Parking, safety issues in ASUN race
Sigerson
Steele
Healey
COMMIT would reduce permit sales
By Trevor Meers
Staff Reporter
COMMIT presidential candidate Andy
Sigcrson said the familiar student concern of
parking was one of the most important issues in
upcoming ASUN elections.
Sigcrson, a junior eco
nomics major at the Uni
versity of Ncbraska-Lincoln,
said he would like to keep
parking fines at their pres
ent level and reduce the
overselling of commuter
parking permits to 15 percent above capacity.
During the 1991 -92 school year, about 5,100
commuter permits were sold while only 3,435
spaces were available—about 48 percent over
capacity.
Elizabeth Healey, a junior business admini
stration major and COMMIT’s second vice
presidential candidate, said she thought more
metered parking spaces were needed on East
Campus.
“(Metered parking) is mainly for students
who just need to drop off a paper with a
professor or run in for something,” Healey
said.
Trent Steele, COMMIT’s first vice presi
dential candidate and a sophomore secondary
education major, said the COMMIT candi
dates had spent time talking to students to find
out what issues were important to them.
“It’s lime lo reach out to the students,”
Steele said. “We visited students in residence
halls and said, ‘Let’s hear what you have to
say ’ They gave us plenty.”
Sigerson said rape awareness and racism
were issues at UNL that needed lo be ad
dressed. He said he had plans for a minority
faculty and staff speaker series which would
educate students on multicultural issues and
answer questions on the subject.
Healey said she wanted more done lo make
campus more accessible to students with dis
abilities.
“COMMIT candidates want to increase
availability with things like curb cuts and elec
tronic doors,” Healey said.
“(Disabled students) have the same rights
we do,” she said.
Steele said improving campus lighting was
a priority for COMMIT.
Sigerson agreed and said belter lighting did
not require installing new lights.
“A lot of the campus safely problem is due
to maintenance,” he said. “The lights need to
be kept operational.”
Sigerson said he was positive about this
year’s campaign for the Association of Stu
dents of the University of Nebraska.
“This year has been a very issue-oriented
campaign, and it might set an example for the
future that you don’t have to bring up personal
character traits,” he said.
Williams
Piper
Olaes
Better lighting in ACTION’S plans
By Trevor Meers
Staff Reporter
The ACTION parly is using UNL student
government elections as a chance to propose
answers to students’ questions about parking
and safely on campus, two
candidates said.
Alyssa Williams, a jun
ior philosophy major and
ACTION’S presidential
candidate, said a special kind
of light bulb would improve
campus lighting at the
University of Ncbraska-Lincoln.
“We want to change lighting in parking lots
and walkways to a sodiurn-burning bulb that
produces twice as much light for the same
energy,” Williams said.
Chris Olacs, ACTION’S second vice presi
dential candidate and a sophomore computer
science, math and French major, said blue
lights also could be placed on emergency phones
to make them more visible and increase safely
on campus.
“(SludcnLs) don’t know anything about where
emergency phones arc,” Olacs said. “ACTION
is proposing putting blue lights on the phones
so people can look up and sec them in the
night.”
Olacs said ACTION also proposed raising
parking fines from S5 to S7.50 if fines were not
l paid within a specific amount of lime. He said
Ihc extra money would go to a fund for paving
gravel parking lots.
Olacs saida parking garage for students was
a long-range goal, but “we need to start push ing
for it now.”
ACTION also wants to install a beeper
system on campus, which would benefit stu
dents with disabilities, Olacs said. The system
would allow students with disabilities to carry
a beeper they could sound if they encountered
trouble, such as during bad weather, he said.
Williams said another important goal of the
ACTION party was to gel a vote for the student
regent. She said some people viewed this goal
as impossible, but said she thought ASUN must
begin working for a vote.
Cultural diversity and student awareness
also were two issues that needed attention,
Williams said. She said ACTION would push
for a cultural diversity class for freshmen at the
University of Ncbraska-Lincoln.
“Students don’t know what ASUN is and
what it can do for them,” Olacs said. “Basically
it’s an outreach program.”
Williams said she was positive about sup
port for ACTION in the upcoming election,
and said the campaign itself had been benefi
cial.
“I view it as a big growing experience,” she
said. “It’s made me understand politics to a
greater extent.”
Pat Piper, ACTION’S first vice presidential
candidate, was unavailable for comment.
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residence halls, one representing fra
ternities and sororities, and one off
campus representative. ASUN’s sec
ond vice president and speaker of the
senate also would serve on the board,
she said.
Besides ensuring more student
representation, she said, the larger
board would “lake away from putting
the power in so few hands.”
In addition, Williams said, AC
TION also would like to create a
women’s resource subcommittee in
AS UN to combat the lack of equal
representation women have in stu
dent government.
