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mWm L/dliy I WEATHER INDEX i M wan^^g ^iWSfc, Wh M"- ^Ittk | Monday, partly cloudy, breezy and warmer, high ^ns,3l.\ m S Mm HI Br W^Sk §M 1 BE Ar around 70, southwest wind 15-25 miles per hour fcd 0 a. H ^B8fek & mm BE |B -Bfi fastens,._ Mi _ JBB gB ^B Monday night, partly doudy, low around 40 Sports 7 SSI SB JpF ■§ |jjpjpiBk m S Tuesday, partly doudy, high 55-60. Arts & Entertainment.9 March 12, 1990University of Nebraska-LincolnVol. 89 No.<gff l(?f Feelings differ on proposed student discounts By Robin Trimarchi Staff Reporter Some state and university offi cials said they are concerned that rewarding student voters with discounted beer and albums presents a negative image of Univer sity of Nebraska-Lincoln students. Nebraska Secretary of State Allen Beerman said the idea, proposed by a candidate for president of the Asso ciation of Students of the University of Nebraska, would be an ‘ ‘exchange of value for a vote’ ’ and is ‘ ‘akin to a type of a bribe.” ‘‘It may not be illegal,** Beerman said, but with the university budget and the student regent vote before the Legislature, ‘ ‘it’s not good PR for the Beerman concerned that voting incentives project negative image students. Candidates for ASUN support the incentives as a way to increase in volvement in Wednesday’s elections. Joe Bowman, presidential candi date for the STAND party, said his party arranged one-day discounts from local businesses for students who vote in the ASUN elections as an “atten tion-getter” to show that ASUN can confront student needs. He said he did not present the idea as an answer to student apathy. “I think it’s great PR among the students,” Bowman said. Jim Langcnberg, director of the ASUN electoral commission, said providing the discounts does not “4 4 My reaction is that the university would not be generally pleased that if you participate in student electionst you get to drink. Beerman Secretary of State ---- 4ft • — conflict with ASUN election iules. Beerman’s said his main concern is that two bars are among the busi nesses that will offer discounts to students who vote. “My reaction is that the un iversity would not be generally pleased that if w w you participate in student elections, you get to drink,” he said. James Gricsen, vice chancellor for student affairs, agreed that although the practice does not conflict with UNL policy, it projects a negative image if it suggests bribing students to vote. “I would certainly hope that UNL students would participate in the elec tions simply on the basis that the people elected will have an impact on their lives,” he said. UNL students have proven they can have a major impact on legisla tion, Griesen said. As the student representative on the NU Board of Regents, the ASUN president is an elected public official and “plays a major role in the governance of this university.” “Who this person is should be important to the students,” he said. “1 would hate to have ii perceived that (discounts were) the incentive for students to vote.” See VOTE on 5 Proposal allows part-time students to get discounts By Jerry Guenther Staff Reporter University of Ncbraska-Lincoln officials arc working on a proposal that would allow part-time students to buy comput ers from the Computer Shop at the University Bookstore. Gerald Kutish, associate director of the Computing Resource Center, said computer vendors have contracts with UNL that allow the Computer Shop to sell computers to full time students, faculty and staff at discounted prices. But those contracts do not allow students who take fewer than 12 credit hours to buy computers at the shop, Kutish said. Kutish said he is working with other UNL officials so that part-time students taking at least six credit hours in a degree program also can get discounts. “We would like to think that a student in a degree-granting program taking six credit hours or more gets the same services as a full-time student,” Kutish said. “After all, we don’t say only full-time students can use the library.” To make the discount available for part time students, Kutish said, UNL must demon See COMPUTERS on 5 Association plans combat strategy to help libraries By Sara Bauder Staff Reporter The Association of Research Libraries is planning new strategy to combat large increases in the prices and number of academic journals that have put libraries na tionwide in a bind. Duane Webster, executive director of the Washington-based association, said because of problems created by the increases, the associa tion is forming an office of academic and scientific publishing. The office will provide an information sys tem for libraries, he said, helping them pres sure publishers to keep prices from rising so quickly. The office also will try to educate scholars about the role they play in the crisis, Webster said. He said scholars must know what com mercial publishers are doing and be encour aged to use journals published by universities and non-profit scholarly organizations. Because more academic journals are avail able every year, valuable research is scattered between more periodicals, Webster said. He said there has been some sense of “watered down” content in academic journals. He said studies have shown that journals published by commercial firms are used less See PUBLICATIONS on 6 '---- ^ Melissa McReynokla/Daily Nebraskan Konstantine Kvitko, a visiting Russian scientist studying plant science at the University of Nef7as*a j-mcoln, keeps in touch with his coltege, the University of Leningrad, through its campus weekly paper arrives about a month after its publication, Kvitko says ne reads it more for emotional value than news worthiness. Friendly staff impresses visiting scientist By Mindy Mazer Staff Reporter _ “I’m using this opportunity I© be Wight,’’ he says. “To be taught a lot.” Kvitko plans to be in the United States for six months. After working in Lincoln, he will attend a conference in Virginia mid visit labs on the East Coast, including one at Duke University in North Carolina, before returning home to Leningrad. Once he returns to Leningrad, Kvitko says, he will continue his research and teach courses iir plant genetics. The 57-yearoWaeyes light op when he talks about his research. He spends most of bis time tucked away in a lab on East Cam pus. Kvitko says he is studying two types of viruses in chlorella. One group is a set of strains dial was isolated in America and die other set was isolated in Europe. The American strain he is studying first was found by UNL researchers, including James Van Ellen, a professor of plant pa ^^tnlact. Van Etten’s research is the main reason Kvitko came to UNL. Kvitko says he saw the research published in a journal in 1982, Van Ettcn says Kvitko wrote him to ask for more information on the research, i ne two scientists corresponded foi five years before they met in Lincoln. “I invited him because he was working on the viruses,” Van Ellen says. Kvitko hasn't stopped working on the virus since he arrived in Lincoln. Even on Saturday, the |mv-haired scientift $an be found hi Ac lib He works hard, he says, to make the most out of his trip. Working also relieves his homesickness. He left his wife and 30-year old daughter in Leningrad. “Of course I miss my home,” he says. “But when you are busy at work it is pos sible to keep it under control.” /Although Kvitko graduated from the University of Leningrad, he’s not a Lenin grad native. . „ . He was bom m Siberia, where he lived until he finished high school. He had a friend, originally from Lenin grad, when he lived in Siberia, The two decided to go to college in Leningrad. Kvitko graduated from Leningrad Uni S^KVITKO~on3