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Campaign’96
ENDORSEMENT
Vote
O’Brien
Regent has worked
for student interests
Every time you call N-Roll, think of
Nancy O’Brien.
O’Brien, 45, was a major force on the
NU Board of Regents in getting the telephone
student registration system installed and get
ting students out of die long lines for drop
and add.
The N-Roll issue serves as only one ex
ample of O’Brien’s service to the students.
of all four NU campuses. She also worked
to expand the number of courses transferable
among colleges from 250 to 800.
O’Brien, who served as regents’ chair
woman last year, is running for her second
six-year term as 2nd District representative
on the NU Board of Regents.
O’Brien has been one of the strongest
voices on the board, often questioning how
certain issues would have an impact on the
students and whether they would agree with
the regents’ decision.
She’s voiced concerns about University
of Nebraska-Lincoln students paying exces
sive fees. She’s advocated ways to keep tu
ition down without cutting programs. She
was also in favor of raising UNL’s academic
admission standards.
Recently, she has supported improve
ments to the UNL campus, including expand
ing the Nebraska Union and building a 600
stall parking garage near Memorial Stadium.
She has also not been afraid to contest
NU President Dennis Smith and other regents
concerning issues with which she does not
agree.
Though not advantageous for UNL, she
represented the interests of her district by
advocating a separate engineering college for
the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Even
when the board voted 5-3 not to create a sepa
rate college, O’Brien worked for improve
ments in die joint program.
O’Brien, a native of Norfolk, now lives
in Waterloo and is a UNL alumna.
Her opponent, Andrew Sigerson, a
former student regent and UNL alumnus,
might also represent the student voice, but
O’Brien's successful performance as a regent
should not be replaced.
Because the board is a nonpartisan body
in charge of aU four NU campuses, O’Brien’s
experience, intellect and knowledge of the
context of past board actions show she. is
willing to stay and is not using her role as
regent to accelerate to another governmen
tal position.
The Daily Nebraskan encourages voters
in die NU Board of Regents' 2nd District to
vote for O’Brien. Her dedication and loyalty
to the NU system justify her serving another
tom.
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Neuro-pacers
Several weeks ago, I submitted a
guest column to the Daily Nebraskan
for publication in the Opinion Pages.
In the column, I explained why it is
vital for UNL to recruit top high
school graduates. I also listed the
efforts made by individual faculty of
the Department of Electrical Engi
neering to attract qualified and
motivated students to our programs.
While we do not guarantee students
that they will find employment
locally upon graduation, they do find
that their preparation at UNL is
adequate for them to compete
_ nationally with graduates from
universities with top reputations in
engineering, for graduate assistant
ships, or employment by industry.
In my column, I referred to the top
students as neuro-oacers. since their
active participation in class enhances
the education of all the students in
class. The following quotation from a
letter tome by Paul Heumphreus, a
graduate of our electrical engineering
program at UNL, is worth noting in
this context: “I don’t think most
students recognize that the competi
tion between each other is far
overshadowed by the competition
they will face with people that have
been working for a number of years.
I didn’t like spending a lot of effort
on die courses at the time, but the
knowledge 1 gained has given me a
number of opportunities that many of
my peers just weren’t prepared for.”
The column I submitted was
published in the Opinion section of
the Lincoln Journal Star on Oct. 13
and in the Commentary section in the
me to believe this. I believe, in fact,
that these were the words of a
dreamless, disheartened college
student. I wish to repair some
damage her words may have caused.
First of all, breaking promises to
yourself does not become OK
because you do it often. Normally, a
promise is made to yourself during a
temporary moment of sanity. For
instance, you discover that an eating
binge at midnight really isn’t
necessary or beneficial and that it
does really have consequences. You
promise yourself that you Will have
more control in the future. If you
break this promise, I urge you, do not
take Ms. Lampe’s advice and give up
on yourself. Do not convince
yourself that you were wrong then.
Follow your instinct, meditate before
breaking your resolution. Fast—
success will bring freedom. If your
vice is TV, put it into the closet for a
month. Success will bring imagina
tion and growth. If your addiction is
the opposite sex, then remain celibate
for a few seasons or years. Success
will bring independence.
Break it down. These dependen
cies we have allow us to remit
control of our existence to something
else. Imagine a life with the satisfac
tion of freedom, self-will and self
control. No, really, imagine it ! We all
have it in us. Do not let others who
feel discouraged bring you down
with them. Misery loves company.
Misery NEEDS company. Misery is
need.
•Ugh—free yourself, explore.
LIVE.
s
Jenefer Monroe
senior
biology
Jason Gildow/DN
Omaha World-Herald on Oct. 19. For
copies of the column, please call
UNL’s Department of Electrical
Engineering at 472-3771.
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Dr. Ezekiel Bahar
George Holmes Professor
electrktl engineering
Broken promises
Before each birthday, I try to
purify myself, hoping to obtain the
clean, simple form and mind with
which I entered this world. This year,
I failed and broke my fast Just as I
was breaking from my promise to
myself, I was reading Thursday’s
DN. Heather Lampe’s column about
resolutions really hit me hard.
Perhaps her column was in jest, but
there was not enough wit present for
