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Student lobbyists plan network of volunteers for rallies By Jody Holzworth Staff Reporter Getting students together for a rally could be as easy as a phone call at UNL. If its new plan works, the Association of Students of the Un iversily of Nebraska could be calling UNL students to ask them to attend student rallies. The ASUN Government Liaison Commit tee, a legislative lobbying group, is proposing a “Students On Call” program. GLC plans to set up a database of volunteer students and their phone numbers to help the Association of Stu dents of the University of Nebraska organize rallies more quickly. “What we need is a network of students that can be called on at any time,” said GLC Chair man Andrew Loudon. “Students On Call” will help the committee lobby the Legislature on general educational issues, such as budget cuts, in a calm and organized manner, Loudon said. Although students who volunteer to be on call will be asked to support ASUN’s position, he said they would not be required to attend the rallies they didn’t support. Most students can reach a consensus on educational issues that go before the Legisla ture, he said. “This campus is diverse, but we are all united in one thing—education,” Loudon said. But just because students agree on educa tional issues doesn’t mean they’ll show support by rallying, he said. Last year’s student rally protesting further cuts from the University of Ncbraska-Lincoln budget showed “Students On Call” was needed, Loudon said. ASUN frantically organized students a week before the event. Loudon said the rally would have been more successful if ASUN had al ready had a list of 500 to 1,000 students inter ested in demonstrating. Loudon said organization could help stu dents make a difference in higher education issues. ^ “Students are a force,” he said. “If the Board of Regents or the Post-Secondary Education Coordinating Committee sees 100 students present at their meeting, they know something is up.” Sen. Scott Moore of Seward said student involvement in the Legislature was important. The university community as a whole affected the outcome of last year’s proposed budget cuts, he said. Moore, chairman of Senate Appropriations Committee, said he had heard some of the best testimonial concerning educational issues from -M I disagree with the notion that students are apathetic. - Loudon GLC chairman ---ft — 'L students. “Something like this (“Students On Call”) may serve a good role as long as students understand all sides of an issue,” Moore said. Loudon said students often knew about is sues, but didn’t know how to express their opinions. “I disagree with the notion that students are apathetic,” Loudon said. “I think people just don’t know how to get involved.” Diversity panel teaches high-schoolers By Becky Becher Staff Report* Starting Friday, high school se niors will get a head start on college by learning about university life and cultural diversity. The Associa tion of Students of the Universi . ty of Nebraska and the Office of High School and College Relations will hold a cultural diversity panel on Red Letter Days. ASUN Second Vice President Jill Anderson said the panel would edu cate prospective students about stu dent life and the cultural environment at UNL. “Our panel wants to address ques tions and concerns that prospective first-year students may have coming to the university,” she said. ‘‘Our ap proach is to be honest about student life.” The panel will be one of the sem inars students can attend during Red Letter Day, Anderson said. The panel would consist of five to six students who would comment on their experi cnees at UNL and answer questions. Anderson said the panel was pre pared to answer a variety of questions, but she expected some of the ques tions would focus on stereotypes. Planning for the panel began last summer, Anderson said. She said stu dents from a variety of organizations would participate in the panel. Representatives from the Afrikan People’s Union, the Mexican-Ameri can Student Association, the Viet namese Student Association and the University of Nebraska Inter-Tribal Exchange will participate, ^hesf id. Catlett Continued from Page 1 Once in college, Catlett said she didn’t have any problems getting in volved. During her first year at Mid-Plains, Catlett was secretary of the student senate and was in the honors club. She got her associate of arts degree at Mid-Plains and decided to attend UNL when she was offered a regents schol arship. Now, as a senior at UNL, she's a College of Arts and Sciences senator in the Association of Students of the University of Nebraska, and she’s co president of UNL Students for Life. She is a member of the Sandoz Resi dence Hall Council, the Residence Hall Association, College Republi cans and Mortar Board, and she was a for the Legislature, ith her hectic extracurricular schedule, Catlett still finds time to carry 18 hours of classes and write a senior thesis for her political science major. “I don’t get involved just to be involved,” she said. “I’m committed to it, and if there’s a reason I got involved 1 want to do my best.” Despite herunique background and accomplishments, Catlett said she didn’t feel she had any superior abil ities. . “I hate to work hard to get what 1 get,” she said. If everything goes according to her plans, Catlett will graduate in May. She would like to get a law degree and a master’s degree in public adminis tration or international relations. Catlett is interested in working in government and eventually would I ike to be in a policy-forming role. She said she was focusing on school now. But she admits she’s occasional ly frustrated that people identify her as a brain. “That’s not all there is to me,” she said with a big smile. “There’s a lot more.” Budget Continued from Page 1 “It impacts significantly how wc schedule/ he said. “We need to gen erate as much revenue as we can. “We need to have six home foot ball aames every year and at least 16 to 18 home basketball games every season.** Without state aid, Byrne said do nations and fund raising were of ut most importance to the athletic de partment. “They are extremely important,” he said. “They will continue to play a critical role. “I anticipate we’ll be more aggres sive in our fund raising. Hopefully we’ll get money from the people who buy a large block of seats.” The addition of varsity women's soccer at UNL in 1994-95 eventually will hurt the Huskers’ budget, Byrne said, but the addition of a new wom en’s sport will strengthen the pro gram. Byrne said $50,000 had been set aside for women’s soccer this year. Nebraska will add the sport starting in the fall of 1994. On the whole, Byrne said he was satisfied with the athletic department budget and hoped to get the depart ment out of the red by the end of the fiscal year. Nebraska’s budget is the largest in the Big Eight, but the university of fers 21 sports, which is more than most schools offer, he said. “We think we have a realistic bud get." General Continued from Page 1 require students to take nine courses in the areas of mathematics, commu nication, art, history and science. Many courses in the study plans would overlap, Grobsmith said. College deans are being asked to examine ways to integrate the pro gram intoexistinggraduation require ments, Grobsmith said. By the end of the fall semester, she said, each col lege will have voted on whether to integrate the plan. The new curriculum program is similar to requirements already in place in most colleges, she said. 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