ASUN adopts plan to persuade
state senators to kill budget cuts
Students should
show opposition,
Sigerson says
By Andrea Kaser
Staff Reporter
Without any discussion, ASUN
members Wednesday passed an emer
gency bill calling for students to lobby
against the State
Legislature Ap
propriations
Committee’s $14
gf million NU budget
cut.
,y' v ; The Assoc lation
X m 0f Students of the
University of Nebraska directed the
Government Liason Committee to
make the bill number one on its list of
priorities.
Andrew Sigerson, ASUN president,
said university officials felt blindsided
by the committee’s consideration of
the cut.
Students should show state sena
tors their opposition to the cut until
Legislature votes on the university
budget, Sigcrson said.
As one priority made GLC’s list,
another was removed.
Members reconsidered and then
voted down an ASUN bill calling for
GLC to lobby for extended hours of
alcohol establishments, which was
originally approved last week.
LB287 would allow alcohol estab
lishments to remain open until 2 a.m.
Timothy Meyers, senator for the
College of Arts and Sciences who
voted for the bill last week, moved to
reconsider the bill in order to better
reflect the senate’s opinion, he said.
Last week, the bill passed with a
tie-breaking vote that had to be bro
ken by the chairmen of the senate, he
said.
“The opinion of the senate was the
outcome of the vole last week didn’t
decide anything,” Meyers said, add
ing that several senators weren’t at
last week’s meeting. “(The vote is)
almostabsurd because itdccidcd noth
ing.”
Some senators said they felt lobby
ing for the bill would harm the repu
tation of GLC at the State Capitol.
“Itlooks very unprofessional fora
very respected student organization
like GLC to lobby for this bill,” said
Rob Czaplewski, senator for the Col
lege of Arts and Sciences.
Jill Anderson, senator for the Col
lege of Arts and Sciences, said GLC
shouldn’t have wasted its resources
on lobbying for LB287.
“Our top priority should be budget
cuts,” she said. “I feel we need to
concentrate.”
Supporters of the bill said students
wantea extended hours and lobbying
for it would be representing students’
interests. But that argument didn’t
prove strong enough. The bill failed
with a vote of 16-9 and one absten
tion.
Jason Vogel, senator for the Col
lege of Engineering, said none of his
constituents supported the bill.
“My constituents couldn’t believe
we were going to lobby for the bill,”
he said.
In other action, ASUN members
passed an emergency snow removal
resolution. Under thcplan, the busiest
paths used by students who use wheel
chairs will be studied so the Depart
ment of Landscape Services will know
which paths to clear first after a snow
fall.
Candidate states VOICE platform
Students’ opinion,
no minus-grades
among key issues
By Jeffrey Robb
Staff Reporter
The VOICE student election group
officially presented its platform and
candidates at a rally Wednesday af
ternoon in the Nebraska Union.
VOICE’S presidential candidate,
Keith Bcnes, was sick and unable to
attend, but current AS UN First Vice
President Trent Steele announced his
intention to seek a second term, and
Jill Anderson presented herself as
VOICE’S second vice-presidential
candidate.
Steele’s speech outlined key areas
the party members said they would
focus on during the campaign.
VOICE will be a diverse party,
Steele said, and he emphasized that
the party will seek student opinions
from all campus areas.
The members of VOICE want to
find out what students want from their
student government, Steele said.
“We’re going to carry this cam
paign out in an unorthodox fashion,”
he said. “We aren’t going after one
specific interest group.”
Steele said he wanted to let stu
dents know his attempt at another
term wasn’t just a resume filler, but an
opportunity to continue to serve UNL
students.
“I realize there are those who, when
they see that student govcmmcntclcc
lions arc coming, say, 'Uh, oh, an
other four weeks of empty promises. ’
But I ask anyone to look closely at our
platform — it isn’t empty rhetoric. It
comes from students all over cam
pus.”
Steele said he realized some of the
issues VOICE would address had been
discussed and left unsolved in past
elections. But he said the process of
achieving a better university was never
ending.
“Every time you make progress on
an issue, you always discover that
-u
We're going to carry this
campaign out in an unor
thodox fashion.
-Trent Steele
Voice first vice-presidential
candidate
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there are issues beyond that that need
to be addressed,” he said.
Steele said one of the main issues
his party would address was the mi
nus-grade proposal.
VOICE will take a stance against
the proposal, Steele said. He said he
planned to prove to the administration.
that students were against the idea.
Steele also said he wanted to make
the Government Liaison Commitleea
more aggressive lobbyist to represent
UNL students in the Legislature.
The party also would appoint a
parking czar, he said, who would be in
charge of listening and following up
on student parking concerns.
Legislators can turn to faculty for advice
By Mark Harms
Staff Reporter
Members of the Academic Senate’s
executive committee agreed that fac
ulty at the University of Ncbraska
Lincoln should be
available to pro
vide information
to state lawmak
ers.
Deanna
SENATE Evcrso11, division
of continuing stud
ies senator, said the issue came up
when State Sen. Mike Avery expressed
concern about whether there should
be a formal procedure for legislators
to go through when they needed an
expert opinion.
“The expertise to answer ques
tions in this slate is concentrated here
at the University,” said Leo
Chouinard, math and statistics de
partment senator.
Dorothy Stevens, curriculum and
instruction senator, said one problem
could be that legislators might expect
too much.
“The problem would be if they
expect so much from us that we
couldn’t deliver,” she said.
Members agreed the academic sen
ate should not be the body to direct the
questions of legislators to particular
professors.
“This is not the body to be a clear
ing house at all,” said Sally Wise,
president of Academic Senate.
Members agreed that legislators
should go through the chancellor’s
office to find out what professors might
be able to help them.
In other business, the executive
committee considered candidates for
the search committee for UNL’s vice
chancellor for research.
I-NEWS BRIEFS-1
PARTY, VOICE parties meet filing deadline
Two student election groups met
the 4 p.m. Wednesday deadline to
file for this year’s Association of
Students of the University of Ne
braska elections.
Members of the VOICE party,
who previously announced their
intention to run,officially presented
Wednesday their presidential can
didate Keith Bencs, a jun ior speech
communication major, the first vice
presidential incumbent Trent
Steele, a junior secondary educa
tion major, and second vice presi
dential hopeful Jill Anderson, a
junior biology major.
Their rivalsof the PARTY parly
include senior an majorStcvc Dietz,
presidential candidate, first vice
presidential candidate junior Leslie
Strong, a journalism major, and
junior Matt Maser, the second vice
presidential candidate and an ac
counting major.
Maser said PARTY parly mem
bers would soon make an official
announcement.
UNL professor receives ORCA award
The University of Nebraska
award for Outstanding Research
and Creative Activity went to pro
fessors John Hibbing and Irving
1 Zucker.
Hibbing, a political science pro
fessor at the University of Nc
braska-Lincoln, is a leading stu
dent of the American Congress. He
has studied senate elections, the
process of maturation of legislative
bodies and the impact of personal
goals and interpersonal relations
on the work of both houses in the
United States Congress.
Zucker is a physiology and bio
physics professor at the University
of Nebraska Medical Center. He is
an internationally recognized ex
pert on the reflex control of the
cardiovascular system.
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