Doors could open at next fees task force meeting
! Bv Marv Jo Pitzl "We intend to abide bv the Open Meetings Law.' are " Roskens said. "However, I am not aware
By Mary Jo Pitzl
I Although they have met three times behind closed
f doors, the university -wide task force to study student fees
.will not lock the door and throw the key away,
j In fact, the door may be wide open at the task force's
next meeting Tuesday at the University of Nebraska at
j Omaha, according to task force chairman Hans Brisch.
j 'Tersonally, I feel we should move into an open
fmeeting," Brisch said, adding that the other nine task
J force members seem to indicate they favor an open
! meeting.
j "There is nothing to hide,' Brisch said of the task
jforce's meetings. The press and public have been barred
J from the first three task force meetings.
j Charged by NU President Ronald Roskens in August to
study the student fees structure and report on alternate
I systems, the task force is hoping to finish preliminary
I recommendations by Nov. 15, Brisch said.
A Dec. 15 deadline
The task force must have a completed report presented
Ho Roskens by Dec. 15, After review and possible revi-
'sions, Roskens will present his recommendation on
student fees to the NU Board of Regents.
Eyeing the Nov. 15 deadline, the task force has
f conducted its first three meetings in closed sessions.
Brisch explained that this was to allow for uninterrupfed
iwork. - ' ' " "
; The Daily Nebraskan attempted to attend the task
'force meeting Tuesday, citing the closed session as a vio
lation of the Nebraska Open Meetings Law, (LB325 -1975),
; but was refused entrance.
I Roskens said the task force was justified in closing
the meeting.
"We intend to abide by the Open Meetings Law,
Roskens said. "My understanding is that closing the meet
ings of committees that are not policy committees is not
against the law."
NU general counsel John Gourlay said his interpreta
tion of the law upholds the task force's right to closed
meetings.
Subject to law
The Open Meetings Law applies to public bodies as
defined in Nebraska statutes, Gourlay said. Any commit
tees or study groups of a public body, such as the board
of regents, are subject to the law. However, this does not
apply to the task force, as it was appointed by Roskens,
Gourlay said.
"I don't think this (the task force) is a committee that
is advisory to the board," Gourlay said.
. Roskens said he cannot predict any action he may take
regarding student fees until he receives the task force
report.
"I cannot say there would be open hearings (on the re
port) because I don't know-what the recommendations
At W V ,
are, KosKens said. " However, i am not aware or any ex
port afoot to shove something down somebody's throat."
Roskens said anyone who would like to comment on
student fees structure would have an opportunity at the
regents meeting when it will be up for vote. He said he
did not know when the student fees recommendation
would be put on the regents agenda.
Satisfactory to majority
Lincoln Regent Ed Schwartzkopf said the regents
will not vote on the student fees recommendations until
they know they have a report that is satisfactory to a
majority of the university population.
"I would hope it would have wide acceptance,"
Schwartzkopf said. He added that the only way for the
board to determine this acceptance would be through
some sort of public hearing prior to the regent vote,
Brisch said he would need task force member input be
fore deciding whether to publish the report presented to
Roskens.
"I hope we can share it,". Brisch said, adding that
Roskens has first priority in seeing the report.
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vol. 101 no, 35 Uncoln, nebraska thursday, november 3, 1977
IK
Mayor and panel answer voter queries
ion storm sewer, civic center bonds
Bv Rex Henderson
Daring to battle "Good Times" and "Charlie's Angels"
! i i . i 1 . ........ I t-1 T "
I tor Lincoln s television audience, Mayor neien uoosaus
-and a panel Wednesday night tried to sell bond issues on a
"new civic center and storm sewers to voters.
The Mayor hosted Richard Erixson, a city department
L-If public works engineer; City Council Chairman Richard
; 'Baker, Jim Mallon, city finance director; Art Thompson,
v a representative from Concerned Citizens for a Civic
: Center; and Del Whitefoot from Concerned Neighbors, a
group supporting the sewer bond issue.
I The televised question-answer discussion ran a half
i I I hour overtime to accommodate citizens questions on the
(two issues.' , v '
Boosalis and the panel answered questions on the costs,
effects, and need for the bond issues to be decided in a
; Nov. 8 special city election.
; Erixon told viewers that the $6.8 million bond issue
"'would begin work on $30 million in needed storm sewer
repairs in areas scattered throughout the city.
The $7 million Civic center issue would help the city
1
meet two pressing needs, according to Thompson. The
money will pay for a 2,500 seat auditorium to be
constructed between the old Federal Building and the old
city hall, and renovate the Federal Building for city office
space.
