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1NIVERCfTY OF IV h 'i I Oil-Campus Housing Remains Pro bie On-campus housing re mains an issue this fall after the Board of Regents adopted the recommendations of the Ad Hoc Housing Committee, subject to "guidelines for op erational policy and proced ures." The Regents stalled imple mentation of a more liberal housing policy recommended by the Housing Committee because of guidelines regard ing dorm occupancy, accord ing to G. Robert Ross, vice chancellor and dean of Stu dent Affairs. "Late in July it became ap parent that enrollment of dormitory occupants was lower than had been pre dicted. In. years past, the 13 1367 CHIVES, Wednesday, September 1 Enrollment Figures Less Than Predicted Increase Enrollment at the Univer sity this semester will prob ably not reach the estimated figure of 18,500 students, ac cording to George Round, Director of Public Relations. "There is no question that there will be an increase over last year's enrollment of 17, 051," Round said. He ex plained that the size of the freshman class will be as large as was expected and that the loss of students ap pears to be in the upper di visions. Round said final enrollment figures wouU depend on late registration and the number Regents Hike Rates . . . Tuition Raised By Dave Buntain SUff Writer The University Board of Regents authorized an in crease in tuition and fees which became effective for the fall semester. The Regents set tuition costs for Nebraska resident students at $177.50 per se mester, an increase of $47.50 over last semester's rates. Tuitioi for non-resident stu dents wis hiked from $430 to $466.50 per semester. In addition both residents and nos residents will pay $39 in fees, contrasting with last Chester's $37. TUITION PARALLELS The tuition increase ap proved by the Regents par allels the recommendations oi Gw Norbert T. Tjemann and the Unicameral- The two dollar increase will be used Huskcr Fans Buy Tickets At Coliseum Students may obtain sea con football tickets at the University Coliseum for $10.25 from 9.00 a.m. to noon and from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m through Sept. 15. Students who purchased tickets in lie spring may ob tain tfcsm at the times men tioned above by presenting their idenUkatsn cards to the ticket office. Individuals desiring to sit in a block should present all their money and identification cards at the same time. One member of the group may present the cards. VERIFICATION REQUIRED Students carrying a mini mum oi 12 hours may buy tickets but must present tbeir ldentjLcali.03 cards to tbe ticket office to verify their standing as full tune stu dents. Married students qualify for two tickets but must prove tbeir marital status to receive litem. Seals w21 eyt be sold on a lottery basis but on f i r s t come first serve. Each stu tter! must pkk tip bis oo dormitory space has been filled by that time," Ross said. DORMS NOT FILLED As a result, more students had to be required to live in the dorms so that room and board charges could be main tained "as low as possible," according to the Regents guidelines. In other words, Ross ex plained, the dorms had to be would have been increased. In 'other words, Ross ex plained, the dorms had to be filled to 90 to 95 per cent of capacity, or the dorm rates would have been increased. "I think that the faculty, the administration and the Regents were all disappointed that the recommendations 0 I 3, 1 967 of graduate students enrolled. EXACT FIGURES "The exact figures will be available at the first of next week," we're not certain yet but the final figure appeares to be a few hundred less than was estimated, he said. He noted that if enrollment is less than expected there will be a loss of revenue and the operating budget, which was set up for 18,500 stu dents, will be affected. "This shouldn't detriment ally affect the University this year," he added. He said University officials are cur rently studying the factors to develop the University'i intramural and student recre ational program. The impact of the tuition increase will be felt directly by t" students, according to Dr. Joseph Soshnik, vice chancellor for administration. All of the additional funds arising from the increase are slated for use by the Uni versity's instructional pro gram, he said. NEW OUTLOOK Soshnik said that the 1967 legislature took a new ap proach to University budget ing. "Until the last session, appropriations were made as a 'lump sum' and it was left to the University to decide bow much money to spend within each of its twelve pro gram areas." be explained. . "This year tbe legislature used programmed budgeting, approving separate appro priations for each of the