Custodian, student honored
For ihc second year in a row, a
UNL student and a member of the
UNL custodial staff were named
recipients of the 1992 Sue Tidball
Award for Creative Humanity.
Paul Cantu, a junior electrical
engineering major at the Univer
sity of Nebraska-Lincoln, and
Richard Barnhart, custodial super
visor at the East Campus Union,
both received the award.
The two were chosen from among
10 other nominees Sunday night at
the 1 llh annual award celebration
at St. Mark’s On the Campus Epis
copal Church.
Caniu was nominated for his
work with the Mcxican-Amcrican
Student Association, particularly
in developing the outreach of the
campus group into the community.
Barnhart was nominated for his
work with custodial staff in main
taining a clean, safe and welcome
environment in the East Campus
Union, and for reducing the amount
ofchcmicals used in cleaning proc
esses. He also was cited for having
physically challenged people on
his staff.
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Student would boost KH A role
Sole candidate
for president
cites 10 goals
By Lesli Thorn
Staff Reporter
Although only one candidate has
filed for the RHA presidency, that
candidate said he planned to increase
the organization’s participation in
campus life.
Matt Hammons, a junior Russian
and international affairs major, said
that if elected, he 1 ::/i
planned to give the • •
Residence Hall I
Association a rasas; t
more active role ki,|[Si, j**
on campus than it j**
now has. RHA Elections
Residence Hall a tlections
elections arc Thursday, and polls will
be open in all residence hall food
service buildings from 8 a.m. to 8
p.m. All current residence hall stu
dents arc eligible to vote.
Hammons, the Cathcr Residence
Hall president, said he and running
mate Lawrence Gibbs, a sophomore
broadcasting major and Schramm
Residence Hall senator, outlined 10
goals they wanted to accomplish if
elected.
He said their goals included send
ing RHA officers to weekly hall
complex government meetings, visit
ing floor meetings at the start of the
semester to explain RHA’s role in
residence hall life and creating a
“Congress of Floors” — a workshop
to educate all floor presidents and
treasurers about RHA and encourage
involvement in the organization.
The campaign focuses on taking
“a personal approach to student gov
ernment,” Hammons said.
To encourage the personal ap
proach, Hammons said he had talked
to complex program directors about
involving RHA in student-assistant
training.
He said the complex program di
rectors were receptive to the idea.
“Until now, there has been no guide
to the student assistants on what RHA
is or docs,” he said. “This lack of
knowledge is passed on unconsciously
to the students.”
Hammons said he also wanted to
revive RHA Week, which had not
been held since 1986.
“This is important,” he said. “It
can show what is so special about
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Until now, there has
been no guide to the
student assistants on
what RHA is or does.
This lack of knowl
edge is passed on un
consciously to the
student.
— Matt Hammons
RHA presidential candidate
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living in the halls.”
Each complex would be involved
in RHA Week, and Hammons said he
already had begun planning for the
event.
“I want to make this a reality,” he
said.
Sonja Kapoun, RHA elections
commission chairperson, said it was
not unusual for only one candidate to
file for the RHA presidency. But write
ins for all RHA and local government
offices arc allowed.
“Usually the people who would
like to run realize how much work it
is and choose not to file,” she said.
Classroom
Continued from Page 1
But students still arc forced to take
the classes out of sequence, he said,
extending their lime at the university.
Even when ideal programs arc
composed, and the students receive
their degrees, Wilson said, more than
half of their course work could have
been done in second-choice classes.
That really docs not indicate an
ideal program, he said.
“We haven’t failed them, but it
doesn’t mean it isn’t a sub-optimal
outcome,’’ he said.
NU President Martin Massengale
said the problem was not just at UNO;
closed classes were a problem at every
campus.
UNL Chancellor Graham Spanicr
said UNL also had a problem with
almost 1,5(X) closed classes this spring
semester.
“Our problem is actually greater”
than at the other campuses, Spanicr
said.
Spanicr said he had met with the
deans at UNL and was working on a
plan to help alleviate the problem.
“This has become one of my high
est priorities,” he said.
At the meetings with the deans,
Spanicr said they discussed adding
some scats to current classes and were
looking into a certain amount of real
location of funds for larger classes.
