The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current, March 10, 1976, Page page 5, Image 5
Wednesday, march 10, 197G daily nebrssfcan Academic cm BV IS Dy Bsrbsra Lctz Credit should be given where credit is due, according to Paul Morrision, ASUN second vice-president. And the academic credit he is seeking for ASUN senators, he said, likely win be at UNL next fa!I. Morrison, a political science graduate student from St. Paul, said he has discussed the idea with the Political Science and University Studies Depts., but was turned down. University Studies currently gives credit to Model United Nations participants and Morrison said when he asked for similar credit for ASUN senators, "they felt Dee we were searching for frecbies. The Political Science Dept. (said it) couldn't draw any correlation between what ASUN does and what is taught in political science, he said. Negative response Mary Jenkins, ASUN first vice-president, said when Morrison presented his ideas abct Senate credit to ASUN's Executive Committee, "it met with some negative response. The senior french and pre-med major from Lincoln said the committee "thought students should go into student government to represent the students, not for their own selfjuiterest. ASUN senators are required by its Constitution to attend meetings regularly and are encouraged to be on an. ASUN standing committee or a college advisory board, . Morrison said. - Jack Baler, assistant dean of student development, said when he was teaching at Southern Illinois Univer sity (SIU) a student affairs course for student personnel, similar to Morrison's plan, was offered. "It wasn't a way of giving senators credit," Baier said. The SIU course studied the university's government system, the role of each office and its policies. Meeting once a week, the class was open to any -student, not just those in student government, he said. However, class members were predominantly student organization and student government executives, he said. Morrison, presidential candidate for the AEiar.ce of Concerned Students party, said he will postpone his work on organizing the class until after the ASUN elections. He said he then would discuss the idea with UNL's . education psychology graduate program, which Morrison said has a course similar to the one at SIU. He said he hopes an undergraduate course in student person nel will be created to teach students' loles in university government. Baier said the plans for a seminar calss in student personnel at UNL are "very preliminary.' However, Morrison said "it is favorable (likely) that well have it (at UNL) next fan." sough"!' r voir - a r n n N senovors Educational Psychology Dept. Chairman Ken Orton sad he 'hasn't heard anything about (the cowse) yet, but he's "sure itU get to me sometime. "We can't take a course taught at one university (SIU) and transplant it (to UNL)," Baier said. There are too many differences in course work, academic depart ments and administration to make a smooth transition, he said. Student government becs&s vary Student government benefits, including salaries and academic credit, vary across the state. Tom Carney, 1975-76 student body president of Wayne State College, surveyed student government benefits and found that seven of ten state schools offer no fom of academic credit, while six have no monetary benefits. ' The results of hi survey follow; University of NeCrttlu ft Omaha: $cademic credit, no pY. UNL: September thtcigh March: president $1,1 CO, vk presidents $350; April through June: president $244, vice presidents $211; combined summer salary $CCO. Nebraska Wes!eyen University: no credit, no salary. Hastings College: president $200 ismester; vfct president semester; secretary treasurer $1S3 a semester. Doane Cottese: no benefits. -Wayne Cute University: president, vice-president and secretary $100 tuition waiver semester and thret credit hours annually. Creightoii University: president $1JCC3 year; four vice presidents each $X9. Chadron State College; no salaries. Southeast Nebraska Technical Community Cotters: president, vice-president, secretary, treasurer, orrf-Ksif tuition remission, Peru Stat College: on hour credit in political science independent study. Approved CDC money Is still unused By Liz Crumley Money approved by the Lincoln City Council last August to be used with university funds for helping low income persons has not been used yet and will not be used until at least September, according to Ted Wright, director of the UNL Community Resource and Research Center. The money is to help establish a community design center (CDC), which would provide architectural and planning services to persons who normally could not afford them, said Nancy Usnick, planner of Lincoln's Urban Development Dept. These services would include architectural designs for home rehabilitation for low-income persons and planning for community developments such as mini-parks for chil dren, Usnick said. Lincoln appropriated $8,000 of its general fund on Aug. 31 to be used with matching UNL funds for the center. The general fund is money paid by city taxpayers. '.' v 2 tentative - However, according to Yright, because of a commit ment to continue work on a similar project in Omaha, the plans for a Lincoln CDC still are tentative. UNL architecture graduate students would help pro vide the CDC services and would receive academic credit, he said, but because there is a decreasing number of grad uate students taking a design course which works with the CDC, most of them are working with the Omaha CDC. The Omaha CDC was established by the university in 1969, he said, but because there is no Architecture College at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, the stu dents who work on the center must come from UNL, he explained. Wright added that student involvement in the CDC is necessary. "Even if it doesn't tie into educational activity, there's nothing unique about it (CDC) being (planned) at a uni versity," he said. Froilerns . Other problems in establishing the Lincoln CDC in volve setting up an advisory board for the center and ob taining projects for students to work on, he said. Wright said he expects project ideas to come from the community. However, he sail, he is concerned that all ideas from the community might not relate to pressing problems of the community. The advisory committee would consist of community residents, professional architects, UNL professionals and representatives of various city planning departments. Project ideas would be presented to the committee for approval, he said. No one has been hired to supervise the center because the city's appropriation occurred in the middle of the "job cycle' when most June graduates had been hired, he said. The appropriation didn't include enough money to hire someone on a permanent basis, he added. Someone probably would be hired this summer, he said. It is uncertain whether unused appropriated money could be used the second year, Wright said. "There is no need to ask for money for the second year when we haven't used the money for the first year," he said. 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