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RHA approves photo ID system ny jen Beats Staff Reporter _ The Residence Hall Association voted Thursday to recommend that university officials proceed with plans for a computerized photo iden tification system. James Griesen, vice chancellor for student affairs, told RHA that a proposed campus-wide photo ID card system would replace other cards used for a variety of university serv ices. Some students carry five other cards for the university bookstores, library, campus recreation, registra tion and residence hall meals, he said. “It would be nice if students only had to worry about one card,” Grie sen said. Griesen said the present cards do not provide positive identification. ‘ Right now, cards can be passed around easily,” Griesen said. “It's a risk to security.” Griesen said the new identifica tion cards will be useful when the Campus Recreation Center opens. “We want to control who is al lowed into the center,” he said. ‘ ‘The facility will be very desirable. We want to secure it foronly those people who deserve it.” Since the cards will have photos they will help Athletic Department officials stop students from selling football tickets, Griesen said. “They (athletic department offi cials) are interested in eliminating scalping,” he said. “They want stu dents to have student tickets. “This is not to say that a student can’t lend his ID to his roommate for a game. It’s the scalping of season tickets that the new ID would pre vent.” Griesen said there would be a one time charge of $7.50 to $10 per stu dent to start up the system. The total cost would be about $255,000. RHA members voted unani mously in support of the new system. “The system is great for meal plans in the halls,” said Doug Breuer, chairman of the Residential En hancement Committee. “More meal plans could be started and commuter students will be able to eat in the halls.” In other action, RHA voted against an amendment to a budget bill that would pay its executive officers a stipend each semester, said Bill Vobejda, publicity committee chair man. Vobejda said the president and vice president would have received $200each. The speaker, treasurer and committee chairs would have re ceived $100each. The salaries would have totaled $1,100. Even though the amendment failed, Vobejda said, it will come up at the next meeting since many sena tors did not have a chance to hear their constituents’ opinions. “The idea of the stipend is not to attract people to run for office,” Vobejda said, “but to allow officers to commit more time. Presently, offi cers are so busy that they’re not able to keep outside employment.” Vobejda said the stipends would not cause a budget problem because RHA had a large income this year. Urticial senses economic optimism again ECONOMY from Page 1 strengthened, it has become less a part of the overall economy, another official said. Tom Moloney, research supervi sor with the Nebraska Department of Labor, said the agricultural sector has been declining in relative size to other sectors in the state economy over the past three decades. Moloney said Nebraska has undergone other economic changes over the past few decades. The stale has begun a gradual shift from goods-producing industries to service-producing, Moloney said. Another change, Moloney said, has been that many Nebraska workers have been migrating to metropolitan areas in the state. “Lancaster, Douglas, Sarpy and Washington counties now account for 57 percent of all non-farm jobs," Moloney said. This change has occurred, Moloney said, because non-metro politan counties aren’t as economi cally diverse and offer fewer career options for their residents. As some Nebraska workers have been migrating, the make-up of the workforce has also changed. Moloney said an increased num ber of women have entered the workforce. In addition, the number of older workers is expected to increase in upcoming decades, Moloney said. Stuart Miller, research director for the Nebraska Department of Eco nomic Development, said the number of available workers in Nebraska has increased from 772,(XX) in 1979 to 808,983 in 1988. However, Miller said, that increase was less than half of what the workers’ growth rate was from 1969 to 1979. CTA nears requests CFA from Page 1 CFA members also expressed con cern about poor financial records for UPC-Forcign Films. In last year’s budget, Foreign Films finished with a $3,394 deficit. Madigan said this defi cit was the result of unrealistic reve nue projections, as well as scheduling conflicts for some films. Foreign Films has had a signifi cantly better record this year, said Gretchcn Franck, Foreign Films chairperson. Franck said low atten dance was being turned around this year through more publicity and bel ter film selection. Last semester, 667 students and 492 non-students attended Foreign Films showings, compared with an attendance of only 492 people last year, she said. Since the CFA meeting ran late, only a portion of all UK’ organiza tions finished presentations. Madigan presented the budget requests ol UPC-Executive Board, Fund Alloca tion Committee, Kimball/Lied Per forming Arts Committee, AH Univer sity Flomecoming Committee, Major Concerts, and 10 sub-organizations of UPC-Citv. . Madigan will present budgets for the remaining organiza tions at Tuesday’s CFA meeting. Miller said two reasons the workforce isn’t growing as fast as it used to is because the baby boom has ended and many people are leaving Nebraska for out-state jobs. To provide a reason for workers to stay, the state should put a greater emphasis on research to create new industry, he said. Charles Lamphear, interim direc tor for the UNL Bureau of Business Research, spoke of Nebraska’s need to diversify its job market at the con ference. “Though agriculture will always be a major contributor to the state’s income, we need to diversify in order to maintain the workforce,’’ he said. Lamphear said he had faith in the creativity and intelligence of Ne braska youth. He cited that Nebraska ranked seventh highest in American College Test scores out of the twenty eight states that use the exam. To illustrate the demand for Ne braska students, Lamphear said Hewlett-Packard invited an entire graduating class from Milford Tech nical School to interview for posi tions in an out-of-state plant. 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