friday, fsbruary 6, 197
daily nebraskan
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By Gina Hills
If appointed UNL's new chancellor, Roy Young,
currently vice-president for research and graduate stud
ies at Oregon State University (OSU), probably will not
have much trouble adjusting to UNL students' and
campus life.
For starters, OSU is a land-grant, sea-grant institut
ion and part of a seven-school state system. A president
- heads each school, a chancellor heads the system and
the State Board of Education acts as the governing
body. "
OSU, located in Corvallis, Ore., about a mile from
downtown, covers 387 acres, includes a recreation
park, an outdoor laboratory and has nearly 15,000
acres of university forest and agricultural research
lands.
Established in 1868, OSU can claim the fame of
being one year older than the University of Nebraska,
which was founded in 1869. But it seems they have
progressed at about the same rate because OSUV
campus issues are similar to those at UNL
For example, both campuses currently are deliberat
ing whether to be represented by a collective bargain
ing unit. UNL will decide Feb. 16 if it wants to be re
presented by the American Association of University
Professors (AAUP).
OSU will decide next fall whether AAUP, Oregon
State Employes Association (OSEA) or the American
Federation oi Teachers (AFT) will represent its faculty,
according; to Cleore Adams, first vice-president of the
Associated Students" of Oregon State University
(ASOSU).
But, in the bargaining issue, OSU's approximately
16,600 students may be more involved than UNL's
nearly 22,000.
The 1975 Oregon Legislature voted to allow stu
dents at the bargaining table with all rights guaranteed
except voting privileges, Adams said.
The Oregon State University's System also has two
student representatives on the State Board of Educa
tion, whose roles are comparable to NU's three student
regents.
Like UNL, OSU has coeducational residence halls,
but of OSU's 12 dorms, six are coeducational and of
the remainder, there are three each for men and
women.' u"' "
But theie is one major difference between the two
campuses. OSU allows alcohol in the private rooms of
students who are older than 21 , Adams said, which is
the state's legal drinking age.
OSU President R. Mac Vicker approved the alcohol
policy in July 1975, after it had been reviewed by "
OSU's student services -office, Adams added. Since each
campus in the state system is autonomous, state board
and legislative approval was not needed, she said.
"It .took a, lot of behind the scenes planning and
talking to' f he right people at the right time" to get
alcohol on campus, Adams said. The campaign for
alcohol was chanclled through OSU's Student Conduct
Committee, which is comprised of six faculty members
and five students, resulting in a majority student vote,
OSU students also have strong representation when
determining allocation of student fees, Adams said.
Student fees are $25 a term (OSU has a tri-semester
svstem), and are taken directly from tuition revenue.
Resident tutition is $213 each term and non-resident
tuition is $700 a term. Also included in the
tuition charge is a $14.50 health service fee.
OSU has "a beautiful student fee program, Adams
"said. "Students have almost complete control over
student fees."
The six major fee users at OSU-Men's athletics,
women's athletics, recreation sports, Memorial Union
(student union), educational activities and health
services-each determine their own budget, she said.
Students have majority vote in all budget commit
tees except men's athletics and health services, Adams
said. Users submit their budgets for review to the Inci-
dental Fees Committee (IFC), which is comprised of
six students and three administrators. Then, ASOSU
receives budget requests for final approval.
In addition, OSU students receive other benefits
from student fees, she said. All athletic events are free,
there is a new OSU student recreation building and
numerous free campus events are financed by student
fees, Adams said.
But "OSU also has athletic hassles," she said. For
the last three years, the men's athletic program has
been operating on a deficit, she said.
Enough funds may be available in reserves for men's
athletics to survive another year, Adams said, but two
minor sports already have been eliminated.
Adams also said living unit occupation is not a
problem at OSU. Currently, all 12 dorms, Creek
Houses and cooperatives have about 95 per cent occu
pancy, she said. Each dorm has between 350 and 400
residents.
Some meet, praise Roy Young
A general reluctance to talk about Roy Youngs
possible appointment as UNL's chancellor was evi
dent Thursday evening among those who met the
Oregon State University vice-president for research and
study during his visits to Nebraska.
Members of the NU Board of Regents and some
UNL and NU officials reportedly have met Young.
However, few would speak on the possibility of his
being named to the position vacated since James Z urn
be rge resigned Aug. 20 to become president of South
ern Methodist University.
ASUN President and Student Regent Jim Say said
the final decision on Young's hiring has not been made.
'Things still could work out that he is not the
man," Say said. He added that Young will have to talk
about resigning to Oregon State officials and will have
to be approved by the regents.
