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daily nebraskan
Wednesday, february 11, 1981
SURE Party keys on student services aspects
By Mary Louise Knapp
The recently-announced Students Unit
ed for Responsible Educatfon Party plat
form focuses on forming a group that
would increase services to students, its
candidate said.
Rick Mockler, the SURE party's candi
date for ASUN president, said one of the
party's most important goals will be the
formation of a Student Services Founda
tion as a service of ASUN.
Such a foundation would solicit dona
tions from community groups and
businesses and apply for federal grants for
research.
Recreation center
Money for the proposed recreation
center also could be obtained through a
Student Services Foundation, Mockler said.
SURE's goals include descriptions of
courses offered by the various colleges and
a system of open teacher evaluations.
Mockler said objective teacher evalua
tions and descriptions of courses written
by the instructors would assist students in
making decisions about their courses.
He said the SURE party would like to
see an expansion of ASUN Legal Services,
which would allow the Legal Services
attorney to argue certain kinds of cases in
court. Currently the Legal Services attor
ney can only advise students about legal
matters.
The SURL party wants to make arrange
ments with the Lincoln Transportation
System by which off-campus students
could get special bus rates. This would re
duce campus parking problems and perhaps
eliminate the need to build more parking
lots, Mockler said.
Lack of criteria
ASUN's Committee for Fees Allocation
has experienced some problems in review
ing budget requests, largely because of the
lack of criteria by which fee users are
allocated funds, Mockler said.
"CFA has no final say in how the
money will be spent after it is allocated."
SURE intends to clarify fee procedures, he
said.
The proposed implementation of lab
fees in UNL's Five-Year Plan is a serious
concern of students, and to be effective in
dealing with the proposal, ASUN should
conduct serious research into such fees at
other universities, he said.
Mockler said students should be made
aware of minority and women's studies
courses, and that these courses should be
publicized more fully. This can be done
through the Affirmative Action Of Pee, he
said.
SURE calls for a "consistent" alcohol
policy on campus, according to the Party
platform.
Catering alcohol
Mockler said catering alcohol for
banquet use in the Nebraska Unions would
be both feasible and profitable. Alcohol
would help promote the use of the unions
for conventions and banquets, and would
help reduce student fees because of increas
ed revenue, he added.
SURF, believes graduate teaching assist
ants should be required to meet more
stringent competency requirements, v liich
is particularly vital in the case of foreign
graduate assistants' ability to speak English
well, Mockler said.
SURE supports the 18 percent budget
increase requested by the NU Board of Re
gents. The platform states that the increase
is necessarily due to increased utility costs
and inadequate teachers' salaries. Inade
quate financing may also force some
colleges into establishing minimum grade
point averages which would deny many
students admittance into upper level
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Bessey, former law and Architectural
halls, the platform states.
Mockler said SURE believes the decision
to form and support a State Student
Association should be left up to the stu
dents, and the question should be on the
ASUN election ballot.
SSA public hearings
To get an educated decision by stu
dents, public hearings should be held to
fully disclose the advantages and disadvant
ages of an SSA, he said .
SURE believes the following qualifica
tions should be placed on the SSA if it is
voted into existence:
-No elected ASUN executive may serve
on the SSA as a paid staff member for two
years after the date of his or her term ex
pires. -SSA money should not be allocated
until other schools or universities have
made a monetary commitment to the SSA.
-The money collected for SSA may be
in no way spent by ASUN.
Testimonies support bills
increasing salaries, benefits
By Patti Gallagher
Bills that would increase state
employees' salaries by 12.7 percent and in
crease benefits by about $15 million drew
the support of more than 250 state
employees during a Monday night hearing
at the State Capitol.
More than a dozen state employees
testified before the Appropriations Com
mittee on the two bills. The persons, none
of whom testified against the bills, filled
the hearing room, overflowed into the halls
and broke into frequent applause at com
ments concerning deficiencies in employee
salaries.
LB116, sponsored by Omaha Sen. Dave
Newell, provides that all employees of state
agencies and departments receive a general
salary increase of 12.7 percent over their
base salary. The increase would cover the
period between July 1, 1981 and June 30,
1982.
Omaha Sen. Steve Wiitala's LB484
would provide three benefits for state
employees. It would alJow pay to be re
ceived in place of sick leave, award a 5 per
cent salary bonus for persons employed for
more than 10 years by the state, and allow
a 30-cent wage increase for employees
working late evening or early morning
shifts.
LB484 also would remove a provision
that provides state employees with holiday
birthday pay. This would remove $43,000
from the $15 million benefit package.
According to Sen. Jerome Warner of
Wavcrly, university employees are con
sidered state employees and could possibly
be affected by the bills.
Warner, committee chairman, said any
action taken for state employees will have
"some impact" on the university. Salaries
at the university are, however, handled
separately in consideration of the total NU
budget.
If state employees get the 12.7 percent
increase, however, it is likely to be the
same for the university, Warner said.
The NU Board of Regents requested a
10.5 percent salary increase in their budget
recommendation.
The Legislature passed a bill last year re
questing an 8 percent general salary in
crease, after passing a 3 percent base in
crease. The base increase was vetoed by
the governor.
Veto unsuccessful
A legislative attempt to override the
veto was not successful.
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