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Thursday, December 8, 1966
The Daily Nebraskan
Vol. 90, No. 46
Budget
Bromm Addresses
Hearing On Budget
Nebraska's governor and
governor-elect heard from
a student Wednesday on
why the University needs
more operating funds for
the 1967-69 biennium.
"No one is closer to the
problems of the University
than students," Curt
Bromm, chairman of t h e
ASUN Legislative Liaison
Committee told Gov.
Frank Morrison and Governor-elect
Norbert T i e
mann. Bromm was asked
to speak as a student rep
resentative by Pat Daugh
erty, chief budget officer of
the State Department of
Adminitrative Services.
Bromm said students are
not getting classes they
need in order to graduate
because of shortage of fac
ulty and space in classes.
He said that individual at
tention for students is im
paired because of large
classes. Bromm attributed
these conditions, to inade
quate dollar support from
the state.
"I feel there is an im
personality develop
ing which wasn't there when
I was a freshman," Bromm.
a senior, said.
Morrison asked Bromm
if he felt this impersonality
was "a matter of money."
Bromm responded that it
is, because "We have lost
our more personable and
effective instructors" due
to the University's inability
to pay high salaries.
Improving education in
cludes "attracting good in
structors and simply having
enough instructors," Bromm
said.
"I get the impression we
need better instructors,
more instructors. What
else do we need?" Morri
son asked.
Tiemann asked Bromm
Free University
Lists Instructors
By Cheryl Tritt
Senior Staff Writer
Coordinating Committee for
a Free University, CCFU,
has recruited ten faculty
members, and graduate and
undergraduate students to
structure courses for the Ne
braska Free University.
Gene Pokorny, a OCFU
member, said "within a week
we have organized enough
courses to give students a
wide choice of subjects. Be
fore the schedule of courses
is complete "we should have
three times as many subjects
to offer," he added.
After Christmas vacation a
complete list of the courses
to be offered will be pub
lished. Students may then sign up
for NFU courses during a
registration period the begin
ning of second semester, Po
korny said.
Pokorny noted that several
students have said they are
going to "drop three hours of
regular course work to be
able to participate in the
NFU," Pokorny noted, but
that "this is not recom
mended by the committee."
Charles Gruner, assistant
professor of speech, sug
gested three possible subject
fields and volunteered to head
the one course which received
the most favorable response.
Gruner suggested the top
ics "Psychology of Humor,"
"Scientific Investigation in
Social Sciences" and "Cul
tural Impact of Mass Media."
A course concerning psy
chedelic drugs, their synthes
is and potential for self-discovery
will be structured by
Terry Tilford, a graduate
English assistant.
Tilford will also lead
courses about Buddhism or
Far Eastern thought in gen
eral and a survey of major
religious philosophies of the
Asian mainland.
Abel Hall Resident Direc
tor, Richard Arndt, said he
will head a seminar concerti
learing;
what would be the student
reaction if tuition were in
creased in the future.
"We evpect to bear our
share of the costs of
education," Bromm said.
He said if the tuition in
crease was a "fair one,"
students would go along with
it.
Tom Riley, Marv Almy,
Phil Brown, Mike Jess,
Dick Schulze, John Wink
worth and Ron Alexander
also attended the hearings,
but did not speak. All of
the students are ASUN sen
ators or on Senate com
mittees. Almy said of the hear
ing, "I was somewhat dis
appointed with all the talk
of philosophy and such, and
I wondered when they were
going to get into t h e
budget."
Riley, who spent all day
at the hearing, said he at
tended, "to see what's go
ing on."
Administrative spokes
men who attended were
Clifford Hardin, Vice Chan
cellor Joseph Soshnik and
Regents Benjamin Green
berg and Richard Adkins.
Dean Cecil Witt son of the
College of Medicine; Dean
John Davis of the College
of Engineering and Archi
tecture; and Mark Hobson,
Dean of Faculties attended
the hearing and spoke on
the budget requests for
their departments.
Other University officials
wl.o were at the hearing
included Vice Chancellor G.
Robert Ross, George
Round, director of Uni
versity Public Relations;
Glenn Smith, director of
budget and systems plan
ning; Harry Allen, director
of Instititutional Research;
and Carl Donaldson, Univer
sity Business Manager.
ng the poetry and prophecy in
the Old Testament.
Power structures in the
country will be discussed in
a course directed by SDS.
Six other University facul
ty members, who will not be
listed for a specific subject,
will lead seminars totally di
rected by the students par
ticipating, Pokrony said.
Stephen Hilliard, assistant
English professor; Dennis
Bartels, ASUN senator and
philosophy graduate; Cathie
Shattuck, Young Republican
president; and Steve Abbott,
University graduate, have al
so volunteered to lead NFU
seminars. Pokorny said.
The CCFU stated in a recently-published
paper that
the NFU could be a partial
answer to the problem of tot
al education for University
students.
NFU will offer opportuni
ties for learning not found in
the University's established
curriculum and for participa
tion in a learning experience
that is student-centered, the
paper slated.
