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ASUN considering book exchange system
By Victoria Ayotte
Senior Reporter
The Association of Students of the
University of Nebraska will possibly
consider a bill to create a book ex
change system at tonight’s meeting,
as well as consider a bill to try to get
the parking meters on R Street
changed to two hours, said Jeff Pe
tersen, ASUN president.
Under the proposal, ASUN would
keep a card file of students wanting to
sell books and what books they are
trying to sell, Petersen said. The card
file would be accessible to all stu
dents.
All buying and selling of books
would be solely between students and
not managed by ASUN, Petersen
said.
“Most students feel neglected in
their returns from reselling books
back to the University bookstore,”
states the bill, introduced by Sen.
James Correll of the College of
Business Administration.
“It’s something we could do with
out a great deal of difficulty to stu
dents,” he said.
The bill is currently in Communi
cation Committee, but mightcome up
tonight on emergency status, he said.
A bill to get the parking meters on
R Street changed from one hour to
two hours is on the agenda for
tonight’s meeting, Petersen said.
Many (laytime classes at the Uni
versity of Nebraska-Lincoln last
more than an hour, and R Street is a
high demand parking area, the bill
says.
Two bills introduced by Sen. Brian
Svoboda of the College of Arts and
Sciences thatarecurrently in ASUN’s
Special Topics Committee seek to
address the minority faculty issue and
the University of Nebraska Medical
Center tenure policy change.
The ASUN President would ex
press the Senate’s dismay for the
departure of minority faculty and
support for an affirmative action pro
gram to UNL administration under
the bill.
“This is an issue of crisis propor
tions the university needs to deal
with,” Svoboda said. “It would put
student government squarely on the
side of minority faculty.” The bill
addressing the UNMC tenure issue
would have the ASUN declare its
opposition to the tenure revision pol
icy proposed by UNMC, which would
have tenure granted at an indetermi
nate time.
Svoboda said he is worried that if
passed, the UNMC proposal would be
seen as a precedent by a future UNL
administration.
The proposed tenure change
“could endanger the quality of all of
our educations. Tenure is a guaran
teed force of academic freedom,” he
said. “It could bodeill for the univer
sity.”
Petersen said he didn’t want to
comment on the minority faculty bill
or the UNMC tenure bill at this time.
Senators say Petersen gave gag order
By Victoria Ayotte
Senior Reporter
An alleged issuing of a gag order
by Jeff Petersen, president of the
Association of Students of the Uni
versity of Nebraska, has two mem
bers of A S UN ’ s Exec utive Commit
tee upset.
Petersen allegedly issued the gag
order at Sunday night’s Executive
Committee meeting, telling sena
tors not to comment on bills before
they come out of committee, ac
cording to the two senators, w io
asked not to be identified.
The first senator said Petersen
issued the gag order Sunday night
when he didn’t want senators to
comment on an amendment con
cerning the appointments board.
The senator said he thought the
gag was “unprofessional and an
overreaction to the situation.”
“The committee process of stu
dents is a public process, or should
be,” he said.
The second senator agreed that
Petersen issued a gag order Sunday
nighL
The senator said Petersen told
Executive Committee members that
commenting on a bill before it came
through committee wasn’t being a
“team player.”
Petersen denied having issued a
gag order.
“I expressed my opinion that I
didn’t think it would be fair to dis
cuss the bill before it comes to
committee,” he said. “I wasn’t
trying to suppress anyone
“Obviously, every senator has
the right to do what they want.”
Petersen said the sponsor should
be free to talk about the bill at any
stage, but other senators’ comments
are “best heard in the debate.”
“I was just concerned that we
give the legislative process a fair
run,” Petersen said. “Perhaps I was
wrong in the first place to say they
should or shouldn’t talk.”
Andy Pollock, former ASUN
president, said he never had a policy
of not commenting on a bill before it
came through committee and never
issued a gag order.
“1 kind of felt like it sometimes,
but I never did,” he said.
Downtown redevelopment moves ahead
By Dan Dwinell
Staff Reporter
Selection Research Inc. has made
a proposal to move downtown, Mayor
Bill Harris announced in a press con
ference Tuesday.
“I consider it a very positive an
nouncement,” he said.
The proposal must be presented
and reviewed by the downtown rede
velopment selection committee and
be passed by the City Council.
SRI has proposed moving its Lin
coln operations to half the block of
12th and Q streets. The space now is
occupied by a parking lot.
