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Academic party's priority
■One Party aims to supply students
with information to help them make
accurate decisions concerning dasses.
BY LINDSEY BAKER
Support for controversial online
teacher evaluations and detailed class
descriptions topped the One Party’s
list of priorities at its candidacy
announcement Monday.
The evaluations would provide
students with sufficient material to
make accurate academic decisions,
said junior marketing and pre-law
major Jaron Luttich, the One Party’s
presidential candidate.
“We want to make sure professors
are doing what they’re supposed to be
doing in class,” he said.
Luttich also said the evaluations,
along with class descriptions detailing
course material and work require
ments, would ensure that students
choose the right classes.
Psychology professor Dan
Bernstein said he supported student
ratings of courses but did not support
teacher evaluations.
“The way we do ratings right now I
do not think is very accurate," he said.
“We (should) focus more on what stu
dents are learning.”
Luttich said he hoped the universi
ty-controlled Web site for teacher rat
ings would give students ample
opportunity to provide input, as
opposed to creating their own inde
pendent, and possibly slanderous web
sites.
Luttich said the Association of
Students of the University of Nebraska
could afford to play host to an evalua
tion Web site up; the cost, he said,
would be about $10,000 a semester.
Luttich and his first vice-presiden
tial candidate, senior English major
Melanie Mitzel, stated additional
issues, including increasing the effi
ciency of the ASUN, putting funds
raised through the ASUN Foundation
toward academic scholarships,
reforming ASUN elections and imple
menting online graduation checks for
all colleges.
The way we do ratings
right now I do not think is
very accurate. We (should)
focus more on what
students are learning.”
Dan Bernstein
Psychology professor
Luttich said by moving the ASUN
legislation announcements from
Tuesdays at noon to Mondays at noon,
students could have more time to con
tact senators about issues. He also said
the Daily Nebraskan could have a
chance to preview legislation, giving
students another chance to stay
informed.
Money from the ASUN
Foundation, an organization that
solicits funds from ASUN alumni,
would go toward scholarships based
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Junior market
ing and pre-law
major Jaron
Luttkhofthe
One Party
announces his
candidacy for
ASUN president
Monday after
noon in the
Nebraska Union.
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Jennifer Lund/DN
Junior accounting major John Matzen displays his e-mail address for students who want to contact him about their student government concerns. Matzen announced his can
(fidacy for ASUN president Monday afternoon.
Using chicken as a party platform
■Independant candidates mix student's
need for poultry with their planto bring the
'three iVto student government
BY KIMBERLY SWEET
ASUN presidential candidate John Matzen
hopes to woo student voters with thoughts of a
warm, crisp Southern delight - a Chik-fil-A
sandwich.
But once he woos them in, Matzen plans to
inform voters of his more serious plans - the
ones he hopes will prompt students to elect
him the next president of the Association of
Students of the University of Nebraska.
Matzen, a junior accounting major,
announced his candidacy along with running
mate Holly Flanagan Monday afternoon at the
Nebraska Union. Sporting a stuffed monkey
around his neck in place of a tie, Matzen began
his first stump speedi by bemoaning the lack of
a Chik-fil-A franchise restaurant in Lincoln.
“I feel UNL’s chicken needs are not being
met,” Matzen said. "There's KFCs and Popeye’s
in town, but they are not tailoring to our needs.”
After initial laughter from the audience,
Matzen told students of his “Three I Plan” to
bring students to student government.
Students need to be interested, involved and
informed, Matzen said.
Matzen and Flanagan, a sophomore deaf
education major, are running independently
with no second vice-presidential candidate or
senators on their slate.
To accomplish their goals of informing the
student body, Matzen proposed a weekly Daily
Nebraskan column written by the president.
Instead of hearing only about the big actions
student body presidents take, a column would
allow the president to tell about the daily grinds
of the job and any accomplishments.
Other than that, Matzen said after his party
announcement, he hasn't formulated too
many ideas for the office yet But he hopes the
Chik-fil-A idea will bring some initial attention.
“The Chik-fil-A idea is kind of the hook,”
Matzen said. "Every candidate’s going to make
the promise to change the way student govern
ment is run. Until you get elected, you don’t
really know what you can do."
Despite their status as independent candi
dates, Matzen said that didn't change the level
of seriousness he and his running mate were
looking at this election with.
“I think with the debates and stuff (stu
dents) will find out I’m serious. There are a lot of
good things I can contribute, but they need to
know life is too short to take it too serious.”
Matzen said he wanted to run to get his -
and his friends’ - complaints heard.
"The friend group I hang out with, no one is
involved, but they like to sit around and com
plain about what’s wrong,” he said. "I want to
try to get some ideas of my peer group heard.”
Flanagan, his running mate, is Matzen’s
friend. She was not present. Matzen said that
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Gambling fears
circle proposal
■An amendment that would
allow gaming on Indian
reservations is disputed by
anti-gambling groups.
