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pnl^'k -eBUBK^...— In a story about the $5 million computer stored at UNL (DN, Oct. 27), several items were designated as being part of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln instead of the University of Nebraska. NU officials said they were not attempting to deceive anyone with the storage The computer was for the NU central admi nistration located at Varner Hall Also, Joseph Rowson is the NU director of public affairs. Friday, sunny and cool, high In the upper 40s with SE News Digest.2 winds at 10 mph. Friday night, increasing cloudiness, Editorial .4 low around 30. Saturday, considerable doUdtr,e9s, 20 v ■■ ■ .... percent chance of showers, high 45-50. £^*^tertain'Tient.^ October 28,1988__University of Nebraska-Lincoln_ Vol. 88 No. 44 failures spur action Senators attempt amendment By Victoria Ayotte Senior Reporter Failure to complete agenda items at meetings of the Association of Students of the University of Nebraska has led its academic committee to sponsor an amendment that would make ad journment out of order until all agenda items have been addressed. Failure to complete the agenda “is rightly construed as irresponsible and as lacking in seriousness and commit ment,” the amendment to Bylaw No. 1 states. Stan Mommaerts, graduate stu dent senator and chairman of the academic committee, said the com mittee sponsored the amendment because early adjournment has been a “consistent problem.” “There are certain powerhouses in the senate who if they move to ad journ, we adjourn,” he said. College of Journalism Sen. Libby York agreed, saying that “as a rule, nobody opposes an adjournment motion.” Mommaerts said adjournment sometimes causes problems, such as when a bill to recognize student or ganizations was delayed at AS UN’s second meeting. “They were kept waiting for an other week with no reason,” Mom maerts said. “We'd at least have to sitdown and look through those things (with the amendment),” he said. “Simply be cause it’s controversial doesn’t mean we shouldn't go through it.” College of Business Administra tion Sen. Jeff Gromowsky said that as sponsor of the bill to recognize stu dent organizations, he “didn’t have any problem” with making them wait. The delay of recognition didn’t deny the organizations use of student facilities, he said. Mommaerts said the early ad journment problem started last spring. He said he tried during one of last spring’s meetings to suspend the rules to add a similar amendment to the one now up for consideration. Mommaerts said AS UN first vice president Nate Geisert said he would consider such an amendment out of order, so nothing was done. Mom maerts said he understood all agenda items would be considered during a meeting, but “it hasn’t happened.” This fall, ASUN did not consider any legislation at its first meeting. In response, Mommaerts, York and graduate student Sen. Geoff McDonald sponsored an amendment on Sept. 28 to make adjournment debatable. The debate could be lim ited to two senators speaking in favor and two opposed. That amendment was sent to the Special Topics Committee, where it was killed. This week, the academic affairs committee tried to bring up the new adjournment amendment on emer gency status. The motion was killed. Mommaerts said the amendment will come up automatically at the next ASUN meeting. Gromowsky said he isn ’ t sure what his vote will be on this amendment, but said he didn’t support any of the previous attempts to put restrictions on adjournment. “I don’t think we’ve missed any ~ See ADJOURN on 6 GLC ready to lobby, Hill says »y jerry uuentner Staff Reporter Bryan Hill, chairman of the Government Liaison Com mittee, said the organization has a number of student-related issues it will lobby for during the Nebraska Legislature’s upcoming session. The first areas that GLC plans to address are a continuation of priori ties set by last year’s committee, Hill said. These include continuing sup port for increasing faculty salaries and the $4 million research initiative, he said. The research initiative was re quested by Gov. Kay Orr and appro priated by the Legislature last year. It provides research funding for areas of expertise and specialty in which the University of Nebraska-Lincoln has excelled, he said. “It’s nothing new or different from what we did last year,” Hill said. One new project for GLC, he said, will be to lobby additional funding approved for the Office of Scholar ships and Financial Aid. ‘That office last year was given auouionai money rrom oiner parts 01 UNL’s budget to pay for more staff and pay better wages,” Hill said. The additional money for the fi nancial aid office came from fuel cost savings resulting from Nebraska’s mild winter. But using fuel savings is not a stable source of income for the finan cial aid office, Hill said, especially if Nebraska has another cold winter. As a result, NU central administra tion and NU Board of Regents ap proved a bienn ium budget which allo cates an increase in appropriations for the financial aid office, Hill said. “My understanding is that it’s at $ 166,000,’Hill said. “And that would be a main line budget item which would be in the budget permanently.” The problem, Hill said, is that the financial aid office doesn’t start get ting the money until the second year. “GLC and the (Association of Students of the University of Ne braska) administration feel that the financial aid problem is a significant enough problem that we need to ad dress it immediately,” Hill said. Additional money would help in sure mat adequate statt and personnel are on hand, he said. Another area which Hill said GLC hopes to address, although it has yet to be approved by ASUN is getting more financial aid for students from both the state and national levels. Hilt said states have incurred addi tional pressure to help students with financial aid because of cuts under the Reagan administration. Nebraska has $750,000 in the S tate Student Investment Grant, Hill said. But even with that money, Nebraska ranks in the bottom five in the nation for state student financial aid pro grams. "Last year Sen. Scott Moore from Stromsburg sponsored some legisla tion on this," Hill said. "My concern with the SSIG program is to make sure that the formula for distribution of the funds doesn’t necessarily favor pri vate institutions because of their higher costs for tuition.” Hill said he would like to see the SSIG program based on need, not on higher tuition costs. See GLC on 3 Interest in Arts and Sciences growing By Courtney Butnerus Staff Reporter The University of Nebraska Lincoin follows a national trend of growing demand and interest in the field of Arts and Sciences, said John Peters, interim dean of the College of Arts and Sci ences. Data from UNL’s Department of Institutional Research show that 22 percent of 1988 undergraduates are majors in the field of Atrts and Sci ences, gi ving the college the highest enrollment on campus. Peters said the n umber of majors in a field historically has been suited to follow human resource needs in cer tain professions. “Recent qualifications for corpo rate positions demand the solid liberal arts foundation offered by a degree in Arts and Sciences,” Peters said. A 1984 AT&T study summarizes the relationship between college experiences and management poten tial It states that humanities and so cial science majors have the best overall records with particular strengths in interpersonal and verbal Total UNL Undergraduates T988-89 Agriculture Architecture Arts & Sciences Business Admin. Engineering Home Ec. Journalism Teachers Continuing Std. General Studies . Visiting p/z24 / ' 0 1000 2000 " ■nutmn i immmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmk John Bmoo/DnNy Nibraakai skills, and motivation to advance in their Held. “The study shows that corporates are looking for someone who has effective writing and speaking skills, who has the ability to analyze and solve problems and whose education includes a global view of cultures and policies," Peters said. “A liberal arts education provides the general kind of academic program for this base," he said. Melissa Sample, Arts and Sci ences Student Advisory Board Repre sentative, said, “You’ve got to have a general understanding of many sub jects in order to interact well with a variety of people. And I feel like this college has given me a taste of so many things that I’m better prepared to face any situation." ... Peters said computer science and psychology are areas of specific growth within the college. He said technology and the de mand for computer skills during the last few years has led to a dramatic enrollment increase in computer sci ence that is just beginning to level off. A psychology major is “valuable in that it emphasizes the people skills applicable to all working situations,” Peters said. Larry Routh, director of Career Planning and Placement, said only part of the college’s high enrollment can be attributed to the demand of technical areas of computer science. Routh said the trend of interest in liberal arts subjects has the most sig i nificant influence. "There seems to be a constant ebb and flow in interest career areas,” Routh said. “For example, in the late ’60s, early ’70s, students wanted to avoid big business. But then in the late ’70s, early ’80s big business became popular,” he said. Peters said that it is crucial to remember that jobs aren’t based pri marily on a career major, but on the way applicants present their strengths and skills. “I think it is a mistake too for a student to make a decision on the basis of supply and demand,” he said. “You should make it on where your strengths lie. Ultimately, the demand is where your skills are best appli cable.” Survey: Career dictates major By Victoria Ayotte *nd David Holloway •Senior Reporters Students consider a ca reer tlieir top priority when choosing a ma jor, according to a recent infor mal survey of 50 University of Nebraska-Linoola students tak en by the Daily Nebraskan. Thirty-nine students said they chose their major by their interest. Other considerations were aptitude for the subject, family background, salary, job outlook and job security. _ __See POLL on 7
