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NetSraskan “"" “—““—i WEATHER Thursday, partly sunny, breezy and cooler, high in the mid- to jpper-SOs, north wind 15-25 mile° per hour and gusty. Thursday night, increasing douds, low 25-30 Friday, mostly doudy and colder, high near 40, 20 percent chance of light snow just in time for Spring Break. INDEX News.2 Editorial.4 Diversions.7 Sports.15 Classifieds.18 March 1990____University of Nebraska-Lincoln *Vol. 89 No. ^28 < Five votes win ASUN election for VISION By Emily Rosenbaum Senior Reporter and Mindy Mozer Staff Reporter After the AS UN election results were tallied and recorded Wednesday, only five votes separated VISION and TODAY’S executive candidates. VISION presidential candidate Phil Gosch and first vice presidential candidate Stacy Mohling received 1,349 votes and the unofficial vic tory. TODAY presidential candidate Deb Fiddclkc and first vice presidential candidate Brad Vasa earned 1,344 votes. Fiddclkc said the TODAY party has called for a recount of the votes. The other half of TODAY’S ticket, second vice presidential candidate Y olanda Scott, beat VIS ION ’ s Shawn Burnham by a vole of 1,416 to 1,327. The VISION candidates became silent in the small Delta Upsilon room when the phone finally rang at 12:10 a.m. Gosch tried to voice the outcome but could only stare at the yellow piece of paper he wrote the results on. He appeared shocked. Finally Mohling and Burnham grabbed the paper. Burnham ran out of the room. Mohling and Gosch fol lowed. The winning candidates didn’t rejoice at first. They consoled the See RUNOFF on 6 ^*^A^«hal>«n/baily Nebraskan Above: VISION second vice presidential candidate Shawn Burnham, (center) is consoled by newly elected ASUN President Phil Gosch (right), First Vice President Stacy Mohling and a VISION supporter after learning of her loss to Yolanda Scott of TODAY. Right: Defeated TODAY presidential candidate Deb Fiddetke is comforted by her sister Deanna, a freshman at UNL. Professor is no quack when it comes to music By Matt Herek Staff Reporter L £TTcy Duck?” §“$ No. it’s Hejduk. ^ -*• Jim Hejduk, associ ate professor of music and director of choral activities. But he sure likes duck figurines. In fact, he has about 20 of them in his office. He says he first started collect ing ducks when he moved to Lin coln from Boston four years ago. But his first love is music. He loves to play, listen and teach his students good music and raise their musical standards. “I consider my music to be a life-long sport that I continue toget better at,” he says. Students can expect to have fun in Hejduk’s classes as he keeps them enticed with some of his invigorating leaching methods. The atmosphere in his Univer sity Singers class, which sang at the official dedication concerts for the Lied Center, is relaxed, and the students have a good lime with him as they joke and even dance in the K aisles. The class warms up by singing progressions of “las” and "boms.” Students then turn to the right and give each other shoulder rubs. Then it’s what Hejduk calls "Golden Rule time” as students turn to the left and return the favor. When asking students to speed up the tempo of a note, he com pares it to flinging a Frisbcc. The class, fully understanding what he wants, then sings the note to his satisfaction. Hejduk’s first experience will music was when he started playing piano by ear when he was 5. He started taking piano lesson: at age 7 from a neighbor. After fiv« years of piano, his neighbor startec .... . .1 giving him organ lessons. He went to college at Princeton, where he learned to clean up his keyboard technique and to get seri ous about music. His parents considered a career in music “ludicrous.” He says he had no support from his parents when he began to get serious about music. Hcjduk says his father eventu ally learned to feel a “grudging pride” in what his son had accom -M I consider mu mu sic to be a life-long sport that I con tinue to get better at. Hejd.uk choral director -1 f “ plished as a musician and as a teacher. Hcjduk also played in a rock ‘n’ roll band when he was younger. He says he just salon a stage in Geneva, Ohio, a small resort town, and played the same five-chord progressions on a keyboard all night Although he was paid well, he says, “It (rock music) never occu pied my consciousness at any great depth.” “A lot of rock ‘n’ roll has gone in one ear and out the other, he says. The music that sinks in is classi cal, especially when it’s Bach. Bach's music is so well written that one can’t “kill” it by playing it poorly, Hcjduk says. But he is i not sure