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Regents approve intramural development, summer budget The University intramural athletic program, which has long suffered from shortages of facilities, was given a boost Monday when the Board of Regents approved the develop ment of new recreational areas on the City Campus. The areas will be located east of 17th St. between R and Vine and the area between 14th and , 16th Street, immediately south . of the Harper-Schramm-Smith dormitory complex. President Joseph Soshnik said Monday that the areas will : Include open fields for Jn tramnrals and informal; recreation. He added that one of the areas will have tennis courts. 1 Kermit McMurry, director of intramurals and recreation, said, "the new areas will help our program immensely. This will demonstrate to students that we are doing something to improve intramurals and recreation." Budget covers peak enrollment The Regents Monday also approved a $1.6 million budget Monday to accommodate a projected record enrollment of 13,500 students in 2 five and one-half week sessions on the Lincoln campuses this sum mer. President Joseph Soshnik said the budget assumes an enrollment increase of '405 students compared to last year. This figure is based on an an ticipated 8,000 students in the first session and 5,500 students in the second session. The approved 1971 budget represents an Increase of $190,758 over a year ago. Classes for the first session in 1971 will begin June 7 and end -July 14 with summer com mencement exercises. The se cond session will begin July 15 and end Aug. 20. i Since the summer program in 1967, summer enrollment has increased more than 100 per cent from 6,307 in 1967 to 13,095 in 1970. "We are particularly pleased to note t)that the continued development of our summer " programs is making it possible to better meet the needs of Nebraska students and to achieve greater use of facilities around the year," Soshnik said. I CONGRATULATE THE CORNHUSKERS by signing the worlds longest telegram. Sign up in the Nebraska Union. 15c$ignotort Sponsored by CORN COSS Regent protests, plans continue Despite the protests of Regent Richard L. Herman of Omaha, the Board of Regents selected architects to conduct pre-planning for a new field house and home economics building for the Lincoln cam pus. Herman claimed it was "wrong" for a "lame-duck" board to take action three weeks before four newly elected Regents take office. The Omaha Regent cast the lone dissenting vote when the Board named Davis-Clark and Associates of Lincoln to begin planning for the f ieldhouse and again when Harold Hoskins and Associates of Lincoln was chosen to make preliminary plans for the home economics building. The planning projects mU be financed from a $60,000 ap propriation by the 196 9 Legislature. Colombia to be 'phased put' It was also announced Mon day that the University is beginning to "phase out" its four-year-old technical assistance program in agriculture and home economics to Columbia, South America. The Regents agreed to authorize execution of a new contract with the Colombian government for an additional 18 months. Continuation of the program will be financed by a loan of $1,300,000 from the U.S. Agency for International Development, and by funds provided by Colombia, the W. K. Kellogg Foundation and the Ford Foundation. Although NU is the con tracting agency for the pro gram, no Nebraska tax money is used in its operation. A mission from Nebraska works in Colombia and young Colombians attend American universities, including NU. In other action Monday, the Regents: Appointed Walter K. Beggs as professor of educational ad ministration and history and philosophy of education ef fective Sept. 1, 1971. Beggs is retiring as dean of the Teachers College, a post he has held since 1953. Robert L. Egbert of Washington, D.C., will become the new Teachers College dean July 1, 1971. Approved the resignations of William E. Hall, professor of history and philosophy of education, and Sam Weinstein, professor and chairman of orthodontics, effective Feb. 1. Hall is accepting a position with Selection Research, Inc., and Weinstein is accepting a position at the University of Connecticut. It? tost- & Mrs. ChauS f CD TT O O O ii J? 15 cn 3 Now open on Wednesday and Thursday nites until Christmas. P.S. Free coffee and free gift wrapping. 3" 6 J3 Undergrad library open during dead week, finals The undergraduate library in Nebraska Hall will probably be open until 2 a.m. during dead week and finals. Council on Student Life memiber Lynn Webster told Tuesday's CSL meeting that everything appeared to be "go" for the late hours although the final dtcision has not been made. Love library will not have late hours, CSL chairman John W. Robinson asked Webster to direct the matter to the ASUN Library Committee for further action. Webster also suggested the formation ol a calendar board to produce weekly and monthly calendars of campus activities. He reported that the existing calendar operations is short of money, personnel and an nouncements for the calen dar. Rohert D. Brown, who is working wiih the Counseling Service and coordinating research in the office of Stu dent Affairs discussed student life at the University. CSL and Brown exchanged questions and observations about student life and problems. Ramblers ramble v The University of Nebraska Ramblers will present a slide show on caving and Long's Peak, Thursday, Dec. 17th in the Union at 7:30 p.m. In time for Christmas Gifts! Fit toppers PAUL RESSLER PANTS MALE PANTS VESTS SHIRTS OPEN WEDNESDAY and THURSDAY! NIGHTS TIL 9! AT THE Right on Campus 13th & R St. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 1 6, 1 970 THE NEBRASKAN PAGE 3