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■^vom,uC, _University of Nebraska-LincolnVol. 89 No. & L
student leaders want
more students placed
on parking committee
By Victoria Ayotte
Senior Editor
More student members are
needed on the Parking Advi
sory Committee because
they are underrepresented, said the
committee’s chairman and the presi
dent of the Association of Students of
the University of Nebraska.
Doug Oxley and Bryan Hill wrote
letters to UNL Chancellor Martin
Massengale urging the addition of
three more students to the 10-mem
ber committee.
“The composition of this commit
tee is by no means reflective of the
demographics of the university com
munity or the users of the university
parking facilities,” Hill wrote in his
letter, students are clearly under
represented in the membership of the
Parking Advisory Committee to the
benefit of the paid employees of the
university.”
The committee presently has six
faculty members and four students.
Oxley and Hill are proposing three
more student members, which Oxley
said would not make the committee
too large.
Students provide 70 percent of the
parking revenue, but only have 40
percent representation, Oxley and
Hill said.
Oxley said issues brought before
the committee often are seen in a
different way by the student and fac
ulty members.
“It’s no wonder why students feel
frustrated in the decisions,” Oxley
said.
Underrepresentation is “the key
to most of the problems,” he said
“Many times the committee makes
decisions that aren ’ t representati ve ol
students’ needs.”
Proportional representation, Hill
said, likely would make the commit
tee “more responsive to the needs ol
all of its users.”
Faculty and staff members park in
lots close to campus, Hill said, while
commuter student lots are farthei
away. Students and faculty paying
the same price for parking permits is
one example of the inequity resulting
from uncuual representation, he said
Hill and Oxley said ihe committee
is improving the parking situatior
after complaints this fall, hut a repre
sentative committee would make ii
easier for the committee to solve
remaining parking problems.
The main problem, Oxley said, is
that students often are treated as sec
ond-class citizens when it comes tc
administrative decisions.
The parking changes were good
he said, but “it isn’t getting to the
core of the problem that students arc
not treated equitably and are not fully
represented on the committee.’’
Oxley said the change in represen
tation would ‘ ’absolutely make a dif
ference.”
Hill said the change would be
“one of the best things that could be
done” to facilitate solving parking
problems.
Landis says personal contact
the way to successful lobbying
wy jana reaersen
Senior Reporter
Calling his constituents
“bosses,” state Sen. Dave
Landis of Lincoln told mem
bers of the Government Liaison
Committee Tuesday that the best way
to successfully lobby senators is to
have constituents contact them per
sonally.
“The critical connection point
between me and the public is the
33,000 people in my district,” Landis
said. “The senator will pay a good
deal more attention to you if you are
in fact one of his or her bosses.”
Students who are contacting legis
lators from their home districts
should establish that they arc con
stituents from the beginning if they
want to attract attention, he said.
i il >aiu anuuici nc) uj seeping a
senator’s attention is to be brief and
relate personal views of legislation,
not facts and figures.
“I want to spend a capsulized
period of lime where you fill me up
with what you know as quickly as
possible,” he said. ‘‘You talk about
the one thing that you are an expert
on, something that I know nothing
about... and what it is that you are an
expert on is you and what you think is
important.”
The best time to contact a legisla
tor about a bill is after the bill is
introduced and while it is in the pub
lic hearing stage, Landis said.
He said that usually it’s too late to
change a senator’s opinion after she
or he has taken a public stand and
voted on the bill.
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Pujie Zheng
Democracy ‘ready to play’ in China
dj rat ismsiage
Staff Reporter
The average citizens of China
are prepared to revolt against
the central government and
the central government is ready to
“kill people and students” to stop it,
a national lobbyist for Chinese stu
dents said Tuesday.
Pujie Zheng, chief lobbyist for the
National Coordinating Committee of
Chinese Student Affairs, told an audi
ence of 20 at UNL that “democracy
is like an orchestra.”
“When everybody is ready to
play, it will go,” Pujie said. “If
(everyone) is not ready, it is chaos.
“We came close, but didn’t get
it,” Pujie said.
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graduate student, said that although
the people at the ministerial level in
China are pro-democracy, they’re not
yet ready to put their lives and careers
on the line.
Since the Tiananmen Square
demonstration in June, the Chinese
government is putting pressure on
Beijing and other cities “not to do
anything.” Border controls have
been tightened, government interfer
ence in production has increased and
“special agents” have been put
among student groups, borne under
ground activity still is going on, he
said, but not much.
The June demonstration has re
sulted in many more of the Chinese
people worldwide “getting together
and ready to bring democracy to
China,” he said. The government
was surprised by their numbers dur
ing the demonstration, he said.
China is not stable today, Pujie
said. Much of the movement for
democracy now is motivated by the
economic concerns of the average
people, not just students, he said.
“The Beijing regime will not last
until 1991,” and there will be another
demonstration, he said.
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has increased for the Chinese people
since 1978, inflation in China was 30
percent in 1988 and rose higher in
1989. 1'he Chinese central govern
ment has instituted some economic
reforms since 1979, but the economy
has slowed in the last 10 years, Pujic
said.
Also, the “unofficial emperor”
and real political power holder, Deng
Xiaoping, has “reached his limit,”
Pujic said.
“He doesn’t want to give up more
political power and the economy is
getting in trouble,” he said.
“The government should get out
of the productive sector of the society
. . . (and) be more open than it is in
terms of investments,” Pujie said,
referring to the central Chinese gov
ernment’s retention of controls on
investments and factory production,
Pujie docs not approve of current
United States policy concerning the
situation in China, he said.
“The U.S. government has been
unpredictable concerning China. If it
had a clear policy, the Chinese gov
ernment would know” what the U.S.
reaction to its actions would be.
“Now, the U.S. is doing as little as
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Pujie has been lobbying Congress
concerning student visa laws and was
interviewed concerning his views on
the current Chinese government on
American cable television, he said.
Pujie said he feels that if he re
turned to China after completing his
doctorate degree in physics, he would
not be allowed to leave again.
* ‘They would just give me a job in
Tibet,” he said.
The speech was co-sponsored by
the Young Americans for Freedom
and the Federalist Society.
tacuity research awards increase at UNL
I By Amie DeFrain
Staff Reporter
"W"^ csearch awards presented to UNL fac
ulty by federal agencies and private
sectors increased by 27 percent this
year, according to officials from the UNL
Office of Graduate Studies.
Doug Zbylut, UNL sponsored programs
specialist, said that from July 1 to Oct. 31,
Jj 1989, the University of Ncbraska-Lincoln rc
9 ceivcd $14 million in research awards com
5 pared to last year’s amount of more than $11
H million received during that same period.
I* Zbylut said Gov. Kay Orr’s proposed Ne
P braska Research Initiative, which was adopted
by the Legislature last year, was a major influ
c ence to the award-funding increase.
* John Yost, vice chancellor of research and
ITdean of graduate studies, said heightened
5 competitiveness between UNL faculty and
faculty from other universities contributed to
the increase.
“Aggressive” faculty support by the of
fices of Sponsored Programs-Finance and
Research and Graduate Studies were other
factors, he said.
Yost said the awards are given to faculty
members for a variety of projects, ranging from
teaching to physics.
Some awards presented to faculty members
earlier this month include:
• Terrance Riordan, associate professor of
horticulture, received a $35,(XX) award from
the U.S. Golf Association for research toward
possibly using buffalo grass on golf courses.
• More than S9(X),(XX) was given to James
DcShazcr, professor of agricultural engineer
ing and assistant dean of the Agricultural Re
search Division, for his continuation of re
search in implementing a work plan for low
. See GRAD on 3