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thursday, april 19, 1973
lincoln, nebraska vol. 96, no. 102
Henry to veto minority recruitment funds
by DennisOnnen
Citing hastiness and "uncertainty on the part of a lot
of senators", ASUN President Ann Henry announced
her intentions Wednesday night to veto today a
resolution passed by ASUN last week. The resolution
gave $1000 to the UNL Student Bar Association for its
minority recruitment program.
Henry explained her action by saying that the rules
of procedure had been suspended, so senators had not
had sufficient time to consider the resolution. Under
the rules of procedure, money matters such as the
recruitment funds approved last week are
automatically tabled for one week. ASUN voted to
suspend the rules and considered the resolution the
same night it was presented.
"People didn't seem to understand just what was
going on," Henry said.
She stressed that her objections to the resolution
wete based on the manner in which it was adopted.
"I'm saying nothing about intent; I'm questioning the
procedures," she said.
Sen. Ron Frank asked that the reasons for the veto
be put in written form and said he believes the senators
had acted reasonably. "We discussed overruling the
rules of procedure, and nobody spoke against it," he
said.
If the resolution is vetoed, ASUN could act on the
veto next week. It would take a two-thirds majority to
override the veto. The resolution was originally passed
on a 20-9 vote.
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Ann Henry,..will be the first ASUN president in five years to use the veto.
Sen Brian Waid. who sponsored the resolution, said
that "quite a bit of action" had been taken by the bar
association since the resolution's passage.
Henry said she hopes senators talk to each other
during the next week about the resolution so they will
be informed if the question is brought up.
This veto is the first by an ASUN president in nearly
five years. On Oct. 16, 1968, Craig Dreeszen vetoed a
proposed delay in the Time-Out Conference. His veto
was not overridden.
In other business, a resolution was passed by ASUN
which stated its support of the free check cashing
service of the Nebraska Union as long as it did not
"severely damage" other Union services. Jed Buechler,
chairman of the ASUN Legal Rights Committee, also
reported that a lawyer has been hired to draw up a
student lawyer proposal.
Mary Cannon, Union Board president, spoke to
ASUN about the proposed check cashing charge. She
said the board will probably decide at its meeting today
what the charge should be.
Stating his belief that there should be a free cashing
period for at least part of the day. Sen. Steve
Shaneyfelt proposed an amendment to that effect. The
amended resolution also stipulated that free check
cashing should be continued only a-, long as it doesn't
seriously interfere with other Union programs. The
resolution passed 1 7 9.
Buechler said that he had talked to Richard
Harnsberger, UNL professor of law, and other lawyers
who suggested that someone be hired to write the
student lawyer proposal. John Stevens Berry has been
hired, and Buechler said Berry is negotiating with the
Advisory Board of the Nebraska Bar Association to
find a proposal that would be acceptable.
Another resolution was passed unanimously which
designated the weekend of Oct. 12-14, 1973 as the
UNL migration to the Nebraska-Missouri football
game. It also said that ASUN executives should talk to
ticket office officials in an attempt to make available to
students 50 per cent of the tickets alloted to the
University for the game.
Budget action
may (or may not)
come today
by Steve Arvanette
If everything goes according to plan-and
there's no reason to believe it will after the last
three days-state senators will attempt today to
enact a $563 million all-funds state budget for
the 1973 fiscal year.
The possibility exists, although observurs say
it is remote, that Gov. J. James Exon's unaltered
budget request might be rejected on final
reading.
If LB259 with the emergency clause attached
does not receive 33 affirmative votes it would not
be law until 90 days after the Unicameral
adjourns-about a month after the July 1 start of
the fiscal year.
If LB259 is appioved, the University would
receive 22.3 per cent ($50.8 million) of the
state's total $227.8 million general fund budget.
Senators, in a move unparalleled in recent
history, Monday rejected all committee
amendments to the budget bill and advanced it to
final consideration with no explanation of the
bill's contents.
That action resulted from promises Exon
made to the Legislature to reduce the state's
personal income tax rate from 15 per cent to 10
per cent if his budget is approved with no
changes.
Exon also is dangling a possible reduction in
the state sales tax from 2.5 per cent to 2 per cent
before senators if they give him Nebraska's $20
million federal revenue sharing money.
Should Exon's budget be adopted by senators,
the Umveisity would receive a $3.5 million
increase in state fund support over the previous
year's budget. That represents a 7.5 per cent
increase in stale general fund supix;rt above the
'Jy 3appropi i.ition of $4 7.3 million.
The Board of Regents had requested a $7
million ( 15 per cent) increase in state support.
The Legislature's Appropriations Committee
had agreed to increase NU's previous year's
budget by nearly $4.8 million, or 10 per cent.
Amendments to LB259, which would have
added those funds, were rejected with Budget
Committee Chairman State Sen. Richard
Marvel's approval.
Areas hit hardest by the Legislature's decision
not to consider amendments to the University's
budget are improvement of existing programs in
instruction and research.
Regents had asked for $600,000 to improve
existing programs at UNL. Exon recommended
lowering that figure to $1 30,000.
The Budget Committee had agreed with its
fiscal staff and added $505,232 to Exon's
recommendations.
Through committee amendments, the
$635,232 would have been broken into five
categories:
-$100,000 to purchase biological and natural
science lab equipment.
-$25,000 to upgrade Law College salaries.
-$32,500 to upgrade Dentistry College
salaries.
-$25,000 for a scope and needs study in
Teachers College.
The bulk of the remaining $452,732 would
have been used to upgrade any current programs
as soon as UNL terminates seven doctorate and
three masters programs.
UNO was to receive $387,132 lor improving
existing programs. Exon had recommended
$154,000 for that while the University had
requested $302,000.
The largest chunk of that money would have
gone to adjust salaries, improve workloads and
improve general quality.
The committee also had asked $100,000 lor
UNL and $150,000 for UNO to use for
scholar ships.
Had the commitlee's amendments been
accepted, ihe University would have received
abou 1 $1-2 million more than I xon's
t I'commcnd.it inn.
Oil may forfeit grid title
Nebr aska's football team, which finished second last season in
the Big Eight Conference, may be awarded the league
championship after conference champion Oklahoma's
announcement that the Sooners will forfeit eight of their last
season victories because of recr uiting violations.
Oklahoma announced it would forfeit all games in which
quartet back Kerry Jackson played because his h'gh school
transcript had been tampered with. Final action will be decided
by the NCAA.
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Gorilla My Dreams... "Join a Gorilla Movement" was
the slogan for a Wednesday publicity stunt urging
students to register and vote in the May 1 Lincoln city
which called itself "Professional
Hack Productions," handed out leaflets reminding
students to register before the f ritiay deadline.
