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Wednesday, December 8, 1982
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Vol. 82, No. 76
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By Duane Retzlaff
The student body president at the University of Mis
souri at Columbia said student involvement at that school
is increasing.
Jamie MacKenzie, president of the Missouri Student
Association, (similar to UNL's ASUN) said last year's
voter turnout in the student government elections was
Eye on the Big Eight
the second-highest ever.
He said 23 percent of the students voted in the general
election and 19 percent in the run-off election last Feb
ruary. MacKenzie said the turnout was due partly to
some controversy surrounding the former student body
president, , who was "almost impeached." In addition,
there were more candidates than usual running for of
fice, he said.
Student government officials, whose terms run from
March to March, get paid for their efforts as well. The
president is paid $2,000 per year, the vice president
gets $1,250, and several other student officials also
receive salaries.
One difference between Missouri and UNL, Mac
Kenzie said, is that "all of our programming is done by
MSA, not a union board."
MacKenzie said the MSA president is not on Missouri's
Board of Curators, the equivalent of NU's Board of Re
gents. However, whenever there is an important student
issue before the board, the MSA president can put him
self on the. agenda to address the board.
Little interchange
MacKenzie said the nine-member Curator Board ir
quite far removed from the university, and there isn't
much interchange between the student government
officials and the board.
"The board used to be mostly elderly gentlemen"
who paid little attention to students, MacKenzie said,
but added that the situation is improving.
Several drivers who
parked in the lot
directly east of the
Nebraska Union got
a surprise Tuesday
afternoon when UNL
Police began ticket
ing, and in some cases,
towing cars with un
paid citations. A UNL
police official said
that cars are usually
towed after two tick
ets are left unpaid.
Students who think
they may have un
paid tickets can find
out by calling Uni
versity Police Head
quarters at 472-3555
between 7:30 a.m.
and 4:30 p.m.
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Students hitch with Union's ride board
Perry Como says there's no place like home for the
holidays. And you know that's true, but you've got a
problem. No car and not enough money to buy a bus
ticket, let alone a plane ticket. Relax. You don't have to
sell your little sister's Christmas present to raise the
money. There's an alternative.
It's called the ride board and is located on the first
floor of the Nebraska Union, right outside of the ASUN
offices and the Women's Resource Center
Frank Kuhn, assistant director of operations for the
Nebraska Union, said the board has been in operation for
many years.
"I've been here since 1959 and it was here when I got
here," Kuhn said. "It's a common service in most unions."
Students wanting rides to a particular destination, or
wanting riders, put their name and phone numbers on
slips of paper attached to the board. People going to the
same destination call them to set up rides.
Jeff Bayer, a UNL senior who has used the ride borad
before, said it has been a help to him.
"I try to use it whenever I can"' Bayer said. "A lot of
my friends have used it, too."
Bayer, who said he has found rides or riders about 1 5
times by using the board, said that it's easier to get rides
than passengers.
Bayer said vandalism is sometimes a problem with the
board.
"A lot of times I'll put something up there and it's
gone the next day," he said.
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Sophomores Wendy Reese, left, and Holly Dickey do seme Christmas shopping Tuesday afternoon at the
Centrum. Reese is an engineering major tnd Dickey majors in pref haxmacy. Find out more about Christmas
gift Ideas in the Daily Nebrasktn's Christmas supplement Thursday.
The board, which has two recently elected younger
members and one woman curator, showed it was more
sensitive to students' concerns in November, when a
proposal to place a 14.7 percent tuition surcharge on
Missouri students was trimmed to 11.2 percent, Mac
Kenzie said.
Students had argued that the surcharge, designed to
raise $5 million to cover the budget shortfall, put the
whole burden on students.
It was the first time the board's finance committee
accepted a compromise, he said.
MacKenzie said that when making the operating
budget, he and other student government officials
work closely with university administrators, such as
Norman Moore, vice chancellor for student services.
Moore said Missouri is "pretty typical" in how the
student activities budget is made.
Vice president is key
The MSA vice president is the key person, Moore said,
conducting hearings and putting the budget together
for approval by the 200-member student senate.
Moore said the budget gets final approval from the
Board of Curators.
This year, the student activity fee was $24, Moore
said, $7 of which goes to MSA. The Associated Students
of the University of Missouri, or ASUM, is mostly a
lobbying group, and gets $1 out of the student fees,
he said.
Suzanne Holland, assistant to the vice chancellor of
student services, said student fees at Missouri "are the
lowest in the Big Eight, in fact, probably the lowest
anywhere."
Holland said the reason for this is that Missouri's
student facilities are fewer and older than those at other
Big Eight schools. In addition, the student health center's
budget, usually a major item in the student fee budget,
is included in the university's general operating budget.
By Chris Welsch
Defense spending in Latin American countries
robs funds from their health and education pro
grams, according to William P Avery, UNL associate
professor of political science
Avery recently has completed research on the
Latin American countries His work resulted in a
paper titled "Economic and Social Effects of Latin
American Dsfer.;? ScmSir.g."
For every $L per; C3 pita increase In defense'
spending in Latin American countries, $5 pet
person m not spent on non-military products
and services Avery said, ; -
For each $1 per capita increase In defense
' spending, $2.64 per person was lost for education
and $1,69 was lost for health care, he said.
Avery said the proportional differences between,
defense spending and other programs i$ caused by
the bloated , defense budgets, as compared ' with
small social program budgets. s- ' - . ,
The Impact of the increasing defense budgets hss
a proportionally greater impact on revenua fcr
smaller programs, he said.
Avery said Latin American countries are strug
gling to achieve better heal tit care and a .better
educated public, but as long as defense spending
in these countries remains hii, those goaJi won't
be achieved. . .
"When you increase defense spending, .t saij,
"You hurt domestic investment.
"When you have gosh to achieve higher hvcls
of economic development and you rob ficm
domestic investment in order to finance defer.".?,
you are mortgaging the future ' he said.
Avery said eventually his research will enco:n
-pass the effects of increasing defensa budgets en
the entire world. He said he hopes to get four or
five more pspcrs out on, his research. lie bepn
this project last summer on a Maude linfmnd
Rins Summer Fellowship. '
Avery; said he is now working on the irai
of 'defense., spending h other develop: nati
and in industrial nations.
If said he expects to f.r.i s vt typ
relationship . between d:fer.:e v:
prc-rams in t!.3 United t:t:s n v::Ii zi t
countries, although p -:;: .7s r;
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