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Hoppner addresses effective state representation By Todd Anderson Assignment Reporter Effective government relies on lawmakers’ ability to set the budget, a gubernatorial hopeful told University of Nebraska-Lincoln Young Democrats at their meeting Wednesday. Bill Hoppner, candidate for the Democratic nomination for gover nor, criticized Republicans support ing business leaders who said the Legislature was ineffective. “Are we going to discuss and debate in the Legislature with 49 rep resentatives from across the state ... or in a closed room with 49 business people?” Hoppner said, referring to the 49-member Business Summit. The group of Nebraska business leaders criticized the Legislature for not curbing spending. It also pro posed a constitutional amendment to cap yearly budgets. Hoppner criticized Republican gubernatorial candidates for sup porting business leaders, saying the summit does not reflect Nebraska’s interests. “We need to be able to see from the perspective of 1.7 million people in this state,” he said. “And I think that’s at risk.” Capping the budget would “take the Legislature out of the ball game of providing property tax relief,” since increased state spending is used to pick up the slack, Hoppner said. Tax relief is only one side of the issue, he said. “I come from a business back ground, so responsible spending is important,” Hoppner said. “But that’s not the end of the discussion. “Is the government effective?” Hoppner also spoke about retraining low-skilled workers as well as preparing students for sectors of the labor market facing a labor shortage. “This is the most fundamental current problem,” he said, “if we’re going to continue the economic growth achieved in the last decade.” Concern over paper waste opens debate By Jessica Fargen Assignment Reporter For the second week in a row, UNL students spoke into the micro phone in front of ASUN senators. Two necessities at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln - paper and computers - had students speaking their minds, as they did March 11 when students gathered to show sup port for keeping Bill McLaughlin, an adjunct chemistry instructor, at UNL. Students who grabbed flyers from Association of Students of the University of Nebraska candidates last week may not have been think ing about the trees killed to make them, one testifier said. Graham Johnson, a member of the environmental issues subcom mittee, said he was concerned about the waste of paper in the election. Johnson, a UNL graduate stu dent, congratulated ASUN on a suc cessful campaign, but said the way they conducted it was “strangely hypocritical.” “To create an (environmental issues) committee but then to go and produce numerous amounts of copy - that really didn’t say too much about those running,” he said. Graham suggested prohibiting candidates from passing around 8.5 by-11-inch flyers. Instead, he sug gested candidates “spend time draw ing colorful, beautiful banners” that could be displayed in the Nebraska Union and other buildings. Graham said using banners instead of flyers would increase voter turnout because students “would not just see letters on paper.” ASUN also heard comments about computer labs. Saad Alavi, Union Board presi dent, asked senators for informal support to add several computer pro grams to the 24-hour computer labs because the Coe Lab at the College of Business Administration was too crowded and not open late enough. But Paul Schreier, chairman of the Technology Fees Advisory Board, said if ASUN showed support for the university providing depart mental software for CBA, other col leges could follow suit. “If we say ‘OK you can have this’ then any other department would have the right, too,” Schreier said. Alavi said three software pro grams he wants installed in union computers also could be used by computer science and computer engineering students, so it would benefit several groups of students. 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