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University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Vol. 82, No. 117
March 4, 1933
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By John Koopman
Tlie Reach Party wants to create a mandatory training
session for graduate teaching assistants.
The Action Party wants to create a budget study group
that would wovk with the university administration and
the Legislature and stay involved with the budget process.
The Spare Party feels that students need to start
thinking of themselves as adults rather than students.
And Anarky wants to do a feasibility study to see if
administrators are really needed zi UNL.
These and other issues wie discussed in an ASUN
presidential debate Thursday night at the Neihardt TV
lounge. The debate was sponsored by the Residence Hall
Association.
Matt Wallace, presidential candidate for the Reach
Party, said he would use presidential assistants to lighten
the load of the president if he were elected. He said the
assistants could relieve some of the work load so the
president could work to become a more effective student
regent.
Laura Meyer, presidential candidate for the Action
Party, said she disagreed with the idea of using
presidential assistants. She said she thought the present
system allows the work load to be delegated in an
appropriate way.
Wallace said he thought it was "humorous" that some
one who has never been in ASUN would presume to know
its inner workings.
"I've been within the system for a year now," he said.
"I realize what the limitations are, and I also realize
what the potential is."
Much discussion centered on lack of student response
to the tuition surcharge instituted at the beginning of this
semester.
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Wallace said Reach was the only party to do anything
against the surcharge. He said that now, after the
surcharge has been used once, it will be an easy out in the
future unless students are more vocal in their opposition.
Larry Weixelman, presidential candidate for the Spare
Party, said students shouldn't begrudge of tuition
increases as long as the money goes into visible
improvements in faculty, equipment or services.
Meyer said the Action Party would propose a budget
study group from within ASUN to ensure a tuition
surcharge couldn't be enacted until students have had
ample chance to respond.
Joni Jacobs, presidential candidate for the Anarky
Party, said the students should control the budget. She
said Anarky would disband ASUN and return the student
fees used by ASUN back to the students.
All of the parties, except Anarky, support the
construction of a veterinary college at UNL.
Weixelman said he supports the college for educational
reasons, but added that interstate funds are needed to
make the college successful and shouldn't be relied on
support from the surrounding states.
Wallace said UNL needs a veterinary college to keep
students in the state and to save the state money. He said
the university currently pays any tuition above the in
state rate when a student goes to an out-of-state school.
Wallace said many Nebraska students who leave the
state to study veterinary medicine don't return to
Nebraska to practice.
Jacobs said Anarky is more worried about nuclear war
that the veterinary college. She said Anarky is more
worried about the welfare of humans than the welfare of
animals.
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ASUN presidential candidates debate Thursday night in Neihardt's TV lounge. From left are: Kay Hinn (Action),
Laura Meyer (Action), Tom Mockler (Anarky), Joni Jacobs (Anarky), Regina Rogers (Reach), Matt Wallace (Reach),
and Larry Weixelman (Spare).
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By Jim Rasnuisscn
The benefits of America's space program far outweigh
its costs, Steven Hawley, space shuttle astronaut, said
Thursday afternoon at a forum in the Nebraska
Union.
The 31 -year-old astronaut was on the UNL campus
to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Ralph
Mueller Planetarium.
"When you look at the things we are doing in space,"
Hawley said, "the benefits of the space program are enor
mous." He cited national prestige, advances in technology,
research capabilities and possible military uses as benefits
ot the space program.
Many people believe that NASA spends too much
money, he said. But NASA only receives one half of one
percent of the national budget. This translates to about
S6.5 billion annually.
Hawley said he has mixed feelings about the Reagan
administration's funding of the space program.
"We'd always like to get more money," Hawley said,
"but we haven't been cut as much as other programs have.
I think that's a good sign."
Hawley criticized the administration, however, for
cutting funds for solar power research and refusing to
fund a manned space station. He said these programs
could be very beneficial in the future and said he thought
cutting them now is shortsighted.
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By Mona Koppelman
Clarifying the purpose of ASUN is
Larry King's primary concern. King is a
junior political science major running
independently for an Arts and Sciences
college senatorial position.
"So many times it has been the case
that ASUN's purpose has been
misinterpreted," King said. "I think the
Action Party, the Reach Party and other
parties feel they have a wider jurisdiction
span than what they actually have.
"They feel they can get action done
on the trains; they think they can get
action done on the parking, he said.
"They also think they can get computer '
funds raised. This is not the purpose of
ASUN.
"It would be good if ASUN could
actually do that, but ASUN doesn't have
the jurisdiction there," he said.
"What ASUN is is a way of vocalizing
ourselves. From ASUN out, we should
make it known what the student body
of the university . . . would actually like
to have done," King said. "It (ASUN)
doesn't actually have the power to do
anything.
"I think that the party systems, as
they have been, continually saying that
they can actually bring action ... get
parking things done, get computer
problems situated ... all they've done so
far is explain that there is a problem and
say they are going to attempt to get things
done," King said. "The problem is, thev
can't do that from the ASUN position.
"The major purpose of ASUN is to
get things on the agenda, the formal
government agenda," he said. "For
instance, you can bring it up to the regents
that there is a computer problem.
"As an ASUN senator . . . what should
be done is to seek agenda status for the
problems of the students," he said.
Student apathy, King said, occurs
because students are promised that action
will be taken on any issue such as parking
or computers.
"Apathy occurs because those promises
are made and (ASUN) can't carry out
those problems because it's outside its
jurisdiction," he said.
King said he doesn't believe apathy
would increase if ASUN were limited to
an agenda-building organization.
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