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tuesday, january 29, 1980
lincoln, nebraskavol. 104, no. 12
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By Kent Wameke
All three ASUN's executives disagree with the Com
mittee on Fees and Allocations recommendation to
lower the salaries of the first and second vice presidents
ofASUN.
' ASUN President Bud Cuca said executive salaries are
intended to be incentives for the elected executives to
spend as much time as possible in the ASUN office.
Lowering the salaries would be counteracting that in
tention, Cuca said.
Present salaries for executives include $160 a month
for ASUN president and $140 a month for first and
second vice-president. CFA's recommendation to ASUN
would leave the president's salary the same and lower the
first vice president to $U0 and second vice president to
$95.
ASUN Treasurer Kent Whitacre said the justification
behind CFA's salary cuts is that the first vice president
does not have the same amount of responsibility as the
president and the second vice president's constitutional
responsibilities are not as many as the first vice president's.
Both Cuca and Kim Weiland, ASUN second vice presi
dent, disagree, however, with CFA's statement that the
second vice president's duties are less than the first
vice president.
Same amount
"There is a lot of difference in the constitutional
responsibilities, but we do essentially the same amount of
work and spend the same amount of time in the ASUN
office," Weiland said.
Cuca agreed that the second vice president's role is
less constitutionally defined, but that does not mean less
time is spent. .
"With more constituional responsibilities, the first
vice president may have all his time caught up in fulfilling
those responsibilities," Cuca said. ,"That opens a need for
a second vice president to work for communication and
rapport with senators."
Hubert Brown, ASUN first vice president, said the
money for executive salaries is there for a reason-to
keep the executives from having to go out of the ASUN
office in order to find supplemental income.
Definite limiting
Students are not going to run for ASUN executive
positions for the money alone, but with a lowering of
salaries, there might be a definite limiting of the time
spent in the ASUN office; Brown said.
Weiland said there are many talented people who, if
elected to an executive position, might find it necessary
to find a part-time job in addition to ASUN in order to
pay their college expenses.
'The salaries help defray the cost of going to school,"
Cuca said. "Some people couldn't afford to run for office
without getting a certain amount of compensation for the
time devoted to that position."
Whitacre said the CFA recommendations for student
fee money must go through ASUN, which has the options
of approving the recommendations, disapproving or
changing parts of it. After ASUN has made its decisions,
the recommendations are passed along to Richard
Armstrong, vice chancellor for student affairs. Armstrong
then has the same options That ASUN had, upon which
he then takes the budget to the NU Board of Regents.
The three ASUN executives said they would not ven
ture a guess as to whether ASUN would approve CFA's
recommendations as they stand currently.
"I havent't been able to predict the things the Senate
has done previously, so I can't do it now," Brown said.
"I just hope that they would not approve the salary cuts
the money as it stands now goes quite a ways."
Drinking bill compromise
would set legal age at 20
By Julie Bird
LB221. which is scheduled for another
round of debate today, may be amended
to raise the legal drinking age to 20 rather
than 21, according to Grand Island Sen.
Ralph Kelly, the bill's sponsor. - -.
Kelly said compromising at the age of
20 was preferable to an amendment that
was added before the bill received first--round
approval last week. The amendment,
introduced by Sens. Peter Hoagland of
Omaha and Donald Dworak of Columbus,
would allow 19- and 20-year-olds to buy
liquor in bars, but would restrict off
sale purchases to 21 -year-olds.
"That amendment is designed by the
liquor industry to not suit anybody." Kelly
said. "It will continue to encourage teenage
drinking by enacting an unenforceable
law."
Kelly contends that . the amendment
was added to kill the bill during final
reading, citing the number of senators who
are strong opponents of LB 221 who voted
in favor of the amendment.
Misread motives
Hoagland said, , however, that Kelly
has misread his and Dworak 's motives,
and that the measure is not intended to
kill the bill. Hoagland said the on-site,
off-sale proposal addresses the two reasons
given for raising the age to 21 .
