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August 20, 1987 University of Nebraska-Lincoln Vol. 87 No. 1
Andrea Hoy/Dally Nebraskan
Jeff York of Cebtevielon Installs a cable box In the
Cather-Potmd residence hells.
Hall residents to tune
in to cable TV at last
By Merry Hayes
Staff Reporter
Students in the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln residence hails
have wanted their MTV for years,
and now they’ve finally got it.
Thanks to 15 years of requests,
WO hours of labor and thousands of
feet of wire, cable TV made its debut
in UNL residence halls this summer.
Doug Zatechka, UNL housing
director, said cable has been in
stalled because of student demand
in an increased-services survey in
December 1986. The Office of Uni
veslty Housing surveyed a random
sample of residence-hall students
and found that 73 percent wanted
cable in the halls and were willing
to pay for it.
The cost to students will be $30
per academic year and $7.50 extra
for each premium channel such as
HBO, Showtime and Cinemax. This
is a savings from the regular rate of
$12.95 a month for basic cable and
$9.50 extra for each premium chan
nel.
Zatechka said students will eqjoy
cable but won’t watch much more
television because of it.
“People said, ‘Now, everybody’s going
to watch TV,’ but that’s not true," he
said.
He said the survey showed that 70
percent of students already had tel
evision sets.
Russ Johnson, Residence Hall
Association president, said summer
school students have already been
watching cable and are ‘‘loving it."
Carl Mesecher, a junior broad
casting mgjor, said cable in the
halls is the “best move they’ve ever
made."
Mesecher said It’s well worth the
$30 a year because now he can get
good reception and record his favor
ite shows with his videocasette
recorder.
Johnson said cable TV is another
attraction to keep students on
campus. And, he said, the more
people who live in the halls, the
cheaper it is for everyone to live
there.
“It’s one way to add something
else to make the residence halls a
little better," he said.
Lobbying group reorganizes
Chairman: NSSA withstanding UNL pull-out
By Joeth Zucco
Staff Reporter
The Nebraska State Student Associ
ation is reorganizing after losing half
its budget and representatives, and
Mike McMorrow, NSSA chairman and a Wayne
State College student, said NSSA can
survive without support from the
Unversity of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Last March, UNL students voted to
stop allocating 50 cents of their fees to
the NSSA, a student lobbying group.
The $20,000 the NSSA lost was redis
tributed through ASUN’s budget to
expand the efforts of the Government
Liaison Committee, UNL’s student lob
bying group.
“We’re still surviving without it,”
McMorrow said. "It hurts financial
wise and support-wise, but we still
want to be involved directly with ASUN.
We aren't worried about the money.”
With UNL out of the picture, the
University of Nebraska at Omaha is now
the mqjor voice ol the organization.
Because of NSSA’s part, UNO students
will decide whether to keep the organi
zation or not in their October elections.
Tim Kerrigan, UNO’s NSSA campus
chairman coordinator, said that losing
UNL will hurt the other campuses
involved in NSSA.
“It cut the budget nearly in half.
Half of our members cut translates into
half of our influence," Kerrigan said. “I
don’t think it’s been so effective in the
past. NSSA would do good to get Lin
coln back.”
“There was a lot of concern shortly
after UNL dropped out. Now UNO is In
the same position as UNL. We may find
a better place to spend the money.”
UNO students also paid 50 cents of
their fees to the NSSA, which trans
lated into $7,000 a semester, Kerrigan
said.
Kerrigan said it is hard to “put a
finger" on what UNO has received from
NSSA’s efforts.
"I haven’t seen a lot that the NSSA
has done in the past that has directly
helped UNO,” he said. “In the past, it
hasn’t had full support of the colleges
in the state.”
McMorrow said NSSA also lobbied
for all schools, not any one in particular.
Sue Gordon-Gessner, director of the
Nebraska Coordinating Commission for
Post-Secondary Education, said the
NSSA was very effective in its first few
years, but wasn’t last year.
She said the lobbyists were worth
listening to.
McMorrow said that UNL’s $20,000
appropriation was broken down into
NSSA’s operating budget to finance
lobbying, promotional material, voter
registration, communication and oper
ation of its central office. NSSA still
owesASUN $1,200 for a 72-month phone
bill. McMorrow said that will be dis
cussed with the board at the October
meeting.
There was an open meeting in July to
come up with ideas for improvement
and find ways to convince other four
year institutions, mainly Kearney State,
NSSA would do good to get Lincoln
back. . . . There was a lot of concern shortly
after UNL dropped out. Now UNO is in the
same position as UNL. We may find a better
place to spend the money.’
—Kerrigan
“I can’t point to many pieces of leg
islation, not because it wasn't effec
tive, but money-wise,” Gordon-Gessner
said.
She cited as an example a work
study bill that made it out of commit
tee, but not to the floor for a vote.
Gordon-Gessner said her commission
always looked to NSSA to provide stu
dent input.
She said that the loss of UNL’s sup
port will be “very detrimental" to
NSSA.
