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In an article In the April 5
Issue, It was Incorrectly
reported that RHA had
passed a bill allowing
faculty on the judicial
board. The bill will not be
voted on until April 18. The
Daily Nebraskan regrets
the error.
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Commission-s role befuddles administrators
By Jeff Zeleny
Senior Reporter
Two UNL peer groups and a disagree
ment over the role of the Coordinating
Commission for Postsecondary Educa
tion has led to some confusion for those who
govern the university.
The commission, formed in January 1992 to
oversee the state’s higher education institu
tions, last week approved its list—a group that
differs from the list compiled by the NU Board
of Regents.
University of Nebraska-Lincoln adminis
trators expressed their disapproval, and said
they would use the regents’ list, which was
approved last year.
“I think it’s awkward having two peer lists,”
UNL Chancellor Graham Spanier said. “Be
cause our regents have approved a list, that has
Questions stem from differing peer group selections
to be our list.
The commission and the regents agreed on
six institutions: Colorado State, Iowa State,
Purdue, Missouri, Colorado and Kansas.
The regents’ list also includes Minnesota,
Illinois, Ohio State and Iowa, while the com
mission settled on Auburn, Kansas State, Loui
siana State, Oklahoma State, Georgia and Ten
nessee.
Spanier said the commission ’ s list was inap
propriate for UNL because the institution is a
combination land-grant and comprehensive
state-research urtiversity.*
“I don’t believe the people of the state of
Nebraska that know the University of Nc
braska-Lincoln and understand pretty wel 1 what
kind of an institution we are, really see that
group as an appropriate group,” he said.
Spanier said ihc disagreement stemmed from
more than personal opinions. Locations of the
peer group institutions were also a concern, he
said.
“I was disappointed to see they took our four
institutions that are in the same geographic
crediting regions, and substituted four institu
tions from the south that we have no contact
with,” Spanier said.
NU President Martin Massengale agreed
that there was a difference in opinions, but said
it wouldn’t affect the cooperation between the
organizations.
“The regents’ group is our official peer
group,” Massengale said, “and we will use it.”
Bruce Stahl, executive director of the com
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Andrea Allen and Joe Sis, both senior architecture students, spend some time enjoying the weather in the Sheldon
Sculpture Garden Monday afternoon.
iwo students
robbed near
City Campus
From Staff Reports
NL Police are investigating a
strong-arm robbery and as
sault that occurred early Mon
day morning just east of the Univer
sity of Nebraska-Lincoln’sCity Cam
pus.
UNL Police Sgt. Mylo Bushing
said two male UNL students were
walking shortly after 2 a.m. Monday
when a car — described only as a
large, green 1970s model—pulled up
next to them at 19th and Vine streets.
Three men allegedly jumped from
the car and demanded money from the
students, Bushing said. One student
gave them $5, while the other denied
having any money.
One of the assailants then alleg
edly grabbed the student’s wallet,
scoured it for money and asked, “Why
don’t you have any money?”
Bushing said the man then hit the
student in the face.
The other student ran to a nearby
residence hall and called the police.
Bushing said the student who was
assaulted was not seriously injured.
Investigators have few leads on the
incident, he said.
“As far as I know, this hasn’t hap
gmed before, at least not recently,”
ushing said. “This is the first inci
dent of this type that I’ve heard of in
a long lime, near campus or anywhere
else in the city.”
SOURCE, PROGRESS parties run for RHA positions
By Chuck Green
Senior Reporter_
Brad Prall is hoping two presidents are
belter than one in today’s UNL Resi
dence Hall Association elections.
Prall, a sophomore biology major from Fre
mont, and Stacey Beedle, a
sophomore agriculture ma
jor from Beatrice, are the
candidates for president and
vice president, respectively,
the SOURCE party,
i Both currently are presi
I dents of University of Ne
braska-Lincoln residence halls—Prall is presi
Organization needs pride, leadership, candidates say
deni of Selleck, and Beedle is president of
Pound.
And both, Prall said, have the experience
needed to take over RHA for the next year.
“Both Stacey and I have four semesters each
on RHA," Prall said. “After seeing what people
on RHA do and how they do it, you feel more
able to do it than if you were just a residence hall
resident and not involved in RHA."
Opposing SOURCE will be PROGRESS,
led by presidential candidate Raquel Wright, a
freshman psychology major from Maxwell,
and vice-presidential candidate Kris Larson, a
junior biology major from Gering.
Wright is presidenlof Smith Hall, ami Larson
is an RHA senator from Abel Hall.
Wright said pride among residence hall stu
dents was something that she would try to
improve if elected.
“People who live in greck houses have a lot
of pride, and Pd like to see that same kind of
pride among residence hall residents,” she said.
Wright also said she was optimistic about
today’s election.
“It’s really hard to tell, but Pm pretty opti
mistic,” she said. “I decided to run because a lot
of great things have been done in RHA, and I
would like to have a part in keeping those things
going.
Prall said he had no plans for major changes
in RHA if elected, but that he would try to build
on the success of past administrations.
“We want to continue to organize residence
hall students to get involved in the halls, and to
feel confident they have a governing body that
can serve them,” he said. “Without the stu
dents, there would be no reason to have a
governing body, so it’s important they get
involved.”
Prall said he has gained some good ideas
from past RHA administrations, and that some
of the ideas that failed in the past could be tried
again.
UPC to pursue more student input in program selection
By Michelle Leary
Senior Reporter
The University Program
Council will actively seek
student input and participa
tion this year to decide what programs
to sponsor, UPC officials said.
UPC President Gary Doyle said
the new “door-to-door’ policy will
allow belter communication between
students and the UPC office.
“In the past, students were ex
pccted to come to the office if they
wanted a program,” Doyle said. “The
only problem with
that (policy) was
that people
weren’t com ingin,
and so we were
doing the pro
grams we wanted
to do.”
James Buckley,
coordinator of
campus programs in the Office of
Student Involvement, said UPC made
a good decision to take a more active
role in reaching out to students.
“Rather than wailing for people to
come to them, UPC will be making
more of an effort to reach out to the
campus,” Buckley said.
Doyle said the organization had
sent letters to major student organiza
tions and had held several open fo
rums.
“The forums were a bust,” he said.
“Usually only five people showed up
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to them.
“Those people, however, had great
ideas, but their ideas didn’t have a
campus perspective,” he said.
Doyle said he hoped the letters
would be more successful.
“We asked each organization to
make a wish list and tell us what
programs they would like to see done,”
he said.
UPC has not yet received any lists
from the different student organiza
tions. However, Doyle said several
groups have discussed program ideas.
“Hopefully with this new policy
we’ll be able to open up the lines of
communication bkwecn the student
organizations,’’ he said.
“A lot of times different organiza
tions would plan the same event weeks
apart from each other,” Doyle said.
“With this new policy student funds
won’t be spent on the same thing
twice.”
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