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Engineers’ Week to feature tour, projects
Engineers’ Week will be held
today through Saturday at the
University ot Nebraska-Lincoln.
The week will be kicked off
today with the planting of a tree in
support of this year’s theme,
Technology and Nature: Engineer
ing a Dynamic Future.”
Tuesday, Robert Dostal from
Dow Chemical will speak on “Strate
gies for Environmental Health and
Safety,” at 7:30 p.m. in Henzlik
Hall.
The general public is encour
aged to attend an open house Fri
day from noon to 8p.m. and Satur
day 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Student projects, research proj
ects and laboratory facilities will
be on display at the Walter Scott
Engineering Center.
Advance registration needed for mock interview
Mock Interview Day will take
place April 10 from 9 a.m. to 4
p.m. in Room 225 in the Nebraska
Union.
Those interested must sign up in
advance in Room 230 in the Ne
braska Union.
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amendment, saying it is “a legitimate
way to check out the person buying a
gun. But we’re not going to stop crimi
nals (from getting guns). It’s a ques
tion of what are wc willing to man
date on honest, law-abiding citizens
of our state. These, and law enforce
ment personnel, are the ones who are
agitating for something to be done.”
Sens. Elroy Hefner of Coleridge,
Jennie Robak of Columbus and Stan
Schellpeper of Stanton opposed pas
sage of the amendment.
Hefner said it would not keep guns
out of the hands of felons.
‘‘Felons will not get a permit. They
just won’t bother. We’ll just be pun
ishing honest people,” Hefner said.
In addition, he said, the method
would cost police departments more
money for the background checks and
for the annual renewal of the permits.
Robak opposed LB355 and the
Chizek amendment, saying that “it’s
time we slopped passing feel-good,
do-nothing laws.”
She said LB355 is “another one of
those laws that law-abiding citizens
will observe, but criminals won’t”
Schellpepcr agreed with Hefner,
saying the amendment and bill would
penalize the honest person, but
wouldn’t “get at the criminals,” which
is what LB801 attempts to do by
calling for background checks and
registration of each gun purchased.
“We need to do what is good for
Nebraska,” he said, “and this amend
ment is not good for Nebraska.”
Sen. Spence Morrissey of Te
cumseh, speaking in support of the
Chizek amendment, said LB801 “is
less effective and more onerous for
people who think gun control inhibits
their right to buy a gun.”
LB801 just does a “hot check,”
Morrissey said, and local officials, as
the amendment proposes, can do that,
as well as check local records of the
permit applicant.
“After all, we register our cars”
and apply for hunting and fishing
licenses, he said. “Guns should be no
different.”
“LB355 will restrict criminal ac
cess to guns, but not be as much of a
hardship as LB801,” Morrissey said.
In his closing statement, Chizek
said, “I offered a compromise to an
issue we have dealt with for three
years, one which neither side is to
tally happy with.” That is the nature
of a compromise, he said.
The amendment to LB355 was
passed with a 26-16 vote. A motion
by Hefner to indefinitely delay action
on the bill was defeated, and the
Legislature plans to debate the bill
again Tuesday.
Rights
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would stop offering Ph.D.s,” he said.
Some in academics have questioned
whether higher education will benefit
or suffer from the proposed civil rights
bill, according to a recent article in
The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Criticsclaim the legislation would
go beyond helping higher education
employees win discrimination suits,
alleging that certain hiring practices
would come under fire and some
colleges would adopt hiring quotas to
prevent lawsuits.
UNL political science professor
Susan Welch said she considers it
“unreasonable to suggest that any
legislation would change basic hiring
requirements.”
Welch, who is leaving UNL be
cause she considers hiring and pro
motion practices for women discrimi
natory, said that although she is not
familiar with the bill, she does not
foresee drastic changes.
“There arc already laws in the books
that make discrimination on the basis
of gender or race illegal,” she said.
Accounting
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But Raymond said the new de
mand will not mean much change for
UNL students because many now
complete a five-year degree program,
which is not a master’s degree pro
gram. Other students in the four-year
program take more than the required
amount of credit hours, he said.
LB75 follows a national trend,
Raymond said. Nebraska is the 14th
state to pass such a bill.
He said that by the year 2000, most
national accountancy organizations
will support such legislation.
Raymond said students will be able
to obtain the additional credit hours
required by LB75 at any accredited
school in the state and there may be
cooperatives among schools in Ne
braska.
The new requirement also will
“preserve the reciprocity” with states
around Nebraska, he said, because
other states will accept students who
have passed the CPA exam in Ne
braska, although they may need to
meet other requirements.
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