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S3 ML JK B jS IM 1990 University of Nebraska-Lincoln “ Vol 89 No itffQ Committee gives vote to student trustees ojf viuuua Myuiie Senior Reporter Even though the constitutional amendment to give a vote to one of the three student mem bers of the NU Board of Regents was killed in the Legislature's Education Committee on Monday, three student leaders said they felt their efforts constituted a “major victory.’’ Bryan Hill, president of the Asso ciation of Students of the University of Nebraska, Deb Fiddelke, chair woman of the Government Liaison Committee, and Russ Johnson, chair man of Students for the Right to Vote, said their efforts were worthwhile since the committee included a vote for the r~ suiaent member or die board of trus tees for each institution in legislation to restructure higher education in Nebraska. LR239CA and LB1141, which were advanced to the legislative floor Monday, would eliminate the current higher education governance struc ture and create a board of trustees for each institution and a coordinating Board of Regents for Nebraska Higher Education. Larry Scherer, legal counsel for the Education Committee, said that besides the amendment to give the student trustee a vote, the committee also is proposing an amendment that would reduce the number of mem bers appointed to each board of trus tees from seven to five. With the student member, each board of trus tees would have six members, he said. Another amendment would change the Board of Regents for Nebraska Higher Education electoral system from having two regents elected from each congressional district to a sys tem of electing one regent from each of six electoral districts. Scherer said this change was made primarily so prospective regents would face a smaller area in which to cam paign. The committee’s amendments must be passed on the legislative floor by 25 senators before they become part of the bill. Hill said the committee made a ‘ ‘very wise decision,” in deciding to include a vote for the student trustee. Hill said he was not too disap pointed that the student regent vote proposal was killed since the NU Board of Regents would be abolished by LR239CA. The committee made ‘‘a lot of sense” to kill the student regent vote and propose a student trustee vote, Hill said, since it would have been contradictory if both passed. “By including the student trustee voting privilege, it’s consistent with the fundamental concept of LR239CA,” Hill said, which is to bring more control and accountabil ity to each campus. Johnson and Fiddelke agreed with Hill that their main goal was met with inclusion of a voting student trustee in LR239CA. Fiddelke said she was not upset since ‘ ‘LR240 was just introduced as a Vehicle”'to get a voting student trustee provision in the higher educa tion restructuring proposals. ‘‘I think the students that worked on this issue did a good job and have shown that they deserve it,” Johnson said. He said senators recognized that students should play an ‘‘integral role” in the governing process. Hill said: ‘‘I hope the rest of the Legislature will recognize the need to more fully integrate students into the governing process.” Ellen Paparazzi, associate professor of urban horticulture at UNL, developed the thornless rose Concetta. Concetta isn't only blossom in Paparozzis work By EmUy Rosenbaum Senior Reporter Seven years of research and develop ment at the University of Nebraska Lincoln have blossomed into success for Ellen Paparazzi. Paparazzi, associate professor of urban horticulture, developed a thornless, “hot orange” rose that received a national patent in April 1989 and probably will be on the market in the Midwest by spring. She said she found the bright-orange blos som on one branch of a red rosebush she uses for teaching. At first, Paparazzi said, she and her students tested it, never intending to pat ent the rose. They rooted the cuttings, mulched them and tested their growth in the fields on UNL’s East Campus. In 1985, Paparazzi gave a tour of the hor ticulture research laboratories to one of the vice presidents of Native Plants Incorpo rated and showed him the orange rose. He was impressed and, as a result, Native Plants paid the the patent cost and the subsequent marketing, she said. ‘‘The vibrant color - that s what sold it,” she said. Paparazzi gave her rase the name “Con cetta, after ner grandmother, who grew roses. "She was the family's first horticultur ist,” Paparazzi said. But Paparazzi's research isn’t limited to flowers. She’s also studying the nitrogen sulphur ratio in plants and discovering ways to reduce the nitrogen levels while main taining the plant’s quality. ‘‘Any extra nitrogen into the