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Regents to vote on deal I PEPSI from page 1 money coming from UNK’s con __ tract will be sigaificantlyiess because of its smaller size. The uses will be similar, howev er. Along with voting to accept or reject the Pepsi contract, the Board of Regents is set to address the fol lowing issues: ■ It will hear presentations on the financial climate of the state. Because the university will be preparing for the next budget bien nium, it is important to hear about the budget requests that will be fac ing the state in the next few years, said Joseph Rowson, associate to the NU president. ■ A strategic discussion on dis tance education will also take place. The discussion is intended to educate the regents on the current state of distance education, Rowson said. The meeting begins at 8:30 a.m. at Varner Hall, 3835 Holdrege St. It is open to die public. 4 i\ ] ./ - £ i • -•■ gK* ’^‘V'-v •*’“’ ? •'..; £ ' v * * •' r\u f. , [coupon i 15%OFF : ■ Regular Priced Merchandise | I? i w i'll m ■i^2E 2r |W Lincoln' 14th & P | Omaha- 132ndLCenter ! ■ Not vaftd on Dr. Martens, Lucky, prior I purchases or other offers. j^p Distinctive Clothing, Sportswear and Shoes for Men and Women MotL-SaL 10an-8 pm, Thun. 10am - 9 pm, Sun. 12 -6 pm JLhcoln - 14<h P Omaha-132nd &. Center, Much has been accomplished so far, president says By Veronica Daehn Staff writer There’s always room for improve ment But ASUN President Andy Schuerman said the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s student govern ment group touched on all its goals this semester and accomplished more than 75 percent of them. The other 25 percent are ongoing, such as completion of the degree audit system and an examination of domes tic partner benefits for UNL employ ees, Schuerman said. ASUN will con tinue to work on those goals next semester. “I’m very happy about our ability to develop and work in an organized manner,” Schuerman said. “We were even flexible enough to add new pro grams (to our agenda).” The Association of Students of the University of Nebraska added NU on Wheels, a safe-ride home program, to its budget for next semester. Schuerman said he is most proud of that accomplishment, along with the advent of the President’s Advisory Council. “The President’s Advisory Council was a step toward involving different students in the process and bringing them into the mix,” Schuerman said. The work the Academic Committee has done with educating faculty and students about the Dead Week policy is also important, Schuerman said. Members of the Academic Committee met with department chairpeople this semester and told them what the Dead Week policy says. r -:-: if ' I’m very happy about our ability to develop and work in an organized manner.” Andy Schuerman ASUN president Schuerman said there haven’t been nearly as many complaints about violations in the policy this year as there have been in the past. “We’ve found that in the past, nearly 80 percent (of the Dead Week policy violations) were because facul ty and staff didn’t know what the poli cy was,” Schuerman said. ASUN also worked on imple menting an electronic degree audit system to help with senior checks. Some colleges are now using the electronic system to help with advis ing, but others have yet to log on. Schuerman said ASUN will con tinue to work on that next semester. College of Arts and Sciences Sen. Urrvano Gamez said the work his committee did this semester will affect a lot of students. The Special Topics Committee spent a great deal of the semester deciding if student organizations should be required to attend an orien tation in Student Involvement. The ASUN senate recently voted to approve the orientation require ment “What we did took up a lot of time,” Gamez said. “We did a lot of research, but I wish we could’ve done more.” ASUN also updated its Web site, Schuerman said, and improvements will continue next semester. ASUN members participated in several community service projects. The group also will continue looking into electronic voting. Schuerman said students may be able to vote electronically in next year’s Homecoming election. A personal accomplishment Schuerman said he was proud of is the campaign handbook he put together. The handbook was designed to help students with the basics of run ning a campaign, and Schuerman said he had received positive feedback. Next semester will see work on projects such as planning for Martin Luther King Jr. Day and looking more into domestic partner benefits. ASUN’s Sexual Orientation Committee is already working on domestic partner benefits, and Schuerman said next semester the senate will focus more on that, as well. Schuerman said he hopes senators will remain focused next semester despite the election campaigns going on. But the ASUN president doesn’t think it will be a problem. “There’s no reason to believe that will be the case,” Schuerman said. “I’m going to sit down with the sena tors, and we’ll focus on two or three things that we want to get done before the end of our terms.” -n . buy stun at maii.dailynebraskan.com