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About The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 14, 1973)
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' ' y H TrvS ucHwoior PANwaor iR? A!ui.rsorii.Y -MlffWIhl 6 Liiifp f. feilr? : I 't,;;m;,;;';;!'',m'm,'''i,j"mw ' h , .,, , Varner: Hiram Scott chance to serve western Nebraska By Steve Arvanette Hiram Scott College was a dream for many. It was founded during a time of spiraling college enrollments and like similar schools, had a poor financial base. Few will argue with those statements, which were made at a legislative committee hearing last winter. The question that has attracted considerable debate, however, is what should be done with the shell of this defunct liberal arts college in Scottsbluff. It is no secret that the Scottsbl uf f-Gering Development Corp. -owner of nost of the college property--wants to give NU the property. News analysis On Dec 9, 1972, the Board of Regents unanimously recommended that the property be accepted as a gift. Scottsbluff State Sen. Terry Carpenter introduced a bill in ;hc Legislature authorizing the University to accept the property. Opposition however, began to mount in surrounding communities. They feared an extension of the University would cut into community and state college enrollments. Carpenter's bill passed without a vote to spare, but Gov. J. James Exon vetoed it. At the request of the regents, Exon appointed a blue ribbon committee to i i i v.vl .1 investigate possible uses of the former college and to make recommendations to the governor. NU President D.B. Varner outlined a program for Hiram Scott at a meeting of the committee Saturday. During that meeting, he expressed concern that many individuals in western Nebraska felt separated from the rest of the state. "It is my Ixjlief that the Univeisity has served the Central and Eastern parts of the state with distinction in its more than 100 years of operation," Varner said. The NU president added that he believed it entirely appropriate that a Western-extension of the Univeisity be started in a part of the Mate that "has not been served nearly so well." Vainer lecommended that Hiram Geott be developed for instruction in agriculture, rural health, continuing education, and the televised State Univeisity of Nebraska (SUN) program. "An entirely new emphasis has been placed on the role of agriculture both in the nation and in the world," Varner told the committee. "In the period of less than a year we have seen our government's policy shift abruptly from one of production control to production expansion, Varner said for mis teason, Nebraska "may well be entering a new and golden era because of its agi icultural potential." In suppoVfingji agricultural use foi the ( ollege, Varner said the Univeisity would i e'co mm end technological program'; on irrigation, crop product ion, horticulture, agricultural chemicals, pest management and ranch management. Varner said the 225 acie site would offer re s e a r c h opportunities unavailable now. The second use would be to develop a rural health program. "No problem has been more persistent nor more difficult to resolve than the problem of adequate health care for rural Nebraskans," Varner said. He added that current health programs draw manv students from rural a cas, but said "all too few seem willing to return to rural America to practice their art and si- ill." Varner alr.n toM ihe committee that Hi: ; Gcott could be used as a rerjional learning resource center in the SUN program. If the University should acquire Hiram Scoit, the federal government ha:, agieed to turn over a libra! y i-.eevice building free. The remaining piorrny not under University contiol woui l be dormitories. If a need for the dormitoi ics arises, Varner said, they could be purchased by issuing bond;. The Hiram Scott pi opi ,i! would cost about SI million for the first year. It vonld serve 500 full-time Milcuts besides about G , 0 0 0 participants in the con tin uir'j education program. What will finally hap-jen to Hiram Scott is not known. The committee investigating u-.rs r. scheduled to meet Sept. ?M to make its final leeom'M -nda tions. The University lur, Mi power to receive the prop. .'it: as a gift, but has deHj;v so yet. It is fell h: m.m, administrators lh,v .: funding of Hiram S mi " i! i Mi Ul I IICUI I IT mi; IIMV'i I O Office Will not ,U,i:;)lt ;li proposed program. Ml it n ,ji ni-iurt - n Wimi. ombudman Hi 7- daily nebraskan friday, septembHt 11, Vji
