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May 1, 1990 University of Nebraska-Lincoln Vol. 89 No 144
Parking Committee sends
recommendations to Goebel
By Pat Dinslage
Staff Reporter
Student parking rates for 1990-91 would
remain the same, but faculty and staff
preferred rates would change, under rec
ommendations approved by the UNL Parking
Advisory Committee on Monday in the Ne
braska Union.
The recommendation, to be forwarded to
John Goebel, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
vice chancellor for business and finance, keeps
student rates at $50 for regular parking permits
and $150 for preferred permits. Proposals ear
lier this semester suggested raising regular
parking permits to $60.
The committee recommended differentiated
preferred parking permits for faculty and staff
members. The permits would allow either 11
hour, five-day-a-week parking or 24-hour, seven
day-a-week parking.
Rates would be $200 a year for the 11-hour
permits and $300 for the 24-hour permits,
according to the committee’s recommenda
tion. Regular faculty and staff parking permits
would remain available for $50 per year.
Doug Oxley, committee chairperson, said
an annual rate of $10 already has been recom
mended for the remote parking lots, and the
committee is discussing the possibility of a
shuttle service from these lots to the City
Campus.
Remote areas include lots cast of 22nd Street,
near the Devancy Sports Center and east of
14th Street, he said.
Lt. John Burke, UNL Parking Division
administrator, said about 180 additional fac
ulty and staff preferred parking stalls will be
available next year.
Students will gain an additional 15 to 20
parking spots in the parking areas at 19th and R
streets when construction of driveways into the
lots is completed this year, Burke said. He said
that in the last few years, between 8,500 and
12,000 stalls have been added to campus, most
of them for students.
The committee also voted to delay four
construction projects previously approved by
the committee.
Ray Coffey, UNL business manager, said a
moratorium on construction spending will al
low the university to pay off some of the debt
from previous projects.
But lights will be installed in the student
parking lots at 19th and R streets and at 10th
and Q streets as planned this year.
Ron Fuller, staff assistant for the parking
division, said installation of the lights will go
ahead because they are needed for security.
ASUN to consider bill urging
divestment from South Africa
By Victoria Ayotte
Senior Reporter
The University of Nebraska Foundation
should take responsibility for its invest
ments in South Africa, say supporters of
an AS UN bill urging the foundation to estab
lish scholarships for black South African stu
dents.
The Association of Students of the Univer
sity of Nebraska will move to consider the bill
on emergency status Wednesday. The bill calls
for the foundation to establish 10 full scholar
ships for black South African students, and
urges the foundation to establish a divestment
policy.
The NU Foundation - a private organiza
tion that raises money for the university — does
not have a policy on South African divestment.
The University of Nebraska administration has
a divestment policy, but still has some invest
ments in South Africa, said Joseph Akpan,
president of the Nigerian Student Association.
AS UN Sen. Chris Potter of the College of
Arts & Sciences, a sponsor of the bill, said the
proposal stems from an April 16 symposium on
South African invcslmentorganized by Akpan.
“It was basically his (Akpan’s) idea,” Pot
ter said.
But Potter agreed with the idea that AS UN
should take a stand on South African invest
ment.
“They (the foundation) should at least ac
knowledge . . . that they have some sort of
responsibility to black South Africans,” Potter
said.
Akpan said ASUN’s bill would be a first
step in getting negotiations started with the
foundation to divest.
“It’s a good beginning,” he said, although
more discussion must follow. Akpan said he
would like to see research and study on issues
in South Africa and possibly development of
some courses on South Africa.
Akpan said another option would be to set
up a committee to monitor the practices of
companies the university and foundation in
vest in that do business in South Africa.
The scholarship option, Akpan said, would
help send a message that the foundation does
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Joe Heinzle/Daily Nebraskan
Learniri and burniri
Bell Mehring, 38, studies under the afternoon sun in front of Burnett Hall
on Monday. Mehring is a senior psychology major.
