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daily nebraskan
monday, february 23, 1981
Student regents request meeting rules
By D. Eric Kircher
The NU Board of Regents
will have a modified version of
Robert's Rules of Order to con
sider at the March meeting. Stu
dent regents from .UNL, UNO
and NU Medical Center asked
the regents to adopt standard
rules to help student regents.
"It's like coming into a foot
ball game in the third quarter,"
UNL Student Regent Renee
Wessels said.
Some of her past motions
were ruled out of order because
the boaid has no rules, she said.
"I think we could probably
avoid some of those occurrences
in the future," she said, if the
board adopts standard rules.
NU Counsel Richard Wood
said that at Regent Robert Pro
kop's request, he is modifying
Robert's Rules of Order to fit
the board size and Nebraska's
Open Meeting Law.
Currently, Regent Chairman
Prokop rules the meetings.
Prokop also refused a request
by Wessels to appoint a student
regent in the executive commit
tee. "Unless I'm over-ruled by the
board, that's the way I'm going
to stay," Prokop said. Prokop
cited the student regent's lack of
respect for the board members
and past leaks to the press of
embarrassing information.
"You have in essence made a
judgment on the whole board,"
Prokop said, after quoting
Wessel's comments from a Daily
Nebraskan article.
"I think the way it's set up,
we have adequate representa
tion." Prokop said student
regents were members of other
committees.
Wessels said Sunday that stu
dent regents need to be on the
committee because it handles
important issues between the
regular meetings. The committee
usually reports to the board in
closed session, she said.
In the past, it's been the
practice to have a student regent
on the committee, Wessels said.
This year regents Prokop, James
Moylan of Omaha and Kermit
Wagner of Schuyler and Roskens
are committee members. -
Academic Affairs Vice Presi
dent Hans Brisch presented a
telecommunication plan that in
cluded expanding KRNU's
listening area. The UNL broad
cast journalism department oper
ates the station.
In other action, the regents
lowered the tuition residency
waiting time from one year to
six months.
The regents also approved a
lower cost estimate for a propos
ed Veterinary College in
Lincoln. The revised estimate is
$29.3 million, down from the
previous estimate of $33.5
million.
The Legislature hasn't
approved initial expenditures for
the Veterinary College. A public
hearing on LB245 will be Feb.
26.
Regent Prokop of Wilber told
the board they should examine
the cost increases that will occur
if women's athletics switch from
the Association for Intercollegi
ate Athletics for Women to the
National Collegiate Athletics
Association.
On another topic, Regent
Robert Simmons of Scottsbluff
brought up the Legislature's con
fusion on who officially repre
sents the university at public
hearings.
NU President Ronald
Roskens said NU representatives
weren't a problem, but listeners
at public hearings could be con
fused by the opposing opinions
attributed to the university.
On a proposed hiring frcee,
Roskens said a current hiring
moratorium works and a frcee
isn't needed.
"We have told very nearly the
same number," he said. The only
increases have been in the non
state aid budget and hospital
employees, Roskens said.
Regents approve lab charge; Wessels upset
By D. Eric Kircher
Students taking classes with laboratories
next year will be required to pay for "ser
vices and consumable supplies."
The NU Board of Regents Saturday
passed unanimously the lab charge.
Academic Affairs Vice President Judith
Ramaley said the fees would range between
$10 and $20 a lab.
UNL student President Renee Wessels
criticized the lack of student involvement in
drawing up the proposal.
"The students at UNL are opposed to lab
fees in light of tuition raises every year,"
Wessels said. "There is a significant increase
there in the cost of education."
Federal student aid cuts also will make
paying for college harder for students, she
said.
Regent Edward Schwartzkopf of Lincoln
said students have approved student fee in
creases before. He mentioned the Committee
for Fees Allocation's proposed 50-cent fee
increase to pay for the State Student
Association.
Tighten belts
"I just wish there was a consistency,"
Schwartzkopf said. "I just think if we are
going to tighten our belts, we should be con
sistent." Michael Schmidt, the NU Medical Center
student president, said students would
support the fees if they paid only laboratory
costs.
"I think this policy is justified," Schmidt
said. "I don't think any student would
object to a laboratory fee if they knew it
would be spent on a lab."
"Students are concerned about paying
laboratory fees, but I think you are going to
have more students, say English students,
absorbing the costs without fees," Schmidt
said.
But Wessels said tuition increases should
cover inflationary costs.
"The students at UNL think that some of
the increase should pay part of that cost,"
Wessels said.
When Schwartzkopf asked Ramaley if
students were involved in the proposal, she
admitted that only administration officials
wrote the plan.
The fee schedule that the task force pre
ferred would set a different fee for each
laboratory. The amount would be based on
each lab's cost.
