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ASUN senators unlike Big 12 peers Plllfrom pagel Joel Schafer, ASUN president, said he didn’t know about the perks of the position he now holds when he decided to run, but he thinks student govern ment officers should receive compensation. “I don’t think people realize that this is a full-time job,” Schafer said. “I spend about 50 to 60 hours a week working on stu dent government and attending dinners to speak to different organizations.” Because he is a student mem ber of the NU Board of Regents, Schafer gets a free faculty parking permit, Lied Center tickets and two tickets to each home football game. For All Your Party Needs! 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The universities in the Big 12 that do compensate their student leaders typically use money fron student fees. The compensation student leaders receive varies from school to school. At Iowa State University, the president, vice president and finance director receive free tuition, room and board. Steve Medanic, finance diret r fiiMTferer" Rocta Ee«o'.S Tk{ Msvts Two Thumbs Up!“ R3U*JC Stdv* A Knockout! You Will Be Dazzled!' hamlet Now Showing! Ends Sunday, Sept 17! Check Newspaper, Web Site, or Call for Show Times! tor for the Government of the Student Body at Iowa State, said receiving compensation enables him to concentrate on working for the students instead of at another job to help pay for school. “It allows us to be a lot more efficient and get a lot more done,” Medanic said. Ben Golding, student body president at Iowa State, said hav ing his tuition paid for is a neces sity in order to help pay for col lege. ‘There is no way you can be a student body president of a Big 12 school and work another job to pav for college,” Golding said. Other schools aren’t as gener ous. At Oklahoma State University, the president is only given $2,400 a year, while the vice-president is given $1,200 ayear. Hus, the pres ident and vice president receive two tickets apiece to football and basketball games. Some students at UNL think student leaders benefit in other ways besides free tuition and football tickets. “Nobody is making them do it,” said Jamie Shelton, a senior business administration major. “It’s just something nice they can put on their resume.” Emily Goering, a freshman psychology major, said if student government positions were paid, some students might just be in it for the money. “I don’t think they should get paid because they get other ben efits from it such as leadership and service hours,” Goering said. Other students believe stu dent leaders deserve some sort of compensation. "I think they should be com pensated for the time they put into the university,” said Patrick McAtee, a freshman mechanical engineering major. “Student gov ernment is their job, so they should get paid like anyone else at any other job.” But Hal Hansen, ASUN's Government Liaison Committee chairman, said money isn’t the reason people get involved in stu dent government “I don't think people should run for the position because they want money or a job,” Hansen said. “But you put in a lot of time and service into the university and (student government offi cers) should be compensated for Low pay, benefits lead to staff losses lid Pf from page 1 ^ Despite the benefits the University of Houston is offer ing her, Rapoport said she appreciated her time at UNL. "I met some of the most tal ented, most personable law professors at Nebraska,” she said. “And I have many fond memories of them.” Durst said another draw to Penn State was its rank as one of the top universities in the country. It is also significantly larger than UNL, he said. Durst said he was disheart ened UNL never came through for a job offer for his wife. "That was my biggest disap pointment,” Durst said. “The whole time these talks of me leaving were going on, offering my wife a job never even came up with Nebraska.” Even though they’ve left Nebraska, all three former deans said it was unfortunate UNL was facing such extreme administrative turnover. But UNL’s situation is not uncommon. Foster said that at the University of New Mexico, there are 60 to 70 provosts, and half of them have been there for fewer than two years. New Mexico has two inter im vice presidents and several open dean positions, he said* “(Turnover) is a fact of life in many institutions,” Foster said. Durst said it was unfortu nate so many administrators left UNL in so short a time, but he said the university could make itself more attractive to its talented administrators. The university should look at improving a couple key areas, he said, including the retirement package and the salary scale. “Salary scale is low, and that becomes a factor - especially when you get into administra tive jobs,” Durst said. Peace and poverty the focus of Millennium Talks THE ASSOCIATED PRESS UNITED NATIONS — The world laid out its hopes for the third millennium Wednesday at an extraordinary convocation of leaders great and obscure, with President Clinton pleading for help in bringing peace to the Middle East before it is too late. Notre Dame Alumni Senior Club % After the game, stop by Notre Dame’s on-campus bar for food, beverages and dancing. Located in the parking lot behind the main stadium lot “C” in the 1-story building. Open 1/2 hour after the game until 2 AM. About 150 world leaders - the greatest assembly of presi dents, prime ministers, mon archs and other rulers in history - listened as Russian President Vladimir Putin called for an international conference to out law the militarization of space. And they heard Cuban President Fidel Castro, viewed by many developing countries as their premier spokesman, decry the poverty that he says afflicts 80 percent of the world’s 6 billion people and accuse three dozen wealthy nations - especially the Uhited States - of using their power “to make us poorer, more exploited and more dependent.” The leaders observed a moment of silence to remember U N. workers slain when their headquarters were overrun by rioters in Indonesian-controlled West Timor, then launched a three-day marathon of speeches and negotiations on the world’s eCollegeFootball.com The Marketplace most vexing problems. Outside the hall, New York’s streets gave an alternative podi um to commoners. In the largest demonstration, about 2,000 followers of the Falun Gong spiritual movement marched from China's U.N. mis sion to the United Nations, protesting Beijing’s crackdown against the sect. There were oth ers who protested slavery in Sudan, and still others who objected to the Mideast peace process. On the sidelines of the con ference, the statesmen were meeting privately - Clinton with Putin and with the parties in the Middle East, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak with French President Jacques Chirac, British Prime Minister Tony Blair with Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Abdullah, and many more. Privately and publicly, they exchanged advice and warnings on Mideast peace, disarma ment, access to new technology and, above all, giving billions of the world’s poor a better life. The morning started with a lemming-like migration of motorcades to Manhattan’s East Side, a traffic-strangling stream that tried New Yorkers' patience. “If you wanna be the. capital of the world, you deal with it," said Merton Alexander, 71, as he strolled through his East Side neighborhood. "It means a little more walking for me, but that’s OK.” The leaders were in a festive mood - they kissed and shook hands and smiled, milling about and drinking orange juice. The summit started nearly a half hour late. “The new millennium is an opportune time, as any, for a fresh start,” said the president of the Maldives, Maumoon Abdul Gayoom. “The gap between expectation and result must be eliminated.” The start of the meeting was overshadowed by a reminder of the United Nations' very real dif ficulties in a world in which vio lence is never far from the sur face: A moment of silence in memory of U.N. aid workers killed in West Timor. “The problems seem huge,” said U.N. 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