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i Religious Culls: Rev. Sun Myung Moon teaches his followers a new lifestyle p. 6. A A TfCt rs i fS I! T,. , P5 Mr "i i. fl JUL tDOOy . :: dally nebroskan thursdsy, octcbcr 14, 1070 vol. ICO no. 24 Hncofn, ncbrsska 9 I15IU ASU f! m M n m f f - EyTcbinDsck So far this year, the ASUN Senate met fix times. The meetings, on the average, lave started 25 minutes lite, when enough senators were present for a quorum. Three resolutions have been introduced and adopted. I don't have the answer," ASUN President tZl Muell er said. "Maybe apathy is a sign of the times. It's frustrate mg. Mueller said maybe the senators feel apathetic because the students they represent are apathetic. For example, he said ASUN has had trouble filling committee positions this semester. Ten openings remain to be filled, he said. "It's hard to represent someone when the person you represent is apathetic, too," he said. Tut we (the execu tives) can't write all the resolutions." - - ; . Rgsfotisns pssstsl Actually four resolutions have been introduced and adopted, but one, which granted student political groups a license to use student facilities, was vetoed by liueHer because he sail it was inadequate. A modified version of the resolution was adopted one week later. Another resolution provides for a four per cent sur charge on books sold through the ASUN book exchange. A third resolution calls for a parking lot south of the Coliseum and for parking permits to be sold on a space available basis. . The senate also was criticized at its Oct. 6 meeting by Karen Dress, who said no ASUN senators came to inter views for prospective members of the Student Council on Health even though they knew about the interview. The Council's is constitution requires three ASUN senators be present at interviews, Dress said. She also sail a special open house and tour of the University Health Center was arranged for ASUN mem bers, but only one senator attended. Seven resa ' Seven senators have resigned this semester, MueKer said, most because of changing personal plans. Graduate Sen. Hon Stephens also is resigning. Stephens' resignation brings the number of senate vacancies to four, three graduate positions and one business. Four senate vacan cies already have been fiSed. "Anything engineered for student participation on this campus is a farce to give sanctbn to decisions which have already been made," Stephens said. "As long as students are content not to have a voice in decision-making, the administrators won't give them one. Stephens said ASUN is a "glorified high school student council." ' . AdrmnMrators don't want student participation or input into dedsion-makfcg, and they give lip service to the fact there is a student government, Stephens said. ?They have scmetling they caa point to and S3y, See, it works' when all it is is window dressing," he said. The ofHce has to mean something," he said. "Unless ASUN becomes a decision-making body, you woat get people to work on it." Nancy FalJberg was an ASUN senator last year. She was reelected in the spring elections, but resigned this year after the first two weeks of school. "I resigned because of time commitments," she saM. "I had other things to do besides sitting in an ASUN meeting for four hours every Wednesday. I got tired of hearing people talking, using their fancy vocabrhrrt." FsMberg said she didnt know how ASUN could be made more worthwhile. U U 1 havent really thought about it because I dont care," she said. . The current apathy started with the reception the new senate got after last spring's elections, according to Eusiness Sen. CHI Jackson. "Net deserving Te got a yu don't deserve to be there-you get elected by the Greek slate' kind of reaction," Jackson said. "For a while there, we didnt know if we were the governing body or not," he said, referring to an attempt by members of the Coalition for University Reform (CUR), to acquire the student governing body instead of ASUN. Although, he added, more could be accomplished if "the executives would organize and run the meetings a little better. . Julie Erodbeck, home economics senator, said senators from East Campus arent apathetic, attend most ASUN meetings and are active on committees. - "Our advisory boards and faculty are ahrays wiling to work with us, and if we need students for committees or to do other work we can usually find volunteers," she said. '. v;r,: : "Maybe the others (senators) dont have this typejof cooperation." . ASUN has no real power, Erodbeck said, but is a lia ison between students and administrators. ASUN's job, she said, is