CFA votes on aerobic fees,
involvement center hours
Nebraska Unions budget increase request denied
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By Kim Sweet
Staff writer
The Committee for Fees
Allocation budget votes Tuesday
night resulted in the possibility of
cheaper aerobics classes for stu
dents, but put the extended hours of
Student Involvement resource cen
ter in jeopardy.
While granting the use of stu
dent fees to fund the Campus
Recreation Center’s entire budget
request, CFA voted to cut the
increase requested by Nebraska
Unions.
The committee also voted to
accept the budget of the University
Health Center, which requested no
increase for the 1999-2000 fiscal
year.
Starting off the night with the
Union vote, the committee accepted
all but $7,637 of the budget increase
the Nebraska Unions requested.
Requesting that amount specifi
cally to extend the hours of Student
Involvement, Nebraska Unions
Director Daryl Swanson said the
extra hours were necessary to best
serve student organizations.
Currently, the center is open
until 7 p.m.
Swanson said offering more
hours and being more accessible to
student organizations was his and
other administrators’ vision when
they began considering expanding
the space of Student Involvement.
“One of the reasons we wanted
to expand that space was because we
wanted to offer more resources to
student organizations,” Swanson
said.
“A logical extension of that is to
offer a resource center and offer
extended hours.”
The CFA Unions Subcommittee
put forth a report saying they felt
Student Involvement could fill the
extended hours, from 5 p:m. to
9p.m. with already existing staff.
The report encouraged Student
Involvement to reconsider the deci
sion to stay open until 9 p.m., stating
that students who needed to use the
center could do so by 7 p.m.
CFA member Jason Boykin said
he agreed with the report.
“I feel that the funds allocated at
this time are adequate to fund the
center, whether it be from 9 to 7 or 9
to 9,” he said. “If the need arises, I
don’t have a problem with that.”
Swanson said the budget pre
sented to last year’s CFA also
requested money to fund extended
hours.
After the committee denied the
request, Swanson took money from
other places in the budget to fund
the extended hours.
While the center may not be
booming with activity during the
night time hours yet, Swanson said
students need time to discover the
expanded location.
“You may have walked by and
not saw a lot of activity yet,”
Swanson said. “But students are still
finding us. You have to give us a
chance to let this work.”
After the committee voted 7-4
for granting all but the money to
fund the extended hours and a per
son to maintain the Web page,
Swanson said he will have to look at
the big picture before deciding the
fate of the extended hours.
Swanson also said the effective
ness of the extended hours would
have to be monitored.
“I think we’ve got to test it this
semester,” he said.
CFA approved an increase of
funds to the recreation center to pay
for a proposed marketing position
and a decrease in the price of aero
bics classes.
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Ifeel that the funds
allocated at this time
are adequate to fund
the (Student
Involvement
Resource) center...”
Jason Boykin
CFA member
...
The committee also approved
the Campus Recreation repair and
improvements budget, which
'increased $46,301.
Boykin presented the Campus
Recreation subcommittee report,
saying they recommended the
increases in part because the
decrease in price of aerobics classes
would lower the cost in comparison
with other Big 12 schools.
Currently, the cost of classes at
UNL is the highest of all Big 12
schools.
The subcommittee reported that
decreasing the prices would encour
age the participation of more
women, who are underrepresented
in proportion to their presence on
campus, the report stated.
The increase will also fund a
new marketing position.
Stan Campbell, director of
Campus Recreation, said the
increases to the repair and improve
ments budget may result in the con
version of a racquetball court into a
squash court, televisions for the
East Campus recreation center and,
in the future, repairs to tennis courts
and playing fields.
The next CFA meeting will take
place Tuesday at 5:30 p.m.
Speaker addresses education
Professor speaks on evolution of minority issues
By Veronica Daehn
Staff writer
With the changing face of the
United States, the education of
minorities cannot be ignored, a
prominent black educator said
Tuesday.
M. Christopher Brown, an assis
tant professor of higher education at
the University of Illinois at Urbana
Champaign, gave a lecture at
Andrews Hall titled “The Walking
Wounded: African Americans and
the Assault on Equal Educational
Opportunities.”
Geared toward black students
and faculty members, Brown’s
speech centered on issues minori
ties face. The educational system is
one area that needs to be empha
sized, he said.
Brown, who was brought to
UNL as part of Black History
Month by multicultural affairs edu
cational specialist Benita Douglas,
is known for his study of blacks in
higher education.
Brown said the Latino and
Asian-American population are
growing faster than any other racial
groups, and that government lead
ers have not considered these
minorities as part of the market
economy.
“We need to utilize underrepre
sented people and merge them into
mainstream society,” he said. “If we
would do that, we could keep Social
Security.”
Brown, who is author or editor
of three books dealing with black
issues, said members of today’s edu
cational system need to focus on
bridging the gap between the way
minorities used to be treated and the
way they should be treated now.
He said it was important not to
fall into a comfort zone.
“The gap between the haves and
the have-nots continues to widen,”
Brown said.
