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Regents
consider
tuition
increase
A proposed tuition hike for next year,
budgets, budget increases and salary
equalization measures all found their way
onto Board of Regents' agendas during
summer meetings.
At the urging of ASUN president Bruce
Beecher, the board steered away from a
modified tuition proposal, projected to cost
UNL students an extra $416,912 beginning
next school year.
Although final action is expected on a
new tuition schedule at the regents' meeting
in September, the board has tentatively
endorsed a plan which would cost students
an additional $376,805.
The plan eliminates the single $216
charge for students taking 13 through 16
hours.
Tentative tuition increase
Instead, students will pay half the cost of
those hours, or $9 per hour for residents and
$24.12 for non-residents, on top of the base
charge for 12 hours.
Prior to a plea by Beecher, the board was
headed toward adopting a plan which would
have lowered the cost of credit hours to $17
each for residents ($46 for non-residents)
and simply charged students for each hbur
they took.
A table of the proposed tuition schedule
for resident students taking 12 hoUrs or
more looks like this:
Hours
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
Present Cost
$216
216
216
216
216
234
252
270
288
Proposed Cost
$216
225
234
243
252
270
288
306
342
Budget proposals
In other summer action, the
administration submitted a $95.9 million
1973-74 budget for regent study.
The administration budget calls for a
total fund increase of $11.5 million over
1972-73. The proposed budget includes an
$8.8 million increase in state tax funds, or
18.8 per cent over the 1972-73 allocation.
The board refused to take action on the
proposed budget at the August meeting, and
instead directed administrators to return
with three budget alternatives at its
September meeting.
Alternative budgets
The first alternative is the recommended
administrative budget with the tuition
schedule change.
The second, at the direction of Omaha
Regent Kermit Hansen, will have a $2
million cut out of it. Most of the trimming is
to come from the tax fund support segment,
segment.
The third alternative is another
administration-proposed budget which
would include some development projects
suggested by University President D.B.
Varner.
The first alternative, the one presented to
the board at the August meeting, included a
total fund hike of $5.4 million for the UNL
campus-an 11 per cent increase.
The administration also presented regents
with a $10,375 UNL capital construction
budget, which includes a new law college
and life science and veterinary science
buildings.
Salary equalization
In other budget action, the board okayed
an $83.7 million system-wide operatiort
budget for 1972-73, including an estimated
$300,000 to equalize women's salaries on
the three campuses.
The women's salary Increases include 209
administrative, academic and non-academic
employes on the UNL campus.
The total 1972-73 UNL budget is $47.
million, up 5.4 per cent from last year. j
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1972
DAILY NEBRASKAN
Board adopts new
residency guidelines
New residency guidelines adopted by the Board of Regents
this summer mean several hundred UNL students who
formerly paid non-resident tuition won't have to this year,
according to admissions director John E. Aronson.
Aronson said students who meet new requirements have
until about September 18 to file change of residency forms if
they want to avoid being charged non-resident tuition this fall.
Non-resident tuition for full-time undergraduate students
including fees, is $630.50 for those taking between 12 and 16
hours. Residents pay $267.50.
Aronson said students wishing to change from non-resident
to resident status must
-be 10 years old;
-have lived in Nebraska for the past year (students who
moved to another state for the summer will not qualify);
-have paid Nebraska income tax for 1971, and will pay
Nebraska income tax for 1972;
-be registered to vote in Nebraska.
Residency classification forms can be picked up at 108
Administration Building, he said.
Students received advance word of the residency
requirements change with class schedules mailed early in
August, Aronson reported.
Although students have until Oct. 27 to change their status,
Aronson said those not doing so before Sept. 18 will be
charged non-resident tuition and must apply for a refund.
At the July board meeting, University President D.B.
Varner told regents that the residency change would mean a
loss of about $400,000 in tuition revenue.
The change brings the University in line with the intent of
LB 408, passed by the 1972 Legislature, which redefines who
is a Nebraska resident.
Study calls drug use
'learned behavior'
Drug use among the young may not result from "a
generation gap or youthful defiance" as it is popularly held,
but from "a form of learned behavior handed down from
parent to child," according to a report from the American
Psychological Association (APA).
Research concerning parent-child drug relationships was
presented recently in an article by Dr. Reginald Smart and
Dianne Fejer in the Journal of Abnormal Psychology,
, The project was sponsored by the Alcoholism and Drug
Addiction Research Foundation of Toronto. Data was
collected from questionnaires answered by 8,865 high school
students In the suburb . inner-city of Toronto in 1 970.
"Parents who regularly use mood-changing drugs, including"
alcohol and tobacco, may unintentionally pass on to offspring
an attitude favoring drug experimentation," said the APA.
- The study also indicates that young drug user? who follow
their parents' example often try a variety of psycho active ana
Illegal drugs. , .
., 'The percentage pf students who reported using tobacco,
marijuana, barbituates, heroin, speed, LSD and other
mind-affecting drugs was lowest if the parents used neither
tobacco or alcohol. Mothers who smoked and drank,
frequently were most likely to have their children turn to
Illicit and stronger drugs," according to the APA
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