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Friday, May 3, 1985
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More remodeling is scheduled for
the west side of the fourth and fifth
floors of Nebraska Hall. Classrooms, a
laboratory and offices are housed there.
The maintenance department also
will paint the rooms and halls in Woods
Art Building, Brace Laboratory, Love
Library South, Benton Hall, Fairfield
Hall and the men's showers in the
Coliseum.
Other major projects include:
O Bessey Hall Finishing touches
are in process, and the geology and
anthropology department will be able
to move onto the third floor by June,
according to Harley Schrader from the,
UNL physical plant. Workers are instal
ling light fixtures, putting up parti
tions, setting ceramic tile and paint
ing. They will lay carpet soon, he said.
O Architectural Hall Phase one
in joining the Former Law and Archi
tectural Hall is just beginning and will
take one year to complete, Schrader
said. The north wing of Former Law will
Policy bylaw
veto probable,
Keating says
By Jonathan Taylor
Staff Reporter
ASUN President Gerard Keating said
Thursday it is "very probable" that he
will veto a non-discrimination policy
passed by the ASUN Senate Wednesday
because of a provision that specifically
names "sexual orientation" as one of
the characteristics that the bylaw would
protect.
Keating said the bylaw would pro
tect people from discrimination
because of sexual orientation even if
the characteristic actually wasn't spe
cifically mentioned in the bylaw. To
include such a specific minority isn't
necessary, he said.
As it stands, the bylaw would require
student groups to expand their recruit
ment policies by notifying all univers
ity recognized groups of ASUN appoint
ments as they opened up "at least 10
days prior to the application date." It
also says "that neither ASUN nor any
recognized student organization may
discriminate in the selection of members
or appointments."
The bylaw, which would be inserted
in each student group's constitution,
defines discrimination as "defying
individuals membership or appointment
on the basis of physical or cultural
characteristics, where such character
istics include but are not limited to
age, race, color, gender, creed, sexual
orientation or place of residence."
Jerry Roemers, chairman of the
ASUN's special topics committee, said
his committee decided to include sex
ual orientation beause there was a
question whether the discrimination
provision covered such a characteristic.
During debate, Keating urged that
"sexual orientation" be eliminated from
the discrimination provision. He cited
a 1981 Lincoln Star article in which the
Lincoln Human Rights Commission was
considering an amendment that would
protect homosexuals from discrimina
tion. According to the article, the city
attorney's office issued an opinion stat
ing that the commission "would be
exceeding the authority granted it by
the state." i
Keating said he was awaiting opin
ions from the city attorney and state
attorney general's office and encour
aged the senate to table its decision
until he got a response.
However, the senate voted 13-12 to
keep the words "sexual orientation" in
the bylaw and then passed it.
Roemers said that because UNL stu
dent groups don't fall under state and
city authorization, city and state laws
on discrimination don't apply to UNL's
non-discrimination policy.
Keating said that when the gay
rights amendment was placed on the
Lincoln ballot, Lincoln residents voted
to reject it. He suggested that the sex
ual orientation issue at UNL be decided
by a campus-wide vote at the next ASUN
election in March, 1988.
be made into drafting studios and
workers are excavating to make the
connecting link.
O Nebraska Hall Utility lines
have been relocated and soon building
on the link betwen the hall and the
Scott Engineering Center will begin ,
Schrader said. The project will take
about one year.
O Animal Science Complex The
animal science department is readying
the site so contractors can start work
Monday. This project features renova
tion in Marvel Baker Hall and Loeffel
Meat Laboratory and will result in
241,300 square-feet of new classrooms,
teaching labs and chemistry and
research labs.
O Barkley Memorial Center
Workers are laying exterior brick,
building interior partitions and put
ting in heat, air conditioning and
plumbing. The project will create first
floor classrooms, second-floor adminis
trative staff offices and third-floor con
ference and workrooms and should be
finished in November, Schrader said.
O University Health Center The
center's two additions are done and
workers are remodeling the original
building. Partitions are being removed.
This final step is 25 percent finished
and the project may be done by mid July.
Dclhay said that for these projects to
be funded by the 1934-85 fiscal budget,
they must be finished by July 1. There
usually isn't enough money in the
maintenance budget to last the whole
fiscal year, he added.
Schrader said there was $1.43 million
budgeted for 1984-85 and five-sixths of
it has been spent so far. The mainte
nance department this year received a
little more than 28 cents per square
foot of building.
This is about two-thirds less than it
should be, according to a formula set
up by the administration, he said.
Based on this formula, money set aside
for maintenance should be 1.24 per
cent of the total cost to replace the
building.
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