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December 2, 1988 University of Nebraska-Lincoln Vol. 88 No. 67
1 CFA urged to fund gay/lesbian programming
By David G. Young
Staff Reporter
The Com m iuce for Fees AI lo
cation was urged to fund the
Gay/Lcsbian Program Com
mittee by members and supporters
during an open forum Thursday cvc
nin
, which is an officially rec
ognized but non-funded member of
the University Program Council,
seeks to educate students on the sub
ject of homosexuality, said GLPC
Chairman Nanci Hamilton. GLPC
has sought S1,600, or 6.06 cents in
fees per full-time student for pro
grams during the 1989-90 academic
year.
CFA, a subcommittee of ASUN,
dctcrmincsthcamounlof money lobe
allocated for student groups and also
approves how these funds will be
divided among each group.
Hamilton stressed the importance
of funding for a homosexual student
group.
“The only way to get rid of homo
phobia is to educate, and that is very
hard to do without funding,” she said.
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“Being gay is a very scary and danger
ous thing because of the rampant fear
and homophobia.”
Libby York, a CFA member, said
results of student elections last March
showed an “overwhelming” disap
proval for GLPC funding.
York said she thinks she has a
responsibility to allocate funds ac
cording to student wishes. One of
these wishes, she said, is to lower
student fees.
“It’s not that we’re just going out
against your group,” York said.
“We’ve got to make cuts. We’ve got
to be fiscally responsible.”
Chris Carroll, speaking forGLPC,
said student disapproval is not rele
vant to the funding decision.
“Students had rejected it last year
because of their rejection of the
homosexual lifestyle, not rejection of
GLPC,” she said. “They’re denying
funding because of the morality of the
issue.”
Lewis Coulter, a junior finance
major, said he attended the meeting
because he wanted to see student fees
lowered.
“I’m not arguing against this be
cause I’m not gay,” he said. “I’m
arguing against this because I think
my fees are too high. I’d like to see
homecoming cut.
Kevin Lytle, CFA chairman, said
there was a strong possibility funding
would be approved for GLPC. He said
it would be unfair not to fund the
organization when money is given to
the minority committee.
CFA will host a second open forum
discussion at6:30p.m. Tuesday in the
East Union.
An onlooker reads from the AIDS exhibit in Morrill Hall as a video of Martin Brunhouse, ‘A Personal Look at the Biology
of AIDS' plays Thursday. Brunhouse died of AIDS Oct. 22.
I AIDS exhibit draws tears rrom spectators
By Julie Dauel
■ Staff Reporter__
A young man with tears streaming down
his face is one of the hundreds of
^ people Ronald Young, curator of pub
lic programs at Morrill Hall, has seen looking ai
an exhibit titled “A Personal Look at the Biol
ogy of AIDS."
Young said the exhibit shows not only the
medical aspects of acquired immune deficiency
syndrome, but also the story of Marlin Brun
housc, a Lincoln man’s struggle with AIDS.
“The text on AIDS is so technical that we
thought if we could marry' the science part ol
AIDS with a personal story then we had some
thing that could work,” he said.
Brunhousc, 32, died of AIDS on Oct. 22.
“He was a neat guy, very sharp and brightand
a computer whi/.," Young said.
“He warned something good to come out of
his struggle with AIDS,” he said.
Young said Brunhousc agreed last summer
to a two-hour videotaped interview from which
quotes were extracted and included in the ex
hibit.
“The real educational value in the exhibit is
Martin’s side of AIDS," Young said.
“We thought it was real important to tell the
story of a man (who lived in Lincoln), because
AIDS is everywhere and not something that is
only on the East or West coasts,” he said.
Since the exhibit opened in August, Young
said he has seen hundreds of people reading the
information about AIDS and watching the vide
otaped interviews w ilh AIDS victims and their
family members.
Young said, at lirst, he did not know what
kind of response the exhibit would gel.
But, he said it has been successful with
everyone — school children lo adults.
University students arc the mostdrawn lo the
exhibit, he said.
“University students are the natural audi
ence,” he said, “because people who arc away
from home for the first time might become
more sexually active while in college. ’
Young also credited part of the exhibit’s
success to a memo he sent asking biology
professors to tell students about the exhibit.
Young said a part of the exhibit will be on
permanent display after Morrill Hall’s new
health gallery is completed.
“We’re also in the middle of trying lo work
out financing to let the exhibit travel to other
universities and colleges in the stale,” he said.
The exhibit was dedicated in a 20-minute
ceremony Thursday, which was World’s AIDS
Day, by Erroll Brunhousc, Martin’s father.
