting student help.
Fired YWCA director takes counseling post
Twig Daniels, executive director of the UNL
Student YWCA until June 30, said Wednesday that
she has accepted another counseling position on a
trial basis.
Daniels was fired Match 8 by the Lincoln YWCA,
which pays her a $8,200 yearly salary. The reasons
listed included: not enough stress on fighting racism,
a national YWCA priority; incomplete financial and
membership records; too much concentration on
women's rights and abortions; and dwindling Student
YWCA membership.
Daniels said her future job will include problem
pregnancy counseling, marriage counseling and
possibly instituting sex education programs in
Nebraska public schools. She has accepted it on a
three-month trial basis, she said.
A Student Y committee has been established to
find a replacement for her, she said.
Daniels said she feels her involvement in
controversial projects probably contributed to her
dismissal. She worked on the purchase of birth
control handbooks which upset the Board of Regents
last year; served as faculty sponsor for the UNL Gay
Action Group; and was active in problem pregnancy
counseling and the Nebraska Organization for the
Repeal of Abortion Laws.
Daniels answered the other Lincoln YWCA
complaints against her.
She said the group had helped the UNL
Afro-American Society orqanie, and allowed it to
use the Student Y office for a year.
The Student Y also was one of the first groups on
campus to attack Greek houses which had denied
membership to blacks, she said.
Concerning financial records, Daniels said this was
the first year the Student Y was directed by the city
YWCA to keep financial records, so any incomplete
information may have been because students did not
understand what was to be included.
She said a number of students also said they felt
the records were an attempt to control the Student
Y.
The Student Y has 200 paid members, Daniels said.
This k down from 500 or GOO five years ago,
according to Dorothy Smith, Lincoln YWCA
executive director.
Daniels said the Student Y image has shifted from
that of a club to "more of a service, referral and
counseling service." So, although membership is
lower, she said Student Y participants still number
about' 500 to GOO.
She also said students are not as interested in
joining organizations as they once were.
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Student YWCA executive director Twig
Twiq Danicls...has accepted another job after her March 8
dismissal.
thursday, april 5, 1973
daily nebraskan