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Student board seat possible By Alan Phelps Staff Reporter Student membership in the strength ened Nebraska Coordinating Com mission for Postsecondary Education is in the governor’s hands, a state senator said. Sen. Ron Withem of Papillion said that although the constitutional amend ment that voters approved last No vember to strengthen the commission makes no mention of a special slot for students, it is possible for a student to have a seat on the board. “The governor appoints citizens of the state (to the board), and he can choose a student to be one of the 11,” he said. In response to a question posed by a student protester last month, Gov. Ben Nelson indicated that he would consider appointing a student to one of the two-year start-up terms. Be cause the six-year terms for board members would be staggered, some two-year terms would exist when the commission starts up on Jan. 1,1992. State senators now arc considering the exact membership provisions and powers of the coordinating commis sion, which will replace the current advisor}' body. Andy Massey, Association of Stu dents of the University of Nebraska president, said a student appointment by the governor is unlikely. “I wish he would, but I doubt he will,” Massey said. Shawn Burnham, Government Liaison Committee chairwoman, agreed. “It’s just not feasible. They wouldn’t give it to us,” she said. Burnham said GLC is focusing its efforts on setting up a student advi sory committee system in which each campus would have its own student committee to act as a liaison between students and the commission. “We thought we could use our efforts better this way,” she said. Burnham added that although actual lobbying for the student advisory boards hasn’t begun, GLC has been talking to officials such as Withem and gathering “ammunition.” Massey said AS UN senate approval would be needed before lobbying begins. Withem said that as the amend ment language was drawn up for last November’s ballot, it was decided that specific student representation on the board would be unnecessary because “the board doesn’t do any thing as far as governance is con cerned.” The commission will be respon sible for forming a strategic plan for higher education in Nebraska and will oversee programs at all postsecon dary' institutions in the slate to make the system as efficient as possible, Withem said. Massey said that although AS UN passed a bill last year urging Nebras kans to oppose the constitutional amendment strengthening the com mission, he supports the measure. “I think coordination between campuses is needed now. What I don’t like about it is (the lack of) student input,” he said. “Coordination is de sired, especially in this year of pro posed low state funding.” Radio thief harasses UNL police By Wendy Mott to the fake calls left their regular eral Communications Commission Staff Reporter_ patrols, meaning they would have been regulations. The thief could be charged The theft of a hand-held radio unavailable if there had been a real with theft, interfering with govcm Monday morning from a residence emergency. ment operations, false calls and vari hall security guard is more serious Because the police department does ous FCC infractions, he said, than a college prank a UNL police not mandate the use of radio codes, he if the thief returns the radio soon, official said ^ said, the officers have no choice but Scusa said, the UNL police would be Cpl. Brian Scusa of the University to respond to all disturbance calls as if willing to accept it “no questions of Nebraska-Lincoln Police Depart- they arc real. asked ment said the thief has made phony Since the radio was taken from But if officers arc forced to con distuibance calls, bringing several UNL Pound Hall at 12:45 a.m. Monday, tinuc conducting a full investigation, patrol cars to Pound Residence Hall, the thief has made about six harassing he said, they will ask that the thief be The thief also has called in obsceni- calls, Scusa said. fully prosecuted, tics and harassed officers, he said. Scusa said the prank calls violate “We need our radio back in order Scusa said officers who responded Nebraska and federal laws and Fed- to keep serving,” Scusa said. Kiley Tlmperly/Dally Nebraskan A1986 Chevrolet Corvette was damaged by vandals at the Tractor Testing Lab on East Campus. Vandals paint swastika, graffiti on Tractor Testing Lab Corvette From Staff Reports _ the scat. A swastika and the word “HELL” were painted on a testing car at the Tractor Testing Lab, the professor in charge of the lab said Tuesday. Louis Leviticus, professor of biological systems engineering and associate director for agricultural equipment, said that besides the graffiti, the car’s windshield and side window were broken by a cement block and a power motor for seat adjustment was damaged. Leviticus said he thought the swastika and the word “HELL” were incidental. He said the vandals probably were targeting the power motor for wnoever painted HLLL proba bly meanuhe Nazi greeting “heil,” he said. “There might be some Neo-Nazis in the area,” he said, “but I’ve never met anyone who has come across like that. “I doubt that it has anything to do with me,” Leviticus said. He said he thought the vandal ism, which caused about $600 damage, occurred sometime last week. 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C*nt#r (402)466-1941 (40)330-107 Abortion Continued from Page 1 menus to mull over and a few hard feelings. Tuesday, senators passed four of the day’s proposed seven amendments, two of which were substantive. Sen. Dan Lynch of Omaha offered an amendment to encourage the county attorney to prosecute parents, bio logical family members or adoptive or foster family members who are accused of committing acts of abuse, neglect or sexual assault. Lynch said he wanted to add the amendment to LB425 to protect women who may become pregnant because of abuse or neglect from members of their own families. “We cannot permit, simply by appearance of language, people to abuse,” Lynch said of the amend ment, which passed 27-0 Although Labcdz’s bill provides that women who don’t want to notify their parents may seek a judicial bypass, Sen. David Bemard-Stevens of North Platte said the provision was unfair to small towns. Bemard-Stevens proposed to give the court seven days, instead of three, to decide whether a pregnant woman could receive an abortion without notification. Because in some Nebraska cities a judge only visits weekly, Bemard Stevens argued, the three days should be expanded to seven. Sen. John Lindsay of Omaha said three days is “ample” time, but later proposed that the court be allowed five days from the time ihe woman files for a judicial bypass. Sen. Rod Johnson of Sutton en couraged the Legislature to consider who will be affected by the amend ment. “I feel it provides a latitude to those counties that arc going to be affected by the amendment,” he said. The amendment to the bill was adopted on a 25-3 vote. Before senators voted on LB425, Chambers predicted that the Legisla ture would pass the measure and that the governor would sign the parental notification bill into law. “The die is cast and we all know it.” But Chambers maintained his be lief that women should encounter no barriers to getting an abortion. “The woman must have and does have the right to determine whether to carry a pregnancy to term,” he said. Bemard-Stevens said he didn’t have much confidence in the bill as good public policy. “I will not feel very comfortable nor very good about this bill,” he said. Labcdz said in defense of the bill that many people had talked about the rights of the pregnant women but at the same time had ignored the poten tial life. “I also believe in the rights of the unborn child,” she said. Labcdz said that although she is not satisfied with some of the amend - ments added to the bill, she is happy the bill advanced. 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