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Interim
Board
considers
confab
The Interim Arbitration Board will
hold a public hearing Wednesday at 7
p.m. in the Nebraska Union to consider
issues raised by the proposed World in
Revolution Conference.
The Board, established by the Board
of Regents, has the authority to release
student fees funds presently frozen for
the conference.
At a Council on Student Life meeting
Tuesday, Ely Meyerson, interim executive
dean of StudentAffiars and Arbitration
Board member, said the board is charged
with determining if the conference best
serves the interests of the University
community and is well-balanced in its
representation of views.
During the first 30 minutes of the
meeting any member of the University
community can make a five-minute
presentation to the Board, Meyerson said.
In its first meeting this semester, the
Council decided not to make a statement
on the conference Issue but agreed to
instruct its subcommmittee on student
fees to provide the Arbitration Board
with any pertinent information.
The Council will hold an open meeting
with Chacellor-elect James H. Zumberge
on his first day in office Feb. 1 at 7 p.m.
in the Nebraska Union to discuss CSL's
functions and past actions, according to
Eldridge.
The University Senate's Committee on
Committees also will be present at the
meeting to discuss its relationship with
the Council.
Although faculty members on CSL
subcommittees are to be appointed by
the Committee on Committees, the
Committee has asked that CSL take the
responsibility.
In other action, the Council decided to
determine if a policy change has been '
made by the Health Center on issuing
birth control pills to students. Samuel I.
Fuenning, medical director of the Health
Center, will be invited to the Feb. 8 CSL
meeting to explain if and why the policy
change was made, Eldridge said.
CSL member Mike Berns told the
Council that birth control pills are no
longer issued to woman students unless
they are married or planning to be
married.
CSL member John Humlicek said
Fuenning told him that the policy
decision was made because of the
controversy over birth control
information on campus and the concern
by several members of the Board of
Regents.
In November Fuenning told the Daily
Nebraskan that women are considered for
contraceptive pills whether or not they
! are married.
The woman is counseled and makes
her own decision concerning
contraceptives," Fuenning said. "We
; simply make sure the individual knows
what she wants and determine if it is
medically advisable to prescribe
contraceptives."
Several Council members questioned
whether doctors could be bound by a
policy statement in prescribing any pills.
However, CSL member Debby Loers
said there have been some incidents
where nurses refuse to let women who
aren't married or planning marriage see
the doctors for birth control information.
Unicamera
yanks
bogged
budget bill
The Nebraska Legislature moved Tuesday morning to force
the stalled 1972-73 appropriations bill from the
Appropriations Committee to the floor of the Unicameral.
One a vote of 32-9, senators approved Lincoln Sen. Harold
Simpson's motion to call up the measure, which provides
funds to operate state government for the year beginning July
1, 1972.
The committee's bill recommends that the Nebraska receive
$46.3 million from the state's general fund. That figure
represents a $3.2 million increase over the figure allocated to
the University last year.
The $46.3 million recommendation by the committee is
just below Gov. J. James Exon's $47.1 million proposal. Both
are less than the University's request of $50 million.
On a state-wide budget, the committee recommended a
total fiscal budget of $196.5 million. That figure is only
slightly higher than Exon's request which totaled $195.3
million.
The present fiscal year's state operating budget is $188.6
million.
According to Hastings Sen. Richard Marvel, who
encouraged Tuesday's action, the budget has been
substantially ready since Dec. 15. Several attempts, the most
recent being Jan. 13, have failed to advance the bill to the
Legislature's floor.
Five votes are necessary to advance the bill but only four
committee members have sought to do so.
The five members representing the other ideological side
sought instead to force, by motion, a Tuesday afternoon
meeting of the committee and attempt once again to
reconsider the bill.
These five members are Sens. John Savage and David
Svahmer of Omaha, Wayne Ziebarth of Wilcox, E. Thome
Johnson of Fremont and Fern Orme of Lincoln.
The dividing issue seems the flixibility in budgeting. The
four-member minority which includes Marvel, wants budgeting
by programs with specifications as how funds should be spent.
The oppostion opinion which Exon supports,
contends that agencies and departments should be given
money with some flexibility as to how it is spent.
What has especially upset the majority of the members has
been Marvel's refusal to call a meeting of the whole committee
since Jan. 13, and his cancellation of a meeting which had
been scheduled for last Thursday.
Savage moved Tuesday to force a Tuesday afternoon
committee meeting saying he wanted a full committee session
"instead of discussing our problems in the daily press. 'We had
been working together since September and then strangely we
fell apart," Marvel said.
Simpson said the reason he acted to bring the bill out of
committee was so that committee members might "heal the
wounds within."
Orme, who had objected to Sen. Herb Hore's
statement that "some real heavy armtwisting and high level
lobbying by the Lincoln delegation" had taken place within
the committee, urged the committee try to settle their
differences.
'There have been days we could have met," Orme
said.
Scottsbluff Sen. Terry Carpenter successfully moved that
consideration begin next Tuesday on the ominibus
appropriations bill.
Baby kissing. . .State Sen. Wayne Ziebarth of Wilcox hit the
campaign trail for the first time in the Nebraska Union
Monday, shaking hands and talking with students. Ziebarth is
running for the Democratic nomination for the Senate in a
field of six candidates.
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