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by Julie Morris
Nebraskan Staff Writer
The University's hulking brick
and concrete dormitories with their
airy hallways and look-alike rooms
are a home that each resident pays
$3.30 a day to maintain.
The dorms were built on borrow
ed money and are being paid for
and operated by student rents.
THE $3.30 a day students pay for
half of a medium-sized bedroom,
the use of communal bathrooms,
lounges and telephones and 20
meals a week in large dining rooms
also goes toward payment of the
buildings' construction and a
financial return for holders of the
construction bonds.
The University sold revenue
bonds totalling $28,990,000 in 1964
and 1966 to construct new dorms,
the 14th St. Greek complex and an
uddition to the Nebraska Union.
The funds were also used to finish
paying construction debts on older
dorms, the Student Health Center
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not the same for
by George Kaufman
Nebraskan Staff Writer
"What society can do for the poor
people and the Black people in
America is quit choking them to
death."
These were the words of Tom
Windham, black philosophy in
structor at Nebraska Wesleyan
University, during a Time-Out
program Tuesday afternoon in the
Union.
Windham spoke on the theme
"My Country 'Tis Of Thee, And All
It's Institutions, Too", and he
pointed out that anyone
perpetuating the systems of op
pression is guilty also of op
pression. HIS MESSAGE to the blacks and
Legislative Clerk Hugo Srb and
during their discussion of the
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and an earlier addition to the
Union.
Dr. Joseph Soshnik, vice
chancellor for administration and
newly appointed Lincoln campus
president, said the University owed
bondholders $28,205,000 as of July 1,
1968.
The interest rate on the 1964 bond
issue is 3.455 per cent and on the
1966 issue 4.224 per cent, Soshnik
said.
A MAN holding just one of the
bonds, which were issued in $5,000
denominations, collects interest
payments of. $173.30 or $211.20,
depending on the issue, each year
until the repayment of the principal
falls due.
The interest on the bonds is ex
empt from federal and state in
come tax, Soshnik said, on the
basis of early Federal Supreme
Court decisions.
Soshnik said no one knows who
holds the bonds because they are
unregistered "freeholder" bonds.
Nebraska State Treasurer Wayne
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whites in the audience was the
same, with different frames of
reference: that personality is
shaped by the manipulation of
rewards and punishments and in
this country institutions serve that
purpose on a mass scale.
""But through the use of a defense
mechanism," he said, "we distort
reality to the degree that we can
accept it."
He pointed out that much the
white community has done to help
the blacks has been self-defeating
for the blacks who tried to use it.
YOU CAN pass open housing
laws, but yau can't give a job to a
black which will enable him to ac
tually buy a house."
"What you see is a group of black
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Swanson said University-issued
revenue bonds can be considered
relatively risk-free assured invest
ment because the University is a
state institution and "obviously has
a very solid foundation."
THE LAST of the current bond
issue debts falls due July 1, 2001,
Soshnik said.
Most of the funds needed to repay
the bonds comes from dorm rents.
Another portion comes from special
fees assessed each full-time student
for use of the Union and the Student
Health Center, Soshnik said.
The bond payments on the 14l.li
St. Greek complex are being met
with funds paid by the groups that
leased the houses.
M. Edward Bryan, director of
University Housing, said the
University budgets $250 per
dormitory space per year to meet
bond payments.
DORM RESIDENTS pay $800 per
academic year board and room for
a double room, $908 a year for a
Emphasis on current
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by Jim Evingcr
Nebraskan Staff Writer
When Dr. Joseph Soshnik
assumes the office of president of
the University of Nebraska at Lin
coln this Friday, there will be no
significant changes in the direction
and emphasis of current programs
on the Lincoln campuses.
Soshnik made this statement
Tuesday regarding his appointment
earlier this month by the Board of
Regents as president of the Lincoln
campuses.
HE IS currently serving as vice
chancellor for administration. His
appointment marks the first step in
the University's administrative
realignment.
Soshnik said he envisions a con
tinuation of the current direction of
the University at Lincoln. He added
there will be a natural alteration of
current methods because of the
change of administrative structure
and the change in personnel.
The future of the I.:ncoln cam
puses will to a large degree be
determined by the allocations
granted by the Legislature for the
University's operation over the
next bienium, Soshnik said.
He added he was enthusiastic
about the Experimental College
proposal now under study and a
people
people in a ghetto crying, 'We need
better living conditions, better
schools, better jobs . , .' But your
distorted mind says, 'Man, look
what we have done for you'."
He said that the black people
could legally vote, but that areas
such as the Malone area in Lincoln
were gerrymandered in order to
give it no real political power.
"WHERE DO you see blacks
working?' ' he asked. ""In the
cafeteria of the Union, in the
fraternity houses those centers
of brotherly love and working as
janitors."
He pointed to "dumpy Whittier
Junior High" where the black
youngsters are sent. He said that
they win awards
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single room. Dorm fees for summer
school sessions are $180.
Those room and board charges
went into effect in fall, 1967. They
were a 10 per cent increase in fees
over the board and room fees of the
previous year.
The $250 per dorm bed that must
be raised to pay the construction
debts is of "prime importance" in
the distribution of the fees, Bryan
said. He said students could pro
perly view that portion of their fees
as the actual "rent" for their
rooms.
