Budget, diversity top agenda
By Ronda Vlasin
Staff Reporter
Budget cuts will be the first
obstacle the University of Ne
braska-Lincoln’s new senior vice
chancellor for academic affairs,
Joan Leilzel, will work to over
come.
Lcitzel, who
took her posi
tion as the high
est-ranking ad
ministrator un
der the chancel
SENATE lorjh'SfaH.said
at the first Aca
demic Senate meeting of the year
Tuesday that the budget-cutting
process was challenging.
“Decisions made now will af
fect us over the nexf decade,” she
said.
Leitzel said that throughout the
process, she and Vice Chancellor
for Student Affairs, James Griesen,
would be watching peer institu
tions so UNL’s planning was re
sponsive to other places.
She said she was not aware of
the exact size of the cuts required,
but that more information would be
available in October.
“I can’t pretend to have pro
cessed all the information that has
come to me, but I do know that the
potential for this institution is very,
very great,” Leitzel said.
“However, we don’t want to
spend the whole year doing noth
ing but budget.”
In other business, Eric Jolly, the
new assistant to the chancellor and
* director for affirmative action and
diversity, also made his first ap
pearance at the Academic Senate.
Jolly said his goal was to bring
diversity toevery audience he could.
“I want to create a hospitable
environment which will ensure
better retention,” he said.
Also, the faculty was informed
that the proposal to award mihus
grades on students’ academic
records was being discussed by the
senate’s grading committee, which
would make its recommendations
soon.
Federal student loan checks to be distributed
ran semcsicr aistriDuiion ot rea
eral Perkins Loan checks will be Sept.
21,22 and 23, in the Ballroom of the
NebraskaCity Union. Hours of distri
bution arc 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. and 1 tc
f '■ 1 —
4 p.m. each day.
Students must present their stu
dent photo-ID card to receive a check.
Students also are reminded to bring
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International
Carnival
Organized by UPC International
Performances will be held on Friday,
September 18 from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
1. 4:20 - 5:00 p.m. Chinese Painting.
2. 5:20 - 5:50 p.m. Chinese Instrumental.
3. 6:20 - 6:50 p.m. Bamboo Performances.
4. 7:20 - 7:50 p.m. Lion Dance.
All students are welcome.
the promissory note or addendum
which was previously mailed to them.
Checks not picked up by 4 p.m. on the
23rd will be cancelled.
POLICE REPORT
Beginning midnight Monday
9:15 a.m. — Bicycle stolen, 25th
i and S streets, $725.
12:07 p.m. — Two-vehicle, non
; injury accident, parking lot west of
Reunion, $500.
12:56 p.m.—Bicycle stolen, Delta
Tau Delta fraternity, 715 N. 16th
St., $435.
2:50 p.m.—Bicycle stolen, Cather
Residence Hall, SI25.
4:25 p.m. — Hit-and-run accident,
parking lot at 19th and T streets,
S2,500.
5:39 p.m. — Vehicle walked on,
parking lot at 19th and T streets,
S800.
6:50 p.m. — Vehicle walked on,
parking lot at 19th and T streets,
$400.
6:54 p.m. — Vehicle walked on,
parking lot at 19th and T streets,
$100.
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Senators to start action
in multicultural education
By Angie Brunkow
Staff Reporter
ASUN senators will begin doing
their part on Wednesday to help spread
multicultural education programs
statewide.
Jim Kubik, staff coordinator for
the Nebraska Legislature
Multicultural Advisory Committee,
— ■ .. will bring student
A OI IM senators up to dale
• at Wednesday’s
^ ASUN meeting
on what the com
Ym*ltcc is doing,
i "iff*- Association
mx\\ 'Xyfif of Students at the
University of Ne
braska President Andrew Sigerson.
Sigcrson said ASUN was one of
four advisory groups and the only
student group involved with the com
mittee. The state advisory committee
will make recommendations about
multicultural education programs that
will be implemented in Nebraska pub
lie schools in the 1993-94 school year.
Sigerson said it was an honor for
ASUN to be included in the commit
tee.
“Giving us advisory capacity al
lows us to put direction into what
they’ll do across the state,” he said.
“We will havea say in what happens.”
Sigerson said the university should
be involved withthe committee be
cause of the multicultural environ
ment found on campus.
Students exposed to multicultural
diversity in elementary and second
ary schools, he said, will adjust more
easily if they choose to attend the
University of Ncbraska-Lincoln.
In other action, ASUN will decide
whether to support the proposal for
higher admissiohs standards at UNL.
Sigerson said he thought the
university’s current admission stan
dards were too low and he expected
senators to support the proposal.
Now, he said, “we accept anybody
and everybody.”
Mediation
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sure that communication progressed
in the right direction.
The amount of lime spent work ing
out the problem would depend on how
serious it is, she said.
The program differs from legal
services and counseling, because so
lutions in those offices arc not made
by a third parly, such as a judge or a
counselor, Reese said.
In IcgaKdisputcs conflicts arc re
solved by pitting one person against
another, and someone always comes
out losing, she said.
“The whole philosophy (of the
Mediation Program) is that it’s the
responsibility of the parlies to solve
their own problems,” she said.
The service, which is frecof charge,
attempts to gel the parlies to work
together instcadof against each other.
“The situation will be collabora
tive rather than competitive,” she said.
The program also may be bcncTi
cial to lesbian and gay couples, who
often find the legal system inacces
sible, Reese said.
The program will not address prob
lems such as physical abuse or con
tractual disputes, she said. Instead,
these problems will be referred to a
legal adviser or counselor.
The idea to set up a mediation
center came from the University of
Oregon, which has two such programs,
Reese said.
Reese said she hoped to see similar
interest develop at UNL.
“I*vcseen what mediation can do,”
she said. “Its popularity will grow
after people arc educated about it.”
The center is now open and a panel
meeting Oct. 21 will introduce the
service to the university, Reese said.
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