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tion, as well as in the classroom.
“Any time you exchange informa
tion or ideas, that is teaching, even
though it may not be quantifiable in
terms of credit hours,” he said.
Andrew Sigerson, a junior eco
nomics major at UNL and a studenl
lobbyist, said requiring professors tc
teach six hours might make more
classes available, but students still
would suffer.
Sigerson told of a sociology pro
fessor who said he could not meet the
requirements of the bill.
“I agree that (the professor’s) pri
ority is teaching,” Sigerson said. “Bui
I think his other roles, such as an
adviser and leader, are just as impor
tant.”
LB 1043 also is related to faculty
research. The bill would establish a
termination date for the Nebraska
Research Initiative Program and give
control of the program to the NU
Board of Regents.
The initiative, implemented in 1988,
is a five-year plan to infuse $4 million
more each year into the University of
Nebraska.
Seven faculty members involved
in research gave the committee over
views of their work, and said their
research either would have been
impossible or severely limited with
out the initiative.
The committee also considered a
recent proposal to combine the initia
tive with a national research program
called EPSCOR, or the Experimental
Program to Stimulate Competitive
Research.
Katherine Endacott, assistant proj
ect manager for EPSCOR, said the
program was funded by the National
Science Foundation and would re
quire matching funds from the state.
The program is a chance for the
state to attract more research money,
Endacott said. However, with the
initiative, state legislators decide how
the money is spent, she said.
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ASUN Court declares resolution
beyond current senate’s authority
By Kara Morrison
Staff Reporter
In a written statement, the ASUN
Student Court on Tuesday declarcc
null and void a resolution that woulc
make ASUN the co-sponsor of Af
firmation Day.
Speaker Steve Thomlison brough
thelawsuitagains
the senate, saying
that the resolutior
violated constitu
lional bylaws ant
exceeded the sen
f! \ , . ale’s authority b)
ijj? X' '■? sponsoring ar
event that occurred after the senate’*
term had expired.
Affirmation Day, a day to increase
awareness of gay, lesbian and bisex
ual human rights, is April 8. ASUN’*
1991-92 senate term expires April 1
During the trial, Law Sen. Gent
Collins questioned Thomlison’s in
tentions for wanting the resolutior
recalled, saying “if this resolutior
wasn’tinsupportofhomoscxuals, wc
probably wouldn’t be here.”
Collins and ASUN President And)
Massey represented the senate at the
trial.
“It was a fair decision judicially,’
Collins said in response to the ver
diet. “But I’m still upset about th<
motives behind it.”
In the court’s response, Chief Jus
tice Tiffany Seevers said that the subject
of the resolution and the motives of
I the lawsuit were not pertinent to the
I case.
“The court is in a position only to
judge whether the resolution as passed
. meets the requirements of the AS UN
l constitution,” Seevers wrote.
; “Clearly, Resolution 23, as passed,
i will allow for the current senate to act
for the next. This violates the com
I mand of Bylaw 1 to the AS UN
constitution.”
The Affirmation Day resolution,
passed by the senate Jan. 22, stated
that AS UN would co-sponsor ihc event
in name.
Thomlison said the senate could
not allow its name to be used on
Affirmation Day promotional mate
rials after its term expired April 1.
Massey then argued that the senate
term, 1991-92, was a part of the sen
i ate resolution, and that it would be
i printed on Affirmation Day materials
with ASUN’s name for clarification.
The court rejected Massey’s argu
ment.
“There is no convincing evidence
that AS UN and sponsors of Affirma
' lion Day-have reached any such agree
ment, written or oral,” Seevers wrote.
Seevers also wrote that such an
agreement would not have made the
resolution acceptable.
Using “ASUN 1991-92” on pro
motional materials would set an
“uncomfortable precedent,” allowing
individual senates to authorize their
co-sponsorship for future events, she
wrote.
Thomlison said he was pleased
with the court’s verdict.
“The senate made a mistake,” he
said. “I don’t think they intentionally
planned to violate the bylaws, but the
fact remains that they did.
“That’s why we have a student
court — to preserve the integrity of
the system, and I’m pleased that they
did that.”
Arts and Sciences Sen. Teg Hughes,
who co-sponsored the resolution, said,
“It’s sad that something dies as the
result of a technicality and not the
feeling of the senate.”
Graduate Sen. Grctchcn Franck said
that she and Hughes were “consider
ing their alternatives,” and added that
they wanted to continue to achieve
the goal of their resolution.
