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Friday, February 15, 1984
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Vol.84 No. 103
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By Brad GliTcrd
Senior Reporter
Flacing state colleges, community
colleges and the UN system under one
governing body is like trying to insert a
three-pronged plug into an electrical
outlet with only two slots. And even if
one prong is cut off, or a tweprcnged
adapter Is used, plugging those institu
tions into one board could overload its
members.
That's what members of each sec
tor's governing board told the Legisla
ture's Constitutional Revision , and
group mem
ers
specialize in technical training and
academic preparation for students
heading for four-year colleges. They
also provide a community service by
offering high school equivalency and
adult literacy programs. People who
want further job training or rc-training
for another occupation depend on these
schcoh, Johnston said.
Consequently, community college
students need a governing board that is
"responsive to local needs, concerns,
and constituents," he said.
Carrol Thompson, chairman of the
IionConm:tteeThuM7,Thea)nat State College Board of Trustees, said
tee heard testimony on three resolutions, that if the system is not broken, don't
which could become constitutional fix it.
amendments on the November 1988 "There's no evidence that a super
general election ballot, that proposes board would improve higher education
major changes in postsecondary educa- m Nebraska, he said.
Uon governance.
LR32 would change the NU Board of
Regents from an elected board to a
body appointed by the governor.
LR36 would add state colleges to the
Board of Regents' domain. The board
would initially consist of 13 members
five appointed by the governor. In
1833, the board would shrink to nine
members, with five still appointed.
LE38 would be the most "super"
super board, "governiRg state colleges;''
technical schools and the UN System.
Specifics, like beard size, method of
selection, powers and name, will be left
for the Legislature to decide.
Two representatives of student or
ganizations said that both proposed
super boards would squelch student
input,
Andy Carothers of ASUN and Debra
Chapelle of the Nebraska State Stu
dent Association testified against the
concept, but said if senators intend to
advance a super board measure, an
amendment increasing student repre
sentation should be attached, -v
-Thsapef board' spe'd&ed by XXIV
would govern seven campuses. Sen.
David Landis of Lincoln said he was
concerned that the board members
could not devote enough time to do an
Each board's attending members adequate job. Thompson estimated that,
testified against the super board con
cept, although the Board of Regents is
split 4-4 on LR38, according to John
Payne, board chairman.
The four regents who support LE38,
do so only conditionally, Payne said.
. Although he said he opposes the reso-
as chairman, his position on the state
college board requires 40 percent of his
time. '
The Citizens Commission for the
Study of Higher Education recom
mended the super board and guberna
torial regent appointment in a report
lution, Payne said LK38 "could be that followed a five-month study. Willis
worth considering" if amended. He Strauss, commission president, ' and
offered a modification that would allow two other commission members said
the governor to appoint three members that a consolidated board is economi-
to the board, one from each ccngres- cally essential, and appointed regents
sional district. Six other members would are the only people who can make
be elected, with two coming from each today's tough education budget deci-
congressional district. . sions. The report states regents would
Payne said the board opposes LR33 be immune to political obligations if
because it is too broad. He said he is they were elected.
personally skeptics! that any super,
board would improve education in Ne
braska. . '
"Merging different systems creates
problems," he said. "These differences
cannot be ignored, nor can they be
vanished by mandate,"
Thomas Johnston, executive direc
tor of the Nebraska Community Col
leges Association, pointed out the most
glaring differences.
Regent Nancy Ecch disagreed.
"Appointing theBoard of Regents would
not remove them from politics only
from accountability," Hoch said.
Gov. Bob Kerrey, making a rare
committee appearance to testify for
L sa'd that the two issues should
considered separately, with LR32
given first consideration.
"The commission has offered an
agenda that will be very difficult for an -
be
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.aid community colleges elected board to handle," he said.
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By Genfe'Gi
Senior Eeparter -he
SCUM Party announced
its candidacy for ASUN
Thursday and said the key to
winning the March 13 election is
to take the same approach UNL
students take toward ASUN the
"we don't care" approach.
Presidential candidate for the
Student Coalition to Undermine
Morality, Jon Johnston, a fifth-year
undeclared senior, said the
purpose of elected representative
government isto follow the wishes
of the electorate.
