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Thursday, February 18, 1982
Vol. 109 No. 28
Lincoln, Nebraska
Copyright 1982 Daily Nebraskan
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Committee approves ASUN appeals
By Mike Patras
The Committee for Fees Allocation approved all of the
ASUN Senate allocation appeals presented Tuesday night
by Rick Mockler, senate president.
The approved allocation includes a salary of $l ,408 for
the UNL student body president, which the committee
had eliminated in its initial recommendation.
According to the committee's recommendation, the
senate will receive $ l .38 per student per semester in 1982
83. The senate received $1.17 per student per semester in
1981-82.
Originally, the senate requested $58,982. The com
mittee recommended a reduction allocation of $50,419.
After Mockler's appeal, though, the committee recom
mended the senate receive $58,457, $525 less than
originally requested. CFA initially chose to follow NU
Board of Regents' guidelines, which state that no regent
shall receive a salary. The controversy arose because the
student body president is also the student regent. But in
recent years the student body president has been paid.
According to Mockler, it is appropriate for CFA to
allocate money for the salary. The decision not to have
the salary should be left with the administration and the
regents, he said.
CFA decided that the student body president needs the
support of students, and approved the motion to reinstate
the presidential salary.
Mockler repeated his earlier request that the student
legal attorney's salary be increased from $14,000 to
$19,000.
Increase necessary
According to Mockler an increase of $5,000 would
convince an attorney to keep the position for a longer
period of time.
"$19,000 is the bare minimum we should pay," Mock
ler said. Even with this increase UNL's legal attorney will
make $1,000 less than the average salary for student legal
services, Mockler said.
CFA reinstated the student legal attorney's salary in
crease of $5,000.
Mockler also appealed for reinstatement of the salary
for the student body president.
Mockler also requested that CFA allocate $968 to pro
vide a salary for the Government Liaison Committee
chairperson. Previously this was not a paid position.
The GLC chairperson is vital to the senate, Mockler
said. The responsibilities are at least equal to those of the
senate vice presidents' and therefore deserve to be com
pensated as such, Mockler said.
GLC is the lobbying arm of the senate. It represents
student's positions in the Legislature.
CFA approved reinstating the senate's request to
provide a salary for the position. This salary equals each
of the vice presidents' salaries.
Tuition costs . e
Mockler's final request of the CFA was approval of
$324 for the senate's miscellaneous category. CFA
clarified where the money would be spent by including it
in a new category, tuition costs for professional develop
ment. The money will be used to further the education of
the senate's staff. It will pay the tuition for three credit
hours for staff members.
The University Program Council will appeal its allocat
ion recommendation tonight. The Nebraska Unions and
the Recreation Department will appeal their recommend
ed allocations Feb. 23.
Members of the committee stressed that no recom
mended allocations are final.
According to Frances Aube, CFA member, students
have complained about the proposed increases in student
fees and CFA's efforts to investigate certain fee-users.
Aube referred to the recent committee action to re
duce supervisors' salaries in certain recreation department
facilities. These salaries were not approved because the
committee wanted justifications for these expenditures,
she said .
The Recreation Department's budget was not entirely
approved because it was too vague, she said. Committee
members wanted to investigate and look for alternatives
in some areas, Aube said.
"It was not CFA's intention to close facilities - our
ijitention was to make sure the supervisor's salaries were
necessary," said Jim Frohman,CFA chairman.
ASUN Senate adds
student police force,
new parking committee
By Betsy Miller
The ASUN Senate voted at its Wednesday night meet
ing to establish a Student Police and an ASUN Parking
Ad visory Committee .
Sen. Nancee Shannon, chairperson of the Campus Life
Committee which submitted the idea, said the parking
committee will be formed immediately. It will present
student views on parking fine increases to administration
officials next week.
The UNL Parking Advisory Committee recently ap
proved nine increases and one decrease in parking fines.
The new commission will consist of 10 students and
two non-voting members from the UNL Police Depart
ment. The 10 student members include two representa
tives apiece from parking areas one two, six and 20 and
one each from areas three and four.
Shannon said students do not have enough represen
tation on the Parking Advisory Committee, which consists
of 1 1 members. Three PAC members are students and the
other eight are faculty and staff members, she said.
Shannon said John Goebel, UNL vice chancellor of
business and finance, told her the new commission's
opinions would receive attention from administrators.
Sen. Greg Abboud said the commission was needed
because UNL Chancellor Martin Massengale is not hearing
the students' side of the parking fine issue .
Sen. Kay Hinn,PAC member, said sometimes the three
students on the committee feel "intimidated" because
there are more faculty and staff members than students
on the PAC. However, she said, the committee only has
six voting members. Votes are split evenly between stu
dents and administrators with each side receiving three
votes, she said.
Shannon said eventually she would like to see the
ASUN commission become the only UNL parking and
police commission with student members. She said with
no student members on the PAC, or the police commiss
ion set up by the Faculty Senate, the ASUN commission
would establish its own independence.
Doran Matzke, second vice president, said she dis
agreed with the idea.
The ASUN Student Life Commission is responsible
for appointing members to the new committee, Shannon
said.
Dan Wedekind, first vice president, suggested to the
Senate the idea of a student foundation. He said he want
ed senators to consider the idea and vote on it next week.
The foundation would serve four purposes, Wedekind
said. It would work with the University of Nebraska
Foundation in raising money for the university, initiate
its own fund-raising projects, act as a liaison between
students and the NU Foundation and give the chancellor
student input concerning his use of discretionary funds
given to him.
The senate also approved Dan Kurtenbach, Vernon
Daniels, Richard Betz, Jennifer Fager, Doran Matzke and
Michelle Magruder as justices on the UNL Student Court.
Joe Nigro was approved for another term as chief justice
of the court.
The court members' terms start next fall, said Pres
ident Rick Mockler.
Thone says Nebraska media accurate
By Alice Hrnicek
Claiming that Nebraska media sometimes appear biased
in their coverage of politics, Gov. Charles Thone, however,
praised local media for their thoroughness and accuracy.
"I don't know that I've ever charged publicly that I've
been misquoted," Thone told about 50 journalism stu
dents in the Avery Hall auditorium Wednesday night.
But he said several papers that editorially criticized his
proposed corporate tax increase may have covered it "in a
way that kind of guided against it."
A former eight-year member of the U.S. House of
Representatives, Thone said the Washington press corps is
similar to the local media. Mostly correspondents from
Nebraska newspapers covered Thone while he was in
Washington because he was not in office long enough to
establish himself as a strong policy maker.
"I don't know that I had the elite of the Washington
press corps following me around," he said.
Lincoln reporters are "very knowledgeable in govern
ment affairs and do a crackerjack good job." Out-state
reporters, even those in Omaha, don't ask as good
questions because they are away from the state capitol.
Thone, who has announced he will seek a second term
as governor, said his campaign strategy may not be as in
tense as four years ago when he ran against three persons
in the primary and former Lt. Gov. Gerald Whelan in the
general election.
The Republican governor's competition this year are
state Sen. George Burrows of Adams and Lincoln
businessman Robert Kerrey, both Democrats.
His most effective campaign strategy, he said, is to go
out "one on one" among the voters of Nebraska. He has
been told by William Palmer, his campaign strategist, that
lie doesn't "shine much on television."
Thone said debates are another effective strategy, al
though a candidate's presentation may be judged as much
as his views.
Although he admitted that the cost of running a camp
aign is increasing, he said that the ability of a candidate
to raise funds indicates whether the public wants him in
office.