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.1 Irl" 'itin - n n O Pi eT" ITQ Tt fllQ I I WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1968 LINCOLN, NEBRASKA VOL 92, NO. 43 Budget submitted; effect on MJ not. known Gov. Norbert Tiemann told state senators in a letter Tuesday that his budget recommendations for the next bienium will total approx imately $340 to $345 million. The Governor sent the letter along with an official proclamation calling the Legislature into special session next Monday. THE AGENDA of that special session will include Tiemann's re quest that the Legislature amend the Revenue Act of 1967 to prevent the two and one half per cent sales and use tax rate from being lowered as scheduled to two per cent on Jan. 1. That piece of legislation would have to be passed as an emergency clause to go into effect. Emergency clause legislation requires at least 33 affirmative votes. TIEMANN SAID in his letter that his executive budget request was not completed yet. He hopes to make public the budget figures of . all agencies by Monday. "Salaries, - including those of University personnel, have been limited to increases of five per cent a year," the Governor wrote. The Board of Regents adopted a budget request of five per cent in creases for personnel salaries. University officials explained in October . that the personnel in creases asked for in the University request were aimed at bringing the average faculty salary closer to the national average. IT WILL not be known till Mon day, when Tiemann's budget is released, how his cuts affect the nine per cent faculty salary in crease asked for in the University budget. For the current fiscal biennium the Legislature authorized $268 million in general fund appropria tions and transfers. At $345 million, Tiemann's budget would require a two-year general fund appropriation increase of $77 million. Revenue projections by the Governor's office show the general fund would have net resources of at least $358 million for the next bien nium if current sales, income and excise tax rates are maintained at the current level. TIEMANN ANNOUNCED earlier this year that if the sales tax rate does drop back to two per cent on Jan, 1, the available general fund resources for the next biennium will be only $321 million. This would be short of Tiemann's nearly $350 million recommendations. "Only where there has been demonstrated overwhelming de mand," will the budget include new services, Tiemann wrote legislators. He said he anticipates the crea tion of a state higher education coordinating council. He added he recommends the elimination of the position of coordinator of state normal schools. it hJfL J Practice continues for Electra, an ancient play by Euripides, in which Electra plots to kill her mother whom she holds re sponsible for the death of her father. It will be presented by the University Theatre Dec. 6 through 20. Greek coup ends Shakespearean monopoly; English playwright hows to tragic upstaging by Larry Eckholt Nebraskan Staff Writer Greek tragedy returns to the University stage after an absence of 15 years. has this CMiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiim in?r:v 1 ? l , 'I ( h 7 . 1 I. ' I ' 1 . ! Euripides' "Electra" redaced Shakespeare for season's classical production.' "WE THOUGHT it would be a pleasant change to produce a Greek play this season," Dallas Williams, director of the University Theatre, said. "We have neglected it too long." The play depicts Electra's mad dened desire to avenge the death of her father, Agamemnon. Together with her brother Orestes, they strike out against the believed murderers, their mother, Clytemnestra, and her lover, Written in the Fifth Century B.C. the play is traditionally given in Greek costuming and on an Athe nian setting, according to Royal Eckert, stage and costume designer for the University production. BUT THE Howell show will be set in its actual historical setting. "We have gone back to the Mycenean Era for the setting and the costumes," he said- Eckert is in his first year at University Theatre. He was formerly -set designer for the Omaha Community Playhouse. Eckert used recent archeological research on the Myceneans as a basis for his design. "MANY PEOPLE may be surprised with some of the cos tumes," Eckert said. He explained that the helmets worn by some of the soldiers, for instance, may look like Viking helmets, but they are actually reconstructions of real Mycenean headgear. "The Mycenean Era was just coming out of the Bronze Age," Eckert said, "so we have utilized a good deal of bronze and leather in the men's clothing." THE ACTUAL setting is "formalized," the designer said, because it is not strict realism since the play is not strict realism. "There is talk of the wrath of the gods and other mythical allusions," Eckert said. "We must keep the set within the framework of the play." A painted backdrop, with a representation of Agamemnon's Palace, is being used within the setting, which may surprise some members of the audience, he add ed. "BACKDROPS are not very popular now," Eckert said. "But we thought it could be the best possible way to- suggest the al lusions to royalty which are evident in the play, but not explicit." The palace has been depicted from actual drawings made from research, he said. The dramatization of Electra's revenge will be accompanied by original music by Eugene O'Brien, a graduate student in music. A series of stylistic dances have been choreographed by drama students Barbara Bowman and Richard Marsh. The play will be presented Dec. 6 8, 12-14, 19 and 20. Curtain time is 8 p.m. at Howell Theatre. Reservations can be made at