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Sigerson wants ASUN to change
stance on admissions standards
By Angie Brunkow
Staff Reporter*.
ASUN President Andrew Sigerson
will ask senators tonight to reconsider
a decision they made last week con
cerning proposed higher admissions
standards at the University of Ne
braska-Lincoln.
At last week’s meeting, senators
voted 10-9 against
supporting a pro
posal that would
require incoming
students to have
two additional
years of math and
foreign language
and one additional
year of natural science and social
science.
Sigerson said he hoped that recon
sidering the issue would lead to a
better debate because about one-fourth
of the senate did not attend last week’s
meeting.
Senators representing both sides of
the proposal were not present, he said,
and reviving the bill will give sup
porters, such as James Gricsen, vice
chancellor for studentaffairs,achance
to speak.
Some senators were confused about
what they were voting on because too
many amendments were added to the
proposal, Sigerson said.
And he said he disagreed with the
senate’s decision on the bill.
“Higher admissions standards are
badly needed here,” he said.
A recent college guide in U.S.
News and World Report placed UNL
in its third quartile, or somewhere
between 103 and 153 out of America’s
204 “national universities”—a rank
ing that proves UNL needs higher
admissions requirements, Sigerson
said.
UNL was ranked near the bottom
compared toother Big Eight universi
ties.
“One of the reasons for that is
because we let everybody who
breathes in,” Sigerson said.
He said university officials were
not doing prospective students any
favors by letting them enter UNL '
unprepared for college academics.
Students must be academically
prepared to get as much as possible
out of the university, he said.
In other business, Sigerson said,
the Association of Students of the
University of Nebraska will consider
recommendations for the use of a new
parking lot on the east side of the
Power Plant at 14 th and Avery streets.
The lot, which has 22 parking
spaces, either will be designated for
students living in the Harper
Schramm-Smith Complex or for com
muter students.
Students join to support homeless
By Corey Russman
Staff Reporter _
Members of the Golden Key Na
tional Honor Society and UNL stu
dent-athletes have joined forces to
support the Great Plains Winter
Slccpout for Lincoln’s homeless.
Students have finalized plans fora
food and clothing drive that runs to
day through Friday from 10:30a.m. to
2:30 p.m. in the Nebraska Union.
Troy Branch, a junior linebacker
for the Comhuskcrs, said the drive
was “another opportunity for student
athletes and honor students in Golden
Key to use their influence in the com
munity and student body to help gen
erate support and awareness.”
Branch encouraged cverypnc to
come to the Nebraska Union to donate
either two cans of food, two items of
clothing or $2 to the project. The first
600 people to donate any of those
items will receive a 1992 Nebraska
football poster.
Deborah Dedrick, vice president
of Golden Key, said she hoped the
project would increase awareness of
the homeless problem in Lincoln.
People should “empathize with the
homeless and get thccommunitymore
involved,” Dedrick said.
In addition to UNL’s food and
clothing drive, the annual “Kick in a
Can” food drive will take place during
Saturday’s football game against
Oklahoma State.
The Omaha and Lincoln food banks
are sponsoring Saturday’s food drive.
Charles Raffcnspcrger, executive
director of the Omaha Food Bank,
said he hoped everyone who came to
the stadium Saturday would donate
either one can of food or S1 to the food
banks.
Both the “Kick in a Can” drive and
the food and clothing drive are part of
a promotion for the Great Plains Win
ter Slcepoul. The slccpoul, which will
be Oct. 16 from 6 p.m. to 7 a.m. at
Lincoln’s Centennial Mall, is spon
sored by the Lincoln/Lancaster County
Homeless Coalition. The coalition is
composed of 35 organizations.
Dave Murrell, coordinator of the
slccpout, said the coalition was invit
ing the entire community to partici
pate.
Murrell said he wanted people to
join together by the “hundreds and
thousands” to attend the event.
“Everyone from the UNL campus,
from Union College, from Nebraska
Wesleyan (University) and from
Concordia College, as well as every
man and woman on the street” should
come to the event, he said.
Every night in Lincoln, Murrell
said, 118 men, women and children
are homeless.
