editorial (Daily Nebraskan Editorial Board University of Nebraska-Lincoln Amy Edwards, Editor, 472-1766 Bob Nelson, Editorial Page Editor Ryan Sleeves, Managing Editor Enc Pfanner, Associate News Editor Lisa Donovan, Associate News Editor Brandon Loomis, Wire Editor Jana Pedersen, Night News Editor Students want voice Amendment would ensure student-regent vote A legislative resolution to be introduced this week to provide an official student regent vote on the NU Board of Regents soon could give UNL students a voice I in how they are governed. The problem is whether the forum for this student vote will still exist once the vote is obtained. Sen. Scott Moore of Seward will introduce legislation that would give an official vote on the board of regents to one of the three student representatives from the Univer sity of Nebraska-Lincoln, University of Nebraska at Omaha and the University of Nebraska Medical Center. The governor would pick which of the three could place official votes. The main thrust of the bill, Moore said, was to ensure that students have voting power. He said that under the present system, the regents can “pat the student regents on the head and try to shut them out.” Moore said the proposal will be assigned to the educa tion or government committee in February and then will be voted on by the Legislature. If the Legislature approves ; the bill and Gov. Kay Orr signs it, Moore said, it will be included on the November ballot to be voted on by the public. But also going to the Education Committee are a bill and resolution calling for a citizen vote on an amendment to restructure higher education, an amendment that, if passed, would eliminate the governmental body on which students would gain an official vote under Moore's resolution. LB 1141 and LR239CA would abolish the current NU Board of Regents and the Nebraska State College Board of Trustees on July 1, 1991. At that time, a new Board of ! Regents for Nebraska Higher Education and board of trus tees for each university and state college would be cre ated. The new board of regents would have control over all post-secondary education in Nebraska. The proposed bill and resolution include no student regent on the new board. II he seven new boards ot trustees each would have one nonvoting student. Moore’s proposal for a student regent vote is certainly a welcome and much-needed boost for students. However, his resolution stands a good chance of becoming worth less the very day it becomes law. .To ensure a student voice, an amendment much like Moore’s proposal must be included in LB 1141 and LR239CA. This bill and resolution must allow for the student member of each board of trustees to be a voting member. With Moore’s resolution and amended versions of LB1141 and LR239CA, UNL students would be ensured of a voice in whatever form of government the people of Nebraska choose. Moore was right on target when he said, “If you don’t have a vote, you don’t seem to count.’’ Students at the University of Nebraska have never seemed to count in how the school is governed. It’s time that the Legislature allowed Nebraskans to cure this problem. *• Bob Nelson for the Daily N-'vaskan ‘Campus Notes’ makes unworthy successor unce again me uany iNCDraskan has become a source of prejudice and inequality. No, this isn’t about ra cism, but it is about the prejudice that has taken control of the comics page. I’m among the minority who liked “Jim’s Journal.” There seemed to be no happy medium for this strip. Ei ther pdiple really loved it or they thought it was just plain stupid. I and many of my friends found Scott Dikkers’ absurd sort of humor refreshing against the dreck that can be found in such capitalist commer cialized strips such as “Garfield,” which has brought Jim Davis more wealth than anyone truly deserves for writing about the pseudo-human fe line who now sells Alpo. I don’t see where every strip has to be based on obvious, boring sight gags and/or humor that is directed at the lowest common denominator, wmcn seems to be the level of Brian Shellito. His strip, “Campus Notes,” hardly seems a worthy successor for a space that was once occupied by “Bloom County.” “Jim’s Journal” was ca pable of filling that void, but the little beef-fed masses of this university, seemingly couldn’t or wouldn’t see that Dikkcrs’ strip was the best thing to come to the pages of the DN since Mike Royko. As long as we are going to destroy the great potential of the comics page, why don’t werep lace “The FarSidc” with “Nancy?” We wouldn’t want the majority to have to TH!NK about their comics. James A. Zank junior Arts and Sciences IT'S ER\CH HONECKER, HE VJWTS TO KNOW VJHAT EXACTLY TUE EVENTS VJERE that lead up TO CEAUSESCUS DEATH SENTENCE. I _ - - V^j W