HSik IT "'ll LJdJLLy ^ WEATHER INDEX
h wl ■ §K _ _ _ _ ® Today, mostly sunny and cool, northwest wind .. , ,
I H *4§ 10-20 miles per hour becoming light and variable ^®’*,sD'9 ,
y&H 1 M m m T® Wr*1 §L * S r ^BT^® m the afternoon, high in the low to m,d 50s “.tonal J
W m ^sMI mA m m Tonight, mostly dear, low around 30 Friday, °,vertslons 5
ym |f JB 1 1 ESS1"9 d°UdineSS and warmer' high in the c£Vf(eds.14
Thursday, October 18, 1990__University of Nebraska-Lincoln Vol. 90 No. 37
AS UN defeats racial minority committee
By Jennifer O’Cilka
Senior Reporter
After about two hours of emo
tional debate, student leaders
Wednesday night voted down
an amendment to their bylaws that
would have created a standing cul
tural diversity committee.
About 40 students packed the gal
lery to voice their views at the meet
ing of the Association of Students of
the University of Nebraska. Emotions
ran high as several students and sena
tors spoke about the issue of whether
to add gay, lesbian and handicapped
students in the Bylaw F Amendment
to Bylaw No. 1.
The original bylaws change would
have created a cultural affairs com
mittee “responsible for investigating
issues relating to the campus life of
racial minorities on campus.”
The proposed committee would
have consisted of four AS UN sena
tors appointed by the speaker of the
senate and seven studcnts-at-largc,
including two African-Americans, two
international students, one Asian
American, one Mcxican-American and
one American Indian.
The bylaws change was tabled two
weeks ago and came to the floor as
unfinished business. The change, which
required a two-thirds majority to pass,
failed by a vote of 11-12.
Journalism Sen. Megan Kim, who
sponsored the bylaws change, spoke
against its passage.
“As a result of the past two weeks
... I can no longer support Bylaw F,”
Kim said.
Kim said she lost sight of the fact
that AS UN exists to serve all students
when considering the bylaws change.
She said she was not sure whether
the committee would work as it was
intended to under a different AS UN
administration, and she questioned
making such a committee permanent.
“I want the record to show that
there is a minority student speaking
against Bylaw F,” Kim said, referring
to herself.
College ol Arts and Sciences Sen.
Chris Potter introduced amendments
to delete the word “racial” from all
parts of the bylaws change and to add
gay, lesbian and handicapped students
to the committee.
Potter said racial minorities are
not the only minorities who should be
included in the group.
“By creating a standing commit
tee to deal exclusively with racial
affairs, I think it is loo restrictive,”
Potter said.
Paul Moore, a senior speech com
munications major, supported Pot
tcr’s amendments.
Moore said the amendments would
have created “a diverse group of people
working against oppression as a
whole.”
“Together they can create a much
stronger committee,1' he said.
ASUN Second Vice President
Yolanda Scott said she was not in
favor of Potter’s proposed amend
ments.
She said it is not possible to make
the committee all-inclusive.
“Oppression is not equal for the
various minority groups,” Scott said.
The forms of oppression are related,
but not equal, she said.
Scott received a round of applause
from the gallery after suggesting ASUN
pass the bylaws change dealing only
with racial minorities and later create
more standing committees dealing with
gay, lesbian, and handicapped issues.
Florencio Flores Palomo, a junior
graphic art major, said racial minori
ties are a separate group, and other
minorities should be separated into
their own committees.
“I don’t see the fear in setting up
(several) committees,” he said. “You
might have to do more work, but I’m
sorry. That’s what you were elected
to do.”
Palomo said that passing the change
dealing only with racial minorities
would not make other minorities angry.
Denise Campbell,a junior English
major, agreed, saying such action
would show that ASUN works for
minorities.
She said she supports equal repre
sentation for gay, lesbian and handi
capped students on other committees.
ASUN President Phil Gosch said it
See ASUN on 3
Commissioner: Lid
opposition tactics
should be positive
By Thomas Clouse
Staff Reporter
Nebraska colleges and universities should
stay away from “doom and gloom’
tactics in opposing the proposed 2 per
cent spending lid, a member of the Nebraska
Coordinating Commission for Postsccondary
Education said Wednesday.
Paula Wells, representing the 2nd Congres
sional District on the commission, said col
leges and universities arc not showing support
ers of the lid what the institutions are doing to
improve financial management.
Commission members responded to com
ments by representatives of some Nebraska
colleges and universities at a hearing in the
State Capitol. The representatives were invited
by the commission to comment on what effects
the 2 percent lid would have on their institu
tions.
The lid amendment, which will go before
Nebraska voters Nov. 6, would limit spending
increases for state and local governments to 2
percent a year.
