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University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Vol. 86 No. 120
acuity rejects rec
Senate votes to withdraw support for
By Kip Fry
Staff Reporter
The UNL Faculty Senate voted over
whelmingly Tuesday afternoon to with
draw support for the proposed UNL
recreation center for one year.
The closed ballot vote was 29 to 8
with one abstention. The resolution
was brought to the floor by Senator
Jack Siegman, professor of sociology,
who said that he was not speaking
against the need for the recreation
center. However, he felt there were too
many problems with the plan. There
fore, he said that support for the pro
ject should be withdrawn until next
year.
However, James Griesen, associate
Senators
By Michael Hooper
Senior Reporter
State senators Tuesday voted 34-13
to increase the state cigarette tax and
place a new tax on tobacco products
Four poll sites
provided for
ASUN voters
; Students can vote at four sites , J
today in the ASUN elections.
Polls will be set up in the ;
Nebraska Union, East Union, Ham- !
4 ilton Hall and Walter Scott Engi-
neering Center from 8 a.m. to 8
p.m.
Both a photo and student I.D.
are needed to vote. Students who
do not have a picture I.D. should
go to the ASUN office, Nebraska
Union 115, for verification to
vote.
Scudder speaks on AIDS
during 'Nightline' interview
By Kevin Cowan
and
Michael Hooper
Staff Reporters
If you had a chance to talk for
about 10 minutes about AIDS on
ABCs "Nightline," what would you
say?
ASUN President Chris Scudder
had that opportunity Monday night
when Ted Koppel, the show's host,
interviewed her on Nebraskan's and
UNL students' views on AIDS.
Although Scudder said she wasn't
nervous, she said she felt like she
could have said more about the
issue.
"I thought of everything I wanted
to say after they shut the cameras
off," she said.
Scudder, who was filmed from a
KUON-TV studio, told Koppel that
young Nebraskans are concerned
abut AIDS, but mostly just as a topic
of conversation.
"Maybe nobody really believes
that it's going to happen to us," she
said.
Scudder said she did not know
that she would be interviewed for
the show until Monday afternoon,
vice chancellor for Academic Affairs,
told the Senate that such a facility
could help the University.
"We can use football to the universi
ty's advantage," Griesen said. "It ral
lies support to the university. We should
capitalize on the success of the athletic
department and not ridicule them."
them."
Griesen said that he was concerned
about the misinformation being spread
about the rec center. As far as the
problem with the bids are concerned,
"everything done was done with the
intent of being fair."
Faculty Senator James McShane,
associate professor of English, said,
that when he testified in front of the
raise cigarette tax
such as cigars, snuff and pipe tobacco.
LB730, sponsored by the Legisla
ture's Revenue Committee, increases
the cigarette tax from 23 cents to 27
cents per package. Wholesale tobacco
products also would receive a first-time
tax of 15 percent.
Senators also gave 34-14 final appro
val to another bill that would provide
$282,300 to help carry out the provi
sions of LB730.
The 4-cent tax increase on cigarettes
would go into effect July 1 and the
15-cent increase on wholesale price of
tobacco products would begin Jan. 1,
1988, said Eric Will, legislative aid to
Omaha Sen. Yard Johnson, chairman of
the Revenue Committee.
Johnson has said the cigarette tax
would generate about $7 million in
additional revenue. Johnson said last
week that the money generated from
the cigarette tax is not earmarked for a
specific use under the bill and could be
appropriated as the Legislature wishes.
Since 1971, the cigarette tax has
increased from 8 cents to 23 cents, said
when she was called from an ASUN
presidential debate to accept a call
from an ABC official, who inter
viewed her and asked if she would
like to appear on the show.
Scudder said she didn't know
why she was chosen but that it
probably was because she was a
female student body president from
a conservative Midwestern state.
Scudder said the producers of
the show probably wanted a "differ
ent perspective" from the other two
people interviewed that night, one a
sex therapist and the other a pro
ducer of explicit AIDS commercials.
"But I think it was luck more
than anything," she said.
Scudder appeared on the show
with Martha Gross, a sex therapist,
Mike Smith, a British broadcaster
who helped create several explicit
commercials to inform the British
about AIDS. One commercial showed
a woman putting a condom on a
man's fingers.
"Pretend this is an erection," he
said.
"If I can put this on in public,
surely couples can do this in pri
vate," replied the woman.
Scudder said on the program that
center
at least one year
Legislature, in the place of faculty
senator President Allen Blezek, he was
giving his own views and not those of
the Faculty Senate. In his testimony,
McShane said that he was against the
recreation center.
UNL Regent Nancy Hoch, who was in
attendance, said that she was pleased
by the reduction of the price of the first
phase of the new project. She would
also like to see better utilization of the
Bob Devaney Sports center for student
recreation, she added.
