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thursday, October 8, 1981
lincoln, nebraska vol. 107 no. 32
Copyright Daily Nebraskan 1981
Student elections, fee allocation on regents' list
By Laure Perlinger
Changes in existing policies concerning student elections
and the allocation of student fees are expected to be
prime topics at Friday's 1 1 :30 ajn. metiing of the NU
Board of Regents, according to Rick Mockler, ASUN pres
ident. The regents will again discuss student fee allocation as
Regent Robert Prokop of Wilber will ask that the existing
policy, in effect since May of 1980, be rescinded. Current
ly, students may apply for a refund of their Fund A stu
dent fees.
The fees support ASUN, free legal services to students
and the State Students Association. Part of Fund A is al
so distributed to the Daily Nebraskan and the University
Program Council, which sponsors such things as speakers,
films and dances.
In April 1980, the student fee Fund A proposal was ap
proved by the regents by a 5-3 vote. Mockler said Regent
Robert Simmons of Scottsbluff was not content with the
process of taxing students for something they might not
want to support.
In May 1980, the board delegated allocation of Fund
A student fees to "the elected student governments on the
respective campuses, subject only to approval by the ap
propriate chancellor . . ."
Then, the regents asked that a referendum be placed on
the ASUN ballot concerning student support of the news
paper, speakers and salaries of student government offi
cers, Mockler said.
According to Mockler, 2,1 12 UNL students favored us
ing student fees for the Daily Nebraskan, and 577 oppos
ed the support.
The vote for support of speakers through student fees
was 1 $24 in favor, 765 opposed. Student fees for ASUN
officer salaries was approved by 1 ,453 students and op
posed by 1,239.
Mockler said despite the results favoring student fee
allocation for the items, Regent Prokop doesn't think stu
dent fees should be given to the Daily Nebraskan.
The Daily Nebraskan has often been criticized by Pro
kop for stories that he said were inaccurate. The use of
student fees to pay for controversial speakers has also
been questioned by some regents.
As of Tuesday, 175 Fund A refunds had been made,
totaling $749.19, according to Randy Mclntyre, office
manager of the Student Activities Financial Service. Fri
day is the deadline for picking up the refunds. During the
fall semester of 1980, 210 refunds were made, totaling
$671.26; and last spring 350 refunds, totaling $1,112.08
were distributed, Mclntyre said.
The $4.49 total refund is broken down as follows:
ASUN, $1.17; Dairy Nebraskan, 85 cents; University Pro
gram Council, $1.97; and State Student Association, 50
cents. Although students may apply for any part of the
total, Mclntyre said most students apply for the full re
fund. The regents will also be asked to approve an amend
ment sponsored by NU Medical Center student Regent
Michael Schmidt allowing a student government president
or vice president to be elected by "a margin over the next
highest candidate of at least 10 percent of the next high
est candidate of at least 10 percent of the total vote cast."
The current policy requires that a student be elected
by a majority of the students voting. In effect, a majority
vote is rarely reached during the general election and a
run-off is necessary, said Jennifer Fager chair of the
ASUN electoral commission.
Since 1971, a majority vote has been reached three
times, in 1972 by a 53 percent margin; in 1977 with 54
percent; and in 1978 with 62 percent, Fager said.
But implementing the proposal, about $700 could be
saved annually because the need for a run-off election
would be less likely.
Mockler said he felt frustrated last year when the run
off election was necessary. Although he had won a plural
ity of the votes, a majority of votes cast was needed.
Mockler said Wednesday he has heard little criticism
about the amendment and has confidence it will be ap
proved by the board.
Other items on the Friday's agenda include:
Approval of a University Health Center board of di
rectors at UNL.
Approval of an architectural firm to develop plans
for the Sheldon Art Gallery expansion.
Approval of proposed renovation plans for Morrill
Hall.
Discussion on terminating the Master of Arts Pro
gram in General Science at UNO.
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Title IX proposals threaten
women's sports director
Photo by Mark Billingsley
By Melinda Norris
Several bills before Congress repealing
Title IX will "wipe out equality in
athletics" if approved, warned June Davis,
director of the women's athletic depart
ment. Davis addressed the ASUN Senate Wed
nesday and asked it to support a resolution
opposing any proposals to amend Title IX.