UNO Chancellor Del Weber said
he also had worked with the deans at
UNO, and asked them to look at where
they could possibly increase class
limits.
But UNO’s full-time faculty
mcmbcr-lo-sludcnl ratio is high, with
one l ull-time professors for every 30
students, he said.
Weber also said UNO was consid
ering hiring more part-time proles
sots, but had almost “played that option
out.”
Weber said he would prefer to
have more full-time faculty mem
bers, although they might not have
enough space.
Another option UNO had to elimi
nate the problem already has been
.used, Weber said.
UNO already has spread out the
class schedule, he said, so a large
number of students arc on campus for
classes throughout the entire school
day.
At the end of the discussion, Hoch
said the issue showed how ffie univer
sity’s goals for recruitment, retention
and accessibility were lied together.
Regent Don Blank of McCook said
he expected more lively debate on the
issue during the strategy-issues dis
cussion planned for a meeting later
this year.
Campus Advance
Continued from Page 1
which was labeled a cull by ihe Cull
Awareness Network of Chicago.
The identification as a cull has
some basis, Blake said.
“They seem to act like a cull in that
they seem to be using mind-control
techniques to gain members and to
keep people involved in the group,”
she said.
Blake said she had been told the
group used techniques such as sleep
and food deprivation, isolating mem
bers from family and friends and
continual questioning of their long
held beliefs.
Campus Advance had members in
the residence halls last year, she said,
and some members arc in the halls
again this year.
Because the student affairs office
wants lo ensure people arc not har
assed in their living areas, Blake said
it was concerned with the group’s
recruiting activities in the residence
halls.
“You could say that we arc wor
ried,” she said. “Our fear is that indi
viduals in this organization (in re
cruiting) are infringing on the rights
of students.”
Blake said the student affairs of
fice would work to make sure UNL
housing policy on student groups in
the residence halls was enforced.
That policy slates students involved
in groups have the right to:
• Maintain close contact and rela
tionships with family and friends not
involved in the organization.
• Disagree with group members
or leaders without being belittled.
• Ask questions.
• Be left alone if not interested in
the group.
• Withdraw from the organization
at any time without fear.
“We’re just kind of watching to
make sure what’s going on is of eve
ryone’s free will or that there’s no
coercion,” Blake said.
A woman who has a relative in
Campus Advance ami wished to remain
anonymous to protect the relative’s
safety said the group kept light con
trol over its members. ..
Members cannot date anyone out
side the group or attend social activi
ties not associated with the group
without permission, she said.
Campus Advance members use a
technique on new recruits in which
they are friendly to the new member
and obutin personal information about
them, she said.
The information later is used against
ihc member, she said, to make them
feel guilty about it.
The group moves slowly but ef
fectively, she said, working under the
guise of friendship. She said her rela
tive did noi think ihcrc w as any coer
cion in ihc group.
Members of Campus Advance
refused to comment on the group or
its activities.
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dosing to cause layoffs
From Staff Reports
The March 20 closing of the Fast
Break cafeteria will cause layoffs of
11 permanent employees and a group
of Lincoln high school students, an
official said.
But Daryl Swanson, director of
the Nebraska Union, said the Reduc
tion In Force policy would give
employees help in finding work. The
policy gives employees priority in
any university job applications and
interviews for which they arc quali
fied, Swanson said.
Five of the 11 workers to be laid
off already have found work, he said.
Special-education students from
Lincoln high schools involved in a
training program at Fast Break also
will be affected, Swanson said.
Those siudcnis involved in ihc
training program receive hands-on
training experience while working at
Fast Break and arc not paid, he said.
Head Cook Karen Chong said about
eight to 10 students from Lincoln
high schools washed dishesand bused
tables from 12:45 to 2 p.m.
Swanson said the students would
be transferred to similar training pro
grams throughout the Lincoln com
munity.
The Fast Break cafeteria will be
replaced with two food-court outlets
in addition to Little King, he said.
Chicken, Chinese, Mexican or
Italian restaurants, if selected, might
move in this fall, he said, butasbcslos
first must be removed from the ceil
ing.