Kelly said supporters of his bill who
voted for the amendment may have had
any one of three reasons for supporting the
amendment.
One is they may feel the bill had a bet
ter chance of passing with the amendment
added, he said.
Another, he said, is his colleagues may
have felt the amendment represented a
compromise.
They also, may have felt the public
wanted such an addition to the bill, he
said; adding that all three premises were
wrong.
Hoagland said he does not support a
compromise at age 20 because raising the
age at all is "basically stupid."
"It's like trying to stop a flash flood
with a beaver dam," he said.
Signal policy change
Kelly disagreed, saying that if the age
were raised to 20, at least it would be a
signal that public policy has changed to
attack the teenage drinking problem.
LB221 has been a fight between parents
and the liquor industry all along, Kelly
said, with the prize being Nebraska youth
and the $35 million they spend annually
on alcohol.
"The liquor lobby is a small-knit, well
financed, state-controlled group which has
a representative at this Legislature every,
hour of every day," Kelly said. "Parents
do not have a lobby except the elected
members (of the Legislature.)"
While the liquor industry supported the
Dworak-Hoagland amendment, Jim Ryan,
lobbyist for the Nebraska Wholesale Beer
and Wholesale Liquor organizations, said
he does not know how the groups feel
about rejecting the amendment in favor
of the age 20 compromise.
Disorganized lobby
Sen. John DeCamp of Neligh said that
is because the liquor lobby is disorganized,
and Sen. Dave Newell, a staunch opponent
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Sen. Donald Dworak of Columbus introduced an amendment to LB221 Monday
that would allow 19-year-olds to drink in bars.
to LB221, agreed. the on-sale, off-sale stuff," Newell said,
"I think the lobby is divided. Most of adding he has not been contacted recently
the bars in Lincoln where a lot of 19-year- by the liquor lobby,
olds go are probably against an age of 20, 'The liquor lobby hasn't been very
but most of the rest of the state should be strong on this despite Kelly's insistence of
n favor so they don't have to mess with such," Newell said.
State ombudsman fimdshirimg procedures proper
By Gordon Johnson
A report issued Monday by the state ombudsman's
office stated that the UNL department of architecture did
not do anything improper when it failed to liire G.
Richard Dunn for a faculty position.
Dunn said he has two options available to him includ
ing taking the issue to court. He declined to comment
further.
The report resulted from an investigation by the
ombudsman's office into Dunn's charges that he was not
hired for a faculty position because his degrees are from
NU. ...
The report stated that while department luring
practices were not consistent with university by-laws,
Dunn had not been treated unfairly.
Dunn claimed that he lias more experience than Pro--fessors
Robert Duncan and Robert Stowers, who received
the positions that Dunn applied for, but because of his
NU degrees he was passed over.
However, the ombudsman's office found that the
university did not reject Dunn's application because of his
degrees and that the College of Architecture looks at the
, entire individual when making a hiring decision.
'The inquiries of this office revealed instead that the
primary concern of the chief administrators within the
College of Architecture was to insure that the profile of
the college included a diversity of backgrounds and pro
fessional outlooks," the report stated. .
To determine the veracity of Dunn's charges, the
ombudsman's office made an attempt to determine
whether the individuals who were selected met the mini
mum requirements for the position, and whether or not
giving them the jobs met the advertised criteria.
The report stated that the appointment of Stowers and
Duncan over Dunn was not unreasonable.
"Thi$ office did not consider that it was within the
proper scope of our function to decide who among the
applicants should have been hired or who may have been
the best qualified," according to the report.
Continued on page 2
W-w-what's this? New approaches to stuttering are being
tried at the Barkley Memorial Center on East
Campus Page 5.
Remembering the future: Reviewer discusses a book
which takes a look back at the 1980s Page 8.
No disappointment: Acting Head Basketball Coach Moe
Iba is proud of the Huskers performance, despite a
Saturday night loss. . . . pse 10.
