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New center’s funds won’t affect UNL projects • • . * A_*_1 I 1 By Paula Lavlgif j Senior Reporter < The NU Board of Regents ap proved funding on Friday for a $42 i million Lied Transplant Center at the , University of Nebraska Medical Cen ter, but the center will not rob fund- i ing from other i renovation 1 projects. 1 Regent Chairman i Charles Wilson i of Lincoln ! raised the issue at the board's < Friday meeting. I He said he i wanted to discuss why the board was ! tpproving construction of the center )ver other renovation projects. In response to his own question, Wilson said although renovations at he University of Nebraska-Lincoln ind other campuses were ranked higher on the board’s capital con struction list, the regents approved instruction of the transplant center lecause its funding came from pri vate and federal sources. The Nebraska Legislature has to ippropriate hinds for the other reno vation projects on the list, Wilson said. The transplant center did not re vive any money from the Legisla te, he said. The center received $15 nillion from the Lied Foundation and (5 million from the U.S. Senate. The remainder of the money will be sought from private sources. The renovation projects associated with the new transplant center will receive internal UNMC funds, Wil son said. “This project didn’t leap in front of the others and take their money,” he said. The transplant center was ranked ninth on the board’s 1995-97 capital construction list. Burnett Hall reno vations are first on the list. Richards Hall renovations are sixth, and reno vations of UNL’s hazardous materi als are eighth. The center is the only construc tion plan on the list, while the rest are renovations, Wilson said. He said new construction plans, such as the Jeadle Center, the Lied transplant Center and the Eppley Cancer Insti ute, are more likely to receive pri- i ate funds. “We can build new things, but we i laven’t adequately maintained old ines,” he said. Wilson said board members could tot transfer funds for the transplant enter to other renovation projects on he list. “It’s kind of frustrating when you tear constituents saying, ‘Why are ou building new buildings when you ihould be raising faculty pay?’... You ust can’t transfer private funding,” le said. Wilson said the board wouldn’t mow whether it could fund the other apital construction projects until the _£glSiaiuie uuciiiuiibu ua uuugci. With the state facing a budget shortfall between $70 million to $ 120 Trillion, Wilson said renovation pros jects were dim. “Burnett Hall has been in our top four ever since I came on the board four years ago,” Wilson said. “... It’s i serious problem, and these build ings seriously need to be renovated.” In other business, the board set aside Dec. 9 and 10 for its next meet ing to discuss the findings of an en gineering task force. University of Nebraska President Dennis Smith charged the task force with creating a plan that would es tablish a separate engineering college at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Amendments J Continued from Page 1 I edlv held that technical violations of said. “They now have no amendment « the law should not defeat the rights of the people at the ballot box. The court should hold so again." The motion also stated the court had applied the wrong statute for the time line. The court used a filing time line from a statute that applied to ac tions before a governing body. The amendments weren’t filed before a governing body, so the statute shouldn’t apply, the motion stated. Bcermann said he had been in volved with filing similar proposals for almost 30 years. None ever were removed from the ballot. But Bcermann said he normally received the proposals before the deadline. Although he said he was upset the amendments were removed, Bcermann said his main concern was the effect the removal would have on voter turnout. “Each of those amendments has a support of an opposition group," he I TT IT" to vote on. Becrmann said the personal inter- c est that many had in the amendments ( would have drawn them out to vote. J The five amendments were: • Amendment One: providing for t binding arbitration and mediation to \ be written into general contracts. t • Amendment Two: to overhaul ( the state Board of Equalization and j Assessment. • Amendment Three: dealing with victims’ rights. < • Amendment Four: to legalize s off-track betting. 1 • Amendment Five: requiring a three-fifths majority of the Legisla- j ture to dispense with the reading of bills before a final vote. The motion for a rehearing is a last ] gasp, of sorts, for the amendments, , Beermann said. If it is turned down, the Legislature couldn’t propose them I again until 19%. < citv nf Nchraska-Lincoln notice. 1 ' J_LI Continued from Page 1 At that time, Wyant said, he couldn’t see Ball’s face. Outside doors to that area re main unlocked all night, he said. Wyant said he assumed Ball was sleeping and waiting for the build ing to open. When Wyant returned to unlock the inner doors at 7 a m., Ball hadn’t moved. Wyant said he then saw Ball ’s face, and could tell in stantly he was deceased. Wyant did not want to comment further on Ball’s condition. After discovering the body, Wyant said he went to call Univer It was reported that police did not suspect foul play in the inci dent. Parish said Ball was rarely sick, but he often took food from the gar bage, which could have caused the stomach pains. Wyant said he hadn’t talked to Ball for several months, but other employees had told him that Ball hadn't looked well all week. “Like one employee said, ‘He could have had a heart condition for three years or more and nobody would have known,”' Wyant said UNL Police Chief Ken Cauble would not confirm any details of the incident Sunday. He said he would release more details today. Revamped election clears hurdles ly PtPri Jana—n lenior Reporter Mohammad Shahin won the presi lency of the International Student )rganization on Friday in a landslide ictory over his opponent, Sunjae 'ark. The election marked the second ime since last spring that Shahin and 'ark vied for the office. Last spring, he student court of the Association >f Students of the University of Ne iraska declared the organization's irst election invalid and called for a tew election. Boon Lee Lim, current president if the international student group, aid Shahin received 68 percent of the rote and Park received 32 percent. Each of the 105 foreign countries epresented at the University of Ne iraska-Lincoln could cast one vote in he election, Lim said. Forty-nine countries voted in the election for a ecord-high voter turnout of 41 per cent, he said. Two countries handed in blank lallots, he said. Lim said he was pleased with the ilection procedure and had heard no ximplaints about it. “I think the election was con lucted in a very professional way,” le said. Judy Wendorff, adviser for the group, said changes in election pro cedures made the second election 100 percent better than the first. Voters had to show student iden tification to verify their eligibility, she said. Previously, no identification was required. The location of the election also was changed, Wendorff said. The first election was held in the international student lounge at the International Affairs office, she said. In the new election, an assembly of voters met in the Regency Suite at the Nebraska Union to decide who would cast each country’s vote, Wendorff said. Members of each country chose one representative to cast their country’s vote. Election officials first verified each country’s representatives as eli gible voters. The representatives were then escorted one by one from the Regency Suite to a private voting table outside the Centennial Room in the Union. A member of the organization's electoral commission, a UNL police officer and Wendorff supervised the voting area. Candidates were not al lowed near the voting area, Wendorff said. Also in the new election, candi dates’ names were printed on the bal lot, she said. Voters wrote in names before, she said. Wendorfif said she received some complaints from students who were not allowed to join the assembly of voters because they came after the designated time for the voters to meet. “Some countries weren't able to vote at all,” she said. She said she also received com plaints because foreign exchange stu dents were not allowed to vote in the election. Only degree-seeking stu dents were allowed to vote, she said. Fikru Haile, a graduate student from Ethiopia, said he was mad be cause he was not allowed to join the voter assembly, which started at 5 p.m. Haile said he arrived 10 min utes late and was turned away. He said he was unaware hie could not participate if he arrived after 5 p.m. He also said he thought it was un fair that foreign exchange students were not allowed to vote. However, Haile said he thought the election procedure was fair. Jung-Ho Son, a graduate student from Korea, also said he thought the election procedure was fair. But he agreed with Haile that students who came after 5 p.m. should have been able to participate. “Many had to go back home,” he said. I Nebraskan Editor JaffZatany NightNawsEditors Chris Haln 472-1788 Doug Koum* Managing Editor Angta Brunkow Haathar Lampa Assoc. 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