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President Jim Say reflects on his
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The party's over: Entertainment editor
Bill Roberts reviews The Final Days
by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein. . p!6
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By Bryant Brooks ar-d George IVZzr
The ASUN Student Court Tuesday cancelled a student
referendum originally scheduled for today, which would
have placed before UNL students an Organic Act to trans
fer rights, powers and duties of the ASUN Senate to the
Coalition for University Reform.
The court also rules that Fred Kray, a junior law stu
dent from Tavernier, FIan must be instated as ASUN sena
tor from the Professional College. Kray's two write-in
votes in the March 17 ASUN general election were not
certified by the ASUN Electoral Commission on grounds
that "certain improprieties and suspicions accompanied
the Professional College election and the two votes that
named Kray."
A unanimous decision by all participating justices de
clared the Organic Act "an unlawful attempt to delegate
the powers entrusted to ASUN by the ASUN
Constitution.'
Justice Don Vesely, an ASUN senatorial candidate, did
not participate.
The court's opinion, written by Chief Justice Doug
Voegler, senior law student from Schuyler, stated that
each ASUN official has "taken an oath to support that
(ASUN) Constitution. Any attempt to give away, or dele
gate away, or assign away completely the powers, func
tions, duties, responsibilities, etc. vested in ASUN by the
ASUN Constitution is an unlawful, unconstitutional dele
gation of power and cannot stand.
Fcrsj Ccslssa anyway
Although the Coalition this year is unable to take over
ASUN's role in student government, Coalition representa
tives Paul Morrison, Scott Cook, Mark Young and Dennis
Martin said an open meeting wi3 be held 3 p in. Thursday
in the Nebraska Union to form the Coalition anyway.
They said the Electoral Commission will set up election
guidelines for Coalition assembly and board elections,
which are scheduled for the last week in April. But Coali
tion meetings and elections will be run according to the
Coalition's constitution.
" : Martin, a ju law student from Elgin, sail the Coali
tion was not a government but a lobbying and service
force. Students can decide next year whether the Coali
tion should replace ASUN Senate, he added.
The court's decision concerning Kray's election to
ASUN Senate, stated that the Electoral Commission
"failed to display. . Jbeyond a reasonable doubt, that the
two votes received by Fred M. Kray for the position of
ASUN senator from the Professional College were subject
to suspicion sufficient to warrant the commission's refusal
to certify his election.'
Kray's council, Steve Porr, a junior law student from
Omaha, said he was "happy but not ecstatic" about Kray's
instatement into ASUN Senate, because "the court
avoided some constitutional issues they might have
spoken more strongly on.
Denied 'equal protection
Porr was referring to a case decided concurrently with
Kray's which was brought to the court by junior law stu
dents Gerry Arnold and Richard Roberts.
The two contended that they had cast the two votes
for Kray and that when the Electoral Commission failed
to certify Kray's votes they denied them "equal protec
tion under the law." "Due process of law" also was denied
because, in Arnold's words, "neither me nor Kray was
given notice that his case was going to come up before the
Electoral Commission hearing April 2 and they didn't tell
Fred why the votes weren't counted."
The court also dismissed petitions filed by a group of
graduate students to enjoin the ASUN Senate from pro
ceeding on any business because it was defective in
content.
"Of course, in so doing, we do not in any manner pass
upon the substantive merits which petitioners tried to
raise via these defective petitions," the court's decision
stated.
Pending before the court is a suit filed by Ron
Stephens on behalf of himself and five other graduate stu
dent candidates elected in the March 17 ASUN elections.
The defendants suit appeals the Electoral Commission's
ruling that the graduate student election was invalid.
Student Justice Don Wesely said Tuesday afternoon
that no date for a hearing had been set.
Slice of FAB pie sought .by 56 clubs;
most money slated for organizations
By Barbara Latz
Fifty-six UNL student organizations are asking for a
slice of the approximately $2.5 million in student tees ex
pected for 1976-77, according to Fees Allocation Board
(FAB) Chairman, Don Wesely.
But "student organizations are a very small portion of
who gets student fees," Wesely said. About $200,000 will
go to student organizations and the remaining $23
million will go to organizations like YWCA and Teachers
College Advisory Board, which are not "student organiza
tions, per se", he said. .......
Nevertheless, they still benefit students, he said.
FAB has not yet made ary allocations, which are
scheduled to be announced by the end of the month.
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Wesely, a junior majoring in University Studies, said
21 new organizations made requests this year who did not
ask for stucbr.i fee money last year, but some organiza
tions which received money last year did not renew their,
requests. FAB received a total of thirteen more requests
for money this year than last.
Rodeo club was the only one of 48 organizations re
questing fees last year which was denied funds, he said.
Rodeo Club "had a large amount of money and didn't
need it," he said.
Enrollment a factor
Wesely said FAB will have between $25 and $2.8
million to allocate, depending upon fall enrollment and
the possibility that fees will increase by $3.50:
Student fees are assessed by credit hours.
A full-time student carrying 12 hours paid $61.50 each
semester in student fees for the 1975-76 school year.
After the ASUN Senate recognizes a student organiza
tion's constitution, it is "immediately eligible for funding
consideration," Wesely said.
The deadline for requests this year was Feb. 17.
FAB subcommittees study each group's request and
make recommendations to the full board, he said.
Ken Bader, vice-chancellor for student affairs reviews
FAB's decisions, and passes them to the NU Board of
Regents for final approval.
Eight students, two faculty members and two staff
members make up the three-year-old FAB. Three students
are selected by the Council on Student Life and five are
selected by ASUN Senate, Wesely said.
Senate biggest user
Most organizations raise a majority of their budget
themselves, he said. They rely on student fees to make up
the difference.
The biggest fees user which doesn't raise any money
itself is the ASUN Senate, Wesely said. ASUN was given
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Other major fee users and their allocations last year are
the Daily Nebraskan, $32,700; Union Program Council,
$59,000; and Cultural Affairs Committee, $25,700.
Wesely said after the major fee users have received their
allocations, about $60,000 is left for the remaining 52
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last year," Wesely said, istnat Black student organizations
didn't ask for funds this year. Also, most East Campus
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FAB members disagree on how these funds should be
allocated, he said. "I recommend we give to the student
organizations what they ask," Wesely sail. "Others on
the board want to give them what the administration gives
us."
FAB members use several criteria to distribute fees,
Wesely said. "We examine the value and benefit the group
can give to the student body. We want projects not just
for their organizations, but valuable to the whole campus
population "he explained. v
"We try to make sure funding can't be raised on their
own, but we can't audit their books," Wesery said. Te
doni turn away hardly anybody," he sail.
Wesely said HEM? (Helping End Marijuana Prohi
bition) and Pro-life have tentatively been denied funds
for 1976-77 because the organizations are too political."
This is the first year either of these organizations have
asked for student fees.
FAB hears many complaints after fees are allocated,
he said, but because there is "minimal participation by
students' in determining distribution of funds, it is "il
logical for students to complain if they don't tell us" how
they want the money spent.