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VOL. 96 ~ COVERING THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA-LINCOLN SINCE 1901 NO. 114
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Senators recommend
changes to procedure
for post-tenure review
By Sarah Baker
Staff Reporter
Senators worked together to revise
a proposed post-tenure review process
at Tuesday’s Academic Senate meet
ing. The original post-tenure proposal
was met with resistance from many fac
ulty.
A substitute motion was proposed
by physics Professor Leo Sartori.
Sartori’s motion satisfied many of the
objections that faculty members origi
nally had.
The senate met numerous times
since last month’s meeting to gauge
opinions of Chancellor James Moeser’s
proposed post-tenure policy.
Many thought the new policy would
burden tenured faculty with extra pa
perwork. Others were worried that
some tenured faculty would be re
viewed more than others.
The motion stated that the review
must be requested by the faculty mem
ber, and the review can be conducted
if past yearly reviews on a faculty mem
ber show signs of problems. English
Professor Jim Ford proposed an
amendment requesting that reviews in
all departments be conducted in a uni
formly rigorous manner. - ----- -
Please see SENATE on 6
Chambers boycotts
judiciary committee
By Erin Schulte
Senior Reporter
A chair sits empty in the Judiciary
Committee.
Sen. Ernie Chambers of Omaha has
not been present at Judiciary Commit
tee hearings for the past two weeks,
and said he’ll continue to play hooky
for the rest of the session.
Senators are. not required to go to
committee hearings, and Chambers has
always been a very active member of
the committee. But not anymore.
“It’s a waste of time,” he said. “This
is a matter of making wise use of my
time.”
Chambers said the committee was
quickly advancing bills based strictly on
pressure from other senators or spe
cial interest groups, not because they
were good bills.
He mentioned the conceded weap
ons and partial-birth abortion bills as
examples. He said no matter what he
did in committee to try to stop the bills,
they would be advanced to the floor.
He said his reason for his absence
was not that he thought he would be
outvoted on bills he opposed.
“(The bills) are going to come out
anyway,” he said. “If merely being out
voted would cause me not to partici
pate, I would not come to the daily
sessions of the Legislature.”
Although he agreed the purpose of
government was to represent wishes of
its constituents, he said senatorsheeded
Please see CHAMBERS on 6
Football stars play for hearts
By Amy Keller
Staff Reporter
With a unanimous standing ova-';
tion, basketball fans rose to their feet
Tuesday night.
They weren’t clapping for a
great play or a favorite player —
they were clapping for a boy who
stood in the center of the basketball
court.
“Let’s give a hand to all those
who helped Marty get his heart
transplant,” heart surgeon Deepak
Gangahar said,
It was a timeout in the Hoops
for Heart basketball game, a ben
efit for the American Heart Asso
ciation. The senior Nebraska foot
ball players took on football legends
in the basketball game at Lincoln
Southeast High School.
^ Although the football legends
beat the Husker seniors 77-74, the
score of the game didn’t matter as
much as community-player interac-,
tion, Event Director Tina Schneider
said.
“It was originally designed as an
event to give back to the Commu
nity,” Schneider said.
Because of that, players made
sure to include the fans in the game.
Each time a player was awarded
free throw, he chose a fan, usually a
child, to shoot.
Hoops for Hearts was started
seven years ago as the brainchild of
Joel Geyer, a member of the Board
of Directors of the American Heart
Association. Since then, about
$25,000 has been raised each year
to benefit AHA.
Schneider said she expected
about the same amount this year.
Though the game’s cause was
serious, the atmosphere was one of
humor and excitement as fans got a
chance to see their favorite football
stars try to play basketball.
Turner Gill, who played on the
legends team, has been playing in
the benefit games for five years to
help raise money for a great cause.
ABOVE: DAMON DENNfNG signs
autographs at halftimo for fans.
RIGHT: ADAM TREU and Frank
Solicit laugh after colliding during
the game.
“We care about the American
Heart Association and we care
about people,” he said. “It’s a two
way deal. We’re helping the Ameri
can Heart Association and we’re
helping ourselves by getting to
gether with some other players we
haven’t seen for a long time.”
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ASUN candidates debate admission requirements
All agree extra-curricular
activities and academics
enhance success.
By Kasey Kerber
Staff Reporter
Education was the key issue of Wednesday’s
ASUN debate between candidates of the KEG
and ADVANCE parties.
The debate, sponsored by Golden Key, Mor
tar Board, the Innocents Society and Political
Science Honorary, featured education-based
questions for the two senate candidates of each
party, as well as presidential candidates.
One such question addressed whether higher
admission requirements were necessary.
Scott Brauer, KEG presidential candidate,
said higher requirements in areas such as math
ematics and English would be beneficial,
“By raising the standards in college, we’ll
raise the standards in high schools as well,”
Brauer said. “It’s a win-win situation.”
But Curt Ruwe, presidential candidate for
ADVANCE, said raising standards at UNL
would hurt the state’s commitment to ordinary
students seeking a college education.
“In trying to get high-level students, we
shouldn’t exclude our service to the state of
Nebraska by recruiting normal students,” Ruwe
said. “Every student should have a chance to
get an education.”
They also agreed that academics and extra-,
curricular activities were both equally essential
for a student’s development and chances of suc
cess in the real world.
Oscar Baeza, KEG senatorial candidate for
the College of Arts and Sciences, said academ
ics and extra-curricular activities complemented
one another. _
“In order to work now and in the future, it
will require both,” Baeza said.
Viet Hoang, ADVANCE senatorial candidate
for the College of Business Administration, agreed.
“Numerous studies have shown that those
who participate do better,” Hoang said.
Baeza said academic and involvement is
valuable for more than getting a job.
“If you look at the ideologies and streams of
thought out there, you realize that in the real
world we’ll need both,” Baeza said.
ih Hoang responded by saying, “Diversity is a
big issue It’s been said thatdteHM&rld is a smaller
place.” .
When KEG and ADVANCE presidential can
didates were asked which would take priority
— a scheduled test or Board of Regents meet
ing — their replies differed.
“Regents can reschedule their meeting,”
Brauer said. “I put academics ahead of extra
curricular activities in this circumstance.”
Ruwe said he would go to the Board of Re
gents meeting.
“I’d talk to my professor and hope that they
were understanding,” Ruwe said.
Today’s debate at the Nebraska East Union
has been canceled because all six candidates have
class at the scheduled debate time.
The next ASUN debate is March 10 at 12:30
p.m. in the Nebraska Union Crib. It is the last de
bate before ASUN election day March 12.
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