ASUN focuses on campaign promises
Summer work involved
busing, library hours,
plaza party, lobbying
By Ryan Steeves
Staff Reporter
After spending the summer survey
ing students and smoothing out details
of its night busing plan, ASUN will
focus this fall on fulfilling campaign
promises to lobby for higher education,
ASUN President Andy Pollock said.
UNL allotted about $20,000 for the
new busing service, Pollock said.
ASUN members also surveyed stu
dents this summer to see what they
thought about changing Love Library’s
hours. Library officials are considering
closing Love an hour earlier except
during dead week and finals, Pollock
said.
Since ASUN surveyed only students
who used its office during the summer,
Love Library will take over the survey
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during the fall, said Marlene Beyke,
director of development for ASUN.
The library will continue to close at
1 a.m. Monday through Thursday for the
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fall semester, Beyke said. ASUN will
help by distributing surveys to resi
dence halls and campus organizations,
she said.
ASUN also made plans for the annual
Party on the Plaza. Pollock said KFRX
radio will sponsor the event and
Schlotzsky’s will be one of the caterers.
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The Party on the Plaza will be Tuesday
from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. on the Nebraska
Union plaza and is open to all UNL
students.
Pollock said he will set his sights
this fall on his campaign promises and
lobby for higher education. Although
ASUN rarely lobbies during the fall, it
will begin to organize its stands on
issues, Pollock said.
One of the decisions ASUN will face
this fall will be re-establishing com
munication link between UNL and
other state colleges, PoPock said. ASUN
cut off part of the comm unication when
it left the Nebraska State Student
Association — a statewide college
lobbying group — last year, he said.
ASUN allocated about $24,000 of
student fees to belong to NSSA, which
ASUN officials thought the cost was too
much, Pollock said.
The $24,000 that ASUN allocated to
NSSA has been reallocated to ASUN’s
Government Liaison Committee, the
main lobbying group. Pollock said ASUN
will create new programs under GLC
and try to improve existing ones.
One of the new programs is “Stu
dents on Call” which encourages stu
dents to show interest in a bill coming
before the state Legislature. When a
bill comes before the Legislature, ASUN
officials will ask students to pack the
legislative galleries. The idea is to try
to influence the outcome of bills that
might have negative effects on higher
education, Pollock said.
ASUN plans to improve the “Adopt a
Senator” program. The program matches
students with ASUN senators for a day.
Night bus service returns
tofacilitate intercampus travel
By Micki Haller
Staff Reporter
Night bus service between City
and East campuses will return this
fall.
The bus service begins Monday
and will extend the 7:05 a.m. to 6:05
p.m. hours to 10:35 p.m.
Pat Barrett, assistant manager of
the University Autombile Rental Pool,
said the extended bus hours were
discontinued in 1979 because too
few students used the service. How
ever, when a survey showed that 416
students would use the service,
ASUN decided to bring back even
ing hours.
The ASUN survey predicts 1,116
riders a week will use the bus. ASUN
President Andy Pollock said the
number of passengers should merit
night bus service.
“I think with publicity, we’ll be
able to attract enough people to
keep it going,” Pollock said.
Methods of publicity planned
include messages on the campus
video system, in the student direc
tory and in several university
publications.
The bus service, which will leave
one of the campuses every 20 min
utes, is being contracted from the
Lincoln Transportation System. Pol
lock said the All-University fund is
providing $20,000 for the extended
hours. Any remaining expenses will
be covered by the general fund.
The Lincoln Transportation Sys
tem will rent the buses for $23 an
hour — a discount from the normal
$28. The ASUN proposal for the
night bus service estimates cost to
be $0,200 a semester. Barrett said
that actual costs will depend on the
use of the system.
“The higher the ridership, the
lower the cost will be," he said.
When the night hours were dis
continued, students had to walk,
catch a ride or drive their own vehi
cles. Professor Edgar Clemens, a
member of ASUN’s night bus steer
ing committee and a representative
of Dean T.E. Hartung of the College
of Agriculture, said this encouraged
students to skip classes.
“East Campus benefits the most
(from night bus service),” Clemens
said, “we appreciate it on our
campus.”
Clemens is an associate professor
of veterinary science on East Campus.
Besides the academic pursuits,
the ASUN proposal predicts that
night bus service will bring the two
campuses closer from a social
standpoint.
“Because the bus service is dis
continued at such an early hour, the
University of Nebraska-Lincoln is
divided into two segments at night
where students in one half are cut
off from those in the other,” the
proposal states.
The night bus service will allow
students to attend dances, visit
friends and participate in other
activates in the evening on both
campuses.
The fare will be 221/2 cents with
tokens, or 25 cents cash. The adult
cash fares for LTS buses are nor
mally 65 cents.
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