In its statement, the court sug
gested that the current senate pass a
resolution to urge the 1992-93 senate
to sponsor Affirmation Day or add a
clause to the bylaws to deal with
future conflicts.
Nelson
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he was moving his firm, which he
estimated would have about 100
employees in about 4 years, to Ne
braska — specifically to use the Center
for Infrastructure Research at UNL.
Nelson next looked at laser beam
research. Ram Narayanan, an assis
tant professor of electrical engineer
ing, showed Nelson a device he had
been working on that would help de
termine drought in crops before it
became severe.
At the end of his tour, Nelson said
that although research was a high
priority, he couldn’t promise a sig
nificant increase in state funding for
it in the near future.
“Recent revenue projections (for
the state) are flat,” he said. “If (the
revenue projection) was a heartbeat
monitor, they’d be gelling ready for a
funeral.”
When the economy starts showing
signs of life again, Nelson said, there
will be more money for research.
“One of these days that is going to
change,” he said. “(Research) will be
one of the things that will be funded.”
Crump
Continued from Page 1
American authors are in an English
book doesn’t mean only five African
American authors exist, he said.
An important aspect of the educa
tion process is getting involved in
activities, he said.
Crump was president of both the
Spanish Club and the Student Bar
Association while he attended col
lege.
Despite being one of the few blacks
in his law classes. Crump said, he
didn’t feel pressure to represent the
black community.
“I wasn’t there representing a
community,” he said. ‘‘I was there as
Gene Crump, law student.”
Crump said he tended not to refer
to people as minorities. Such labels
arc “relative,” he said.
“If you’re able to contribute and
gel involved, you’re not a minority,”
he said.
Crump said his minority status
didn’t make a difference in his law
• •• V T V V I I J L . r f.
practice.
His responsibility, he said, was to
be an advocate of someone clse’s
interest in a satisfactory way — color
isn’t a factor.
“It’s not a black/white thing when
it comes to the court.”
But Crump said it was important
for minorities to be represented in
teaching and administrative positions.
“Students who come through come
with their own baggage,” he said.
Teachers and administrators remain
at school and serve as role models,
long after students have gone, he said.
nlni v Av AAillll/A Hitaa.
NCAA
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O’Hanlon said — but not soon enough
for UNL.
If LB963 were not passed this
legislative session, about 30 to 40
UNL athletes would be in violation of
NCAA rules next fall, O’ Hanlon said.
The NCAA likely would respond
by declaring those 30 to 40 athletes
lllCIlglUlC. UHL WUUIU MU VC UJ IU11CII
the contests in which they partici
pated and discontinue further partici
pation of those athletes in contests,
O’Hanlon said.
“We would have big problems next
fall,” he said.
Papik added that UNL might have
to withdraw from NCAA member
ship.
“The consensus is that that would
be disastrous,” Papik said.
lor of public relations at UNL, said
that if the Nebraska law took effect,
the NCAA might ignore the conflict
between the law and NCAA policy
rather than sanction UNL.
“But reality is probably somewhere
in between,” he said.
“There are an awful lot of merits in
(law),” he added. “It’s just a matter of
getting other schools to support it.
We just need a couple of years.”
Sponsor says bill needed to fight insensitivity
Senators advance diversity education bill
By Cindy Kimbrough
Senior Reporter
To fight racial insensitivity, stu
dents must be exposed to multicultu
ral views, a state senator said Tues
day before the Legislature advanced
a bill that would require diversity
education in Nebraska schools.
Sen. Ernie Chambers of Omaha,
the chief sponsor
ofLB922,said the
bill would create
cultural apprecia
tion that is now
lacking in Ne
braska schools.
LB922, which
unanimously re
ceived first-round approval, would
require Nebraska public schools to
provide for the development and
implementation of multicultural edu
cation programs.
“There are instances throughout
Nebraska and this countiy where great
insensitivity is shown to people of
different ethnic and racial groups,”
Chambers said.
“The purpose of this bill is to try to
do in an educational selling what we
all say that we want — namely to
create an appreciation of and for the
culture, the history and the background
of other groups ... to generate some
understanding that does currently not
exist.”
Chambers said a large number of
-u
There are instances
throughout Nebraska
and this country,
where great insensitiv
ity is shown to people
of different ethnic and
racial groups.
