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■Student files a petition against
■Petersen for missing deadline
I By Kyan Meeves
Staff Reporter
A Residence Hall Association member
/A filed a petition Thursday in the student
court against ASUN President Jeff Pe
tersen for missing the deadline for appointing
justices to the Student Judicial Board.
Eric Aspengren, president of Schramm
Residence Hall, filed the petition Thursday. It
will be considered by the Judicial Board, which
is the student court of the Association of Stu
dents of the University of Nebraska.
The petition encourages the court to make
Petersen list his justice nominees “as expedi
tiously as possible.” It also encourages the
court to order ASUN senators to vote on the
nominees at the March 15 senate meeting.
According to the revised judicial code of the
student court, Petersen has four class days to
respond to the petition. The court then has four
class days to set up a hearing.
Tim Brogan, chief justice of the student
court, said it is unlikely the court will hear the
case before the March 15 meeting.
Aspengren, a write-in candidate for the
SLUMBR party in this year’s ASUN elections,
said Petersen’s appointments and the senate’s
approval are long overdue.
“It seems to me a blatant violation of the
constitution ot ASUN, Aspengren said.
Petersen said neither he nor ASUN have
appointed any justices this year.
According to the ASUN constitution, the
senate must approve seven justice appoint
ments 30 days prior to the general election.
According to an ASUN bylaw, the senate
also must advertise those appointments 10 days
prior to the application deadline. The adver
tisements must go in the Daily Nebraskan and
on KRNU radio.
According to Dan Shattil, DN general
manager, records show that the DN ran only
one advertisement on Feb. 28 announcing jus-,
tice applications.
Only one advertisement labeled “Student
Court” was found in both DN computer and
paper records. However, two ads ran in the
Daily Nebraskan. One ran on Feb. 28 and the
other on March 1.
The additional advertisement listing the
announcement on March 1 probably ran due to
a computer error, Shattil said.
^Marlene Beyke, director of development for
ASUN, said she forgot to advertise on time.
Beyke said that even after those ads ran,
appointment delays continued because of a
lack of applicants. She said ASUN received its
final application this week.
Petersen also took responsibility for the late
ads.
Petersen said ASUN senators have been
working hard on student issues and simply
overlooked the appointment deadline.
“Constitutionally, we’re behind on getting
it done, but we’re doing it now.
“Those in ASUN ... have been spending
our time trying to accomplish important things
for students, not memorizing the constitution
or sleeping with it under our pi Hows,’’ Petersen
said.
Petersen said the appointment process
should be done by April 5, when the new
ASUN senate takes over.
But Aspengren alleged that Petersen ne
glected his duties.
“The constitution is there to be followed,’’
he said. “If the president is not following the
constitution, then he’s not doing his job.’’
aouin aia not advertise aggressively
enough, he said.
Aspengren said he wants justices appointed
before newly elected senators take over. If the
next ASUN chooses next year’s justices, As
pengren said, they could “pack the court.”
Petersen said the 1987-88 ASUN never got
a chance to appoint student justices. Senators
and executive officers’ tenure had expired
before they could make appointments, he said.
Petersen and current senators made the
appointments for this year’s justices during the
first or second ASUN senate meeting ot 1988.
Beyke said she couldn’t remember if ASUN
advertised on schedule last year. She said last
year’s delay also was caused by late applica
tions, some of which arrived two months over
due.
Aspengren said he isn’t accusing Petersen
of using patronage to appoint this year’s jus
tices. Aspengren said he simply doesn’t want
future ASUN members to load the courts with
their friends.
Baseball or.. .football?
Nebraska pitcher Doug Tegtmeier appears to have his sports mixed up,
but actually throwing around the football helps him warm up before
Wednesday’s game with Wayne State.
retersen to promote importance or students to university
By Ryan Sleeves
Staff Reporter
At his farewell meeting with the NU
Board of Regents, Jeff Petersen wants
to remind members that students are the
lifeblood of the University of Nebraska.
Petersen will propose two resolutions to the
board during Saturday’s meeting, his last as a
- student regent.