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Former medical chief
preaches prevention
By Josh Nichols
Staff writer
Instead of trying to fix health
problems, the United States should
prevent them from happening in the
first place a former U.S. Surgeon
General said Tuesday.
The controversial former med
ical chief of the nation, Dr. Jocelyn
Elders, spoke at the Holiday Inn
Central in Omaha at a University of
Nebraska at Omaha Academy,
Business and Community Breakfast.
Her speech, sponsored by UNO’s
College of Continuing Studies, was
titled “Wellness apd Health Care:
Can they Coexist in the 21st
Century?”
Elders said children in the
United States needed to.be better
educated on healthy eating habits,
sexual issues and the hazards of
smoking and drinking.
“We need to teach children more
than reading, writing and arith
metic,” she said. “We need to teach
them how to be healthy.”
Elders said to prevent sexual
abuse, teenage pregnancy and the
spread of STDs, schools needed to
begin sex education at a younger
age.
“There should be a comprehen
sive sex education program begin
ning in kindergarten,” she said. “We
need to teach kindergartners there
are certain parts of their body that
should not be touched.”
Students in junior high and high
school also need to be educated in
sexual matters, she said.
“I’m not about abortion,” she
said. “I’m about preventing unwant
ed pregnancies.”
In an interview with the Daily
Nebraskan, Elders said problems
with abusive drinking and sex are
particularly relevant for college stu
dents.
She said because students are
away from home for the first time,
they want to “cut loose” and “get
crazy.” ^
“Colleges really need to provide
two years of guidance and support to
the beginning students,” she said.
She said this support would
make it easier for students to suc
ceed in college and cut down on
dropouts.
Elders also said improvements
needed to be made in health care in
the United States so that everyone
could benefit from it, including
those who can’t afford insurance.
“Lawyers feel every criminal
has the right to a lawyer. Why can’t
every person have a right to health
care?”
She also said steps needed to be
taken toward preventing diseases,
rather than just curing them after
they set in.
To do this, she said, the country
needs to produce more doctors to
take care of people when they are
healthy, instead of producing more
specialists to take care of people
when they are sick.
Elders also said parents needed
to understand the importance of get
ting their children the necessary
immunizations when they are
young.
“We have to find a way to pro
vide not just sick care,” she said, “but
health care for all of our citizens.
“Our nation doesn’t know how to
take care of you when you’re well,
but when you get sick, they’ll fix it.”
Elders, now retired, travels the
country speaking about her views on
health care and has written many
articles for medical research publi
cations.
Nichelle Horton, a fourth-year
medical student at the University of
Nebraska Medical Center, attended
the speech and was one of many peo
ple getting her picture taken with
Elders after the breakfast.
Horton said she was inspired by
Elders and agreed that education
was important to the prevention of
many health problems in the United
States.
Man arrested for possession
A narcotics unit comprising the
Lincoln Police, the Lancaster
County Sheriff’s Office, the
Nebraska State Patrol and the
Federal Bureau of Investigation
arrested a Geneva man Monday
afternoon.
Lincoln Police Capt. Duaine
Bullock said the 45-year-old man
was arrested near 48™ and O streets
for possession of a controlled sub
stance with intent to deliver. Law
enforcement officials seized 750
grams of suspected methampheta
mine and $ 1,500, he said.
Bullock said citizens tipped
authorities that someone was hying
to send the suspected methampheta
mine through a package store.
Cops nab possible carjackers
Police are still investigating a
Monday afternoon pursuit that may
be related to a Saturday caijacking.
Sgt. Todd Beam said police
arrested a 19-year-old man for reck
less driving, possession of a con
trolled substance, driving on a sus
pended license, fleeing to avoid
arrest, resisting arrest and an out
standing warrant for driving on a
suspended license. The controlled
substance, Beam said, was two rocks
of suspected crack cocaine weigh
ingl4.8 grams total.
Authorities also arrested a 15
year-old Lincoln girl for a parole
violation, he said.
The arrests followed a two
minute police pursuit Monday after
noon that began near 35^ Street and
Cornhusker Highway, and ended
near 47l“ Street and Baldwin
Avenue. The suspects fled police in a
car that was taken in a carjacking
Saturday night.
Tuesday morning, Beam said
police were still investigating and
could not say those arrested were
responsible for the carjacking.
“We’ve caught something, and
we know it is something,” he said.
“We’re not sure what.”
Building site burglarized
A construction burglary some
time between noon Saturday and 7
a.m. Monday resulted in a $2,093
loss.
Beam said the burglar or bur
glars entered an apartment building
under construction in the 29100
block of Fletcher Avenue, pried open
a wooden door and took construc
tion tools belonging to Oak Creek
Inc. of Crete.
Thieves take 24 cases of beer
Booze bandits stole 24 cases of
beer Monday afternoon, Lincoln
police said. ^
Beam said a truck was being
unloaded at a distributor in the 5800
block of N. 70th Street when thieves
stole 24 cases of Busch and
Budweiser valued at $299.
According to police reports, the
theft occurred between 1:10 p.m,
and 1:20 p.m.
Compiled by staff writer
Shane Anthony