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Friday, January 18, 1985
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Vol. 84 No. 84
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By Jonathan Taylor
Staff Reporter
ASUN president Mark Scudder said
Thursday he was "somewhat surprised"
that no students attended Wednesday
night's ASUN Senate meeting to ex
press their opinions about the pro
posed University Bookstore relocation
project.
Scudder said he thought several
, students would attend the first ASUN
i Senate meeting of the semester and
; said he had encouraged people con
; cerned about the bookstore Droiect to
; attend the meeting. He said only two
students had stopped in at the ASUN
office and talked to him about the
bookstore project.
Presentation of the proposal to the
NU Board of Regents was delayed
because the senate requested more
time for student input on the plan.
Scudder said he plans to offer a reso
lution in support of the relocation pro
ject that will encourage its adoption by
the regents. The project, which is on
hold until it is resubmitted to the
board in February, involves converting
the north end of the Nebraska Union
basement into a larger, unified Univer
sity Bookstore. This would entail remo
val of the Nebraska Union bowling alley
and RecRoom, the" Rostrum and the
Cellar rooms as well as a vending area.
If the board adopts the plan, con
struction could begin after the third
week in February, Scudder said. It
would be finished by the beginning of
the 1985 fall semester.
In other business, Paul Edens, ASUN
second vice president, announced his
plans to meet Monday with Bob
Furgason, vice chancellor for Academic
Affairs, to discuss a proposal to build a
new UNL student recreation center.
Edens said a new recreation center,
and a place for students to meet.
University's 109,000-square-foot Kiewit
Center, would include a pool, weight
room, multi-use courts, a jogging track
and a place of students to meet.
Edens will talk to architecture pro
fessor Thomas Laging, UNL Dean of Stu
dents David DeCoster and Director of
Campus Recreaton Stan Campbell about
possible locations for the recreation
center. They also will discuss cost,
publicity and funding.
UNL's present recreation facilities
are "atrocious" and too spread out on
the campus, Edens said. A new recrea
tion center would give NU students a
good place to get together, provide an
alternative to drinking and could be a
powerful magnet to prospective fresh
men still deciding what school to
attend, Edens said.
The Senate also approved a proposal
to form an ad hoc committee to start
work on an Ambassadors program.
Scudder said the program would involve
sending groups of UNL student repre
sentatives to Nebraska and Iowa high
schools to tell prospective college stu
dents about the university. Other schools
such as Kansas University and the Uni
versity of Iowa have this kind of "recaiit
ment," Scudder said, and it's time UNL
started presenting a case on its own
behalf.
Press do
By Ann Lowe
Staff Reporter
iy to acknowledge student freedoms
Student journalists across the country will get
to acknowledge their First Amendment rights
Saturday Freedom of the Campus Press Day.
Free press day is sponsored by Campus Media
Advisers, a national group for college press man
agers and advisers. CMA sets the observance on
Jan. 19, the birthday of Robert E. Lee, who
. ordered the country's first journalism curricu
lum as president of Washington and Lee Univer
sity. s "It's a day to increase awareness on campus
that the Constitution passes those old school
gates" and provides press freedom to students,
as well as professional journalists, said Marc
Abrams, executive director of the Student Press
Law Center in Washington.
"Newspapers perform very important func
tions on college campuses," Abrams said. "Their
rights are all of our rights."
According to the First Amendment of the U.S.
Constitution, "Congress shall make no law...a
bridging the freedom of speech, or of the
press...."
But James M. Neal, associate professor of
journalism at UNL, said freedom is limited for
student journalists. And it varies with the
school, he said.
Since private high schools and colleges are
not run by the state, The First Amendment rule
said.
In general, publications in state-supported"
schools have First Amendment protection, Neal
said. Administrators usually may not legally cen
sor material unless they feel it will cause a
disturbance in normal school operations, he
said..
High school newspapers are more tightly con
trolled than most college publications, Neal
said. Journalism advisers decide what does and
does not go in the high school papers. In some
cases, principals and even superintendents may
review stories before publication, Neal said.
Even in some state colleges, publications are
linked to journalism departments, and profes
sors make editorial decisions.
"There would be (administrative) control in
the sense that the professor is working for the
administration," Neal said.
Since 1918, editorial policy at the Daily
'NebrasFan has been left entirely to student edi
tors. But students still must answer to the UNL
Publications Board.
The Daily Nebraskan handbook advises that
editors and managers should be "governed by
the canons of responsible journalism, such as
the avoidance of libel, indecency, undocumented
allegations, attacks on personal integrity and
the techniques of harrassment and innuendo."
The right of free press comes with responsibil
ity for fairness and accuracy, Neal said. Student
journalists can be sued for libel and invasion of
privacy, just as professional journalists can, he
said.
Abrams said the Student Press Law Center
gets about 300 calls a year from students with
legal questions. Some want to know if they are
prote cted from censorship. Others want to know
if their articles are legally safe to publish.
Abrams said most student journalists he deals
with are responsible "sometimes more respon
sible than the professionals" because of the
emphasis on ethics in their journalism courses.
Continued on Page 7
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Legislature
Briefs
Compiled by Brad Gifford
A state ftind would be estab
lished to pay teachers more and
thus help Nebraska's colleges
and universities attract the high
est quality professors from across
the country under a bill pro
posed by Sen. David Landis of
Lincoln.
Following Citizens' Commission
for the Study of Higher Educa
tion recommendation. Landis'
measure calls for the state to
match with $ 1 every $2 the schools
raise through private endowments
and contributions.
Banks could open as many
branch institutions outside their
home city as they wanted under
LB295, introduced by Sen. John
DeCamp of Neligh.
The proposal increases the per
centage of the state's total dep
osits one institution can hold
from nine to 20 percent. Banks
still would be limited to no more
than five banks in their hometown.
If LB2S5 wins approval,
healthy banks could buy ailing
bank3 before they reach the point
where they must be closed.
The Legislature's Revenue
Committee proposed two bills
with different schemes to reduce
property taxes on farm land.
LE270 would value agricultu-'
ra! tod at 60 percent of the level
suggested in the 19S5 Depart
ment of Reverse tax msiiual.
LB271 would keep valuations
down by devising a capitalisa
tion rate property tax system.
Under the plan land would be
valued by comparing its market
Joei Ss?tor2Da Nebns.kaai ' value to ir.CCIU3 potential
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