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Business Continued from Page 1 access to specialized faculty and more classes and job opportunities would be available. Trussed said. He said his campus “just wants to do more,” while the UNL campus wants to improve the quality of its classes. UNO business classes are bigger than others on campus and many of those classes are full, he said. “It’s not unusual for a student to have to stay an extra year to gradu ate,” Trussed said. UNO undergraduate business en rollment figures have stabilized at 3,650, he said. Graduate students in business total 629. The business col lege has 26 percent of UNO’s 16,661 students. Reno said 30 to 35 percent of Kearney graduates are from the busi ness college. The business college at Kearney has 2,200 business majors. Of those, 175 are graduate students. UNL 1989-90 figures show 2,920 students enrolled full-time in the business college with 193 enrolled part-time. Linda Anderson, director of spe cial projects at the UNL College of Business Administration, said UNL is trying to increase quality by reduc ing dependence on graduate teaching assistants and hiring more faculty to teach classes. The joint budget request for the three business colleges includes funds for more faculty, Anderson said. The budget proposal must pass through the NU Board of Regents and the Nebraska Legislature. Putensen said the 10-point plan will show the Legislature that the business colleges can use tax dollars more efficiently. Anderson said that through the 10 point plan officials would try not to duplicate courses unnecessarily. They would look at the courses that are not as strong on each campus and cooper ate to make them stronger, Anderson said. An example of coordination through the plan is already under way, she said. The cooperative master’s of business administration program al lows “site-bound” students in Scottsbluff to take classes over satel lite television, Anderson said. Also through the plan, the colleges — Beginning midnight Monday, Oct ! i 9:47 a.m. — Trash can taken, Ne braska Center lor Continuing Edu cation, 33rd and Holdrcgc streets, $80. 12:09 p.m. -- Stereo and tapes taken from auto, Harper-Schramm-Smiih | parking lot, SI25 damage, S335 loss. 3:28 p.m. — Video cassette re corder taken, Andrews Hall, S300. 3:31 p.m. -- Purse taken, Love Library, $20. 5:06 p.m. - Hit-and-run accident, 14th and Avery streets parking lot, $450. 5:30 p.m. -- Stereo, equalizer and tapes taken from auto, 14th and Avery streets parking lot, $130 damage, S700 loss. 5:55 p.m. - Bicycle taken, Neihardt Residence Hall bicycle rack, $ 175. 8:32 p.m. - Failure to appear in court warrant, Cathcr Residence Hall. STEAMBOAT JANUARY 2-12 + 5, 6 OR 7 NIGHTS BRECKENRID^r. JANUARY 2-9 ★ 5, 6 OR 7 NIGHTS VAIL/BEAVER CRF|X JANUARY 2-12 ★ 5 fi OR 7 NIGHTS M ^ may coordinate career planning serv ices, she said. “If a student is at a community college and feels it is too small, we want to help them,” Anderson said. “Some students are not successful at UNL and UNO, and perhaps a com munity college could meet their needs.” Other benefits of the program would include the coordination of interna tional travel programs to offer more opportunities on all campuses and special events such as lecture series. Another part of the plan calls for smoother credit transfers between the three campuses, Anderson said. She said this is important because some students “fall through the cracks” during the transfer process. “Kearney is an area we want to make sure we work on,” she said. “If a student feels UNO or UNL. is too large, we want to work them in at Kearney.” Reno said the plan would be a special help to “students who are highly mobile,” or those who can move from one place to another. “We want to develop in those mobile students the ability to transfer credits,” he said. m Identify and eliminate unnecessary duplication in postsecondary business education programs and services which are repetitive beyona existing demand and overlapping in geographic scope. ■ Integrate administrative efforts m Efficiently utilize existing facilities by coordinat ing delivery of services, including reduction of tax jtollars spent on new building construction. Integrate outreach programs that provide j^rvices to Nebraska communities. ■ Cooperate in joint reseach activities. Coordinate career planning services supported by cooperation on credit transfers and admission c •pd nrollment policies. 