to take student proposals, present them to the regents, administrators and legislators, gy-d push until these groups adept them. "But the students have to back us," she said. k e!v tt jm-jOtm. m P fl jffc jgOfL m9S Jfh F&x1 If U vul? u ai 0 B U mm mvr irnw 'sav m m mum m E fi me? wmm w i a mm lexsr sr mm . s M mm , U m By E. IL Ccssccio '' Some fraternities and sororities will spend more than the legal limit on their, toinecoming displays this fa3, according to some fraternity and sorority sources. But it seems unlikely that they will be ..disqualified. ..:' ' ": Tliere is a $50 spending limit for dis plays in the contest sponsored by Tassels and Corncobs spirit organizations. Presi dent Julie Schindler said if a group goes over the Emit they wi3 be disqualified. But she said there is no formal check of expenses. ;- ' - Te jzty on the houses to control them "selves," . Schindler" said." "If you? trust " theni; tiay generally Hve up to it." One fraternity president who wished to remain unidentified, said his house pro bably would spend about $90. He said he v.' i-y Js 1 i i 1 L- mi GO ) MU r 7 "1 m m thought that is less than many other houses spend. The lumber abne cost $35, he said. V.'izans GTeraenJ - He estimated the Alpha Tau Omegas . phtf Isst year; He said -hs tkseght tfcsy " used pomps rather than less expensive napkins. A sorority president said she also did not see how the Alpha Tau Omegas stay ed within the limit in winning last year. ' She said the frame had to cost more than $50." An Alpha Tau Omega spokesman declined to comment for publication. Kristi Schlegel, president of Alpha Delta R sorority said she thought about half of the houses with displays stayed within the limit. She said her house would spend about $30 on its display. " "I feel that for one weekend of the year, it isn't necessary to spend a great amount " Schlegel said. Overspendiij common A homecoming display chairman from one fraternity said probably only 10 per cent of the houses would stay within the Emit. He also declined to be identified. He said his house will be able to stay in the limit because of alumni donations and" by using materials saved from the last two years. The limit restricts a hstcf houses if they -'dent -save materials from year: to year." unlimited, but the limit sfsould be higher." Schindler said donations are legal It is a spending limit, not a limit on the worth of the display ,he saM. Enforcement wasted Another fraternity officer, who also declined to be identified, said, "I think if they set a $50 Emit on displays they should enforce and judge the displays accordingly. "Why should a group that stays within the written rules and abides by the $50 limit be out of the consideration in the display judging because groups that spend more have better displays and win?" he asked. "If they want to make it fair for every group entering the contest, I believe they should either raise or strictly enforce the limit. "You cant tell me a judge cant tell if a display is worth more than $50 " he added.. ....... . ' J Si 1 a- r : Nb-homecom log royally: onor or : a " waste : of ; tlfhe? One person said it is an Extreme honor," while another said it is a "waste of This hcseccmE" fcby in frcnt cf Egsaa Alpha Epaa fralra2y, pro! ccat fcss than tS53 spend Lmii, hzt frataniity and sarory sluices sgr raary char dl's wi3 coat mare. Stiirfsr.t xttltudas toward IML home- ccming royalty saem to depend upon which sMe of the ballot you find yoursalf the voting sMe or the side recchisg the votes. ;3" Candidate Kevin Van Kenan, a 20-yaar-c!d junior majoring in conatructlaa rnagamant, said he thought it was an "extreme honor to even be ccnaidered XrlsiecoiniEgkEg)" "I tlsys thought it was a b& honor," Van Renan, a member of Fhi Kapp la fratarnity, said he thought candi dites were ccnaHared on the basis of c-jtaide tctrrltirs and "v.hat you contri to ths cxiTsxay " He is involved in UNL's rowing team, "Qmpus Crusade for Christ, Intcrfratcr " city Council, General Contractors Assoca tbn, Chemical Engineering Society and intramural sports. "I deat see how they (those who areat candldatas) can complaia," Van Recan said. They dent take the tr.ftfcifae thrn sahas" as far as ttHsz out an tpp!icaibn for homsccmhg royalty. This year three; men applied fox home coming kfeg, and two showed up for the interviews. ' Although the king side of the home coming royalty "rat eventually be pheaed out" becauae so few males paiti cite, "The gMs ateys take part" tad so the tomecomirg quaea rc!a wO prctciy remain, Van Renan said. , It just depends ca tha changir f-tti-tudes cf the stadants," he said. t