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Daily Nebraskan
ASUN waiting response
Ruling due today
on student vote
By Jonathan Taylor
Senior Reporter
Regardless of Attorney General
Robert Spire's ruling today on the
constitutionality of a student re
gents' vote, ASUN president Gerard
Keating says progress has been
made on the issue.
Keating said a large block of
support has been built that will be
useful if the proposed constitutional
amendment is killed in committee
or on the floor of the Legislature.
The amendment would give one
combined vote to student regents
from UNO, UNL and the NU Medical
Center.
If approved by the Constitutional
Revision and Recreation Committee
and the Legislature, LR306 will be
placed on the ballot.
Keating said the attorney gener
al's office announced Monday that
Spire will rule on LR306 today.
It is unlikely that LR306 will be
successful on its first trip through
the Capitol, Keating said, but "there
is no question that with the facts
presented (in last week's hearing)
that the bill should be put on the
floor and put on the ballot next
November."
Keating said it usually takes
three sessions for constitutional
amendments to get legislative
approval. The lottery bill, he said, is
a good example of this. But despite
the unfavorable odds, Keating said,
he is optimistic about the bill's fate.
"It is important that the amend
ment be on the ballot this fall," he
said. "Otherwise it will be two years
before it can be on the next ballot."
ASUN also is awaiting a response
from Gov. Bob Kerrey's office regard
ing a proposed amendment to LR32,
which also would grant the three
student regents one combined vote.
If passed without the amend
ment, LR32 would give Nebraskan's
governor the power to appoint mem
bers to the NU Board of Regents.
Student regents still would be
selected by students on each cam
pus and would have no voting rights.
Keating said it is not known
when the governor's office will re
spond. Giving student regents voting
rights would create a working rela
tionship between the three student
body presidents that has not existed
before, Keating said.
Currently, student regents are
not aware of each other's opinions
on issues that come before the
board, Keating said, because they
do not have to vote.
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The lights went out Monday after
noon on City and East campuses and in
the State Capitol after a circuit breaker
shut down power to UNL's electric
plant for almost half an hour.
Carol Douglas of Lincoln Electric
System said a power pole near LES'
substation at 2nd and M streets broke,
causing a 34,500-kilovolt power line to
fall. When the line fell, she said, a
circuit breaker automatically turned
off power from 4:03 to 4:28 p.m. at UNL
and the capitol, which draws its power
from UNL's electric plant.
Gary Thalken, utilities manager at
UNL's physical plant, said plant em
ployees tried to restore power to some
UNL buildings by using the plant's own
generating power.
Power in the Nebraska Union was
restored shortly after the first outage,
but the lights flickered and died twice
more before power was restored per
manently. The outage sent some people scurry
ing from the Nebraska Union and made
it necessary to force open the sliding
doors off the main lounge so people in
wheelchairs could leave. But those who
were near windows stayed where they
were. 3
Most UNL officials were unavailable
for comment on possible damage. But
Donald Leuenberger, director of NU's
Computing Resource Network, said the
university's main computer files are
protected against memory loss result
ing from power failure.
"The only time we'd be damaged is if
a tremendous voltage came down the
line," he said.
Star death (not film type) is lecture topic
presented by Columbia associate professor
A free lecture exploring the death of
stars will be presented Thursday at 8
p.m. in Henzlik Hall Auditorium, 15th
and Vine streets.,
"Supernova: The Catastrophic Death
of Stars," will be presented by David
Helfand, associate professor of physics
and astronomy at Columbia University.
He will describe his work and discuss
the attempt to predict which stars are
about to die.
Helfand, a leading expert in the field
of X-ray astronomy, has studied the
gaseous debris of exploding stars from
their electromagnetic radiation. He
also has examined the powerful X-rays
emitted by supernova debris in the
Milky Way and other galaxies.
His studies are made using satellites
flying above the earth's atmosphere.
Helfand's lecture is sponsored by
the Harlow Shapley Visiting Lecture- nomical Society and by the UNL depart
ship Program of the American Astro- . ment of physics and astronomy.
International programs announced
International Educational Services
is using February, the month of love, to
bring foreign and U.S. students to
gether. Rod Merta, IES program coordinator,
said his office has scheduled an arm
wrestling tournament, a square dance
and a quiz bowl to promote friendship
among UNL's various culture groups.
The arm wrestling tournament, or
ganized by the International Athletic
Committee, is scheduled for 3 p.m.
Wednesday.
All students are eligible to sign-up
for the tournament. The sign-up booth
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is in the Nebraska Union today and
Wednesday.
Trophies, medals and gift certifi
cates will be awarded in eight weight
classes.
The Friends of Foreign Students will
sponsor a square dance on Feb. 15 at 7
p.m. at the First Christian Church, 16th
and K streets. All foreign students and
their host friends are invited.
The World Academia Quiz Bowl
sponsored by IES, will be Feb. 26 at 3
p.m. in the main lounge of the Nebraska
Union.
For more information call the IES
office, 472-3264.
Sue Tidball
award honors
humanitarians
By Shari Pace
Staff Reporter
Wanted: a caring, open, humane,
educationally creative and just person
for the 1986 Sue Tidball Award for
Creative Humanity.
The award honors Sue Tidball, who
worked for the United Ministries in
Higher Education as a counselor and
resource consultant at UNL for 20
years. Known for her positive, caring
sensitivity to others, Tidball worked
until her death in 1976 for UNL despite
an incurable, debilitating disease.
The award recognizes faculty, staff
and" students who make "significant
contributions toward a more humane
and creative campus community,"
according to the award committee.
Nominations must be submitted by
March 3 to the award committee, at 640
N. 16th St., Lincoln, 68508.
One to three people will receive the
award.
Larry Doerr, staff coordinator for the
award process, said that when the
award was first presented in 1982, the
committee, which is made up of faculty,
students and staff, received 22 nomina
tions. Since then the number has
decreased, averaging only eight to 10
nominations a year.
Anyone on the UNL campus, secretar
ies and maintenance people included,
can be nominated for the award. They
must, however, meet the following
criteria:
O Creative involvement in efforts
to improve the learningworking environ
ment, educational process and or the
quality of campus and community life.
O Contributions that promote com
munity by bridging gaps among the
diverse groups of people and interests
on the campus andor by forging links
between the campus and the larger
community.
O Evidence of caring attitudes,
activities and relationships that have a
lasting effect on people's lives.
The nomination forms are available
at the following offices: Interfraternity
Council and Panhellenic, Campus
Activities and Programs, Division of
Continuing Studies, Personnel, the
Culture Center and all residence hall
desks. The forms must be turned in to
the committtee by March 3.
The committee will select the recip
ient(s) after reading the forms. The
recipient(s) and nominees will be
honored at the Annual Award Event
and Celebration on April 13.