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Students listen to a final debate between the ASUN candidate parties Tuesday afternoon in the Nebraska Union.
Candidates debate ROTC discrimination
By Adeana Leftin
" Staff Reporter
A SUN candidates clashed at the final
election debate in the Nebraska Union
Tuesday on the best way to change
ROTC’s policy of excluding gays and lesbians.
UNITY presidential candidate Andy Mas
sey said removing dis- p|Mp«|
crimination from ROTC m
is not something the As
sociation of Students of
the University of Nebraska
can accomplish.
“Our lime could be
spent in other areas where
we could get something accomplished,” he
said in response to a question during the open
forum debate.
Eric Thurber, first vice presidential candi
date for UNITY, agreed with Massey, saying
that because the ban on homosexuals is na
tional policy, he thought there was little or
nothing AS UN could do about it.
“There’s no power that we have there,” he
said.
But Lynn Kister, first vice presidential
candidate for the CHANGE party, disagreed.
Removing discrimination from ROTC is
not an “out-of-sight” goal for ASUN, Kister
said.
"I’m not going to let the nation’s govern
ment tell me what to do if I think it’s wrong,”
she said.
Kister cited the example of the University of
Minnesota, which passed a policy saying that if
ROTC does not remove the discriminatory
clause by 1993, the program will be removed
from campus.
“We have to start doing things here, right
now, if we want the federal government to
change their regulations,” she said.
Kister also said that CHANGE is the only
party to embody diversity. But she said that
only by restructuring the senate could ASUN
really represent the students.
“I think... structuring it by living unit does
open it up more to students,” she said.
ENERGY party candidates said they would
like to see accomplishments within ASUN.
Chris Halligan, second vice presidential
candidate for ENERGY, said ASUN has be
come “a playground for resumd-builders.”
He compared the senate to a race car run into
the ground by senators who used it for a joy
ride. ENERGY, he said, would be the me
chanic.
“It’s time ASUN became a student govern
ment the students are proud of instead of mad
at,” Halligan said.
ENERGY candidates also suggested ways
to deal with campus rape.
Kristi Truex, ENERGY first vice presiden
tial candidate, said security is not the only or
best way to solve problems of campus rape.
“The problem does not stem from the secu
rity issue of lighting or escorts; it stems from
the attitudes that people have,” she said.
Truex said education is the best tool to
prevent rape, and she suggested incorporating
rape education into the University Foundations
program.
David Spinar, a senatorial candidate run
ning with the HORIZN party, said the issue of
rape is noton his party’s platform, but he thinks
the University of Nebraska-Lincoln police could
do a better job of patrolling at night with help
from the Lincoln police.
Women at UNL
face inequality,
professors say
By Stacey McKenzie
Staff Reporter
1 m
o effect change, a “collective
story” should be told about the
problems women face while
employed or enrolled at UNL, one
faculty member said Tuesday at a
women’s issues forum in the Nebraska
Union.
Elizabeth Kean, an associate pro
fessor for curriculum and instruction
at the University of Ncbraska-Lin
coln, said women should combine
their individual experiences of dis
crimination and inequality to have a
greater impact.
Susan Welch, chairwoman of the
Chancellor’s Commission on the Status
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Bill to strengthen coordinating commission considered
Official: Funds, members key
By Kathy Wiemers
Staff Reporter
he effectiveness of a strength
ened Nebraska Coordinating
Commission for Postsecondary
Education will depend on quality
members and adequate funds to do its
job, the current director said.
Bruce Stahl, the coordinating
commission’s executive director, told
participants in an education leader
ship meeting in the Nebraska Union
on Tuesday that the new commis
sion ’ s success or fai 1 ure wi 11 be attrib
utable to good appointments and
enough state funding.
Nebraska voters approved a con
stitutional amendment in November
to strengthen the current coordinat
ing commission, which servesonly as
an advisory body.
LB663, now under consideration
in the Nebraska Legislature, would
implement the strengthened commis
sion, which would have governor
appointed members. The new com
mission would take over in January
1992.
Stahl said the new commission
needs a $ 1 million budget every year
to be successful. The money requested
of the Legislature would be used to
increase the commission staff from
three to 16 employees, Stahl said.
More employees arc needed to meet
the increased load that will fall on the
commission, he said.
Part of the board’s duties, as out
lined in LB663, would be to review
and approve budget requests, adm ini
ster loans and grants, approve new
programs, consider role and mission
statements and study current programs.
The new commission will not be a
governing board, Stahl said, but it is
difficult to separate coordination and
governance.
One of the sticky issues will be
admissions standards, he said. The
commission is charged with studying
whether to change the standards, but
admissions clearly is a governance
issue, he said.
Admissions isjustoneof the “gray
areas” the commission will have to
work through, Stahl said, to ensure
coordination and governance are
separate.
He said another facet of the crea
tion of a strengthened commission
will be appointments.
Stahl said he hopes the governor
will appoint commission members who
will not represent a particular institu
tion, but rather the whole state.
Commission members represent
ing segments of higher education would
not help the commission accomplish
its objective of statewide coordina
tion, he said.
Scale down
Beadle plans,
Kerrey says
By Lisa Donovan
Senior Reporter
The University of Nebraska should re
draw its plan for the George W. Beadle
Center for Genetics and Biomaierials
Research to downsize the research facility’s
cost by $10 million, said U.S. Sen. Bob Kerrey.
Kerrey, D-Neb., said in a phone interview
from Washington on Tuesday that the adminis
trators, regents and other NU officials should
write a new proposal for the Beadle Center to
reduce its cost from the expected S37 million to
$27 million.
Currently, the Beadle Center plan, which
includes a new research center and greenhouse
and utility renovation, needs state financing of
$6 million to match the $17.7 million in federal
funds that has been granted.
Kerrey said he is worried, given the current
economic downturn, that the state may have a
difficult time raising the $6 million needed to
match the U.S. Department of Agriculture funds.
He also said that asking for additional monies
for this project “will inhibit (funding for) other
projects” at the university.
NU Board of Regents Chairman Don Blank
of McCook said that the way the economy is
shaping up, the Beadle Center has no choice
but to suffer some cuts. *
ll ihe dollars aren i available... there will
have to be some scaling back,” he said.
Blank said he is confident the state can raise
the $6 million.
“I hope that the support is there,” he said.
“With all of the discussion and publicity in the
last two months, I’m hopeful that state funding
will take place.”
If the plans for the Beadle Center collapsed,
Blank said, it would be detrimental to Ne
braska’s research effort.
“We’ll really lose a lot if we don’t get that
through,” he said.
Marion O’Leary, director and professor at
the Center for Biological Chemistry at UNL,
said the Beadle Center plan is so “tightly built”
or closely budgeted that the cuts could ruin the
entire plan.
“We think scaling it down would be a seri
ous detriment to the program,” he said.
“Scaling it down would be like taking a
wheel off a car.”
O’Leary said the university hasn’t made any
contingency plans to reduce the cost of the
Beadle Center as Kerrey has suggested.
“It (slashing funds) would take a major
reorganization of the program and we simply
have not done that,” he said. •
Kerrey said he was confident that the proj
ect would be a success, but that the university
needed to move ahead with the plan.
“The university is . . . going to have to
proceed” now if it is to finish the project this
year, which Kerrey said he would like to see.