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Association of Students of the University of Nebraska
Article V. Branches
I Presently:
■ The legislative, executive and judicial branches of the Association shall
■ be as follows:
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■ Section !: The Student Senate, hereinafter referred to as the Senate.
A. Composition. The Senate shall consist of thirty-five (35) elected
■ members with voting privileges, and the President, First Vice President,
and Second Vice President, who shall serve without voting privileges
I except as hereinafter noted. No Senate member is eligible for an
executive or judicial position except as herein after noted.
1. Elected members. The elected member shall be chosen by direct
| apportianment from the colleges of the University of Nebraska in
■ accordance with Article VI below.
I B. Eligibility
1. Elected members. To be eligible for election to the Senate, a candidate
must: *
a. Be a regularly enrolled member of the college he proposes
to represent and agree in writing to resign if he should
terminate his enrollment in that college during the term of
office for which he seeks election.
Article VI. Elections
Section 1. The Electoral Commission.
■ E. Powers. The Electoral Commission shall have power to:
I 3. Reapportionment.. The Electoral Commission shall reapportion by
direct apportionment the representation of the Student Senate among the
several colleges of the university according to the enrollment of the first
I semester. The apportionment shall be completed and the results
■ publicized by the first day of November.
I Change to:
Section 1. The Student Senate, hereinafter referred to as the Senate.
A. Composition. The Senate shall consist of forty (40) elected members
with voting privileges, and the President, First Vice President, and
Second Vice President, who shall serve without voting privileges
I except as hereinafter noted. No Senate member is eligible for an
■ executive or judicial position except as herein after noted.
1. Elected members. Twenty-five (25) of the elected members shall be
chosen by direct apportionment from the colleges/division of the
■ University of Nebraska in accordance with Article VI below. Ten (10)
of the .elected members shall be chosen by direct apportionment from
the living unit of the University of Nebraska in accordance with Article
VI below. Five (5) of the elected members shall be chosen for at-large
seats.
■ B. Eligibility
1. Elected members. To be eligible for election to the Senate, a
I candidate must:
a. Be a regularly enrolled member of the college/division he
proposes to represent or be living in the type of living unit he
proposes to represent and agree in writing to resign if he should
terminate his enrollment in that college or change type of living
unit during the term of office for which he seeks election.
Article VI. Elections
I Section 1. The Electoral Commission.
- E. Powers. The Electoral Commission shall have power to:
3. Reapportionment. The Electoral Commission shall reapportion by
I direct apportionment the representation of the Student Senate among
the several colleges/division of the university according to enrollment
of the first semester and among the living units of the university
- according to the population of the first semester. The apportionment
shall be completed and the results publicized by the first day of
November.
A vote yes: A yes vote on this amendment will:
a. Increase the size of the body of elected Senators from 35 to 40; and,
b. Change the districts from which Senators are elected such that:
i. Senators will no longer represent only large academic
units (colleges and divisions); but,
ii. Under the new system
-25 seats will be apportioned, as now, among the academic
units;
-10 seats will be apportioned among three identified
“types of living units” (Residence Halls, Greek Houses,
and off campus dwellings); and
-5 seats will be held by persons elected from the student
body at large
A vote no: If the No votes prevail, the current size of the body of
elected Senators will remain constant and Senators will hold seats
■ apportioned only among their respective academic units, Colleges and
Divisions. The seat apportionment will continue to be based on the
■ relative size of each academic unit to be represented.
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ASUN
Constitutional Amendments
Division of Continuing Studies
The legislative, executive and judicial branches of the Association shall
be as follows:
Section 1. The Student Senate, hereinafter referred to as the Senate.
B. Eligibility.
1. Elected members. To be eligible for election to the Senate,
a candidate must:
Presently:
c. The senator from the Division of Continuing Studies must be enrolled
with at least three (3) credit hours.
Change to:
Delete this section.
A vote yes: for this amendment would set at twelve (12) hours the
enrollment criterion for a candidate for a Senate seat designated to
represent the Division of Continuing Studies. Passage of this
amendment would make the enrollment-hour criterion consistent for
candidates from all districts.
A vote no: If the No votes prevail, the Constitution will continue to
allow a person enrolled in only three hours (and who meets the other
criteria) to run for a seat designated to represent the Division of
Continuing Studies.
Powers of the Association
Subsection B. First Vice President
Presently:
#5. To remove, by decree, any member of the senate upon three (3)
unexcused absences. These three absences may be accumulated in the
form of missed regular meetings, special meetings, or orientation and
training sessions.
Change to:
To recommend the removal of any member of the Senate upon three (3)
unexcused absences. These three absences may be accumulated in the
form of missed regular meetings, special meetings, or orientation and
training sessions.
Presently:
#6. To remove, by decree, any member of the Senate for consistent
absences from committee meetings, when such absences are to the
detriment of the Association.
Change to:
To recommend the removal of any member of the senate for consistent
absences from committee meetings, when such absences are to the
detriment of the Association.
