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.
To set up an Internet Connection
Agreement, students must complete
forms available at the front desk ofthe
residence halls and mail them to the
housing department office, 1100
Seaton Hall.
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