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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."
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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.
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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.
He said he hopes the center will "have its doors open"
by Sept. 1, but emphasized that plans still are "very
tentative."
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