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ASUN will address racism, ballot initiatives By Jennifer O’Cilka Senior Reporter Creating a belter campus atmos phere and addressing ballot initia tives that af fect students are jobs facing student government this year, a stu dent leader said. Phil Gosch, Association of Stu dents of the University of Nebraska president, and three other officers were chosen by students in March elec tions. AS UN serves as the student voice in University of Nebraska-Lin coln government. Gosch serves on the NU Board of Regents as a non-voting member. First Vice President Stacy Molding acts as a liaison with the faculty senate and presides over the AS UN senate, and Second Vice President Yolanda Scott serves on the appointments board and docs public relations. Students elect senators from each college. The sen ate meets weekly to debate and pass legislation on campus issues. Gosch said student leaders hope to inform students about ballot initia tives that will affect them. These include the proposed 2-percent lid on budget spending and LB 1141, the restructuring of college governance in Nebraska. Gosch said he thought students should realize college is a different atmosphere where they can meet people from many races and back grounds. “Our job is to create an atmos phere that is educational and protects everyone’s interests,” he said. “Our job is to do what we can to make this a belter place for students by con cerning ourselves with improvement” Scott said ASUN is planning a Cultural Diversity Retreat for Sept. 28-30. Several student organizations and the student affa irs office arc spon soring the event. Scott said a California professional team, New Bridges, would teach the “-isms of oppressions and how to be better allies of those of different cul tures and those from our own cul tures.” “This is different because they will be doing a lot of individual and personal growth and education about racism,” she said. “All will develop internally as well as externally. We will confront ourselves about our own idiosyncrasies and fears, and confront each other as a group.” Also, ASUN is working toward a series of cultural diversity events Sept. 24-28, Scott said. Gosch said the NU Board of Re gents approved revisions in the stu dent code of conduct this summer that ASUN members worked for last year. These revisions included reor ganizing and clarifying the wording of the code and adding a violation about the misuse of computers. Revisions to the student code cre ated 29 misconduct violations, in cluding those dealing with new prob lems like computer fraud. The old code only included 10 violations. ASUN members and Vice Chan cellor for Student Affairs James Gric sen recommended revising parts of the code without the addition of a fighting words policy. This is because of the continuing debate over such a policy,Gosch said. ‘T think there are some students that think fighting words policies arc beneficial,” Gosch said. “I think it will continue to be a divisive issue.” Gosch said the controversy over the graduate studies senators would continue to be important this fall. Last year, ASUN members decided to petition in support of a student who won the Division of Continuing Stud ies senate scat. The student was in formed alter the election that she was ineligible because she carried fewer than 12 credit hours. --1 ASUN bylaws require senators to take at least 12 credit hours. Gosch said senators petitioned students this summer to allow gradu ate studies students taking only three -4 4"-— Our job is to do what we can to make this a better place for students by concerning ourselves with improvement. Gosch ASUN president -1 ♦ credit hours to become ASUN sena tors. “Unfortunately, the Division of Continuing Studies is filled with a lot of nontraditional students. Most of those arc working, have families and the average only takes three hours,’’ Gosch said. “Only 1 percent take 12. “If we’re going to represent those (graduate students) we need to change the hour limit from 12 to three.’’ Another ASUN concern is getting people involved in leadership, he said. To reach out to students, ASUN is having an open house Sept. 12 in its offices. “It will give (students) an oppor tunity to meet their college senators or board members,’’ Scott said. Also, ASUN will conduct an inter viewing skills workshop for any members who want to apply for lead crship positions, and two leadership workshops for advisory board mem bers and campuswide committees, Scott said. Gosch said students who want to get involved should stop in the ASUN office or call. 4 ‘There arc any number of ways to gel involved,” he said. Several committee and senatorial positions are open this fall, Gosch said. These include an Arts and Sci ences senator, an agriculture college senator and a residence hall seat on the Committee for Fees Allocation, Also, membership is open on the Government Liaison Committee, the organization that lobbies the Legisla ture on student issues. “I’d encourage any student inter ested in student government or a cer tain issue to come in,” Gosch said. “Any student interested, I’ll find something for them to do.” Although some students have viewed ASUN as apathetic, Gosch said, he was confident this year’s student government could get things done. 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Faculty felt the University of Nebraska-Lincoln might fail to at tract students because of a lack of the major, he said. After a two-year proc ess, the Center for Biological Chem istry received final approval by the regents this summer to add the major, he said. Only one new class will be added lo the curriculum for the biochemis try major, Knochc said. The major will combine a number of courses that already exist at UNL, he said. The new class will explore career opportunities in biochemistry, he said. Brochures will be prepared and distributed to students who arc inter ested in this biochemistry major, Knoche said. It also will appear in the next student undergraduate bulletin that will be available in January. The new major will be offered through the College of Arts and Sci ences and the College of Agriculture, Knoche said. Science requirements will be the same for both colleges, he said, but they will have different lib eral education requirements. 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