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Staff Reporter
The deadline for students to file to
run in student elections is Feb. 15,
according to Nate Geisert, first vice
president of the Association of Stu
dents of the University of Nebraska.
Geisert, who is a member of the
Electoral Commission, said the rules
for the ASUN Student Government
elvXtions are now available in the
ASUN office.
In an information session Jan. 25
on how to run a campaign, Mark
Fahleson, director of the Electoral
Commission, said there arc four
forms candidates should be aware of.
The first form is a question form,
with which students can submit ques
tions about the electoral process. The
Electoral Commission will review it
and give its answer.
Fahleson said other forms include
a complaint form to be filled out if a
rule is broken, and a suggestion form,
to be filled out if students want rules
of the election changed. For example,
Fahleson said, there were complaints
made last year about too many cam
paign posters on campus bulletin
boards.
Geisert said that this year, only
two 8 X 11-inch posters will be al
lowed on each bulletin board. Last
year, four were allowed.
The presidential and first vice
presidential candidates must run to
gether as a slate and must file an
executive form, Fahleson said.
The executive form, called Form
A, requires a total of 400 signatures
from qualified voters without dupli
cations. A qualified voter is a student
enrolled in at least one on-campus
course at UNL. Fahleson suggested
that candidates gel slightly over the
400 signatures in case some names do
not qualify.
Fahleson said that to qualify as a
candidate for president and first vice
president, a person currendy must be
enrolled at the Universily of Ne
braska-Lincoln carrying a minimum
of six hours.
Candidates must have completed
24 continuous hours of approved
UNL credits during the two years
prior to the academic term in which
me omce or president or vice presi
dent is sought. The candidate also
must have completed six credit hours
at UNL during the previous semester.
These six credits must be obtained for
on-campus classes.
Marlene Beyke, director of devel
opment of ASUN, said another
change states that candidates must
not have applied for and/or received
the ASUN portion of their student fee
Fund A refund for any semester that
the candidate will serve.
Geisert stressed that candidates
cannot enter the ASUN office with
any campaign materials and that they
cannot -- in any way -- campaign
while they are in the ASUN office.
Fahleson said the regulations for
running a campaign are numerous
and that the Electoral Commission
has an index of rules of the ASUN
electoral campaign process that can
be picked up in the ASUN office, 115
Nebraska Union.
The president and first vice presi
dent candidates must attend a brief
ing Feb. 15 at 5 p.m. to discuss the
rules and regulations of candidacy.
UNL center receives national attention
for efforts in research, director says
By Sara Bauder
Staff Reporter
Efforts to bring researchers and
the people who will use their technol
ogy together have brought the Uni
versity of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Center
for Infrastructure Research national
attention and a chance for research
funds from the Army Corps of Engi
neers, according to the center’s direc
tor.
Martha Gilliland, director of the
Center for Infrastructure Research
and a UNL professor of civil engi
neering, said a workshop that brought
researchers together with people
from the university, government and
private sectors attracted national at
tention.
Gilliland said the workshop
showed the center’s priorities were
set on market-driven research — or
solving problems the business com
munity had given priority to.
She said the attention the work
Official: Decision
on IDs pending
By Jerry Guenther
Suff Reporter
James Gricsen, vice chancellor for
student affairs, said Friday that a
decision on whether to proceed with
plans for a computerized photo iden
tification system will be made next
week.
“We’re still exploring the details
of a plan that would phase in the use
of a campus-wide ID card during the
next academic year,” Griesen said.
Gricsen said more lime was
needed to examine all the details of
the plan.
50 far discussion for the new ID
card has been “positive,” Griesen
said.
The new photo ID card system
would replace other cards that stu
dents use for the university book
stores, library, campus recreation,
registration and residence hall meals.
Preliminary appraisals estimated
that die new ID system would cost
students a one-time charge of $7.50
to $10 per student to implement the
system.
Griesen said if the decision is
made to implement the photo ID card
system, new cards probably would be
issued to entering students as they go
through the new student enrollment
program this summer.
“We’re comfortable that if the
decision is made early during the
week of Feb. 13, we should have
sufficient time to keep the phased
implementation plan,” Griesen said.
shop brought the center has led to
possible research funding from the
Army Coips of Engineers. She said
the Corps of Engineers has a special
program designed to support research
concerned with improving efficiency
and lowering costs of roads, bridges,
culverts and oilier infrastructures.
Gilliland said the center has sent in
a proposal to the Corps of Engineers.
She said she will know if the center
will get a grant in three to six months,
after they review the proposal.
Although the center has only been
in existence since September 1988,
Gilliland said it has been working on
several important projects already.
Two scientists at the center,
Maher Tadros and Joe Benak, have
formulated a hypothesis on ways to
construct more effective culverts.
Nebraska currently spends a total of
$2 million on culverts a year. That
cost could be reduced by about
$125,000 a year if data is correct,
Gilliland said.
Gilliland said the center also is
working on solutions to the problem
of open dumps in the state. She said
there are around 300 open dumps in
the stale, and many of them are close
to streams and groundwater.
Because these dumps arc located
in smaller towns that often do not
have large budgets, the center is
trying to find economical ways to
clean up the dumps and provide alter
native ways for the towns to dispose
of their waste.
The center is located on the Uni
versity of Nebraska at Omaha cam
pus, and its research is carried out in
the engineering labs at both UNL and
UNO.
In spite of being located on the
UNO campus, Gilliland said, the
center is strictly a UNL project be
cause UNL finances it.
The start-up money for the center,
about $65,000, was provided in the
university budget, but Gilliland said
she expects the center to get joint
funding from the Department of
Energy and the Air Force, which will
benefit from the center’s projects.
Gilliland also said she expects
some private-sector money to be
provided for the center.
The center now employs two
people, but Gilliland said there are
about 30 faculty members who par
ticipate in its activities. She said the
faculty includes representatives from
civil engineering, chemical engi
neering, computer science, architec
ture, political science, finance, com
munity and regional planning and
gerontology (the study of aging).
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