A vote yes: Would take from the First Vice President the authority to
remove Senators who miss 3 or more meetings. Instead, the Vice
President will have the power to recommend the removal of such
Senators.
A vote no: If the No votes prevail, the constitutional provision will
remain in place whereby the First Vice President may remove the
Senator who, unexcused, misses three meetings.
STUDENT FEE FUND B SURVEY
ASUN is surveying student opinion on the Fund B portion of student
fees. This is strictly a survey which will enable ASUN representatives
to further realize student sentiment on student fees. DISTRIBUTION
of student fees collected from each full-time student per semester for
the fiscal year 1998-1999.
FACILITY FEE.$38.00
UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTER.$92.12
NEBRASKA UNIONS.$44.75
CAMPUS REC. PROG.&FACILmES...$54.86
1) YES NO Do you approve of $38.00 of your student fees being
collected to support the Facility Fee for the financing the Nebraska
Union, East Union and Health Center?
2) YES NO Do you approve of $92.12 of your student fees being
collected to support the operation of the University Health Center?
3) YES NO Do you support $44.75 of your student fees being collected
to support the Nebraska Unions?
4) YES NO Do you support $54.85 of your student fees being collected
to support Campus Recreation Programs and Facilities?
ALL HIND A FEES ARE REFUNDABLE UPON
REQUEST
FUND A Student Fee Allocation Question
Refundable upon request.
ASUN must conduct a student referendum on the following fee agencies.
This question is conducted in compliance with Regental Policy. Any
agency voted down on this referendum will NOT be funded for those
specific lines of their budget. X
Distribution of Student Fees collected from each full-time student per
semester for the fiscal year 1998 includes:
Daily Nebraskan.$ 1.10
University Program Council Speakers Program.... $0.60
Do you approve the allocation of a part of student fees collected to
support the Daily Nebraskan during the 1999-00 fiscal year?
YES NO
Do you approve the allocation of a part of student fees collected to
support campus speakers programs during the 1999-00 fiscal year?
yes no r
This question is conducted in compliance with Regental Policy of
Fund A Student Fees approved September 6,1991.
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Birth control bill still alive
A bill that would make insurance
companies cover birth control pre
scriptions has been resurrected in the
Legislature.
Omaha Sen. Ernie Chambers
motioned Thursday to pull the bill
out of committee.
LB845 was killed 7-0 last week
by the Banking, Commerce and
Insurance Committee. The full
Legislature will discuss this week
whether or not to bring the bill to the
I floor. If 30 senators vote to bring the
| bill to the floor, the bill will be debat
ed.
Chambers motioned to pull the
bill out of committee because he was
enraged by the all-male committee’s
vote on LB845, which was supported
solely by women.
■‘His objection was that he felt
that it was a slap in the face of every
woman, because of the lack of dis
cussion and thought that went into
killing this bill,” Sen. Deb Suttle, of ^
Omaha, said.
The committee discussed the bill v
for about 10 to 15 minutes, she said.
Suttle said she thought the bill’s
failure was due in part to a lack of
understanding by the all-male com
mittee. Men may not understand the
burden of paying out of pocket for
birth control prescriptions.
“It’s just not on their radar
screen,” she said.
Lincoln Sen. David Landis, who
is chairman of the Banking,
Commerce and Insurance
Committee, said he voted to kill the
bill because he was against mandates
in general.
New Year’s sparks may fly
Nebraskans may not have to go
across the border to pick up fire
works to celebrate the turn of the cen
tury thanks to a bill advanced by the
Judiciary Committee last week.
Twenty-six senators have signed onto
the bill.
Gering Sen. Adrian Smith said he
sponsored LB621 to give people the
option of setting off fireworks to ring
in the new year. At the same time,
Nebraska tax dollars will be kept in ,
the state.
Under the bill, which still has
three rounds of debate to go, fire
works could be sold within the state
lines between Dec. 28,1999 and Jan.
1,2000.
Money generated from the fire
works’ sales tax would be put in the
state’s Fire Insurance Tax Fund,
which is used to fund fire prevention
activities.
Fake nails debate cut short
Nail salons and technicians are
unregulated in Nebraska, and
because of that, Suttle introduced
LB68, which would, among other
things, require 600 hours of training
for nail technicians.
The bill made it through two
rounds of debate with little discus
sion before it stalled Friday in final
reading.
Chambers objected to the bill
because he thought some of the bill’s
requirements were too stringent and
consequently unfair to minorities,
especially Asians.
Asians own a large number of
nail salons in Omaha and Lincoln.
Chambers was opposed to provi
sions in the bill such as the required'
training time and the requirement of
a high school diploma or equivalency
to be a nail technician.
Suttle said she was open to
amending the bill to lower the
required training hours, and said sen
ators will have the opportunity to
vote on debating the bill again.
Legislative notebook compiled
by senior staff writer Jessica
Fargen
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