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daily nebraskan
monday, march 17, 1980
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Thirteen try
By Mary Jo Pitzl
Thirteen candidates had filed by the 5 pjn. Friday
deadline to represent the sixth and seventh districts on the
NU Board of Regents.
Included among the candidates is a UNL senior pre-law
major, whose candidacy had been protested by two other
UNL students.
Jane Svitak and Carter Kerk, both seniors, filed an ob
jection with Secretary of State Allen Beermann to protest
the candidacy of Richard Register. They contended that
Register, who lives in the third district, was seeking to re
present a regent district in which he does not live.
Register had filed Feb. 14 to run for regent from the
sixth district. Kerk and Svitak are from the sixth district.
Last week, following a hearing, Beermann rejected the
charge that Register was an ineligible candidate.
Since the Nebraska Constitution is vague in its defini
tion of regent election law, Beermann interpreted the
phrase in the election laws which says regents "shall be
resents' posts Regents . . .
elected from and by districts" to mean that a person hold
ing a regent seat must be a resident of the district from
which he is elected. .. . . .
Since it is possible that Register still might become a
resident of the sixth district, Beermann said he is entitled
to continue his candidacy. .
Beermann also ruled that if Register wins the sixth
district race without being an actual resident of that dis
trict, the issue should be solved in court.
Joining Register in the race for regent from the sixth
district are eight other candidates. They include: incum
bent Robert Simmons, Jr., of Scottsbluff; Dell L. Rosen'
berry, also of Scottsbluff; D. Ncal Smith, of Gering; James
L. Zimmerman, Mitchell; Ellis S. Ruby, Lisco; Roger E.
Macklem, Bayard; Judy L. Imig, Thedford; and Donn C.
Ramond, Gering.
Candidates for the seventh district seat, which will be
vacated by Robert Raun of Minden are Harold W. Kay,
North Platte; John Payne, Kearney; Don Blank, McCook;
and Gerald Beattie, Sumner.
Bed Cross scholarship is available
A $450 to 500 scholarship will be awarded to the UNL
student who has "contributed the most to the Red Cross
Lincoln campus chapter," according to a letterby Raymer
L. Clanton, Lancaster County Chapter executive director.
Workshops highlight
Mexican culture days
A career workshop, a "fun run " a bilingual workshop
and Mexican folk dancers will be part of UNL Mexican
American Cultural Awareness Days, March 20 through
22.
Career workshop representatives of national and state
corporations' have been invited to set up booths to give
career information to students, said Ennio Quevedo, pro
gram consultant for UNL Campus Activities and
Programs.
The workshop will be from 9 ajn. to noon and from
1 to 3 p jn. at Selleck Quadrangle Multi-purpose room. At
9 ajm., Rafael Grajeda, associate professor of English,
modern languages and literature, will give a workshop on
how to write a resume. Peter Urdiales, executive director
of the Nebraska Mexican-American Commission will giye
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The Robert and Lucille Dobson Red Cross Scholarship
was initiated this year to reward students for service to
the Red Cross and not on the "basis of need," Clanton
said.
A selection committee, composed of the Red Cross
chapter chairman, the chairman of the youth services
committee, the faculty adviser of the UNL student chap
ter and Arthur A. Dobson II, plan to announce the name
of the award recipient at the chapter's annual meeting in
May, according to the letter.
Applications for the award, which include a resume of
Red Cross activities, which should be submitted by March
1. They will be reviewed by the panel, Clanton said.
If the panel decides no applicant is worthy, no scholar
ship will be awarded that year. Instead, two will be given
the following year, Clanton said.
Joe Roberts, Campus Red Cross president, said the
money for the award was contributed by Bob Dobson, a
Lincoln businessman.
Dobson is on the Red Cross Board of Directors and has
been involved in Red Cross activities for 20 years, Roberts
said.
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Faculty prerogative
Petrowski said he was told that the calendar is a faculty
prerogative and the UNO calendar is an administrative
function. He said because most courses offered during
summer are graduate classes, the schedules should be the
same.
"All you have to do is say it is a faculty prerogative,"
Petrowski told the regents.
The regents deferred any action on the calendar until
a history of regental action on the matter could be
studied.
Ezekiel Bahar, UNL Faculty Senate president, said in
most cases the same amount of material is presented dur
ing summer sessions as in the regular semesters, but stu
dents have to absorb the material more quicRly. He said
he advises only students who have a. good background
knowledge of the class to take it in the summer.
Bahar said the UNO faculty is upset that the calendar is
an administrative function and not a faculty prerogative as
it is at UNL.
In other action, the regents approved a resolution spon
sored by ASUN President Bud Cuca praising the Nebraska
basketball team. Schwartzkopf said the UNL Men's Swim
ming team also should be praised.
Saturday was Cuca's last meeting as student regent.
"I'm having as hard a time getting out of office as I did
getting in," he said, referring to the injunctions which
have delayed ASUN presidential election results.
Cuca told the regents that they face difficult decisions
in the future.
"The easy ones (decisions) are over," he said. He
cautioned the regents to carefully handle the challenges
they will face.
Professors invited
To replace a departing UNL geneticist, a genetics pro
fessor will be hired next fall to teach the genetics course
which will be required for all life science majors.
A life science search committee has narrowed the field
to four candidates, who hive been invited to tour the
UNL department and give a seminar on their research.
"Genetics is a central discipline in any area of biology,"
Search Committee Chairman George Veomett said. "It
has been a highly recommended course in the past and
making it a required class is formal recognition of its
importance."
Veomett said he anticipates the new geneticist will
teach more advanced genetics courses in the future.
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FIRE to give endorsement
The FIRE, isn't blazing, but it's still
burning.
The political action committee at UNL,
First In Responsible Education, let the
Friday filing deadline for two positions on
the NU Board of Regents pass without
making a public endorsement of any candi
dates. However, that doesn't mean FIRE isn't
going to make an endorsement.
Mark Hirschfeld, chairman of FIRE,
said it is very close to a decision as to who
FIRE will endorse and campaign for in
regent Robert Raun's and Robert
Simmons' districts.
"We've talked to a lot of the candidates
that have filed but we haven't been able to
talk to all of them yet," Hirschfeld said.
Hirschfeld said that FIRE is very close
to making a decision in Regent Raun's
district, possibly within a week, and that
efforts will continue for the other position.
"But as soon as we get one candidate,
we're going to jump right on it and start
campaigning and getting out with the
people in those districts," Hirschfeld said.
The response to FIRE's quest has been
excellent, he said, with a lot of people
wanting to participate because It's one way
students can get involved in a political
process.
FIRE has started soliticiting donations
on a minimal basis to get money to
operate, he said.
"All in all, I'm very excited about the
upcoming days and weeks," Hirschfeld
said. "I'm pretty confident that we'll find
a candidate that students can actively
support."
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