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Classifieds.13 April 30,1990 University of Nebraska-Lincoln Vol. 89 No. 144 ASUN president helps Haughton fight for senate seat Student court refuses to amend constitution By Emily Rosenbaum Senior Reporter The University of Nebraska-Lincoln Stu dent Court decided there is no room for interpretation in the ASUN Constitution to allow Sandy Haughton to serve as a senator for the Division of Continuing Studies. Haughton was elected Association of Stu dents of the University of Nebraska senator for the division, but later was informed she could not serve because of a rule requiring senators to carry at least 12 credit hours. She carries six. Haughton said she decided to fight the rule, and ASUN President Phil Gosch drafted a request for a student court judgment. In his request, Gosch wrote, “representa tion is deserved but obstructed by an outdated and inflexible provision.” The student court dismissed the request, stating that, “. . . when the language of the constitution is plain and unambiguous in its meaning, there exists no room for interpreta tion.” The A SUN Constitution states that to be eligible for the senate, a candidate must “be regularly enrolled as a full-time student, either as an undergraduate or graduate student.” Haughton said the decision seems to be a case of “taxation without representation.” Continuing studies students began paying student fees this year so, they were given a senate seat for the first time. “They seem to be saying they want our money, but they won’t give us a senator,” Haughton said. Haughton said the 12-hour requirement is unfair for continuing studies students because they work during the day and have to take night classes. Only seven of 795 continuing studies stu dents carry 12 hours, and they would not be able to attend ASUN meetings Wednesday nights because of their night classes, she said. The court’s ruling stated that ‘ ‘although this situation presents obvious issues of fairness and equity, it is not within the power of this judicial body to amend the constitution on its own volition.” Despite the ruling, Haughton said, she isn’t giving up. “I can’t just stop now,” she said. She said she and Gosch want to gather enough student signatures to allow students to vote on amending the constitution. The constitution states that 5 percent of students must sign the petition in order to have a student vote. The student vote has to come within 10 days after the petition is given to the ASUN Electoral Commission. The amendment would make it possible for students from continuing studies with fewer hours than the needed 12 to run for ASUN, Gosch said. Gosch said he’s disappointed with the court’s decision,and he will continue to help Haughton by drafting a petition. “Perhaps there’s a greater leeway in the interpretation of the constitution than the court chose,” he said. NU greek officials say companies try trickery to sell unordered items By Matt Herek Staff Reporter For several years, University of Nebraska-Lincoln fraternities and sororities have received unordered supplies in the mail with unwanted bills for them. According to sorority house moth ers and greek affairs officials, com panies try to trick fraternities and sororities into buying unordered items in several ways. Sometimes a sales representative calls a house to find out the name of the house manager. Soon after, the house receives supplies in the mail, along with a bill to the treasurer with the house manager’s name on the invoice. Other times, a salesperson calls a house manager or house mother to ask if they want to reorder something that never was ordered. If they say no, they often receive the supplies any way, alorfg with a bill. When Pipi Peterson, house mother of Alpha Delta Pi Sorority, was of fered a camera just for talking to a telephone sales representative, she didn’t accept. But she received the camera any way, along with a bill for supplies that she didn’t order. In the last four years, Peterson said, she has received cleaning sup plies, light bulbs and bills that neither she nor the house manager ordered. The bills Peterson received were for about $150 to $180, she said. Alpha Delta Pi sends the supplies back or makes a reasonable effort to do so and then keeps them, she said. Peterson has sent letters to the Better Business Burean about the problem, she said. Greek houses elect new officers every year, and companies prey upon their lack of knowledge of the previ ous year’s business, she said. Dave Willman, Interfratemity Council president, said companies try to take advantage of the greek system because it’s self-governed. Greek houses have no reason to go outside Lincoln for their supplies and they should be wary of companies that call from out of state, he said. Jayne Wade Anderson, director of Greek Affairs, said her office started a vendor policy in 1987 to protect fraternities and sororities from dis honest door-to-door salespeople. The policy states that if