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The ASUN Student Court Vednesday denied a request
by graduate student Ron Stephens to overturn the ASUN
Electors! Commission! decision to annul the March 17
ASUN Graduate Studies Collsgs election.
The commission voided the election because a number
of ballots cast in the graduate election allegedly were
cast by persons not in the college.
Because only 17 votes separated the first place winner
from the sixth place winner, the commission voted to
annul the election.
Stephens, who was elected to a Graduate Studies
College seat in the March 17 election, charged that he and
the five other winners were denied due prcce because
they were not notified of the Electoral Commission's
April I hearing about the petition contesting theelcction.
However, the court ruled that since none of the six
March 17 election winners were on trial, the Electoral
Commission was not required to personally notify them.
It also said that a Daily Nebraskan story about the hearing
was sufficient notice.
Stephens also charged that the commission's decision
to annul the graduate election was invalid because the
commission could not meet the four-fifths majority vote
required in the ASUN Constitution to make such a
decision.
The court ruled that because Paul Morrison, then
ASUN second vice-president and Electoral Commission
member by right of office, disqualified himself from the
commission because he was an election candidate, the
commission had only five members. Decause four
commission members voted to annul the election! the
four-fifths vote requirement was fulfilled.
The court also rejected Stephens' request that the
court require an ASUN Senate review of the commission's
'procedure and prepare a report for the court.
It ruled that the proper forum for requesting electoral
reform is the Electoral Commission itself and the ASUN
Senate, not the Student Court.
Stephens was re-elected in a second graduate college
election Apri( 16. However, March 17 winners Roberto
Sosa, independent candidate, and Robert Simonson,
New Student Coalition candidate, lost their seats in the
second election to write-in candidates Janet Rasmusson
and Ronald G, Struss, who were not elected March 17.
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DyCfen Smith .
If Americans can be "wooed" away from their c?jrs,
mass transit can affect energy conservation, said Lyle
Young, associate dean of the College of Engineering and
Technology.
Young was responding to an analysis in the April 2
issue of Science, the weekly journal of the American
Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). In
the journal, Eric Hirst, formerly with the Federal Energy
Administration and now with the Oak Ridge National
Laboratory, said mass transit and carpools will only
minimally affect energy-saving in the next decade.
Although the resulting energy saved may not be large,
Young said, any reasonable action should be taken to
lower energy consumption.
Increase operating costs
To reduce auto use, he said, the price of operating a car
must increase.
He said increased mass transit use is an economic, not
technological, matter. Mass transit systems have been
created, he said, but more people will not use them until
the auto operational costs are too high.
To encourage mass transit use, Young said, less money
should be spent on street widening and creation of
parking space. Money saved could be used to create and
improve mass transit.
In his article, Hirst said the long-term potential of mass
transit could be greater, but urban travel pattern changes
may take at least a decade to implement because of long
time lags associated with changes in land-use patterns,
auto ownership and individual attitudes toward public
transportation.
f Young said he agrees that it takes time to affect
changes. For example, he said, a person who bought a big
car three or four years ago may be more concerned about
energy conservation now, but his car has years of use re
maining. Therefore the person keeps the car, creating a
time lag before he trades it in for a smaller, more efficient
model, he said. .
Raise ps prices
In his analysis, Hirst cited two ways to improve new
car fuel economies-increased gasoline prices and legisla
tion. He said the most dramatic way to decrease fuel
consumption is to increase gas prices by 20 per cent.
Young said he agrees, but also suggested that prices be
raised by creating a large gasoline tax instead of increas
ing prices by lowering the-amount of available gasoline.
Money raisea vy the gas tax then could be used to de
velop more alternatives to auto use, he added.
Hirst's article also said he thinks a more effective way
to save gasoline would be to increase new car gasoline
mileage. With an increase of from 14 miles a gallon in
1974 to 20 mpg in 1980 and to 22 mpg in 1985, he said,
savings could reach the equivalent of 568,000 barrels of
crude oil a day in 1980 and 1327,000 barrels daily in
1985.
Young said a goal can be set for how much oil will be
oe reacnea.
Young said current extensive energy conservation re
search includes solar heating for buildings and gasohol for
cars.
Voc-ag program set
Because of an increasing demand for vocational
agriculture teachers, a four-year high school vocational
agriculture curriculum is being planned for Nebraska.
Beskes the high school program, the project plans
to upgrade current high school courses and develop
teaching materials to fit Nebraska's production, agricul
ture and agribusinesses.
UNL received a $36,000 grant to finance the
project, which involves 24 Nebraska vocational agricul
ture teachers, the State Department of Education and
UNL's Department of Agriculture Education. .
ASen Elezek, project director, said the grant is
federally financed through &e State Board of
Education.
"The high school program has been implemented by
other states-Oklahoma, the granddaddy of them ali,
Kansas and New Mexico," he said.
According to Department of Agricultural Education
figures, during the last five years high school vocational
agriculture enrollment has increased about 35 per cent
to more than 8,000 students while the number of
teachers has increased about 17 per cent, to about 150.
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