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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1970
LINCOLN, NEBRASKA
VOL. 94, NO. 1.
Varaer proposes
Students were greeted on the
first day of classes Monday by
Chancellor Durward B. Varner
recommending sharp tuition
increases for 1971-73 and saying
the University is not holding its
own relative to other institu
tions. The Chancellor recommend
ed tuition for resident student3
taking 12-16 hours at the Lin
coln campus be increased 21
per cent from $229 to $267.50 a
semester. Students taking more
than 16 hours will have to pay
$18 for each additional credit
hour.
The tuition increases were
part of a $199.6 million
University budget adopted by
the Board of Regents Monday.
The proposed University
budget, asking for $123.8
million in state funds for the
NU policeman says
M&N door unlocked
by GARY SEACREST
Nabraskan Staff Wrltw
Two Campus Police officers
said Tuesday they can identify
the students who forcibly
opened the door of the Military
and Naval Science Building last
May 4th, but questions remain
concerning the nature of the
forceful entry.
Both Captain Gail Gade and
Lt. Ken Markle refused to
divulge names of students In
volved in the forceful entry.
However, Markle said the door
in which the students entered
"was not locked by key" but
instead was held secure by
campus policemen inside the
building.
The Board of Regents Mon
day directed Chancellor
Durward B. Varner and Lin
coln Campus President Joseph
Soshnik "to exhaust every
means available to Identify the
student or students who
forcibly opened the door" of the
M&N Building last May 4th.
The regents also ordered that
those students so Identified be
promptly reported civil author
ities for appropriate action
and that university disciplinary
proceedings be intiated Immed
iately. MARKLES STORY runs
contrary to the account of the
forceful entry into the MiN
Building by the Spelts Com
mission, which Investigated the
disruptive actions on the Lin
coln Campus last spring.
Markle said he was not In
terviewed by the Commission
concerning the occupation of
the M&N Building.
The Spelt3 Commission
report stated that students
"attempted to gain entrance
and when they found the doors
locked, one student was able to
pull on one of the doors with
1971-73 biennium, will have to
be approved by the 1971
Legislature.
Despite the tuition hikes,
students on the Lincoln cam
puses will be paying the same
share of operating costs of the
University for 1971-73 as they
are now. Students at Lincoln
pay about 35 per cent of the
total cost of their education,
according to Varner.
THE CHANCELLOR said
Tuesday the increases in tuition
were not intended to limit
enrollment, but were due to
inflation and a desire bo im
prove the University.
However, in an effort not to
price students out of the
market, the Lincoln and
Omaha campuses will create
special funds to aid students
who can't afford the increased
sufficient strength to break the
lock." The Commission also re
ported that after the lock was
broken, a campus policemen
"pushed the leading students
back and held the door dosed
momentarily until greater
force outside pulled it open."
Flavel A. Wright, a
University attorney, said
Tuesday that it would make
some difference legally if the
door was not locked. The Spelts
Commission concluded that a
violation of law occurred when
the lock was broken by the
unidentified student.
Besides the question of the
forceful entry, the Commission
report admits that a legal
question may exist whether the
first students who entered the
Building were knowingly
trespassing in entering a
University building during a
time when it would normally
have been open.
THE REGENTS also Monday
ordered administrators to refer
to the proper faculty committee
the question of whether sane
tions should be applied to
Stephen L. Rozman, professor
of Political Science, because of
his actions and utterances
during the May disturbances.
The Spelts Commission had
earlier concluded that
Iiozman's actions in the May
demonstrations "were highly
inappropriate for a teacher.'
What's Inside
Faculty committee studies
Regents' refusal to hire
Michael Davis, University of
Michigan graduate assistant
who led a student demonstra
tion at Michigan University.
See Page 2.
tuition, according to Varner.
He added that $160,000 is pro
posed to go into the Lincoln
fund for hardship students.
The University is asking the
Legislature for 53 per cent
more state funds than it is
receiving in the current bien
nium. However, Varner believes the
budget will survive cuts "if the
University can demonstrate to
the governor and the
Legislature that the budget can
begin to achieve its three main
goals."
The Chancellor said the three
main goals of the budget will
be to help build the state of
Nebraska, to reverse the out
migration of Nebraska youth
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tuition hike
and to make NU the finest
university in the area.
However, Varner said these
goals will not be easy to
achieve and will probably be a
part of a ten-year program.
Varner justified the increas
ed budget by stating, "I now
believe that the University of
Nebraska holds the key to the
future well-being of the State."
Asked what affect the spring
demonstrations at the Lincoln
campus would have on the ex
panded budget, Varner said:
"THE MAY UNREST will
not help us. How much carry
over damage there will be,
time can only tell. I hope the
Legislature realizes that to
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penalize us for last spring is
not the solution to the pro
blem." The Chancellor backed up his
claim that the University is
falling behind other schools by
pointing out:
NU ranks sixth among Big
Eight schools in federal grants
and contracts received in
,1969.
NU ranks 43rd among 47
schools of the American
Association of Universities
(AAU) in average full-time
faculty salaries.
NU ranks 46th among those
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