salespeople want to sell their products at greek houses, they have to obtain permits at the greek affairs office, Anderson said. Before granting a permit, a ven dor’s references are checked and a $50 registration must be paid, she said. Gosch says code changes make violations clearer By Jennifer O’Cilka Staff Reporter Although student and faculty rep resentatives Friday recom mended removing the “fight ing words” and sexual harassment provisions from revisions to the Stu dent Code of Conduct, they recom mended keeping other changes. Phil Gosch, president of the Asso ciation of Students of the University of Nebraska, said the changes made in the code of conduct have been needed for a long lime. Gosch said officials involved with student judicial affairs kept a list of problems they had with the code and portions of it that confused students. “ It all came to a point where it had to be changed,” he said, because too many students were confused about the code and there were too many loopholes, he said. If the regents approve the recom mendations.Goseh said, students will have a better understanding of what they can and cannot do. “They don’t have to guess if they are violating the code” because the nbw code will be clearer, he said. Gosch said the old code contained only 10 misconduct violations, while the new one lists 29. “This will help the student judi cial office,” he said. The new code includes problems that have come up in the last 10 years, such as computer fraud, he said. And it gives students a cleareT message about the process they must go through if they violate the code, he said. The recommendations include the following: . • Changing academic dishonesty to include those “soliciting to help another’ ’ student cheat. The current See CODE on 6 A HbJ Melissa McReynolds/Daily Nebraskan Mistaken identity Deana Meisinger, a sophomore theater major, portrays a woman who mistakes her husband’s twin brother, played by Lance Lippold, a graduate student, to be her husband in “The Comedy of Errors.” The fheatrix production will be held May 3,5 and 6 at 8 p.m. at the Studio Theatre in the Temple Building, 12th and R streets. 200 attend ceremony New research buildings dedicated By James P. Webb Staff Reporter CLAY CENTER - Animal ag riculture production was bol stered when two new research facilities were added at the Roman L. Hruska U.S. Meat Animal Research Center near here, speakers at the dedication of the buildings said Sat urday. More than 2(X) livestock industry representatives were on hand for the dedication of The Great Plains Vet erinary Educational Center Building and the Animal Health Systems Re search Laboratory Building. University of Nebraska research ers at the $7.5 million center and laboratory, called MARC, will con duct veterinary and education research in conjunction with officials at Kan sas State University and the U.S. Agricultural Research Service. The veterinary center contains classrooms, a library, computer teach ing and clinical laboratories, treat ment, surgery and post-mortem ar eas, and a 20-student dormitory. Gary Rupp, the center’s director, said Ihc veterinary center will pro vide one to eight weeks of training on a rotating basis for more than 100 veterinary students in KSU’s program, including 30 from the University of Nebraska. A minimum of two years of pre veterinary study are required before students may enter the KSU program, he said. One-quarter of the KSU’s 90 student veterinary program will be gin training in May, he said. NU will provide instruction for veterinary students and participate in the medical care of 25,000 research animals, he said. Marlin Massengale, University ol Ncbraska-LincoInchanccllorandNU interim president, said the center will help U.S. livestock production com pete in “rapidly changing world markets.” “If we’re going to compete and stay ahead of this great world of ours, we must do it on our intellectual capacity," he said. Dean Plowman, ARS administra tor, said that despite challenges by animal research critics, animal agri culture will remain strong becauc: of an expected doubling of the world population in 30 to 40 years. “That’s a tremendous challenge to feed the world,” he said. “Wc have vast acreages and land areas in this country, as well as other parts of the world, that would not be suitable to growing any other crops except those that can be used by ani mals,” Plowman said. Gene mapping, which will be added to the ARS program next year, and biotechnology are two expanding areas of research that promise to improve livestock quality, he said. “We need to be able to evaluate genes that control growth and repro duction, and rcsisiance to disease ... and really speed up the progress that we make in making animals better,” Plowman said. Plowman said Congress is consid ering giving the center a start on such programs. Currently, MARC’s budget is $10 million. Congress is considering a 15 percent increase of $1.4 million. Rep. Virginia Smith of Nebraska, See CLAY on 6
