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SPOUTS Championship weekend The Nebraska men’s gymnastics team finished ' third in the finals of the NCAA Championships, while the women finished sixth. PAGE 11 Ail Summer lovin’ The Nebraska Repertory Theatre puts on profes sional plays throughout the summer, and gives local talent a chance to play in the sun. PAGE 15 MONDAY April 26, 1999 Showers likely, high 60 low 50. VOL. 98 COVERING THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA-LINCOLN SINCE 1901 . NO. 146 Tuition may rise to pay staff salaries By Jessica Fargen Senior staff writer It’s happening more and more often at the University of Nebraska. Other universities are dangling higher salaries in front of NU professors’ noses - salaries that NU can’t match - and professors are taking the bait. The university’s faculty and administrative salaries have been lagging behind its peers, in part, ' because the university can’t afford to keep compet itive, state and university officials have said To combat this, students may have to dip into their pockets to pay for a 4 percent tuition increase each year for the next two years - pending NU Board of Regents approval - and the university is requesting $39 million to bring salaries up to par with its peer institutions. Increasing salaries is the university’s main bud get priority for the nett two years, and although the proposed state budget released last week fell $23 million short of the university’s request, it still left room for the $20 million in faculty salary increas es and $19 million for staff and administrators. University and state officials said the exodus of NU professors to higher paying universities can no longer be ignored. “We understand the salary seriousness situa tion at Nebraska,” said Plattsmouth Sen. Roger Wehrbein. “(Funding salary increases) is an attempt to help them as much as (we) can. They made their case well, so we were trying to do something about it.” When debate opens on the budget Tuesday, legislators will have 18 days to sort through all the numbers and needs while trying to appease every one. UNL Academic Senate Interim President-elect Sheila Scheideler said she understood the pressure Please see BUDGET on 9 u Everybody wants whats best for the university. But its not like a free shopping spree here.” Sheila Scheideler UNL Academic Senate interim president-elect : university in I repatriation r I'Jgk v’. iteK-u _ ■ American Indian activists plan further actions against the university and associate anthro pology professor Karl Reinhard. By Lindsay Young Senior editor 1i A 52-page report released Friday exonerat ed UNL from many of the allegations stating it mishandled American Indian remains and did not comply with federal and state law that pro tected those remains. Lincoln attorney Robert Grimit, hired by the university, said in the report the university’s compliance with the Native American Graves _ Protection and Repatriation Act Ifpeople !“dbeen “exem continue to He d'd find some evidence of slander him 1Jle8al °r unau thonzed testing and defame ^f0161993 J * Testing, him, he S going Which may have been unautho tO have to rized, was done on Ponca, reSOrt to the Pawnee, Arikara „ and * possibly COUrtS. Wichita remains before 1992, Thom Cope Grimit wrote. attorney for Karl Reinhard Associate anthro pology professor Karl Reinhard did some of this testing, he wrote. Grimit said NAGPRA permits chemical analysis or destructive testing to determine cul tural affiliation. “It appears that at least some . .. of the destructive testing at UNL was performed for purposes other than cultural affiliation,” Grimit wrote. UNL adopted a moratorium on testing in Please see BONES on 9 Photos by Rick Townley/DN ABOVE: BETH AUGUSTINE, a sophomore psychology and pre-madicine major, cheers after knocking down her opponent Drew Williams, a sophomore architecture major. The two were competing in the “Bouncy Boxing” event at Saturday’s Bull Fry at Burr Hall on East Campus. BELOW: BART DETERDING eats a fried bull testicle. Deterding is a sophomore animal science major and Burr Hall student assistant. About 400 peopljB attended the event on Saturday which featured a hearty meal and several carnival-style games. East Campus goes nuts rtknrmir»o Airitk o Uot; kola face on/1 o ByTashaE.Keuer Senior editor About 400 people braved chilly weather and the threat of rain to go to East Campus on Saturday and have a ball. The third annual Bull Fry went off without weather complications, said freshman TTacey Orsbum, co-chair woman of the event and a Burr Hall resident “We’re lucky it didn’t rain,” she said. / Besides the infamous bull testicles, food choices included hamburgers, hot dogs, cole slaw and baked beans. Among the day’s events were sand volleyball, basketball, farmer roping contest using a dummy steer), “bouncy boxing” and a dunk tank, in which East Campus residence hall stu dent assistants donned overalls and cowboy hats. Orsbum said the organizers tried to make the Bull Fry family-oriented, but mostly college students showed up. However, she said, the student attendance was “a pretty fair mix” of East Campus and City Campus stu dents. The Bull Fry was held to benefit the family of Ray Koziol, the Nebraska East Union operations manager whose wife and two sons died in a car accident in April. About $4,000 was raised Saturday to benefit Koziol’s surviving sons. 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