Candidates discuss campus ties
By Chad Lorenz
Staff Reporter
Administrative cooperation and
mandatory health insurance were
among the main topics at Tuesday’s
A SUN debate.
The debate was sponsored by
College Republicans, Young Demo
crats and the International Student
Organization.
The candidates were asked how
they would work with faculty, ad
ministration and the Legislature.
Chad Pekron of the ACCESS
party and Shawntell Hurtgen of
IMPACT said working with admin
istration was important
to bring change and serve students’
needs.
Pekron said ACCESS wanted to
strengthen the Association of Stu
dents of the University of Nebraska’s
ties with the Legislature with a stron
ger voice from the Government Li
aison Committee.
Hurtgen said IMPACT sought to
relay student opinion through the
Academic Senate, as well as through
the GLC.
LETTUCE candidate Matt
Kissler also advocated a close work
ing relationship with those groups,
saying that a Pac-Man tournament
and drinks with Chancellor Graham
Spanier were the keys to that con
nection.
Mark McGoveran, CUT COST’S
candidate, said students had an
adversarial relationship with faculty.
“We’ve cooperated ourselves into
the ground,” he said.
Candidates also were asked how
they planned to help international
students get better benefits from their
mandatory health insurance policies.
McGoveran and Pekron said
health insurance rules should apply
equally to all students. Pekron said
international students especially
needed fair treatment in health in
surance because they didn’t have as
many resources, being so far from
home.
Hurtgen said IMPACT was com
mitted to forcing the issue on ad
ministration.
Candidates also were asked spe
cific platform issues.
McGoveran said his goal to cut
students’ costs could be achieved in
several ways. He suggested not us
ing social security numbers for ID
codes so students didn’t pay the price
for possible credit fraud.
Hurtgen said cutting costs was an
unrealistic goal, but limiting in
creases was a tactic IMPACT would
employ.
Kissler said LETTUCE would
conduct a bake sale to keep costs
down.
Campus safety was a big concern
to ACCESS candidates, Pekron said.
He said it was critical for campus
police to keep a better watch over
the university at night.
Transportation research
pools together at NU site
By Brian Jensen
Staff Reporter
This September, the University
of Nebraska-Lincoln will be the cen
ter of attention.
For the next two years, UNL will
be the site for a federal transporta
tion center. The purpose of the cen
ter is to pool the work of engineer
ing researchers from surrounding
schools.
The schools involved are UNL,
Kansas State University, the Uni
versity of Kansas, the University of
Missouri at Columbia and the Uni
versity of Missouri at Rolla.
The research will focus on four
categories, including highway en
gineering, traffic engineering and
safety, pipelines and railroads, said
Pat McCoy, director of the transpor
tation center and professor of civil
engineering at UNL.
McCoy said the research would
be funded by an individual com
pany, which would pay the center,
and the federal government, which
would match the company’s amount.
McCoy said the research must fit
under the four categories. For ex
ample, the center may do research
for a new highway that is to be built.
Each school would be assigned a
certain aspect of the design, he said.
For example, he said, UNL might
design a low-cost crash cushion
while Kansas might design a pipe
line system.
“Each school has strengths in
certain areas,” McCoy said.
McCoy said the center would not
have an official schedule of research
projects until November.
Students support union
by not attending forum
By John Fulwider
Staff Reporter
A poorly-attended student forum
on the proposed Nebraska Union ex
pansion indicates that students sup
port the plan, the union director said.
“It’s a good sign that there’s appar
ently no controversy on this subject,”
Daryl Swanson said. “If students felt
strongly against it, they would’ve been
there.”
About 15 people attended the fo
rum, which included a slide show and
a short presentation by Swanson.
Swanson asked for questions when he
finished but found none.
Swanson explained the union ex
pansion referendum item, which will
be on the March 8 Association of
Students of the University of Nebraska
ballot.
The referendum asks whether stu
dents support the expansion, whether
they support an increase in their stu
dent fees to pay for it and what new
services they would like to see.
Swanson said it would be difficult
. to get the NU Board of Regents to
support the expansion if students did
not approve.
The entire project is estimated to
cost $11.8 million. To finance the
project, a 20-year revenue bond would
be issued. Beginning in the fall se
mester of 1997, mandatory student
fees would increase $20 to pay off the .
bond.
Students currently pay $ 18 in stu
dent fees for the union and the Uni
versity Health Center. The $20 would
be added to that amount.
The expansion would enhance rec
reation, bookstore and meeting-room
services. Food-court seating, lounge
seating, the computer lab and Daily
Nebraskan offices would be expanded.
Proposed new services include: a
music store, dry cleaner, copy shop,
convenience store, coffee house, travel
agency, yogurt shop, and a t-shirt
print shop or flower shop.
Swanson said some renovations,
such as modifying the west handi
capped-access ramp to meet federal
and state standards, would be done
whether or not the entire expansion
was approved. He called the ramp
embarrassing because it did not meet
any of those standards.
If the project is approved by the
Board of Regents, construction would
start in early 1997 and be completed
by mid-1998.
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John Joubert and Michael Ryan. “I
don’t see the passion in this one that I
saw in the past,” he said.
When Otey was scheduled to be
executed, Wesely said, his group ad
plans made a month before the execu
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