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Sketch by Tom Rogers
The mad-hatter coffee party exploded over an NU memo last week which outlawed coffee distribution
on University property other than by vending machines.
Fee allotments cause regret
By Rebecca Brite
"Lack of money" is a
frequently heard cry these days
. in colleges and universities
, across the country, and UN-L is
no exception.
When the Student Fee
Allocation Board recently re
leased its recommendations for
funding student activities and
organizations, it was seen that
only two groups (Daily
Nebraskan and University
QkM Care Project) h4d re
ceived full funding as requested.
Lack of money was the
greatest factor influencing
many of the board's decisions
for the 1974-75 fiscal year,
. according to Dave Morrison,
board chairman.
Despite a ten-dollar hike in
student fees from $51.50 per
student per semester to $81.50
rising costs and inflation
forced the board to cut back
funding for many student
groups, Morrison said.
He explained that the fees
increase was required to
prevent depletion of the uni
versity's reserve fund. If
spending had continued at the
current rate, and if fees had not
been increased, the university
would have "gone in the red"
during the next academic year,
he said.
Morrison and board member
Kelley Baker also cited duplica-
tion of services as another
cause for decreasing funds in
many cases.
For example, Baker said, the
Nebraska Union's request for
funds for the Black Activities
Project was reduced because it
was felt that the project would
duplicate other minority group
programs.
Funding tor Union concerts
and other cultural events was
aiso reduced to avoid dupli
cation with the Cultural Affairs
Committee, Morrison said.
Several groups, such as the
Scarlet Beret (UOTC) and the
School of Music Opera Program,
were not funded because the
board members believed the
academic departments to be a
better source of money for
them, he said.
Inappropriate use of student
fees proved to be a large
stumbling block for many
organizations; for example,
food was & common theme In
several budgets, and the board
had determined it an inappro
priate use, Morrison said.
Ot'itr budget items to fail
under this category were travel
and social events.
Baker said each group's
budget was examined item by
item, and each item was
considered on its own merit. In
the case of some groups who
had budgeted fairly expensive
items, the board's advice might
be to cut that item, if it was
deemed "inappropriate use."
Cutting one expensive item
would often leave a group with
more than enpugh money fer
the rest of its programs, Baker
said.
Both men said that alternate
sources of funding were often
considered in the board's
decisions. In the case of Tutors
of Nebraska Indian Children
(TONIC), for instance, no
funding was recommended, as
that group was to receive
money from AUF.
Dissatisfaction with the Fee
Allocation Board's recommend
ations was reflected by several
organizations representatives
in telephone interviews last
week.
James Smith, assistant dir
ector, for Minority Affairs, said
he believed cultural program
International reporter
speaking
A Nebraskan who is now an
ABC network international
news correspondent will give
the annual Avery Lecture at
1:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 31,
in the Sheldon Gallery
Auditorium.
The Avery Lecture is free
and open to the public.
J. V'iiiiam mniiyRe, whose
bas for producing ABC tele
vision news from Europe and
the Middle East is London, will
speak on "Implications of
International News Affecting
Trends of the United States."
He will aho poak at a luncheon
meeting of Phi Kappa Delta on
Tuesday,
Milidyke has recently re-,
turned from Moscow, where his
team accompanied President
Nixon. Some of the film from
this state visit plus newsellp
footage from other significant
events will be included in his
presentation.
lie has produced major
network news programs on
such international events as the
death of President Pompidou of
ming for the campus's minority
groups (Black, American Indian
and Chicano) would be greatly
hampered by the lack of funds.
He said the board's invest
ment in minority groups was
"not sufficient," and also
expressed discontent with the
process for appealing the
recommendations.
Karen Buller, special services
counselor for Minority Affairs,
said most of those students
"just shrugged their shoulders",
over the board's recommend-
ation of $1,000 ($14,633 re
quested) for the Council of
American Indian Students.
"They're used to not getting
anything," she said.
Baker said earlier that the
board had been struck by the
apparent lack of preparation in
the Indian council's budget, and
that Buller, in her oral
presentation to the board, said
she had been told not to expect
more than 20 of the amount
the group received last year.
