The Unicameral last week . . .
Increased budget
bv JIM PEDERSEN
Staff Writer
Nebraska legislators have
vowed to wind up this
eighty-second session of the
Unicameral by Memorial Day,
and judging by the flurry of
activity on University-oriented
measures alone over the last
ten days, the senators are
serious about the self-imposed
deadline.
After two months of open
controversy and closed
discussions between University
officials and Gov. J. J. Exon,
the Budget Committee
reported the N.U. budget to
the floor last Thursday. The
committee added about $3.7
million to the Governor's
original recommendations
which still left the total $14.2
million short of the Board of
Regent's request.
Prior to the committee's
action, extensive negotiations
between Exon and the
University resulted in a
compromise of an added $2.3
million. The Budget
Committee by a 5-4 vote,
however, added another $1.3
million which will be covered
partially by an increase in
non-resident tuition of $273
per year.
Exon and Chancellor D. B.
Varner had agreed on
appropriations for UNO and
the University Medical Center.
The increased budget
recommendations would go
primarily to the Lincoln
campus. The instructional
program here, for instance, was
awarded an additional $1.3
million.
THE ADDED FUNDS
recommended by the Budget
Committee will need 33 votes
to become law.
In floor action, the
Legislature gave second round
approval to a bill authorizing
cigaret excise tax
appropriations for a new
University fieldhouse. The
measure received approval by a
Pollution, a worldwide
problem, will be dealt with on
the individual basis this week.
In its second year, Earth
Day will be observed in
Lincoln and all over the United
States Thursday. At
demonstrations and seminars in
scores of communities the
message will be the same: only
concerned individuals can save
the earth.
President Richard M. Nixon
and 40 governors have
proclaimed this week as Earth
Week, an expanded version of
Earth Day first celebrated a
year ago Thursday.
Lincoln Mayor Sam
Schwartzkopf named the
following week (April 26-May
2) as Clean-up Week. Lincoln
Citizens for Environmental
Improvement are providing six
sites around the city for
citizens to deposit aluminum
and selected paper for
recycling into usable products.
Workers are needed to take
the trash to designated sites.
Those interested in helping can
contact Bruce or Diane
Beecher at 472-2583, or 332
Nebraska Union.
Unlike last year's Earth Day
close 26-7 vote as compared to
the first round vote of 41-3.
Sen. Richard Proud of
Omaha continually attempted
to alter or kill the bill. His
attempts to earmark the funds
for projects other than the
fieldhouse including the
general fund, (failed 15-21), NU
medical school tuition (failed
14-21), and a new NU law
college (failed 11-27). A
motion to kill the bill was also
rejected 10-31.
The senators did approve an
amendment appropriating
$695,000 for a recreation
building at the Beatrice State
Home. The appropriation,
which passed 44-0, is to be
taken from the fieldhouse half
of the added excise tax.
THE BILL IS certain to
meet further opposition when
it is read for the third and final
time and Exon's statement that
he is "uncertain" about the
measure leaves open the
possibility of a veto.
The Legislature gave first
round approval to a
comprehensive community
college bill and took steps to
appropriate funds for the
proposed colleges.
Wilcox Sen. Wayne
Ziebarth's bill would establish
district colleges funded entirely
by the state. The community
colleges would replace the
existing system of
vocational-technical and junior
colleges. The measure advanced
by a 32-8 vote.
At the same time, the
Legislature forced a bill out of
the Revenue Committee which
increases taxes on certain types
of liquor and earmarks the
funds for the community
colleges. LB 66 is sponsored by
Sen. Terry Carpenter of
Scottsbluff.
Omaha Sen. Ernie
Chamber's bill to outlaw
corporal punishment in
Nebraska's schools was killed
decisively on final reading by a
vote of 12-34.
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which was observed with large
demonstrations, this year there
will be discussions and
cleanups.
Thursday, the University
will start a three-day program
of speakers,' displays, movies,
slide shows and workshops
featuring a geodesic dome. The
program, called Earth Day Plus
Two, will be held at the
Sheldon Sculpture Garden.
Keynote speaker will be Jim
Wilson, editor of Grassland
magazine and nationally noted
lecturer on on ecology. He will
speak at 8 p.m. Wednesday in
the Westbrook Music Building.
