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lincoln, nebraskavol. 106, no. 30
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ASUN candidates
speak at residence hall meeting
By Bob Glissmann
Issues raised by ASUN candidates at last night's RHA
meeting ranged from adding ethnic and women's studies
to the curriculum to changing the name of the Harper-Schramm-Smith
residence complex.
Five of eight presidential candidates and one vice pres
idential candidate participated. ARISE and Feminist
Socialist parties were not represented at the meeting.
All candidates were given five minutes to make pre
sentations, answer questions or both. STUPID party
vice presidential candidate Jay Noble said "SSA is an
ass-backwards organization" and his party doesn't support
it. He also said dormitories should have readily -recognizable
names. Noble said the name of Harper-Schramm-Smith
should be changed to "Huey-Dewey-and Louie."
The proposed UNL recreation center "shouldn't be
the biggest rec center in the Big Eight, we need the
biggest rec center in the world," Noble said.
Presidential candidate Tim Higgins of the PURGE
party said "It became apparent to me there was a grow
ing dissatisfaction toward ASUN and its function."
" What is it? What does it do?'," were questions
students have asked, Higgins said.
"Approximately 10 percent of the student body voted
in the student election last year," he said. The other 90
percent were "waiting for somebody to vote for," he said,
adding that his party was that alternative.
Higgins said if elected, he would, as chief executive
of ASUN, introduce legislation to the senate to abolish
the present student government system. If it was not
passed, he said, he would hold a university-wide referen
dum, asking the students to vote or abolish ASUN.
Steve McMahon, VOTE party presidential candidate,
said he wants ASUN to "start doing what they're
supposed to do." McMahon said his administration would
expand the ASUN book exchange, expand student legal
services, "mandate enforcement" of dead week policy by
UNL instructors, and add ethnic and women's studies to
the curriculum.
ASUN "can't attack Ronald Roskens about Kent State,
but they can provide student services," McMahon said.
CURE party presidential candidate Tom Vergith told
RHA members to encourage students who live in dormi
tories to vote in the upcoming election. He said the label
"student regent is a misnomer"-student regent lobbyist
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Early dose of spring
Photo by Jon Natvig
Students enjoyed the unseasonably warm February weather this past week by lingering a little longer outside
between classes.
is more important and a better description.
Vergith said he has "extreme reservations" about the
way the State Student Association question was handled
by ASUN and questions the $21,000 in student fees
which would be used to fund a Nebraska SSA.
Independent candidate Diane Walkowiak said "it's
definitely time for a change" in student government. She
said RHA has proven "it can do more than sell refrigera
tors, and it (ASUN) should prove that they can do more
than operate a book exchange." She said she is "personal
ly leaning against SSA" and said ASUN should get more
student input, publicize meetings more widely, abolish
the student court, (which she said is "nothing but a play
ground for law students") and form a board of 12 people
with the chairman acting as a regent lobbyist.
SURF party presidential candidate Rick Mockler said
"ASUN projects this year were quite worthwhile" and the
body can work. He told the group of past accomplish
ments which he said included fighting against LB221 in
his year on the Government Liaison Committee, imple
menting the boycott of Nestle products in dormitories as
vice president of RHA, last year, and working on the
ASUN book exchange this year as speaker of ASUN.
Students may lose
Social Security
By Reid Warren
UNL students who receive Social Security aid are con
cerned that President Reagan's budget-cutting ax may lop
off needed funds.
The students, who receive money that has already been
paid into Social Security by a dead or disabled parent, are
concerned enough to write letters to Nebraska's congres
sional representatives to emphasize their needs.
One of Reagan's proposed budget changes is a phasing
out of the Social Security student benefit program.
Phasing out the program is estimated to save SI 00
million in 1981, $700 million in 1982, and almost $4.5
billion between 1983 and 1985, according to Reagan ad
ministration officials.
But students who receive money from the program say
cutting their Social Security funds would have a disastr
ous effect.
"We don't have savings built up, and this has come up
rather suddenly," said Renee, a UNL advertising major.
The students interviewed asked to be identified by first
names only because of possible conflicts with apartment
managers and others.
"They (managers) get the idea that you won't pay your
rent if you have some of your income cut," Renee said.
Renee, who receives about $350 a month from Social
Security, works part-time while in school. Her father died
in 1962 and never used the money he had paid into the
program she said.
The increasing cost of living and a poor job market for
students make this a bad time for having funds cut, Renee
said.
She said many single parents have other children at
home to provide for, and they cannot afford to send
money to their children in college.
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Union continues negotiations despite petition drive
By D. Eric Kircher
Contract negotiations for UNO professors are sche
duled to continue Friday afternoon, according to the
UNO faculty union president.
Bernard Koasas, president of the American Association
of University Professors' Omaha chapter, said the negotia
tion teams will discuss an A A UP contract proposal given
to the regents Feb. 18.
While the AAUP, the legal bargaining agent for UNO
professors, meets with the regents' representatives, a peti
tion drive to take away the bargaining powers of the
AAUP continues on the Omaha campus.
A coalition of UNO professors started the petition
drive earlier this month.
Jack Hill, a spokesman for the coalition, declined to
estimate the number of signatures the coalition has collec
ted. "We are probably doing well," he said. Petitioning
groups need signatures from 30 percent of those
within a bargaining unit to force an election, but Hill said
the coalition won't ask for an election unless it has signa
tures from at least 45 percent of UNO professors.
But Bernard Kolasa, president of the AAUP's Omaha
chapter, didn't think the coalition was doing well.
'it does not seem the group has been gaining a great
deal of support," Kolasa said.
The coalition must submit the signatures to the Com
mission of Industrial Relations before the signatures are
90 days old.
The petition drive started because contract negotia
tions between the AAUP and the NU Board of Regents
have stalled, Hill said.
Some professors signed the petition cards to speed
negotiations, Hill said.
"If the regents and the AAUP sign a contract, we're
out of business," Hill said.
UNO professors are receiving the same salaries this year
that they received in 1979-80. Because of the contract
negotiations, started in March 1980, they didn't receive
the salary and benefit increase given to UNL and NU Med
ical Center professors.
"Unless they (the AAUP) get 3 or 4 percent more, I
wouldn't think they did anything," Hill said. Union dues
will offset any salary increase less than 3 percent greater
than UNL professors receive, he said.
Negotiations stalled again after a Commission of Indus
trial Relations judge ordered the regents and the AAUP
to negotiate until the commission examines a 'failure
to bargain in good faith" charge brought by the regents.
The regents claim the AAUP bargains unfairly when it
tries to negotiate non-financial issues such as consultation
with professors on academic matters. The AAUP contends
consultation is negotiable under "conditions of employ
ment." The preliminary hearing on the regents' charge is
scheduled for March 3, 1981 , with the trials scheduled for
March 10.
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