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University of Nebraska.-Lincoln
April 14, 1983
Vol, 82, No. 141
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PROPOSED NEBRASKA UNION OFFICE SPACE ALLOCATIONS
FOR 1983-84
Group Changes Current space
African Student Association none 345-17
ASUN none 115
ASUN Book Exchange none 331
ASUN - Government Liaison Com. moved from 335 116
ASUN - Student Legal Services none 237
. College Republicans moved from 33 1 335B
Corn Cobs none 331
Daily Nebraskan none 34 and advertising
office
Free China Association and
Chinese Student Association CSAnew 345-8
International Student Organization none 345-10
Iranian Student Association none 403
India Association moved from 16 345-9
Korean Student Association new 345-16
Latin American Solidarity Com. none 345-16A
Mortar Board and Innocents Society none 338
Moslem Student Association (PSG)
and Moslem Student Association none 400
Nigerian Student Association moved from 345-10 345-14
Malaysian Student Association none 345-15
Nebraska State Student Association
UNL Chapter new 116
Organization of Arab Students none 345-12
Student Alumni Association none 345-13
Student Vets moved from 236 335A
Student Watch Group new 345-10
Student Y (YWCA) moved from 1 17A 335 reception area
Tassels none 331
Towne Club Sorority none 349
UPC Tri Culture moved from 1 17B 236
UPC City none 221
Women's Resource Center moved from 116 1 17 A and B
Young Democrats new 331
Zeta Phi Beta moved from 345-14 345-1 1
Office space shared
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By Ward W. Triplett III
Five new student groups will have office
space rtext year in the Nebraska Union if
the proposed office space allocation is
passed by the Nebraska Union Board Wed
newday at 7 p.m.
The Union Board's space allocation
committee, chaired by operations
committee chairman Phil Karsting,
presented his proposal to the Union
Board Tuesday night.
The proposal will not only include five
new organizations, but would move nine
groups to anpther room in the building.
Six organizations did not reapply for union
space, and the committee denied only two
groups, the Christian Studies Society and
the Residence Hall Association space.
"Considering all the changes that
occurred, on the whole we didn't do so
bad," Karsting said. Last year, four groups
were denied space.
Union assistant director Frank Kuhn
said a letter will be sent to every student
organization that was either denied space
or moved in the proposal.
The Women's Resource Center, which
is currently located in Nebraska Union
116, will move next door into the space
currently holding the Student and the
University Program Council's Tri-Culture.
The Y will move to Room 335, while the
Tri-Culture will move to 236.
Other significant changes include the
Government Liaison Committee moving
from Room 335 to Room 116, and the
India Association from Room 16 to Room
345-9, one of several small rooms grouped
besides the International Educational
Services.
The African People's Union, the All
University Fund, the Progressive Student
Union, the Moslem Student Society, Phi
Chi Theta and the Mexican American
Student Association and Chicano Graduate
Studies did not reapply.
The Chinese Student Association, the
Korean Student Association, the Nebraska
State Student Association's UNL chapter,
the Student Watch Group and the Young
Democrats are the new groups given space.
All the organizations will be entitled the
space for one year, beginning July 1 .
Kuhn said that the board believed the
East Union could adequately provide space
for each organization that applied. Of the
two groups that were denied space in the
Nebraska Union, Kuhn said it was just a
matter of no more space available.
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By Terry Hyland
A bill to bring a regional veterinary
college to Lincoln took on a new look
Tuesday, before proceeding to its third
and final round on the legislative trail,
as state senators reached a compromise on
the bill's key issues.
The Legislature voted 26-7 to advance
LB533 to final reading after approving
amendments to revise conditions in the
bill. The amendment vote was 27-2.
LB533 was introduced by supporters
of the proposed veterinary college to ease
conditions for the construction of the
school.
The original bill would have allowed
construction of the college. to begin after
the federal government had demonstrated
intent to provide future funds for the
$29-million project. The bill aso required
that two states contract to send students
to the school and share in its construction
and operating costs. A third provision of
the bill sought to eliminate the Dec. 31 ,
deadline for the state's acceptance of
federal funds for the project.
Changes made in the bill Tuesday
focused on clarifying funding and usage
conditions for the college. The changes
include:
- a requirement that at least two states
join Nebraska in the vet school plan and
provide 40 percent of the construction and
operating costs, excluding planning money.
