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John Bruce/Daily Nebraskan By Eric Pfanner Senior Editor For the first time in at least four years, students in residence halls made up the largest portion of voters in Association of Students of the University of Nebraska elections. Stacy Mohling, VISION party first vice presidential candidate, said more residence hall students voted this year because polling sites were placed in Abel/Sandoz and Neihardt residence halls. Deb Fiddclkc, TODAY party presi dential candidate, said more students voted at those sites than at any of the five locations aside from the Nebraska Union. Last year, there were no polls in residence halls. About 42 percent of 1990 voters live in residence halls, about 29 per cent in fraternities and sororities and about 27 percent off campus. “That’s great,’’ Fiddclkc said of the increase in voters from residence halls. But “obviously, it’s not enough.” Not enough, she said, because the portion of voters in fraternities and sororities still is disproportionate with the amount of students who live there. More than half of UNL students live off campus, but represent only 27 percent of 1990 voters. That percentage was almost un changed from 1989, dropping 1 per cent. The big shift was in the propor tion of voters from fraternities and sororities, which dropped from 38 percent in 1989 to 29 percent in 1990. Residence hall voters look up the slack, increasing 10 percentage points from 32 percent in 1989. Mohling, who also is Residence Hall Association president, said pro posals to restructure ASUN may have conmbuhxi to the greater percentage As you broaden the base of involvement, it will have a snow ball effect for the future. Fiddelke ASUN presidential candidate -f » of residence hall voters. TODAY, VISION and STAND all included restructuring plans on their platforms this year in an effort to broaden the base of voters. Fiddelke said she thinks this year’s results may be a “sign that things are changing.” The restructuring propos als may gain momentum because of the larger percentage of residence hall voters, she said. “As you broaden the base of in volvement, it will have a snowball effect for the future,” she said. Program developed to evaluate division of national forest land By James P. Webb Staff Reporter The U.S. Department of Agriculture For est Service is developing a program to manage the division of national forest land, according to a Forest Service official. Bill Rictvcld, project leader for the serv ice’s experiment station at the University of Ncbraska-Lincoln’s East Campus, said the service has recognized a trend toward more recreation and wildlife in national forests. Following that trend, Rictvcld said, the agency’s New Perspectives program will evalu ate how forests arc divided. As a conservation agency, the Forest Serv ice is charged with finding the most efficient division of 154 national forests for timber, wildlife, water, recreation and range. New Perspectives will bring competing inter est groups together to confront new environ mental issues. “We want to get everyone involved and get people to talk to each other,” Rictvcld said. “Through that understanding (we can) de velop better policy for our national forests.” Currently, he said, people misunderstand the Forest Service’s mission because of the conflict between logging companies and envi ronmentalists. The number of lawsuits filed against the agency from both sides is indicative of the increasingly intense conflict over resources, he said. He said the Office of Management and Budget has cut Forest Service spending for recreation and wildlife. It’s a case where “everyone is guilty and everyone is innocent,” Riclvcld said. “We’re right in thcmiddlc. We can’t take either side.” Rictveld said some restrictions arc neces sary to reduce the Forest Service’s sales of its timber. “The logging companies have cut most of their land. Now they’re looking at the old growth on national forests... this is conflicting with the demands of the environmentally con scious people in the Northwest,” he said. But Rietveld said restrictions would hurt local governments that depend on logging for income. He said the limber industry also bolsters local economics with hidden benefits, which arc overlooked by environmentalists. Second forests, those regenerated from natu ral disaster or from harvesting, arc able to support more wildlife because of fresh under growth, he said. The additional wildlife attracts hunters and backpackers who, through license permits and other purchases, help local economies, he said. Hunters and backpackers benefit from ex isting logging roads built with government money, he said, and the value of the roads increases with additional use. Rietveld said each dollar the government See FOREST on 3 Anti-discrimination resolution passed By Sara Bauaer Staff Reporter _ A resolution condemning discrimination was passed by the RHA Senate on Sun day. The resolution, passed unanimously, had been drafted at last week’s meeting in reaction to fliers advertising a white supremacist group. The Residence Hall Association did not act on the resolution then because there was no quo rum. Debate continued at this week s meeting. The resolution was amended to state that RHA will promote minority recruitment for faculty members and students alike. The amendment, proposed by Selleck Sen. Randy Eliason, also encourages administrators to broaden the multi-cultural curriculum at UNL. . . Eliason said the amendment was needed because the resolution had “no teeth” without it. He said the amendment changed the intent of the resolution from condemning discrimina tion to actually suggesting action. Shawn Carson, presidential proxy from Ca(hcr Residence Hall who had opposed the resolu tion a week ago, said he now supports it. He said it would have been bad timing to adopt the resolution last week. Last week, the resolution would have been seen as condemning students who participated in a white-supremacist group, he said. “1 no longer see RH A as condemning stu dents,” he said. “I see us more as supporting those who marched against racism.” On March 12, about 300 students marched to protest the formation of the group for whites only. No one claiming to belong to the su premacist group showed up at the proposed meeting site. L Joe Hein/le Daily Nebraskan Outlining a vision Democratic gubernatorial candidate Bill Hoppner speaks Monday at Henzlik Hall. Outlining his views on education, Hoppner said the current school finance system does not provide equal educational opportuni ties and he proposed a school finance system that focuses on the indi vidual child.