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Bill outlining coordination powers advanced
By Lisa Donovan
Senior Reporter
A bill outlining the powers of a
strengthened Nebraska Coor
dinating Commission for
Postsecondary Education was ad
vanced to the
floor unani
mously by the
Nebraska Legis
lature* s Educa
tion Committee
on Monday.
The commit
tee amended
LB663 to give top priority to the
completion of the first comprehen
sive statewide plan outlining the role
and mission of Nebraska’s postsecon
dary education institutions.
LB663 outlines the role of the
commission, giving it the power of
program review and budget submis
sion over Nebraska’s universities, state
colleges and community colleges.
During the November election,
Nebraskans approved Amendments
whic . strengthens the current coordi
nating commission. The current
commission serves only as an advi
sory board.
The comprehensive plan amend
ment clarifies that the commission
would not be able to establish a trans
fer-of-credit policy, but would work
to enable such an agreement.
Although this provision would give
the commission little power, another
amendment would give the coordi
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thought about it. We
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nating commission authority to de
velop tuition guidelines in the com
prehensive plan.
Another amendment to the bill
would give the commission the power
to allocate state incentive funds to
higher education institutions.
Education Committee Chairman
Ron Withem of Papillion said the
amendment merely provides a con
tingency plan, as the state has no
incentive funds.
The bill also calls for the governor
to appoint the 11 commission mem
bers.
During the public hearing on the
bill, higher education officials had
been concerned that the appointment
powers of the governor would be too
broad.
Withem said after the meeting that
the committee had decided for now to
let the governor appoint whomever
he chooses.
“We talked about it. We thought
about it. We didn’t come up with any
different ideas,” Withem said.
Earlier in the legislative session,
members of the committee had been
concerned about how commission
members would be removed.
The bill was amended to provide
that the governor would remove a
member for inefficiency, neglect of
duties, or misconduct after informing
the member and after the member had
had the chance to defend himself or
herself against the charges.
Some committee members ex
pressed concern earlier in the session
about the fate of Nebraska School of
Technical Agriculture at Curtis.
The committee amended the bill
to give the commission the duty to
decide by January 1993 whether Curtis
will remain part of the NU system or
become one of Nebraska’s technical
colleges.
UNMC official:
Learning unhurt
by dismissals
By Lisa Donovan
Senior Reporter
CNMC’s practice of dismissing women
from their Living Anatomy class while
men conduct inguinal hernia and rectal
examinations is not a problem, University of
Nebraska Medical Center Chancellor Charles
Andrews said Monday.
“1 don’t think their educational experience
would be thwarted,” Andrews said.
He said there are many places in the medical
school’s curriculum that allow women to learn
how to conduct the exams.
Jo Falkenburg and Carey Nesmith, first
year UNMC students, stood up and expressed
their concern about being dismissed from the
class during the question-and-answer period of
feminist Gloria Sieinem’s speech at the Lied
Center for Performing Arts on Thursday night.
Dr. Gerald Moore, assistant dean for cur
riculum at the UNMC College of Medicine,
said medical students have many opportunities
inothercoursesatUNMCtoconduclthe hernia
and rectal examinations.
“Their concern is that they expect to know
this by the end of their freshman year,” Moore
said of Falkenburg and Nesmith.
Moore explained that the examinations in
the course are voluntary. The men can do the
check in class and women can set up a separate
time, he said.
Andrews said the class was set up this way
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Church or cult?
Lincoln Christian officials
concerned about allegations
By Wendy Navratil
Staff Reporter
L 7 haiispopularisnotalwaysright,
wanc*w*iallsr'^1 *snota,ways
* * popular.”
These words are printed on Aaron B reford’s
wall in Harper Hall beneath the three stories
about Lincoln Christian Church that appeared
last week in the Daily Nebraskan.
In the three stories, sources identified Lin
coln Christian as a possible cult.
Brcford, a member of Campus Advance, the
University of Nebraska-Lincoln counterpart of
the Lincoln Christian Church, came from Denver
in January with about 32 other members of the
Denver Church of Christ to establish a church
in Lincoln.
“I guess if you look at history, you find that
any time you’re radical in anything you believe
— like Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King
Jr., even Jesus Christ — you get killed. If we
slipped in the back door, no one would care.
But we’re honest and upfront, and that bothers
people,” Breford said, referring to the recent
storm of negative response to Lincoln Chris
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Correction: Palestinian students in a photo in
Monday's Daily Nebraskan were holding a Pales
tinian fiag. not a Kuwaiti flag.
A Marshall Plan
is possible for the gulf
region if Saddam is
ousted. Page 2
NU Coliseum
Phase III construction
faces further delays.
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War despite withdrawal order
DHAHKAN, Saudi Arabia (AP) - The
.American war machine, pushing deeper
into Iraq and Kuwait, clashed Mon
day with the elite Iraqi Republican Guard.
Hours later, Baghdad sur
prised the world by an
nouncing it had ordered
its troops to withdraw from
occupied Kuwait.
The Iraqis, reeling
before the advance of the
U.S.-led alliance, struck
back with a Scud missile
attack on a U.S. barracks in Dhahran. Twelve
servicemen were killed, 25 were wounded and
40 were unaccounted for, the U.S. military
said.
Inc Baghdad radio announcement of a Kuwait
pullout did not specify a timetable, and it threw
the diplomatic-military picture into confusion.
But it appeared the Iraqis would be attempting
a retreat under American fire.
“Our armed forces have completed their
duty of jihad,” or holy war, the radio said.
It said Iraqi President Saddam Hussein or
dered the withdrawal in line with a Soviet
peace plan. A Soviet plan last week was re
jected by Washington, but the Soviets on Monday
presented undisclosed new proposals at a closed
U.N. meeting in New York.
In Washington, the White House reacted
icily to the Baghdad announcement. “The war
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ASUN presidential candidate Matt McKeever, right, and first vice presidential candidate Lynn Kister from the
CHANGE party consult during the Association of Students of the University of Nebraska candidate debate
Monday afternoon in the Nebraska Union Crib.
AS UN parties offer ways to end apathy
By Adeana Leftin
Staff Reporter _
Getting individuals and groups involved
in student government was one topic
all parties running for ASUN elec
tions could agree on at a debate in the
Nebraska Union’s Crib on Monday.
Three parties with executive candidates
running for Association of Students of the
University of Nebraskaelec lions agreed that
involvement of students in ASUN was
important.
Chris Halligan, second vice presidential
candidate for ENERGY, said apathy was
one of the biggest problems on campus.
He said ENERGY’S solution to student
apathy is a three-pronged plan called AIP,
which stands for action, involvement and
public relations.
Through public relations, Halligan said,
students on and off campus can be better
informed of areas in which they can get
involved.
Lynn Kister, first vice presidential can
didate for the CHANGE parly, agreed.
“If they (ASUN leaders) want to get
students involved, they need to let students
know what’s going on,” she said.
Kister said CHANGE also supports the
idea of restructuring ASUN by living units
as one way to better involve students.
“I think people living off campus and in
residence halls have different needs than
those living in greek houses,” she said.
Eric Thurber, first vice presidential can
didate for UNITY, said he didn’t think that
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