Forty percent of the student enrollment
would also come from these states.
- a requirement for an appropriation of
at least $4 million of the expected SI 3
million in federal funding for the project
before construction begins. Congress has
appropriated $827,000 for planning and
pre-construction costs.
- an extension of the deadline for the
state to accept federal funds to Dec. 31 ,
1986.
The amendment package was presented
by Sens. Tom Vickers of Farnam, Jerome
Warner of Waverly and Chris Beutler of
Lincoln. Officials from Gov. Bob Kerrey's
administration aided in the amendment
plans.
Kerrey had called for a clarification of
the bill's language last Wednesday, stressing
the importance of regional funding and us
use of a Nebraska veterinary college.
State Senator Rex Haberman of
Imperial, a supporter of the bill, said he is
confident that the governor will support
the bill because the changes made were
what he had requested.
"I am confident that the bill will come
up next week, pass, and that the governor
will sign it," he said.
The changes made in the bill will make
it easier to push through, Haberman said,
because the bill now has the governor's
support and because the state has sent a
signal that Nebraska is committed to the
project.
"We had to show other states and
Washington. . .that we are serious about
a regional veterinary college," he said.
Haberman said he thinks that U.S.
Senator J. James Exon will secure the
$4 million required before construction
can begin. He also said the Legislature's
Approporation Committee has budgeted
$827,000 to match federal planning money
and that there are now enough vet school
supporters in the Legislature to protect
that funding.
Vickers, who has opposed the vet school
plan, said he thinks the bill will be passed,
but that the amended bill is "the lesser of
two evils."
He said he didn't think that the bill
would pick up more supporters because
of the changes and that the changes may
illustrate the bill's faults.
"It may make some people see how
openended it (the bill) was," Vickers said.
Time spent on the bill and the vet
school issue will delay the Legislature
from attending other matters, he said. Even
if the bill is approved, he said, the vet
school construction may never get started.
"I still don't think it's going to
happen," he said.
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U he Midwest eroeiroeimce
By Margaret Reist
"I began to wonder about the
knowledge I had grown up with. . .(It) had
to do net only with ideas and attitudes,
but with our bodies as well. . .However
vigorously we may have denied it, there is
a connection to the earth itself in many
of us, a response to the look and feel and
odor of it, an imprint on our spirits too
deep to be worn away by decades of city
living."
This curiosity about her beginnings in
the midwest was awakened in Sandy
Boucher several years ago when she came
from California with a four-woman film
crew to do some work in Clyde, Kan.
Boucher, who spoke Tuesday in the
Nebraska Union as part of Women's Week,
talked about her book "Heartwomen"
and experiences writing it.
"Heartwomen" is a series of portraits
of Midwestern women from the area
bounded by Omaha, Red Cloud, Salina,
Kan. and Kansas Ctiy, Mo.
She interviewed women ranging from 14
to 86 years of age, focusing mainly on farm
and small-town women because she
believed they were more affected by the
culture of the Midwest than the urban
women, Boucher said. But she could not
resist interviewing a few women from the
cities.
But of the 2 1 major portraits in
Boucher's book, most were about women
from small towns. In her speech, she
showed slides and described the women she
came to know and write about.
Darlene Tate is one of these women.
She is one of a few women who wear hard
hats and work for the Northern Gas Co.
Boucher said she considers Tate a
symbol of the juncture between the
traditional role of women and the enw,
liberated role.
Other women Boucher wrote about
include:
86-year-old Teresa Mahon, who
lives alone and fascinated Boucher with her
stories of the great dustbowl days.
- 18-year-old Richae Colby, who works
a the Kounty Kitchen Cafe in Concordia,
Kan. She is like a "big-city street kid, living
in a small town," Boucher said. She is
trying to put her life together after living
in foster homes, taking drugs and alcohol,,
and giving her baby up tor adoption.
Most of the women would not call
themselves feminists, Boucher said, but
they definitely are affected by the
women's movement and aware of what is
going on.
This is evident in groups like Women
Involved in Farm Economics, one of the
first groups to get involved in the
controversy of the missile placement in
Nebraska, and women in agri-business,
Boucher said. She added, however, that
many traditional views still survive.