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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,
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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
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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
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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
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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,
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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
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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.
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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,
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