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NetSajskan Mostly cloudy this morning with a few flurries. Becoming partly sunny this afternoon with the high around 35. Clear tonight with the low 15-20. Thursday, partly cloudy with the high around 40. mm jar« * . ___ Minority panels up again By Adeana Leftin Staff Reporter □he Association of Students of the University of Nebraska would be taking a step in the right direction if it passes legislation to create four standing subcommit tees addressing the needs of minority groups, a senator said. Teachers College Sen. Steve Th ompson authored the amendment to the bylaws that would create racial affairs, sexual orientation, students with disabilities and international students subcommittees. The subcommittees would fall under the Campus Life Committee and would be composed of one senator and six student-at-large members, he said. Thompson said all of the members would have a vote in the subcommit tee. The subcommittees would have the power to write a subcommittee proposal about issues of importance to them, he said. The proposal would be considered by the Campus Life Committee and if passed would be come senate legislation. Because mere would be no quotas on the committees, Thomlison said, there may be disproportionate repre sentation on the committee, and sub committee members would have to consider each other’s needs. “(Subcommittee members) are going to have to work with each other,” he said. Thomlison also will introduce a resolution protesting Gov. Ben Nel son’s proposed budget, which calls for an across-the-board cut of 2 per cent for all state agencies, including the University of Nebraska. Thomlison said he thought Nel son’s budget was “beyond terrible.” During Gov. Kay Orr’s admini stration, Thomlison said, the Univer sity of Nebraska made great gains in the budget. “I don’t want to see a slide down from where we were able to achieve,” he said. Thomlison said he understood that cuts need to be made, but that “the last cut that you make is education.” In other action, the senate will look at a bylaw amendment that would restructure ASUN’s Appointments Board. AS UN President Phil Gosch said the board would be restructured to “remove any year-to-year political influence.” He said there was concern that the speaker of the senate, who chairs the board, and the second vice president, See ASUN on 3 Andy Massey, right, UNITY’S presidential candidate, and Bill Jacobs, a UNITY senatorial candidate, prepare notes during the ASUN election debate Tuesday in the East Union. Candidates debate student regent vote _ > < tt . • • __ . • _ j . * . IL il.I/ - ' j by Kristie uoaa Staff Reporter Executive candidates for the Association of Students of the University of Nebraska wrangled over the proper method for getting better student input into university governance in a debate Tuesday. UNITY presidential candidate Andy Massey said it would be hard to get a voting student regent this year. “It will take more than one year,” Massey said, adding that the NU regents are against it. “I don’t know if the Nebraska community wants that; I think the siuuenis uu, nc saiu. Massey said that getting a stu dent on a university advisory board for the Nebraska Coordinating Commission for Postsecondary Education might be a more realis tic goal and likely would be better received than fighting for a voting student regent. ENERGY presidential candidate J. Matt Wickless also said legisla tion providing for a voting student regent was unlikely to be passed this year because of legislative politics. Now is “not a proper time to act on that,” he said. CHANGE candidates disagreed, saying they were confident there WUUIU UC a VLRIIlg MUUCIll ICgCIll, even if it took a few years. “We can’t let that issue be dropped again,” said Matt McKeever, CHANGE presidential candidate. He said UNITY was counting on a coordinating com mission advisory board that does not yet exist. The candidates also responded to questions on budget cuts pro posed in the Legislature that may affect student services at the Uni versity of Nebraska-Lincoln. McKeever said students shouldn’t have to put up with such cuts. Active lobbying of the Legisla ture could keep cuts to a minimum, i u. Lynn Kisier, first vice presiden tial candidate for CHANGE, said it was the job of ASUN’s Govern ment Liaison Committee to make sure cuts don’t occur. Massey said he agreed with NU President Martin Massengale that ensuring that faculty members are taken care of is a priority. “My No. 1 concern is to keep faculty members here,” Massey said. Wickless said cutting programs that benefit only a small number of students may be a way to deal with budget constraints. “If we are forced to make cuts, See DEBATE on 3 Arab students: Cease-fire wont bring Mideast peace By Dionne Searcey Staff Reporiot he end of the war against Iraq does not mean the Middle East will be at peace, two Arab students said at a Persian Gulf forum in the Nebraska Union on Tuesday. Nadeem Yousif, a University of Ncbraska-Lincoln doctoral candidate in English from Iraq, said the Middle East will never be peaceful because allied actions after World War I en sured continued strife. The Middle East was one entity before World War I, he said. After World War I, he said, the allies “carved the Arab world up” and established boundaries between coun tries such as Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Iraq and Palestine. Arabs must present visas to offi cials when traveling between coun tries, Yousif said, and nations don’t help each other out in times of eco nomic hardships. “I love the U.S.A. It is great,” he said. “There are no frontiers. No one will ask you for your passport. If one stale needs oil they can get it from Texas. Some (Arab) countries don’t even sell fruit to neighboring coun tries.” Yousif said the allies knew that dividing the Middle East would keep the area in permanent conflict. The See ARAB on 3 Women’s f Issues Week m I explores m M mytns, rights and poetry of women. Page The International Bazaar cele brates its sixth birthday with food and crafts. Pago 8. “Theatrix” group stages un conventional, topical perform ances. Page 9. INDEX Wire 2 Opinion 4 Sports 7 A&E 9 Classifieds 11 Lawmakers move ahead on minimum wage bill By Lisa Donovan Senior Reporter Despite some senators’ conten tion that a bill to increase the minimum wage would be un fair to some small businesses, law makers advanced legislation Tues day that would boost the cu rrent $ 3.3 5 hourly wage by 90 cents. The Nebraska Legislature advanced on a 27-3 vote to the final round of debate LB297, a bill that would raise Nebraska’s minimum wage to $4.25 on July 1. State Sen. Tim Hall of Omaha, the bill’s sponsor, said it’s tough to argue that certain seasonal businesses could be hurt by the bill. “I also would say that the mini mum wage as portrayed in this bill at $4.25 is not an excessive amount of money,” Hall said. m m State Sen. fl--®| George Coord sen of Hebron introduced an amendment to the bill that would call for phasing in the minimum wage increase to $3.80 an hour on July 1, 1991, and boost it to $4.25 on April 1, See WAGE on 3