"This holds true for the United
States Congress and for the ASUN ,
government," Johnston said.
"When this principle of
representative government is
ignored, the people who are served
by the government suffer."
Kurt Klanderud, first vice
presidential candidate, said ASUN
governments in recent years "have
not reflected the wishes of the
student body which they have
served."
Klanderud is a fifth-year senior .
majoring in architecture and
construction management.
"It is becoming apparent that
the candidates for ASUN offices
this year intend to continue this
wicked trend," he said. 'These
well-meaning individuals are
making a fatal mistake in
assuming that UNL students really
care about all the things they
promise and supposedly
accomplish."
Jeff Baier, SCUM's second vice
presidential candidate, agrees.
"Let's face it. UNL students
don't care about ASUN and its
functions," he said.
Baier, a senior life sciences
major, said past elections have
attracted 10 percent of the UNL
student body, which, he said,
means 90 percent of UNL students
don't care about ASUN.
"ASUN governments continue to
waste their time and effort and
our money pursuing objectives
which they assume students care
about," he said.
Johnston said SCUM is not
attempting to put down UNL
students but rather agree with
them.
"That's why we're running for
office," tie said.
Klanderud said that since they
"don't care," they won't follow the
rules.
"We're running a write-in
wtic annroacfi
csmpsign so we don't have to
' .collect signatures to get on the
ballot," he said. "We're going to
put posters in places you've never
dreamed of, and come election
week this campus is going to see
enough illegal campaign
maneuvers to last the election
commission a lifetime."
Baier said "We don't want to
abolish ASUN, we simply want to
wreak havoc with the institution
and the election process."
Johnston said he thinks SCUM
can win the election.
"If we get only five percent of
those students to write our names
in on election day, we can win this
election," he said. 'The results
may be invalidated, but our point
will be made."
Johnston said SCUM is
developing a list of policies which
it intends to pursue if elected.
The party will schedule a press
conference when the list is
complete, he said.
The three candidates refused to
answer any questions after the
announcement because their
statement of candidacy "speaks
for itself," they said.
"A vote for SCUM is a vote for
apathy," Johnston said.
Chancellor says UNL
a resource tin
Calling UNL "the state's principal
resource for advancing scientific and''
humanistic knowledge," NU Chancellor
Martin Massengsle speke Tharsdsy to
use Sigma ai scienuac uvmiuj &ywe i
on 'The Rola cf Science End Research
Massengale said UNL is a. place
where "a wide variety cf intellects I
resources, both human and material" i
gre avallabb to students, institutions j
end the public. This factor makes the '
university the state's primary resource
for social, economic and cultural
development, he said.
UNL can continue this service for
the state, Massengale said, because it
is "a community of scholars both deal
. cated to tha sssrch for truth and to the
service cf their fdlow men." .
The chancellor' praised the Sigma Xi
members as "the university's greatest
resources . . .whose knowledge skills
and dsdicsticn . . .not only hold prom
ise for. the fainre cf this state, but far
all mankind.
Agricultural resscrch, however, is
not the only farm of research the uni
versity supports that benefits
Nebraskans, Massengale said.
Massengala quoted from an update of
the university's five-year plan entitled
"Toward Excellence II." He said
research should be emphasised' that
pertains to "efforts to meet the
problems of world shortages cf energy,
necessities for conserving and recycling
natural resources and problems cf the
changing patterns cf society . . .m the
exeas cf transportation and housing. -Our
nation is "woefully unprepared" .
to deal with those problems, Masses-
D3cause universities have tradition
ally served as "repositories for
knowledge and centers for the creation
of new knowledge," Massengale said,
state governments across the nation
have started to increase support 'of
iinlversity-based research for techno
logical development
Massengale cited Gov. Bob Kerrey's
task force on communication and"
.information systems technology asser
tion fcr the need of an "advanced
rsscarch center for high-tech naasific-
turing." He said the task fares regirded
UNL 3 a major resource "fcr dgvehp-'
ing Nebraska into a world class center
in several emerging areas cf commrri-
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