Exob, Regents
student
side by side':
by JOHN DVORAK
Nebra.skan Staff Writer
An old song popular in the
1230s ix'gan: "Ob we ain't got a
barrel of money. . ."
While hardly anyone re
members the title to that
tune nowadays ("Side by
Side"), deans, directors and
department chairman at the
University of Nebraska, are
fearing that the first phrase of
that old rhyme is right m step
with the TO's, especially now
that J. J. Exon will be moving
into the governor's mansion
next month.
The governor-elect seems to
have adopted the "Oh we ain't
got a barrel of money theme
as one of bis philosophies f
state government
"Unrealistic' and "way out
of line are the ways Exon has
described NU's request for
$123.8 million in state funds for
the 1971-1973 bieimium. That
figure is 53 per cent higher
than what the institution is
taking from state coffers this
biennhmv
Exon cannot be accused of
picking on the University. He
has applied his "money" theme
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Sir Basil Liddell, who died
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"unwise and short-sighted" de
mand once the tide had turned
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to all other, facets cf state
government as well.
"It's a matter of priorities,"
Exon said in an Interview with
The Nebraskan.
"The voters ef Nebraska
spoke loudly and clearly in the
last election,' he said. "One
thing they asked for is a slow
dowa in the rapidly expanding
cost ef education."
He pointed out that two in
cumbent members of the Board
of Regents suffered defeat at
the hands ot supposedly more
conservative men. The voters
rejected an incumbent
governor who had the reputa
tion of being a big spender.
And incumbent state senators
fell like leaves in autumn.
So it may be expected that
the city campus will be red
wim blood from cuts the
University budget will sustain
between now and its expected
mid-1971 passage.
"How do you justify a 53 per
cent budget increase in one
year's time? Exon asked.
The veteran Democrat vowed
to cut the "frills" in the NU
budgetary request.
But what are the frills?
Exactly what should be cut
from the budget?
Exon would not say.
"I don't know exactly where
to draw the line on what are
frills . . . The administration
and faculty have to help decide
where the budget should be cot.
It would be unfair to get into
specific areas of the budget
One fairly specific area that
Exon spoke against was "ex
panding into new areas
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2, 1970
academically mat we ought not
be in,"
He mentioned the con
troversial course on homophile
studies as one course that could
be abolished for budget
reasons.
That in itself won't make a
big dent in the budget," he ad
mitted. "But it would be one
little step towards bringing the
budget back in line."
"It's easy to propose and
implement new programs," he
lamented. "When money is
plentiful, they are desirable."
"For example, I would like to
see oar University have a
coarse in veterinary
medicine.' Exon said. "It's an
area that is especially ap
plicable to rural Nebraska, but
w Just can't afford it at this
time."
He suggested that perhaps
Centennial to fill
open positions
The Centennial Educational
Program has a small umber of
openings for second semester
1970-71. The openings will be
filled by random selection from
applicants.
The deadline for applications
in Centennial is Dec. IS.
Additional information and
application forms are available
at the Centennial College office.
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courses with only tiny
enrollments might also be
abolished to save money.
But, again be stressed mat
he is not prepared to say ex
actly what courses should be
done away with.
Obviously the NU budget
(which totals $199.1 million
with the addition of non-tax in
come) would have to be trim
med in other non-academic
areas to bring it down to Ex
on's idea of a "little more
realistic" figure. He would not
say exactly what that figure
should be.
The governor-elect and
several of his aids recently
conferred wi-h Chancellor D. .
Vainer, Board of Regents
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President Robert Raun and
other NU officials.
Exon said little about the
results of the meeting, but he
indicated that other meetings
will be held in the future.
"I'm not anti-education, I'm
for education," Exon em
phasized, who was a political
science and business student
for two years at the former
University of Omaha.
"I will be reasonable as
governor, and I'm sure the
Chancellor and Regents want to
be helpful too," Exon said.
"But we must remember that
higher education is paid for
primarily by the taxpayers and
it's a privilege, not a right, to
attend college."
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