ASUN opposes new UNO college
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Staff Reporter
ASUN senators Wednesday asked
the NU Board of Regents to oppose
establishing an independent
engineering college at the University
of Nebraska at
Omaha.
The Association
of Students of the
University of
Nebraska
unanimously
passed a resolu
tion urging rejec
tion of the proposal to create the
independent college.
The regents will consider the
proposal for the new college at their
Friday meeting.
Engineering Senator Jeff Krohn
said Nebraska could not financially
support two engineering colleges
without destroying the reputation of
UNL’s engineering college.
“UNL’s engineering program is
nationally recognized,” he said. “I’m
really afraid we’re going tojeopardize
our reputation if we dilute our
resources by having two colleges.”
Krohn said all the faculty at UNO’s
School of Engineering Technology
had signed the petition asking the
regents to create a new college.
UNO’sengineeringprogram is part
of the College of Engineering and
Technology at the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln. Most UNO
engineering students can take their
first two years of courses in Omaha,
but they must complete their programs
at UNL.
Krohn said he was pleased with the
unanimous support of his resolution.
“All the senators really came
together to show their support for the
engineering program,” he said.
In other business, ASUN passed a
bill by a vote of 18-8 asking the
regents to make the repair of Richards
Hall a higher priority on their capital
improvement list.
General Studies Senator Mark
Byars said having to spend time in
Richards Hall prompted him to write
the bill.
“I had a class in Richards Hall last
spring and it’s not a nice place to be,”
Byars said.
Byars said he thought the building
was structurally sound, but he said a
lot of things needed to be done to the
building. He questioned whether the
hall was violating fire codes and
whether heating and ventilation
systems were adequate. Byars also
said Richards Hall was not accessible
to people with disabilities.
He said Richards Hall was the
eighth priority on UNL’s list and 20th
on the regents’ list of capital
improvements. He also said Richards
Hall had been on the list for a long
time, and it was time, to make it a
priority.
Arts and Science Senator James
Collura disagreed with Byars.
Although the building is “a dive,”
Collura said, repairing it should not
be a priority.
He said everything ahead of
Richards Hall on the list should take
priority.
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evening of Feb. 24, when he and
Lincoln Police Detective Sgt. Sandy
Meyers met Bjorklund at the
Lancaster County Jail. The
detectives then took Bjorklund to a
private room at the downtown
Police Department. Sorensen said
Bjorklund wanted to talk at the
police station rather than at the jail.
After Sorensen said Bjorklund
was allowed to have a Diet Pepsi
and cigarettes during the
conversation at the station, Helvie
asked Sorensen if Bjorklund would
have had access to cigarettes or
soda in the county jail’s interview
room. Sorensen said cigarettes and
pop were not available at the county
jail.
Helvie asked several questions
relating to whether Bjorklund
received refreshments in return for
information. Sorensen said
Bjorklund’s statements were given
without coercion and not in
exchange for refreshments.
Police have said that during other
interviews, Bjorklund was given
soda, pizza and cigarettes—along
with a trip through the Burger King
drive-thm — all at his request.
Sorensen said he asked
Bjorklund in a Feb. 25 meeting
why Bjorklund was so eager to be
interviewed.
“I asked (Bjorklund) ‘Why do
you talk with me? It’s always
baffled me,’” Sorensen said. “He
said, ‘Why? I don’t know why. So
I can smoke cigarettes.’”
Later in the day, Endacott
reviewed the jury selection process
for the trial, which is scheduled to
begin in late October.
Endacott said 467 names from
Cheyenne County were initially
chosen as candidates for a spot on
Bjorklund’s jury. That number has
been trimmed to 150 by random
selection.
Endacott presented the
questionnaire that potential jurors
are required to fill out to defence
and prosecution attorneys for
approval. The selection process will
begin Oct. 18 in the Sidney area.
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to local village children. Because
pencils and pens are hot black-market
items in Honduras, the Americans
were guarded by Honduran soldiers
who helped themselves to pencils
before the children had their turn,
Henry said.
“They took what they wanted
before the kids,” Henry said. “It was
really disgusting.”
Henry said what hit him most about
Honduras was the poverty.
• “They were dirt poor,” he said.
“They bathed and drank out of the
same water. I’ve never been to a
country that poor.”
Henry said most American aid to
Honduras was cut during the Iran
Contra scandal.
“They need something,” Henry
said. “The only aid they get now is the
from national guard units who bring
aid with them.
Henry said he also noticed many
differences between the U.S. and
Honduran armies.
In Honduras, men are drafted off
the streets, Henry said. Officers claim
most of the supplies for themselves,
and the average soldier’s morale is
low.
“Sometimes, officers beat up
enlisted people,” Henry said.
Overall, Henry said, the training
was much different from his normal
tour at Fort.Carson in Colorado. He
said he returned to UNL with a lot of
pictures and a lot of homework.
“I need to get caught up,” he said.
“It shouldn’t be too bad.”
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it through.”
John Keller, director of patient
services at Planned Parenthood of
Lincoln, said that with or without the
telephone option, the new law was a
burden to women.
“Basically, it’s more of an
inconvenience to women in general,”
he said.
The law won’t directly affect
Planned Parenthood of Lincoln, he
said, because abortion services are
not offered at the clinic.
“When a woman comes in here, all
we can do is give her technical
information,” Keller said.
Sheryl Dodds, University Health
Center clinic supervisor, said the law
didn’t affect activity at the health
center.
Students who come into the health
center with unwanted pregnancies are
told about every available option, she
said, including carrying the baby to
term, having an abortion or giving the
the law wouldn’t be apparent until
next year, after Nebraska abortion
figures were compiled. After aparental
notification law was passed last year
the teenage abortion rate dropped by
23 percent, she said.
“The only way we will be able to
gauge its success,” she said, “is
hopefully we won’t be hearing as
many stories from women.”
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