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March 16,1988 University of Nebraska-Lincoln Vol. 88 No. 122
Hill makes IMPACT with student voters
Winners: Power transition
expected to be smooth one
by Ryan Steeves
and Jerry Guenther
Staff Reporters
Bryan Hill stood behind the
bar at the Cherry Hut, smil
ing and talking, when his
attention was diverted by the site
of electoral commission members
who had just entered.
“Oh shit. They’re here,’* Hill
said. .
The comment epitomized
Hill’s uneasy feeling during the
entire ASUN campaign. He was
afraid of losing.
IMPACT supporters looked on
as Electoral Commission Director
Mark Fahleson made the an
nouncement: The IMPACT execu
tive officer candidates were the
new student leaders of the Univer
sity of Nebraska-Lincoln.
“I feel great,’’ Hill said after
the announcement, while an IM
PACT supporter poured a Bud
Light on Hill's head. “I was so
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OIIA1U Ul
Hill, die ASUN president-elect,
and hts running mate Devi
Bohling, first vice president-elect,
received 1,228 votes, which con
stituted 49.8 percent of the vote.
Hill and Bohling outdistanced
PRIDE president and first -vice
president candidates Dan Rock
and Monika Jcgeris who received
566 votes, which represented
about 23 percent of the vote.
In the second vice presidential
race, Jon Bruning of IMPACT de
feated PRIDE’s Brad Brunz. Brun
ing received 50,5 percent of the
votes to Brunz’s 25.1 percent
Jon Bruning, second vice presi
dent-elect, said he was confident
that IMPACT would win.
“All day long I had a gut feel
sing that we were going to blow
them away," Bruning said.
Hill said he is looking forward
to getting into office. He said the
new ASUN should have a smooth
transition.
“We’ve already got a good
start (Mi it because we nave a good
relationship with the current ex
ecutives,’’ Hill said.
Jeff Gromowsky, IMPACT,
campaign manager, said Fahle '
son’s announcement was surpris
ing and anti-climatic. Gromowsky
said he expected the results would
be announced later when more
supporters would be present
Gromowsky said he is glad the
campaign was over. He said he was
disappointed with the way other
parties campaigned.
He said letters and flyers circu
lated around campus “cut down”
the IMPACT party. He said he was
especially irked at letters that por
trayed IMPACT as an all-greek
party, even though 41 percent of
IMPACT’S candidates are non
greek.
it just didn t seem t air, Uro
mowsky said.
A few miles away from IM
PACT’S celebration, PRIDE presi
dential candidate Dan Rock told
his supporters the party placed “a
really strong 2nd.”
Despite the 2nd-place finish,
Rock said he was satisfied with the
party’s showing.
tion party aum of?-cam puThoiisc^
said PRIDE got off to a later start
than IMPACT. He said PRIDE
candidates didn’t organize their
party until six weeks prior to the
election.
‘‘We had a really strong show
ing considering the time we had to
campaign,” Rock said.
Hill didn’t credit the extra cam
an time as the deciding factor.
cl, he largely credited the win
to the efforts of supporters on elec
tion day.
Devi Bohling, first vice presi
dent-elect, agreed.
Bohling, with eyes swollen and
See IMPACT on3
DsvW Frana/Dsiiy Nebraskan
Current ASUN president Jeff Petersen congratuates President-elect Bryan Hill at the
IMPACT victory party Wednesday night.
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Defeated parties face their losses
oy Koger trice
Staff Reportei___
Both the SLUMBR and
BEER parties congratu
lated Bryan Hill and the
IMPACT party Wednesday night
for their win in the ASUN election.
Aric Leadabrand, campaign
manager for the SLUMBR party,
challenged IMPACT to ‘ ‘meet the
minorities they promised to con
tact, and not only meet them, but
also understand them."
Leaaanrana aiso issued anoiner
challenge specifically to Hill.
“This is the gauntlet being
thrown,” Leadabrand said. “We
challenge Bryan Hill and his new
administration to reach out and
heal the wounds caused by the
campaign; to join forces with the
other parties using their talents in
addition to the talents of his own
people to make AS UN an effective
government force for the stu
dents.”
As of 12:30 a.m. Thursday,
SLUMBR had come in 4th place
witn 11.4 percent oi tne vote.
SLUMBR’s main weakness,
Leadabrand said, was that people
still considered it a joke party even
after it became serious.
Leadabrand said SLUMBR
evolved from pure joke to a party
that made “valid points through
humor.”