The new building will include
offices for SRI employees, a child
care center and two floors for retail. A
parking ramp with 500 to 700 stalls
also will be built.
“Ills very positi ve to have 700 new
people employed in the downtown
area with child care,” Harris said. “I
defy anyone to tell me that this can be
negative.”
Harris said the SRI proposal would
help achieve the goal of downtown
redevelopment.
“We need to have people in the
downtown area to make things suc
cessful,” he said. “I believe the SRI
proposal will achieve that.”
James Krieger, executive vice
president of SRI, said the project will
cost about S19 million.
“We believe a vital component is
to fill downtown with well-paid
people,” he said.
SRI is the largest employer of
University of Nebraska-Lincoln stu
dents in the city. Krieger said the
business employs about 700 students.
The move will create more opportuni
ties for UNL and SRI to work to
gether, he said.
“Lincoln is a great community,”
he said. “We believe that downtown
redevelopment is important, and
we’d like to play a role in it.”
Krieger said he would like to sec
the project completed by the end of
1990, but wasn’t sure it would be
possible.
“There arc a lot of things that need
to get done,” he said. “We need to
move fast and there’s a lot of coordi
nating that has to be done.”
Kricger said he submilted a rough
draft drawing to the select committee
three weeks ago, but has not received
a response.
“They (select committee) have
done a commendable job,” Harris
said.
The mayor said he will accept
development proposals until May 23.
He added that he has contacted devel
opers who showed an interest in the
redevelopment project and told them
of the proposal.
“We will talk to anyone that has a
proposal that is positive to downtown
Lincoln,” he said.
Harris said Jacobs, Visconti and
Jacobs, owners of Gateway Mall, had
contacted him about a possible ex
pansion project in the downtown area.
Harris said he wasn’t sure how the
Urban Development Action Grant
would apply to the project.
“If I thought it was threatening
UDAG,” he said, “which I have
worked so hard for, I wouldn't ap
prove it.”
Kricger said the building SRI now
occupies, at 301 S. 68th St., will be
sold or leased.
Ward Williams/Daily Nebraskan
Mayor Bill Harris announces plans for SRI to move to down
town Lincoln. About 700 people will be transferred to a
proposed downtown office complex, company officials say.
Language requirements may allow tree credit
By Eve Nations
Staff Reporter
Students who have studied higher-level
languages in high school may receive free
college credit due to a change in curriculum at
the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
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CURRICULUM
A student with three years of high school
language courses in one language who com
pletes a 202 level or above class in the same
language will be given three credits for 201,
said Joan Buhlmann, associate professor of
modem languages and literature.
Students must earn a B grade or better the
first time they are enrolled in the 202 course to
gel the 201 credit, she said.
Students who have four years of high school
language courses and complete 203 with a B
grade or better will be given six credits for 201
and 202, Buhlmann said.
Before, students could receive free credits
only if they tested out of a course, but could not
automatically receive college credits Tor high
school courses, she said.
The UNL department of modem languages
and literature made the changes to encourage
high school students with a high level of lan
guage proficiency to continue their studies, she
said.
Buhlmann said she hopes the program will
encourage students to take languages before
they get to college.
“This program will give them an incentive to
get a strong background before they come to the
university, Buhlmann said.
Students in college are taking languages
because they hope it will help in their majors,
she said.
“Students are using languages much more
because they think they might need them in
their futures,” Buhlinann said. “This is very
apparent in the business and journalism fields.
The students take minors in a language to get
more proficient in their other major.”
It has taken a long time to get the changes for
the modem languages department approved,
she said.
The modem languages department had to
approve the changes first; then executive
committees in the department had to approve
them, she said. The final steps were approval by
the modern languages dean and the office of
undergraduate admissions, Buhlmann said.
The changes will begin this summer for 202
students. The 203 course is not offered in the
summer sessions, so changes will not affect that
course unm iau.
Buhlmann said students from Omaha and
Lincoln high schools will benefit most from the
new changes because these school systems
have strong language departments.
The changes affect any student who has a
strong background in a language, Buhlmann
said. The languages that are affected most will
be French, German, Spanish and Russian.
While the changes in the department may
affect students enrolling in many different
UNL colleges, the new plan is not part of the
campuswide curriculum changes, Buhlmann
said.
Buhlmann said she hopes the changes will
be an incentive for some students to attend
UNL.
“UNO and Kansas already have this pro
gram. Now that we have it, I hope it will be an
incentive for some students who were consid
ering the other schools to look at UNL,”
Buhlmann said.