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thursday, cpril 21, 1977 vol. 100 no. 103 lincoln, ncbreska
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The new ASUN Senate should work
toward unity and defining common goals,
said Greg Johnson, sworn in as 1977-78
ASUN president at Wednesday's Senate
meeting.
In his acceptance speech, Johnson told
the new Senate that the shape this year's
Senate will take depends "upon their atti
tudes. "You are only limited by your lack of
energy or your lack of imagination," he
said. "We have to move "actively to solve
our problems."
"We can accomplish as much as you
want to accomplish," he told the Senate.
Johnson also urged the Senate not to
waste time and said they must work
quickly to establish themselves before the
end of the academic year. v
'"We can't sit here and waste time with1
frivolous debate," he said. "In fact, I feel
guilty about taking your time by talking."
Johnson called a special Senate meeting
for tonight at 8:30 pjn. He said the Sen
ate will vote on their rules of procedure
and elect Senate leaders at the meeting.
The rules of procedure will designate
this , four Senate committees which he
holies will be set up, Johnson said. They
deal with academic policy, student fees,
student life and special subjects.
Johnson said he thinks the Senate
can get more accomplished by adopting a
committee structure.
The Senate will also begin plans on the
Task Force to study student government,
Johnson said. ,
Calling it "possibly the most important
thing we'll do," he said he will recommend
that the force have 16 ifieuibers. He said
that number would make it small enough
to be workable and large enough to repre
sent all students.
Johnson said he will reveal his ideas
about the Force's structure at tonight's
special meeting. He also said he will recom
mend that sophomore Webb Bancroft be
the Force chairman.
Applications for task force positions are
available to all students in the ASUN
office, Johnson said. ,
The new ASUN first vice president,
Charles Fellingham, in his welcoming
address, urged the Senate to develop their
own feelings about ASUN.
"It is ndt what someone tells you it
is," Fellingham said.
In his first speech as second vice presi
dent, Ken Christoffersen said there is the
possibility that Senate meetings could be
changed to Thursday evenings to allow the
committees more time for- open hearings
during the week.
Outgoing ASUN president Bill Mueller
told the i976-77 Senate that he has
"a cynical viewpoint" about student
government. He urged the new Senate to
make changes in the ASUN structure.
"If you do nothing else this year, you
should study changing the structure,"
he told them.
v Like Johnson, Mueller also told the
Senate to work on common goals, saying
"we cannot stress our differences,"
In other business, the new Senate ap
proved their first Organic Act, which
requires all student organizations to give
membership and fee request information to
ASUN.
College posts may force students to' change plans
By Jvlaxtoe Kutieck '
" An increaskdy expensive college education Is a "fact
of life" with few apparent avenues of recourse for stu
dents, according to some UNL administrators.
With the average cost of being a UNL student up nearly
27 per cent from 1973, financing an education is a "hard
dollars and cents situation," said Jack Ritchie, director of
scholarships and financial aids.
Ritchie based the 27 per cent harass on average esti
mated expenses of a sfejs UNL student living in a resi
dence hail. I1e."sid such a student would spend about
$2,800 on tuition, student fees, room and board, bocks,
supplies and transportation.
In 1972-73, the figure was $2,303 and Ritchie said he
expects the amount to rise to be at least $3,000.
Increasing costs mean more student w3 be eligible for
financial aid in 1977-78 because parent and student in
come "is definitely not increasing at as fast a rate as
college costs."
About 800 more students applied on time for financial
aid this year than last year, he said. Last year about 7,500
students applied before the deadline. Fifteen hundred to
2,000 late applications are expected, fee said.
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Also about 2,000 students apply for federally insured
loans through locsl banks, which means about half the
UNL student population receives some' form f financial
student, he said. A single room win cost $1,575. Rr.tes m
1972-73 were $940 for a double room and $1,140 for a
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"I think it will come to a place where two-thirds f the
students will apply for aid," he said.. There , is in in
citssingly wider disparity between the ' money students
have and what their education will cost."
Ritchie said that as costs increase, many students may
take fewer hours a semester and work more. He said he
foresees more rigid academic performance requirements
for students -who receive aid, such ss a minimum jpadc
point average requirement for continued assistance.
Tuition, now $20 a credit hour, has been budgeted at
$21 a credit hour for 1977-7S, said UNL comptroller
Robert Levitt. This increase has yet to be approved by the
NU board of Regents, he added, and non-resident tuition
has been budgeted at $57 a credit hour. The current non
resident rate is $54 a credit hoar, he said,
Also awaiting approval by. the regents is a student fee -increase
which may be as Mi as $10, from the current
fee of $63, he add.
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Glen Schumann, assistant director "of housing, said a
residence hall rate increase of $40 has been approved for
1977-78. A double room with board w21 cost $1,265 a
sags room.
Schumann said he expects the occupancy level to
remain constant unless more students find cheaper, off-;
campus housing. So far, residence halls are 30 per cent full
for next year, he said, 3 per cent more than at the same
time last year,
NU IVesldent Ronald Ro&ens said the rafrcislty
administration is concerned about the increasing impact
of -rising tuition and costs, but that state Expropriations
have a great effect upon the availability of funds,
v He sId there is a feeling smcg the public that
students should pay t hiher prepcrtica of costs than
they have previously. '
"I doa share that feeling, but it is i real factor," he"
said. "
Greg Johnson, ASUN president, said ASUN can take
... considerable action against student cost increases "if they
'so desire." Some of the increases have been astronomical,
he said.
"We have to ask ourselves if we really want all these
services," he said. "The administration has been open and
honest with information and comments, but the student
government must examine the reasons the administration
gives, not just accept them." -
Records office has tight grip on files
By John Mlnnlek
The possibility of the university losing a student's
academic and registration records is unlikely, said Bob
Reid, assistant to the dean of academic services.
Reid said in the 1 1 years he his been with the office,
they have never lost a single transcript."
, 'We have misplaced or misflled student records on
occasion, but we had the records, we never lost them,"
Reid said, "We may not know they are lost until there
is a student or faculty request for the records." ,
' Sherry Cole recently resigned as chairwoman of the
Fees Allocation Dccri when she four.d out the records -ofTke
had no proof she was registered for the hst Wo
dent's permanent record at the university. These records
are"kept in a computer bank and in office files.
Alice Torwirt, records office supervisor, said a student
.can see his records if he presents his identification card,
and his academic adviser and the dean of his college can
also see his records on their request.
Tcnvirt said anyone else must "have a signed release
form from the student to see his records. She said some-,
one may ca3 the office and check to see if a student
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recKterea, cut wu cry receive a. yes or no answer.
Rr.:J trJ his office kcess two kinds cf records: regis
tration, the whe form students sa at the tczz cf
the seirtsr and transcript records, records cf the stu-
"We take msny crecautiens in the records cff.ee to
protect student iccords and tsslaSy we use' good bus
iness procedures with the records "Held sail.
Reid declined to tzy 'hzl pr;cu;Uans are taken in
the office.
"It's posillft that records could he lest or destroyed
by a deLb crate sction of somecr.e fei the office, Lke some
one cuttir,! tnnscrif-ls R:1J a-idlo it's not totally
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Rcid sii in the case cf Ccle, the uciveraity did not
lose her transcript, and as Csr es lie V-ows it is up to date.
Sae cldLus to be rcjisiered for Lie last Iwc lttim,hui
we have no evidence ia the offce that she ever did," Reid
said. "There is no record of worksheets or advance regis
tration deposits. We claim her records ere not lost."
Reid said Cole needs hard evidence that she did roister
for the last two semesters.
Tm not sure how she found out that we do not here
her registration records, hut it could te "because she
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