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Febr.uary 13> 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
