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ASUN seeks to broaden homecoming involvement ByKaseyBerber Staff Reporter ASUN hopes its attempt to broaden homecoming involvement will also boost the senate’s visibility on campus, President Eric Marintzer said Tuesday. The Association of the Students of the University of Nebraska will meet Wednes day at 6:30 p.m. in the Nebraska Union. The senate will discuss supporting an “all - university dance” that would take place after the homecoming game. Marintzer said he hoped the dance would bring people together. “We want to involve a lot more people and especially those in different groups and organizations,” Marintzer said, “the all-uni versity dance is an excellent way to do this.” Marintzer said the dance would be at the Lancaster building in the State Fair Park and would feature free pizza, a cash bar and mu sic from the band Lie Awake. Also on the agenda for Wednesday’s meeting is an attempt to increase ASUN’s visibility through the president’s roundtable and “most your senator "day sin the Nebraska Union. Hie president’s roundtable was originally formed by last year’s President ShawnteU Hurtgen. Its purpose was to bring together presidents of student organizations and give each one an equal voice. Marintzer said the roundtable’s first meeting would be Sept. 24. “Meet your senator” days wiU be Sept. 18 and 25 and Oct 2. ASUN senators will be at booths in the Nebraska Union, and will give students information on how to get in volved with ASUN. Moeser stresses excellence ByKaotKkdke " f Staff Reporter The Academic Senate focused on the future Tuesday, discussing such issues as academic excellence and lobbying the Nebraska Legisla ture. UNL Chancellor James Moeser spoke at the meeting, which was at the Clifford Hardin Ne braska Center for Continuing Education. Moeser told senate members of his goals for education. “(hie of my points of emphasis is on aca demic rigidness,” Moeser said. “Yet I think at the same time we need to be very caring to stu dents.” Moeser said educators needed to be there for students to help them outside class and pro vide them with the “informational and technical support they need to be self-learning.” Among Moeser’s other goals for education were increasing the graduation and retention rates of students. He said incoming classes al ready were “becoming smarter and smarter each year,” and he hopes that trend will continue. Senate members also looked ahead, making it a point to discuss the future of ftculty com pensation and lobbying in the Legislature. Hie issue of retirement benefits also arose. UNL’s benefits lag behind peer retirement ben efits by 3 percent Yet state law dictates that UNL educators’ benefits cannot exceed 8.5 percent, making the desired 11 percent more difficult to achieve. “If we want to make it to the level of our peers, we’ll literally have to change the law,” said Peter Bleed, president of the UNL Aca demic Senate. Bleed said the senate does have a lobbyist and that hopefully he could be used in coming months. The senate also had an election to fill a seat in its executive committee that was vacated this summer. Phyllis Japp, an associate professor in the College of Arts and Sciences, won a majority of the vote to take die executive committee seat Also at the senate meeting, Moeser unveiled two new UNL television commercials that would air on ABC during Nebraska football games. Moeser also made a surprise announcement that the University of Nebraska would now have an alma mater — or school anthem — which would be revealed at halftime of the Oct 12 homecoming football game against Baylor. Ethernet card gives students direct access to Internet By Todd Anderson StaffReporter Residence hall students may have awhile to wait for UNL’s faster con nection to the Internet. ■ To take advantage of the direct Internet access offered in the residence halls, which were rewired last semes ter, students have to purchase an Ethernet card. An Ethernet card is part of a com munications package that provides bet ter quality and faster access to the Internet for University of Nebraska Lincoln students. Since last summer, almost 800 stu dents have applied for Ethernet cards and software programs, and the list continues to grow, said Andy Conklin, a technician with Information Technol ogy Support, which is an office within UNL’s Information Services. “We were thinking there wouldn’t be a whole lot of people,” she said. While waiting ffirvthe direct con nection, students can still access the Internet by using a modem to dial in to the university's servq^but the modem pool is crowded at peak times and stu dents may end up with a busy signal. Far the direct connection, Conklin said, students must complete a contract with the UNL Housing Department, which says that they agree to pay for the necessary software and hardware and will allow Information Services to enter their dormitory room to install it The card’s costdepends on the age and make of the computer. The aver age cost is about $35, but the cost could more than triple. For older Macintosh computers, she said, the card could be $85. Some very old computers and most laptop computers require cards that cost over $200. If students do not want to buy an Ethernet card, they may request a ter minal server connection, which is a slower connection that does not sup port graphics, she said, but she does not recommend it because if could freeze up the computer. The option is available only in certain residence halls, Netscape software and the required programs to access e-mail are installed in every Macintosh and personal com puter serviced through the Internet Connection Agreement. So far, Infor mation Services has completed work on more than 70 computers in Neihardt, Selleck, Cather and Pound Residence Halls, Conklin said. Five student technicians and 10 fiiU-iime employees are waking on the connec tion in Abel Hall, UNL’s largest resi dence hall They will then work on the remaining halls on City Campus. About 30 students in Burr and Fedtie Halls on East Campus will have to wait until January, when the fiber optics wiring is done. Conklin said Information Services planned to have the rewiring completed before the fell semester began, but the project was delayed because of land scaping concerns. Computers that will receive prior ity service are 486 or Pentium personal computers with Windows *95 and Macintoshes with built-in Ethernet cards, she said. After these computers have been completed, Information Services will work on the remaining students’com puters. Conklin said residents who already had been visited fay Information Ser vices and students who did not prop erly prepare their computers for the technicians must wait until the techni cians return to their residence hall. Common problems have been comput ers that are not fully set up or comput ers with password-only access, she said. 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