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suggested by Exon and the Board of
Regents.
"It is my belief that the continuation of
this controversy serves no useful purpose,"
he said. It is time voices are lowered and
we turn to the crucial business of identifying
a reasonable and appropriate budget for this
University."
Varner went on to suggest a complete
study of the efficiency of the University of
Nebraska management, paid for on an
equal-share, basis by the University
Foundation and the Legislature, with
recommendations for any changes which
would improve effectiveness.
"THIS WE OWE the taxpayers of the
state," Varner added, "and we would
enthusiastically cooperate in a study of this
kind."
Varners' proposal to budget the
University at the mid-point of the Big Eight
would undoubtedly call for an increase in the
governor's proposed appropriations. The
figure would not, however, approach the
Regent's submitted budget, and University
officials offered no speculative figure as to
what a mid-point budget would come to.
The University of Nebraska currently
ranks sixth in the appropriations per student
at $1,601. The figure puts NU $460 per
student behind the University of Missouri
with only the two Oklahoma schools below
the University. .
VARNER TOLD THE committee the
University was not prepared for the
magnitude of the Exon budget reductions.
He also expressed concern over the quality
of the University.
Varner pointed to figures which show NU
has the highest student-teacher ratio in the
Big Eight, fourth in teacher salaries, sixth in
library facilities, fourth in federal grants and
eighth in adequate graduate school
programs.
The University presentation also included
graphs which showed that NU is the only Big
Eight school whose enrollment has grown
faster than appropriations.
Varner's testimony was supplemented by
Board of Regents President Robert Raun of
Mind en who told the committee that
"though the dollars we have had to work
with have gone up by 313 per cent in the
last decade, the enrollment has increased by
336 per cent and this in a decade when
inflation has taken 31 per cent of each
dollar.
"WE VERY MUCH believe that the
University is a fundamental resource in our
state. We believe that the state will
ultimately prosper and be only as good as its
University.
One student from each of the campuses,
including Medical Center, testified on behalf
of an increased budget. Lincoln campus
student Wally Dean told the committee a
survey of students two years ago revealed
only 30 per cent intended to remain in
Nebraska after graduation. However, a new
survey shows 39 per cent will remain, he
added.
"Because of the past appropriations
support the Legislature has given the
University, more students are planning to
stay in Nebraska," Dean said.
Others urging the committee to increase
the Exon budget for NU included both the
Omaha and Lincoln Chambers of Commerce
and a member of the Nebraska Livestock
Feeders Association.
PLEAS FOR INCREASES in the budget
for the College of Agriculture and Home
Economics received heavy support from
witnesses representing state agriculture
interests.
Bill Krecji, a member of the advisory
council to the agriculture department,
emphasized the contribution of the
University to the state's number one
industry.
"The state needs the University to help in
controlling plant and animal diseases,"
Krecji said. "If the University's contribution
is reduced, all the state agencies will suffer
from reduced tax dollars reflecting reduced
agriculture-incomes."
Krecji reminded the committee that 80
per cent of the income of the state is from
agriculture or agri-business. He urged the
committee to "take a long hard look" at the
budget for the ag school, realize its
importance, and provide adequate funds for
the college.
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I know it sounds crazy, but there's still a chance you might not
flunk out of school. (You're laughing, but it's possible.) It is, however,
a very slim chance and it will require you to do something you've
never done before: take notes.
Why haven't you been taking- notes? I'll tell you why. Let's sup
pose you're at a history lecture. Let's suppose the topic is the ruling
houses of England. You start out fine. You put down the lecturer's'
points one after another with Roman numerals just like you're sup
posed to. Like this:
I. House of Plantagenet
II. House of Lancaster
III. House of York
Then suddenly you stop. You put down your pen. You blink back
a tear. You can't go on. Oh sure, you know the next ruling house is the
House of Tudor. What you don't know is the Roman numeral that
comes after III.
There's the hangup those cruddy Roman numerals! How come
we keep using them when even the Romans didn't know how? Oh, I
guess they could tell you how much V or X were or like that, but when
it came to skullcrackers like LXI or MMC, they just flang away their
styluses and went downtown to have a bath or take in a circus or may
be stab Caesar a few times.
You may wonder why Rome stuck with these ridiculous numerals
when the Arabs had such a nice simple system. Well sir, the fact is that
Emperor Vespasian tried like crazy to buy the Arabic numerals from
the Sultan, Sulieman the Hairy, but Sulieman wouldn't do business
not even when Vespasian raised his bid to 100,000 gold piasters, plus
he offered to throw in the Colosseum, the Appian Way and Charlton
Ilea ton.
So Rome stuck with Roman numerals to it sorrow, as they
found. One day in the Forum, Cicero and Pliny the Elder got to argu
ing about how much is CDL times MVIX. Well sir, pretty soon every
body in town came around to join the hassle. In all the excitement
nobody remembered to lock the north gate and wham! before you
could say are longaia rushed the Goths, the Visigoths and the Green
Bay Packers!
Well sir, that's the way the empire crumbles, but I digress. Let's
get back to lecture notes. Let's also say a word about Miller High Life
Beer because the brewers of Miller High Life Beer sponsor this column
and they're inclined to sulk if I don't mention their product. Natu
rally, they don't sulk long, the brewers of Miller High Life Beer, for
they are ebullient, great-spirited men, as chock-full of sunniness as the
beer they brew. Believe me, I know. Every Tuesday I have lunch with
them at the brewery and I've never seen such a fun place!
The lunches always get off to a rousing start with everybody sing
ing the Miller Pep Song which you all know, of course:
I'm a keg of Miller I'm a keg ofMiUer
I will please yow palate. SogoandgctamaUeL
rm a keg of Miller Tm a keg of Miller
I tnll make you feel young. Andbangawayatmybung.
Well sir, this is only the beginning. Next, everyone gets up In turn
and doe? a hilarious bit. For Instance, Frank Glebe from Hops Control
imitates a chicken; Rex Gransmire from Label Gumming touches his
car with his tongue; Charley Froos from Malt Flow cracks a walnut
in his armpit; Norman Berswang from Fermentation touches his arm
pit with his tongue; a vou see, just one belly-buster after another.
But lunch ends with a tranquil and rather solemn moment. Ed
Gonder, the brewery chaplain, closes the proceedings with an invoca
tion to St. Dintenfass, the patron saint of carbon dioxide, and then
they all return to their work renewed and inspired, just as you too will
be after you too have enjoyed the joys of Miller High Life. Whether
you drink beer every day, every III days, or every VII, you cannot
find a jollier companion than Miller High Life.
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FRIDAY, MARCH 12, 1971
THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