Quiz Boivl Teams
To Vie Thursday
Quiz Bowl teams playing
before 8:30 p.m. Thursday
must be at the Nebraska
Union to go into isolation
at 7 p.m.
Teams competing at 8:30
p.m. or later must be ad
the Nebraska Union at 8:30
p.m. to go into isolation.
Abe 9 Freshmen vs. San
doz HalL 7 p.m.; Acacia
Pledges vs. Pi Beta Phi
Pledges, 7:20 p.m.; KKG
Pledges vs. AGR Pledges,
7:40 p.m.; Theta Xi Pledges
1 vs. AOPi Pledges, 8 p.m.
Abel 10 Freshmen vs.
Phi Mu Freshmen, 8:30
p.m.; DU Frosh vs. Little
Sammy Wonders, 8:50 p.m.;
FarmHouse B vs. Phi Psi
Goofoffs, 9:10 p.m.; Gam
my Bugs vs. Theta Chi Ox
Jocks, 9:30 p.m.
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ATTENTIVE AUDIENCE ... at the budget hearings were Gov. Morrison, Governor-elect
Tiemann and Laurence Reger, a Tiemann aide.
University Can 'Make Nebraska
Attractive By Its Development
The position the Universi
ty can fill as an aid to the to
tal development of the state
was the keynote of Univer
sity officials' explanation of
the biennium budget request.
Chancellor Clifford Hardin
said the University's budget
request is designed to "pro
vide the best possible learn
ing opportunities for the
young people of the state and
to assist in making Nebraska
a more attractive place to live
through the contributions we
can make to its economic and
cultural development.
Hardin, who was speaking
at Gov. Frank Morrison's
budget hearings on the Uni
versity's $98.6 million opera
tional budget request for the
1967-69 biennium, called the
deans of three colleges and
Vice Chancellor Joseph Sosh
Hannukah Festival
Religious Freedom
By Eileen Wirth
News Assistant
The first successful strug
gle for religious freedom will
be commemorated by Jewish
people throughout the world
as they observe the Hannu
kah festival.
Hannukah, sometimes
known as the Festival of
Lights, means "rededication."
It commemorates the suc
cessful struggle of the Mac
abees against the Syrians
who were oppressing the Is
ralites had conquered Jerusa
lem and defied the Temple.
The festival lasts eight
days because, according to a
legend, the Macabees found
only a one day supply -of olive
oil which miraculously lasted
eight days thus enabling the
Jews to purify the Temple.
The traditional ceremony
held in Jewish homes involv-
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MENNORAH ... the light of Hannukah, is prepared
by Janet Trachtenbarg.
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nik to assist him in explain
ing the University's request.
Gov.-elect Norbert Tiemann
also attended the hearing.
Both Morrison and Tie
mann will prepare executive
budget recommendations to
be presented to the Legisla
ture at the beginning of the
session in January. The bud
get hearings are held to give
the governor an opportunity
to go over the state agencies'
budget requests in detail.
Dean John Davis of t h e
College of Engineering and
Architecture said the major
point in the colleges' develop
ment program which calls
for additional funds, is t h e
development of an engineer
ing research program.
The program, Davis said,
would be developed "for the
held in Jewish homes involves
lighting the mennorah or can
delabra, which has eight
branches, one branch for each
day. There is one extra candle,
called the shamash, which is
used to light the other can
dles. On the first evening of
Hannukah, the father of the
family lights the first candle
while saying "Blessed art
thou O Lord our God who
has kept us in good health
for this season."
One additional candle is
lighted each day of the fes
tival. In some families, chil
dren light succeeding candles
in order of their age.
Hannukah is traditionally
a festive social, as well as re
ligious, occasion. Many f a m i
lies exchange gifts and have
special family dinners and
gatherings.
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unique needs and the unique
opportunities of the state."
He said the budget in
creases proposed for his Col
lege would provide for eight
additional faculty members
which would "release the
time of around 24 out of 0
faculty to engage in re
search." Soshnik reported in detail
on the University hopes to in
crease faculty salaries at the
average of 30 per cent for the
two-year period with addition
al funds help from the state.
He cited statistics which
showed Nebraska ranks
fourth in Big Eight schools
in salaries paid to full pro
fessors, and sixth, eighth and
fifth in salaries paid associ
ate professors, assistant pro-
Cont. on Pg. 3, Col. 6.
Honors
Conflict
Cheryl Weiss said that in
her family it is the custom
for each person of the fam
ily to receive one gift each
day of the holiday.
Many families decorate
their homes with Jewish stars
and Hannukah symbols.
Special holiday foods in
clude latkes, or potato pan
cakes, and cookies cut in the
shape of dreidels, a four sid
ed top that is used f r a holi
day game.
Songs such as "Rock of
the Ages" and "I Had a Lit
tle Dreidel", roughly equiva
lent to Christmas carols, are
sung at the numerous par
ties held at this time of year.
Jewish students on campus
commemorated Hannukah
with a candle lighting cere
mony at the Sigma Delta Tau
house Wedsesday evening.