The University collects a gross
income of $4.5 to $5.0 million yearly
in dorm fees, Bryan said.
THIRTY-TWO per cent of that
income is used to pay the bond
debts, he explained.
The rest is used to pay the
mammoth bills for dorm operation.
Thirty-nine per cent of the in
come is used for board expen
ditures (food), 28 per cent for room
expenditures (upkeep, lighting,
heat).
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programs
Teaching Council which will soon
be established to evaluate and en
courage innovations in teaching
methods at the University.
THE MOST immedaite concern
he faces in filling personnel posi
tions is finding a dean of faculties,
he said.
Soshnik explained that Dr. Merk
Hobson, vice chancellor for
academic affairs, will be vacating
his current post as dean of faculties
to serve the total University struc
ture. He would not say that he is near
to recommending anyone for the
position, adding that he hopes to fill
this position as soon as possible.
"The impotance of this position
dictates the amount of time in
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Motivated by money, beliefs,
cyclists an emerging breed
bv George Kaufman
Nebraskan Staff Writer
They rest in groups, huddled
arniind the entrances to all the
classrooms. They are silent, un
moving. Unless you look for them,
you will never even notice they are
there at all.
They are "bicycles, the cheapest
and most mobile means of
transportation on campus. There
are still very few of them here in
comparison to other campuses in
the States, but their popularity is
growing.
THE ADVANTAGES are many,
and those who ride them are
purists, true hardy individuals, and
very often quite broke.
One major advantage, as pointed
out by an international cyclist, is
that the bicycle takes you right to
the door of your classroom
building.
The financial advantages are
impressive also: no gas, no license,
no campus parking sticker, no
speeding tickets and no expensive
upkeep.
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CYCLISTS SEEM to be divided
into two groups: those who are too
broke to afford a car, and those
who are esthetically committed to
the bicycle as others are to sports
cars and motorcycles; it is ''their
thing."
The first category tends toward
refurbished 1950-era models -which
must be slightly rusted to be ac
ceptable. The purists seem almost
wholly to depend on five-speed
English racers, well-polished and
oiled to perfection.
The problems encountered by the
hard-core cyclists this j-ear,
however, seem to be more
numerous than in past years.
'ALL THESE pointy-headed
pseudo-intellectual professors can't
even park their bikes straight,"
jomplained a well-know peddler-about-town.
"Also," pointed out another,
"with the increased enrollment this
year the bike Tacks are overflow
ing." A Daily Nebraskan check of
bike racks around the campus af
firmed this statement, noting that
many bikes had to be leaned up
against walls of buildings or left
lying on the ground.
Larry Grossman, a world
traveler and devout bicycle man,
jffered one hypothesis as to why
more Nebraskans are two.
wheeling it: "Living in the Beef
State, we get an overdose of
cholesterol and the excercise of
peddling helps balance our bodies."
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The total ojerating cost of all
campus dormitories for the fiscal
year 1968, which ended June 30,
was $3.4 million, Soshnik said.
Bryan said the University had to
"cut some corners" on supplies for
the dormitories last year because
the dorms were not completely
filled.
THE FATE of a liberalized on
campus housing policy is based on
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the question of keeping the 5,482
dorm spaces filled.
Student leaders of the move to
implement the policy, w hich would
compel only freshmen to live on
campus, also think that the secter
of even more dorms rising on the
skyline is another problem.
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volved in reviewing candidates,''
Soshnik said.
"I WILL assume and bear the
responsibilities for the academic
and fiscal affairs of the Lincoln
campuses," Soshnik said regarding
his new responsibilities.
In explaining the administrative
reorganization, he said the
chancellor of the University, Dr.
Clifford Hardin, no longer has
direct relationships with the deans
of the four campuses that makeup
the University.
Soshnik said the deans on the
Lincoln campuses will now report
to him as he is responsible to the
Chancellor.
Soshnik is the third president to
be named as a part of the ad
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Unable to afford a haircut or a car? Not at all. This student
Is one of the hardy individuals who is taking advantage of
the least expensive and most healthful means of transpor
tation around.
Bill Gilpin, a student member of
the University Housing Policy
Committee, says that specter could
mean the University is
"overbuilding" dorms.
Some student leaders have ex
pressed a belief that the University
has plans for new dorms in the
making.
But Soshnik said Tuesday that
"no work to date" has been done on
such proposals and that "no plans
are on the drawing boards."
HE SAID, however, that, in ac
cord with the overall plan for
campus expansion, the University
has bought land on the corner of
17th and R that is earmarked for a
dorm complex sometime in the
future.
Soshnik noted that the University
must have permission of the
Nebraska Legislature or the ex
scutive board of the Legislative
Council before it can issue bonds to
build new dorms.
He said there are no plans at
present to seek that permission.
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ministrative reorganization. Dr.
Cecil Wittson and Dr. Kirk Naylor
were appointed early in October by
the Regents as president of the
Omaha Medical Center and presi
dent of the University at Omaha,
respectively.
"IF NOTHING else our
organization is more coherent and
logical," Soshnik said. He added he
hopes the addition of more person
nel will allow more time for
creative thinking and planning by
administrators.
Soshnik said there is no reason to
expect the campuses in Omaha and
Lincoln to become mirror images
of each other under the new struc
ture of the University.