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.
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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."
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