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University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Wednesday, March 10, 1982
Vol.109 No. 42
Lincoln, Nebraska
Copyright 1982 Daily Nebraskan
Delay on admission requirements recommended
iJy Jeff Goodwin
The Faculty Senate voted Tuesday afternoon to recom
mend to the NU Board of Regents that it delay any action
about a proposal imposing minimum admission require
ments upon incoming students.
Hie senate also voted to establish a committee to
study admission requirements and submit a proposal
about them by Sept. 15, 1982.
Some senate members had objections to the mini
mum admission requirements.
Sen. Stanley Vasa asked whether students from small
lugh schools would be able to take all of the classes
necessary to meet the requirements.
"We have to ask ourselves if we would be denying
admission to students, who through no fault of their
own, don't meet these standards," Vasa said.
The proposal, which was made by NU President
Ronald Roskens at the February board meeting, would
require university applicants to meet the following high
school requirements: Four years of English, three years
of mathematics, three years of social studies and two
vears of laboratory science.
Vasa said the proposal does not provide a definition
of the various subject areas.
He said English is in the language arts category, which
also includes subjects such as journalism, foreign lang
uages and drama.
Vasa said all of the classes might not be offered at
some Nebraska high schools.
No evidence exists to show that minimum require
ments will result in increased performances by students
at UNL, he said.
"The data base does not exist to make these recom
mendations, " Vasa said.
Sen. Herbert Howe said he was worried about the
possible financial implications of establishing minimum
admission standards.
"Part of me wants to applaud a greater commitment to
undergraduate preparation," Howe said, "and part of me
says,'Wait a minute. Does this mean we're going to get
less money for the university just because we're going to
have fewer students?' "
Sen. R. L. Pardy said the faculty members' role in the
establishment of admission standards had been usurped.
"According to regent bylaws it is the responsibility
of the faculty to recommend admission requirements for
individual colleges to the Hoard of Regents," Pardy said.
"The faculty's role in this process has been pre-empted."
Smoke, converter regulations opposed
An amendment that would strengthen Lincoln's Air
Pollution Control Ordinance drew opposition at a Lin
coln City Council hearing Monday.
The proposed amendment would, among other things,
require regulation of smoke emissions from fireplaces and
wood- and coal-burning stoves, and prohibit the removal
of catalytic converters from cars before they are driven
their first 50,000 miles.
Gary Walsh, of the State Health Department, said the
regulation concerning catalytic converters would make
city pollution laws similar to federal catalytic converter
laws.
Walsh said the problem of smoke emission from fire
places and stoves is increasing and may worsen as the use
of fireplaces and wood- and coal-burning stoves become
more of a widely used energy source.
Harley Van Allen, 4127 S. 52nd St., also opposed the
proposing converter regulations.
Van Allen, a retired garage owner, said there were
many ways to violate converter regulations, thus making
them virtually unenforceable.
He said the converters do not help improve the smell
from automobile exhaust pipes.
"The catalytic converter stinks worse than a regular
exhaust pipe," Van Allen said.
Jack Hyland, of Hyland Brothers Lumber Co., spoke
against proposed regulation of smoke emissions.
"I don't think youll be able to enforce this very well,"
Hyland said. "I feel that in most cases it will be one neigh
bor wanting to get even with another neighbor."
The council will vote on the regulations at its meeting
next Monday.
Commission hears election complaint
By Betsy Miller
The ASUN Electoral Commission Tuesday discussed
possible changes in electoral rules to give independent
candidates more of a chance in ASUN elections.
The commission heard a complaint filed by Steve
Popek, an unsuccessful write-in candidate for ASUN presi
dent. Popek said the commission failed to provide space
on the March 3 election ballot to write in a presidential
candidate's name.
Popek, a 28-year-old civil engineering student, said he
is not asking to reverse the election results, but only to
make sure that in future elections independent candidates
have a fair chance of winning.
He said he wanted to make sure the space problem for
write-in presidential candidates is corrected. He also said
he was concerned with election rules that allow members
of a political party to pool their money and receive more
publicity than independent candidates can.
Popek suggested the commission add more details to
the rules to provide that all paid publicity for a party be
attributed to a party member.
Doug Brooks, a commission member, said he wants to
meet with Popek later to discuss how to make campaign
expenses more accountable.
