Bill addresses increased lab fees
By Becky Becher
Staff Reporter
ASUN will try again to make ad
ministrators listen to student opinion.
This time the issue is not green grass,
it’s laboratory fees.
ASUN
ASUN Vice
President Trent
Steele said sena
tors would vote
tonight on a bill
opposing in
creased laborato
ry fees.
A similar bill
came before ASUN two weeks ago,
but was tabled to allow senators more
time to research the issue.
The current bill would require the
Gqvernment Liaison Committee to
inform state senators that students are
dissatisfied with the increases, Steele
said.
Steele said he thought the bill
would be amended before coming
before the senate. The amendment
proposes that senators create a com
mittee of students to work with ad
ministrators to address student con
cerns about student fees.
Steele said the amended bill would
give students a better means of voic
ing their concerns about how their
money was spent. He said he hoped
Joan Leitzel, senior vice chancellor of
Academic Affairs, would be willing
to work with students.
Steele said student government had
the responsibility to make adminis
trators aware of student opinions. But
he said it was the administrators’ job
to decide whether they wanted to fol
low student opinion or not.
ASUN collected more than 1,600
student signatures on a petition op
posing a park that will be built north
of the Nebraska Union. Despite
ASUN ’ s petition, the regents approved
the park last week.
“You can’t win them all,” Steele
said of the regents’ vote. “Even though
we lost the battle over the green space,
we did our very best to seek student
input.”
“The best we can do is to make sure
the administration is aware of what
students think,” he said.
Steele also said the Electoral Com
mission, which oversees ASUN elec
tions, met for the second time Tues
day to discuss the upcoming ASUN
elections.
“ASUN campaigns can’t be too far
behind,” he said.
Steele said this years’ commission
was committed strongly to advocat
ing a “clean and ethical race.”
Universities
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tion majors about nine to 10 semesters
to graduate, she said. Students who
know as freshmen that they want to go
into education can finish in four years,
she said, but they may have to take at
least 17-18 credit hours per semester
and summer classes.
These requirements are unrealistic
in most cases,'Sicvcrs said, because
many college students have jobs and
can’t afford to take that many credit
hours in one semester.
Sievers said the extra year was not
needed at UNL.
Some colleges with five-year edu
cation programs reserved the fifth
year as an internship year, she said.
But UNL’s program for prospective
teachers includes as many as six class
room experiences that begin by the
student’s sophomore or junior year,
sHc said
Because UNL students begin their
classroom experience before the fifth
year, it helps them to be sure of their
career choice.
“It is important to get students out
early so they can decide if they really
want to teach,” Sievers said.
Because of the classroom experi
ence UNL students get, Sievers said
students graduating from five-year
education programs would not have
an advantage when applying for jobs.
She said program’s longer require
ment didn’t necessarily mean it would
produce better teachers.
Students in the Teachers College
had mixed feelings about the idea of
having to attend school an extra year.
Chrystal Benskin, the Teachers
College senator for the Association of
Equity
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schools with women’s athletic pro
grams headed by female administra
tors has decreased from 92 percent to
16 percent.
“We need more women adminis
trators, and we need more women in
power if we hope to achieve equity,”
she said.
The greatest achievement in gen
der equity, Beck said, has been an
improved perception of women ath
letes.
In 1981, Beck said she wrote a
paper for a graduate class about the
perception of women in athletics and
found that most people viewed fe
male athletes as tomboys.
‘‘I think there has been a tremen
dous attitude change,” Beck said.
“Now it is a cool thing to be a colle
giate athlete and a woman, and they
are given a lot more respect.”
Beck said bigger strides could be
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/ think the action we
have taken at
Nebraska has been
very timely, and I
consider UNL to be a
frontrunner on the
issue of gender
equity.
— Beck
women’s basketball coach
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made if a definitive timetable was
established for all NCAA-member
institutions to comply with gender
equity guidelines.
“I would like to see a time frame
because I think people work best if
they are given parameters to work
with,” Beck said. “1 think that if we
could say that you have to be at a
certain point within five years, we
would make faster improvements.”
Seminars show international opportunities
From Staff Reports
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will take place from 9:30 a.m. to 3
p.m. today.
The fair, which will be at the Cul
ture Center, will feature representa
tives from local, national and interna
tional organizations that provide in
formation on study abroad opportuni
ties for students.
Seminars throughout the day will
focus on international opportunities
by volunteering in government, busi
ness and industry.
• The keynote speaker, Arthur
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Students of the University of Nebras
ka, said she did not think it would hurt
UNL to have a mandatory five-year
program. Students usually take five
years to graduate anyway, she said.
“There are many required courses,
hut that's good because you should be
well-rounded to be a teacher,” Benskin
said.
Michelle Phifer, another ASUN
Teachers College senator, said she
thought UNL’s program was set up
sufficiently and didn’t need change.
A five-year program could deter
students from going to UNL’s Teach
ers College, she said.
But Angelotti said enrollment in
the education program had increased
by about 8 percent during the last
three years. The change to a five-year
plan also has attracted better students
to Oklahoma, he said.
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