In other business, the senate voted
to recommend that the fall semester of
1987 be moved earlier by one week to
avoid holding commencement on Christ
mas Eve.
Gary Heinicke, administrator of research
in the Department of Revenue. He said
18 cents of the 23-cent tax on each
pack of cigarettes now goes into the
state's general fund; the rest is for spe
cial projects and agencies.
LB730 and its funding bill, LB730A,
will be sent to Gov. Kay Orr for approval.
Will said that since tobacco pro
ducts like snuff and pipe tobacco are
not taxed, LB730 would make the tax
policy consistent through the 15-percent
tax on these products wholesale.
He said the extra $7 million the tax
would generate is necessary because
the state's economy is sluggish.
During the second round of debate
on the bill last week, Monroe Sen. Lee
Rupp said he opposed an increase in
cigarette taxes.
"I don't know how many times we
can go to the well before it's dry," Rupp
said. "We're taking advantage of a bad
habit that a lot of people have."
Twenty-six percent of Nebraskans
smoked last year, according to State
Department of Health statistics.
Nebraska is not as progressive as
Great Britain when it comes to AIDS
education.
She said that when the Gay Les
bian Student Association recently
handed out condoms to UNL stu
dents, the' myth that AIDS is a
homosexual problem was reinforced.
Scudder said she was not nervous
during the two-hour wait at the
KUON studio.
"They just put the things in my
ear and said, 'don't cross your legs',"
Scudder said.
Since the interview time was
limited, Scudder said Tuesday, she
didn't have a chance to say that
Nebraskans are still ignoring the
fact that AIDS is everybody's problem.
"The United States is viewed as a
melting pot for venereal disease and
AIDS is king of the mountain," she
said after the program.
Although some Nebraskans see
themselves as progressive thinkers,
Scudder said, "We still have the
attitude that it couldn't happen to
us."
"I think people were surprised to
see me," she said. "Obviously I
didn't even know (until Monday)
that I would be on."
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UNL boss with TLC
honored as year 's best
By Kim Beavers
Staff Reporter
Delivee L. Wright, UNL Teaching
and Learning Center Cooordinator,
received the "Boss of the Year"
award Tuesday from the University
of Nebraska Office Personnel Asso
ciation at its annual luncheon for
bosses.
Wright coordinates all TLC pro
grams and services, which include
teaching analysis, midterm student
feedback, classroom taping, mate
rials on teaching, special projects
for teachers, workshops, seminars,
newsletters and examination ser
vices. "Frankly I felt like the other
nominees were exceptional, and I
am really surprised to have won the
award after I heard their nomina
Condom use is up,
local pharmacists say
By Joeth Zucco
Staff Reporter
Condom sales may increase as much
as 10 percent this year because of the
national AIDS scare. Local outlets also
report that sales have increased but
say there is no way to determine if fear
of AIDS is the reason.
"I don't know if people are buying
them because of AIDS," said Rusty Ost,
pharmacist at Osco Drug. "I think peo
ple are becoming more aware."
Tim Moran, community-relations co
ordinator at Planned Parenthood, said
condom use is up because of increased
awareness of sexually transmitted di
seases. Jo McGinn, pharmacist at the Uni
versity Health ('enter, said lower pric e
and availability may be the reason for
higher sales. She said the health center
has a "fishbow! of condoms" for 10
Ward WilliamsDaily Nebraskan
Wright
tions," Wright said.
The annual award is given to a
person who displays exceptional
supervisory and interpersonal skills
and an interest in the professional
development of his or her employees.
Wright received her bachelor's
degree from Northwest Missouri State
University, her piaster's degree in
zoology and physiology from Illinois
University, and her doctorate in
education from UNL.
Rachelle Everett, a staff secre
tary in the Teaching and Learning
Center, nominated Wright.
"Del seems to have a way about
her that brings about the best in
everybody," Everett said. "There is
something about her that is so pro
fessional that everybody kind of
mirrors her image."
cents each. The health center has also
sold more boxes of 12, she said.
"People don't seem so bashful any
more," she said.
Women also are buying condoms.
Several stores contacted indicated that
as many women buy them as men. Some
national companies advertise them to
women as a barrier to sexually trans
mitted diseases.
Both Ost and McGinn said other
birth-control sales are fairly constant.
Another form of birth control has
recently been introduced in Lincoln.
Vaginal contraceptive film is being dis
tributed by Planned Parenthood of
Lincoln. Moran said it is 80 to 85 per
cent effective and 90 to 95 percent
effective when used with a condom.
The film has been used in Europe for
10 to 15 years. Moran said he did not
know w hy it has taken so long to reach
the United States.
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