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March 8,1989 University of Nebraska-Lincoln Vol. 88 No. 116 i
Despite Chambers’opposition, sport-agent bill advances I
By Victoria Ayotte
Senior Editor
The Nebraska Legislature
Tuesday advanced a bill to
regulate sports agents in Ne
braska despite the efforts of Sen.
Ernie Chambers of Omaha.
Chambers attempted Monday to
kill and amend the bill and led oppo
sition Tuesday.
The bill’s sponsor. Sen. James
McFarland of Lincoln, opened de
bate Tuesday by motioning to sus
pend the rules, which would stop
further amendments and debate on
the bill.
McFarland said the numerous
amendments to be offered on the bill
should have been debated in commit
tee. He urged the Legislature to ad
vance the bill to select File and debate
the bill further when it comes up
again.
McFarland’s motion met with sar
casm from Chambers.
“I want to see you run head long
down this path of foolishness,”
Chambers said, urging legislators to
advance the bill.
Chambers said the bill needs to be
amended because it may be unconsti
tutional.
The bill would require agents to
register with the secretary of state and
submit a fee schedule of what they
would charge athletes. One section of
the bill, which was later removed,
stated that violation of the act would
be a Class III misdemeanor.
Chambers said the bill has too
much “vagueness and uncertainty”
to make violation a criminal act.
Another problem with the bill,
Chambers said, is that it does noi
define certain terms, such as “ath
lete” or “contact.” Contact from an
agent to a student athlete could mean
that a mere phone call or letter would
violate the art and be criminal, he
said.
McFarland responded that the bill
does not refer to a telephone call or
letter, but to personal contact.
The basic fact, McFarland said, is
that the bill would protect athletes.
“There’s a lot of heat that’s been
generated on this bill and little light,”
McFarland said.
Sen. Elroy Hefner of Coleridge
agreed with McFarland.
“I feel this is a good bill,” Hefner
said. ‘‘We have some unscrupulous
agents acting and they’re taking ad
vantage of our young athletes.”
McFarland's attempt to suspend
the rules failed to receive the,needed
30 votes.
As debate on the bill continued,
Chambers withdrew all of his pro
posed amendments.
However, he said he feels the bill
does need to be amended, because
putting-criminal statutes into the bill
is ‘‘crazy.”
Chambers said he personally
would like to become an agent so he
could challenge the bill.
The secretary of state, who is to
enforce the bill, and the university
could4 ‘make up crimes’ ’ agents have
committed, he said, since language in
the bill is vague.
McFarland said the bill apparently
has a problem in that area, which led
Sen. John Lindsay of Omaha to pro
pose an amendment to delete the
section that makes violation of the .
bill a criminal act.
Instead, violation of the act would
be punishable under civil law and
athletes could sue for damages.
McFarland was reluctant to sup
port deleting the criminal section of
the bill. He said the section was in it
originally so that the county attorney )
would be authorized to prosecute
athletes if the athletes were reluctant
to file civil proceedings. Athletes
might be reluctant if they did not
desire the publicity of such a case, he
said.
Lindsay’s amendment was
adopted and the Legislature went on
to advance the bill 25-7.
AbUN senator feels
students should have
total control of fees
By Ryan Steeves
Stiff Reporter
A student leader at the University of Nc
braska-Lincoln wants students to have
total control over student fees.
Brian Svoboda, senator of the Association
of Students of the University of Nebraska, said
he plans to introduce a resolution to ASUN
tonight that gives total control of student fee
allocations to the student representatives.
The resolution encourages the NU Board of
Regents to change its policy that requires
administrative review of such allocations.
“We (students) would have total discretion
ary power over student fees,” said Svoboda, a
student in the College of Arts and Sciences.
UNL students pay student fees to finance
student services and facilities, Svoboda said.
Thus, student representatives should have the
right to control allocation of those fees without
administrative influence, he said.