BY GWEN T1ETGEN
For American Indians, the
constitutional amendment to
permit gaming on Indian lands is
an opportunity for economic
development and a right of sover
eignty.
For groups opposed to gam
bling, such as Gambling With the
Good life, the proposed amend
ment opens the door to crime,
abuse and bankruptcy.
The proposed constitutional
amendment from Sen. DiAnna
Schimek of Lincoln heard testi
mony Monday. Similar legislation
was heard last session.
Schimek, who opposed the
amendment last year, said she
now knew how important gaming
was as an economic tool for
tribes.
“These tribes have sovereign
ty status, and we need to acknowl
edge that fact,” Schimek said.
LR6CA would prohibit the
state from regulating gaming on
lands within the limits of Indian
reservations or trust lands of the
tribe.
If passed by the Legislature,
the constitutional amendment
would then be taken to Nebraska
voters.
But gaming on Indian lands
must be in accordance with the
Indian Gaming Regulatory Act of
1988, a federal law.
As written, LR6CA doesn’t
agree with federal law because it
limits Indian lands, outside of
Indian reservations, to Knox and
Boyd counties, according to Pat
Legislature
Loontjer, director of Gambling
With the Good Life, who testified
in opposition to die proposed
amendment
Loontjer said she didn’t want
to see the problems in Iowa, one
of several states that allows gam
ing, come to Nebraska.
Iowa’s bankruptcy is among
the highest in the nation, Loontjer
said, and Council Bluffs has the
highest crime rate in the state.
"A few will profit at a loss of
money. The only one that wins
with this amendment is the (casi
no),” she said. “Everyone else suf
fers from bankruptcy, divorce and
abuse.”
Loontjer said the expansion of
gambling would bring another
vice to the reservations - gam
bling addiction.
"We have nothing against the
Indians, we have fought this
before and just think it’s wrong,”
she said.
Each of Nebraska's four Indian
tribes, the Winnebago, the Santee
Sioux, Omaha and Ponca tribes,
testified in support of the amend
ment
If gaming were allowed, 25
jobs would be created on Indian
lands, said Thelma Jones, a mem
ber of the Santee Sioux Tiibe of
Nebraska.
Currently, a 70 percent unem
ployment rate exists on Indian
lands, Jones said, which leaves lit
tle money to purchase other items
for the community.
These items include shoes
and winter coats for children,
money for the upkeep of cemeter
ies or the Jaws of Life for reserva
tion hospitals, among other
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Despite beliefs, binge exercising won't result in weight loss
■Students who will try to
shed those extra pounds in a
short time should think again.
BY SARAH BAKER
Before the plane destined for
a sultry spring break getaway
takes off, many UNL students
will go on a different sort of
binge - an exercise binge.
The pressure to have the
perfect thong bikini body or the
cut six-pack stomach means the
Campus Recreation Center sees
a large increase in frantic exer
cisers - an increase of more than
13,000 over the next month.
uui mere s a prooiem witn
such furious fitness, said
Christopher Dulak, a
spokesman for the Rec Center.
“We have a regular clientele
- people that we recognize every
week - and then near the end of
February we start seeing people
coming in every day that we’ve
never seen before,” he said.
“Those are the people who are
out to achieve the perfect body
in two weeks.”
Dulak said in January 1999,
58,500 people entered the City
Campus Rec Center. In February
1999, 71,700 people entered the
City Campus Rec, an increase of
13,200.
He said this year’s influx will
prooaDiy start around February
26 and continue through the
weekend of March 10 - the
weeks right before this year’s
spring break.
Karen S. Miller, a registered
dietitian at the University
Health Center and Rec Center,
said students - especially
women - embark on furious
workout regiments for a number
of reasons.
But it's not only women, she
said. Men, too, feel the pressure
to conform to a standard of per
fection.
“We are bombarded with
images of what we should look
like,” she said. “There's no good
way to drop weight quickly, and
meres no neaitny way to
reshape the body. Those are
myths.”
Meggan Peters, a senior
management information sys
tems major, said although she
had never embarked on an exot
ic spring break trip, she was well
aware of body image pressures.
“If I were going to Cancun or
South Padre for break, I’d try to
work out,” Peters said. “But then
again, maybe that's why I’ve
never gone anywhere like that.”
Carly Reese, also a senior
management information sys
tems major, said she thought
television programs such as
MTV’s Spring Break special per
petuate the perfect body stereo
“If I were going to Cancun or South Padre for
break, I’d try to work out. But then again,
maybe that's why I’ve never gone anywhere like
that."
raeggan reiers
senior management information systems major
type.
Both Reese and Peters
agreed that the pressure was
much stronger for women.
“I don’t know any guys who
worry about (weight). They just
wear a T-shirt,” Peters said. “But
I know girls who go tanning
months in advance.”
Angela Nichols, a senior sec
ondary education major, said
she didn’t work out before she
went on her spring break trip to
Mexico.
Mike Schulte, a junior con
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