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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.
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Editorial.4
Sports.5
Classified.6
March 13,1989___University of Nebraska-Lincoln Vol. 88 No. 119
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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
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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.
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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.
