Search for UNL chancellor on ASUN agenda
By Adeana Left in
Staff Reporter
The Association of Students of the
University of Nebraska is planning its
New Year’s resolutions for this se
mester. *
Phil Gosch, president of ASUN,
said one priority will be the search for
a new chancellor at the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln.
He said he thought the appoint
ment of Interim Chancellor Jack
Goebel was a “good move” because
Goebel will not be considered for the
permanent position.
“We need to make sure we don’t
make some of the same mistakes we
made in search of the president,” Gosch
said.
He also said ASUN would be push
ing the administration to listen to
recommendations set forth by the
President’s Special Committee on
South Africa.
Because the South Africa situation
is no longer in the forefront of people’s
minds, Gosch said, there is a ten
dency to give it less attention. He said
he wants to see the recommendations
acted on for the benefit of both South
Africans and UNL students.
The committee recommended
creating cooperative teaching, research
and service programs between the
University of Nebraska and a South
African university.
Another suggestion was to create
scholarships for South African stu
dents. ASUN passed a resolution in
May 1990 calling for the scholar
ships.
“We want to make sure that people
don’t drag their heels on this,” Gosch
said.
He said he also expects to see “a
lot of debate on issues important to
students,” such as student fees, this
semester.
Deciding the allocation of fees —
how much and where — is an impor
tant part of student government, Gosch
said.
He said another challenge this
semester will be to positively involve
two new ASUN committees, the Racial
Affairs Committee and the Gay/Les
bian/Bisexual Committee. It will
require hard work and a commitment,
Gosch said.
“Just creating the two committees
is a nice symbolic gesture,” Gosch
said.
He said the committee members
will set up the agendas for their
committees.
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Group to distribute anti-war leaflets
Members of Nebraskans for Peace will distribute leaflets in down
town Lincoln today to show opposition to war in the Persian Gulf. The
group will meet at 11:30 a.m. at 13th and O streets and then disperse to
hand out the leaflets.
Professor to speak on motivation methods
Steven Sommer, an assistant professor of management at UNL, will
speak on methods of motivation today at 5:30 p.m. at the Anderson
Public Library, Touzalm Avenue and Fremont Street.
The lecture is free and open to the public.
Rape
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Crisis Center in Lincoln, said most
rapes go unreported.
The study stated that 53 percent of
rapes are reported to the police.
Kalkowski said only one rape was
officially reported to UNL police in
1990.
Connie Neal, assistant coordina
tor of the Women’s Resource Center,
said 20 to 50 women report rapes to
the center each year.
Tetreault said that for women to
report rapes, they have to be in a safe
and secure environment.
Neal said rapes go unreported for
many reasons, including an assump
tion by women that all police officers
are men.
“Right after an assault, the last
thing a woman wants to do is to talk to
men,” N&d said.
She said a feeling of being alone
and a fear of tedious legal processes
also deter women from reporting rapes.
Teireault said the judicial system
response is more sympathetic when a
woman is raped by a stranger.
“They think of it as real rape —
legitimate,” she said.
Kalkowski said women are more
likely to report a rape when the crime
is committed by a stranger, and often
acquaintance rapes go unreported.
According to the study, 48 percent
of reported rapes were committed by
an acquaintance of the victim.
“Women don’t believe it was as
sault if it was (committed by) some
one they already knew,” he said.
The Justice Department study
showed that women between the ages
of 16 and 24 were three times more
likely to be the victims of rape.
Teireault said a majority of these
rapes were committed by someone
the victim knows.
Coliseum renovation lags
By Kristie Coda
Staff Reporter___
Renovation of the NU Coliseum
and Mabel Lee Hall, slated to begin
this month, will not start until mid
February, a UNL official said.
The already-delayed construction
is about a month behind, said Stan
Campbell, director of the Office of
Campus Recreation. Further problems
with the plans have delayed construc
tion again, he said.
Earlier plans to put a new level in
the Coliseum and raise the gym floor
15 feet were found to be more costly
than renovating space in Mabel Lee
Hall and had to be changed, he said.
Campbell said the new plans for
the Campus Recreation remodeling
project should be ready by the end of
January. Right now, the Office of
Facility Management and recreation
center users, such as the Office of
Campus Recreation, the athletic de
partment and the School of Health,
Physical Education and Recreation
are ‘ working closely with the archi
tects*’ in drawing up the plans.
Campbell said the plans most likely
will be submitted for approval to the
NU Board of Regents at its March
meeting. Then, bidding will be opened
up to contractors, he said.
In the meantime, campus recrea
tion officials are busy planning pre
construction work and running exist
ing programs in less space, he said.
Asbestos must be removed trom
the Coliseum. The asbestos, which is
harmless in its present state, could
cause problems if it is disturbed dur
ing construction, Campbell said. He
said he hopes pre-construction work
will be finished by mid- to late-March.
Keeping athletic programs running
in less space also is a priority, Campbell
said.
The intramural basketball season
is just beginning, and once construc
tion starts in the Coliseum, the use of
three basketball courts will be lost.
Campbell said his office was some
what “thankful that we’re a month
behind” so intramural programs can
get started before the close of the
Coliseum in mid-February.
The winter season also sees an
increase in students using the univer
sity’s indoor facilities, Campbell said,
and the limited space will prove troub
lesome.
The current remodeling plan calls
for replacing the Coliseum floor,
renovating locker rooms and adding
physical education classrooms, of
fices and labs to Mabel Lee Hall.
The Coliseum floor should be
completed by November, Campbell
said.
This part of the project Phase
III — was estimated to cost $5.7
million.
Donations, surplus bond revenue
and surcharges on Nebraska football
tickets will pay for the renovation.
Legislature
adopts rule
to end debate
By Tabitha Hiner
Senior Reporter
Despite Omaha Sen. Emie
Chambers’ protests to what he
called an “anti-Chambers rule,”
the Ne- ——
b r a s k a
Legisla
ture
amended
its perma- |
nent rules
Monday to |_
include a
procedure to end debate on a
bill.
Chambers, who has success
fully filibustered bills to restrict
abortion until they were no longer
included on the next day’s
agenda, said the amendment was
“aimed to silence me.”
The rule allows legislators to
vote to end discussion on a bill
with a cloture motion after eight
hours of debate. Twelve hours
of debate would be required for
appropriations bills.
A cloture motion only can be
proposed by the sponsor of a bill
and must receive a two-thirds
vote, or 33 senators’ approval,
to pass. If it passed, a vote to
advance the bill would be taken
immediately.
If the bill did not advance,
discussion on the bill could not
be resumed that day, but the
bill’s sponsor could ask for dis
cussion to be resumed another
day. The bill then would need to
be debated for two hours on that
day before another cloture mo
tion could be made.
Sen. Chris Beutler of Lin
coln said that previously, in order
to stop discussion on a bill, a
move to suspend the rules and
advance the bill without further
debate had to be passed.
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