The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current, January 15, 1990, Page 5, Image 5
Blank elected as resent chairman By Jennifer O’Cilka Staff Reporter The NU Board of Regents on Sat urday elected Regent Don Blank of McCook as its chairman. Blank, nominated by Regent Robert Allen of Hastings, defeated Regent John Payne of Kearney in the secret ballot election. Blank said serving as chairman in the coming year will be a challenge because many changes face the board, especially proposals to reorganize higher education in Nebraska. Blank succeeds Regent Nancy Hoch of Nebraska City as chairman. Hoch was renominated for the position this year, but declined. Hoch said she believes one impor tant tradition of the board is the an nual change of leadership. “I believe we accomplished some very important things this year and ' think it’s important that wc move ahead,” she said. Hoch thanked the regents for ex pressing their confidence in renomi nating her. But she said she has con fidence in the commitment of the other board members. Regent Kermit Hansen of Elkhom defeated Regent Margaret Robinson ; of Norfolk for the position of vice : chairman. LB247 Continued from Page 1 _ The position issued by the regents also addressed some powers for the new board of regents. The regents’ position states that for the new board to effectively coordinate, it should control the budget, have authority over chief administrative officers, establish and review institutions’ roles and missions, and establish and monitoi policy. The regents’ position stated that the proposed board also should have power over technical community colleges. Regent Nancy Hoch of Nebraska City said she is concerned that the new board, without the regents’ rec ommendations, won thave the teeth’ to implement its ideas. UNL Student Regent Bryan Hil was the only regent not to support th< final draft of the regents’ statement o! position. Hill said the “beauty” of th< consultants’ recommendations is tha they distinguish between coordina tion and governance. He said th< regents’ statement combines coordi nation and governance. “What the board wants is a supe board,” he said, giving more powe to the proposed board of regents at th< expense of the individual boards o trustees. Hill said he thinks Widmayer’ proposals would be strong enough t coordinate role and mission. The regents want to put govern ance at a state level, he said, making it “really removed and out of touch with students.” “Being a student leader, I think it’s better to have governance at a level close to the students,” he said. Hill said he thinks changes in die system also should provide for voting student trustees at every NU branch and state college. Regent Margaret Robinson of Norfolk said she thinks the regents shouldn’t have voiced an opinion until ■ Nebraskans had a chance to vote on the issue. But Blank said the regents have a responsibility to let Nebraskans know > their opinion on the subject. He said > the opinion of the board may be up dated when the actual bill is intro duced. Drugs Continued from Page 1 she completed a rehabilitation pro gram. According to the proposal, a stu dent convicted on drug-related charge; would lose financial aid from the slalt until completing a rehabilitation pro gram. Rex said the governor’s proposa is much “looser” than the condition attached to federal student aid. Hi said that while federal regulation require students to pledge that the are completely drug-free, the govct nor’s proposal only would requir students to acknowledge they are awai of the consequences of drug-relate activity. Fiddclkc said students she has talkc x- a >■ s s j mSmmSKm i lo from UNL, the University of Ne braska at Omaha and Chadron State College all were against Orr’s pro . posal. Fiddelkc said the proposal singles out students in the war on drugs. “It is ridiculous to make them the j targets,’’ she said. “It sends a mes * sage to people across the state that • college students are the whole prob lem, and that’s not true.” I Hill said he was concerned aboui 5 both the constitutionality and the ability ; to enforce Orr’s proposal. It woulc 5 put restrictions on state aid similar u / those already placed on federal aid - which have been hard to enforce, Hil e said. c John Beacon, UNL’s director c d the Office of Scholarships and Finar cial Aid, said he also is conceme d about the problem of enforcing such proposal. Beacon said he has a lot of ques tions concerning Orr’s idea. “The proposal involves determin ing whether students are engaged in the unlawful sale, distribution and use of drugs,” he said. “How do we know that? “We can use the criminal record, but how is that going to be shared with us?” l • Beacon said his staff is not big ir enough to handle the extra work cre 1 ated by trying to enforce such a pro ) posal. , “I heartily endorse a drug-free 1 America, but my office is supposed to help make it possible for students to >f attend school,” he said. “Financial »- aid has become a convenient method d to regulate things, biA it creates more a work than wc were meant to do.’ ’ NOTICE TO STUDENTS ^y*s,*"s*,':^IMW*^ w,>yno, Office, 115 Nebraska Union; or the hast CM 0,1 • , . .. . i!ni,m. Students must brink their stu^etU‘hol^cards'at *the "ti ine cmttacOUbn^nderdahl? Room c,.im,d. 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