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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
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[ 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.”
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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.”
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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.