Kcsponuing to comments by some repre
sentatives that the amendment would cause
stiff budget cuts, Wells said that the best de
fense would be for institutions to admit that
there is room for improvement in budget man
agement. Institutions should react to the lid
threat with measures to improve budget man
agement, she said.
Negative responses to the amendment arc
turning off voters, she said.
Joan Bumey, representing the 1st Congres
sional District on the commission, said the
voting public has been numbed by misinforma
tion concerning the effects the lid would have
on higher education.
Bumey said she was astounded by the “apathy
and lack of understanding” displayed by voters
concerning the impact of the lid.
Martin Massengale, NU interim president
and University of Nebraska Lincoln chancel
lor. said in a written statement to the commis
sion that the effect of the 2 percent lid on the
current year is poorly understood.
The lid would affect all slate and local
government operations retroactively, he said,
including those that are vital to maintaining
public health and safely.
And, he said, the lid likely would have a
devastating effect on UNL’s ability to serve its
students.
Eric Seacrcst, commission chairman, said
the stale annually subsidizes postsecondary
education with about $3(X) million in stale
funds.
This money, he said, allows for lower tui
tion for students and pays for research and
Eublic service activities. These programs would
c upset, he said, if the lid passed
Massengale said slate-supported colleges
would lose about S24 million *n the current
year if the lid passes.
On the four university campuses, Massen
gale said, budget cuts could reach $65 million
For the coming year. Kearney Slate College
See COMMISSION on 3
Panelists: Women face timeless obstacles
By James P. Webb
Staff Reporter _
Women Celebrating Diversity panelists
told about 80people Wednesday night
that while career opportunities for
women are steadily increasing, timeless prob
lems still face working women.
The panelists said today’s women may suc
ceed in any field, provided they’re confident,
well-educated and determined. They warned
women to be aware of problems such as dis
crimination, competition from other women
and family planning.
The five-member panel discussion in the
Wick Alumni Center was sponsored by Gradu
ate Women in Business, a group in the Univer
sity of Nebraska-Lincoln business college.
Dr. Yvonne Davenport, a practicing obste
trician in Lincoln, said female doctors will be
a “big calling card” for the obstetrics and gyne
cology fields as patients discover the advan
tages of female doctors.
“Hopefully more and more women will
enter the medical field, because 1 think wc have
a lot to offer,” she said.
Davenport said that because too few women
are in high positions, they often become a
threat to one another and especially to younger
women coming through the ranks.
“We as women have to help other women
move up in our profession, not try to squelch
them.”
Anna Shavers, assistant professor in the
See PANEL on 3
Coors admits record ‘ not perfect
By Adeana Leftin
Staff Reporter
□oors Brewing Co. has learned that it
docs not need to damage the environ
ment to make money, its president and
chief executive officer said Wednesday.
Peter Coors said at the fall symposium of the
Nebraska Groundwater Foundation that “eco
nomic growth does not have to come at the
expense of the environment.”
Coors Co., headquartered in Golden, Colo.,
was undci investigation by the Colorado attor
ney general for concealing leaking pipes that
contaminated some underground springs and
was ranked in 1988 by the Environmental
Protection Agency as the fourth highest re
leaser of toxic waste in Colorado.
“Our environmental record is not perfect,”
Coors said.
The “largest, most visible mistake” was the
company’s failure to report leaking pipes that
contaminated some underground springs, Ctxxs
admitted.
“Although we had some problems, these
problems never had any effect on people drink
ing,” he said. “We arc in the proccssof working
our way through those.”
In its effort to clean up the environment,
Coors Co. has implemented the Pure Water
2(XX) program.
Coors detailed the program during the
symposium.
The program seeks to protect and restore
America’s water system by the year 2(XX),
Coors said.
“It’s time for action,” in saving America’s
water supply, he said. “Pure Water 2(XX) was
designed to raise the level of awareness to
water and water preservation.”
The Pure Water 20(X) strategy is three
pronged, Coors said.
The first step was to establish a national
awareness program. Coors Co. has accom
plishcd this through us advertisements and an
‘8(X)” telephone number people with environ
mental questions can call, Coors said.
The next step was to develop a clean water
action strategy, he said. The company has built
a network of experts who will hold a series of
symposiums to narrow the focus of Pure Water
2000. The program will concentrate on agri
cultural pollution, runoff and waste from in
dustrial sites, Coors said.
Finally, he said, the company is becoming
involved in local cleanup activities. The com
pany now is working with 250 cleanup pro
grams nationwide, he said.
Another environmental project of the Coors
Co. is recycling. Coors said that the company
now recycles almost all of its aluminum cans.
In the future, some of these cans may have a
picture of Herbie Huskcr on them.
Coors Co. made a deal with the University
See COORS on 3