twelve programs." The legislature also pro vided for all tuition money to go into the budget for th instructional program, wnjen provides funds for teachers' salaries and other instruc tional expenses. AWS Schedules Meet For Key Orientation Rules concerning the use of junior and senior keys will be explained at an orientation meeting Thursday at 7.30 p.m. in the Nebraska Union according to Mimi Rose. AWS key chairman. All women planning to par ticipate in the key program must attend and housemoth ers and resident directors are also invited. Miss Rose, said that present ly not all living units on cam pus have decided on junior keys, but that all are par ticipating ta senior leys. She added that when the ju nior system is pasted by a living unit key privileges will go into immediate efJect At the present time Miss Rose said that over 6J0 wom en have applied for keys and she has received approxi mately 399 pertrassivn cards from parents and guardians. She coted that this if a sub could not be implemented this year," Ross remarked. "I hope, that the recommenda tions can be fully imple mented next year." SUGGEST CHANGES The "Housing Committee recommended, among other changes, a more liberal hous ing policy that would allow "all sophomores and juniors .to live in specially approved off -campus housing with par ental permission" and without "discrimination on the basis of sex." However the Regents reaf firmed their position regard ing the housing recommenda tions at their meeting Tues day morning: "In June, 1967 the Board of Regents approved the recom V which may have caused this changetin enrollment. REASONS In a Board of Regents meeting Monday morning University Chancellor Clifford M. Hardin cited the draft and increased tuition as possible factors although he empha sized that the exact causes of decreased upper class en rollment were still being studied. Administration of ficials added that other uni versities may be having smaller enrollments than es timated and that this possi bility was also being investi gated. $47.50 In computing the instruc tional budget, tbe legislature allowed for a prescribed tui tion increase, which it then recommended to the Board of Regents. FACED CHOICE The Regents, thus, were confronted with the need to either cut down on instruc tional expenditures or in crease student tuition, Sosh nik said. Chancellor Clifford Hardin said it is the University's "hope and belief that the new rates need not keep from the University any qualified students who bad planned to enroll before the increases were imposed." AID AVAILABLE lie pointed out that the legislate has made $200,000 available for use during this school year to assist students whote enrollment "would be in financial jeopardy by the tuition increase." This support from the leg islature has permitted the establishment of a "Uni cameral Special Tuition As sistance Program." stantial increase over last yt-ar. Tbe key chairman ex plained that the success of the system last year led to the expansion of the program. She said the keys were used "extremely well and with discretion." Privileges were not abused and no keys were lost Miss Rose said that AWS may attempt to begin a gen era! fund this year to pay for new locks and keys in a living unit it one individual loses a key. Present rules state that the woman who loses a key is re sponsible for the new lock and keys. Haiti and regulations for the use of the keys will not be changed. She said indivi dual living units decide what constitutes an over-night and the captions tor key use a 5 mendations of the Ad Hoc Housing 'Committee. The Board expresses appreciation to the several faculty, staff, and students who worked dili gently on this policy recom mendation." "Due to the uncertainties facing many young men re garding military service and the addition of a large num ber of residence hall spaces, it has been necessary to post pone the full implementation of this new policy. We are looking forward to full imple mentation at the earliest pos sible time." COED MOVES The housing controver sy started last spring when a University coed Jo Flaugher University of Nebraska Beauty I ANOTHER SAMPLE OF POP ART? . . This is a photographer's interpretation of Harper, one of several newly-opened dorms on campus. Off -Campus Applications Due Student applications for off campus housing privileges are being considered by a new faculty-student committee, ac cording to M. Edward Bryan, director of bousing. The group was created by the Board of Regents as a re sult of recommendations by the Ad Hoc Housing Commit tee. Bryan said, it has been termed both the Housing Ap peals Board and the Special Housing Committee. EXEMPTED STUDENTS The committee considers