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A new board will be appointed in the fall, he said. Marilyn Bugcnhagcn, CAP direc tor, dissolved the board after ongoing internal disagreements over which body — the advisory board, the WRC Col lec live or the coord inator—could make decisions for the center. Vanessa Spencer, a member of the collective and what used to be the WRC advisory board, said most of the staff and volunteers at the center left in protest of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s action. “To us, that’s not the WRC any more,” Spencer,a. UNL senior, said. “The WRC was run by a collective. This is something completely differ ent.” Gricscn said the collective, which began the WRC in the 1970s am£ had been integral in operating it through the advisory board, was not recog nized by UNL as the governing body of the center. Spencer said the WRC became a part of CAP in 1980. While this en abled the organization to use student fees, it also meant that the WRC came under the auspices of UNL’s administration in accordance with Fund “B” regulations, which require ad ministrative control. But Gricscn said members of the collective, which now will be a sepa rate student organization under the Feminist Action Alliance, resisted efforts to take WRC decision-making power away from them and put it in the hands of a university-appointed coordinator. Spencer said the women of the collective saw such moves as the university taking the WRC away from them. “No one wanted a coordinator,” she said. “We were fine for 15 years without one.” She said the collective had been having problems with the coordina tors in recent years. Coordinators, she said, should help the collective carry out its policies. See WOMEN on 3 DWI bill could create ambiguity, officials say By Jeremy Fitzpatrick Senior Reporter Tougher penalties for fourth-of fense drunken driving included in a bill passed Tuesday by the Nebraska Legislature could create problems fpr prosecutors and be challenged in court, a UNL pro fessor said. Karen Knight Eagan, an assis tant professor of law at the University of Ncbraska Lincoln, said LB291 could create problems because one of its sections provided a felony sentence fora mis demeanor offense. Section 1 of LB291 amends Ne braska statute 28-106 to provide for a maximum of five years in prison and a $ 10,000 fine for a fourth conviction of driving while intoxicated. The maximum misdemeanor penalty in Nebraska before LB291 was one year in prison and a SI ,000 fine. Knight-Eagan said constitutional problems could occur if prosecutors attempted to prosecute the fourth - offense DWI. Because it is labeled as a misdemeanor offense but carries a felony punishment, those prosecuted under the law could challenge their convictions in court, claiming their due-process rights had been violated, she said. Persons prosecuted under felony offenses have privileges that misde meanor offenders do not, she said. Felony offenders have the right to a preliminary hearing, to being tried in a district rather than county court, to question the prosecution’s witnesses on the record before the trial and to discovery — the right to find out about the prosecution’s case. “If you were charged with a class W misdemeanor (drunken driving), See DWI on 3 Clarification: Nine members of Scarlet A Cream will tour as part of a Depart meet of Defense Armed Forces Proles stonal Entertainment program, not the USO, as a story in Wednesday's paper reported; ASUN votes to oppose ciga rette tax increase. Page 2 Diversions highlights local poetry. Page 5 » tnr ... NU Baseball team suffers loss to Creighton Bluejays. Page 13 INDEX Wire 2 Opinion 4 Diversions 5 13 14 i-i— Sftaun Sartin/DN Hair-raising Dale Badley, a freshman marketing major, dives to catch a frisbee Wednesday afternoon in the garden area east of Love Library. Officials plan waste plant Spanier freezes spending to save funds for facility By Sean Green Senior Reporter □hanccllor Graham Spanier froze spending this week on all in structional equipment at UNL to reserve funds for a new hazardous waste treatment plant — a plant uni versity officials said was badly needed. In a speech to the Academic Sen ate Tuesday, Spanier said the $250,000 to $300,000 needed to replace the existing plant would come out of UNL’s “hide.” But Jack Goebel, vice chancellor of business and finance at the Univer sity of Ncbraska-Lincoln, said funds would not come from money already designated for other areas, and the money would be rerouted for only one fiscal year. “(Spanicr) simply opted not to buy some equipment that he might have otherwise because he feels so strongly about this new plant,” pocbcl said. “He has been very conservative in his spending so far and has some funds available to meet this need.” The Nebraska Legislature ad journed Tuesday without providing funds for the waste treatment plant, which UNL has been requesting for the past two years. By building the new plant, Goebel said, university officials hope to pul UNL in, or above, compliance with Environmental Protection Agency regulations. He said EPA officials had con tacted UNL with concerns that the university needed to comply more closely with the agency’s require ments. “The inspection showed soific deficiencies,” he said. “Nobody knows what timetable the EPA is on, but the point is, we can either pay more fines or create a belter facility.” The existing 4(X)-squarc-foot plant on East Campus is scheduled to be replaced by a 2,000-squarc-foot plant See WASTE on 2 UNL fees lowest in Big Eight despite increases Students to face 5.85 percent hike, administrator says ! By Cindy Kimbrough Senior Reporter | Despite an overall 5.85 percent increase in University Programs and Facilities Fees next year, ; UNL students still will pay the lowest fees compared to other Big Eight 1 schools, an official said. James Griescn, vice chancellor for student affairs, said a study dated : Feb. 21 showed that this year’s stu dent fees of S176 — excluding those for the University Health Center xxausc health programs vary — were he lowest in the Big Eight. Although UNL students will have o pay about $10 more next year in itudent fees, Griesen said, those fees ilill will be below the average of Big Bight schools. The average, excluding health care, or the 1991-92 academic year was 5271. At $176, the University of Mcbraska-Lincoln is S95 below the iverage. The NU Board of Regents Salur Jay approved UNL’s increase of $9.97 n Fund B fees, as well as increases in itudent fees at the other three Univer sity of Nebraska campuses. The increases were: See FEES on 2 Va Ctmsfitef to SlirifflUAllaii awn wwurw/ur
