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January 25,1989 _ University of Nebraska-Lincoln Vol. 88 No. 86
Legislature rejects amendment to LB180
By Jana Pedersen
Staff Reporter
An amendment to LB 180, a
bill allowing Nebraska resi
dents age 60 or older to at
tend classes at state colleges and
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universities tuition-free, was voted
down Tuesday in the Nebraska Legis
lature.
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The amendment, which would
have made financial need a stipula
tion for eligibility for tuition-free
classes, came three votes short of the
25 votes necessary to add it to the bill.
The bill’s sponsor, Sen. James
McFarland of Lincoln, said the
amendment was proposed to make
the bill more attractive to senators
who are worried about its fairness.
Only residents who are not work
ing full-time and are receiving gov
ernment benefits would have been
eligible for tuition-free classes under
the amendment, he said. But resi
dents who are not retired or do not
otherwise have financial need would
have been required to pay for classes,
he said.
Sen. Howard Lamb of Anselmo,
who voted against the amendment,
said he thinks the bill also is unneces
sary.
Because many institutions in
Nebraska already allow residents 60
years old or older to take classes tui
tion-free, Lamb said, passing the bill
would only cause problems.
‘‘I think (this bill) is going to clut
ter up the halls with retired people
wanting to audit a class,” he said.
If the Legislature approves the
bill, Lamb said, he is afraid slate
colleges and universities will need to
ask for more money to support the
tuition-free students.
Also, many of those who would be
eligible for classes could afford to
pay for them, he said.
The amendment would not work,
he said, because it does not provide
funding for monitoring those eligible
for tuition-free classes.
After the amendment was de
feated, Lamb made a motion to in
definitely postpone the bill.
But before the bill was postponed,
McFarland asked to have it laid over.
‘‘I don’t think it’s necessary to
spend a lot more time debating the
bill,” he said.
McFarland said he would like the
opportunity to talk to other senators
about the bill.
Six senators were absent from the
vote. McFarland said he was plan
ning to talk to those senators to find
out if they arc in support of the bill.
Unless five more senators agreed
to support the bill, McFarland said,
he would not ask for it to be placed on
the agenda again and would wait until
next year to try to get it passed.
Investigation was planned
Araujo disclaims allegations
By Brandon Loomis
Senior Reporter
A University of Nebraska-Lincoln fac
ulty member said Tuesday that an
investigation into the alleged unethi
cal conduct of the former coordinator of the
Women’s Resource Center was planned before
her resignation Jan. 16.
Helen Moore, associate professor of sociol
ogy, said she sent a letter last semester to Vice
Chancellor for Student Affairs James Griesen
telling of the “appearance” that the center’s
coordinator, Katherine Araujo, was practicing
unethical supervision.
Moore said she could not release details of
the allegations, because Araujo would be un
able to defend herself.
“But what I think is significant is that she
resigned before the investigation took place,”
Moore said.
Moore, who leaches courses in women’s
studies and served on a committee that re
viewed the center in 1983, said she sent a letter
to Araujo informing her about the planned
investigation on the last day of the fall semes
ter.
Araujo, who said Sunday she had resigned
because of harassing phone calls and vandal
ism to her car, reaffirmed her claim Tuesday.
“I had had it with the stress and harass
ment,” she said
Araujo said the prospect of an investigation
had no bearing on her resignation. She said she
knew of Moore’s allegations, and that an inves
tigation would have disproved them.
Even if the allegations had proved true,
Araujo said, a lawyer told her nothing more
than a warning from the university would have
followed.
Moore said other university employees had
been fired in the past for actions similar to
those she suspected of Araujo. She said she
learned of the alleged misconduct through her
own presence at the center and its functions.
“If the allegations were accurate, it would
merit firing,” Moore said.
Griesen said Tuesday no investigation will
be conducted. He refused to comment if an
investigation had been planned before Araujo
resigned, as Moore suggested.
“She’s releasing dial, not me,” Griesen
said.
