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thursday, September 20, 1973
lincoln, nebraska vol. 97 no. 13
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Ken Bader, vice chancellor for student affairs.
Senators demand Council
name committee members
The Council on Student Life (CSL)
apparently won't be getting any two-fers from
ASUN.
Lacking a quorum, the ASUN Senate
Wednesday unanimously approved a sense of
the senate statement favoring a resolutuion by.
Sen, Myron Molacek to send only one nominee
for each CSL appointment rather than
two-for-one as CSL had requested.
The senate's original quorum was lost when
Son, Karl Cochrane left.
The controversy centered around five ASUN
nominees to the Publications Committee, which
publishes the Daily Nebraskan.
According to ASUN President Ann Henry,
CSL opposed the nominations because Sam
Brower, former ASUN first vice president, was
one of them, Henry said CSL opposed student
government leaders being involved with the
publication of the Daily Nebraskan.
Several sources have indicated they believe
the government-press involvement argument is
specious. The souices said that CSL's
opposition actually was aimed at Brower, who
is allegedly hostile to the Daily Nebraskan
because of editorial criticism of him by the
paper last year.
Another nominee, Mark Molacek, was an
ASUN senator last year and is again this year.
However, Molacek was not a senator at the time
he was interviewed for the Publication Board
post. Mark is the brother of the senator who
introduced the resolution.
Of the other nominees, Bob O'Neal was an
ASUN senator last year, Karen Richardson is
chairperson of ASUN's Human Riahts
Committee, and Kelly Baker is a former Daily
Nebraskan editor.
Sen. Myron Molacek's resolution opposed
CSL's request on the grounds that ASUN
executives had served on the Publication Board
in the past, that the distinction between leaders
of student government is hazy, that there was a
precedent of ASUN's sending the exact number
of applicants for appointment to CSL, and that
the Faculty Senate has ruled that all of ASUN's
appointments be made on a one for-one basis.
In other action, the senate confirmed the
appointments of Mark Molacek, Steve
Timmons, and Jan Jones to fill senate vacancies
from the Graduate and Professional College.
There are still two vacancies in the senate,
one from the Graduate and Professional College
and another from the College of Engineering.
New committee
to investigate
fee controversy
By Bob Ralston
If Ken Bader's perceptions are correct, the new Program
and Facilities Fee Allocation Board, designed to eliminate
some of the past controversies over student fees, may soon
find itself facing hassles over fee increases.
"I am dedicated to making sure that all agencies using fees
that I'm responsible for are using them to the fullest extent
possible," said Bader, vice chancellor for Student Affairs.
"However, I am concerned about tremendous increases in
costs which have not been accompanied by increases in
student fees," Bader added.
He said he would not speculate on what the allocation
board would do about this issue.
At present, the board exists only on paper. No members
have been appointed, although Bader said he believed the
board would be complete by he Oct. 1 deadline.
ASUN is to appoint five persons to the 12-member board,
one each from ASUN, Union Board, Publication Board,
University Health Center Advisory Committee, and
Student-Faculty Advisory Committee to the Recreation
Department.
ASUN President Ann Henry said she has asked each of the
organizations for nominations and expects replies by Friday.
The Faculty Senate Committee on Committees will
recommend four faculty members. Three students-at large will
be chosen by the Council on Student Life's Student
Organizations Subcommittee.
According to Bader, the creation of the allocation board is
an effort to depoliticize the student fees issue and "open up"
the allocation process.
"It's no secret that student fees has been the subject of
some controversy for some years, both in the ways they were
collected and distributed," Bader said.
"One of the conflicts I saw in the (old) process was that it
was not basically an open process. One of my goals is to open
up the decision of how fees are used and should be used."
He said there had been conflicts with ASUN in determining
representation on the allocation board.
"ASUN wanted to be the sole appointing authoiity for
students. I did not go along with this because another goal I
had was to remove political vested interests from fee
allocation," he said.
However, Bader said he was unwilling to give students
complete control of the allocation of their fees.
"Students perhaps are not awaie of the fact that the regents
are the final authority for any fund distribution, They delegate
this to the chancellor and myself and we are accountable for
it," he said.
"If students have control, where is the accountability?
Neither the chancellor nor myself want to be accountable for
something we have no pait in. We want rather to shaie in the
(allocation) process with students."
Bader said he believed the board's zero base budget
concept, which would force each student group to start from
scratch each year in requesting funds, will increase "sharing"
in the allocation process by opening up budgets to analysis.
However, Bader said he did not believe economics should
be the only consideration in fee allocation.
"Wo shouldn't get mouse-tiapped into a situation where
everything has to be a paying proposition," he said.
Japanese
seminar
includes
art, tea
Demonstrations of brush painting, music,
flower arranging and paper folding set an
aesthetic mood at the opening session of the
Japanese Symposium being held Wednesday
and Thursday-at Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery.
Gail Butt, UNL art professor demonstrated
oriental written characters and discussed their
relation to art in Japan.
Butt said the characters, originally brought
from China, often portray their own meaning
which is why it evolved into an art.
In many cases the form of the character is
more important than it's meaning in a painting,
he said. A form might be aesthetically beautiful
but it could possibly mean something like
"danger hole in road," he said.
Butt explained that the style varies greatly
because of the many inks and brushes that are
used.
Demonstrating how to make a brush by
smushing a bamboo stalk with a hammer, Butt
said that brushes were also made from a variety
of hair and bristles. Each brush is used
according to the quality of mark wanted.
The team crremuny which was scheduled for
the afternoon session was not performed until
evening because Tateo Sauki, wife of the
Japanese Consul of Chicago, had not arrived
from Chicago.
The ceremony is an art in itself in Japan and
is steeped with formal tradition that might
make even an Englishman with tea and
crumpets tingle.
While the English have had stiict i riles of
etiquette surrounding the serving of tea, the
Japanese carry it a bit further by making it a
solemn ceremony set in a simplistic background
with low keyed music.
Several distinctive Japanese instruments
were demonstrated in a section of the program
by Donald Lentz, professoi of ethnomusicology
at UNL.
The main address will be given 10:30 a.m.
Thursday by Edwin 0. Reischauer, former US
ambassador to Japan and a professor at Harvard
University.
A pnel discussion is scheduled at 2:30 p.m.
and a movie at 8 p.m. All sessions are at
Sheldon Art Gallery.