Participants inclnded the
members of Sigma Delta
Tau, Sigma Alpha Mu, Zeta
Beta Tau and Hillel, the Jew
ish student organization.
A gift exchange was held
at the Sigma Delta Tau house
Monday evening and one is
planned by the members of
Sigma Alpha Mu, according
to Bill Alloy.
Aside from the group can
dl lighting Wednesday, most
students will observe the rest
of the holiday privately.
Peggy Perimeter, who
lives in Women's Residence
said that there is really no
way a student living in a
dorm can celebrate Hannu
kah. She commented that
she plans to save her gifts
for her family till Christmas
time and that there is no way
to get holiday delicacies.
Judy Ratner, another dor
mitory resident, said she and
her roommate plan to have
their own ceremony and that
most of the girls on their
floor plan to attend.
Sigma Alpha Mu's will al
so observe most of the holi
day privately, Alloy said.
He noted that a number of
members have mennorah
candles and that they will
probably share them with
others.
Ask
NU Could 'Slip'
Unless Increase
By Julie Morris
Senior Staff Writer
The governor's budget
hearings for the University's
biennium budget request
opened Wednesday as Chan
cellor Clifford Hardin told
the governor the University
"could begin to slip and slip
rapidly" without significant
increased state support-
Hardin said the Universi
ty's $98.6 million operational
budget request "represents
the movement and develop
ment, not of a single institu
tion, but of the state of Ne
braska." Gov. Frank Morrison pre
sided over the hearing which
lasted all day and was sched
uled to resume at 1:30 p.m.
Thursday. Gov.-elect Norbert
Tiemann also attended the
hearing as did Pat Daugher
tery, chief budget officer of ,
the State Department of Ad
ministrate Seervices.
Hardin pointed to huge in
creases in enrollment in the
past few years as the ulti
mate reason for the requested
91.48 per cent increase in
funds help from the state for
the 1967-69 biennium.
Morrison asked the chan
cellor to explain the huge
jump in funds requested for
the upcoming biennium which
begins July 1.
Hardin responded, "The
philosophy of the Regents has
been that the opportunity to
build a college is perishable,"
and added that this is the
time to build. He said the in
creased budget also includes
consideration that now is the
time to begin some programs
because the ground work of
phvsical expansion has been
laid.
Hardin cited the College of
Medicine as a specific exam
ple, pointing to recently ap
proved programs which -are
making possible expansion of
teaching and research.
Hardin said the University
has grown more in the last
seven years than it had in
the preceeding 90 in terms of
student enrollments.
Tiemann asked Hardin
about the possibility of limit
ing enrollments to cope with
an overflow of students.
Hardin and other Universi
ty officials present agreed
on a stronger system of un
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Nebraskan Applications
Available, Due Dec. 12
Applications for semester's Daily Nebraskan staff are
available. Interviews for senior staff positions will be
held Dec. 9.
Nebraskan applications may be obtained in the Ne
braskan office in the basement of the Nebraska Union,
at the School of Journalism in Nebraska Hall and at the
Student Activities Office in the Union.
Positions available on the staff include: editor, news
editor, managing editor, business manager, sports editor,
copy editors, night news editor and assistant, news assis
tant, junior and senior staff writers, photographers and
business assistants.
The Publications Board will hold interviews for edi
tor, news editor, managing editor, business manager and
sports editor Dec. 9. Applications for these positions are
due in the Nebraskan office the morning of Dec. 8.
The new staff will bold interviews for the other posi
tions, and those application blanks are due Dec. 12.
Any full-time student with at least a 2.0 average may
apply.
Support
dergraduate education before
the University could limit en
rollment with a clear consci
ence. "We need to develop addi
tional undergraduate facili
ties of quality- I can't see re
stricting undergraduate en
rollments at the University
until this is developed," Har
din said.
"Anytime the University is
going to restrict enrollments,
I think there is an obligation
to provide something else,"
he said.
University representatives
proposed later that the de
velopment of junior colleges
in Lincoln and Omaha might
be an answer to ballooning
enrollments at the University-
The University presentation
was divided into 10 parts,
each encompassing one area
of the budget request.
The Chancellor's address
and the presentations by the
college deans were supple
mented with charts and fig
ures. The University admin
istrators continually referred
to surveys and comparisons
of schools of comparable size
and location in making a
point.
Regent Benjamin Green
berg cf York made an open
ing statement on behalf of the
Board of Regents. Deans of
the respective colleges spoke
to the state officials in con
nection with specific requests
for their colleges. Regent
Richard Adkins of Osmond
also attended the hearings.
Hardin stressed a higher
retention rate than ever as
one of the principal factors
in increased enrollments. He
said the retention rate for all
classes has increased five per
cent in the last two years.
Hardin said that the Uni
versity has limited the enroll
ment of oustate students to
10 per cent of the freshman
classes for the past three
years.
The Chancellor also told
Morrison and Tiemann that
"each year we lose some of
our very finest faculty and
we cannot have the kind of
university Nebraskans have
a right to expect unless we
are able to reverse this
trend."
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bearings.
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