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ddilu , 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 r It i -. - ' , t . ' j -. - a f I : I v - Iff J, I .-. y f j Photo by Ktvin Hioloy 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 r 1. t . r . 4 1 1 4 --.-. j . " ... - v'- 4 J. 1 4 f . Serf's. ,,"u,""vlaaSiji i '. Photo by Tod Kirk These Mute deer, in the Black Hills in South Dakota, take tit op portunity to enjoy mild fall weather before the heavy winter SHOWS. 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.