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ASUN to discuss regent proposal
By Melanie Branded
Staff Reporter
ASUN senators will decide today
whether to approve a bill that would
direct Government Liaison Commit
tee members to lobby against Gov.
Ben Nelson’s proposal to appoint NU
regents.
Andrew Loudon, president of the
Association of Students of the Uni
versity of Nebraska, said he was con
cerned how Nelson’s proposed bill,
which was drafted last week by Sen.
Ardyce Bohlke of Hastings, would
affect students’ ability to appeal to
regents as elected officials.
Regents currently are elected by
Nebraska voters. If NU regents were
appointed, Loudon said, students
couldn’t present them with concerns
as constituents.
“Students wouldn’t have as much
impact if regents were appointed,”
Loudon said. “They (regents) would
become an extension of the adminis
tration.”
“Students wouldn't have
as much impact if
regents were appointed. ”
■
ANDREW LOUDON
President of ASUN
Loudon said Nelson’s proposal
was unnecessary because the current
process held the university directly
accountable to Nebraska voters since
their tax money funded the univer
sity.
“They (regents) serve as watch
dogs over administration because
they’re accountable to the voters,” he
said. “Twenty-four thousand of those
voters are UNL students.”
The senate also will vote on a
bylaw change that would designate
the second vice-president as the chair
man of the Student Lite commis
sion.
Loudon said the change, which
would take effect with next year’s
senate, would add to the duties of the
second vice-president, whose respon
sibilities include serving as a liaison
to the Residence Hall Association
and UNL cultural groups and as chair
man of the Five-Year Projection Com
mittee.
The student life commissioner’s
role is to oversee appointees to ASUN
committees, such as the Parking Ad
visory Board and Curriculum Devel
opment, and to ensure that appoin
tees attend meetings and that com
mittees have adequate student repre
sentation.
If the bylaw change passes, the
position of student life commissioner
would be eliminated.
Loudon said the bylaw change
was proposed because past second
vice presidents had complained about
not having enough responsibi lity with
their office.
Floors offer breath of fresh air
By Andrew Lucas
Staff Reporter
UNL’s ban on smoking in univer
sity buildings has blown onto some
residence hall floors.
The University of Nebraska-Lin
coln Residence Hall Association
passed a resolution Sunday support
ingthe creation of tobacco-free floors.
“This is going to be a special floor
for people who really need to be
smoke-free,” said RHA President
Andrea Casart. The tobacco-free
floors would be located on the lower
levels of the high-rise residence halls
because of complaints that smoke
rises through the floors and ventila
tion systems, Casart said.
The initial plan is to have two to
three floors per residence hall, she
said. Students would indicate on their
Jiousing contracts whether they
wanted to live on these floors.
The plan will be implemented in
the fall semester of 1995, and the
number of tobacco-free floors will
depend on demand, Casart said.
In the non-high-rise residence
halls, such as Selleck and Neihardt,
“These floors are for
people who choose to live
in a substance-free
lifestyle. We want to give
them that option. ”
■
CHUCK RENSINK
residence hail program
wings could become tobacco-free
based on the amount of smoke venti
lation present, Casart said.
The resolution was passed to sup
port the creation of university hous
ing for students who are allergic or
ultra-sensitive to tobacco, said Chuck
Rensink, the complex program direc
tor of Harper-Schramm-Smith.
One resident said he favored the
new policy.
“I don’t like having the smell of
smoke when I walk down the halls to
go to oatnroom, saia scott Kenard, a
junior actuarial science major.
The university’s current policy
states that residents can smoke in
their rooms with the door closed and
with permission from their room
mates. The university also provides
substance-free floors in Smith and
Harper.
“These floors are for people who
choose to live in a substance-free
lifestyle,” Rensink said. “We want to
give them that option.”
Casart said UNL’s policies were
in tune with policies throughout the
United States.
“Nationwide, a lot of schools are
making drastic changes and going
smoke-free,” Casart said.
She said RHA had considered in
dividual rights when making deci
sions dealing with any smoking is
sues. r1'
Other options considered by the
university included floors for smok
ers only. However, in a memo to
RHA, Rensink said that idea was not
feasible because of medical and clean
ing problems.
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The Adam’s Mark Hotel
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st 16 years of age by 5-15-95
NU libraries may benefit
from increased funding
By Laura King
Staff Reporter
i
A request this year by both the NU
Board of Regents and Gov. Ben
Nelson has put emphasis on improv
ing the NU Libraries.
Nelson’s annual budget called for
$685,000 over two years and an 11
percent increase per year in funds to
be given to the libraries for book
acquisitions and services. That is ap
proximately $600,000 less than what
the Regents originally requested in
their proposal.
The Regents requested $1.25 mil
lion over two years in additional funds
for library acquisitions and services,
along with a 15 percent increase in
the acquisition line, which maintains
the current level of library purchases.
The increase in funding is needed
to keep up with the rising cost of
purchasing new acquisitions, said
Kent Hendrickson, dean of UNL Li
braries.
“Our budget is not rising with the
inflating prices of acquisitions,”
Hendrickson said.
He said the price of acquisitions
had increased 12 to 14 percent per
year on subscriptions and 7 to 8 per
cent on book acquisitions.
The proposed increase would give
UNL libraries $450,000 more with
the 15 percent increase. The amount
given to UNL is larger than that given
to other campuses because its budget
base is larger and because it is die
only research library in the system,
Hendrickson said.
A recent ranking of 110 college
libraries around the country ranked
UNL’s library 72nd for the 1993 fis
cal year. This ranking was based on
Library Funding
■ Gov. Ben Nelson's annual
budget allots $685,000 over a
two-year period and an 11
percent Increase per year In
acquisition funds to NU libraries.
■ The NU Board of Regents had
requested $1.25 minion over two
years and a 15 percent Increase
In acquisition funds.
■ With the 15 percent increase,
UNL libraries would receive
$450,000 - more than the other
NU campuses because of UNL’s
larger budget base and research
programs.
total budget, number of volumes
added, number of journal subscrip
tions, total acquisition budget and
number of people on staff.
“The rankings aren’t measures of
quality in any way,” Hendrickson
said. “If we were positioned properly
we should have been around 50 or so
because we have to support a very
comprehensive Curriculum with re
sources that can’t support them.”
With the proposed increase in li
brary funding, Hendrickson said he
hoped to improve aspects of the li
brary system, such as higher per
forming work stations and more pur
chasing power for the libraries.
“We also want to try and provide
more training of students and faculty
on the use of the information high
way and the Internet,” Hendrickson
said.
He said the library could offer
classes to teach people how to find
things using the Internet in the fall of
1995.