History of UNL fees allocation process
outlined in Tuesday panel discussion
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One reason for the present system of allocating student
fees is student apathy in the 1960s, said Daryl Swanson,
associate union director and East Union manager.
Swanson, who participated in a panel discussion on
student fees Tuesday night said student fees began when
students initiated and approved a referendum in 1938
to finance the building of a student unidn.
The students voted to tax themselves to pay for ser
vices like the Daily Nebraskan, the student union and
health services, he said.
Students voted on student fees allocations periodically
until sometime during the 1960s, Swanson said.
Swanson said he guessed the reason student votes on
fees stopped was that students didn't care and the admin
istration had no desire to bring it up.
After four or five years, the students forgot about
voting, he said.
This system of direct student participation in fees
allocation gradually evolved into a system in which the
student-affairs office allocated those fees which weren't
used to pay off the bond issues on the union and the
residence halls, Swanson said.
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In 1973, the newly established Fees Allocation Board
began to allocate that portion of fees.
Ken Bader, former vice-chancellor for student affairs
said in a taped telephone interview played at the meeting
that when officials were deciding who would allocate
fees in 1972, they felt student government wasn't qua
lified to do it.
"FAB was a natural kind of evolutionary process,"
Bader said.
Don Wesely, former FAB chairman, said although he
had supported FAB in the past he now thinks ASUN
should have control of fees so students have more say
about how fees are spent.
ASUN has initiated a process to amend the UNL
bylaws to allow student government to begin allocating
fees, ASUN president Greg Johnson said.
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Daryl Swanson, manager of the East Union, ex
plained the history of the Fees Allocation Board at
the Fireside Chat Tuesday at the UNL Faculty
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School stage dazzles beauty queen
more than Atlantic City Boardwalk
Photo by Bob Pearton
Linda Hallstrom, Miss Nebraska
By Joe Starita
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A.C as in Atlantic - City, N.J.; as in Miss America
pageants; as in fame, beauty, wealth; glamor, chauffeurs,
luxurious hotel suites; as in autographs, press conferences
and appearing before millions on national television.
For UNL freshman Linda Hallstrom, the bright lights
and Boardwalk nights in Atlantic City were just "fine,
thank you," but they could not compare to last Fri
day night at Omaha's Benson High School Auditorium,
Hallstrom, Nebraska's representative at this year's Miss
America Pageant, returned home Friday to crown Benson.
High's homecoming queen and was given a standing
ovation by several hundred classmates assembled in the
school auditorium.
"It was really strange because I felt poised and relaxed
in Atlantic City before a national TV audience," said Hall
strom, an 18-year-old home economics education major.
"But when a few hundred of the kids-1 went to high
school with gave me a standing ovation I started to come
unglued. I had to figlit back the tears."
Although Atlantic City "couldn't compare with how I
felt at Benson," Hallstrom said the Miss America Pageant
"was a great experience." '
"I feel I've learned a lot about myself and where I'm
coming from, as a result of the Miss America Pageant,"
said Hallstrom.
The time spent in Atlantic City was organized down to
the last detail by pageant officials, Hallstrom r6called.
Each contestant had a personal chaperone, every two
girls an assigned hostess with limosine service and plush
hotel suites provided for everyone during the week-long
September pageant, she said.
In addition, the blonde, green-eyed beauty added,
there was a constant barrage of interviews, conferences, .
autograph-seekers and rehearsals to wade through.
"It didn't seem real those first few days," Hallstrom
said. "Here I was an 18-year-old just trying to get into
college and I was being treated like a movie star."
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provided another dimension to the experience, Hall
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was the most exciting part of the pageant," Hallstrom
recalled. "My sister, I think, was more excited than I
was. " '
"Every night after rehearsals she'd come up with a
critique of my performance. 'Linda, you have to stand
with you shoulders more erect,' she'd say, or 'Linda,
your hair looked a little lop-sided tonight.
"It was really a lot of fun having them there, taking all
the slides and pictures and giving me a lot of encour
agement." Although Hallstrom said she felt her age (third
youngest contestant) hurt her chances, the new Miss
America, Susan Perkins of Ohio, "definitely deserved
to win?'
"Beauty isn't the only thing stressed," Hallstrom
said. "It's the largest scholarship pageant for women in
the world (more than $1 million), and although I don't
think Susan was the most beautiful girl there, she was the
most intelligent and the most qualified."
Qualifying for Miss America, she said, is not always
fair, and some changes could be made to correct that.
Personal interviews are heavily weighed with each con
testant "immaculately dressed and seated on a throne
responding to questions from eight judges," she said.
"They take you to this little room and you have seven
minutes to give your political, religious and moral views."
"I definitely don't think a judge can find out much
about you in seven minutes."
Progress slow but sure after inaction, resignations
By Mike Patten
ASUN's task force on student government, slowed by
inaction and resignations, is progressing towards its goal
of a recommendation for the future of UNL student
government.
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Steve Pederson. the second chairman the task force
has had since its inception last spring, said the 14-member
task force has had six meetings this semester.
The task force was to meet during the summer, but
Pederson said it never got around to meeting. In addi
tion, former chairman Webb Bancroft resigned last month.
The task force also is three members short of its 17-mem-ber
limit.
Pederson said the three members will be selected soon
from a list of applications filed at the ASUN office.
"Ken Christoffersen (ASUN second vice president)
said he would have tislsit for us before the end of the
week," Pederson said.
Three branches
According to Pederson, the task force is studying
what he called the three main branches of student organi
zations. He said these are ASUN, the Council on Student
Life (CSL) and the Fees Allocation Board.
"We had Bill Mueller (former ASUN president) and
Mike Eyster (former CSL member) in to talk to us about
their organizations and what they do," Pederson said.
"They also talked about what they thought were some of
the problems with their organizations.
Pederson said the task force has set Christmas break
as the goal for its recommendation. In addition, the task
force will create a guide to student government based on
observations drawn from a survey of 16 universities.
Pederson said the survey results indicate varied levels
of participation in student governments.
"One school has, a government with ISO senators and
got more than a 50 percent turnout for its election,"
Pederson said. "And a lot of governments are having
trouble like we are.
Better participation
Pederson said it appears student governments that con
trol student services and activities have better partici
pation percentages than governments that do not.
"The student government that controls right down to
the bookstore and the health center seems to have a
higher level of participation" he said. "However, some of
these schools are set up like ours too and they arent
having problems." ,
The task force's next meeting is Sunday. Pederson said
the task force will break into small groups to better
digest the information it has received to date.
"I think if the entire task force tries to become
brilliant minds on everything we've learned so far, well
be here til next Christmas.
