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.
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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
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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
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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.’ ’
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