ASUN ends session
Adjournment leaves two unfinished issues
By Lee Rood
Senior Reporter
Senators in the Association of
Students of the University of Ne
braska passed several bills Wednes
day, but one senator said members
adjourned with important unfinished
business.
In their last meeting of the semes
ter, senators voted to begin two new
programs allowing them to meet with
constituents, fight to save UNL’s Air
Force ROTC program and investigate
parking problems near campus.
But Sen. Brian Svoboda, from the
College of Arts and Sciences, said he
and other senators were disappointed
when the Senate adjourned without
discussing at least two important is
sues.
Svoboda said a bill on increasing
the number of minority faculty
members at UNL and another on a
tenure policy at the University of
Nebraska Medical Center needed to
be voted on Wednesday because of
their timeliness.
Svoboda said senators were
briefed on the two bills and that there
were two students who came to the
meeting lo discuss the legislation.
Motions were being made so
quickly at the meeting, Svoboda said,
that few senators realized they had
unfinished business.
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‘Tonight was very
good because we
Took a lot of steps
to increase our
credibility on
campus.’
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Svoboda said he will file a request
in the ASUN office today, asking
senators to reconvene before they
leave for summer vacation.
Svoboda said, however, that he
doesn’t think the body will meetagain
because it is Dead Week.
Jeff Petersen, ASUN president,
said he thought the adjournment may
have been premature, but said “that
happens sometimes.”
“The way the rules work .. . that
can happen at any time,” he said.
Petersen said he thought senators
got a lot done before the ad journment.
“Tonight was very good because
we took a lot of steps to increase our
credibility on campus,” Petersen said.
Petersen was referring to the estab
lishment of a Residence Liaison
Committee and starting monthly
meetings in the fall between ASUN
senators and the constituents from
their college.
In the past, Petersen said, some
people complained that ASUN never
asked the students what they wanted.
These meetings, he said, will give
students the opportunity to voice
concerns and become involved with
ASUN.
In other business, senators di
rected the Government Liaison
Committee to look into improving the
pavement on 16th and 17th streets and
requested the Parking Advisory
Committee to search out additional
parking near campus.
Senators also voted to urge the Air
Force ROTC to keep its ROTC pro
grams permanently open for UNL
students.
Committee tries to globalize Ag College
By Julie Dauel
Staff Reporter
A University of Nebraska-Lincoln
committee is trying to find ways to
globalize the College of Agri
culture’s cumculum.
, Creating options in international
studies and globalizing existing
courses are two possible ways the
International Studies Committee
plans to enhance the curriculum. An
option in the College of Agriculture is
similar to a minor.
Ten faculty members and one stu
dent form the committee, which be
gan studying last fall for ways to
globalize the curriculum, said Earl
Ellington, chairman of the commit
tee.
“Students today arc finding them
selves in increasing international
situations and for us to continue in
leadership roles and remain competi
tive, we need to look at the global side
of things," Ellington said.
Changes in the curriculum is an
other option under consideration by
the committee.
Curriculum changes do not always
mean adding classes, Ellington said.
“We feel we can also globalize
what we have,” Ellington said. “We
have made some progress because
some of our professors are having
international assignments.”
Ted Doane, professor of animal
science and extension sheep special
ist and a member of the committee, is
one professor who has had experience
overseas.
Doane has been overseas five of
the last 20 years.
“If people understand what is
going on in other countries they can
help utilize the resources we have,”
Doane said.
Doane said students need the alter
native to take more courses to under
stand international culture, econom
ics and the way various climates re
late to agriculture.
Ellington said options in interna
tional affairs might be another way
students can leam more about other
countries.
Globalizing agriculture involves
not only the College of Agriculture,
but other colleges at the university,
too.
“Globalization involves the total
university,” Ellington said.
He said he wants many people to
become involved in enhancing the
curriculum.
‘We need to involve people out
side the College of Agriculture and
also involve more people within the
college,” he said.
Patricia Knaub, associate dean of
the College of Home Economics, also
serves on the committee.
Knaub said she is on the committee
because she can offer an outside
viewpoint to the College of Agricul
ture.
But, Knaub said, this will also help
the College of Home Economics
because it may also globalize their
curriculum.
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R Street received a new “crosswalk” Monday night or
early Tuesday morning when vandals painted the let
ters “ATO” between two lines from curb to curb.
Alumni reunion begins today
By Tim Engstrom
Staff Reporter
As the school year ends, most
people on the the University of Ne
braska-Lincoln campus are thinking
ahead to summer.
But some people will be reflecting
on the past today through Saturday at
a reunion for alumni who have been
out of school 50 years or more.
The reunion begins with an infor
mal “Kickoff Cookout” today at the
Nebraska Arboretum on East Campus
at 5 p.m.
Reunion registration and tours of
the Wick Alumni Center begin Friday
at 10 a.m. UNL Chancellor Martin
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Bookstores have similar prices
By Randy Lyons
Staff Reporter
Students selling textbooks back
will find comparable prices at the
Nebraska Bookstore and the Univer
sity Bookstore, with only a few ex
ceptions.
In an attempt to find major differ
ences between prices paid for text
books, 13 identical books were sold at
each bookstore at the same time dur
ing finals week of first semester.
The Nebraska Bookstore and the
University Bookstore each reached
its limit on two books and two others
had no value. Those books differed
between the stores.
Prices on other books varied
slightly.
The biggest difference between
t he two was the amount of time it took
for each to reach its limit on some
book titles indicating the price that
would be paid for the book.
Both bookstores paid 60 percent of
the new price for textbooks that
would be used during the second
semester. Once the limit on the esti
mated amount of books needed for a
class is reached, the bookstores buy
the books at wholesale prices.
Jerry Mullinix, manager of the
Nebraska Bookstore, said the reason
the Nebraska Bookstore reached its
limit sooner than the University
Bookstore on some titles last semes
ter was because it had several books
left over from the last buying period.
Therefore, they needed fewer num
bers of some titles.
Mullinix said that when the Ne
braska Bookstore reaches a buying
limit on a title and pays students
wholesale price, the bookstore
doesn’t make a profit on the book.
The wholesalers pay the bookstore
the same amount of money that is paid
to the students for the book, he said.
Mullinix said the book wholcsal
ers speculate on textbooks like people
speculate on the stock market. They
buy the extra books hoping the book
will be needed at some other univer
sity across the country, he said.
The books that will never be used
are simply thrown away because they
can’t be recycled, Mullinix said. The
glues used in the manufacturing proc
ess gum up the recycling machines,
he said.
Martha Hoppe, textbook manager
of the University Bookstore, said
wholesale prices paid by the book
stores may differ because each book
store uses a different wholesaler. The
Nebraska Bookstore uses the Ne
braska Book Company, based in Lin
coln, and the University Bookstore
uses Follett of Chicago.
The methods each bookstore uses
to buy back books also differs.
The University Bookstore requires
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