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Party pledges to work for students Fiddelke heads TODAY ticket Vasa Fiddelke Scott By Jennifer O’Cilka Staff Reporter TODAY party members, saying they are proven leaders who will continue to work for students if elected, announced their candidacy Thursday for the Association of Students of the University of Nebraska. TODAY party executive candidates Deb Fiddelke, Brad Vasa and Yo landa Scott presented their platform to about 30 people in the Nebraska Union. Scott, interim president of DREAM (Developing Realistic Educational Activities for Minorities), said the TODAY party was formed to bring together students from different back grounds. Scott, running for second vice president, said those students will work together to improve student life and the quality of the Universtiy of Nebraska-Lincoln. Fiddclke, the party’s presidential candidate, said the party members are proven leaders. In the past, they have worked for higher faculty salaries, better recruitment of “top-notch” students, better parking and higher education reforms, said Fiddelke, Government Liaison Committee chairman. “Our activism will not stop when we are elected,” she said. Brad Vasa, a former president of the Honors Program Advisory Board, said the TODAY party is concerned with “concrete ideas.” Vasa is run ning for First vice president “Why gaze into the future when you can concentrate on today?” Vasa said. TODAY’S platform states the party would do the following: • Pursue voting rights for a stu dent member on the NU Board of Regents or the board of trustees in the proposed restructuring of higher edu cation. • Continue GLC lobbying of UNL administrators, the regents and the Legislature on behalf of UNL stu dents. • Try to increase appreciation of cultural pluralism at UNL. •Try to increase student input and awareness of ASUN by creating a {>ublic-relations position and a Legis ative Research Committee to assist ASUN, and investigating a way to regularly broadcast ASUN meetings. • Support a constitutional amend ment to restructure ASUN so it will represent a broader base of UNL stu dents. • Work to increase the retention and recruitment of minority students. • Better develop and use the Stu dent Advisory Boards by exchanging monthly reports between the boards and ASUN and by more strictly en forcing ASUN senators’ attendance at advisory-board meetings. • Work to improve campus life by trying to create a more equitable fee structure for student parking permits, develop a “Safe-Ride" program, increase the number and accessibility of microcomputers and increase light ing and security on campus. • Work to allow student organiza tions to serve alcohol and increase alcohol education. • Support recycling efforts and promote the use of recycled paper by using it for ASUN. Party announces ASUN candidacy Mohling Gosch Burnham By Pat Dinslage Staff Reporter The VISION party will focus on “visible” improvements in campus life, not legislative issues, said Phil Gosch, presidential candidate, in announcing the party’s candidacy in the 1990 ASUN elections. Gosch, a junior political science major, said Thursday in the Nebraska Union that VISION’s main goal is to restore UNL students’ faith in their student gov ernment by making differences on campus, improving campus life and education at the University of Ne braska-Lincoln. The VISION party intends to re turn the Association of Students of the University of Nebraska to the “basic level” of student government, “achieving specific goals on cam pus” that students can see, he said. “Student government of the past has not been responsive to the needs of the students. Credibility and per formance have become more distant with each election,” he said. Gosch said he thinks past AS UN governments have concentrated too much on legislation, both in Wash ington and the State Capitol. Stacy Mohling, first vice presi dential candidate and sophomore political science major, said her ex perience as Residence Hall Associa tion vice president and president have given her “specific ideas” on what a student government should be. It should be experienced, diversified and moti vated, she said. Shawn Burnham, second vice presi dential candidate, is “a charismatic and outgoing person, with campuswide experience,” Gosch said. The second vice president is re sponsible for ASUN’s image and is a link between ASUN and students who want to get involved in government. Burnham, a sophomore political science student, has lived in a resi dence hall and is a member of the Pi Beta Phi sorority, so she has a “dual perspective’’ on campus life, Gosch said. VISION’s platform includes: • Installing more emergency phones in parking lots on both cam puses. • Establishing a student govern ment office on East Campus to make ASUN more accessible to ail stu dents. • Appointing a Special Commis sion on Appointments to make the method of filling student government positions more elective. • Amending ASUN bylaws to elect, not appoint, the Government Liaison Committee chairman. • Developing a telephone survey of students to present their opinions to the administration, board of re gents and Legislature. • Rejoining the United States Student Association. Committee Continued from Page 3 effect on a person’s standing in the community.” , The bill “wasn’t drafted for inten tions of secrecy” and only allows dis cussion of an applicant’s qualifica tions in private, he said. The current open meetings law states that “any public body may hold a closed session by the affirma tive vote of a majority of its voting members if a closed session is clearly necessary for the protection of the public interest or for the prevention of needless injury to the reputation of an individual and if such individual has not requested a public meeting.” Peterson said public bodies should be responsible to the public. ‘‘If you’re going to serve the pub lic, then you’re going to serve them out front.” Court Continued from Page 1 cording to Joe Steele, court adminis trator. “The problem is we’re not adding manpower, we’re only reallocating it,” Perlman said. Hastings said the permanent ap peals court would serve in much the same way as the temporary division does, but would be able to make final decisions on all cases. If the appeals court is made per manent, Nebraska’s constitutionally guaranteed right to appeal to the Supreme Court would be amended, Hastings said. If voters approve the permanent appeals court in November, it would have up to nine permanent judges. Hastings said he does not intend to overload the proposed appeals court with the Supreme Court’s backlogged cases. Instead, weekly meetings be tween the two courts would distribute the caseload. The projected cost for nine judges is about $1.5 million a year, Steele said. CFA Continued from Page 1 unions, told the committee the 1990 91 budget request was the “tight est budget the Nebraska Unions has presented to CFA in a number of years.” Swanson said 1990-91 is the first year union food services will make money and put it into the union budget instead of requesting a student-fee subsidy. The unions have requested a budget for 1990-91 of $4.21 mil lion, $1.43 million of it from stu dent fees, a 4.5 percent increase over 1989-90. Swanson said that with an esti mated salary increase of 9 percent, the student-fee subsidy would in crease to $1.46 million, a 7.13 percent increase over 1989-90. Swanson said the unions’ salary increases, like all Fund B salary in creases, will not be finalized until summer. Other increases in the budget request include the addition of several staff positions for Campus Activities and Programs to expand its leadership development pro grams, Swanson said. The union budget request also includes an additional accounting clerk and another custodian. CFA will vote on the union budget request Tuesday. The Association of Students of the University of Nebraska Senate will begin consideration of Fund A fees Wednesday. After ASUNcon sideration, Fund A budgets will be forwarded to Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs James Griesen and Chancellor Martin Massengale. Fund B fees are not refundable, while Fund A fees are. Lee's Chicken is Famous. \ i - j Stop in at one of our two locations and try our famous Southern Fried Chicken, * Steak and Lobster. Be sure to bring your Student ID Card in during February tor a 10 percent student discount. WEST at 1940 West Van Dorn (near Pioneers Park) EAST at 211 No. 70th Ozzie & Jan’s RESTAURANT In Celebration of Black History Month How are African-Americans shown through the Media? African Film Marathon: "Mississippi Burning" "Hollywood Shuffle" Segments of: "Betrayed" "I'm Gonna Git You Sucka!" Presented bv: When: Friday, February 16,1990 The Culture Center D.R.E.A.M. Place: The Culture Center UPC-AMC 6:<™ P'm'