She urged the group to voice its opposition
in letters to Nebraska senators.
Instituted in 1975, Title IX prohibits
sex discrimination in any institution re
ceiving federal funds.
One amendment, authored by Sen.
Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, would change the
wording of Title IX so that it would apply
only to individual programs and not entire
institutions, Davis said.
Many programs, such as women's
athletics at UNL, do not receive direct
federal funding and so would lose the bene
fits of Title IX, Davis explained. Currently,
women's athletics is covered by the law be
cause it applies to the entire university.
The amendments to Title IX would
"wipe out equality in athletics and curtail
teachers and administrators," Davis said.
The amendments would affect scholar
ships, travel, use of facilities, practice
times, proper coaching, administration and
secretaries.
The women's teams might have to resort
to practicing at 6 ajn. or whenever they
can get a court, Davis explained.
"It has taken a long time for women's
athletics to be built up," Davis said.
Davis noted that women's athletics will
not be the only program affected by the
proposals. The amendments will apply to
educational scholarships, fraternities and
sororities.
"The opposition is gaining very strong
headway," Davis said. 'The amendments
will take away from what Title IX was try
ing to do."
Bradley Munn, affirmative action equal
opportunity officer, told the ASUN Senate
last week that Hatch proposed his amend
ment in opposition to federal involvement.
Davis stressed the need for Title IX by
citing the hundreds of sex discrimination
cases waiting to be tried.
The ASUN Senate passed a resolution
"strongly opposing any efforts by Congress
to diminish or repeal Title IX and to
recommend that the Government Liaison
Committee devote some of its lobbying
efforts toward informing our senators . . .
of our opposition." There was only one
abstention.
"After reading over your resolution,"
Davis told the senate, "I feel like standing
on the table and applauding your efforts."
Instructors: Crime prevention ideas impossible
By Tom Shelton
Three UNL criminal justice faculty members gave
identical appraisals of President Ronald Reagan's ideas tc
combat crime: they won't work.
James Perkins, Chris Eskridge, and Julie Homey assess
ed remarks President Reagan made in a speech in New
Orleans Sept. 28. Reagan called for changes including bail
denials by judges for some violent offenders and allowing
prosecutors to use illegally siezed evidence in court.
In addition, ' they were asked to respond to Sen.
Edward Kennedy's call for improvement of law enforce
ment and the building of new prisons.
"I don't think we should dismantle any of the con
stitutional guidelines we have built," Perkins said in re
sponse to Reagan's plan.
Perkins said he feared Reagan's plan calls for the dis
mantling of constitutional guidelines to alter due process
of law. He said also the Reagan plan will not be effective.
"It can't lower the crime rate," he said. "The systen.
can only punish and judiciate."
Perkins said only society can be looked upon to lower
the crime rate and said throwing more people in jail is not
the answer.
"Bigger and bigger warehouses (prisons) aren't the
answer," he said. Perkins said prisons are overcrowded
now despite a high parole rate. There are too many people
getting out on parole who shouldn't and he said the
problem of housing enough prisoners and reducing the
crime rate is "a quandary."
Perkins said he sided with Kennedy's idea of spending
more money on law enforcement but disagreed with the
call for the building of new prisons.
Perkins was unclear, however, whether Kennedy was
calling for the building of better prisons or replace inade
quate ones or increasing the number of prisons to hold
more prisoners.
Eskridge, an associate professor of the department, said
Reagan was offering "simple suggestions for complex
problems."
He said Reagan was attempting to alter the exclusion
ary rule which prohibits illegally seized evidence from
being used in courts.
"The exclusionary rule seems to be eroding, and the
Reagan administration would like to see it erode a little
faster," he said.
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Look Out for That Car!: A UNL policeman says more acci
dents involving UNL vehicles could have been prevent
ed Page 8
This Movie is No Bomb: The Day After Trinity, a docu
mentary about the development of the atomic bomb,
opens at Sheldon Page 10
Boulder Approach: Colorado football Coach Chuck Fair
banks says the Buffaloes aren't coming to Lincoln
scared to play the Huskers. Page 12
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