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, monday, december 1,1975 volume 99 number 53 lincoln, nebraska
Campus center planned
despite ASUN petition
By Barbara Lutz
Winterim construction in the Nebraska
Union still is scheduled for the new Cam
pus Assistance Center (CAC) and the relo
cation of the present television lounge, ac
cording to Union Director Allen Bennett.
The proposed center "is not a repe
tition of the existing services," said Ely
Meyerson, dean of student development,
whose office is coordinating the project,
but will provide:
-Information about campus and com
munity services (everything from birth con
trol and traffic laws to football tickets and
library fines).
-Referrals to appropriate persons or
agencies on campus or in the community.
-Distribution of literature (from the
University Health Center, UNL counseling,
etc.)
-Information tapes, via telephone or
on-site listening devices.
.The center will be open seven days a
week from noon to 11 pjn., and a tele
phone answering service will operate during
off hours.
Petition drive
Help Line will move to the center from
Seaton Hall and its $12,000 budget will
finance the operating costs of CAC.
Both men were responding to AS UN's
petition drive, begun last week, to delay
construction on the center until more stu
dent response to the plan is received.
ASUN senators Frank Thompson and
Robert Simonson have criticized what they
called Bennett's unwillingness to consider
student opinions about the center.
The Union Advisory Board approved
the center at a meeting last May, board vice
president Rick Cunningham and member
Dean Kirby said.
The CAC construction will be paid for
from bond reserve accounts, Bennett said,
which have been set aside from student
fees for building improvements.
Low bid of $14,418.45
, Judd Bros. Construction Co., made the
low general contract bid of $14,418.45.
Once the bid is awarded after UNL Physi
cal Plant approval, construction should be
gin in January 1976, Bennett said.
Other sites considered were the study
area north of the Women's Resource Cen
ter and the first floor women's lounge.
The present site was selected because re
location of the TV lounge would make
better use of the space, Bennett said.
. The television will be moved to the
northeast corner of the main lounge "away
from abrasive traffic from the ramp door,"
he said and the area now occupied by the
TV lounge will be expanded 12-feet to ac
commodate the CAC.
Bennett said he has not seen the peti
tion ASUN is circulating to block con
struction of the CAC, "but he has some
serious questions about the validity of the
way the (petition) is being done."
Meyerson said "it is important that
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Allen Bennett, director of the Nebraska Union.
students know the facts before they
sign the petition."
An ASUN guest opinion in the Nov. 24
Daily Nebraskan said students have been
denied "a voice in decision-making pro
cess pertaining to union alterations."
Carol Lou, center director, said she has
tried to, get ASUN input, but with no
response.
Lou, a graduate student in educational
psychology, was hired in August to co
ordinate the center.
The center will be staffed by Help Line
Personnel, Lou and student volunteers. All
staff members must have training in coun
seling and crisis services. ,
UNLb
argaining unit may exclude other campuses
By Theresa Forsm an
UNL faculty members may form their
own collective bargaining unit which would
exclude University of Nebraska at Omaha
(UNO) and University of Nebraska Medical
Center (UNMC), according to an order is
sued by the Nebraska Court of Industrial
Relations Wednesday.
Omaha Regsnt Kermit Hansen said the
NU Board of Regents will appeal the opin
ion to the Nebraska Supreme Court. Ac
cording to the order, an appeal cannot be
made until after faculty members hold an
election to decide whether they want a
campus collective bargaining unit.
In September, a written faculty poll
showed that over 60 per cent of the UNL
faculty were interested in collective bar
gaining. The regents decided to appeal the ruling
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from results of a telephone poll.
In September UNL faculty members
and the regents asked the court to decide
whether the bargaining unit should be
system-wide or limited to the UNL campus.
Judge Benjamin Wall of Omaha presided
at the hearings and he and the court's two
other judges decided most UNL faculty
have a common interest, but few contacts
with UNO and UNMC.
The judges said this warranted a separ
ate bargaining unit for the UNL campus,
with deans and assistant deans excluded.
Dentistry, Law excluded
The court granted the College of Dentis
try and Law requests to be excluded from
the UNL bargaining unit.
In September,' representatives from
UNO and UNMC testified that their calen
dars, schedules and professional code of
ethics differed from those of other UNL
colleges.
Regent members at the September hear
ing said the separate bargaining units would
further disrupt efforts to unify the three
NU campuses.
. Vacation and leave-of-absence policies
are uniform on all three campuses, Lincoln
regent Edward Schwartzkopf said, and sal
aries are about equal.
John Robinson, UNL English professor
and president of the eampus American
Association of University Professors
(AAUP), said an election will be held to
Applications
due at noon
The UNL Publications Committee will
meet today at 7 pjn. in the Nebraska
Union to select the editor-in-chief of the
spring 1976 Daily Nebraskan. The room
number will be posted.
Applications for editor will bo taken in
the Daily Nebraskan office, 24 Nebraska
Union, untO noon today. Also due today
are applications for news editors, manag
ing editor special editor, sports and en
tertainment editors and photo chief. The
deadline for those applications is 5 pjn.
determine whether faculty want AAUP as
their bargaining agent.
Interested in bargaining agent
AAUP is the only organization which
showed an interest in acting as bargaining
agent for campus faculty members. Robin
son said other possible agents might have
been the Nebraska Educators Associa
tion (NEA) or the American Federation
of Teachers (AFT).
Wall has called for a meeting Wednesday
at 9:30 a an. for all interested parties to
determine the date and procedures for the
election.
If AAUP is elected bargaining agent,
Robinson said, it will represent all UNL
faculty members and not just the 200
AAUP members. He said that he expects
AAUP membership to increase if the or
ganization is elected the bargaining agent.
Schwartzkopf warned that the faculty
"better take a close look at what will
happen to them" with collective bargain
ing. Workload requirements may be en
forced according to rules in collective bar
gaining contracts, he said.
inside:
Law students: Fault college's place
ment service in tight job
market. p. 12
Vietnam veterans: Fail to use
available state aid p. 7
Also Find:
Editorials. p.4
Arts and Entertainment p.8
Sports..;. p. 10
Short Stuff p.6
Crossword p. 1 1
Weather
Monday: Partly sunny and warmer.
Highs In the upper 20's.
Monday nipt: Mostly cloudy. Temper
atures ranging in the mid-teens.
Tuesday: Partly cloudy and warmer.
High around 30.
