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State senators hear students9 views
Subjects include
building repair,
hazing, gambling
By Matthew Waite
Senior Reporter
Some University of Nebraska-Lin
coln students got to play lobbyist
Thursday.
The Government Liaison Commit
tee invited students and state senators
to Senators on Campus, a luncheon
where students could voice their con
cerns to senators.
Andrew Loudon, GLC chairman,
said this was the only chance UNL
students would get to take senators out
to lunch like other lobbyists.
Student government has taken a
stance on two bills before the Legisla
ture, Loudon said.
The Association of Students of the
University of Nebraska has opposed a
bill to defer emergency funds to pay
for building repairs and has supported
LB1129, a bill that would make haz
ing a crime.
The topics of discussion at the ta
bles ranged from gambling issues to
health care.
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At one table, Sen. James Jones of
Eddyvillc talked about health care and
economics with students.
Michael Murphy, a freshman in
the College of Arts and Sciences, asked
Jones if he thought the Clinton health
care plan would force regulations on
state government.
“I’m scared of what might be com
ing down,” Jones said. “These are
things that we could be paying for the
rest of our lives.”
Murphy said he was trying to stay
up on the health-care issue because he
was a pre-medicine major. He said the
plan would dictate which direction he
would go in medicine.
At another table, a student asked
Sen. Dennis Byars of Beatrice if he
met with many lobbyists.
Byars said he was lobbied from all
sides. He told the group his wife and
two sons were all vocal about political
issues.
“It gets real interesting in our
house,” Byars said.
At the same table, Sen. Michael
Avery of Gretna told the students he
supported a bill allocating money for
building repairs at UNL.
In the past, Avery said, state build
ings were used until they were com
pletely run down. He said the build
ings were then tom down, and new
buildings were built.
“It’s just not practical to just tear
down buildings and rebuild them,”
Avery said.
At another table. Sen. Jim
Cudaback of Riverdale said the cur
rent lottery gave some money to gam
bling-addiction counseling.
, “ I’m not saying I don ’ t gamble,” he
said. “I just feel sorry for those that
(are addicted).”
Cudaback said he was in a store
and saw a man buying lottery tickets
as his only source of money.
“It’s supposed to be a fun thing ...
not to make money,” he said. “If you’re
doing it to make money, you better go
out of business because you are
hooked.”
Mark Byars, an ASUN general
studies senator, lobbied Sen. Dan Fish
er of Grand Island about bills that
would protect UNL students.
Mark Byars said students would be
talking to Fisher about the hazing bill
and asked him to consider looking
into changes in Nebraska tenant-land
lord laws.
Students who live off campus are
getting the runaround when it comes
to their initial deposits, Mark Byars
said, and that needs to stop.
Delegates to share ideas
at environmental summit
By Matthew Waite
Senior Reporter
Brainstorming, garbage and the
vice president of the United States are
waiting for three UNL delegates to the
Campus Earth Summit at Yale Uni
versity this weekend.
The summit will draw three dele
gates from each of 100 universities in
the United States and 25 universities
from around the world.
The summit will feature workshops,
panel discussions and speakers on
environmental issues. Vice President
A1 Gore will address the conference
via video.
A1 Williams, director of environ
mental studies at the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln; Mark Petersen,
president of Ecology Now; and Galen
Wray, a representative from the Envi
ronmental Resource Center; will rep
resent UNL.
The summit is divided into three
tracks with different topics. They range
from government relations to envi
ronmental studies programs.
Williams, who will attend the pan
el discussion entitled “Making Envi
ronmental Education a Top Priority,”
said he would be presenting UNL’s
Environmental Studies Program as a
model of how it should be done.
“It does say that the program is
working well,” Williams said. He said
he hoped to bring back ideas of how to
develop the program on the graduate
level.
Wray, who will attend “Organiz
ing Campuses for a Sustainable Fu
ture," said he was going to use the
summit to do some networking.
“It should be a good brainstorming
session to get new ideas,” Wray said.
“Maybe to see how other environmen
tal groups are working on environ
mental issues.”
Wray said each delegate would
spend a lot of time on one of five
strategy teams.
In the strategy team about environ
mental resource centers, Wray said he
would share knowledge about UNL’s
center.
“We’re going to try brainstorming
on ideas of how others can establish
environmental resource centers in
their areas,” he said. “I guess I didn’t
realize how special the center is here.”
Wray said the only other campus
based resource center of which he was
aware in the area was at the University
of Chicago.
Petersen said the main idea of the
conference was for campus environ
mental leaders to get together and
share ideas.
He said he would be presenting a
plan he wrote last semester trying to
ease the problems associated with
bikes on campus. He said the plan
would add bike routes to UNL.
Petersen said he also would be
talking about the UNL recycl ing coor
dinator, Dale Ekart, who is starting an
organized recycl ing effort on campus.
“We have a recycling coordinator
on this campus — that’s also some
thing we arc very lucky to have,”
Petersen said. “Other campuses just
had recycling here and there like we
did in the past.”
Petersen said he would be discuss
ing other programs at UNL. He said
replacing incandescent light bulbs
with compact, energy-efficient bulbs
was a major move for energy conser
vation.
When the delegates return, they
will be presenting the information to
the groups sponsoring them and to
any interested student groups.
Wray said he and Petersen would
be presenting reports to the Nebraska
Unions, university housing, the vice
chancellor for student affairs and the
business and finance office. He said
those off ces provided money for their
trip.
Wray said the number of people
coming to the summit would only
strengthen the ideas discussed.
“By having a mix of different peo
ple you’ll have a lot of different prob
lems,” Wray said.
CFA grants increases
From Staff Report*
Representatives of the Office for
Student Involvement and the Wom
en’s Center met Thursday with the
Committee for Fees Allocation to dis
cuss appeals of the proposed reduc
tion in their budget proposals.
The Office for Student Involve
ment was granted $ 1,000 for events,
training and travel Tuesday, which
was an $840 reduction from what they
had requested.
Thursday, the appeal for an in
crease was passed and the Office for
Student Involvement was granted an
increase in budget of $350.
The Women’s Center appealed
most of the CFA-proposed cuts. Rep
resentatives of the Women’s Center
argued the need to update and contin
ue their subscriptions to periodicals,
brochures and other books. CFA rein
stated $300 for supplies and materi
als, which gave them $1,450.
Nebraska Unions were successful
in appealing $600, which came to be
a reduction of their budget by $2,399.
CFA’s recommendation was
1,700,266.50 for the Nebraska Unions.
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