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WEATHER INDEX Thursday, cloudy and much colder, high in the Wou.c 0 mid- to upper-20s, north wind 10-15 miles per al.J hour. Thursday night, 30 percent chance of light Er"”: •.c snow, low 10-15. Friday, continued cloudiness .,! and ooki. 30 percent chance of snow, high in the c”sslfiMs„ ~ Vol. 89 No. ®<T/ IA.SUN tables bill backing student regent vote Hpy Jennifer O’Cilka Mjpkaff Reporter tudent leaders Tuesday night failed to act on a bill support ing the restructuring of higher Epflucauon and governance, despite the met that the Government Liaison ■(Committee already has begun to act SeL The Association of Students of the | University of Nebraska failed to act T j#n government bill 8, which supports l|he reorganization of Nebraska state I fcoUege and university governance and a student regent vote. Under the bill, ASUN would sup port the Nebraska Legislature’s LR239CA, which would call for in stitutional governing boards and a statewide coordinating board of Nebraska colleges and universities. Also, ASUN would encourage the Legislature to provide for student voting members on those boards. Although ASUN senators failed to agree on the bill and tabled it, GLC already has circulated petitions in support of LB239CA. GLC plans to bus students to the State Capitol to support the student regent vote at the Education Committee hearings Tues day. According to ASUN bylaws, GLC is directly responsible to the ASUN president and can act without con sulting the entire ASUN body. Be cause ASUN President Bryan Hill has worked with GLC on the issue, the committee is not in violation of the bylaws. Hill said ASUN earlier approved a bill that directed GLC to work for the student vote. ASUN senators seemed to support the student vote, but voiced concerns in supporting LR239CA. Hill said although he has many reservations about LR239C A, he thinks the bill will decentralize governance and bring it closer to campus. 4 The (NU) Board of Regents gets so caught up in so many issues that they’re not as sensitive as they could be,” Hill said. Hill said the AS UN resolution does not “wholeheartedly” endorse LR239CA, but affirms AS UN’s commitment to the student regent vote and endorses an overall governing board. Also, Hill said he thinks the reso lution would provide for a stronger board of regents. “Basically, this is a message that we like it overall and, more impor tantly, we want a voting student trus tee,” Hill said. College of Arts & Sciences Sen. Tom Massey said he doesn’t think Hill’s view of LR239CA will become reality. If the resolution becomes law, Massey said, it won’t do anything to improve the governance of post-sec ondary education. AS UN Speaker Correy Trupp said he thinks LR239CA will have a “leveling effect’’ on UNL. UNL should be put before any other university, Trupp said. By chang ing the governance structure, UNL will be brought down in power and See ASUN on 2 [ Student tries to form women’s rugby team oy juua MiKoiajciK Staff Reporter I 'V espite a turnout of four women for I llhc first practice Tuesday night, Jacqui Kramer is optimistic about forming a women’s rugby team at the University of l Nebraska-Lincoln. Kramer, a junior transfer student from St. Louis Community College, is attempting to put together the first UNL team since 1977. The international business major came to UNL two weeks ago and discovered there ^ wasn’t a women’s team. “I really wanted to play,” said Kramer, who began playing rugby in St. Louis. ‘‘And when I saw that there wasn’t one I decided to try and form one.” Kramer placed an advertisement in the Daily Nebraskan and has posted flyers on campus and in the residence halls to recruit women interested in playing. Fifteen players are needed on the field for a complete team, Kramer said. Ideally, she said, extra players are needed as substi tutes. “I’ve gotten about 11 calls,” she said. “I’m going to keep being optimistic” about I. recruiting. Kramer said she will lum in a proposal to V1 recognize the team as an official UNL club, r hni cairi it nrnhahlv will nlavnnlv exhibition games this spring. Anyone can join the team, she said, and there is no need for experience. The women will practice with the men’s rugby team for now so that new members of both teams can learn the rules. According to James Cunningham, assis tant coach for the men’s team, UNL’s first women’s rugby team was formed along with the men’s team in 1974. The men’s team continued to thrive, but the women’s team lasted only two seasons. Cunningham said the women had to travel long distances to play other teams because there were not many women clubs. In the spring of 1977, another women’s team was formed, but it lasted only one