Regent: Revised guidelines need attention
By Jennifer O’Cilka
Senior Reporter
Regent Kermit Hansen of Elkhom Thurs
day said he will not pursue plans to bring up on
emergency status revised role and mission state
ments for consideration by the NU Board of
Regents today.
This is because Kearney State College in
troduced its role and mission statement Thurs
day before the NU Board of Regents Planning
and Governance Subcommittee, of which Hansen
is chairman, he said.
The regents are meeting today in Varner
Hall at 8 a.m.
The role and mission statements for NU
central administration, the University of Ne
braska-Lincoln, the University of Nebraska
Medical Center and the University of Nebraska
at Omaha were brought up at the Sept. 7 board
meeting as an information item.
Before Kearney introduced its role and
mission, Hansen said, he might have consid
ered bringing the statements before the board
on emergency.
The campus role and mission statements are
the “most important” things the regents have to
consider, he said. And, although the issue did
not make it onto October’s agenda, Hansen
said, he thought it should be considered as soon
as possible.
“I think early action is in the best interests of
the board,” he said.
Regents Chairman Don Blank of McCook
said the board should not consider the issue
today because the consulting firm hired by the
Nebraska Legislature, Widmayer and Associ
ates of Chicago, has not released its recom
mendations yet.
Widmayer is studying role and mission as
the second part of the LB247 study mandated
by the Legislature.
The firm should release the role and mission
recommendations soon after the November
regents meeting, Blank said.
“Some of the regents and I tend to agree
that it might be a little presumptuous” to act
before those recommendations are made, Blank
said, because the state constitution gives the
Legislature responsibility for the role and mission
of the university campuses.
The content of proposed role and mission
statements is not the reason the issue did not
appear on today’s agenda, Blank said.
“I don’t think it’s a big issue,” he said. “It’s
proccdurally how we move forward, not only
for the benefit of the university but also the
state.”
Hansen said the regents should take action
before the consulting firm makes its role and
mission recommendations.
“We need to say what business we’re in,”
Hansen said. “We need something to discuss
away from rather than react to.”
UNL Student Regent Phil Gosch, however,
said it seems “fiscally irresponsible to approve
the new role and mission statements” before
Widmayer and Associates make their recom
mendations.
The role and mission statements are long
term guides for the university, he said, and
delaying tho decision for a month or two would
not hurt.
Regent Margaret Robinson of Norfolk said
she feels the two regents to be elected Nov. 6,
who will join the board in January, should be a
part of the role and mission decisions because
they will be making the role and mission work.
“I hate to have anyone feel that something
was rushed without their input,” she said.
Regents to consider repairs on some UNL buildings
From Staff Reports
The NU Board of Regents on Fri
day plans to act on a resolution that
would allow repairs to the University
Health Center, Nebraska Unions and
some university housing buildings.
If the board approves the resolu
tion, $558,700 would be spent on the
repairs.
Requested repairs include the
conversion of kitchen space into class
room space at the health center for
$40,000; the purchase of cash regis
ters, micro-computers and software,
and student ID card scanners for the
unions costing $68,800; mattress and
drapery replacements in residence hall
rooms for $55,000; and a new roof for
Abel Residence Hall costing $80,000.
The board also will consider mini
mum conduct standards regarding
drugs and alcohol for students and
employees.
Joe Rowson, University of Nebraska
director of public affairs, said the
board needs the conduct standards to
be in compliance with the federal
Drug Free Schools and Communities
Act passed by Congress in 1989.
The regents have had a drug policy
statement since 1967, he said.
The regents also will consider the
re-roofing of Mantcr, Hamilton and
Avery halls on the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln campus. The proj
ect would cost S119,366 and could be
finished before winter if approved.
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whole church that’s behind the pro
life movement.”
Munn said the use of a UNL phone
number leaves the impression that the
university is condoning an attack on
Catholicism.
He noted that the Women’s Re
source Center is financed by the
Nebraska Unions through the Cam
pus Activities and Programs office.
‘‘We can’t be using fees or univer
sity money to support this kind of
activity,” he said.
Nell Eckersley, a facilitator for
Early Warning!, said the Women’s
Resource Center was not involved in
the flier’s production.
Lisa Weems, chairwoman of the
Women’s Words and Music commit
tee of the University Program Coun
cil, said many fee-supported groups
take positions on political issues.
“Practically every student organi
zation on campus has co-sponsored
Anti-Apartheid Week,” she said, “and
that’s definitely a political issue.”
Richard Duncan, a UNL law pro
fessor, said he’s concerned that Catho
lics are being targeted in what should
be a political, not religious, battle.
“I think Cardinal O’Connor has
pushed himself into this debate”
through his public commentary,
Duncan said. But the poster takes the
issue too far, he added.
“The language itself — ‘the Pope’s
Mouthpiece’. . . if it were Jewish,
you’d call it anti-Semitism,” he said.
Rayburn said the reference to the
pope was used to make sure people
are “aware that Catholics are very
pro-life.”
“Because the pope is in the public
eye,” she said, “he’s going to be brought
into the issue.”
Duncan said it’s ironic that GLSA
is co-sponsoring the event because
that organization continually pushes
for an end to intolerance of homo
sexuals.
“They’re not practicing what they
preach,” he said.
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