groundwa ter is harmful," she said. ‘‘We can’t keep going at the rate we have been." Her research is designed to limit the input of nitrogen from fertilizers and other chemicals and to ensure the plant’s quality can be retained. Paparazzi's research also includes ana tomical studies on plants. In a joint research project with Kansas State University, Paparazzi is trying to dis cover the reasons for an injury that affects one type of the sugar maple tree. The leaves of that tree often tum brown and become ripped in the summer, she said. In addition to researching the tree, she also is trying to find out why other varieties of the sugar maple withstand the injury better. Paparazzi said her work at UNL is 50 percent research and 50 percent leaching. She teaches two undergraduate courses in production and business management of nursery and floricultural crops such as roses. She also teaches a graduate-level course in the growth and development of woody plants such as fir and pine trees and the lilac. Paparazzi describes her classes as hands on learning. Students prune, work with the grounds crew to learn how to use horticultural equip ment and learn to grow cut flowers from planting them to turning them into market quality flowers, she said. Paparazzi said she also encourages stu dents with different majors to work together. A day in her lab may find horticulture, forestry and agronomy majors all cutting leaves, she said. ‘‘I like to gel the students involved if ’ they want to do some research,” she said. Horticulture and what it entails can be confusing, she said. In one aspect, it is floral design and landscape, planus that ‘ ‘appeal to you sensorially,” she said. Horticulture also involves fruits and vege tables, plants grown in nurseries and fields, she said. About 60 percent of the food consumed by people comes from horticultural plants, she said. Paparazzi is originally from New Jersey and said she was interested in Nebraska because she ‘‘saw potential for horticulture in the stale.” Paparazzi came to UNL in 1981 after earning her doctorate from Cornell Univer sity in Ithaca, N.Y. Lottery bill sits idle; amendment proposed By Victoria Ayotte Senior Reporter Three Nebraskans testified Monday that the state should join a multi-state lottery to keep money from flowing across the borders, but 10 people argued that the Legisla ture should not put money over morals. The General Affairs Committee did not take action Monday on the bill and proposed a constitutional amendment that would let Ne braska join a multi-state lottery. LR241CA would, in the November elec tion, put a constitutional amendment before Nebraska voters that, if passed, would allow the Legislature to establish a lottery. Money from the lottery would finance one time projects instead of going into the general treasury. LB 1157, upon approval of the constitu tional amendment, would establish procedures for regulating a lottery. State Sen. Tim Hall of Omaha, sponsor of the lottery measures, said they would allow Nebraska to join Lotto America, headquar tered in Iowa. Up to S14 million in revenue could be generated in the first year, with an estimated $2 million in start-up costs, Hall said. The profits from the lottery would be budgeted on a year to-year basis and would not be part of the regular state budget, he said. ‘‘I don’t think you can depend on gaming revenue as a viable source of revenue for gov ernment,” Hall said. The multi-slate Lotto America would most likely generate the most money and be the easiest-to-regulale lottery Nebraska could develop or join, Hall said, because it already is operating in other slates. See LOTTERY on 6 Confusion over state law postpones pool’s opening By Thomas Clouse Staff Reporter Che new pool at the Lee and Helene Sapp Recreation Facility remains closed be cause of a misunderstanding about a iw requiring approval of plans for public pools before construction begins, a stale health official said. Jack Daniel, director of drinking water and * environment sanitation at the state health de partment, said he didn’t receive any plans for the pool until a week to 10 days ago. “The pool was construe ted before the plans were approved, which is a violation of state law regulations that require plans to be approved by the state for public pools before construction is initiated,” Daniel said. Bob Carpenter, UNL campus architect, said the architectural plans were sent to the stale health department in the fall, after the pool was built. “We were not aware of the law (Daniel) was referring to,” he said. Carpenter said other employees in Daniel’s department may have been reviewing the plans, explaining why Daniel did not receive them until seven to 10 days ago. See POOL on 6