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Classifieds.17
April 19, 1990 University of Nebraska-Lincoln Vol. 89 No. 137
GLC chairman
to be elected
by full senate
Jennifer O’Cilka
Staff Reporter_
The chairman of the Government Liai
son Committee will be elected rather
than appointed this year because of
action by student leaders Wednesday night.
Members of the Association of Students ot
the University of Nebraska amended their by
laws to take the power of appointing the GLC
chairman from the president and give it to the
full senate.
The amendment also states that the GLC
chairman is responsible to the ASUN president
and can be dismissed by the senate.
ASUN President Phi I Gosch said thischangc
was included on his party’s platform, the VI
SION party, when he decided to run for the
position in March.
“Ever since I’ve been on campus, there
have been complaints that the ASUN president
can pick their successor,’ ’ Gosch said. “I think
the (senate) body would be more objective.”
Gosch said this action will answer students’
questions about the fairness of the system.
Each of the last three years, the GLC chair
has gone on to be ASUN president, he said.
The GLC chairman serves in one of the most
important student government positions, be
cause that person is in charge of all lobbying
efforts by ASUN, Gosch said.
Although the original legislation stated that
the ASUN executive committee would have
dismissal power over the GLC chairman. General
Studies Sen. Andrew Sigerson amended it to
give the full senate that pow'er.
“If we have the power to pul them on there,
we should have the power to take them off,’ ’ he
said.
College of Business Administration Sen.
Dave Gale said he feels that if the ASUN
president did not like the senate’s choice for
chairman, he would have an easier time dis
missing that choice if the executive committee
was left with that power.
In other business, the senate passed senate
resolution 1, calling for “full support of Earth
Day and Earth Week and co-sponsors the Earth
Day march and rally April 21.”
According to Sigerson, the legislation is
important since the last administration’s Earth
Day resolution is void.
“This signifies that Earth Day is important
to the senators because last year’s senate reso
lutions become obsolete when that senate leaves
office,” he said.
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Candidate Al Eurek gets a boost in his campaign tor state attorney general Wednesday afternoon. Eurek was filming
a commercial across from the State Capitol.
Official: Space shortage causes problems
By Jennifer O’Cilka
Staff Reporter _
Several colleges ai the University of Ne
braska-Lincoln have severe space short
ages for classes and research projects, a
UNL official said.
John Benson, director of institutional re
search planning and fiscal analysis, said the
space shortage is shared by the University of
Nebraska at Omaha, the University of Ne
braska Medical Center and many other cam
puses nationwide.
Benson said UNL’s problem has caused
discomfort for students and faculty members
because the “least desirable” areas of campus
have to be used when space is full.
These areas include classrooms that arc in
inconvcnicni locations, that are not in “great
shape, and basically don't have g<x>d environ
ments,” Benson said.
Benson said the space shortage is worst for
research. There’s no open space for new grants,
he said, and computers needed for current
research projects take up more space, Benson
said.
“A lot of these buildings were built in the
'50s and earlier, and now aren't holding the
programs they were designed for,” he said.
Benson said university officials are looking
al plans lo renovate cxisling buildings, making
them better able to accommodate technical
research.
UNL. also is renovating buildings to keep up
their quality, he said. UNL has a lot of older
buildings, and maintenance has been deferred
al times because of tight budgets, Benson said.
“We have to be sure lo have money in the
budgets lo apply to maintenance, so those
buildings we do have don’t deteriorate,” he
said.
Another solution officials are working on,
Benson said, is a proposal lo build a Nebraska
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Al Schaben/Daily Nebraskan
Peace pipe
Early Warning! member Amy Frederick blows bubbles as a peace symbol during Early
Warningl’s peace fair at Broyhill Fountain on Wednesday afternoon.
Chemist says fertilizer
results in contamination
By Steve Smith
Staff Reporter
Increased fertilizer use by Ne
braska farmers in the last 10
years has caused groundwater
contamination, said Mary Spalding,
associate profes
sor and research
chemist for the
University of Nc
braska-Lincoln’s
Conservation and
Survey Division.
Along with
her address
Wednesday in the
Nebraska Union,
Spalding showed
slides of contami
nated areas in the
state as part of a week-long series of
lectures on the environment in con
junction with Earth Day.
Nebraska farmers used about
755,000 tons of fertilizer - the third
highest total in the nation -- in 1987,
she said. And .V*,(XX),(XX) ions of
pesticide were applied to Nebraska
grounds the same year, second only
to California, she said.
Atra/ine, ibe pesticide most used
in Nebraska, is applied in the spring,
Spalding said. It then leaches into
ground water causing contamination.
Another contaminant, Spalding
said, arc nitrates. Nitrates also can
reach drinking water. In the human
bloodstream, nitrates alfcct oxygen
production, which can cause methe
moglobinemia, or Blue Baby Syn
drome, she said.
That condition can lead to mental
retardation and death in infants, she
said.
There arc natural reasons, such as
leaching and runoff, and artificial
reasons for groundwater contamina
tion
“Peoplejustnccdtobc more judi
cious in their use of fertilizer and
pesticide,” Spalding said. “People
know where to use the products, they
just don’t sometimes.”
