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Dawn Doverspiek, a voice-performance graduate student, relaxes on a sculpture near
Westbrook Music Building Wednesday afternoon.
ASUN debates Herbie pros, cons
By Kasey Kerber
Staff Reporter
The fate of Herbie Husker appeared
to have been put to rest, but some
ASUN members said Wednesday
night the mascot wasn’t a dead issue.
The debate was prompted by an
“emergency” senate bill calling for a
petition drive to reinstate Herbie as
the official university mascot.
Senators Brian
Buescher and
Kiersten Yanken
proposed the bill
under “emer
gency” status be
cause they felt
there was not time
to take it through a committee.
“Despite Herbie’s appearance in
Saturday’s game, this issue is not
over. He’s still threatened and we
don’t want that,” said Buescher, of
the committee for fees allocations.
“Students weren’t considered and the
administrators were the ones that
canned him.
“If they’re going to can a mascot
that represents an entire student body,
let the students have input on the
matter.”
Senators spoke both for and against
Herbie’s reinstatement.
“We are starting in a brand new
conference next year and have a
chance to have a whole new image.”
said Ormaun Lewis, of the humans
rights committee. “Look at the mas
cots of teams out there. Colleges like
Texas Tech and Colorado have mas
cots they run out onto the field. They
are actual mascots. We don’t really
gel that with Herbie Husker.”
Chuck Lee, of the communica
tions committee, believed Herbie
should stay.
“Not many people realize it, but
“Despite Herbie’s appearance in Saturday’s ,
game, this issue is not over. He’s still threatened
and we don’t want that. ”
BRIAN BUESCHER
ASUN senator
Herbie’s become an international
symbol,” Lee said. “He’s known by
people in Germany watching a Ne
braska game or Saudi Arabians who
saw him on television during Desert
Storm.”
One point brought up by Yanken,
chairwoman of the communications
committee, was that the athletic de
partment could offer no information
on a supposed Herbie Husker survey
given to season ticket holders.
“The athletic department didn’t
have a copy of the survey and they
couldn’t giveus any figures.” Yanken
said.
“They basically said that we had to
trust them on the survey.”
The proposed petition drive would
include advertisements in the Daily
Nebraskan to inform students of
Herbie Husker and extensive petition
efforts in the greek organizations and
residence halls.
The bill passed with a majority
voice vote, the only one of seven bills
Wednesday that found any opposi
tion among senators.
The senate also discussed a bill
dealing with Gov. Ben Nelson’s fail
ure to sign a letter endorsing the
future of research and the sustaining
of federal funding for it.
“Seventeen other governors from
around the United States have put
their name on this letter,” ASUN
President Shawntell Hurtgen said.
“This letter will hopefully lead to
legislation in Congress.
“The proposed bill will direct our
Government Liaison Committee to
request for Nelson’s signature on the
letter.”
In other ASUN news:
• A senate bill was passed calling
for a 24-hour access computer lab in
the Nebraska Student Union. Though
24-hour labs have already been estab
lished, the buildings which house
them usually have set hours that keep
many students from gaining access to
the lab late at night.
The bill would take effect after
Thanksgiving and be on a trial run
until December. Security would be
included under the bill’s provisions
and users of the lab might be required
to show a student ID’s after 11 p.m. to
verify their student status.
• A bill involving the Campus®^
Watch program was also passed. This
bill will increase the cooperation ef
forts between student services and the
Campus Police.
• Three other bills were passed:
one recognized the summer parking
improvements; another approved
CFA’s bylaws; and a third resolved
that the College of Business Admin
istration should continue to be flex
ible when it makes major require
ment changes.
UNO begins infotech program
By Paula Lavigne
Senior Reporter
Although UNO is starting an in
formation technology program, Lin
coln students shouldn’t think they’re
missing out, a UNL administrator
said.
Interim Chancellor Joan Leitzel
said information technology educa
tion at the University of Nebraska
Lincoln was comparable to the devel
oping Information and Science Tech
nology Program at the University of
Nebraska at Omaha.
Richard Flynn, dean of the UNO
College of Education and program
director, saidthe program should have
a permanent director and be on solid
ground by January.
_It will offer degrees in information
technology, he said, and might evolve
into a college.
Information technology is a broad
and emerging field, he said, which
brings together several related disci
plines such as computer science, in
formation systems management and
electronics engineering.
UNO’s current Center for the
Management of Information Tech
nology will be implemented into the
new program, he said.
Leitzel said UNL’s College of
Business Administration and College
of Engineering and Technology of
fered similar courses. The only dif
ference is that UNO decided to group
its courses into a program.
“It’s a complementary program to
our engineering programs,” she said.
“It’s not an overlap. It’S a different
way of giving students experience in
information systems.”
Creating the new program was a
response to needs of Omaha indus
tries, Leitzel said.
Flynn agreed, saying the program
came out of a task force made up of
local business leaders in March.
“We want to listen carefully to the
business community and be respon
sive to their needs,” he said.
As information technology satu
rates the business world, he said, it is
important to give students a compre
hensive program that makes them
ideal bait for future employers.
The program is still in the plan
ning stages, he said, as national con
sultants are being brought in to add to •
,• input from UNO faculty members
and Nebraska business leaders.
