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University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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Vol. 83 No. 176
Board of Regents approve
proposed 1985-86 NU budget
By Jena Dafolman Bouma
The NU Board of Regents Saturday
approved the proposed 1085-86 NU
budget, requesting a 10 percent in
crease in tuition charges and a 12.7
percent increase in state funds.
The budget would provide a 10.7
percent salary increase for UNL aca
demic and administrative staff, and a
9 percent increase for faculty at UNO
and UNMC. Salaries for faculty mem
bers of the American Association of
University Professors UNO are still to
be negotiated.
The budget also would provide an
11.5 percent salary increase for non
faculty employees on all campuses, a
10 percent increase for library acquisi
tions, and $1.65 million for academic
and administrative computing.
The 10 percent tuition increase would
raise undergraduate resident tuition
from $38.00 per credit hour during
1984-85, to $41.75 for 1985-86.
The budget request now goes to Gov.
Bob Kerrey and the Legislature's Ap
propriations Committee for review.
The university also will develop a
supplementary budget to be presented
to the Appropriations Committee in
November, NU President Ronald Rosk
ens said.
The supplementary budget will be
the same as the one the regents passed
Saturday, but will be divided into two
parts: a 95-percent "base" budget, con
taining the most essential funding re
quests; and a 5 percent modification to
the base budget.
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Jame3 Raglin, NU director of public
affairs, said the new 95 percent base
formula is required of all branches of
state government to help the Appro
priations Committee better defend bud
get requests to the Legislature. How
ever, Raglin said, it is more difficult for
the university to make the 5 percent
base budget reduction because every
reduction affects students and their
education.
Also, Raglin said, faculty members FO
might view such a reduction in their ' rrr f '
department's base budget as a lack of
commitment by the university. Such
faculty might decide to teach else
where, he said.
The first-time request for $1.95 mil
lion in computing funds included $1.41
million for academic computing and
$540,000 for administrative computing.
In other business, the regents ap
proved a list of priorities for capital
construction funds during 1985-86.
The first priority was $2.9 million to
bring, the university into compliance
with safety codes.
The regents also authorized the ad
ministration to add two Omaha-based
health maintenance organizations,
SHARE and HealthAmerica, as alter
native methods of health care for fac
ulty arid staff living or working in the
Omaha area.
The board also approved the estab
lishment of a residency training pro
gram in dentistry at the College of
Dentistry at UNL.
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All-Pro turf surface of Memorial Stadium Note the joggers on the sia
diism stairs unci also the ia!ssinj goalpost.
By Venn Jones
The Union Board Saturday discussed turning the
television room in the Nebraska Union lounge into a
24-hour computing facility.
The proposed changeover, still in the pre-planning
stage, would close off the TV room from the rest
of the student lounge. The change probably would
be tied in with major redevelopment of the west
entrance to the union.
Daryl Swanson, director of Nebraska Union, pres
ented a plan to build a closed-in room on the west
side of the union. The room would make the building
more appealing to traffic approaching from the
west, Swanson said. It would also cflcx 24-hour
access to the proposed computer room while shut
ting off the rest of the building during lite hours.
The current west entrance to the union, which
iscusses new c
includes a ramp for handicapped people, discour
ages some people from entering the building, Swan
son said. A more attractive and accessible entrance
would increase the traffic flow in the union.
Handicapped access to the building would be
improved by the installation of a lift in the new
room, Swanson said.
The board now will investigate further the west
entrance and converted TV room.
In other business, the board approved the instal
lation of an experimental video information term
inal According to V. T. Miller, director of UNL's closed
circuit television, the information system will be a
television monitor m the southyest corner of the
student lounge. It will feature information about
campus activities ar.d deadlines.
Sandy Dvorak, a clerical assistant in Miller's edee,
said the monitor eventually will be part of an infer-
ompucerroom
mation network between City and East campuses.
"We're going to put monitors up in points of inter
est around campus," said Dvorak, "then a compu
ter, probably located in the information office, can
feed the system continually with information on
deadlines, or class registrations." ,
The. board agreed" to give the monitor a two
month trial in the Nebraska Union lounge.
Lack of feedback delayed any board decision on
the fate of the University Bookstore's location. The
board said it will wait until it receives more opinions
about what options are available before it makes a
decision on whether the bookstore will be moved or
expanded. - - -
Action also was deferred on the union's 1 985 cap
ital improvements request. The union faces more
than $38,000 in cuts from the budget request, but
the board decided to delay any decision making
until union executives can meet to set union prior-