Regents Continued from Page 1 cation has been a higher priority in the Legisla ture this year than in the past. Restructuring proposals and the budget have put the NU Board of Regents in the spotlight, Welch said, which may have contributed to the increase in candidates. She said the firing of former NU President Ronald Roskcns also may have contributed to interest in the board. Robert Sittig, UNL professor of political science, said usually only two to three candi dates run in each district. In 1984, the last time seats in Lancaster and Douglas counties were up lor election, three candidates ran in each race. According to statistics from a report by Welch and Robert Miewald, UNL professor of political science, the average number of candi dates running in primary elections between 1950 and 1985 was 3.8. Sittig said many candidates are running this year probably because incumbents Donald Fricke of Lincoln and Kerrnit Hansen of Elkhom are not running. Incumbent regents are “relatively hard to beat...,” Sittig said. According to Miewald and Welch’s report, 72 percent of incumbents running for re-elec tion between 1950 and 1985 won in general elections. That is a lower percentage than in cumbents for the Nebraska Legislature, how ever. About 90 percent of incumbents in the Legislature win re-elections, the report showed. Since 1986, only one of six regents who ran for re-election was defeated. In only two of those six races did more than two candidates run, while in two races the incumbent ran unop posed. The number of candidates and the amount spent campaigning in regents elections are higher than for other elected boards, Sittig said. Miewald and Welch’s report showed that in the 1982 and 1984 regent elections, candidates spent more than $20,(XX) campaigning, even though regents are not paid. Powell Continued from Page 1 Q2: Powell said he thinks students should get a vote on governing boards. A voting student provides an important form of communication, Powell said. One student should represent the system, he said. Students should choose for themselves how the system would work, such as deciding which campus would send a student representative. One problem, though, is the “apathy that students have about voting and about politics,” he said. Q3: The regents must scrutinize the university budget to determine where costs can be cut, Powell said. “We need to find alternative sources of funding higher education instead of relying so heavily on tax dollars,” he said. Powell said he supports finding private sources to finance instructional equipment at UNL. “The movement from tax dollars would effectively slow down the cost to the student,” he said. Powell said he supports an endowment fund for parking. With the fund, students and faculty members pay for parking in some lots, such as those that are farther from campus. It would be a step in the right direction to reduce parking costs, he said. McArthur Continued from Page 1 more important issues, he said. McArthur said he supports giving the Ne braska Coordinating Commission for Postsecon dary Education more power and spelling out the regents’ powers. Q2: McArthur said he supports giving students voting power. He said he disagrees with those who say students arc only worried about the costs of textbooks and tuilion. “The concerns that a student regent brings to the board are necessary... in order to get true representation, in order to get the board to accurately reflect the university,” he said. Q3: McArthur said he would have to ask others to find out how to keep higher education costs affordable. 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