Several questions centered on the developers respon
sibility for taking care of run off in new subdivisions of
the city.
One accused the City Council of rubber stamping ex
tensions of tjie sewer system when existing needs for im
provement have in old sections been ignored.
Baker responded that the Council had taken steps to
see that the storm sewers in the subdivisions were
adequate;.,- . r ..'. . ,"'.,
Thompson told Jhe viewers that trie Civic Center would
be managed by UNL, who would open the Center to any
group in the community.-
Mallon pointed out that the Civic Center would cost
the owner of a $20 thousand home $11.55 a year and the
storm sewer issue would cost the same home owner $7.70
year.
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Daily Nebraskan Photo
Lincoln Mayor Helen Boosalis
(Study's menu replaces gaggle of giggling burgers
1 By Joe Starita
"You are what you eat," observed
firillat .Savarin, the ,18th century French
t writer and gastronomer extraordinaire.
( Imagine, then, the extraordinary sight
! Monsieur Savarin might observe if he re
i turned to a typical 20th century cpllege
i campus,
! lie's quietly strolling past Love library
f when a gaggle of giggling cheeseburgers
suddenly burst through the doors, knock
j ing the poor fellow down. The freshmen
: burgers apologize, pick up their books and
continue merrily on,
Savarin has barely finished wiping a clot
'of mustard off his frock, when a Screaming
Yellow Zonker sails by atop a skateboard,
; followed by five Spaghcttl-O's on bicycles.
? Shocked, he continues on past Hamil
ton Hall where a senior Salted Nut Roll
iand two bags of Weaver's potato chips are
sprawled beneath a tree, leafing through
some history notes.
i Dazed, Savarin deftly weaves his way
through mounting sidewalk traffic, dodges
a junior Hostess Twinkle and four sopho
more Swanson TV Dinners, and sidesteps
a graduate Fig Newton.
: Sesame-seed buns
Thoroughly fed up by now, the good
gastronomer goes over to a shapely pair of
sesameeed buns and asks them if seeing
is believing. "
Had Savarin chosen to conduct his
stroll on UNL's East Campus, he might
have come away believing college stu
dents are about as apt to gobble junk food
.as Dow Chemical Is to offer Jane Fonda a
position on their- board of directors.
He would have been told bv Connie
Kles, department of Food and Nutrition
professor, that 23 UNL students current
ly are eating a well-balanced diet of starch
breadpeanut butter and dry skim milk,
vitamins and minerals (in capsule form)
and bowls of applesauce, peaches, green
beans and pears.
j The students, Kics said, are part of a
of Human Feeding
four, or five times,
Food and Nutrition
continuing series
Studies conducted
annually by the
department.
"Nebraska is one of the few places in
the country that does these studies," Kies
said. "Through different tests, we are try
ing to measure the effects of nutrition on
humans."
The studies are designed to verify the
results of nutritional research conducted
on' animals in previous tests, she explained.
Verify previous information
"It is - unethical to do research on
humans before animals have been tested,'
said Kies, director of the human feeding
studies lab, "What we want to do is verify,
the previous Information determined by
the animal studies, then apply the tests
to humans to make sure the results are
accurate when we give people advice."
To get this information, she said, stu
dents must stick to a specified diet-eat-ing
or drinking nothing else during the
testing period.
The tests usually last from 20 to 30
days, Kies said, during which a single pro-
duct is tested in the food eaten three times
daily by the students in a dining room set
up for them on East Campus.
Urine samples then are studied, she said,
to determine the effects of dietary fiber
upon the body, nitrogen balance, the blood
hemoglobin count or any number of things
a study may want to isolate, . ;
"What goes in, must go out, and by con
trolling the amount of dietary fiber in an
individual's diet, ' then measuring the
amount that comes out in a urine sample,
we can determine what percentage of die
tary fiber can be used by humans," Kies
said.
In addition to eating three square
meals daily students are, also, paid for their
efforts, Kies said.
When the studies are about to begin,
notices appear on East Campus bulletin
boards and announcements are made in
classes, she said, requesting volunteers
that will be paid "about $4 per day usual
ly." However, the cirrrent 28-day study pays
$12 a day, Kies said,
No matter how you slice it, that's a lot
of pizza.
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Long green on the Green Acres: Ag
career day shows ag students
where they can make hay ... .p. 3
Next, they 11 take over the pig pen:
Farmers arc the latest group to
strike, ..p, 5
What they need is a Sampson:
Regents to make decision on mov
ing Temple walls , p. 6