‘They will have a very difficult time
if they don’t have the largest body in
the state participating,” Gordon-Ges
sner said. “It’s unfortunate that they
won’t have representation from all the
universities.”
McMorrow disagreed.
“It’s unfortunate that UNL decided
to withdraw,” McMorrow said. “I hope
UNL will work with us this year anyway.
We can both lobby on the same thing.”
the University of Nebraska Medical
Center and UNL, to join.
McMorrow said about 20 people
were at the meeting representing all
the four-year institutions in the state
except UNMC and Peru State, which
were unable to get representatives to
attend.
Financing, representation in the
legislature and a free semester option
were discussed. McMorrow said all the
propositions were well received.
McMorrow said there may be a set
fee that all schools would have to pay
instead of the current 50 cents per
student per school. He cited that as
one reason for UNL's exit.
“The biggest problem was paying so
much more money than anyone else,”
McMorrow said. “By paying more, we
should be getting more. There was mis
communication. There also wasn’t a
Campus coordinator second semester."
Students prove citizenship for jobs
By Randy Lyons
Staff Reporter
Recent changes in U.S. immigration
laws will require some students return
ing to old jobs and all searching for new
ones to show proof of citizenship to
employers.
The Immigration Reform and Con
trol Act was signed into law Nov. 6,
1986 and applies to anyone hired after
that date. The act contains the most
revisions in immigration laws in 35
years, resulting from efforts to crack
down on illegal immigraton and em
ployers who knowingly hire illegal
aliens.
A portion of the law allows illegal
aliens who can prove continuous resi
dence in the United States since Jan. 1,
1982, and continous physical presence
in the United States since Nov. 6,1986,
to apply for temporary residence j ta
tus. The law also requires U.S. citizens
hired after the enactment date to pro
vide verification of employment
eligibility.
The new employee must complete an
Employment Eligibility Form, which
asks citizenship status and proof of
eligibility.
Various forms of identificiation can
be used. The most common will be a
copy of a state-issued drivers license
with a photograph and a copy of the
applicant’s social security card. A copy
of a birth certificate, voter's registra
tion card, school identification card
with a photograph or a U.S. military
card of draft record will also be ac
cepted.
Foreign students must also comply
with the new laws. They must establish
identity and employment eligibility by
providing visas and signing forms. Other
special forms will be accepted, but
both eligibility and identity must be
proven.
At the University of Nebraska Lin
coln, student workers will be required
to show the information on the first day
they report to work, said Kay Dinkel
man, coordinator for job location and
development through the UNL finan
cial aid office. Students on the College
Work-Study program are included as
well as students who worked on cam
pus until May and will return in August
to the same job.
“In a sense, they are being hired
again,” Dinkelman said.
Dinkelman said students must real
ize they will need to have these mate
rials is applying for a job on or off
campus. If the person does not have the
required proof, a delay in their em
ployment will result.
“We just want them to be prepared
and aware of the situation," she said.
People who do not have the required
documentation but were born in Ne
braska can obtain a copy of their birth
certificate through the Bureau of Vital
Statistics at 301 Centennial Mall South.
Trend to attend state school may hurt U JN JL
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By Colleen Kenney
Staff Reporter
A shift in enrollment over the last
five years favoring Nebraska state col
leges has caused problems for the
state’s 12 private colleges and could
' cause trouble for the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln if the trend con
tinues, officials said.
More students are choosing the state
colleges — Chadron, Kearney, Wayne
and Peru — because of cheaper tuition.
It can't be called a tuition war, but
officials from UNL, private colleges and
the state colleges said the tuition gap
— especially between the private col
leges and the state colleges — must
narrow.
If not UNL could continue to lose
money that now is being appropriated
to the state colleges for hiring new
faculty members to cope with the
student increase.
Students also could be losing out on
the alternative of private colleges, which
have found it harder to compete with
state colleges for students.
"It’s simply a matter of cost," said
John Oberg, president of the Associa
tion of Independent Colleges and Uni
versities of Nebraska.
The state’s private, independent col
leges have been affected by the en
rollment shift, but UNL has only been
affected “somewhat,” said Sue Gordon
Gessner, executive director of the Ne
braska Coordinating Commission for
Postsecondary Education.
“State colleges have increased en
rollments," she said. “Independents
have shown a decrease. But the univer
sity is pretty much holding its own."
This fall UNL’s undergrduate resi
dents are paying $44.75 a credit hour
— 26 percent more than state college
students, who are paying $33.
One credit hour at Creighton Univer
sity — about average for the private
colleges — costs more than three
times more than an hour at state
colleges. Each Creighton undergraduate
student pays $162 a credit hour.
The tuition gap has widened since
the autumn of 1977, when the difference
between UNL and state college tuition
rates remained about the same for
resident undergraduates, 26 percent,
but increased for non-resident and
graduate students.
In 1977, non-resident undergraduates
were paying $27.50 a credit hour, less
than half of the $59 UNL non-resident
students were paying._
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