Graduate students reorganize
Officials urge GSA teamwork
By Jeremy Fitzpatrick
Staff Reporter
W orking together as a “collective voice,”
, UNL’s graduate students could achieve
significant success in accomplishing their
common goals, university officials told a
student group Monday.
Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs James
Griesen, speaking at the first meeting of the
Graduate Student Association since 1971,
told students they should organize and be
vocal about their concerns.
GSA is a recently reorganized group
dedicated to serving the needs of UNL’s
graduate students.
“I could cite numerous instances of col
lective student pressure producing results in
this university,” Griesen said at the Ne
braska Union meeting. He listed student
parking and financial aid as examples of
past student involvement that produced
results.
“Sometimes it’s just a matter of having a
collective expression that administrators can
hear.”
He said UNL officials arc concerned
about the needs of graduate students.
“This campus is becoming and will be
come more focused at the graduate level,”
he said. “We want graduate students to feel
comfortable in this environment.”
Associate Dean of Graduate Studies Roger
Bruning said he is excited about the pros
pects for GSA.
“One of the really strong things about
GSA is that it will be able to focus its
energies on graduate students’ problems
and make things happen,” he said.
He pledged that the university ^ill “go as
far as we can” to support GSA.
Lynn Castrianno, president of GSA, said
the group’s immediate goal is to combat
student apathy and to involve students in
GSA’s activities.
“We need to have support and commit
ment to get things done,” she said. “We can
talk, but we as an organization can only be
as strong as our individual members.”
She stressed die need for involvement
from students.
“We need to get noticed. Visibility will
gain volunteers,” she said.
Castrianno said the organization is at
tempting to gain funding from various uni
versity sources.
She said ASUN President Andy Massey
is “working with us” on financing the group.
But since ASUN’s funds have been given
out for next year, she said, GSA is attempt
ing to gain funding from the University
Program Council.
Gricsen said he thinks ASUN will be
receptive to requests for funding from GSA.
“They arc sensitive tochargcs that ASUN
only represents undergraduate grccks.
“I think ASUN is concerned enough about
helping all students that they will reach out
to GSA.”
12 UNL graduates earn awards
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Twelve University of Nebraska-Lincoln
graduates will receive Alumni Achievement
Awards during the 1991 Half Century Club
Reunion sponsored by the UNL Alumni Asso
ciation Thursday through Saturday.
The awards will be presented during an
awards banquet Saturday at the Comhusker
Hotel, 333 S. 13th St.
Recipients of the award are: E Dean Carlson,
a 1958 graduate and executive director of the
Federal Highway Administration in Washing
ton; Norman Harris of San Diego, a 1941
graduate and retired businessman; Gary Hill, a
1961 graduate and president of CEG A Services
in Lincoln; Clifton Hillegass, a 1941 graduate
and founder, former president and current
chairman of the board of Cliffs Notes Inc. in
Lincoln; Elmer Jackson, a 1942 graduate and
chairman of the board of Plains Petroleum in
Denver; William McCleery of Princeton, N.J.,
a 1931 graduate and editor, journalist, author
and dramatist; Edward McConnell of Wil
liamsburg, Va.,a 1941 graduate and president
emeritus of the National Center for State Courts;
Ann Hustcad McGregor of San Miguel de
Allcndc, Mexico, a 1941 graduate and founder
and president of Los Amigos, a support group
for severely disabled Mexican adults; John
O’Neill, a 1960 graduate and deputy director of
the Johnson Space Center Mission Operations
Directorate in Houston; Lu Pansing, a 1941
graduate and co-founder of the Lincoln Read
ing Center and the Nebraska branch of the
Orton Dyslexia Society; James Roberts, a 1953
graduate and president and CEO of Roberts
CattlcCo. in Lexington; and Milo Tesarof East
Lansing, Mich., a 1941 graduate and professor
emeritus of agronomy at Michigan State Uni
versity.
Artists to demonstrate expertise
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Native American artists will discuss and
demonstrate how miniature pottery is made at
“Sunday Afternoon with a Scientist,” from
1:30 to 3:30 p.m.
The program kicks off the opening of a new
exhibit called “Magic in Clay,” in the Cooper
Foundation Special Exhibit Gallery at the
Nebraska State Museum.
“Magic in Clay” is composed of more than
100 pieces of Southwest Native American
miniature pottery.
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senators to rethink voting for LB425 because
the budget is so light.
Bemard-Stevens countered with the argu
ment that if the state is going to make the laws,
it should be responsible for the costs that law
might incur.
“If we’re going to be bold enough to man
date (that) young women go through this proc
ess ... we should be bold enough to put our
money where our mouth is,” he said.
