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NelSSkan A petition was filed against ASUN President Jeff Petersen in the student court last I week (DN, March 10). It was not filed with the Student Judicial Board. WEATHER Monday, fog lifting in morning, partly cloudy in afternoon, light southeast wind, nigh around 60. Monday evening, partly cloudy, fog forming, lows in upper 30s. Tuesday, mostly cloudy, 20 percent chance of rain, highs 55 to 60. INDEX Editorial.4 Sports.5 Classified.6 March 13,1989___University of Nebraska-Lincoln Vol. 88 No. 119 Connfo She*han/DaMy Mvbraftksn Faculty Senate member Robert F. Diffenda! speaks at Saturday’s NU Board of Regems meeting. Diffenda! handed out sharks’ teeth to warn regents to be cautious about “friends” of the university. The sharks’ teeth represent the greedy nature of some of these so-called friends, he said. Resolution stirs resentment . Regents pledge to visit yearly By Lisa Twiestmeyer Staff Reporter A resolution introduced by UNL student regent Jen Petersen Saturday stirred resentment among some regents who felt it implied they were not responsive to students. ' The board voted 7-2 to pass the resolution requiring that the re- - gents pledge to meet with student leaders at least once a year upon their invitation. This is to ensure that the regents are responsive to student input, Petersen said. “In the shuffle of a number of issues, it becomes difficult some- , times to remember why wc arc here - to serve students, Petersen said. Regents Margaret Robinson of Norfolk and John Payne of Kear ney voted against Petersen’s reso lution. Payne said he ‘ ‘kind of resents” the resolution because it “inti ■■' .—-----..■ - ■ mates that we’ve never met with a student or shared their concerns.” “Why don’t we eliminate the student affairs offices on all the campuses and just move in and run the place,” Payne said. Robinson said the resolution “alludes that we’re not doing a good job.” Until a couple of years ago, Robinson said, she was always invited to meet with student lead ers. Students used to come to re gents meetings and present their concerns, she said. This doesn’t occur now, she' said, and she is “wondering if that’s because interest doesn’t ex ist.” Petersen said the situation is a two-way street Students need to make regents feel welcome, he said, but regents also need to make an effort on their own to meet with students. “The perception on campus is that the regents don’t want to hear from students," Petersen said. "We need something to encourage them (the regents) and say we’re not an aloof body." Regent Kerin it Hansen of Elk hom said that between 1969 and 1975, before there were student regents, the regents met with stu dent leaders prior to each board meeting. During that time, he said, he had a "better feel for what was Kon with the students’* than cs now with elected student regents. Regent Nancy Hoch of Ne braska City, chairman of the board, said regents shouldn’t wait to be invited before theymcct with students. "It’s our responsibility to get ourselves over to those campuses and listen to them,’’ she said. See REGENTS on 3 Female undergraduate enrollment showing growth at UNL By Courtney Butherus Staff Reporter Enrollment of University of Nebraska* Lincoln’s female undergraduates has increased over the past five years while male enrollment has decreased, according to data from UNL’s Institutional Research and Planning. John Benson, director of Institutional Re search and Planning, said UNL is part of a continuing national trend. “Overall, the tendency of females attend ing college continues to increase in relation to male attendance,” Benson said. UNL figures show that 3 percent more of total undergraduates are female. Data also shows that this growth has been distributed among many colleges. „ Larry Roulh, director of Career Planning and Placement, said that across the board employers arc much more anxious to hire women today than they were 10 to 20 years ago. “This,” he said, “would logically have a continued effect on female college enroll mcnt.” Journalism and general studies are the Icad ihg areas of growth for females at UNL, yet these fields also have shown significant growth for males and UNL officials don’t attribute growth to gender. Neale Copplc, dean of the College of Jour nalism, said journalism always has been an attractive field for women and enrollment continues to grow. But, he said, the ratio of women to men has remained surprisingly con sistent over the past five years. 