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About The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 3, 1993)
Senators to ponder bar hours By Andrea Kaser Staff Reporter - Student senators will consider sup porting a bill to extend bar hours, and will take a student vote on the prayer atcommcncement issue at tonight’s ASUN meeting. Members of the tww Government Liai WM son Committee <x could begin lobby * ing the Nebraska Legislature for LB287, which would allow Nebraska bars to slay open until 2 a.m., if the Association of Students of the University of Nebraska ap proves tonight’s measure. LB287 would also encourage bar owners to incorporate aggressive designated driving programs. Andrew Loudon, co-sponsor of the bill, said lobbying for LB287 was within ASUN’s interests as a repre sentative body. “After talking ,to my constituents, it’s clear that students want bars open one hour longer,” he said. Other reasons for lobbying for LB287, Loudon said, were increased state revenue and safer driving. Extended hours, he said, would prevent students from traveling to bars in surrounding states that stay open longer, thereby keeping revenue within Nebraska and also keeping stu dents from driving across the border after drinking. Most students look down on drink ing and driving, he said. This, along with increasing designated driving programs, could keep more students from drinking and driving. The student government will also consider a resolution that would put a survey question on the March 10 Uni versity of Nebraska-Lincoln student election ballot asking voters if they favor the reinstatement of the invoca tion and benediction into the com mencement ceremony. Andrew Siger son, ASUN president, said the best way to find out student opinion was through the student vote. Putting the question on the ballot “would give students a greater oppor tunity to have their voices heard,” he said. Also on tonight’s agenda is a bill laying out the Budget Reduction Re viewCommittee’sprocedurcs.ASUN must approve the procedures before the committee can begin its review. -POLICE REPORT Beginning midnight Monday 8:31 a.m. — Copier vandalized, C.Y. Thompson Library, $100. 8:43 a.m. — Lock damaged, East Campus Union, $3. 10:03 a.m. — Computer disk sto len, College of Business Adminis tration, $6. 11:45 a.m. — Purse stolen, Col lege of Business Administration, $91. 4:03 p.m. — Camera lens stolen, Dental College, $399. 9:19 p.m. — Man hit with bottle, parking lot at Nebraska Educational Television building. Union official requests CFA funding increase By Matt Woody Staff Reporter Although a requested budget in crease for the Nebraska Unions was not intended, only a decrease in ser vices offered would have prevented the increase, the unions’ director said Tuesday night at a CFA hearing. Daryl Swanson, director of the Nebraska Unions, said that he ac cepted ASUN President Andrew Sigcrson’s challenge of submitting a budget without an increase in student fees, but he had to compromise in order tocontinuc giving students what they expect from the unions. A zero increase, Swanson said, is “very difficult to do unless you’re willing to reduce your services or significantly decrease your services in order to absorb the inflationary pressures on all your costs.” Swanson requested $1,641,114 in J student fees from the Committee for Fees Allocation, an increase of $34,619, or 2.1 percent, saying there were many costs that he could not control. One of these uncontrollable costs, he said, is utilities. A 6 percent increase in utility ex penses was projected for the 1993-94 fiscal year, Swanson said. It is very difficult to budget for utilities, as severe summers and winters can have a dramatic effect on consumption of utilities, he said. CFA Chair Shanc Tucker said little about the unions’ budget, explaining that it was so complex, more time was necessary to study the proposal. However, Tucker and the olhei CFA members seemed to make up their minds about the Daily Nebraskan’s budget, which was dis cussed once again at the meeting. After hearing a short prescnlatior by representatives from the newspa per, the committee unanimously voted to grant the Daily Nebraskan its re quested budget of $41,153. Originally, CFA granted thi< amount to the newspaper, but las week reduced the student fees alloca tion by nearly $2,000, pending evi dence of projected cost increases. COLAGE Continued from Page 1 basically an inactive group on cam pus.” Fischer said the $1,900 given to COLAGE was being saved by the group for an April film festival. The festival will still be held, using the $1,900 allocated this year. ShaneTuckcr, CFA chairman, said the elimination of COLAGE’s fund ing was parti y because the group hadn ’ t consistently spent this year’s alloca tion in the first six months. “(COLAGE) is not doing any pro gramming right now,” Tucker said. Tucker said CFA was set up on a committee-based allocation system. However, COLAGE docs not have an official organizing committee. “They exist only when there’s an event,” Tucker said. Sigerson said he opposed the fund ing through student fees because he saw COLAGE as a political group, not a protected minority group. “I personally have a political ob jection to COLAGE,” Sigerson said. “They’re the only political group on campus that receives student monies. “They’re not a protected minority because, in my eyes, at least, being gay or lesbian is nothing more than a choice.” Fischer said that regardless of whai Sigerson thought, COLAGE was rec ognized by the NU Board of Regents as a minority group. “We’re protected by the regents,’ she said. Fischer also questioned the liming of CFA’s decision, alluding to the recent national furor over gays in the military. “It has been one hellish week foi gays and lesbians,” she said. “We can’t even turn on the TV or the radie without hearing something about our selves. It bums me to think that thej picked this week to do this to us." I ROBERT MAX OPTICIANS r uHi&ctc euewecui ^ _H9 LINCOLN 330 No. Cotner Blvd Suite 5 120 Regency Pkwy 397 0930 A Face is Like a Work of Art. It Deserves a Great Frame. 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