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ASUN opposes rees forcomputerupgrade By Chad Lorenz Staff Reporter ASUN senators Wednesday passed a resolution to oppose increasing resi dence hall fees to fund a wiring up grade to a campus computer network. “That’s simply not fair to saddle residence hall students with that cost,” said Andrew Loudon, president of the Association of Students of the Uni versity of Nebraska. James Griesen, vice chancellor for student affairs, said under the current plan, the upgrade could raise resi dence hall fees by as much as $179 next year on top of an expected $145 inflation increase. The upgrade to HuskerNet would | outfit all buildings on campus, direct HuskerNet connections, appropriate control units and software, the reso- j lution said. The Residence Hall Association opposed the plan at its Sunday meet- i ing, saying it would force residence hall students to pay disproportionate costs for a benefit the entire univer sity would utilize. In the resolution, ASUN said that the plan was unfair to residence hall students and resolved that the admin istration should develop an alternate method for funding the network. “This is all part of a campus reac tion to a plan and I think ASUN is smart to get their beliefs out,” Griesen said. Senators also passed a resolution to direct the Government Liaison Committee to lobby for a bill in the Legislature that would allocate more state lottery revenue to building main tenance at the university. The bill, introduced by state Sen. Jerome Warner of Waverly, would direct 25 percent of state lottery money to a Building Renewal Allocation fund used to pay for a more than $100 million deferred-maintenance back log. “One only needs to have a class in Richards or Burnett Hall... to under stand we have a need,” Loudon said. ASUN also passed a change in its Electoral Commission rules prohibit ing it from sponsoring debates during student elections. 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No place like home Damon Lee/DN Cecil Steward’s living room may look modern, but it is housed in a 90-year-old downtown building that once served as a typewriter dealership. Steward, the dean of the College of Architecture at UNL, shares design credits with his wife for the house. Construction started in August 1993 and was finished in July. Dean’s new dwelling gives life to area By Julie Sobczyk Staff Reporter Cecil Steward’s home isn’t just a place to eat and sleep. He wants it to play a role in the rejuvenation of downtown Lincoln. Steward, dean of the College of Architecture at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, moved from his residence near Cotner Boulevard and A Street to a newly renovated home in downtown Lincoln last summer. The idea for the project began in January 1993, he said. The renova tion was completed last July. One major reason for relocating downtown was because of the area’s rejuvenation and the older build ings in the area, he said. ■ ■ I - II! ■ « ■■■!■■ “I wanted to contribute to the revitalization of downtown Lin coln,” Steward said. “I think down town is becoming a place of living, and I thought we could do our part to contribute an example of an alternate way to live downtown.” Steward planned all of the de signs for his new home near 11th and O streets. “I planned it and did all of the financial packaging and put it all together,” he said. “I did every thing except being the general con tractor.” He did have help in planning the designs. Steward’s wife, Mary Jane, also played a role. “She was part of the team,” he said. “She was the client for me as the architect.” Steward’s home consists of four living units. Steward designed one unit for his mother, and the other units are low-income housing for students. In designing the home, Steward used freedom and creativity to make his place unique. “In terms of other units for liv ing downtown, ours is the only street-level housing,” he said. “You enter off of the street.” Most other housing downtown begins on the second floor of the building rather than at street level. Steward’s home also has a court yard entrance that leads to the front door. “The courtyard is a more Asian, European or Latin American cus tom than in this country,” he said. “I pay a lot of detail to Oriental design, primarily Japan and China.” Much detail from the Orient is incorporated into the design of the home. Construction encountered few problems or difficulties, although the building was built in 1905. “There is nothing we are not enjoying,” he said. “We love to have outside people into our home.” People soon will have the op portunity to tour their home; the Haymarket Art Gallery will have a special exhibit there. 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According to the letter, MASA recommended the following: • A Latino/Chicano person should be given serious consideration for a position as assistant director of the Minority Assistance Program within the multi-cultural affairs office. • MASA members and Latinos should be on the search committee to fill that position. • Mediation should occur with at least one individual who has received numerous complaints from staffmem bers. Complaints have come from staff members who belong to many racial groups. • Multicultural affairs should provide adequate support for the edu cational specialist for Latino/Hispanic students in the Minority Assistance Program. Providing adequate support would allow the multi-cultural affairs office to be more active with MASA. It would also help generate academic and career programming for Latino students, as well as resources for Latino students to attend conferences and plan event programming. • The Office of Multi-Cultural Affairs should find a way to attract more Latino students for employment. Cathy Maestas, MASA president, said the organization would meet with university officials within a few weeks to discuss the third issue. She said the first two issues had been covered. James Griesen, vice chancellor for student affairs, said he already had addressed most of MASA’s original 15 concerns. Griesen said he believed multi cultural affairs was trying to make Hispanic students feel comfortable. “Our management staff feels they’re being as cordial, helpful and open to Latino/Latina students as to any other students who use that of fice,” he said. “They either have to get the students to change their per ceptions or realize they need to change what they’re doing.” Maestas said that prior to the last two meetings, the roadblock to re solving the conflict was that MASA had to make the first move in setting up negotiations. Maestas said MASA seemed to be ignored at first, but she took some responsibility for the slowness of ne gotiations. “We had never before really sat down and discussed in specifics what we mean when we say things such as hostile environment,” she said. Maestas said she still held univer sity officials responsible for their slow response. She said recent discussions gave her hope that the boycott would end before the semester did. “It’s a lot better now,” she said. “It’s taken a while, but we’ve got to forget about what happened before and go with what we have.”