Chambers
State Senator
-
youths from rural areas came forward
to testify on the absence of informa
tion and knowledge of other ethnic
groups at the education committee
hearing on the bill.
Teaching that non-white groups
have achieved nothing leads to ra
cism, Chambers said.
The State Board of Education would
assist schools in developing the pro
grams and monitor the schools to
ensure their participation, he said.
The role of the board is important
because it will provide some accounta
bility and make sure the policy is not
“without teeth,” he said.
But Chambers promised, in re
sponse to some senators’ concerns,
that he and other supporters of the bill
would meet with members of the board
to decide how the rules and regula
tions would be established.
Before the bill came to a vote, Sen.
Chris Beutler of Lincoln proposed an
amendment to incorporate the mul
ticultural education into the existing
curriculum.—-—
The amendment would ensure that
the bill would not dictate any addi
tional number of hours for. instruc
tion, Beutler said.
LB922 and the Beutler amend
ment both passed 25-0.
After debate, Chambers said uni
versities in Nebraska were not in
cluded in the bill because public schools
posed the most serious problem.
“By the time students get to col
lege, it is too late,” he said.
Spanier seeks racial solution i
Chancellor hears
students’ concerns
By Sarah Scalet
Staff Reporter
Chancellor Graham Spanier on
Tuesday urged the Academic Senate
to take an active role in ending racial
tensions at the University of Ncbraska
Lincoln.
Spanicr’s request came after his
—I meeting with a
group of black stu
dents at the Cul
ture Center Mon
day night.
l:-__ The students told
OCKIATC Spanier that UNL
^^11.^ * has a history of
non-responsiveness in the area of race
relations, he said. They also ex
pressed concerns about racial inci
dents on campus, he said.
“I take their complaints very seri
ously,” he said. “I think they are true.
The stories they tell are what I think
are accurate reflections.”
Spanicr said he would continue
meeting with groups and trying to
provide leadership.
“1 think we have a long way to go
at the University of Ncbraska-Lin
coln,” he said.
He encouraged the senate to sup
port a possible program which would
require new faculty members to at
tend a half-day or one-day orientation
including information about racism
and sexual harassment.
“I think everybody needs it, even
if they think they don’t,” he said.
Spanier also told the senate about
the search fora senior vice chancellor
for academic affairs and a vice chan
cellor for research.
Screening should be completed this
month, he said, with interviews in
April.
Spanier goes to North Platte to
day, as part of a round of visits to
address head-on some of the concerns
people throughout Nebraska have about
UNL, he said.
In other business, the senate passed
a motion to support the implementa
tion of a new student information
system, stressing the importance of
long-range cost effectiveness in choos
ing the system.
The senate also passed a motion to
become a permanent member of the
Academic Freedom Coalition of
Nebraska.
CFA hears union, UPC appeals
By Rainbow Rowell
Staff Reporter
The Committee for Fees Alloca
tions heard the last three University
Program Council appeals and the
Nebraska Unions’ fee request Tues
day.
CFA passed its recommended fee
allocation for the
African American and
Homecoming com
mittees unamended.
An additional $35 was
recommended for
advertising to the Best
of the Rest committee.
Leigh Anne Albert, a member of
the CFA UPC subcommittee, said
“We’ve done something that past CFAs
haven’t done by reducing redundant
programming and encouraging the
UPC committees to work together.”
CFA will present its total Fund A
recommendation to the Association
of Students of the University of Ne
braska February 19. This is S 143,236
for ASUN, $45,693 for the Daily
Nebraskan and SI86,118 for UPC.
Fund A student fees are refundable.
This will be $8.03 per student per
semester during the 1992-93 school
year. During 1991-92, $7.86 of each
student’s fees were allocated to Fund
A fee-users.
CFA Chairman Rob Broomfield
said students should be getting the
best deal possible from the CFA pro
posal.
“We deliberated a long time on
this proposal,” he said. “These were
n’t snap decisions. They were well
thought out and justified.”
Daryl Swanson, director of Ne
braska Unions, presented the Unions’ •
fee request of $1,587,071 for 1993
1993 — an increase of 3.5 percent
from last year’s allocation of
$1,533,583.
According to the Unions’ budget
request, it hopes to maintain a bal
anced budget that generates two-thirds
of its total income from its various
service enterprises, primarily food
services, and that derives one-third of
its total income from student fees
subsidies.
This budget request included an
increase in group health insurance
premium rates for permanent Union
employees.
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