Loan exit interviews scheduled this week
From Staff Reports
Graduating seniors who have
received financial aid could
jeopardize their ability to
borrow money if they leave the
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
without attending an interview for
borrowers.
Federal regulations require all
graduating seniors to participate
in an interview if they received
one of these forms of federal fi
nancial assistance: Stafford Loan,
Perkins Loan or Supplemental
Loan for Students.
Three interview sessions will
be conducted this week. Students
must attend only one session. Each
will last about 20 minutes. The
sessions are at 12:30 and 2 p.m.
Thursday and 12:30 p.m. Friday.
Hubble helped by professor’s idea
By Todd Neeley
Staff Reporter
Designers of the recently de
ployed Hubble Space Telescope
owe some of its engineering to
a University of Nebraska-Lincoln
professor.
James Samson, a Charles Mach
professor of physics and astronomy,
said that if it hadn’t been for the use of
an entry in his book “Techniques of
Vacuum Ultraviolet Spectroscopy,”
the telescope wouldn’t be able to catch
ultraviolet rays.
Samson said ultraviolet rays en
able the telescope to catch light from
scars that appear dim to die human
eye.
He said the technique described in
his book, published in 1980, converts
ultraviolet light to light that can be
seen.
The procedure involves coaling a
telescope’s light reflectors with a
fluorescent material that helps pick
up ultraviolet rays.
Samson said the original telescope
wouldn’t be able to pick up ultravio
let light, which comes from the sun
and stars, because it didn’t contain
the coating.
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rratemities at Northeastern colleges
may follow trend, allow women to join
By Cindy Wostrel
Staff Reporter
Several Northeastern colleges are
reviewing their fraternity sys
tems after a college in Middlc
bury, Vt., adopted a policy requiring
its six fraternities to admit women.
Jim Terhune, Middlcbury College’s
assistant dean, said fraternities there
won’t be recognized officially by the
college if they don’t admit women.
And the national fraternities there
must have the bylaws changed for
their national charters by Dec. 31,
1991, or break with their national
associations to remain officially rec
ognized by Middlebury, he said.
Other institutions considering
similar changes include Trinity Col
lege in Hartford, Conn., Hamilton
College in Clinton, N.Y., and Wesleyan
University in Middletown, Conn.,
Terhune said.
By forcing the fraternities to admit
women, Terhune said, college offi
cials arc trying to enforce Middlc
bury’s policy against discrimination
based on gender, race, religious pref
erences and other characteristics.
“We all believe it’s a positive
step,” he said.
He hopes integration of women
into the fraternities will be rapid.
“The hope is, within two years it
will be a 50-50 ratio of men and
women,” he said, with similar male
to female ratio of leaders.
Sororities no longer exist at Mid
dlcbury because of lack of interest, he
said.
The action was taken in response
to a year-long review conducted by a
group commissioned by the school’s
president and board of trustees, he
said.
Tcrhunc said the decision was an
affirmation of the school's policy of
the last 10 years. The change affects
how the local chapters relate to their
national organizations, he said.
Middlcbury’s fraternities are some
of the nicest residential space on
campus, Terhunc said.
Fraternities will be able to main
tain membership in their national
organizations until Dec. 31, he said,
in order to allow' the local chapters to
petition lor changes in their bylaws.
Local organizations must break with
their national chapters on Jan. 1 if the
national chapters refuse to aliow the
chapters to admit women, he said.
The fraternities have announced
intentions to try to comply with the
trustees’ ruling, as they were required
to do by March 31, he said.
Richard Cochran, president of Chi
Psi Fraternity, opposed the board’s
action, saying fraternities are viable
and necessary.
Fraternities provide the opportu
nity for males age 18 to 21 to mature
and gain identity away from sexual
tension, he said.
“They deserve to have that op
tion,’’ he said.
“I think they (college officials)
should have expanded the social sys
tem’ rather than forcing fraternities
to admit women, he said.
Cochran supports having both
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