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Thursday, September 30, 1982
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Vol. 82 No. 30
Senate supports longer
' lours in Nebraska Ha
The ASUN Senate passed a resolution
supporting longer hours for Nebraska
Hall at its meeting Wednesday night. The
resolution was introduced by Sen. Nina
Kavanaugh, Bruce Burnside, Jeff God
dard and Kay Hinn.
Nebraska Hall used to be the only
building on campus open 24 hours, with
computer and library space open to all
students. However, two sexual assaults
occurred there during spring break and
last summer, causing the university busi
ness and finance department to close the
building after 11 pjn.
A proposal that ASUN senators and
university staff have worked on would
partition the building, keeping essential
library and computer facilities open
under the survey of a security guard.
Hinn said that she, Dean Stanley Li
berty of the College of Engineering and
Technology, two university chancellors and
two vice chancellors will meet Friday to
discuss the plan. The senators hope to
extend Nebraska Hall hours to the 24
hour access, or at least until 2 p.m.
More than 2,000 signatures were col
lected earlier, mainly from ' engineering
students, to return to the old hours. Hinn
said that electrical engineering students
started the petitions, but students from
all colleges have used the facility in the
past and have come forward in support
of the longer hours.
Hinn said that Liberty has worked
strongly for the idea, especially since
two departments, engineering mechanics
and civil engineering, are moving their
offices into Nebraska Hall.
ASUN President Dan Wedekind an
nounced the appointment of two new
UNL Student Court justices at the Wed
nesday meeting. Todd Morrison, a law
student, will be chief justice, and Jim
Rogers also will be on the court.
Sen. Kathy Roth announced her choices
for Nebraska State Student Association
legislative assembly members, all of which
are chosen by various campus groups and
approved by ASUN. All were confirmed
by the senate.
Steve Grasz is the ASUN appointment.
Ruth Boham will represent ASUN's Go
vernment Liaison Committee. Laura Mi
yoshi and Mike Ray will represent the
Greek houses, while Melba Petrie and Tom
Mockler will represent the Residence
Hall Association. Doug Hindman will
represent cooperative housing. Jim Krue
gar, Men Blaylock, Diane Caparase, Jim
Higgins and Gina Reyman will be the
off-campus NSSA representatives.
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Greg Miller is the Non-Traditional
Students Association choice, Susan Henne
man is the Women's Resource Center
representative and Tony Chen is the
International Student representative.
Academic choices are: Cindy Sewicki,
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on Friday afternoon.
School of Journalism; John Leif, College
of Agriculture; George Davis, College of
Business Administration; and Lance Ol
son, College of Arts and Sciences. Two
academic representatives, one off-campus
person, one RHA member and one
representative from the UNL Culture
Center are still needed.
Treasurer race focuses on management of funds
Keyes says Orr
partly to blame
for large deficit
Stories by Eric Peterson
State Sen. Orval Keyes of Springfield,
who is running for state treasurer as a
Democrat, charged that his opponent,
Kay Orr, has had a part in mismanaging
the finances of the state. Cutting taxes
and not decreasing spending by the same
amount has led to a large deficit in the
state operations budget, he said.
A year ago the budget was in sur-
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us, now it's millions in deficit," he
said.
Orr is too much a part of the Thone
administration politically, he said, which
leads her to go against the real fiscal
interests of the state.
"She doesn't have an independent
voice on the financial board."
Keyes said he is financing about 95
percent of his campaign funding him
self. "I'm not obliged to any lobbyist
or political action committee."
Keyes has been in the Legislature 12
years. He has chaired the state Revenue
Committee, the Government and Mili
tary Affairs Committee, has been vice
chair of the Recreation and Constitution
Revision committees, and has been a
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Orval Keyes
member of the Agriculture, Environment,
and Education committees.
Keyes also has served on the Highway
Advisory Board. In addition, he is a
licensed engineer, farmer and livestock
feeder.
Keyes said he is most proud of his
record on social issues. He said he has
worked for years with Sen. Shirley Marsh
of Lincoln on womcn'i issues before the
Legislature and has spent considerable
time on projects to aid the handicapped
and poor.
"I've worked to get more access to
voting ( for . the handicapped), schooling
for the blind, anything to help people with
a real need," he said.
State's budget
problems blamed
on hard times
Kay Orr, a Republican who is running
for re-election as state treasurer, said her
basic job if she wins will be to complete
what she already has started.
"We're putting together a meaningful
financial management system for the
state," she said. The state treasurer works
with the overall state budget, does the
accounting for the state government and
also invests state funds.
Orr countered her Democratic opponent
Orval Keyes claims that the state budget
has been badly mismanaged with the
troubled state of the economy.
"I would simply say that what has
happened with the state is that the govern
ment has been fiscally responsible.'
She asserted that the people of Nebras
ka are net paying more taxes than in the
past and attributed problems in govern
ment funding to the state of the economy.
"We have a very difficult economic
situtation across the nation as well as in
Nebraska," she said. "Other states have
faced decline in revenues."
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Kay Orr
Sometimes the Thone administration
has resorted to fund transfers between
departments, which some critics have
said are illegal. Orr said the transfers are
not all that unusual.
"Interfund transfers have occurred
under previous governments," she said.
Orr was appointed by Gov. Thone as
state treasurer a year ago. Before that, she
headed the governor's election campaign
and was part-time governor's assistant.