I Roskens says student vote up to regents
By Lee Rood
Senior F-ditor _
University of Nebraska President
Ronald Roskens said Monday “there
appears to be reasonable arguments’
in support of student regents having a non
official vote at NU Board of Regents meetings.
However, Roskens said, the final decision
“is a policy decision that the regents need to
make.”
Roskens and Regent Don Frickc spoke to a
group of about 35 students in an open forum in
the Nebraska Union sponsored by the Associa
tion of Students of the University of Nebraska
and the Government Liaison Committee. •
Roskens said that whether or not the vote is
approved, student regents have “not only been
permitted, they have been encouraged to speak
out on student issues.
Jeff Petersen, I'NL’s student regent and
president of ASUN and two student regents
from the University o! Nebraska at Omaha and
the University of Nebraska Medical Center said
they plan to announce the non-official vote at
next Saturday’s regent meeting.
Petersen said student regents want them
selves to be more accountable to NU students.
Frickc said NU’s three student regents do
not necessarily have to be citizens of Nebraska
or the United Stales, but by Nebraska’s
constitution, regents do. Student regents who
arc not citizens of either, would not be able to
vote because of that, he said.
Frickc, from Lincoln, also said that theoreti
cally, student regents could all be from the
same Nebraska district. Regents arc elected to
represent geographical regions ol the slate.
On the issue of minorities, Roskens said
there has been more and more networking and
recruiting to increase the number of minority
faculty and students.
Roskens said, however, that the population
of qualified faculty the university has tochoosc
from is small.
“But we can’t keep using that argument,” he
said.
Roskens said the same effort is being used to
increase women and minorities in administra
tive positions.
Roskens would not say whether he was in
favor of Kearney .Suite Collegcbccomingapari
of the N U system, a proposal that probably will
be voted on in the Nebraska Legislature’s Janu
ary session.
KHA encourages
extra polling places
By Victoria Ayotte
Senior Reporter
The Residence Hall Association passed
a resolution Thursday night encourag
ing the Association of Students of the
University of Nebraska to hold joint elections
with RHA.
The resolution states that the goal of more
voter turnout would bo helped by holding joint
elections, with additional polling places in
Harper-Schramin-Smith, Abcl-Sandox and
Cathcr-Pound-Ncihardt dormitories.
RHA representatives will attend
Wednesday’s ASUN meeting and propose a
joint election and additional polling places.
“We are taking a huge step in asking for
this,” said Bart Vitek, president, of Abel Hall.
Doug Breuer, director of residential en
hancement, said that extra polling places will
create a “larger awareness of the ASUN elec
tions and will encourage a larger voter turnout.”
RHA Speaker Marlin Bcrgmann said that
since onc-lhird to one-fourth of the ASUN
constituency is from the residence halls, if
ASUN docs not accept the resolution, it would
“question the legitimacy of ASUN as a repre
sentative body.’
Breuer said he has talked with some ASUN
senators and their response so far has been
negative.
“If wc do not produce a strong resolution,
they will not adopt this,” Breuer said.
Stan Mommaerts, a graduate student senator
from ASUN, was invited to the meeting to give
advice on the document.
Mommaerts encouraged members to think
carefully on the wording, saying “there arc
people on the senate who arc going to fight you
tooth and nail on this.”
Breuer said he expects some opposition.
“They need to look at the big picture,” he
said.
GLC lobbyist asks students
to push for appropriations
By Eve Nations
Staff Reporter
Tobbic Fiddelkc, student lobbyist for
the Government Liaison Committee,
told about 10 students attending a
financial aid meeting Thursday to write letters
to Gov. Kay Orr, asking her to approve requests
for increased appropriations to the University
of Nebraska-Lincoln.
“Writing letters to Gov. Orr will help bring
attention to the problems in the financial aid
office,” she said. “We need to let her know that
we appreciate her efforts for the university.”
Fiddelkc also asked students to write letters
to their hometown newspapers.
According to Fiddelkc, GLC isapproaching
the Legislature to ask them to approve the
money appropriated for the financial aid office
to 1989-90 instead of wailing until the 1990-91
budget.
“We need to get the money now for the
financial aid office to do their job effectively,"
she said.
John Beacon, interim director of die Office
of Scholarships and Financial Aid, also
stressed the importance of permanent money
for the operation of the financial aid office.
“Our salaries are way under par,” Beacon
said. “We have some temporaries (staff mem
bers) who need to be made permanent. We
can’t function effectively without an appropri
ate staff.
“It is important to keep the attention up
Iront,” Beacon said. “We need to keep the
administration aware of the situation.”