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VOL. 96 COVERING THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA-LINCOLN SINCE 1901 NO. 113
Nil urged to amend hiring ratio
Bill pushes for more women, minority faculty
By Erin Schulte
Senior Reporter
The University of Nebraska could
face budget cuts if it fails to recruit
minority and women faculty, accord
ing to a proposed bill heard Monday
by the Nebraska Legislature’s Educa
tion Committee.
LB858, introduced by Sen. Don
Wesely of Lincoln, would create the
“Excellence in Higher Education
Fund.” The bill would require NU cam
puses to restructure hiring and tenure
policies to encourage recruitment of
minorities and women. This would be
funded by 1 percent of the university
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budget.
The goal of the bill is to bring NU
into the top quarter among peer uni
versities in its employment of women
and minorities. If, by die year 2002, NU
is not in the top half in employing
women and minorities, 3 percent of its
budget would be held in escrow until
NU achieved this goal.
The bill states hiring women and
minorities is important because Nebras
kans need to be better prepared to com
pete in a global economy. To do that, a
broad higher education experience is
needed, it states.
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Chancellor James Moeser spoke
against the bill at the committee hear
ing. He said NU officials agreed with
the goals of the bill, but notthe method
used to achieve them. He read testi
mony prepared by NU President Den
nis Smith, who was sick and could not
come to the hearing.
“There is no need for a bill that
would hold a portion of our budget
hostage until a quota is met,” Moeser
said.
Moeser said the University of Ne
braska was on target with its rate of
hiring women, and that it should be in
the top half of its peer institutions in
this area. Hiring minorities, he said, was
not as successful.
“Here we are falling short of the
mark,” Moeser said.
That was not unusual jj any uni
versity, though, he said. Sen. Ardyce
Bohlke of Hastings asked Moeser if
his previous employers, the Univer
sity of South Carolina and University
of Kansas, had problems recruiting
minorities.
“They’re dealing with precisely
the same issue,” Moeser said. “All the
campuses were fighting desperately
to find faculty of color.”
Sen. Janis McKenzie of Harvard
said judging by the makeup of uni
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CATHER RESIDENCE HALL president John Tierney (center) serves as moderator at the ASUN debate Monday night in the Harper-Schramm-Smith
Food Services building. Members of the ADVANCE party, from left, are second vice-presidential candidate Malcolm Kass, first vice-presidential
candidate Amy Rager and presidential candidate Curt Ruwe. KEG party members shown are presidential candidate Scott Drauer, left, and
second vice-presidential candidate Heather Olsen. The first vice-presidential candidate for the KE6 party, Mark Meyer, could not attend
because of a class.
ASUN candidates hold first debate
By Kasey Berber
Staff Reporter
The first debate between the
ADVANCE and KEG parties lasted
only 45 minutes, but may have
seemed a lot longer for the mem
bers of KEG.
The Monday night debate, spon
sored by the Residence Hall Asso
ciation and held in the Harper
Schramm-Smith 24-hour study
lounge, drew a crowd of about 25.
The debate was the first of four be
tween opposing parties campaign
ing for control of the Association
of Students of the University of
Nebraska.
More than a dozen of those in
attendance were wearing AD
VANCE stickers.
And while crowd participation
was not allowed as part of the
debate’s format, light applause
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We have an increasing number of
student contacts and hope to gain more
until we saturate them into
student government." v
Scott Brauer
KEG presidential candidate
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Read the Daily Nebraskan on the World Wide Web at http: / / www.unl.edu I Daily Neb
Broadcasters
disagree with
gambling bill
The proposed bill
would ban all forms of
gambling advertisings.
By Jim Goodwin
Staff Reporter
Purveyors of Iowa’s “loosest slots”
will have to advertise their wares by
word of mouth in Nebraska if a bill
heard Monday in the Legislature’s Gen
eral Affairs Committee is passed.
The bill would ban all advertising
pertaining to out-of-state casino gam
bling. Casinos are illegal in Nebraska.
They are legal, to some extent, in Iowa,
South Dakota, Missouri and Colorado.
sen. Jim Jensen or Umaha, who co
introduced LB381, said because casino
gambling is illegal in Nebraska, the ban
would be akin to outlawing the adver
tising of prostitution, which is legal in
Nevada.
He said the bill would diminish the
effects of compulsive gambling on Ne
braskans’ health, safety and welfare.
Sens. James Jones of Eddyville, Ed
Schrock of Elm Creek and Kate Witek
of Omaha also introduced the bill.
Specifically, LB381 would outlaw
the broadcast, transmission, printing or
display of casino commercial messages
in Nebraska.
First-time violators would face a
$10,000 civil penalty. Subsequent vio
lations, assessed daily, would incur pen
alties between $20,000 and $50,000.
The state treasurer would distrib
ute all fines to the Nebraska Lottery’s
Compulsive Gamblers Assistance
Fund, which would grant them to state
rehabilitation organizations.
Opponents questioned the U.S.
constitutionality of such a law, saying
they felt it would violate the commerce
clause and First Amendment freedoms
of expression.
Howard Shrier, president of the
Nebraska Broadcasters Association,
said his organization opposed increased
government regulation of television and
radio.
“It would send a dangerous and
chilling effect to ban advertising sim
ply because we don’t like a product or
service,” Shrier said. “We’re not say
ing we’re pro-casino gambling. We’re
saying we’re pro-First Amendment and
pro-advertising.”
Representatives of the Advertising
Federation of Lincoln, Omaha Federa
tion of Advertising and Nebraska Press
Association joined Shrier in opposing
the bill.
Proponents said LB381 would cur
tail the ill social and financial side ef
fects of casino gambling by limiting the
industry’s introduction
“What twisted logic lets us sit by
letting glitzy ads attract our children
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