Brad Munn, UNL Affirmative Action/
Equal Employment Opportunity officer, also
refused to comment, saying the privacy act
kept him from releasing any information.
Moore said even if an investigation of ethics
had not been planned, several students and
faculty members outside the center had ques
tioned Araujo’s effectiveness as coordinator.
Although Araujo claimed to have made the
center open to more diverse viewpoints, Moore
said, the center was diverse before Araujo
became coordinator in 1987. Moore quoted
statistics that she said show public usage of the
center had decreased between 1983 and 1988.
Sara Boatman, director of the Office ol
Campus Activities and Programs, w hich over
sees the center, said she is not confident that
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CFA approves DN budget request
nl G. Young
nor
c Committee lor Fees Allocation
nanimously approved the Daily Nc
raskan’s 1989-90 budget request
Tuesday evening.
CFA approved 94 cents per student per
semester in student fees to help supplement the
DN ’ s printing costs. The DN will receive a pro
jected $39,193, an amount which is unchanged
from this year.
CFA also heard the formal budget request
for the Association of Students of the Univer
sity of Nebraska. Jeff Petersen, ASUN presi
dent, requested $121,102 for ASUN’s 1989-90
budget, a decrease of 7.7 percent from this
year.
“I would have liked to decrease it more, but
I could just not find places to do it without
hurting ASUN,” Petersen said. ”1 decided
we’d examine each part of the ASUN budget to
make sure we’re getting the most from our
money.”
Part of the decrease comes from the consoli
dation of iwo jobs funded by ASUN, Petersen
said. The positions of the Student Information
Center’s staff assistant and Government Liai
son Committee’s administrative assistant were
removed in favor of a GLC-SIC secretary/
receptionist.
The job consolidation resulted in a decrease
of 81 percent in the Government Liaison
Committee’s proposed budget to a 1989-1990
budget of $4,17/. The 1988-1989 allocation
was $14,688.
CFA’s ASUN budget subcommittee will
submit its recommendation at the CFA meet
ing Thursday evening. CFA will vote on the
proposal at that time.
UNL, community colleges develop credit-transfer agreement
By Scott Cunningham
Staff Reporter__
More than a year of hard work by “at
least one hundred people” at the Uni
versity of Nebraska-Lincoln and the
state’s six Nebraska community colleges
should help students transfer more easily to
UNL, according to Ellen Baird, associate vice
chancellor for academic affairs.
Baird said a credit-transfer agreement be
tween UNL and the community colleges
should be finished by April in time for implem
entation in the fall.
The arrangement, which has been in the
works since 1987, should insure that credits
transfer between community colleges and
UNL automatically, Baird said.
The agreement also is "a matter of eco
nomic efficiency,” she said, both from the
students' standpoint and the state’s.
The need to simplify matters and cut red
tape for the students and faculty members
involved are two reasons for the agreement,
Baird said.
Currently, students go to individual depart
ments and faculty members in order to verify
their transfer credits. Because the credit trans
fer verification is done on an individual basis,
all student cases do not receive equal treat
ment.
The new arrangement, Baird said, will
“centralize and regularize” transfer credits to
make sure all students get fair and equal treat
ment, with the exception of some courses
which need to be judged individually.
Baird said she and Barbara Boettcher, assis
tant director of admissions, initiated the proj
ect, which involved every department at UNL
and people at each community college.
Bob Eiker, president of Southeast Commu
nity College, said the agreement will be “a
major step in articulation.”
Eiker said he hopes the agreement will
allow his college to have a transfer guide. The
guide, he said, would allow students to sit down
with their advisers and find out which credits
transfer in case a student decided to transfer to
UNL.
Baird said more than 50 percent of freshmen
in postsecondary education enroll in commu
nity colleges.
Students that transfer from community col
leges to UNL are assets to the university be
cause they do very well academically, she said.
Baird said that in the fall of 1987, community
college transfer students had a higher cumula
tive grade point average than transfer students
from other postscconoary institutions.
