ASUN still against
engineering college
By Heather Lampe
Staff Reporter
Because of unanswered questions,
ASUN remained opposed to the pro
posal for a separate UNO College of
Engineering until a source of funding
could be found.
Jeff Krohn, senator for the College
of Engineering and Technology, said
the Association of Students of the
University ofNebraska previously had
passed a resolution against the issue.
Since the September resolution, a
team of consultants hired by the NU
Board of Regents submitted a final
report reviewing the engineering pro
gram at UNL.
“I am very disappointed in the con
sultants’ report,” Krohn said. “The
Board of Regents gave them aspecific
1 ist of issues to address, and they failed
to address most of them.
“If I wrote a report of that quality
for a class. I would get a D; the con
sultants got $20,000. Maybe I’ll go
into consulting,” Krohn said.
Krohn said he was not completely
against a separate engineering college
at the University ofNebraska at Oma
ha, but that he did not want UNL’s
engineering program to sufferbecause
of one.
“I’m against spending money the
state does not have,” Krohn said. “En
gineering is one of the most expen
sive, if not the most expensive, educa
tional programs.
“We need to make it clear that we
will not allow Lincoln’s engineering
program to suffer if a new college is
formed in Omaha.”
In other action, ASUN voted in
favor of the Lied Center’s request for
$83,130 in student fee allocations.
The senators also approved an ap
propriation bill to purchase new name
placards.
A vote was passed to allocate $550
of ASUN’s contingency fund to pur
chase 45 durable metal placards for
incoming executives.
Charles Hamilton, a senator for
graduate studies, said the current plas
tic and paper placards made ASUN
and the Committee for Fees Alloca
tion look unprofessional.
Mark Byars, senator for general
studies, wrote the bill and said it was
an act of unselfishness and was for the
incoming senators.
Doug Oxley, a senator for graduate
studies, voted against the bill, calling
it frivolous.
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and Pennsylvania who couldn’t get
tickets from their own schools, he
said.
After out-of-state requests were
weeded out, Crum said, the tickets
were sold to season-ticket holders and
basketball boosters.
That means most students and
Nebraska baskctbal 1 fans will be cheer
ing from a front-row seat at home or at
the bars.
Lee Reinhardt, a freshman biolog
ical sciences major and FarmHouse
Fraternity member, said he and his
fraternity brothers would be packed
around the house’s big-screen televi
sion.
“Everybody will be watching it,”
Brian Blauser, a freshman accounting
major and FarmHouse member, said.
Chad Schroedcr, a sophomore busi
ness major, said a test would keep him
at home tonight. But it won’t keep him
from watching the game.
“It’s a real big deal,” he said.
Rick Miller, manager of R.P.
Myre’s Sports Page, 813 Q St., said he
expected a big crowd on game day.
“Everybody’s excited,” he said.
“We expect to win, so I think people
will probably be more excited about
it.”
Kelley Emmons, owner of Kelley’s
Sports Cafe, 126N. 14th St., said she
expected a sea of red to overpower the
green she normally would expect for
Thursday — St. Patrick’s Day.
For the game, she said she was
adding Big Red Shots to the normal
corned beef and cabbage specials she
offered for the day.
“1 think it’s great,” Emmons said.
“It’ll get more people enthusiastic
about watching the game.”
Joe Robinson, a junior architecture
major, agreed.
“It might even add a little excite
ment too for the fans ... more drink
ing.” he said.
But Weiss said he expected few
patrons at his bar to even realize the
game coincided with St. Patrick’s Day.
“Peopleout to celebrate St. Patrick’s
Day — they’ll want to go someplace
else,” he said. “Thi$ will definitely be
a basketball nut farm.”
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