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thursday, february 1, 1973
lincoln, nebraska vol. 96, no. 64
Senate
accepts
budget
report
by Sara Schwieder
The ASUN Senate voted Wednesday to accept a
long-awaited Budget Committee report, fired round two at the
Daily Nebraskan and passed several other pieces of legislation.
The Budget Committee report recommends spending
$6,996.69 on 14 student groups or organizations. It will be
tabled for a week. All budget matters are automatically tabled
to permit adequate discussion of them. Final approval of the
funding proposal is scheduled next week.
Although the senate originally approved $5,500 for
financing student organizations, it approved a bill submitted
by ASUN President Bruce Beecher which transferred
$1,496.69 from office expenses to increase the total to
$6,996.69.
The largest sum, $1,200, was recommended for
International Club. The second highest amount, $974, would
be given to the Women's Resource Center. The Day Care
Center, which requested $702, was not recommended for
funding. The rowing team, which is not funded under
University instrmural programs, would receive $900.
The Budget Committee also recommended that Cather Hall
receive $300 to build a dark room, and that $600 be given for
Engineering Week.
Questions came from several senators on a recommendation
that the Gay Action group be awarded $335 for a gay action
(telephone) line.
"The main complaint of gays was that other rap lines, like
Help Line or Personal Crisis Service, didn't have people that
were well-qualified to answer questions from gays," Budget
Committee Chairman Marsha Porter told the senate.
Shirley Mosley of the Women's Resource Center (WRC)
questioned ASUN's funding recommendations to the center
and the University Women's Action Group (UWAG). UWAG
had requested $500 for birth control booklets, but the budget
committee did not comply with that request.
"We didn't feel it was ASUN's responsibility to hand out
birth control pamphlets," Budget Committee member Ron
Frank told Mosley. He also mentioned that such pamphlets
would be handled by the Women's Resource Center.
A motion from ASUN Sen. Bill Freudenburg to postpone
the final vote "to listen to the students before we act" failed
on a voice vote.
In other action, the Daily Nebraskan again came under fire.
ASUN had issued an invitation to Daily Nebraskan Editor Tom
Lansworth last week to discuss ASUN coverage. The invitation
was refused because Lansworth said the Daily Nebraskan "is
not accountable to student government."
"The spirit in which we sent out the invitation was
friendly," Frank told the senate. "It's a slap in the face that
they failed to show up."
Beecher reported that he had met with Lansworth and had
"resolved the problems."
The senate approved a bill designed to increase the number
of foreign students in Nebraska by "treating the foreign and
the instate students at par in all financial and residency
matters."
The senate also approved a bill revising the tuition payment
card, providing a more convenient system for students to
contribute to the PACE (Program for Active Commitment to
Education) program. PACE is a scholarship fund for minority
students.
The senate adopted a proposal for an ad hoc committee to
evaluate its effectiveness for the 1972-73 term and make
recommendations before the new senate takes office in March.
And the senate also resolved against Gov. J.J. Exon's
budget plan which would set the credit hour tuition rate at
$18 for residents and $48.25 for non residents and would
lower the University's request from $22.6 million to $8.7
million for capital construction for next year.
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UNL's 'Zum ' one year later
by Mary Voboril
He looks a little like Peter Graves and a lot like
Johnny Carson. He's got Graves' graying good looks
and trim physique, Carson's hairstyle, natty clothes
and intelligent blue eyes.
Football players, who meet him on the paddle ball
court call him "The Chance." To 20,000 UNL
students he's known as Big Z, Chancellor Z or simply
Zum.
It was Feb. 1, one year ago today, when James H.
Zumberge walked into a plush office tucked away in
a corner of Love Library and officially claimed UNL's
chancellorship.
For Zumberge, 1972 was not an uneventful year.
He had been in office only 21 days when a
smoldering dormitory visitation issue exploded.
Students threatened that up to 80 per cent of the
7,000 dormitory residents would stage a mass visit-in.
Zumberge responded with a threat: he might close
the dormitories. A meeting between the chancellor
and Residence Hall Association representatives cooled
the issue and a compromise eventually was accepted.
accepted.
"That was my ordeal by fire," Zumberge
said. But other crises followed. Some students
questioned the student fees situation, via the courts,
asking if it was legal to force students to pay them.
A more recent crisis developed when farm groups,
including the Nebraska Farm Bureau, pushed for
establishment of an Agriculture Center in place of the
College of Agriculture. A bill supporting the farmers'
position now is in legislative hands. Though a series of
confrontations between Zumberge and farm groups
ensued, the issue continues to simmer.
At the beginning of his UNL career, Zumberge said
one of his goals would be to close the credibility gap
between the Legislature and students. His office has
yet to close that gap, he said.
Early in 1972 Zumberge also said an important
task would be to discover why the North Central
Accrediting Association extended NU's accreditation
for five years instead of the usual 10. He believes that
question has been answered.
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Federal shears may trim UNL financial aid
by Adella K. Wacker
If financial aid office predictions are true, there
may be no source of money for loans to UNL
students next year except low-income students, and
even that will be scarce.
Director Jack Ritchie said the Scholarships and
Financial Aids Office expects National Defense
Education Act loans (NDEA) to be stopped in the
near future by the Nixon administration.
It's also expected that the nonrepayable
educational opportunity grants for students from
low-income families will end, because of federal
budget trimming.
The NDEA loan program continued at UNL after
June 30, 1972, under a new name, National Direct
Student Loans, and with a few policy changes.
Both program loans accrued only three per cent
interest on the unpaid balance starting nine months
after a student graduated, which is when repayments
began.
Both provide repayment relief to students entering
the military by cancelling 12.5 per cent of the loan
amount yearly up to five year of service. Direct loans,
however, are cancelled only if the serviceman is
stationed in war areas.
The direct loan cancellation for graduates who
teach applies only to loans held by those teaching in
low-income schools or with handicapped and
Head -Start children.
NDEA or direct loans have required a parents'
confidential financial statement with the student's
application and have traditionally been granted to
low-income students with a strong financial need.
According to financail aids, about 1,800 UNL
students or about 10 per cent of the full-time
enrollment have NDEA loans, while 3,500 hold
federally-insured loans from banks and other private
lending agencies.
Ritchie said the federal government hopes the
federally insured loan program will absorb those
low-income students from the NDEA phaseout.
He also said this program will change as of March
1, 1973; it will no longer provide "a convenience type
loan" that before only required a student's adjusted
family income to be under $15,000.
A federally insured loan application will now
require either a parent's or student's confidential aid
statement, listing all sources of income and expenses.
This will make many students just under the
$15,000 cut-off point ineligible, he said.
Incentives and bonuses are being tried to make
banks more willing to loan to students, he added.
Students whose bank formerly wouldn't loan them
money through the federally insured program used to
get relief under LB 152 passed two years ago.
The bill set aside $1 million from teacher
retirement funds so financial aids could make loans
directly to the students not able to get a bank loan.
That fund is nearly gone, Ritchie said, and there's
a chance that it won't be replaced.
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