season, Cunningham said. Although that team had a turnout of about 25 players, the coach quit, and the team folded again. ‘‘I think this year they’re making a seri ous effort,” he said. “They have a good chance.” i^BMWMWBWB*^-. i^iiWin ■■» —— Mary Ann McDowell, a graduate student in biological sciences, practices binding during a lineout at rugby practice Tuesday evening in the Cook Pavilion. State student leaders offer support for vote By Mindy Mozer Staff Reporter Nebraska’s student leaders met Tuesday night to support establishing voting student trustees on the governing boards of Nebraska’s four-year, post-secondary schools. Students from Kearney State College, the University of Nebraska at Omaha, Peru State College and the-University of Nebraska Medi cal Center met with Government Liaison Committee members to discuss the proposed student regent vole. According to Deb Fiddclkc, GLC president, complete support from representatives of Nebraska’s higher education system is neces sary to get the student regent vote. “The key issue is that we’re all going to support this,” Fiddclkc said. “We are all working together to give student members on the board of trustees a voting membership.” To do this, GLC is working to amend the Nebraska Legislature's LR239CA to establish a student regent vote. As it stands now, LR239CA would establish a Nebraska Board of Regents for Higher Education composed of six elected members and five members appointed by the governor for all seven institutions. Each institution would have its own board of trustees to handle institutional problems. A nonvoting student trustee would sit on each board. LR240CA, a backup resolution to LR239CA, would grant voting status for one-year terms to one of the three student regents on the NU Board of Regents. If passed, the resolutions would go before voters in November as proposed constitutional amendments. Bryan Hill, president of the Association of Students of the University of Nebraska, said it’s important for student regents to have a vote. Student regents are on campus everyday and they know what students are thinking and feeling, he said. “A vote brings student members into the process,” Hill said. “It makes students have to work with regents.” — See VOTE on 2 Senators adopt waste reduction amendment (>ria Ayotte porter >raska legislators Wednesday adopted i amendment that would give the niversity of Nebraska $50,(XX) for tire ; research as part of a $1.5 million luction and recycling proposal, mendment, introduced by state Sen. /lorrissey of Tecumseh, was added to signed to reduce solid waste in Nc t would provide $50,000 to help ft* search for a lire-buming plant to gen ver for UNL. maining $1.45 million would go for a ensive Nebraska plan for waste reduc recycling to be administered by the ent of Environmental Control. Morrissey said the adoption of his amend ment by a 32-10 vote shows legislators are making waste reduction a priority. The Legislature now must act to finance a plan for waste reduction, Mor rissey said. If it doesn’t, the federal government eventually will close Nebraska’s unlicensed dumps, he said. The first priority in setting up a plan is to reduce sources of waste by encouraging the use of reusable containers and reducing the toxins in packaging materials, Morrissey said. “We must encourage our folks and the businesses in this stale to use products that arc recyclable,” he said. Sen. Dianna Schimck of Lincoln voiced support of the amendment. ‘‘This is not what you call a sexy issue,” Schimck said. “It’s not as hot as low-level radioactive waste, but it is an issue that is as important or more important than that issue.” Sen. George Coordsen of Hebron said he also supports the amendment because ‘‘it doesn’t single out a particular form of the problem” like the bill does. * The bill, LB 163, puts a $1 tax on tires and a fee on all businesses for a Waste Reduction and Recycling Incentive Fund which would grant money for improving waste-reduction and recycling practices. Sen. Rod Johnson of Sutton, the bill's spon sor, said he supports using lax money for the fund, but didn’t think the Legislature would approve it. The bill as amended would still include the fees on tires and businesses in addition to the $1.5 million. Some senators said they think Morrissey’s amendment should become the bill. LB 163 is now in the second round of debate. Amendments are pending to put a tax on dis posable diapers and to use a certain percentage of the tire tax specifically for reduction in tire waste. Senators also passed an amendment intro duced by Johnson that would prohibit giving the bill's grants to unlicensed landfills unless the grants were used to bring the landfills up to standards needed for licensing.