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Legislature funds minority scholarships LEGISLATURE From Page 1 a disservice to appoint just one spe cialist to handle aquaculture ques tions. Haberman and other senators said they weren’t aware, or didn’t think, that the Games and Park Commission can provide aquaculture assistance. Sen. William Barrett, speaker ol the Legislature, said widespread interest for aquaculture exists in the state. At an economic developmeni meeting a couple of years ago, people from 62 of Nebraska’s 93 counties came to examine ways for economic diversification, he said. Barrett said he thinks aquaculture is a feasible industry for the state tc pursue because fish consumption has increased in recent years. ”1 think aquaculture can be z major industry in the state,” he said The amendment passed 27-11. Earlier in the morning, the Legis lature voted unanimously to adopt ar amendment that provides a one-time $800,000 appropriation for minority undergraduate scholarships at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Sen. Ernie Chambers of Omaha, sponsor of the amendment, said the money will be combined with $200,000 that has been raised pri vately to create an endowment. The interest off the endowment will then be used to provide need-based schol arships for minority students. ‘...aquaculture can be a major in dustry...' Chambers said the scholarships will be targeted toward those who, but for the lack of money, arc able to handle college work. According to a University of Ne braska study, Chambers said, blacks, American Indians and Hispanics are statistically under-represented at UNO and UNL. Though Chambers said the schol arships won’t solve all the financial needs of minorities, it “is a step in the right direction.’’ “Never have I come to the Legis lature in my 19 years asking for this kind of money,” he said. Approximately half of the $200,000 that has been raised in pri vate donations is due to the efforts of a family in Omaha, Chambers said. Rick Davis, a former student who attended UNO on an athletic scholar ship, left $50,000 in his estate to endow a fund for minority under graduate students, Chambers said. After Davis’ death in 1988, his family wanted to set up a scholarship fund in his memory and raised an additional $50,000 for such an en dowment, he said. The NU Foundation has pledged to match the Davis’ $100,000 with another $100,000, he said. In addition to the money that al ready has been raised, Chambers said, he hopes many other individuals will contribute to die endowment. The number of scholarships that will be available and when they will be offered is not known yet. Cham bers said he expects the amendment will advance and be signed by Gov. Kay Orr. ASUN to reconsider condom distribution bill By Ryan Sleeves Staff Reporter Some ASUN senators want to make condoms more accessible to students at the University of Ne braska-Lincoln. But after passing a bill Wednesday night that creates a committee charged to do just that, senators voted to reconsider it and sent the bill back to committee for revision. The bill would have created a committee charged with implement ing a plan allowing student health aides to distribute condoms on an experimental basis. The bill passed with three amend ments the first time senators consid ered it. But senators voted to reconsider the bill after Tom Mallisee, former chairman of the University Health Center’s student advisory board, told them health aides cannot distribute condoms in their official role. Health aides are UNL students who give medical attention to ill or hurt students who live in fraternities, sororities and residence halls. Mallisee told senators that a health aide’s role is to respond to emergen cies. Distributing condoms wouldn’t be an appropriate part of that role, he said. After Mallisee’s statements, Sen. Patrick Wyatt of the Teachers Col lege introduced an amendment that would have given student peer sex educators the right to distribute con doms, if individual sex educators volunteered to do so. Margaret Nellis, head of the health center’s Community Health Depart ment, said the health center has started a program to have peer sex educators leach other students about sex and sexually transmitted dis eases. Nellis said the health center has appointed eight to 10 students as peer sex educators. OSCARS Tonight’s Specials!! BUD & BUD LIGHT 65$ playing tonight THE MOB Beer Garden Now Open! 800 "O" St. Hayrnarket 1 .J But senators voted down Wyatt s amendment. Sen. Marc Shkolnick of the Teachers College said he thinks there are too few peer sex educators to significantly increase condom dis tribution at UNL. After debating the bill’s reconsid eration for over an hour, senators voted to send it back to the Campus Life Committee for further revision. In other action, senators urged state senators to pass a bill that would, among other things, direct the university to allocate money to Mor rill Hall. lnxi scnmiat, co-cnairperson oi the Friends of the Museum’s Legisla tive Committee, said museum offi cials need the money to ensure that Morril Hall gets re-accredited. Officials at the American Asso ciation of museums have threatened to deny the museum’s accreditation if some operation and maintenance procedures are not upgraded, Schmidt said. State Sen. Sandra Scofield of Chadron, who sponsored LB525, told AS UN senators that she is confident university officials will help Morrill Hall receive accreditation. Senators consider amendment to reduce Kearney State funds AMEND From Page 1 issue. Moore said some senators have moved so quickly to try and add Kearney State to the NU system that they haven’t considered all the consequences. Some senators, including Sen. Lorraine Langford of Kearney, didn’t like the amendment. Langford called Moore’s amend ment “preposterous.” Sen. Doug Kristensen of Min den said the amendment was pre mature. Kearney State’s tuition shouldn’t be raised higher than it is at other state colleges until it be comes part of the NU system, he said. Moore disagreed. “There’s no reason to wait,” Moore said. “We haven't waited for the study.” Moore was referring to a provi sion ofLB247 that calls for a study of higher education in the state. One goal of the study would be to determine the effects of adding Kearney State to the NU system. Moore predicted Kearney State ‘It’s going to hap pen. Look at Ernie’s shirt.’ --Moore will be added to the NU system, pointing to a T-shirt worn by Sen. Ernie Chambers of Omaha that read “N State University of Kear ney.” “It’s a done deal,” Moore said. "It’s going to happen. Look at Ernie’s shirt.” After Moore withdrew his amendment, he said he plans to offer another one after discussing it with Kristensen and Langford. I SOUTH LINCOLN east lincolh DESIGNER AND NAME BRAND FASHIONS FOR LESS!! I SB--| || FASHION l| I ■ -^ j I II COMPANY |-1 |-. ■ FASHION 'TIoa...... I - «**' I ■ COMPANY ill M>'* j ; « 46th & Hwy. 2 6Cih & O Street (Brairhursi Center) (Across from Showbiz Pizza) I