the University Theatre Box Office. Second semester staff positions open Applications for interviews for editorial positions on the Daily Nebraskan are available at the Nebraskan office, Room 51, Student Union. Second semester positions being interviewed by the University's Board of Student Publications this month are Editor, News Editor, Managing Editor and Business Manager. Interviews, scheduled for the week of Dec. 16, are open to all full time students who are eligible to take part in student activities. Applications should be turned in to Editor Jack Todd by Friday, Dec. 13. Other staff position in terviews will be announced at a later date. Conscientious objector Abbott faces trial in Lincoln after Christmas i u r Beautiful Baluchitherium I A 'mammouth' task nears completion. Roger Vandiver, sculpter of a life-size reproduction of I a Baluchitherium, stands besides a smaller model of his subject. Vandiver was hired espe- I daily for the job which has been in the planning stages for many years. The 18' by 20' re- 1 production will be the newest addition to the Morrill Hall collection. Aiding Vandiver in his I job are Donald Martin and Charles Messenger. illinium iiiiiiiiiniiiiiii iiiiiiiiiiniiiiMiM iiiiiiiiiiRiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiim iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinii u miiiiiit hiiiiiih niiiiiiiiiiimiif; Formula for student power gain A former University student, who once ran for ASUN President, ex pects to stand trial in Lincoln after Christmas for his refusal to serve in the military. Steve Abbott, now a graduate student in English at Emory University in Atlanta, Ga., refused induction in Oct. 1967, after his re quest for conscientious objector status was denied by Nebraska draft boards. ABBOTT, OUT.. on $500 bond posted jointly by a classmate and the chairman of the Emory department of English, said in Atlanta last week that a Georgia federal court had agreed to shift the trial to Nebraska because most of Abbott's witnesses are in this state. He said no date for the trial had i6fl Set Abbott refused to step forward for induction into the Army in Atlanta after he failed in a year's fight to gain status as a conscien tious objector. HE SAID last week that his ap plication for CO status was based on religious grounds. A Roman Catholic, he spent two years in a Catholic seminary. "Even if I were an atheist, I would be a pacifist on moral or political grounds," he said. A Lincoln native, Abbott was a leader in several student movements at the University. He ran unsuccessfully for ASUN president against Terry Schaaf and later served as a student senator. Abbott was also involved in the establishment of the Nebraska Free University and with the campus literary magazine Scrip. Abbott taught English in an Iowa school before going to Emory. He was elected president of the Emory student body last spring, shortly after he was indicted for refusal to serve in the Armed Forces. A University-Emory fund drive to aid Abbott's legal fees brought in more than the needed amount last spring. by Susan Jenkins Nebraskan Staff Writer Acquisition of student power at the University will probably be an easier process here than at the more "activist" campuses like Columbia and Berkeley, according to Dr. Alan P. Bates, chairman of the sociology department. "While Nebraska is not exactly at the forefront of student activism, students here are probably faced with an administration and faculty receptive to exploratory dialogue with students," Bates said. "Students can help to charge University policy," Bates said. "The University administration basn't gone as far as It is prepared to go in meeting students on cam pus issues. "IF STUDENTS really want to be treated as adults on the campus, they should realize that there are also limits on the powers of adults," he said. . As long as the administrators don't say in effect "go away and don't bother us," students should keep testing these limits in a liberal -tradition. "There is a point where I believe that faculty and administration should not give up their perogatives, and I am prepared to argue that point," he said. Bates praised Arts and Sciences College Dean C. Peter McGrath for taking the initiative to "get students involved at the committee level in our college." "MOKE PEOPLE are willing to talk in this type of situation than students realize," he said. Even with a greatly innovative faculty, the American university is one of U.S. society's most con servative institutions, Bates said. "Besides this, Nebraska has several factors that contribute to campus conservatism," he said. These he listed as:, the type of student constituency, which con sists mostly of students from this state; a definite regional con servative factor; and. thai the campus is not located in a major metropolis. "STUDENT ACTIVISM centers, by and large, are in communities where social problems are festering worst," he said. "If I could push a button and put this same university in the middle of a city with one million popula tion, the ratio of campus activists would be quite similar to that of campuses in cities larger than Lincoln," he said. Bates thinks that student demands for more power are "healthy" signs on U.S. campuses. "I don't think that student ac tivism is a flash in the pan na tionally," he said. "Especially at Nebraska, I think student demands can be worked out without- the violence that has accompanied change on other campuses," J ' . - . t W j" , . -. tmm rrtir'rmriinrrt"--M i r " ; ., ' Prometheus was here? The mythological bringer of fire has brougUUi V) the remodled Crib's fireplace. 7- ft' I: f '. I- ?- H la i -a