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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
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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
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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.”
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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
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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
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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
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