Union:
4-month
delay
By Ellyn Hess
Wondering about the state of the
Union? The budget remains the same $3
million. But a 4-month delay probably
will push the opening date of the new
East Campus Union to September 1976,
reported Daryl SwanKnn, Nebraska Unfon
Planning Committee member. He said
alterations in the plans submitted to the
committee by architects is causing the
delay.
Swanson said a second set of plans for
the proposed East Campus Union now is
being revised by the Virginia-based
architectural firm of McGaughy, Marsha!!,
McMillan and Blackiund.
He said the firm submitted the first set
of plans to the planning committee in
August 1973, but the plan was "rejected
for all practical purposes."
He said the committee wanted the
firm to include a public entrance on the
north siria to serve a proposed pedestrian
mall north of the Union.
The committe also wanted a service
entry and loading dock on the east side
instead of on the north side, as proposed
by the firm.
Finally, the committee wanted a
southwest public entrance instead of the
southeast public entrance proposed by
the firm.
When the second set of preliminary
drawings was submitted Jan. 14, the
changes had been made, said Swanson,
but the committee wanted further
alterations.
The committee recommended a
reduction of window in view of iiie
energy shortage and wanted the firm to
develop a new stairway location scheme.
The layout for the food service and
dining areas, as proposed in the second
set of plans, also was not acceptable to
the committee, and should be changed
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ASUN Senators Karl Cochrane, Brian Waid and Dave Thurber discuss abolishing
the current Senate constitution.
ASUN
to sponsor
open
meeting
"To show that the students on campus mean business,'
ASUN Senate will sponsor a mass meeting Wednesday,
according to ASUN Sen. Jim Macomber, meeting
coordinator.
The session is designed to allow students to voice their
opinions on campus alcohol and visitation policies, he said.
A panel of representatives from the Residence Hall
Assoc. and the Interfraternity Council will be available to
answer questions, "but the session is not designed to be a
question and answer session," said Mark Hoeger, ASUN
first vice president.
"It is designed so that students will have a means to
directly give their views to the Board of Regents and not
have to go through CSL (Council on Student Life) or
ASUN," he said.
The meeting will be held at 6:30 p.m. in the Nebraska
Union Ballroom,
Pass fail blessing could curse
those seeking more education
Constitution reform
resolution killed
UNL students this week will be asked to sign petitions that
would allow them to vote on abolishing the current ASUN
constitution.
In a special meeting Sunday, the ASUN Senate voted 15-11-2
against placing a resolution for an interim ASUN constitution on
the March 13 ASUN ballot. A two-thirds vote (24) of the Senate
was needed.
The resolution, in the form of a constitutional amendment,
still could be placed on the ballot, however, if 1,0Q0 student
signatures are obtained before the Wednesday filing dead ling.
Written by ASUN First Vice-President Mark Hoeger, the
resolution calls for the dissolution of the current ASUN
constitution; it would be replaced with an interim organization.
The interim body's main functiorf would be to draft a new
constitution by November 15.
The temporary structure, however, would be a board of
trustees, comprised cf 33 representatives, including a chairman
and two vice-chairmen.
The current Senate structure provides for an executive branch,
made up of three persons, and a legislative body.
The division between executive and legislative areas now "is a
real deterrent to ASUN's effectiveness," Hoeger said. "But we've
included a chairman (and vice-chairmen) in the interim body for
organizational purposes."
The duties of the Senate could be divided more evenly among
all senators if the temporary structure were created, he said.
"All those in Senate would have a chance to be mors active in
Senate affairs," he said. .
Sen. Sharon Johnson, College of Home Economics, countered
that belief.
Establishing a broader power base might be a "real threat to
the continuation of (current ASUN) programs," Johnson said.
For example, the second vice-president now is in charge of alt
ASUN committees. Who would fill that role under the temporary
government?, she asked.
Hoeger said someone could be designated by the Board of
Trustees.
By Wet Albers
The option of taking courses passfail may
seem a blessing now, but students applying to
oraduate or professional schools may change
their opinion of that grading option.
Undergraduate taking many courses passfail
may be at a disadvantage when applying for
post-graduate study, according to UNL
graduate and professional school officials.
Officials said there was uncertainty,
however, as to how many hours of passfail are
considered excessive.
A survey last fall by the Educational Record,
a national educational publication, indicated
that students taking more than 10 of their
course hours passfail would be at a
disadvantage when applying to graduate and
professional schools.
The survey polled 200 graduate schools, 50
law schools and 50 medical schools.
"It's aim tst impossible to say how much
potsfail is too much," Graduate College
Associate Dean James Drew said.
Students now can register for a maximum of
24 hours passfail, subject to approval by the
individual colleges or departments.
Drew said, ho vever, that students taking
passfail in their major courses or areas of a
"closely supportive nature" could be at a
disadvantage when applying to the graduate
school.
He also said the students could have trouble
oetting scholarships from the college.
Chief pre-med adviser, Paul Landolt, said the
NU Medical Center favors graded courses.
"If a student's record is overloaded with
passfail courses, the admissions committee
begins to wonder why he didn't take grades in
those courses," he said.
Students taking a lot of passfail still have a
chance, Landolt said. He said admissions tests
and interviews, however, are stressed more for
such students.
Law College Dean Henry Grether said the
college has no rule setting an acceptable
amount of passfail hours.
"It's a little like pornography," he said.
"You can't define it, but you know it when
you see it."
Associate Dean Donald Shaneyfelt, a
member of the Law College admissions board,
said he looks askance at anything beyond 15
hours of passfail.
"Students won't be removed from
consideration for too many passfail hours," he
said. "More emphasis will just have to be put on
other factors
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