that thfcrc is a correct way ; to play Bach. He says playing Bach is a highly : personal and individual thing. See HEJDUK on6 Official: Report misleading Changes in review recommended By Victoria Ayotte Senior Reporter hough a recent report showed tc University of Nebraska ocs not review 96.2 percent of academic programs that do not meet legislative standards, that statis tic is not as alarming as it sounds, an official said. Donal Bums, NU associate execu tive vice president and provost, said the percentage reported by the Coor dinating Commission for Poslsccon dary Education is not wholly accu rate. NU reviews every program every five years, but docs not single out many of the programs not meeting legislative standards to report to the commission. Bums said the university docs not think it is “appropriate” to spccifi cally identify those programs to the commission, but did not say why. The coordinating commission reported Tuesday to a joint meeting of the Education and Appropriations committees of the Nebraska Legisla ture. The report details a five-year study of the university, state colleges and community colleges. The Legislature in 1984 charged the commission with producing the report and reviewing every program at every Nebraska poslsecondary in stitution every five years to see if institutions were using state money efficiently. The programs arc reviewed for the number of degrees generated and the efficiency of faculty members. Degree programs must produce an annual average of 10 degrees, diplo mas or certificates for undergradu ates, five master’s degrees, fqpr spe cialist degrees and three doctorate degrees. Each faculty member annually must produce 275 student credit hours. A faculty member with 50 students in a thrcc-crcdil-hour class, for example, produces 150 credit hours. If the programs do not meet those standards, the institutions’ governing boards arc supposed to review the programs in detail to determine if they should be continued. Twenty-seven NU programs did not meet the criteria, but only one was reviewed by the NU Board of Re gents to determine if it should be continued or consolidated, according to the report. Bums said the university conducts a more extensive review than required by law and considers more criteria See EDUCATION on 3 ASUN protests ban of homosexuals By Matt Herek Staff Reporter Che Association of Students of the University of Nebraska passed a resolution Wednes day protesting the ban of gays and lesbians from U.S. military organiza tions and supporting the inclusion of homosexuals in ROTC programs. Rodney Bel! II, chairperson of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Gay and Lesbian Alumni Association, spoke in favor of the resolution. “This resolution is an excellent start to do something about this is sue,” he said. ROTC discriminates against gay and lesbian students, banning them from drills, marches, voluntary pro grams or and Basic or Advanced Camp, Bell said. Students who go through the ROTC program and then reveal their homo sexuality do not receive commissions for enlisted or officer status, Bell said They arc then honorably discharged, he said. Engineering Sen. Paul Poulosky, sponsor of the resolution, said the resolution is not a “slam” against UNL’s ROTC. But AS UN’s resolution will make a statement to the Joint Chiefs of S taff and the Department of Defense to reconsider their policies, he said. If enough organizations like ASUN make similar statements, the Joint Chiefs will look into making changes, he said. Other universities, such as Wis consin, Minnesota, Harvard and Yale have passed similar statements, he said. Bell was in the ROTC program at Kearney State College for two se mesters and served in the Army Re serves for six years. He said he counsels gay, lesbian and bisexual ROTC students who have told him that there is a lot of homo phobia at UNL and in ROTC. Those students can’t express them selves because of the homophobia, he said. “Everyone should be allowed expression. No one should be allowed oppression,” he said. Homosexuals arc not aiiowed in the military, Bell said, because the military says they arc a security risk because they can be bribed. Margie Winn, a senior advertising major, said the military creates its own security risk “by denying people their personhood.” Corrcy Trupp, speaker of the ASUN Senate, said he thinks campus ROTC programs don’t mean to discriminate, but are forced to because of U<S. government regulations. Business Administration Sen. Rochelle Slominski, opposed the reso lution, saying only the U.S. govern ment should deal with the military’s policy.