Regents
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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
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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
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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.
Fees must be kept down, McArthur said,
because the university loses students who can
not afford increases.
“That’s no way to run a university,” he
said, “to keep throwing people out because of
money.”
But to maintain a quality university in the
future, he said, students may have to pay higher
tuition.
“If I could pay less, but the university
education would not be quite as good, I would
be against it,” he said. |
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