Change fees
Ramaley said the fees could be changed
each semester, if needed. The fees would be
set before release of the class schedule.
According to task force recommenda
tions, the academic affairs vice chancellor
must review and approve each department's
proposed fee.
The task force suggested the vice chancel
lor appoint an advisory panel of students,
faculty and administrators to allow them in
volvement. The recommended advisory panel would
recommend only the amount, but the
chancellor would keep final control.
Sunday, Wessels said ASUN will try to get
some student involvement in setting the fees.
"We plan on being involved with theadv
visory panel," she said. "That will be the
best opportunity we have at this point to
keep the costs down."
The task force suggested students pay no
more than 30 percent of the laboratory's
cost. It recommended that the 1981 fees be
no more than $20.
ASUN engineering Sen. Dan Wedekind
said ASUN will attempt to limit the fees to
pay for supplies used by students and ser
vices. It will ask that students not pay for
depreciation and research, he said.
Reporter: thrill, risk mark Washington mood
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By Kim Hachiya
Veteran Time magazine reporter Hugh Sidey
has observed the workings of the White House
for 25 years and through seven presidencies.
He said Saturday in Omaha that the mood in
Washington, D.C., after the election of Ronald
Reagan is curiously contradictory.
"There is an excitement coming from new
ideas, but at the same time a good deal of risk
and feeling of danger," Sidey said.
Sidey was the keynote speaker for a banquet
commemorating the 100th anniversary of the
NU Medical Center.
"Reagan represents major departures from
past policies," Sidey said in an interview before
the banquet. "His policies are untried. They are
all new and so far they seem good. But will it
work? That's anybody's guess. You'd have to
go to Jimmy the Greek for the odds."
Sidey characterized the new residents of
the White House as having a "Hollywood, show
biz aura."
"Their surroundings, their friends, every
thing is show -biz oriented. He dresses like an
actor and he talks in Hollywood hyperbole."
He said Reagan's show business experience
has allowed him to manipulate the media well.
"Reagan has had as tough press as anyone
could get. Everyone was convinced that an old
hack actor couldn't be president. His skills,
though, lie in his ability to communicate to the
American people. His speeches are show-business
professional, but then so were (Franklin )
Roosevelt's.
Sidey said Reagan's indecision on lifting thp
grain embargo, an act which he had promised
to do during the campaign, is justifiable.
Priorities realigned
"Reagan is entitled to realign priorities now
that he knows the situation. Conditions have
changed, the Soviets are poised to invade
Poland. You can't hold a man to views held six
months ago in view of the changing and danger
ous times."
Sidey said he doubts the embargo will be
lifted, but he added that much of the grain
which was to go to the Soviets has been pur
chased by other nations and he said another
season of drought may require the United
States to keep its grain for itself.
Sidey was critical of former President Jimmy
Carter's handling of the Iranian Hostage
Situation, but he said that much of the blame
for inflaming the Iranians could be placed on
the American media.
"Principally television with its nightly shots
of the crowds demonstrating. The cameras and
crowds turned on at the same time.
"Carter, however, badly bungled the whole
affair by trying to use it for political ends. It
backfired on him, of course. He made our
foreign policy hostage to that event and it was
an absolute mistake."
Sidey said if the United States had main
tained a position of strength and not been per
ceived as weak, the takeover would not have
been attempted.
He said the Carter administration had been
warned of possible dangers in Iran, but did not
heed them.
After the takeover, the policy of negotiation
was incorrect, Sidey said.
Carter negotiation
"By negotiating, Carter gave the shop away.
He should have started with the maximum
threat practicable and shut them down. Had
little publicity.
"Instead, he used the families as part of his
Rose Garden strategy. He tried to come off as a
compassionate man who prayed with the famil
ies, would not light the Christmas tree, etcetera.
It just didn't work."
Sidey said the rescue attempt should have
been tried earlier and on a larger scale. By the
time it was tried, there was no possiblity of
success, he said.
Sidey said the conservative mood of the
country will not spell the end for liberalism,
but it may damage the careers of people like
Sen. Edward Kennedy.
"Teddy's speech in New York was the great
est he ever gave," Sidey said. "But Teddy's
political life is iffy. He has terrible family
problems, although he may cut his losses
through his divorce. He preaches an old-time
outdated sort of liberalism. But he is a strong
leader with a personal magnetism which will be
necessary to survive."
Sidey said he discounts the effect the Moral
Majority will have in the 1980s.
"The Moral Majority is already passing
away he said. "Jerry Falwell has more prob
lems than he knows what to do with.
"Extremism of any sort in this' country is
short-hved always it is ultimately
overwhelmed. FalweU's influence is fragmented
and his extreme positions will do him in
I have faith in the American people that
society remains rational and sensible Extrem
ism in almost all forms has never lasted long "
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