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Resolution
proposes
appointment
of regents
By Jeremy Fitzpatrick
Senior Reporter•
A desire for greater accountability in the
NU Board of Regents has led two
Nebraska state senators to introduce a
resolution that could lead to appointed, not
elected, regents.
“I think there has been a sense in the last
couple of years that the
Board of Regents has been
less than responsive with
the Legislature,” said Sen.
Eric Will of Omaha.
Will and Omaha Sen.
Tim Hall introduced LR6,
which would place a con
stitutional amendment before Nebraska voters
in November 1992. The amendment, if ap
proved, would allow the governor to appoint
the now-elected regents. A majority of legisla
tors would be required to approve the gover
nor’s selections.
Will said he thought the problem with elect
ing regents was that they were elected in low
profile elections that were not subject to great
scrutiny. That lack of attention means the re
gents are not accountable to the people or the
See RESOLUTION on 6
Bills cover
all angles of
death penalty
By Cindy Kimbrough
Senior Reporter
The 12 men on Nebraska’s death row
may be paying extra attention to the
Nebraska Legislature’s proceedings this
session as stale senators present several bills
concerning the death penalty.
LB 327, sponsored by Sen. Ernie Chambers
of Omaha, with 19 co
sponsors, calls for the
elimination of the death
penalty in exchange for a
life sentence.
“I am against the state
killing anyone for any rea
son,” Chambers said.
He said the bill would be tough slating
because there currently was pressure on sena
tors on how to vote on the issue, and some
See DEATH on 6
Bridging the gap
UNL graduate packs English skills for trip to Tokyo
By Mike Lewis
Staff Reporter
UNL graduate Tracy Snyder will ex
change her dollars for yen this week
when she travels to the Far East as a
member of an international student business
group.
Snyder, who received her bachelor’s
degree in economics
from the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln Col
lege of Business Admini
stration in December,
will leave today for Ja
pan to begin a traineeship arranged by
AIESEC, an organization that runs an inter
national work exchange program for its
members.
The traineeship was set up by AIESEC
members at Sophia University in Tokyo,
Snyder said.
AIESEC is an acronym for the organiza
tion’s French name, Association Interna
tionale des Etudiants en Sciences Econ
omiques et Commercialcs. In English, the
group’s name is the International Associa
tion of Students in Economics and Business
Management.
Snyder said AIESEC’s International
Traineeship Exchange Program gives stu
dents a chance to work in different cultures
and meet different people.
Snyder will work for three to six months
at the Institute of International Business
Communications in Tokyo, helping admini
ster English tests to Japanese business people
who plan to deal with English-speaking
companies in the United Slates and else
where.
But that’s all Snyder said she knew about
her job requirements.
“I don’tknoy/exactly what I’ll be doing,”
Snyder said.
She will be paid, she said, but only enough
to live on.
“You’re not looking to get rich doing a
traineeship,” she said.
To offset the low pay and high cost of
living, Snyder said, Sophia University stu
dents helped her find a place to live.
Snyder will stay with a family in Tokyo
for about $300 a month. She said that ar
rangement will be less expensive than hav
ing her own apartment— a scarce commod
ity in the city.
“It’s too difficult to find housing; Tokyo
is crammed,” she said.
Snyder said she wasn’t worried about
being so far from home.
“I’tn totally excited because the AIESEC
chapter there has done so much for me,” she
said. “They’ve made a lot of preparations
for me. I’m excited to meet those people.”
Snyder said she became involved in AIE
SEC because she was interested in interna- * -- ;
tional business, but the traineeship was an
extra benefit.
“I was just having fun meeting our train
ees and showing them Lincoln and Omaha
and traveling around the country with them,”
she said.
With chapters in more than 70 countries,
AIESEC is the largest student organization
in the world, Snyder said. About 70 United
States universities, including UNL, have
AIESEC chapters, she said.
Traineeships like Snyder’s are open only
to AIESEC members, and generally only to
those who are active in the organization, she
said.
“You put your time in AIESEC,” she
said.
At the local level, members of AIESEC
Ncbraska approach businesses, such as the
National Bank of Commerce, and ask them
to hire international trainees, she said. \
For every traineeship the UNL chapter
sets up, Snyder said, it receives a “credit.”
The credit is good for an available trainee
ship at any of the other AIESEC chapters for ,
an AIESEC-Nebraska member.
See SNYDERon6
Erik Unger/DN
Tracy Snyder, a December graduate of UNL, leaves today for Japan to participate in a traineeship sponsored by
AIESEC, an organization that offers international work exchange programs.
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Environmental class goes global
New course joins
science, society
on realistic plane
By Sean Green
Senior Reporter
The University of Nebraska
Lincoln and a university in
Budapest, Hungary, have
joined forces to offer a class that deals
with the scientific and social aspects
of environmental management, a UNL
professor said.
Ivan Volgyes, a political s£ience
professor at UNL, said the course.
Civil Engineering Special Topics 498/
898, was being offered to UNL stu
v
dents this spring.
A follow-up course will be offered
at Eolvos Lorand University in
Budapest this summer, and UNL stu
dents will be invited to travel there to
take the class, Volgycs said.
The class, whichialso is offered as
Political Science Special Topics 398A
and Political Science Individual
Readings 891 A, will deal with the
relationship between hard sciences
and social sciences.
Volgyes said the class.was an off
shoot of the growing interest in the
way scientists and politicians deal
with environmental problems. r
“We want students to know that
this is a down-to-earth class, which
will deal with practical, real-world
environmental problems and solu
tions,” he said.
Volgycs said there was a growing
need for both scientists and policy
makers to understand how-environ
mental decisions arc made, and that
they need to work together.
For example, if scientists devise a
plan for disposing of nuclear waste,
but don’t lake political and social
considerations into account, their plan
may not succeed, he said.
On the other hand, he said, if poli
ticians pass a law about automobile
emissions but don’t consult scien
tists, the law may be impractical.
Volgyes said the contacts he made
while spending two years on sabbati
cal in Budapest helped him set up the
class involving both universities.
“Environmental problems are cer
tainly an international issue,” he said.
\
“What one country does to its envi
ronment affects other countries, so
the policymakers and scientists in all
countries have to communicate.”
Volgyes said he would encourage
students from all areas of study to
Lake ihc class because it deals with
issues that the students must be knowl
edgeable about in the future.
The three-hour course will be of
fered in the spring and summers of
1992-94, and Volgyes said students
can receive credit for the UNL course
without traveling to Budapest.
Others involved in the project
include Istvan Bogardi, project direc
tor and a professor of civil engineer
ing at UNL; Susan Miller, seminar
coordinator; and Pal Larsen, commu
nications associate.