4 ‘Generally speaking, places where journal ism students get jobs have less sexism than other fields,” Copplc said. “But this is noth ing new.” Director of General Studies Donald Gre gory said significant growth in female general studies enrollment also has occurred for males. According to Benson, female enrollment in post-secondary educational institutions throughout Nebraska also has increased. Female enrollment in Nebraska’s post-sec ondary educational institutions has increased 11 percent since 1984, while male enrollment has increased less than 1 percent, Benson said. UNL parking division to use new Auto Cite for ticketing, verifying By Chris Carroll Senior Editor 11 he University of Ncbraska Lincoln Parking Enforce ment Division soon will be using an automated hand-held device to issue parking tickets more quickly and verify vehicles to be towed, said Shcrryl Chamberlain, computer sys tems manager. Chamberlain said the Auto Cite device will be an extension of a cen tral computer system being imple mented at the UNL Police Depart ment. The license plate number of all vehicles on the low list will be in the Auto Cite memory bank, she said. She said the Auto Cite will print out tickets for the parking control officers at the scene. Information on the vehicle and violation will be entered and in stantly printed out on the ticket, she said. The new tickets will be smaller and placed in an envelope on the windshield. The software for the Auto Cite and new computer system complement each other, Chamberlain said. The tickets issued by the AuloCitc will be recorded into its memory bank and loaded into the main computer each night, she said. Chamberlain said no other school in the Big Eight uses the Auto Cite. She said the volume of tickets issued at the University of Ncbraska-Lin coln makes the system necessary. Three hundred to 500 tickets arc is sued daily, she said. She said the system will speed up the processing of tickets, which cur rently is done manually. Chamberlain said it now takes two weeks to mail out notices regarding violations with the manual system. The manual system is very com plicated and it sometimes is difficult to locate tickets when students come in to pay fines, she said. Students must know their license plate number and the issue date of a ticket before a fine can be verified, Chamberlain said. Once a ticket is issued, she said, a parking technician must determine if the car i.-, registered at UNL so that a notice can be mailed out. Many students not owning a park ing permit fail to register their ve hicles, Chamberlain said. Those tick ets must be given to a dispatcher, who must locate the owner’s name and address from the Nebraska Depart ment of Motor Vehicles computer bank, she said. Tickets recently issued arc then filed by plate numbers and issue dates, she said. This takes a consider able amount of time, Chamberlain said. Students sometimes want to pay a ticket that is still being processed and technicians then have to check with every individual handling recent tickets, she said. The new software will allow tech nicians to enter a student’s name into a terminal, which will pull up infor mation on all outstanding tickets, she See TICKETS on 2 Earmarked research money divided unevenly, study shows By Roger Price Staff Reporter A recent study by a University of California professor found that the congressional prac tice of earmarking research funds to universities docs not evenly distrib ute federal money throughout the country. In this study, Nebraska ranked 42nd among states and UNL was not listed among the 87 institutions that received at least $1 million in specifi cally directed federal research money. According to an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education, James Savage, principal federal rela tions analyst for the University of California system, said he found that only five states received almost 42 percent of earmarked funds. The article lists the top five states as Massachusetts, New York, Ore gon, Florida and Illinois. Savage said those, few states al ready receive major federal aca demic research funds. He said this constitutes “double dipping.” Bill Splinter, associate vice chan ccllor for research al the University of Ncbraska-Lincoln, said that al though Nebraska was ranked low, the lack of federal money was more the fault of the institution than the sys tem. Splinter said UNL. has not partici pated in earmarking in the past be cause the university has not been as aggressively involved with federal agencies as other institutions. Institutions involved with federal agencies tend to form a network that leads to more earmarked funding, Splinter said. “That’s just the way the world operates,” he said. UNL currently is taking steps to correct this problem. Splinter said. The university recently has become involved in consortiums that cur rently receive earmarked funds, he said. Another way UNL officials plan to receive earmarked funds is through the Nebraska Center for Advanced Technology, Splinter said this project will receive around $29 million. With the current rankings, that project alone would move Nebraska well into the lop half of the states. Splinter said.
