Two parties aim
for ASUN power
By Veronica Daehn
Staffwriter
Next spring’s ASUN election will
see two parties vie for control of the
University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s stu
dent government, unless more parties
sign up by the Jan. 26 deadline.
So far, Impact and Empower are
the only recognized election parties.
There is no limit on the number of
parties that can form, said Marlene
Beyke, Association of Students of the
University of Nebraska director of
development.
The filing deadline for all candi
dates isTeb. 2 at 4 p.m.
But existing parties have already
begun work on their campaigns.
Impact presidential candidate.
John D. Conley said his running mates
will help the party represent all stu
dents.
Brad Bangs, a member of Phi
Kappa Psi Fraternity, is the first vice
presidential candidate, and Laticia
Martinez, an off-campus commuter
student, is running for second vice
president
With Conley living in Harper
Residence Hall, he said all three exec-,
utive candidates will bring different
ideas to the table.
Empower presidential candidate
Heath Mello said he is planning for
the work that will take place next
semester.
Mello said he does not yet know
who his running mates will be
because he is waiting to hear back
from several people, but that he has
initial platform ideas of his own.
Mello said his goal is to provide
opportunities for more students to get
involved.
„ He said the hard work and dedica-"
tion he’s shown so far in ASUN prove
he has the passion and ability to lead
the student body.
“I have die vision and the drive to
get things done,” Mello said. “I want
to make the average student feel they
can come in, and make them feel like
they have a part in what we’re doing.”
Conley said his party’s platform is
still in the works but that he wants to
address issues with a different per
spective than the “regular status quo.”
“We think we can change things
because we have an outsider’s per
spective,” Conley said. “Some people
call it lack of experience, but we feel
that will be an asset. We will be able to
look at and make changes that before
no one wanted to make.”
Bangs and Martinez have never
been involved with ASUN, Conley
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We think we can
change things because
we have an outsiders
perspective”
John D. Conley
ASUN Presidential candidate
said.
Conley serves on the sexual orien
tation advisory council and helped
with last year’s elections.
Mello is an ASUN senator for the
College of Arts and Sciences this year.
_He has been involved since his
freshman year with Student Impact
Team, Publications Board, the College
of Arts and Sciences Advisory Board,
and he was ASUN recording secre
tary.
Mello said experience is good, but
he’ll surround himself with people
who “want to shake it up.”
“I have some ideas and solutions,”
Mello said. “But not all by any means.
Call me a moderate liberal, but I want
to turn Aours upside down.
Mello said he wants to change die
minds of students about what ASUN
does. He wants to change the senate
composition and the makeup of the
committees.
“We’re here to make undergradu
ate and graduate education better,”
Mello said. “We need to be doing it.”
Conley said his party is trying to
find solutions to long-term problems,
not just ones that will appease the cur
rent student body.
The Impact party is holding an
informational meeting Sunday from
3:30 to 5 p.m. in die Nebraska Union.
Conley said the meeting will be
more about the election process and
candidates’ roles than about his party.
“We’re holding the election
process higher than die parties at this
time,” he said.
Anyone interested can attend.
Conley said the Impact party
wants to mobilize students more and
get them to share their opinions.
Part of getting students involved is
educating them, Conley said, and that
is part of a party’s responsibility.
Mello said he wants to educate
students as much as possible and give
them a say in ASUN.
“It should be that we’re all coming
together,” he said. “We’ll fight for
what you want. That’s where our
vision is.”
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Hagel rejects Clinton’s remarks
By JoshKnaub
Staff writer
Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel
on Wednesday again condemned
President Clinton’s handling of last
week’s World Trade Organization
talks in Seattle.
In a written statement, the sec
ond he has issued on the subject,
Hagel called Clinton’s remarks to
WTO delegates “ridiculous” and
“dangerous.”
The WTO is the only interna
tional organization dealing with the
global rules of trade between
nations. Its main goal is to ensure
that trade flows as smoothly, pre
dictably and freely as possible.
Hagel said Clinton used the
WTO conference to introduce new
trade barriers instead of finding
ways to promote free trade.
“jOur government should be
working to ... increase access to
foreign markets,” Hagel said in the
statement. “Instead, to please labor
unions and a bunch of protesters -
and to serve A1 Gore’s presidential
ambitions - President Clinton went
to Seattle and issued an ultimatum.”
During a press conference
Wednesday, the president rejected
the suggestion that his insistence on
inclusion of worker rights in future
trade negotiations was done to win
the backing of labor unions for
Gore’s presidential campaign.
Clinton’s opening speech to
WTO delegates included appeals to
the delegates to pay attention to
labor standards and environmental
issues. Clinton told WTO delegates
he wanted them to take action to
improve working conditions, espe
cially for children.
“I believe the WTO should
work more closely with the
International Labor Organization,
which has worked hard to protect
human rights, to ban child labor,”
Clinton said in his speech.
Hagel agreed with Clinton that
improving human rights was
important.
But he said Clinton used the
issues as obstacles to the easing of
trade restrictions.
Hagel said past efforts to
improve trade had improved living
conditions around the world during
the past 50 years.
“Labor standards are important.
But there is a global organization to
deal with world labor issues,”
Hagel said, referring to the
International Labor Organization.
During Clinton’s speech to the
WTO, several delegates from
developing nations removed their
headsets, used to translate Clinton’s
words, in protest.
The delegates saw efforts by the
United States and other developed
nations to enforce labor standards
as thinly disguised moves to give
the developed nations an unfair
advantage in trade.
Clinton tried to appease the del
egates in his remarks.
He said he realized some people
in wealthy countries might try to
use labor standards to oppose free
trade. But he said delegates should
work to write labor standards in a
way that could not be used against
poorer nations.
Hagel said he thought the WTO
needed to be improved. But he said
the organization was limited in
scope.
“The WTO should not be seri
ously threatened by overloading it
with irresponsible demands and
issues it was never intended to deal
with,” Hagel said.
“If we allow this to happen, the
world will pay a very high price in
global instability - and in lost hope
for opportunity and a higher stan
dard of living for all peoples.”
The Associated Press con
tributed to this report.
Bioethics advisory group
to be formed at university
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Commission formed by President
Clinton in 1995. It also has 18 mem
bers.
The national commission testi
fied before Clinton and Congress
against using in vitro fertilization to
create extra eggs that scientists could
extract stem cells from.
However, die commission report
ed that research on tissue that is a
result of deliberate abortions should
continue to be eligible for federal
funding.
The national commission also
recommended that embryos remain
ing after infertility treatments should
be eligible for federal funding.
Smith said he wanted the com
mission to make recommendations
in a number of research areas while
being flexible enough to allow public
debate.
He named no committee mem
bers but said he intended to begin
naming them after the first of the
year.
a
I view it as a very
responsible,
balanced response
to the public’s call.’’
Gail Latta
UNL Academic Senate president
Latta said she would be inquiring
about the role faculty would have
choosing members.
Smith said members of UNMC
were consulted about the idea of a
commission and supported it.
Forming a commission with
expertise from a number of areas will
improve public discussion of the
research issues at hand, he said.
“It’s important to get input from a
variety of sources,” Smith said.
“Then we can establish guidelines
we are all happy with.”
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