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CO U Gl thursday, august 30, 1973 lincoln, nebraska vol. 97, no. 2 Coed visitation issue faces regents again Ag dean resigns The dean of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Agriculture has announced his resignation, effective Oct. 22. Dr. E.F. Frolik, who joined the UNL staff in 1936 as an extension agronomist plans to join the Development and Resources Corporation, headquartered in Sacramento, as an agricultural research administrator. He will be on assignment in Iran planning, organizing and structuring agricultural research. By Steve Arvanette A modified proposal to extend coed visitation is expected to be introduced at an informal meeting Thursday night of the NU Board of Regents. The plan calls for extending the six-hour daily limit to a maximum of 12 hours only on Saturdays. The Daily Nebraskan has learned the proposal was worked out privately by UNL administrators and is scheduled to be introduced at the informal session by an unidentified regent. A much broader visitation plan was defeated at a June meeting of the regents. Official action on the new proposal would come at the board's regular monthly meeting scheduled for Friday at 9 a.m. in the NU Systems Building at 3835 Holdrege. Support for extending visitation on Saturday seems to stem from increased social activities on campus. With six home football games which often draw relatives to Lincoln there is often difficulty in scheduling sufficient time for visitation. . Regents will also be asked to approve the formation of a legal aid service for students. The purpose of the student lawyer according to Ann Henry, ASUN president, is "only for advising and not litigation." The plan as approved by ASUN at a summer meeting calls for an attorney to "be held on retainer by ASUN to maintain regular office hours, and at his discretion give advice and counsel to students . ; ." The program would be funded by $9,370 in funds appropriated by ASUN. Further interest developed when several members of student government attended a conference at the Colorado State University and learned of a similar program there. Henry No quorum, so reports fill first fall ASUN meeting By Bob Ralston The first meeting of ASUN failed to draw a quorum Wednesday evening, leaving senators with little to do but listen to reports and organize committees.' "This is terrible," said First Vice President Mark Hoeger. "This is exactly the way my student council was in high school. Everybody sat in the back." The membership at the meeting fluctuated between 19 and 22 senators. Twenty-one of ASUN's 35 senators must be present for a quorum. For most of the meeting, only 20 senators were present With some prompting, the senators present moved a few seats closer to the front of the Nebraska Union small auditorium, where the meeting was held because the ballroom was occupied by drop and add. President Ann Henry announced that debts caused by the closing of the ASUN record store and a lower projected enrollment had forced cuts in ASUN's budget. Henry said ASUN executives decided during the summer to cut $100 from senate expenses, $100 from Center for Education Change, $200 from the Communications Committee, and $2,500 from the contigency fund. Cuts in the contingency fund will probably hurt the most, Henry said, because there won't be much money for new programs. In other matters, Legal Rights Committee Chairman Dave Thurber said he expected favorable response when the student attorney proposal comes before the Board of Regents Friday. "Chancellor Zumberge is going to support the program," Thurber said. "We've favorable reports from other people in the Administration. I think it's going to go." ASUN is also looking for people to work on committees. A request by First Vice President Mark Hoeger for volunteers for the Human Rights Committee, which maintains the P.A.C.E. scholarship program, drew no response from the senators present ASK Manager Ken Kirk was more successful in signing up members. "The Ko-op needs your support," Kirk said. "If ASUN doesn't support tie Ko-op, w really can't expect other students to do it either." After Kirk suggested that the Daily Nebraskan would be "very interested" in knowing how many senators had ASK cards, 1 1 senators duly filed to the back of the room and had cards made. The majority of senators present, however, already had ASK cards. Cheryl Long, director of the University Friends of the Arts committee that published the "Lively Arts at UNL" booklet, thanked ASUN for its help in getting the project started. She said that of 1,800 pamphlets printed, only 1.000 were left. ASUN currently has four senate vacancies to fill. Three are from the Graduate and Professional College and one is from the College of Engineering and Agriculture. Throughout the past fiscal year, $10,200 was allocated to groups outside of ASUN. This year all money to outside groups will be allocated at one time. The budget committee faces a problem of tight funds and large requests. Eight thousand dollars was allocated for student organizations and activities outside ASUN. Last year, $10,200 was allocated to outside groups. Preliminary funding requests from 24 groups this year totaling $32,763.96. said that program has proven successful in helping students especially in the field of landlord-tenant problems. At their meeting, Friday regents will make final decisions on the 1974-75 budget and capital construction requests. It appears they will ask the Unicameral for a 13 to 14 per cent increase in state funds over the current fiscal year's $91.5 million budget. The budget under which the University is presently working is an 8.2 per cent increase over the 1972-73 figure. Included pn the agenda also are several personnel changes. Board members will be asked to appoint Glenn Smith as acting executive vice president for administration. He is now assistant vice president and director of business and accounting and would temporarily succeed Howard Neville until a permanent successor is found. W. Cecil Steward will be presented to the board to serve as the first clean of the new College of Architecture. He is currently professor and associate dean of the College of Architecture and Environmental Design at Texas A&M. The College of Architecture becomes officially established Sept. 2. It was authorized by act of the Legislature, having for many years been a school within the College of Engineering and Architecture. A new organizational plan for the University of Nebraska Press will be presented to the regents. It calls for the naming of Bruce Nicoll as chairmen of the board of directors and Frederick Link as acting executive director. The name of James O'Hanlon will be presented at the meeting to serve as coordinator of a new program aimed at freshman affairs. 7 As U .4 -A -i ' '-X Ph-no l,y Call f oU Football helmets arc ca-jt aside as the Nebraska Cornhuskers lake a break from iheir diiy vorkoul. I For complete Nebraska 'jports covnr.Tje, please turni to pages 17 and 20.