Many students conveyed to AC
TION their concern that students need
more access and awareness of what
AS UN docs and how to get involved,
she said.
One way to create more aware
ness, as well as more communication
and cooperation, would be to imple
ment a presidents’ council to bring
the various student organizations at
UNL together, she said.
The idea came from Georgetown
University where organization presi
dents meet twice a week with the
student government vice president to
voice concerns and frustrations, she
said. The vice president must sec the
students’ problems through, she said.
Williams said ACTION also would
like to implement an outreach pro
gram that would bring AS UN to stu
dents and help them get involved in
student government.
Survey to be added to RHA vote
By Lesli Thorn
Staff Reporter
When dorm residents go to the
polls for the Residence Hall Associa
tion election March 19, they will not
just be choosing
the next RHA of
ficers.
In a 16^3-1 vote
Sunday, RHA
passed a bill ask
ing residence hall
voters to complete
a paper towel survey.
The survey is the result of a rc
Jiucst by the Department of Housing
or resident input about a proposal to
remove paper hand towels from all
residence floors except the main lob
bies.
According to the bill, if the pro
posal went into effect, a portion of the
money saved by the removal would
fund a residence hall-wide recycling
program.
Also, residents would have to
provide their own towels in bath
rooms, although a stack of paper towels
might be available in each floor's
custodial closet, said Mike Lewis,
RHA president.
Housing spends about $30,000 for
paper hand towels every year.
Lewis said paper towel removal is
a yearly debate and housing wanted
direct student input this year.
“Housing is kind of interested in
this year’s proposal,” he said.
However, Lewis said, this is not
the exact proposal that housing will
consider.
“We’ve been asked to do the sur
vey just to get an opinion on it, not to
definitely enact the proposal,” he said.
And although RHA will conduct
the survey, it docs not mean it sup
ports the proposal, he added.
“This is only an opinion survey,”
Lewis said.
Lewis added he would like to see
RHA provide advertising presenting
the pros and cons of the proposal
before the election.
The results of the survey will be
reported at the first post-election RHA
Senate meeting.
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Angelos also said the NCAA had
decided Baldwin could live wilh his
minister following Baldwin’s release
from St. Joseph’s Center for Mental
Health if he paid for his room and
board. This would not violate NCAA
bylaws because Baldwin’s minister is
not officially associated wilh NU,
Angelos said.
The NCAA had not yet decided if
it would allow Baldwin to live with
Coach Tom Osborne or running back
coach Frank Solich. The NCAA’s
AdminislraliveCommiltcc will make
that decision during a telephone con- •
fcrcncc Wednesday, he said.
Angelos stressed that no special
exemption had been made to allow
NU to pay for Baldwin’s psychiatric
treatment.
“The bottom line is that (NU offi
cials) really didn’t ask for anything
that wasn’t permitted under the
(NCAA’s) legislation,” he said.
“Everything they have sought has been
established in past precedence.”
Al Papik, assistant athletic direc
tor for administrative services, said
Sunday he was not sure if NU had
acted on the NCAA ruling and had
begun paying for Baldwin s psychi
atric expenses.
Speaker says women ys studies
should be multicultural concern
By Kristine Long
Staff Reporter
Women’s studies should be in
cluded in efforts to integrate multic
ulluralism into schools’ curricula, a
Rutgers University professor said
Friday.
Alice Kcsslcr
Harris.dircclorof
women’s studies
and a history pro- ■ ■
fessor at the uni- 111
versity in n
Camden, NJ., said "
mulliculluralism was an “effort to
incorporate diversity into thccurricu
lum.”
Kessler-Harris spoke lo a crowd of
about 200 people in the Regency Suite
at the Nebraska Union.
In her lecture, “Women’s Studies
and the Multicultural Agenda,’’
Kessler-Harris said women shared the
same problems and goals as minority
groups.
But women arc not a minority
because they make up about half the
population at any university, she said.
However, Kessler-Harris said,
women had a lot in common with
minority groups because they had been
disadvantaged and “rooted in mar
ginalily.”
Women and minorily groups deal
with the same issues of power and
subordination, she said.
If women want to move them
selves into the mainstream of society,
she said, they must cooperate with
minority groups.
Kessler-Harris said womcn’ssiud
ics were like minorily studies be
cause instructors in both areas had
engaged in new methods of inquiry
and leaching.
Mulliculluralism relies on the
knowledge of everyone, and not just
knowledge from books, she said. Inter
action in the classroom is important,
she said.
Kessler-Harris said both women
and minorities were faced by people
who thought mulliculluralism would
threaten the heritage of Western civi
lization.
Kesslcr-Harris said mullicullural
ism provided “a tremendous opportu
nity for an alliance of minority groups.”
But, she said, because the differ
ent factions were so committed to
diversity, it led to anger and explo
sion if one group thought it was not
gelling what it wanted.
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