applications from those stu dents wishing to be exempted from the housing regulations recently approved by tbe Board of Regents These regulations stipulate that all freshmen and sopho more men and all single un dergraduate women must live in campus housing. If a student shows the com mittee be should live off-campus due to "financial bard ship," previous Lousing com mittments or health reasons, the group can recommend to tbe dean of students that this person be exempted from the regulations, Bryan said. Bryan also explained that ASUN Senators Hear Speakers At Retreat ASUN executives, secre taries and senators attended a retreat Friday and Saturday at Camp Kitski to discuss Senate plans for this term. The senators heard speeches by Carl Davidwn. Inter -Organizational Secre tary of the Students for a Democratic Society, and Ed Robinson, former President of the Michigan Student Gov ernment at the University of Michigan. Saturday afternoon t b moved off-campus. The Office of Student Affairs told her that she would have to move back to campus or be sus pended from school. An Ad Hoc Housing Com mittee, composed of faculty members, students, and ad ministrators, was formed ac cording to ASUN president Dick Schulze, after ASUN passed a resolution stating that housing policy was "un fair and should be changed." It came at a time when there was widespread student discontent with the Universi ty's housing policy, according to ASUN 1st Vice President GenePokorny. ASUN APPROVES ASUN approved the hous From The Ground Up tbe student has an "automa tic appeal" if his application is denied, allowing him to pro duce more evidence to sub stantiate his claim. HOUSING POLICY The creation of the housing board means that one person will not have the power to rule on bousing applications, he added. The Board of Regents es tablished the housing board on June 2, following recom mendations by the Ad Hoc Housing Committee that a permanent board be created to advise the dean of students on all bousing questions. The Regents stipulated that the committee be composed of three students appointed by the president of ASUN and five faculty members ap pointed by the Chancellor. EXTENDED FUNCTIONS The Regents extended the functions of the committee, in July providing for its present status as an appeals board. Bryan said an interim com mittee was established for the fall term and it began work in early August . Members of the interim board include three faculty members and three students: Bryan, Richard Scott assist ant to the dean of Student Af fairs: Mrs. Margaret Wehke Senators conferred with a panel of administrators com posed of Vice Chancellor Jo seph Soshnik, Vice . Chancel lor and Dean of Student Af fairs G. Robert Ross, Vice Chancellor and Dean of Fac ulties Mark Hobson Director of Public Relations. George Round. Saturday evening Regent members Dick Herman, Ed ward Schwartzkopf. and Round discussed University policies and problems with tie Senate. ing committee's recommen dations, along with a resolu tion insisting that the Re gents act on the recommenda tions before the fall semester, and "present a statement to ASUN regarding their ac tions." The student body as a whole became involved in the hous ing issue last spring when they voted that "each student has the right to choose his own living environment." "T h i s action, (the new housing policy), on the part of the Regents has shaken the good faith of the people who thought they could work with in the system," stated ASUN. "SITUATION WORSE" "It appears to me,"" stated of the housing office; and ASUN senators, Susie Jen kins, Phil Bowen and John Hall. Bryan said a permanent 1 '"''' I ; f 1 ' li s -nil, 0 ' ' t r 1 - 1 ; V' V ' ill , J v , l :ta: I ? ; " 1 - i I r ; :- fit -j :f ( . I " vi- . 5 1 r- , 1 i sttHMHMHwalk ' -ttaiiivniimi 1 rnimrn-11 mss- 111 m HT Hrr L'f -r - r 11 -1 n "ir- 1 11 nw 1 Mm Mti mm LIGHTS OUT . . , was the order of the day for tbe L'&ka llofiday aiteniooD. m Committee-member Ron Pfel- fer, that the situation in hous ing hasn't gotten better, it' gotten worse. I'm sorry we spent the time on that hous ing committee." Pfeifer termed the enroll ment prediction figures which seemed to dictate the necessi ty for new dormitories a "University mistake, which the students are paying for." Spangler called for a re evaluation of the priorities upon which decisions are made by University planners. "If they can't afford to take the risk of the dorms being filled when they agree to build them, Spangler said, then I have a very low esti mation of their ability to work with the students at all." Vol. 91, No. 1 board would be named in Oc tober. At that time the board will be better able to assume its advisory capacity, ha added.