One resolution proposes that regents pledge
to “make all attempts to not increase tuition
and fee costs” beyond the inflation rate. The
resolution also encourages regents to avoid
tuition surcharges.
Petersen said tuition increases for students
could make attending universities unafford
able.
Petersen said that while he was studying the
issue of integrating Kearney State College into
the NU system, he noticed that past tuition
increases at UNL were high.
“Seeing the way tuition and fees have gone
up frightens me,” he said.
Petersen said he wants to remind regents
that many potential students cannot afford
increased costs and increasing tuition in com
ing years could prevent them from attending
college.
Randy Haack, NU director of budget analy
sis, has said tuition at NU probably will in
crease 5 percent in the next two years.
Petersen said the Nebraska Legislature
should appropriate more money to NU than it
does now. Increased state appropriations could
keep tuition affordable for students, he said.
“We need a tuition that is affordable and
that allows every single student in the state of
Nebraska receive an education if they so de
sire. Thai’s the bottom line,” he said.
Petersen’s other resolution would require
regents to meet with student leaders on each
NU campus at least once a year. He said he
wants to introduce the resolution to remind the
regents to consider students’ perspective about
the university.
Student regents can relay student frustra
tions to the board, but their input is singular and
limited, Petersen said.
“You can only be informed as a regent by
getting down here and seeing what’s going
on,” he said “not taking someone else’s word
for it.”
Regents’ view of NU can be limited because
of their workload, Petersen said. Regents have
to sift through a a lot of information at every
meeting, which can give them a “textbook
view of the university,” he said.
Regents must “look beyond the buildings,
look beyond the dollars, look beyond the paper
work and see what really matters,” Petersen
said, “and that’s the students.”
Petersen said a few regents already visit NU
campuses regularly. Nancy Hoch of Nebraska
City already visits UNL every year, he said.
“Nancy is very, very good about being ,
responsible to the student,” he said.
More jobs open for science graduates
computer ocience
Electrical Engineering
Accounting
Financial Administration
Marketing/Sales
Mechanical Engineering
Industrial Engineering
Chemical Engineering
Education
Business Administration
Physics
Mathematics
Chemistry
Metallurgy/Material Science
T elecommunications
X Hotel/Restaurant, Institut. Mgmt.
Civil Engineering
Retailing
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Source: Recruiting Trends, 1987-88, Michigan State University.
John Bruce/Daily Nebraskan
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oy nraa Kunaquist
Stiff Reporter
Finding a good job may be
easier this year for students
graduating with degrees in
the science and technology fields, ac
cording to a survey of major corpora
tions.
A survey of corporations, such as
General Electric and General Motors,
that recruit students on campuses in
dicates a 3.1 percent increase in hir
ing this year over last.
Larry Routh, director of the Career
Planning and Placement office, said
actuarial science, engineering and
computer science graduates currently
are in highest demand, and are the
people who will be in demand in the
future.
Another study, conducted by
Michigan State University, also indi
caies uidi computer science graduates
are in highest demand with careers
involving engineering. Careers also
in demand include accounting, mar
keting, business administration,
chemistry, physics and financial
administration.
Routh said the increasing demand
for these careers is caused by the
shortage of students wishing to pur
sue them.
“We are not producing enough
people in this country in those areas,”
Routh said. “In our society, mathe
matics, even in the (elementary)
schools is not seen as an attractive
course to take. We are not putting the
proper value on math, science and
technology.”
The starting salaries, he said, also
are larger in high-demand fields.
Routh saici he sees some engineering
graduates make $30,000 in their first
year, wnne people in education,
communications and other ‘ ‘people
related careers” make $15,000.
Still, more people pursue the
lower-paying careers because their
‘ ‘scit concept doesn’t fit the image (of ,
an engineer or actuarial scientist),” i
Routh said. i
Routh said the demand for women
and minorities in these fields is even
greater.
Careers experiencing a consider- • * 'J
able decline in demand, Routh said,
are those where technology is chang
ing the skill level required of employ
ees. For example, he said, 15 low
skilled employees are being replaced
by a machine with one highly-skilled
employee to operate it
The areas showing the biggest
decline, Routh said, include careers
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