Under the current policy, Vice Chancellor
for Student Affairs James Griesen and Chan
cellor Marlin Massengale review, and can
modify, Fund A and Fund B student fees. The
regents also review Fund B fees, but not Fund
A.
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‘Alternatives’
Students play the COLAGE - UPC sponsored Alternatives* board game Tuesday in the Nebraka Union. The game
is designed to promote understanding of what gay/lesbian people deal with in situations faced by gay/lesbian
people in social, political, spiritual, physical, intellectual and emotional contexts.
UNL professors say women’s rights fight has battlesTeft
By Larry Peirce
Senior Reporter
Although the women’s rights
movement has accomplished
some of its goals, three Uni
versity of Nebraska-Lincoln profes
sors said the battle for equality of the
sexes is far from won.
Susan Welch, a UNL political
science professor, said the women's
movement has been mostly about the
belief that “women should have
choices,” and shouldn’t be locked
into stereotypical roles.
4 ‘There has been a lot of progress
in some ways, she said.
Women’s progress is visible in the
increase of women who are entering
professions that were once closed to
them, Welch said.
The percentage of women to men
in professional schools such as law
and medical college has increased
from 5 percent in 1970 to about 30
percent now, she said.
A large increase in enrollment at
the College of Business Administra
tion is largely because more women
are entering the college. The number
of men at CBA has stayed the same,
Welch said.
There is still a shortage of women
in upper-level administration at
UNL, she said. Only one woman has
been a vice chancellor since 1970 and
only one, the head of home econom
ics, is a dean.
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However, she said, for every con
there is a pro. While women have had
difficulty breaking into the ranks of
the United States’ Congress, the
number of women in state legisla
tures has increased from about five
percent in 1972 to about 16 percent
today.
Welch said that with social move
ments such as the women’s move
ment, there are active periods fol
lowed by periods of consolidation.
The 1970s is not the only decade in
which women made progress, she
said. At times, she said, such move
ments stand still or even move back
ward.
Progress was made in the ’30s, she
said, but was not made in the ’50s.
There were more women faculty
members at the University of Ne
braska in 1930 than there were in ‘
1950, she said.
Things do take time to change, she
said. More women are nearing the
higher levels of the teaching profes
sion at UNL because UNL began
hiring more women in the ’70s.
Not all women joined the move
ment, she said. Some resisted be
cause they held the traditional view
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By David G. Young
Staff Reporter
Tuition will likely increase by
5 percent for the next two
years if the guidelines of a
budget plan proposed by the NU
Board of Regents is not changed dras
tically, said Randy Haack, NU direc
tor of budget and analysis.
If the increase is passed by the
regents in June, tuition for UNL’s
1989-90 academic year would in
crease to $47.51 per credit hour for
residents and to $49.89 the following
year.
The proposed tuition increase
would generate an additional $2 mil
lion of revenue for the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln, the University of
Nebraska at Omaha and the Univer
sity of Nebraska Medical Center. The
money would help cover a $61.9
million increase in the university’s
budget.
Two-thirds of the $61.9 million
increase would go to pay raises for
faculty members at the universities,
including a 12.67 percent increase to
faculty members at UNL. The re
maining third would go to support
inflationary expenses, as well as li
brary acquisitions, Haack said.
Robert Diffcndal, president of the
UNL Faculty Senate, said the major
ity of UNL’s budgetary increases are
part of a three-year plan to boost
faculty salaries. ■
‘‘I’ve been assured by members of
the central administration that since
UNL is farthest behind its peer insti
tutions that we would get a propor
tionally larger share of the faculty
increases (of the three campuses),”
he said.
The 1989-90 budgetary plan calls
for an increase in state support of
$30.6 million and $34.3 million in the
1990-91 academic year for the Uni
versity of Nebraska. This year, the
state universities received $196.6
million from the Nebraska Legisla
ture.
'Gov. Kay Orr, however, has pro
posed increasing state support by
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