friday, december 1, 1978
daily nebraskan
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Increased ASUN control proposed
By Lucy Bighia
A UNL sophomore has proposed an amendment to the
NU bylaws which would give ASUN power to control stu
dent activities without approval of the NU Board of
Regents.
Tim Mommaerts, a political science and history major
from Lincoln, sent his proposal on behalf of "concerned
students" to Chancellor Roy Young Nov. 3.
The proposal now is being considered by ASUN, the
Council on Student Life and the Faculty Senate. These
groups have 90 days to sent their written recommendat
ions to Young. He then has 60 days to submit the
proposal and comments to the regents, who will make the
final decision.
ASUN power
The amendment would give ASUN the power to:
-regulate student activities and organizations,
-elect the ASUN president, who acts as the student
regent.
-try cases involving students' out-of-classroom
activities.
-allocate expenditure of all student fees.
-regulate those enterprises which receive support from
student fees; such as the health center, the unions, the
University Program Councils and the Daily Nebraskan.
-act as the ultimate regulatory body for residence
halls, fraternities, sororities and cooperatives; this includes
establishing visitation hours and approving their budgets.
Help students
According to Mommaerts, the power this amendment
New editor-in-chief Pete Mason.
Union search underway
for new food manager
The search is underway and if it's successful the Neb
raska Union wiii have a new food service manager by
February.
Bob Richeson, the union's former food service manag
er, resigned his position at UNL for a better paying pos
ition as food service director at Oklahoma State Univer
sity, said Union Director Al Bennett.
"A search committee has been appointed and has met
once for the purpose of organizing themselves," Bennett
said.
The position has been advertised nationwide and
applications are due by Dec. 4.
"My personal hope is to have an applicant identified
and accepted between the 1st and 15th of February,"
Bennett said.
He added that until a manager has been found, a group
of four food service technicians will maintain the union
food services. Bennett is the acting administrator of the
group.
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vould give ASUN are powers that other university student
governments already have and that past UNL student
governments once enjoyed.
ASUN has ceased to mean much to UNL students, as
evidenced by the less than 15 percent voter turnout at the
last ASUN election, Mommaerts said.
The purpose of the amendment is to help to cope with
the "outside world," by acquainting them with the demo
cratic process and teaching them to govern themselves
while they're in school, he said.
"The purpose of a university is to provide an educat
ion, not to regulate the personal lives of 22,000 people,
ages 18 through 25," Mommaerts said.
Nice concept
In addition, the amendment says that no student shall
be "fined, suspended, expelled or in any way penalized or
punished" except by the "judgment of his peers" (ASUN)
or the American courts.
In other words, the regents would have no control over
student activities, and no power to punish students for
their actions.
Mommaerts said he represents students from ASUN,
University Program Council, Residence Hall Association
and other student organizations. However, ASUN is not
officially sponsoring the proposal, he said.
ASUN president Ken Marienau said the amendment
contained "some nice concepts," but he thought the uni
versity was not quite ready for such a change.
Chancellor Young would not comment on the pro
posal. Pub Board appoints
new editor-in-chief
Senior journalism major Pete Mason, 33, was chosen
editor-in-chief of the Daily Nebraskan for next semester.
The decision was made Thursday night at a Publica
tions Board meeting. Mason has had three years experi
ence at the Daily Nebraskan working as a copy editor,
columnist, managing editor, entertainment editor and
editorial writer.
Mason, a Maine native, said that his goals as editor-in-chief
are to "uphold the Daily Nebraskan's reporting
excellence."
"The last three years I have watched the paper grow
to a certain journalistic excellence and that puts pressure
on an editor coming into that position," Mason said.
"There's no place to go but up."
Mason plans to enlarge coverage of state, city and East
Campus news. He also said more reporters should be hired
to cover the city and state news.
"Our obligation is to the students," Mason said. "The
community is second but our top priority is with the
students."
An apology was also made Tuesday night to the Daily
Nebraskan by a former production employee of the Daily
Nebraskan.
Jay Johansen, responsible for an injected line in a
November 20th story that was defammatory to the
reporter, said that the error should never have been made
and he apologized to the reporter and the paper.
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