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daily nebraskan
thursday, november 20, 1980
Lab fee proposal to be 'tacked' on Regents' agenda
By Patti Gallagher
The proposal of changing students mandatory labora
tory fees are a prime example of how "things get tacked
on (to the tuition total) without students having any in
put," ASUN first vice president Glenn Poppert told the sen
ate at their Wednesday night meeting.
He said that negotiations have been underway for some
time to implement lab fees and yet information has been
kept "real confidential."
The result is that students, all of whom could be af
fected by any lab fee proposal, are "getting the brunt of
it," Poppert said.
Under the NU Five Year Plan, the NU Board of Re
gents are to be presented a plan on how to implement lab
fees at their Dec. 13 meeting.
A committee consisting of four NU administrators is
currently working on three options for the lab fee plan,
according to Poppert. They include charging one set fee
to all students, charging a different fee for each different
lab class, or having a set lab fee for any lab classes, to be
doubled with each additional lab class.
Poppert said that students have not been involved in
the decision-making process and questioned why adminis
trators instead of faculty are deciding academic issues.
He said that lab costs should come under each students
basic tuition instead of being tacked on additionally.
Sen. Eric Torrison pointed out that students who do
not take lab classes are currently having to support the
those who do. But, said Sen. Dan Wadekind, if a break
down is specified in the cost to students in the lab areas,
the regents could likewise breakdown costs in other areas.
Poppert said he is opposed to the lab fees not only be
cause students will be paying more, but because the com
mittee does not know how the fees will be implemented,
the amount that will be charged, who will be charged,
and if the lab fees will actually go into the departments
for which they are collected.
In other business, tiie senate passed a resolution
supporting the higher education financial aids portion of
the U.S. Federal Budget.
The U.S. House of Representatives passed its versions
of the budget Tuesday. The Senate has yet to take final
action.
The ASUN resolution says that nearly half of UNL's
student body receives some form of federal financial aid.
Any cutbacks in the federal budget may hinder that aid.
The resolution therefore resolves that Sen. J. James
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In other Senate action, ASUN voted to post their
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planned to be placed under the ASUN pictures by the
union's North desk, will be a means of communicating
ASUN information to students, according to bill author
Laura Burkland.
In executive reports, President Renee Wessels termed
the guidelines passed by the committee reviewing the
structure of the UNL Publications Board as "ludicrious."
The committee and the subsequent passage of new
guidelines for the board was the regent's response to the
James Coe letter incident.
The two major changes outlined by the committee
include prohibiting any elected official to be a member
on the board, and having a committee composed of one
member from each college advisory board appoint the stu
dent members to the board.
ASUN is currently the body delegated to choose the
student members on the board. Wessels said that respons
ibility should remain with ASUN because it is already
structured and functioning, whereas many of the college
advisory boards are unorganized.
"I think we should just be outraged" by the commit
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Students have shown a strong interest in donating
blood and recruitment programs have been working well,
said Denise Glissman, co-chairperson of the Campus Red
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Seven hundred donors are needed to fill their quota,
she said. Many donation appointments have been made,
but walk-in donors are welcome, Glissman said.
"It's so needed; it's a life-supporting system. Ten units
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The Red Cross has had annual donation sites on
campus for over 15 years, Glissman said, and last year 692
blood donations were made in the fall, she said.
The annual "Blood Hound Award," a gold-plated
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