During the sleepout, he said, a
meal typical of those given to the
homeless will be served. The event
also will include entertainment, as
well as food from local merchants.
Security for the event will be pro
vided by off-duty police officers,
Murrell said.
All proceeds from the event will go
to the Freeway Youth Station, the
Friendship Home and the Peoples City
Mission — organizations that help
shelter and feed Lincoln’s homeless.
Vigil
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they walked.
“Let her know — please let her
know that we will do whatever it takes
to make it slop,” she said.
Stan Harms, Candice’s father,
urged other students at the University
of Ncbraska-Lincoln to use the buddy
system at all times, since authorities
still were unsure whether the person
responsible for his daughter’s disap
pearance was in the area.
“It’s too late to prevent it for Candi,
but if we can prevent it for anyone
else, we’ll do whatever we can do,”he
said.
He said his family had been over
whelmed by the community’s support
in helping them get through the crisis.
“This is the last thing I wanted to
do; Pal and I are very private people,’’
he said. “Keep the prayers going.”
Linda Kay Morgan, treasurer of
the Afrikan People’s Union, said at a
time like this, “it is hard to provide
comfort to people who know no com
fort.”
Amy Rockenbach, who has been a
friend and co-workcr of Harms at
Bryan Memorial Hospital for more
than 2 years, said coming to the vigil
was a way for her to feel like she was
doing something for Harms.
“We haven’t been able to do any
thing,” she said. “We’ve been so tied
down.”
Thomas Kuffcl, chaplain at Lin
coln Pius X High School, which Harms
had attended, said students and staff
had been praying for Harms and her
family since her disappearance.
“Students are very upset about
this,” he said “Two weeks ago Friday,
we held a mass to pray for Candice —
it was very emotional and afterwards
there was complete silence in the
halls.”
I-POLICE REPORT--1
Beginning midnight Monday
7:41 a.m. — Verbal disturbance
between two men, parking lot at
14th and R streets.
7:59 a.m. — Reserved parking
signs damaged, Nebraska Hall park
ing lot, $50.
9:16 a.m. — Man fell down stairs,
Westbrook Music Building, trans
ported to St. Elizabeth Hospital,
555 S. 70th St.
2:43 p.m. — Compact disc player
stolen from vehicle, parking lot at
16th and Y streets, $300 loss, $50
damage.
4:18 p.m.—Assault, liquid thrown
on man from moving vehicle, North
14th Street, arrest.
7:09 p.m. — Two-vchiclc, non
injury accident, parking lot north
of Reunion, $1,000.
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“My country has been in a frenzy
of constitutional activity that verges
on surrealism,” Lewis said. “We
have had 7 or 8 years of fixated,
obsessive, endless and, I suppose,
neurotic constitutional debate.”
Lewis criticized those who had
so fervently campaigned for the
accord that they stepped over the
line of reality and pushed voters
away.
As an example, he cited Cana
dian Prime Minister Brian
Mulroney, who told voters “if you
vote no, you are an enemy of
Canada.”
Oneofficial, Lewis said,claimed
that without the accord, Canada
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could fall apart and become an
other Beirut, and the national bank
predicted 1 million Canadians
might move to the United States.
“That’s what you call referen
dum pornography,” he said.
However, Lewis said he thought
the “yes” lobby would reclaim the
high ground in the debate, and it.
was probable “that in all provinces,
the ‘yes’ side will prevail.”
But in any case, the passing of
Oct. 26 won’t mean the end of the
controversy, he said. Lewis said
the issue would persist until Que
bec was “one day asked the explicit
question: ‘Do you want in, or do
you want out?”’
Lewis said he believed that was
direction his country was heading,
and he hoped the eventual choice
would be for Canada.
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The University of Nebraska-Lincoln
College of Business Administration
presents the 14th annual
E.J. Faulkner Lecture
"Trends in Financial Services
in the '90s"
I delivered by
Joseph J. Melone
President & Chief Operating Officer
Equitable Life Assurance Society
Friday, October 9,1992 —10:30 a.m.
Cat the Nebraska Union
14th and R Streets, Lincoln, Neb.
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
The public is invited to attend this free lecture
_sponsored by Woodmen Accident and Life Company_II