AS UN to look at proposal
to eliminate spending limits
By Angie Brunkow
Staff Reporter
AS UN again will consider the pro
posal to end spending limits and to
lengthen the campaigning period for
student elections at tonight’s meet
ing.
The Association of Students of the
University of Nebraska voted down
the electoral commission’s proposal
two weeks ago by
a 12-8 vote.
Speaker of the
Senate Andrew
Loudon said the
electoral commis
sion did not re
ceive any new
ideas for election rules from senators
who voted against the proposal.
Loudon said the electoral commis
sion had a special meeting last Tues
day to hear senators’ ideas, but no
senators attended.
If the rules are not adopted tonight,
ASUN’s last meeting for the semes
ter, the issue will be up in the air until
next semester, Loudon said.
“We need to adopt the rules from a
pragmatic standpoint,” he said. “If
there are no rules, no one can do
- it
We need to adopt the
rules from a prag
matic standpoint.
ASUN Speaker of the
Senate
Andrew Loudon
-ft “
anything.”
In other business, ASUN will dis
cuss a bill urging the Academic
Senate’s Grading and Exam Commit
tee to scrap the idea of adding minuses
to the current grading system.
The minus system would change
the current grading scale, possibly
lowering students’ GPAs, Loudon
said.
He said adding the minuses could
hurt students’ chances of getting jobs.
Students also have not had enough
input on the issue, Loudon said.
‘‘Students do not want minuses
added to the grading system,” he said.
The two ASUN representatives on
the Academic Senate committee have
not been kept informed about its meet
ings, he said.
Senator eyes child-support bill
Measure extends '
payments to ease
cost of education
By Jeff Zeleny
Staff Reporter
A bill that would require child
support payments to continue past
the age of 19 would help students
from single-parent families pay for
their college education, a state sena
tor said.
Sen. Chris Beutler of Lincoln
said he might resubmit LB630, a
— bill he intro
duced last year
in the Nebraska
Legislature.
LB630 would
require child
ments to con
tinue up to the age of 22 for full
time college students.
Child support now ends at age
19, and non-custodial parents have
no legal obligation to help fund
higher education.
“I had a few women approach
me who are custodial parents, and
they were upset because they fell
their ex-spouses were not making a
fair contribution to the education
costs of their children,” Beutler
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Under the reauthorization, the big winners are the
middle class.The single parent will also benefit.
John Beacon
director of Scholarships and Financial Aid
said.
The bill was killed after a Judi
ciary Committee hearing last spring
because of other priority bills,
Bcullcr said.
“Certainly the property lax is
sue had much to do with it,” he said.
“There were a number of things
going on; the Judiciary Committee
was on overload.”
A major concern with the bill
last year was how the chi Id-support
payments would be made, Beutler
said.
One revision Beutler said he
would make to last year’s bill was
requiring the payments to be made
directly to the college, rather than
to the custodial spouse.
Beutler said he would discuss
the issue with his constituents be
fore deciding whether to re-spon
sor the bill.
Some voters now have reserva
tions about the bill, Beutler said.
“One of the fundamental objec
tions is they don’t feel the court
system is evenhanded,” he said.
“They don’t want anything that
-ff ■
gives more leverage 10 the custo
dial parents.”
Most non-custodial parents are
pleased to help fund the education,
Beutler said, and think the bill is
unnecessary. \
Other states have laws sim i lar to
the one Beutler may propose. In
states that do not require child
support payments past the age of
19, some judges order extended
child support.
John Beacon, director of Schol
arships and Financial Aid at the
University of Nebraska-Lincoln,
said federal assistance laws were
reauthorized this summer to better
accommodate people in need.
“Under the reauthorization, the
big winners are the middle class,”
he said. “The single parent will also
benefit.”
But Beutler said such a child
support law was needed, and it
eventually would be approved.
“Historically, it’s an idea whose
time will come,” he said. “It’s just
a matter of time before it happens.”
Budget
Continued from Page 1
Howe said he could not predict
what Spanier would decide tocut, but
he expected the chancellor to make
his decisions and negotiate them with
the college deans at the beginning of
next semester.
The chancellor’s cabinet intends
to conduct these interviews every two
years, whether or not a budget cut is
being leveled, Howe said, to establish
a biannual budgetary process.
But Howe said he was uncertain
whether the university would be forced
to accept deeper cuts in January.
“I think the university has done its
fair share,” he said.
If the state’s budget cannot bal
ance, Howe said, there were other
government-funded agencies that
could be inflicted with cuts.
Howe said the budget cutting pro
cess had been gruelling.
‘‘Let’s just say it takes a lot of
time,” he said, ‘‘and when I get home
at the end of the day, I’m tired.”
Admissions
Continued from Page 1
with a course in any academic disci
pline.
In addition to completing the core
courses, applicants cither would have
to rank in the top half of their high
school graduating class or score at
least 20 on the ACT or 850 on the
SAT.
Current admission standards re
quire students to have completed the
10-course core or rank in the lop half
of their high school graduating class.
Rowson said the second scries of
hearings probably would be the last,
with input received from throughout
Nebraska.
Public hearings on the proposed
admissions standards arc scheduled at
the following locations:
• Nebraska City High School au
ditorium, Stcinhart Park Road, Ne
braska City, today at 7 p.m.
• Norfolk High School Little The
ater, 801 Riverside Blvd., Norfolk,
Thursday at 7:30 p.m.
• Educational Service Unit #9,
117 E. South St.1, Hastings, Friday at
9 a.m.
• W h itticr Con fcrcncc Center, 310
W. 24th St., Kearney, Friday at 11
a.m.
• Mckinlcy Education Center, 301
W. F Street, North Platte, Friday at 1
p.m.
• Lincoln Public Schools district
offices, 5901 O St., Monday at 7 p.m.
• Bradshaw Public Schools dis
trict offices, 206 E. Jackson, Bradshaw,
Dec. 9 at 9:30 a.m.
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