Students voice approval
of ASUN fees allocation
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By Mike Patten
ASUN control of fees allocation is
agreeable to a majority of the students who
testified at an open hearing . before-Wed-nesday
night's ASUN meeting.
Only two people indicated reservations
with the ASUN proposal to take control of
the allocation process.
Former Fees Allocation Board (FAB)
chairman Don Wesely said the senators
would not have enough time to allocate
fees and do senate work.
Wesely said FAB takes an average of
four hours a week which he contends
would not leave time for other ASUN
functions. ' . ,
Kevin Paul, a business college major,
said he thinks the present senate would be
able to allocate fees, but warned against
the danger of "a well organized machine"
gaining control of ASUN.
"If you can stay responsible, fine," he
said. "However, we still have the Greek
slate in our background."
"I don't think there is much question
that ASUN can allocate .our money, if
ASUN is going to continue to be stable
like this they can take the power."
Mike Gibson, president of the Residence
Hall Association (RHA), said RHA voted
unanimously to support the ASUN
proposal. He said fee takeover would give
ASUN more power.
"When you' can put your hand into
someone's back pocket and take his
money, you'd better believe you're going
to get a crowd up here." ASUN holds it's
meetings on the second floor of the Union.
"Without the power that ASUN now
has," he said. "It- can only be a home for
ex-debators and lobbyists."
.Jaime Figueroa, vice president of the
Latin American Students Association, said
the , senate should have the power to allo
cate money because FAB has done a bad
job. ,
"In Panama, where I come from, we
have a saying that it is better to redress
an injustice than to perpetrate an error."
Paul Morrison, former ASUN second
: vice president and a former FAB member,
said ASUN assuming the allocation process
would not automatically give ASUN more
credibility. Credibility only can come as a
result of ASUN actions, he said.
"Credibility does not come as a result
of how much you control " he said,
"but how you act."
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Kevin Faul, who calls himself a "concerned student," addresses ASUN senators
at an open hearing on student fees allocation.
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daily nebraskan thursday, September 22, 1977 vol. 101 no. 13 lincoln; nebraska
Superintendents: high schoolers ready for college
By Barbara Lutz
Most high school graduates from Lincoln and Omaha
schools are prepared for college, according to school
superintendents from both cities.
However, Lincoln Public School Superintendent John
Prasch said "forsome students college entrance require
ments are not tough enough. It is hard to make a blanket
statement" on the success of entrance requirements, he
said. .
"By and large high school subjects don't have much
effect" on what is required by college instructors, Prasch
said.
NU regent Robert Simmons says he is concerned about
academically deficient freshmen at NU (see related story.)
Prasch said the knowledge students gain by high school
graduation "depends more on the individual than a
specific high school course."
Deficiencies rare
University officials agree incoming freshmen with
educational deficiencies are rare. Simmons has suggested
that trie university raise its admission standards to screen
Ford at UNL today
Former president Gerald R. Ford is scheduled to
attend classes at UNL today.
Ford will speak to some sections of Political Science
100, beginning at 10:30 this morning, and in graduate
political science classes in the afternoon. Students must
nave tickets to attend these lectures.
Ford also will attend a civic dinner at 6:30 p.m. at
the Lincoln Hilton.
out incoming freshmen in need of remedial education.
Prasch said Simmons', statement about remedial
programs is another way of saying the university will
take fewer students. However, "being more selective has
,not resulted in higher quality "he said.
H." Vaughn Phelps, superintendent of Westside Com
munity Schools, said colleges should not need remedial
courses because slower students or those not qualified will
drop out the first semester or first year.
"If they can't cut it, they can't cut' it," he said.
Phelps said information on Westside High School grad
uates indicate as college students, they did as well or
better academically than they did in high school.
Prep courses
Omaha Public School Superintendent Owen Knutzen
said college entrance requirements should not necessarily
be tougher, but colleges should decide if they are going to
accept everyone with a high school education, or only
those with college preparatory courses.
None of the superintendents interviewed said their
high schools has specific courses labeled "college prepar
tory courses," but there are extra-curricular programs to
help students plan for college.
