friday, february 29, 1980
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Military requests room
for reeruilmentinUnion
By Patti Gallagher
The Nebraska Union 3oard has received
a letter from the four branches of the
military asking for union space for
recruiting.
The space request will be discussed and
considered by the board, according to
Union Director Daryl Swanson, but he
presently recommends that military
recruiters not be given booths in the city
union north entry way.
Recruiting representatives from the U.S.
Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines
originally wrote a letter to Vice Chancellor
of Student Affairs Richard Armstrong,
who directed the matter to the Union
Board. ,
The representatives are "asking to
reinstate booths to conduct their recruiting
activities," Swanson said.
Before 1970, recruiters had booths in
the union, although not in the main entry,
but because the "military came in bad
favor to college students about that time,"
their recruiting offices were moved
upstairs, Swanson said.
Recruiters currently use the Career
Planning and Placement Office, 230 Union
for interviewing. .
Swanson said recruiting offices are
located primarily in the unions on other
college campuses.
Other Union Board action Wednesday
included introduction of the fall 1979 fis
cal report. Concerning labor expenses,
Swanson said that "in half a year we
expended almost exactly half of our labor
budget."
No savings have been indicated this year
in the unrealized salary figure, he said,
adding that labor in food service has
negated any possible savings.
In early February, the Committee for
Fees Allocation increased the Union
Board's proposed 1980-81 budget by
$5,000 in salary surplus.
The Union Board Operations
Committee reported on three of its recent
concerns. Room allocations for university
organizations; signs for dividing the Crib
into smoking and non-smoking sections;
and the installation of a mail box in the
East Union were discussed and forwarded
to old business for the next meeting.
According to Board Secretary Robert
Moline, the board will accept requests for
union room space from all UNL clubs and
organizations through April 1 1 . The board
will insert letters concerning their room
allocation policies in mail boxes already
stationed in the unions, and will take
applications from any other groups until
the deadline.
Health fair starts Monday
The first Health Screening Fair will be
Monday, in the Great Plains Room of the
East Campus .Union, from 10 to 4.
. Diabetes and blood pressure screening
will be available, with University Health
Center staff in charge.
There also will be information booths
about the Dental College on East Campus,
dentistry at the health center, and the
Emergency Assistance Team.
Dr. San Guinary of Channel 3 in Omaha
will make a guest appearance and supply
information on Muscular Dystrophy .
' There will be no oral cancer screening,
which was included in the City Campus
health fair last fall, because of lack of man
power. According to Kevin A. Holdorf, East
Campus Health Aide Coordinator, the
Health Fair is a project of all the East
Campus Health Aides.
"We thought it would be nice to have a
health fair on East Campus this year," he
said. "A lot of East Campus students don't
have the time to go to City Campus for
their health fair and this would be more
convenient for them."
Holdorf added that if there is enough
response, the Health Aides will try to have a
similar Health Screening Fair each year.
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Evaluation of four ASUN
commissions is expected
By Kent Warneke
Four ASUN commissions organized
two years ago appear to be ripe for
evaluation: the commissions on Student
Fees, Student Activities, University
Services and Facilities, and Educational
Quality.
The commissions were originally or
ganized with the idea that evaluation
would be necessary after a time, a form
er ASUN senator said.
Jim Reimer, who worked on the act
that created the commissions, said he
saw the commissions as a workable solu
tion to the problem of an ineffective
senate organization.
But problems have arisen with the
structure of the commissions and it.
appears the time for evaluation is now,
one commission chairman said.
"The commissions have to be looked
at in terms of effectiveness of duties,
structure and policies and have a
thorough re-evaluation done," said
Dann Watson, chairman of the Com
mission on Student Fees. .
, Watson said his six-member commis
sion has been able -to research some
topics, but not other areas that were'
delegated the commission in the original
resolution.
"One of our areas is bond reserve and
the past chair of the commission and
- past Union Board president have both
said that it's too broad of an area, and I
have found that out," Watson said. "I
don't know if it's my fault in not
getting more members or ASUN's
fault." ,:
Shannon Anderson, chairwoman of
Student Activities, said she doesn't see a
need for re-organization as much as for
effective use of the commissions by the
ASUN Senate.
"There is so much openness to every
thing right now, it's hard for me to give
directions to people when we don't
know what other people are supposed
to be doing and what they are actually
doing," Anderson said. "It's really frus
trating." Anderson said her commission is
supposed to cover everything from
intramural athletics, to ROTC. to
human rights.
Debbie Hemmingcr, chairwoman of
University Services and Facilities, said
the senate has not cooperated much
with commission members.
Hemminger said active membership
in her commission has dropped from 35
members to eight and that the drop
stems from a lack of public awareness
about the commissions.
"We do the necessary work for the
Senate, researching topics that take con
siderable time and then give our re
search and ideas to the Senate," Hem
mingcr said. "And then it's just a natur
al thing that the Senate gets all the
glory for these new ideas."
ASUN President Bud Cuca termed
the problems with the commissions
. "unfortunate" and said he believes the
problems are not so much with struc
ture as with leadership.
4Some of the commissions have done
very well in the past and at the present
time and others haven't," Cuca said.
"But part of the problem also has to fall
upon ASUN's executive branch."
Cuca said efforts should be made to
make the students more aware of the
commissions and that there should be
more interaction between commissions
and the senate.
"The commissions do a lot of valu
able work and they deserve to be public
ly praised, and I should also make a
better effort to recruit people for the
commissions," Cuca said.
ASUN has talked about evaluating
the commissions previously, he said, but
no formal evaluation has been done.
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