ASUN passes CFA bylaws
Fee users asked to prioritize their budget requests
By Jennifer O’Cilka
Senior Reporter
Student leaders Wednesday night
passed bylaws for the Committee for
Fees Allocation with a change that
will make fee users prioritize their
budgets.
The Association of Students of the
University of Nebraska passed the
bylaws by a vote of 12-8-1.
The bylaws now include a provi
sion requiring fee users to submit “a
list of budget requests, service adjust
ments and reductions that would be
made if the total budget was reduced
by 5 percent from the present fiscal
year.”
Fee users include AS UN, the Daily
Nebraskan, the Nebraska Unions and
the University Health Center.
Fee users will submit their priori
tized budget to CFA in addition to
copies of their year-end financial report
lor the past fiscal year and copies of
their current budget. CFA is the stu
dent committee that reviews student
fees allocations.
Doug Oxley, an off-campus mem
ber of CFA, said the 5 percent is not
an actual cut, but asks fee users to
think hypothetically.
Oxley said the new provision tells
fee users that CFA members want to
know what their top priorities are.
“It’s just a tool” to help CFA
members better review the budget, he
said. The budget still can grow by any
amount, he said.
Oxley said he thinks this change
will help everyone involved.
“I think it’s better for them (the fee
users) to help make those decisions,”
rather than the CFA members, who
do not work with the fee users daily,
to make those choices. General Stud
ies Sen. Andy Sigerson, chairman of
CFA, said this new provision will
allow fee users to prepare a little
better for budget review by CFA.
“I think that’s good,” he said.
“That’ll offer us a greater opportunity
to understand where they’re coming
from.”
AS UN Second Vice President
Yolanda Scott disagreed, saying the -
new provision seems to be wasting
time and putting the fee users through
unnecessary work. CFA should be *
able to ask those questions directly,
without the extra documentation, Scott
said. 1
Siege recounted by journalist i
By Adeana Leftin
Staff Reporter
Last summei’s crisis between the
Kanehsatake Mohawk Indian reser
vation and its white neighbors turned
into a 2 1/2-month siege because “my
people wanted a place where they
could call their own,” Dan David
said.
David, a freelance journalist and a
member of the Mohawk Indian na
tion, recounted the events surround
ing the siege of the reservation near
Oka, Quebec, to a crowd of more than
75 people Wednesday night in the
Nebraska Union.
The municipality claimed the
Kanehsatake reservation as its own
and ordered an injunction to remove
the Indians from the land. It planned
to use the land to add nine holes to its
golf course and build some condo
miniums.
But the Indians wouldn’t leave.
On July 11, the reservation was
raided. For the next 2 1/2 months, it
was under siege.
David was off the reservation at
the time of the raid, but arrived there
shortly after he heard what had hap
pened.
“I knew I had to be there. There
was no way I could stay away from
this at all.” he said.
David called the siege “salt in a
deep and festering wound between
my community and the white com
munity next door.”
He said the reservation was sur
rounded by police who decided “on a
whim” whether people and supplies
would be allowed in and out.
Fortunately , David said, the police
feared an Indian behind every tree
and wouldn’t leave the road. The
Indians then used the woods and the
river to smuggle food and medical
care onto the reservation.
At the end of the sixth week, the
army was sent in.
“We hoped at first the army would i
be able to put some sense into this t
thing,” David said. 5
However, he said, the army added
to the problem. Between 15 and 16 1
Mohawk men were picked up by the
police and brutalized, David said.
He said between 500 and 600 people
evacuated in fear of the killing.
“You never knew when anyone,
some fool from either side, would <
pull the trigger and the killing would
start,” he said.
On Sept. 28, the army and police
went through the reservation and the
siege ended.
David said the municipality still
plans on expanding the golf course
and building some condominiums.
“My guess is there’s going to be
another explosion there ... soon,” he
said.
But for now, David said, the Indi
ans of the Kanehsalakc reservation
are just trying to get back on their
feet.
Beginning midnight Tuesday,
Nov. 27
9:25 a.m. — Two-car accident,
10th and Avery streets parking lot,
$250.
10:32 a.m. — Woman fell on ice,
treated and released from Lincoln
General Hospital, parking lot west
of Memorial Stadium.
10:54 a.m. — Book taken, woman
arrested, Love Library.
2:04 p.m. — Two-car accident,
East Campus loop and Arbor Drive,
$4,000.
3:41 p.m. — Two-car accident,
north of Abel Residence Hali,
$1,000.
7:20 p.m. — Woman assaulted,
man arrested, Selleck Residence
Hall.
9:49 p.m. — One-car accident,
38th Street and Huntington Ave
nue, $2,000 damage to car, $50
damage to tree.
National Guard members
called up for active duty
■rom Staff Reports
At 11 a.m. Wednesday, 35 Ne
>raska National Guard members,
ncluding five college students, were
ailed up for active duty, an official
aid.
Maj. Joe Johnson, deputy public
iffairs officer for the Nebraska Na
ional Guard, said the unit’s mobili
ation went into effect at midnight.
Detachment One, the 1267th
Medical Company Air Ambulance,
must report to Fort Leonard Wood,
Mo., by Sunday, he said.
“This is the second element of the
Nebraska National Guard that has been
mobilized,” Johnson said. “Our 35
people here in Nebraska and six heli
copters are now going to merge with
the people in Missouri.”
He said the total number in the unit
would be 117 personnel and between
12 and 15 helicopters.
“We do not know at this time their
final destination,” Johnson said.
South Africa
Continued from Page 1
Included in the 10 principles are
requirements that programs would
contribute directly to the educational
development of the majority popula
tion of South Africa and that the pro
grams would represent a continuing
institutional commitment.
Massengale has not responded to
the report, which was completed Nov.
21.
Levitov and Gosch said that they
hope Massengale follows the recom
mendations in the report.
“We’ll make sure it’s not ignored,”
Gosch said. “At this point, I have
every reason to believe that it will be
acted upon.”
Architect to speak at Sheldon gallery
From Staff Reports
Robert Evans of Kohn Pedersen
Fox, Architects, of New York City
will speak at 4 p.m. today in Sheldon
Memorial Art Gallery.
The speech is sponsored by the
Hyde Lecture Series and is free and
open to the public.
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