5 Expand scope of existing programs and serv Hes through telecommunications | Coordinate special events, lectures and speak- * Cooperate in coordinating the undergraduate | iprriculum. § Coordinate graduate programs to efficiently meet £ demand for advanced mjsiness education. __H Officials will look at the content of courses, rather than their titles, when deciding whether the credits are trans ferable. Eventually, Reno said, officials hope a council including all state colleges and universities will meet two or three times a year. Political party reforms passed By Cindy Wostrel Staff Reporter_ ASUN’s Electoral Commission Tuesday passed proposals to require more candidates to form political parties and to require parties and independent candidates to list contri bution sources. No group of fewer than 12 people could form a party under the pro posal, which probably will go for approval to the Association of Stu dents of the University of Nebraska Senate Oct. 17. Electoral Commission Director Bart Vitek said that larger student election groups would show broad-based sup port of the group and display that the group would try to implement its proposals. Restricting groups to larger sizes also would help stop the formation of joke parties, he said. Under the current rules, any group of two or more people can form a party. Another proposal passed by the commission would require that par ties and independent candidates pro vide a list of who donated money and how much they donated. The commission supported a pro posal to allow unlimited spending by independent candidates and student election groups, but restricted the amount candidates could donate to each party or independent candidate. But because the ASUN president is the student regent, who acts as a public official instead of a student official, federal regulations may rc quire that the student regent could make unlimited contributions, Vitek said. First and second vice presidential candidate1- would be allowed to do nate $250, and advisory board candi dates, Senate candidates and non candidates would be allowed to do nate $25. The current rule requires 35 signa lures for each Senate and advisory board candidate. Racism committee to be debated By Jennifer O'Ciika Senior Reporter Creating a standing student gov ernment committee to deal with ra cism and cultural concerns on cam pus will be debated by student leaders tonight. The Association of Studcnlsof the University of Nebraska will consider adding a sixth standing committee to student government. Other permanent ASUN committees include the Com mittee for Fees Allocation, Special Topics and the Academic Commit tee. The committee would consist of several ASUN senators and minority studcnts-at-large, who would be cho sen through interviews. The number of committee members has not yet been decided. Journalism Sen. Megan Kim said she sponsored the amendment to the AS UN bylaws because minority stu dents need better representation. In the past, racial issues were in cluded under the Special Topics committee, Kim said, but many stu dents felt those issues didn't gel enough attention. “They deserve special attention,” she said. “They arc a sizable group on campus and they are very under represented on AS UN.” Kim said she is surprised that such a committee was not created sooner. “If it (the amendment) passes, it will be the first step toward making any attempt to deal with racial is sues,” she said. ASUN President Phil Gosch called the committee an “open door” that ASUN has needed for a long time. He said the idea for the committee was brought up during last spring s ASUN campaign. The committee’s creation would be a way to “create a better student environment and be a more inclusive student government,” he said. “(The committee) provides mi nority concerns, cultural concerns, with the legitimacy of student gov ernment and the channels we (student leaders) have,” Gosch said. “It pro vides us with a more effective means to address these issues.” ■M n Mifif t ry pt niiti §m I WEDNESDAY 950 NIGHT Draws Calls Longnecks Wells IX- ;N DJ-DANCING .JC. \\ POOL UNDERGROUND FOOD ‘ Vv ‘ ~ir FUN NO COVER! _dance at the New UNDERGROUND! hast Union Dairy Store to be closed From Staff Reports_ The Union Board voted Tuesday to allow the East Union Dairy Store to close. Daryl Swanson, director of the unions, said the store, which is pri vately owned, has barely been break ing even. “They haven’t lost any money, but they’re not making any money either,’ ’ Swanson said. “It’s not prof itable for them or us to slay.’’ Swanson said the store also was having trouble finding employees to work on East Campus. The store will close by Thanksgiv ing if possible. The Union Board might survey students to sec what they want to replace the dairy store with. The board also discussed the pos sibility of creating a College Bowl trivia team for UNL. Devin Bird, board president, attended a seminar on the College Bowl competition last week. The cost of the team would be about $50 per team member for a question packet, costing the univer sity from $750 to $ 1,500 for the team