Popek also said he was concerned that party candidates
get more publicity on election day because they can post
many party members outside polling places to contact
students before they vote. Independent candidates can't
reach potential voters because they don't have party
members backing them, he said.
"The bigger your organization is, the more polling
places you can reach," Popek said.
However, Doran Matzke, commission member and
ASUN second vice president, said parties shouldn't be
penalized simply because they may be well organized.
However, commission members agreed that Popek
made valid points about the situation facing independent
candidates and said they will consider his opinions when
they prepare their year-end report.
Brooks said the commission appreciated the time
Popek had taken to think about the rules and voice his
ideas for changes.
"We realize that changes have to be made. Hindsight is
fantastic," Brooks said.
Parking board may hire law student
The UNL Parking Advisory Committee, Tuesday con
sidered the possibility of appointing a junior or senior law
student as a judge for the Parking Appeal Board.
The law student would hear individual cases and would
make recommendations to the Appeal Board.
Ray Coffey, PAC secretary, said a law student would
be better qualified to judge parking appeals than the Park
ing Appeal Board.
"A law student would have the legal knowledge to
make appropriate decisions," Coffey said. "Having one
person reviewing appeal cases would also cut down on the
amount of time and trouble the Appeal Board has now."
The PAC also considered the appeal of a student ticket
ed for possession of a stolen parking tag.
The student's request was denied because all parking
tags are non-transferable, and are marked appropriately,
said Henry Baumgarten, PAC chairman.
Laura Miyoshi, ASUN representative, said many stu
dents are not aware that the tags are non-transferable.
"Many freshmen who leave after first semester sell
their parking tags to incoming students who don't know
better," she said.
Baumgarten said "Parking tags are like credit cards, if
it is lost or stolen, someone else is bound to use it."
The PAC's next meeting will be April 13, in the new
UNL Police headquarters.
Vasa also said he was troubled by the issue of a public
land-grant university having minimum standards for ad
mission .
In other business, the senate voted to accept a proposal
by Sen. Pardy that steps be taken to improve large lecture
halls on the UNL campus.
"It's time that we made some changes," Pardy said.
"We can no longer continue to ignore the conditions in
which our large classes are taught."
Pardy cited Love Library's auditorium, Bessey Hall
Auditorium, and Hcnzlik Hall Auditorium as lecture halls
in need of improvement.
Pardy said Live Library Auditorium was "dimly-lit and
has a dungeon-like atmosphere. When tests are given it's
absolute pandemonium ."
Pardy's proposal lias three provisions.
The first would provide for a university survey of large
lecture halls at UNL.
The second would develop a set of UNL standards for
large lecture halls.
Finally, a sum of money, between $25,000 and
$30,000 per year, would be spent by the university to
improve existing lecture halls.
The money is not presently included in the university's
operating budget.
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Dudley Bailey
Composition seminar
stresses new methods
in teaching of writing
By Bob Glissman
Dudley Bailey, UNL English professor, has at least one
idea that most of his colleagues reject. He doesn't think
writing should be taught past the fourth grade.
"That's not a popular view, with the job market at the
present time "Bailey admitted. Yet he is leading a year
long seminar about, strangely enough, composition.
Bailey said he presents a philosophical and historical
(rather than a how-to) approach to composition in the
"residential fellowship." The participants are 11 pro
fessors from two-year colleges across the United States.
The seminar is funded by a grant from the National
Endowment for the Humanities.
Mort Sosna, program officer for residential fellowships
at the NEH, said from the NEH office in Washington,
D.C., that Bailey's is one of seven such year-long seminars
currently conducted at universities across the country.
Bailey said his is the only year-long NEH seminar ever
conducted at any Big Eight school.
Sosna said leaders of the year-long seminars were
chosen from those professors who have led successful
summer seminars as judged by the participants and the
professors themselves. Bailey led summer seminars
in 1977 and 1979 about the Rhetoric of Aristotle.
Participants in the seminars were chosen by a reviewing
panel of the NEH, Sosna said. Bailey was a member
of one reviewing panel that selected this year's parti
cipants. Bailey said that in addition to reading the seminar lit
erature, participants, who meet twice a week, work on
individual research projects which aren't necessarily
directly related to composition.
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