NU President D.B. Varner also said Young was "one
of three very strong possibilities for the position," but
Regent Robert Simmons of Scottsbluff said that "as
far as I know, he (Young) is the only man under con
sideration at this time."
Simmons said that he met Young Tuesday evening
when Young first arrived in Lincoln and (that the
Oregon State vice-president "seems to be a pleasant
man.' -
He said he did not know whether the regents would
approve Young at its next meeting Feb. 14 because he
had not "had a chance to visit with other regents."
Say would approve
Say, who also met with Young during his visit to
Lincoln Tuesday through Thursday, said that if he
were a voting member of the board, he would approve
Young's nomination.
"From what I can tell," he said, "he (Young) seems
CSL to reopen
CAG discussion
at next meeting
By Liz Crumley
Discussion of the Campus Assistance Center (CAC) will
be opened again at the Council on Student Life's (CSL)
fiv mpf tina. .
Fees Allocation Board (FAB) chairman Don Weseley
spoke to the council at its Thursday meeting and said
FAB thought it was not the proper body to investigate the
center.
The Center already is dead, Wcstiley said, and the board
does not feel it can "resurrect" it, though the board does
think the possibility should be examined. 1
He was advised that CSL might be the proper body to
examine, Weseley said. '
The NU Board of Regents at its December meeting
tabled the approval of the center's construction for an hv
definite period of time.
The Council voted to put it dh its Feb. 19 agenda and
invite the "original proposer" to attend the meeting. The
proposer is in Dean of Student Pevelopment Ely Myer
son s office, Union Director Allen Bennett said. The
Council still does not have to gel involved then, CSL
member George Wolf said, ...... ,
Questions had been raised about the purpose of the
center and why the ASUN Senate had "washed" its hands
of it, CSL member Judith Anne Sadler said.
Paul Morrison, ASUN second vice-president and CSL
member, said that the Senate probably thought that .since
it was not its project.it did not want to push it.
In further action, CSL also established a committee to
study iU rules and procedures and to make recommenda
. lions.'"
The committee would study CSL procedures and see if
discrepancies existed between what was written down and
what the council was following.
CSL'i procedures concerning student appeals coming
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to grasp a lot of what's going on here fairly readily.
Maybe that is because there is a similar situation on the
campus where he came from."
That situation includes student government that has
a student senate similar to ASUN's and an advisory
body similar to UNL's Council on Student life (CSL),
he said.
From his talks with Young, Say said, he got the
impression that Oregon State's equivalent to CSL is
less formal and more of a communicating and advisory
body that does not make recommendations in the way
CSL does.
If Young were to come to UNL, he said, he might
"come up with some new ideas on how to solve the dif
ferences" that have occurred concerning the governing
powers of CSL and ASUN Senate. However, he added,
he does not think Young has faced the kind of conflict
ASUN Senate and CSL currently are facing.
"Near the top"
Richard E. Gilbert, professor of chemical engineer
ing and head of the chancellor search committee, said
that he did not meet Young during the committee's
search. ,
He said he met him Wednesday, adding that "it was
a pleasure to meet him."
If the committee had ranked the candidates for the ,
position, he said, Young "would have been at or near
the top."
Others who met Young during his Lincoln visit this
week would not comment on his nomination to the
position. UNL Interim Chancellor Adam Breckenridge
said he had "no comment," as did Regents Kermit
Hansen and James Moylan of Omaha. University of
Nebraska at Omaha Student Regent Clint Bellows said
he "had not met the man."
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ShSim ChlP UWC ,2Ste t0 dlussioft 00 PPod atudent assistance center during the CSL
: to them also would be a part of this study. The written
procedure for appeals is unclear, CSL chairman Lyle
Young said. 7
Lowe also was appointed to a committee being formed
by Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Ken Badcr to "re
view certain practices and status of the Daily Nebraskan."
The Council decided to ask Bader the specific charee.
of the commit. It also asked that the cwnmittceX
the Council a final copy of its finding.
The Council also will ask the ASUN Senate to nomi
nate a senator to tha committee. The Senate currently has
a committee studying various appeal routes for the entire
campus, according to Morrison.
Hearing slated Sunday
An open hearing to determine the legality of the ASUN
senate s Nov. 19 rescission of its student appointees to
the Council on Student Life (CSL) has been rescheduled
for 4 p jn. Sunday in the Nebraska Union.
The ASUN Student Court then wt'I hear argument
from Senate and CSL representatives. Friend-of-the-court
briefs also may be presented by interested parties.
The proceedings of a two-hour open hearing, J.''.
wera cancelled after the rules and procedures of the court
were questioned. The Senate also did not have legal coun
sel at the hearing.
The court now has released written rules and procedures.