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TEST DRIVE Sunday, November 10,1:00 - 5:00 pm UNL Student Union Ballroom - 2nd Root Sponsored! by UNL Advertising Club - As A Fund Raiser $5.00 fee collected at the test Don't miss this risk-free opportunity... Raffle for a free Kaplan course! Enroll in a Kaplan course during Test Drive • $50 tuition discount Call Kaplan Educational Center 475*7010 or 1-800-KAP-TEST to reserve your seat today! (Pm-mgisNiadjtudenli will be sealed first) lllfry Papa's Late-Night Campus Special I ASUN senators Adopt-A-Block 'Downtown reaps benefits asjorganizations help keep streets clean By Tasha Kelter StaffReporter ■ f*% .. r i After weeks of listening to politi cians call for cleaner campaigns,sane A SUN senators called for cleaner streets Wednesday, picking up trash along 0 Street between 13th and 15th streets. The Association of the Students of the University of Nebraska performed the community service in conjunction with the Downtown Neighborhood Association’s Adopt-A-Block pro gram. First vice president Jason Bynum and Campus Life Committee chair woman Amy Rager organized the cleanup. About 10 A SUN members pitched in to clean up the street. “It’s a small but significant contri bution,” Bynum said. Senators who took part in the clean up said the street was dirty, with what Rager described as “more cigarette butts than I’ve ever seen in my life”. Participating senators all agreed that the abundance of cigarette butts would make them think twice about tossing a cigarette butt out the window. Despite the filth, Bynum said the clean-up was enjoyable. “We enjoyed it,” Bynum said. “We swept the streets, cleaned the streets and still had a good time.” Sheila Reiter, Vice president of the Downtown Neighborhood Associa tion^said although there is a constant effort on the part of Lincoln mainte nance crews to keep the streets look ing decent, the streets look better when special attention is given to specific blocks. m She said most groups pick up leaves, ,piek cigarette butts out of shrubbery and scrub sidewalks with equipment provided by the Downtown Neighborhood Association. Groups that have adopted blocks also include the University of Ne braska-Lincoln Alumni Association and Mad Dads, said Barbara Arendt, founder of Adopt-A-Block. There are about 40 blocks in downtown Lincoln, and she said only 10 or 11 blocks have been adopted. Arendt said any organizations need ing community service projects were welcome to call the Downtown Lincoln Association and set up a contract. * Also on Wednesday, ASUN had its weekly senate meeting at which Jay.. Nelson, the new law senator, was sworn in. Nelson said he was looking forward to showing students that their govern ment is not detached from the students’ needs. In other ASUN news, Special Top ics Committee Chairman Viet Hoang said he is working with Amy Kruse, student body president at the Univer sity of Nebraska at Kearney, in the ini tial stages of proposing a fall break. He said the bulk of the planning would be rearranging the schedule. NU students are required to have 15 weeks of instruction in the first se mester, he said. A fall break would re quire classes to begin earlier or finish later. He said he would like to hear stu dents about opinions on the matter. Senior Reporter Kasey Kerber contributed to this report. - — - ■» Tenure discussed at Academic Senate By Kasey Berber Senior Reporter Tenure was once again the main topic of discussion at Tuesday’s UNL Academic Senate meeting Senate members reviewed a document titled “The Academic Context for Periodic Review of Ten ured Faculty at UNL” and examined the document’s strengths and weak nesses. The document will be further ex amined and voted on at the Dep.3 Academic Senate meeting. Chancellor James Moeser said tenure’s image was often miscon ceived. “Tenure is not what one of my friends like to call it—an iron lunch box,” he said. “(Tenure) is a guar antee of academic freedom.” But, Moeser said, tenure should not be easily attainable. “It should be very difficult to ob tain and it should also be hard to take a#ay” Nfeeser said. Janssen, of the Southeast Rese^b & E^teteion Center, said comesriqipeiren^w^i a tenured pro fessof leaved one institution to work atapother. , r “Tb gi ve up tenure for a non-ten ure position is very anxiety-filled,” Janssen said. James Goedert, associate pfo fessor of construction systems tech nology, said tenure is sometimes abused by faculty who use it as an “early retirement.” Peter Bleed, president of the Academic Senate, disagreed. “What I see in this university is dedicated and hard-working indi viduals,” he said, “those who are not are in the minority.” Later discussion on tenure re volved around a recent proposed bylaw amendment of the NU Board of Regents. » If amended, the bylaw change would keep faculty members from appealing to the board in tenure cases. Moeser proposed that tenure cases should instead be brought before an external committee in the faculty member’s field. “An unbiased committee from outside our university would be bet ter able to rule on cases than the Board of Regents,” he said. & the Vegetarians J1 >tolWRE><*r8 I November 9 /\ Travis Wagner 7^ tomerofntSftir t V 477-3513 Qvil-rights advocate to speak From Staff Reports A leading civil-rights advocate will address racial discrimination in na tional politics during a speech on the UNL campus Friday. Hilary Shelton, the Federal Liaison in the Government Affairs department of The College Fund/UNCF, will de liver his speech “Racial Discrimination and the Struggle for Equality: A Capi tol Hill Perspective” at 4 pin. in the Regency Suite of Nebraska Union. Shelton works with both U.S. Sen ate and House members, federal gov ernment agencies, college and univer sity presidents and the White House to support programming quality at the 40 private, historically black colleges and universities in the United States. Shelton, a native of St. Louis, at tended Howard University and the University of Missouri, where he re ceived a bachelor’s degree in commu nications and political science. He has taken part in crafting legis lation for the Civil Rights Act of 1991, the Civil Rights Restoration Act, the Violence Against Women Act, the Hate Crimes Statistics Act, the Native American Free Exercise of Religion Act, the Motor Voter Registration Act, the National Assault Weapons Ban and others. ... 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