Friday, June 28, 1985
The Nebraskan
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Dy Deb Pederson
Senior Reporter
UNO student presidentregent Mike
DeBolt may be impeached if some
charges against him prove to be true,
UNO student senate speaker Pete Adler
said Wednesday in a telephone inter
view. Student senator John Spethman sub
mitted the impeachment resolution to
the June 13 meeting of the senate, say
ing that DeBolt failed to carry out the
duties of his office.
The senate voted 8-7 to postpone the
resolution until the July 11 meeting ol
the senate so that the charges could be
investigated, Adler said.
"The senate is checking things out,"
Adler said. "If the allegations are sub
stantiated, he will be impeached. II
not, then he will either be reprimanded
or be cleared."
"It's just a con
stant ongoing
thing. "
UNL student presidentregent Gerard
Keating said UNO students should take
a good strong look at DeBoIt's record
and judge from that.
Some of the charges include inac
cessibility, absence at NU Regents and
student senate meetings, poor report
ing to the senate and political differ
ences, Adler said.
"He hasn't done some gross misuse
of power," Adler said. "It's just a con
stant ongoing thing."
DeBolt has not kept his office hours
and has missed half of the senate meet
ings, Adler said. DeBolt isn't required
to attend senate meetings but he must
senate may impe&dk stafflenlfc regem
give a report, either in person or writ
ten. But the senate has received neither
written or firsthand reports, he said.
DeBolt has reported to the senate on
only two out of six regents meetings.
DeBolt also hasn't maintained ade
quate communications with the ad
ministration, the student newspaper
and other organizations, Adler said.
"A person I know in administration
told me he just saw Mike for the first
time in three months," Adler said.
"Mike should have been seeing this
person at least once every two weeks."
At the regents' June 8 meeting,
DeBolt said he supported a tuition sur
charge and the central pooling of the
money from the surcharge rather than
each campus keeping its own monies.
Adler said he did not know of a sin
gle student on the UNO campus that
supported either measure.
In another case, DeBolt was present
for the regents hearing on student
funds but left the main meeting to
attend cheerleading tryouts at UNO,
Adler said.
DeBolt also missed spring gradua
tion, he said. DeBolt, who was married
that day, claimed that he did not know
when graduation was when he set the
wedding date in December, Adler said.
But student senators feel that DeBolt
could have found out the graduation
date, Adler said. ,
"Basically he has his priorities back
ward," Adler said. "He's admitted it
indirectly. He won't admit it directly,
but neither would I in his position."
A vote of 18 of the 27 student sena
tors is needed to impeach DeBolt, he
said. If the senate votes to impeach
him, the case would be taken before
the five-member Student Court, where
a 3 vote majority would make the
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'He has his prior-
ities backward. "
impeachment effective. In that case,
the senate speak" er would assume office
for a maximum of 40 days until a new
election is held. The winner of that
election would finish DeBoIt's term
until the regular election in October,
he said.
If that happens, Adler said he
wouldn't assume the office because he
is moving to Dallas in three weeks.
If DeBolt isn't impeached, he may be
reprimanded or cleared of the charges,
he said.
"The student senate acts as individ
uals, not really as a group," Adler said.
"They say they have these principles
but when Mike's there, they back
down. In other words, they don't have
the guts to go through with it."
Adler said he didn't know what the
senate would do but if a few charges
still being investigated are substan
tiated, DeBolt will probably be im
peached. The UNO student presidentregent
position is mainly a figurehead posi
tion, lacking even ex-ofiicio status on
the senate, Adler said. The president
basically serves as a representative at
regent meetings, provides information
to the senate and student body and
acts as a communications link. The
student presidentregent runs by him
self on the ticket, he said.
DeBoIt's election as student presid
entregent was clouded with doubt
when he was charged with and found
guilty of two campaign abuses during a
runoff election in October, Adler said.
DeBolt was fined the maximum of $50
for illegal poster sizes and slanderous
campaign tactics.
"He won the runoff by 100 votes,"
Adler said. "I bet about 125 votes were
from the illegal stuff."
Adler did say DeBolt has made more
of an effort since the senate's June 13
meeting.
Attempts have been made in the
past to impeach other UNO student
"They don't have
the guts to go
through with it. 11
president regents. The only successful
removal occurred in 1976 when studen:
president Steve Showers was found
guilty of an unauthorized entry into the
Secondary Education Department files.
The student senate's meeting is
scheduled for July 11 at 6 p.m. in the
UNO student center. The meeting is
open to the public.
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