Prasch said students are advised not to depend on what
is taught in high schools, but to see what colleges require,
such as knowledge of a foreign language, basic math and
English skills. In addition, he said, there has been
"renewed emphasis on writing."
Limiting entrance to students who have taken college
preparatory courses would be contrary to the "general
American attitude that everyone ought to have a chance
at a college education," Knutzen said.
Regent's task force sets hearing date
to thoroughly examine the fees issue
In its second meeting since its creation, the NU Board
of Regents task force studying student fees Tuesday
scheduled an Oct 5 public hearing to gather UNL's opin
ion on the issue.
The 10-member committee also set an Oct. 3 hearing
for the University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO) and an
Oct. 5 hearing for the University of Nebraska Medical
Center (UNMC), according to task force chairman Hans
Brisch.
Brisch explained that the public hearings are a part of
the task force's attempt to thoroughly examine the fees
issue. '
At the July 25 regent's meeting, Omaha regent James
Moylan ordered a university-wide study of student fees.
The 10-member committee, appointed by NU President
Ronald Koskens in August, represents students, faculty
members and administrators from all three campuses.
Task force member Jim Knisely, UNL comptroller,
said the committee was charged by the regents to:
-study student fees with the intent of eliminating all
student fees outside of those supporting the univer
sity's bond repayment,
-Hror.sider which university organizations and services
should be funded by mandatory fees,
-consider which student organizations and services
should receive voluntary fee support,
-recommend whether mandatory payments should be
collected as tuition or as a separate student fee, and
-recommend how far the university should go in pro
viding services to collect voluntary student fees, if
they should exist.
Brisch said that before the task force makes student fee
recommendations, "we want a good solid study of what
is, what should be and how we should go about getting
what should be."
The public hearings are a part of this study, according .
to Brisch. "
Brisch said the task force wants to complete their
recommendations on the future of student fees in time for
the December regents meeting. He said it would be pre
mature to make any predictions on the task force's recom
mendation because they are still in the research stage.
After the public hearings, the task force will meet again
Oct. 18, Knisely said.
UNL's other representatives on the task force include
Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs Richard Armstrong
and student Dennis Martin, Martin will conduct the UNL
hearing Oct. 5, Brisch said.
A century ago only 50 per cent of the school-aged
population was in school, Knutzen said, but today 92 per
cent of the school aged children in the Midwest are stay
ing through high school, , .
Knutzen said if - the university -wants- to raise its -
admission1 standards to screen out incoming freshmen in
need of remedial education, it will have to place more,
restrictions on those applying for higher education.
Course elimination
would save money
Although NU is not required by law to accept any gra
duate from an accredited Nebraska high school, that is the
policy the university currently follows, regent Robert
Simmons said.
"The law is that the university can set its own entrance
requirements," Simmons said. "The present policy is what
the law used to be."
The Scottsbluff regent recommended last week that
NU raise its admissions standards to screen out incoming
( freshmen in need of remedial education.
UNL Legal Counsel John Gourlay said there is a
sound legal basis for Simmons' proposal.
A revision in the Nebraska statutes gave the Board of.
Regents power to set admission requirements, Gourlay
said.
Simmons said higher admission standards would elim
inate the cost of remedial education for academically
unprepared freshmen. Some freshmen do not have the
basic English and mathematics skills necessary for college
work, he said.
"The Legislature is telling us now we can't afford the
kind of university we want," Simmons said. By elimina
ting remedial education programs from the curriculum,
the university can save some money, he said.
However, NU has only one remedial education course,
according to academic officials.
Gerald Bowker, UNL assistant dean of academic ser
vices, said there are no such courses at UNL.
UNO admissions director David Harbeck said only
UNO has a remedial education course, no-credit algebra.
UNO incoming freshmen are given a diagnostic exam
that places them in English classes, Harbeck said.
However, he added, there is no course catering
specifically to deficient students.
inside thursday
Promise them anythmg:One winner of last year's Muscular
Dystrophy Dance Marathon has not gotten her trip
to Las Vegas. p. 3
NU keeps watchful eye on reverse discrimination: Court
decision may force NU to adopt quota system ... p. 6
Out of the kitchen and into the classroom: Women's
enrollment at UNL has increased in recent years . . p. 7