Another series of speakers
will talk Friday at 1:30 p.m.
Movies and slides will be shown
from 8 p.m. to midnight on the
Woods Art Building media
wall.
A kite workship and a mass
bicycle ride to Pioneers Park at
2 p.m. will be Saturday's
program.
On the state level. Gov. J. J.
Exon has proclaimed April as
Environmental Action Month
and the Unicameral has passed
a resolution urging the people
of the state to participate in
the activities. Official projects
bill advances from committee
THE ANTI-CORPORAL
punishment measure had
scraped through two earlier
readings with marginal support.
On the final vote many of the
earlier supporters abandoned
the bill.
The Unicameral also dealt
with three resolutions over the
last ten days.
Sen. Gerald Stromer of
Kearney introduced a
resolution extending well
wishes to The Courier
newspaper being published by
the CommittSe for
Undisrupted Edication,
conservative NU student group.
The resolution failed to
generate much interest,
however, and fell short of
receiving the necessary 25
votes for approval. Senators
voted 16-13 to approve.
Two other resolutions failed
to gain Legislative approval,
one calling for United States
military withdrawal from
Indochina by April 1 and
another offering satirical praise
to Lt. William Calley.
Chambers offered the ironic
Calley resolution which said
Calley had been carrying out
offical national policy at My
Lai and asked that
Calley be promoted and
awarded the Congressional
Medal of Honor, Cape
Kennedy be renamed Cape
Calley, and Calley's killing of
civilians be commemorated as
exemplifying "American
concepts of valorand heroism."
The resolution failed, 41-1.
CHAMBERS SAID later
that "they (the Legislature)
were made self conscious and
embarrassed by the bluntness
of the resolution. It showed
them what they had done in
passing the first one supporting
Calley."
The Legislature also failed
to approve Neligh Sen. John
DeCamp's Indochina
withdrawal resolution by a
lop-sided vote to kill, 33-1 1 .
DeCamp said he was
include a statewide clean-up
and tree planting campaign
along with the recycling of
glass and paper.
The six sites in Lincoln
where citizens may deposit
aluminum, newspapers, brown
paper bags and heavy
corrugated cardboard boxes
are:
Leon's
Food Mart,
Rathbone
Village, paper and
aluminum.
Treasure
Store, 48th
aluminum.
City
and
Safeway
Leigh ton,
Jack and Jill Store, Belmont
Shopping Center, aluminum.
Hinky Dinky, 25th and O.
paper and aluminum.
Nebraska Wesleyan
University practice football
field, 53rd and Huntington,
paper and aluminum.
Although special programs
are planned and massive
clean-up operations will be
conducted, the emphasis for
Earth Day is still the individual
effort. Cleaning up the yard,
sweeping the sidewalk, riding a
bike instead of a car, planting a
flower, painting a fence and
thanking a green plant are
what Earth Day is all about.
"stunned and shocked" that
the Judiciary Committee
refused to give the resolution a
public hearing. He vowed to
hold a hearing on the
resolution on May 5 on the
Capitol steps "if this is the
only way it can receive a public
hearing."
Chambers and Carpenter
added their names to
sponsorship of the resolution
with DeCamp before a vote
was taken. Both senators are
on the Judiciary Committee
with DeCamp, but apparently
could not persuade Chairman
RolandLuedtke or the other
members of the eight-man
committee to schedule an open
hearing.
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The vote on the motion to
kill the resolution was:
For: Carsten, Carstens,
Clark, Craft, Elrod, Epke,
Goodrich, Hasebroock,
Kennedy, Keyes, Klaver,
Kokes, Lewis, Luedtke,
Maresh, Marvel, Moylan, Nore,
Orme, Proud, Savage, Schmit,
Snyder, Stahmer, Stromer,
Stull, Swanson, Syas, Waldo,
Wallwey, Warner, Whitney,
Viltse.
Against: Barnett, Burbach,
Carpenter, Chambers, DeCamp,
Lime, Mahoney, Morgan,
Simpson, Skarda, Waldron.
Not Voting: Duis,
Holmquist, Johnson, Kremer,
Ziebarth.
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 21, 1971
THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
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