Bill passed to change
ASUN naming system
By Veronica Daehn
Staff writer
ASUN senators took a break
halfway through their meeting
Wednesday night before passing a bill
that changed one of their bylaws.
After recessing to participate in the
Take Back the Night Candlelight
March and Vigil, senators voted to
change the name of eight Association
of Students of the University of
Nebraska subcommittees.
They will now be called advisory
councils because the word “subcom
mittee” does not correctly reflect the
role those groups play, the bilUaid.
“The subcommittees were intend
ed to advise senators about the appro
priate action to take,” said Heath
Mello, College of Arts and Sciences
senator. “The name advisory council is
more appropriate.”
Some of the ASUN subcommit
tees that will now be called advisory
councils are the Students with
Disabilities Subcommittee, the
International Students Subcommittee,
the Women’s Issues Subcommittee and
the Sexual Orientation Subcommittee.
Mello said he hopes students
involved with the advisory councils
will now feel more involved with stu
dent government.
“The word ‘subcommittee’ made it
sound like a hierarchy where the sub
committee was the lowest you could
get,” he said.
This bill goes along with another
bill that would create a presidential
advisory council, Mello said.
The senate will review that bill at
the next meeting.
Both bills are designed to get stu
dents more involved.
“We’re creating more of a circular
type government,” Mello said.
Before passing the bill, senators
recessed to attend the Take Back the
Night rally on the back steps of the
Nebraska Union.
ASUN co-sponsored the rally
along with the UNL Women’s Center,
Women’s Studies Association and sev
eral other Lincoln organizations.
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Panel additions made
to include more diversity
By Kimberly Sweet
Senior staff writer
Two professors will join a 21 -mem
ber panel already formed that will set
criteria to judge academic programs at
the University of Nebraska.
The two additional appointments
were made after NU President Dennis
Smith received feedback about the lack
of ethnic diversity on the committee.
Thomas Calhoun, associate profes
sor of sociology at the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln and Jorge
Rodriguez-Sierra, professor of cell
biology and anatomy at the University
of Nebraska Medical Center, were
appointed to the panel this week by
Smith.
The panel was formed in
September after the NU Board of
Regents decided to move forward with
a process of academic prioritization.
Made up of faculty, administrators,
students and members of the public, the
panel will meet to determine what crite
ria should be used to judge programs at
the four campuses in the NU system.
University of Nebraska Executive
Vice President and Provost Lee B.
Jones is the chairman of the committee.
After being chosen to make the
committee more diverse, Calhoun, who
is black, said it was important that a
variety of voices were heard.
“It’s important that minorities be
represented to provide a different per
spective as we begin to evaluate pro
grams,” he said. “I think more diverse
opinions included in any interaction
better the outcome.”
Rodriguez-Sierra said that as a
member of the panel, he would repre
sent the interests of faculty first.
“I don’t claim to represent all the
Hispanics at the university,” he said. “I
represent myself as a faculty member.”
Both appointees said the job as a
panel member would be a difficult one.
Trying to please all the groups that
have a stake in the process won’t be
easy, Rodriguez-Sierra said.
“Resources are not limitless,” he
said. “No one likes to be told that.”
Calhoun said one of the biggest
challenges he would try to get the panel
to overcome was looking over smaller
programs that have a potential to be of
strength nationally.
“It’s important that programs that
may not be as visible be given equal
chance to gain national and internation
al prominence,” Calhoun said.
Smith, who appointed the first set
of panel members, said the goal of pri
oritization was not to eliminate pro
grams.
“It is possible that, as a result of this
process, some academic programs will
be discontinued over time, but that is
not the primary goal of this endeavor,”
Smith said in a statement.
The task force will meet for the first
time Oct. 29.
At that time panel members will get
a clearer picture of the task before
them, Rodriguez-Sierra said.
“I think we need to look at what is
put in front of us,” he said. “We have to
know what the agenda is.”
Police: Teens arrested for vandalism
By Jake Bleed
Senior staff writer
Police arrested two 14-year-old
boys Wednesday on suspicion of break
ing into Mickle Middle School and
smearing paint across several offices
and classrooms, police said.
Capt. Doug Srb said the teen-agers
spread paint “literally from one end of
the school to the other” and caused
$5,000 to $ 10,000 worth of damage.
Both teen-agers, who are students at
the middle school, were arrested
Wednesday morning. Police are look
ing for a third teen-ager believed to be
involved in the break-in.
The teen-agers were spotted by a
Lincoln police officer as they returned
from breaking into the school, Srb said.
The break-in had not been reported but
the officer still stopped the teen-agers
and got their names and addresses.
The same officer, Clint Solano, later
responded to the reported break-in at
Mickle Middle School, 2500N. 67th St.,
around 6 a.m. and was able to link the
teen-agers to the break-in, Srb said.
Mickle Principal Dick Spearman
said the teen-agers entered the school by
breaking the glass out of a door near the
school’s gymnasium.
The teen-agers broke into an art
class room, took several jars ofTempera
paint, then broke into Spearman’s office
and Assistant Principal Stan Knapp’s
office.
Spearman’s computer keyboard and
monitor, stereo, television and desk
were covered in black and blue paint.
Paint was also splattered across office
walls and on an oil painting inside
Spearman’s office.
Knapp’s office was also vandalized.
The teen-agers used the paint to write
insults on the walls of the office.
The school’s drama classroom was
also vandalized with paint, Spearman
said, and about 40 books were thrown
around the school’s library.
Srb said a violin was also painted in
the crime.
The teen-agers used tools taken
from a maintenance closet to break the
glass in office doors and enter the
offices, Srb said.
The teens were arrested for burglary
and criminal mischief, Srb said.
According to state law, anyone who
commits a crime after breaking into a
building can be charged with burglary
even if they did not actually take any
property.
Srb said the extent of the damage
caused by the attack meant that the inci
dent was more than a simple prank.
“I’d say this is a serious situation; it
isn’t just a prank,” Srb said. “What starts
out to be maybe a prank turns into
something that is quite expensive and is
devastating to the school.”
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