Appropriations Committee Chairman Scott
Moore of Seward said Papillion Sen. Ron
Withcm’s amendment, passed during the first
round of debate on LB425, already was going
to cost from $6,000 to $12,000 and that an
appropriations bill was probably already in
order.
Wilhcin’s amendment requires public and
private schools to inform students about paren
tal notification once a year.
“The Bemard-Stevens amendment would
raise that price tag considerably,” Moore said
of appropriating funds for LB425. “I think the
bill in its present form already needs an ‘A’
bill.”
Sen. La Von Crosby of Lincoln said she was
concerned about appropriating additional funds
in such a light economy.
“I am a little concerned about the state just
taking on some more expenses,” she said.
The amendment failed 17-18.
Slate Sen. Ernie Chambers of Omaha intro
duced the second amendment for the bill. The
Omaha senator proposed that counselors and
school nurses tell a woman the ramifications of
seeking a judicial bypass to obtain an abortion.
Under the provisions of the amendment,
counselors and school nurses would tell women
that if they seek to obtain an abortion because
of physical or sexual abuse, the authorities will
be informed to investigate that abuse.
Chambers said it is important for the women
who arc most affected by LB425 to receive as
much information as possible regarding their
options and the ramifications of those options.
“No one in a literate society should fear
information,” he said.
Labcdz argued against ihc amendment, saying
the Wilhem amendment will provide women
who arc under the age of 19 enough informa
tion regarding their options in the case of an
unwanted pregnancy.
Arguing for the amendment, Sen. Jessie
Rasmussen of Omaha said lawmakers should
do what they can to help a woman decide how
to deal with an unwanted pregnancy — espe
cially in a case in which violence is involved.
“One of the things I worry about in this bill
is the impact on those children who come from
an abusive family,” she said.
Sen. Jacklyn Smith of Hastings proposed an
amendment that would require doctors to in
form the woman that cases of abuse will be
reported to the authorities.
Both Smith’s and Chambers’ amendments
failed.
Lawmakers ended the day with the intro
duction of Sen. David Landis’ amendment that
would change the parental notification age
from under 19 to younger than 18. The Lincoln
senator argued that most women who are 18
years old would seek a judicial bypass and his
measure would limit court costs.
Landis also noted that many of the 18 year
olds are college age and would be able to make
those decisions on their own.
The Legislature plans to continue debating
the bill today.
Parking committee considers
requiring notice to save lots
By Tabitha Miner
Senior Reporter
More notice should be given to the Parking
Department before lots are reserved for special
events, Parking Advisory Committee members
said at their Monday meeting.
The committee could not take official ac
tion because a quorum wasn’t present, bat
committee member Gordon Karels, an associ
ate professor of finance, favored a five- to
seven-day notice before lots are blocked.
Members voiced concerns about a letter to
the editor in the April 23 Daily Nebraskan. The
writer complained that her reserved commuter
lot had been roped off to make room for a
special event.
Most organizations know they’ll need lots
about a month in advance, Karels said, so a six
working-day notice wouldn’t be inconvenient.
The six working days would allow commut
ers, such as the one who wrote the letter, notice
before their spots are taken, he said.
Ron Fuller, staff assistant at the University
of Nebraska-Lincoln Police Department, said
organizations cause problems when they ex
peel parking for their workshops and seminars,
yet don’t give the Parking Department ade
quate notice.
He suggested departments be penalized for
the lack of notice, but acknowledged a draw
back.
“We want to be able to enlorce it (parking
penalty), but we also want them (groups) to
come to campus to spend their money,” he said.
Ray Coffey, UNL business manager, told
committee members about a parking discus
sion he had with Jack Goebel, UNL interim
chancellor.
At their April 24 meeting, Coffey said, he
and Goebel discussed committee recommen
dations such as identifying a parking area for
visitors, creating a Parking Services Office in
the Nebraska Union and consolidating five
and seven-day permits.
All 24-hour stalls would be consolidated
into seven-day lots, and all 11-hour stalls would
be consolidated into five-day lots.
Goebel told Coffey that a public informa
tion forum should be held in the next two weeks
to tell people what changes the committee is
considering, Coffey said.
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UNITY campaigned on the promise of trying
to make the racial affairs and gay/lcsbian/
bisexual committees ASUN had created con
stitutional, Massey said. Those committees
later were ruled unconstitutional, however, so
they were not created.
The subcommittees would be a start for
negotiations to achieve racial minority repre
sentation in ASUN, Massey said.
“I want a base ground to work with,” he said.
“We need something to start with. If it doesn’t
work, we’ll change it.”
If the subcommittee proposal passes, Mas
sey said, he’ll sign it.
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