When this happened, Lead
abrand said, the party was ap
proached by several factions of the
student population that were dis
See BEER on 6
Students: ‘Yes’ to condom machines; ‘No’ to COLAGE
By David G. Young
Staff Reporter
Funding for the Committee
Offering Lesbian and Gay
Events was overwhelm
ingly rejected by students in the
ASUN survey appearing on Wednes
day’s election ballot.
Of the 11.7 percent of the student
body that cast ballots, 77.3 percent
said they do not support student fees
funding COLAGE. Students sup
porting funding accounted for 20.7
percent of the vote.
The survey also showed that 69
percent of students favor installation
of condom machines in university
buildings while 28.2 percent are
opposed. Students supporting addi
tional polling sites in the next elec
tion accounted for 22.1 percent of
those voting, while 75.4 percent
were opposed.
Results from the student fee Fund
A survey showed that 26.4 percent of
students arc not in support of funding
for the University Program Council
Talks & Topics committee, and 71.1
percent support it. The Fund A fee
survey includes organizations for
which student fees arc refundable on
request, while Fund B fees arc not
refundable.
Student fees for the Daily Nebras
kan were approved by students, 79.9
percent to 17.7 percent.
The Fund B survey indicated that
71 percent of students who voted arc
in favor of funding Campus Recrea
tion programs, while 26.8 percent
arc opposed.
Student fees, which subsidize the
University Health Center, were ap
proved by 75 percent of the student
body while 22.5 percent were not in
favor of the funding.
Students supported Nebraska un
ions fees, 70.3 percent to 25 percent.
Finally, fees supporting the Debt
Service, which finances the unions,
the health center and residence halls,
were approved by students 66.7 per
cent to 30.3 percent.
Students voted down the ASUN
constitutional amendment, which
would have allowed the second vice
president to run on the same slate as
the ASUN president and first vice
president. The measure was rejected
50.4 percent to 43.5 percent.
Nanci Hamilton, COLAGE co
chairperson, said she was thrilled
about the student vote on COLAGE
funding.
“Hot shit, we made progress!”
Hamilton said after hearing that 20.7
percentof the student body approved
of student fees for COL AGE.
In a 1987 ASUN survey, only 7.9
percent of students said they favored
funding a gay/lcsbian council with
student fees.
‘‘I think part of the (change) is
that COLAGE has helped with
awareness with this issue,” she said,
“and forced people to take a look at
the real discrimination issues that
gay men face.
“On one hand, I would like to
jump up and down and say, ‘See!
Sec! Sec how (there) arc a sizable
number of people who arc support
See RESOLUTIONS on 5
1 uition surcharge should he used to improve program
By Natalie Weinstein
Staff Reporter
If a tuition surcharge was used to im
prove the quality of engineering pro
grams - not to meet minimum require
ments - students would be willing to pay it,
according to a student representing the Engi
neering Executive Board.
“We’re not supporting a tuition surcharge,
but students would be more willing to pay it if
it were for enhancement beyond the average
education,” Steven Cramer, a senior electrical
engineering major, said Wednesday.
During the University of Nebraska budget
hearings Tuesday, Cramer asked the Nebraska
Legislature’s Appropriations Committee to
include $525,000 in the final budget for in
structional equipment replacement at the Col
lege of Engineering and Technology.
Engineering students paid a surcharge of $9
per engineering credit hour this year to help the
college meet minimal accreditation require
ments. The college was cited by the Accredita
tion Board of Engineering Technology last
year for inadequate undergraduate instruc
tional equipment.
Tuition surcharges have become a reality, <
Cramer said, but students should not pay for the
basic foundation of a college. (
“The foundation should come from the |
state,” he said.
Cramer told senators that engineering stu
dents in at least three other Big Eight universi- \
lies pay tuition surcharges. 2
But the difference, he said, js that students at
those other universities pay surcharges to add 1
to the quality of their programs, not to meet £
minimum accreditation requirements.
According to Stevens: 1
• University of Oklahoma engineering stu- 2
lents pay $ 150 extra each semester.
• University of Missouri engineering stu- *
lents pay an extra $22 per engineering credit
lour
• University of Colorado engineering stu
lents pay $113 more per semester than Arts
ind Sciences students.
The budget proposed by the NU Board of
Regents included $350,000 for instructional
quipment replacement for engineering col
egein 1989-90 and $525,000 in 1990-91.Gov.
Cay Orr’s proposed budget does not include
ny funds for equipment.