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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.
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Though he thinks some posi
tions should receive compensa
tion, Schafer said money should
n’t become the reason students
want to be involved in stud»»1*
government
“I’m not outraged that I don’*
get paid,” Schafer said. “And I
don’t think I would be any less 01
more motivated if I were paid.
Riley Peterson, first vice pres
ident for ASUN, said offering
scholarships to all executiv-s
would help.
“It’s kind of like a kick in the
face when he (Joel) gets all his
tuition paid for, and I get noth
ing," Peterson said.
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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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. Secretary-General Kofi
Annan, listing poverty, AIDS,
wars and environmental degra
dation.
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