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thursday, april 6, 1978
daily nebraskan
ASUN shelves move to call constitutional convention
The ad hoc ASUN constitutional con
vention committee recommended that an
act to call the convention be defeated in
ASUN action Wednesday night.
The act to call a convention was in re
sponse to a petition which called for re
vision of the present constitution "to pro
mote student involvement." The petition,
signed by the required 3 percent of UNL
students, specified April 5 as the date the
convention be called.
Sophomore Bob Gleason, arts and
sciences senator from Omaha, noted sev
eral problems with calling the convention,
including hampering the ability of the ad
ministration of ASUN next year, wasting
"energy that could be better channeled to
other areas", bringing unjustified suspi
cion on the constitution and the tendency
for most problems not to be part of the
constitution itself.
"We couldn't find any faults," said
Gleason. "We're not saying that no faults
exist, just that we couldn't find them in
the last week."
Gleason reminded the senate that it can
submit amendments for ratification or to
call a convention at a later date. "All we're
saying is let's not act hastily," he conclud
ed. The act was subsequently defeated. An
ad hoc committee was then formed to
study the necessity of calling a constitu
tional convention.
In other business, the rules of the new
senate were passed after discussion and
minor amendments. The act gave ASUN
President Ken Marienau the power to ap
point former vice-president Charles Felling
ham senate parliamentarian.
Mark Knobel, Union Board president,
spoke to the senate on the proposed
changes in the union during open forum.
Knobel expressed the wish to work closely
with ASUN next year, and carefully out
lined all the renovations and proposed
shops now under consideration.
However, sophomore arts and sciences
senator Tom Beyer, of Omaha asked 'isn't
all this turning the union into another
Gateway Mall? Some of the establishments
here can really exploit the student - I
don't feel its helpful to replace the Crib
with candy and ice cream (one of the pro
posed renovations."
Knobel replied, "To get people into the
union, we must find a way to attract peo
ple. These things have worked on other
campuses - we hope they'll work here."
Graduate student Steve Upton, of Madi
son, was elected speaker pro tempore for
the new senate. Sophomore engineering
senator Nathan Wesley, of Oakland, was
elected sergeant-at-arms.
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