Corn Cobs, the traditional
campus spirit organization,
received no funding from the
board. Corn Cobs treasurer,
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at UN-L
France and President Nixon's
visit to France; a priyate
audience with the Pope;
terrorist activity in the village
of Kiryal Shemona, Tel Aviv;
satellite coverage of the Octo
ber 1973 Middle East war; and
final settlement of the Viet
. Nam war through the Paris
Peace talks and trie roy&I
wedding of Princess Ann and
Mark Phillips.
The Avery Lectures are
sponsored by a fund named for
Samuel Avery, Chancellor of
the university from 1203 to
1927. The lecture series was
begun in 1949 by the Palldian
Literary Society, which began
its support with a $10,000
endowment placed in with the
University of Nebraska Foun
dation. Milidyke is a native of
Kearney and graduate of
Kearney State, lie did graduate
work in broadcasting at Wayne
IIi;:h School and Iowa State
University. His wife, the
former Doris Evans is a native
of Mullen.
Staff grinds up
coffeepot memo
By Lucy Lien
University staff members
are up in arms about a recent
memo from the NU
administration. This memo
requested that University staff
get rid of the coffee pots in
their offices and lounges.
The memo was issued
because the University
administration had signed a
contract with the vending
machine companies that only
vending coffee would be
distributed.
But faculty members are
standing firm. The University
staff refuses to give up its pots.
Lucille Griess, staff assistant
for the law college, noted that
none of the staff likes the
vending machine coffee.
Signing a contract such as this
with a vending company, she
said, "is a very strange
commentary on university
policy."
"It is a very great
convenience to just go to the
dean's office where most of us
eat anyway, and just get our
coffee from the pot there," she
In addition, she said, "it's
going to be a very
time-consuming situation if we
have to go down to the lounge
to et coffee,"
""""'"She " added " that in the
lounge there ' are always a
number of students and these
students are bound to want to
talk to faculty members, thus
taking up more of the faculty
member's time.
"The coffeepot in the
dean's office is ours," she said.
"Ve paid for it, and the only
thing we use of the university's
is a little electricity."
She also said that there are
many law students who stay up
all night and heed the coffee in
the lounge to keep awake. To
have to go downstairs for
coffee, she said, breaks their
concentration."
Charles Stubblefield, UN-L
English professor, said, "I
don't think any vending
machine company can dictate
what 20,000 people will drink.
I don't think the university
should have gone into this
contract, It was a dumb thing
to do."
He said that "If they take
away our pots and if the
vending coffee Is all we have to
drink, why then somebody
should just put a stick of
dynamite in the machine.
That's what the colonists did
when the British told them
what kind of tea to drink' he
J. William Milidyke, here shown Li Tel Aviv, will be tpz&king on
campus Tuesday and Wednesday. He will be discussing . the
interiutkQ&l sew$ events he txn covered.
said.
The coffeepot principle "is
not quite that important," he
said, "but it's still the principle
of not letting people dictate to
you."
Ray (yes folks) Coffey,
, assistant business manager of
business and finance at NU
noted that he has received a
great number of calls about his
memo, but "things are getting
back to normal now."
He said that the directive
was issued because the vending
company wishes to raise the
price of coffee to $. 1 5, and the
University administration is
trying to prevent them from
doing this.
In order to get bids on
contracts for the University, he
said, it was necessary to
guarantee the company
exclusive distribution of its
product. Although it is the first
time a memo was issued on the
subject, . he said this type of
contract has been in existence
since the university has had
vending machines.
He noted that by agreeing
to, limit. coffee distribution. to
.. t he ... vending ,. .company , the
vending company, agreed to
limit the price of coffee to
. $.10.
Keeping the coffee at this
price, he said, benefits more of
the people than those
inconvenienced by lack of
coffeepots in their lounges. If
they wish, he said, university
staff can bring their own coffee
in a thermos.
The intent of the contract,
he said, was to protect the
greater number of people, who
are the vending machine users.
In fiscal year July 1, 1973, to
June 30, 1974, 646,014 hot
dinks were sold from the
vending machines, he said. This
is a very great number to be
inconvenienced by a higher
price for coffee, he said.
Although many are telling
him that vending machine
coffee is terrible, he said,
"that's ell a matter of taste.
This is not the worst vending
machine coffee I've ever had."
He noted that no
disciplinary action was planned
for those who did not remove
their pots.
. The whole controversy, he
said, "is much dn a hni.it
nothing."
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