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omen's athletics looking up'
"We don't want forever and ever to
sell cookies to buy uniforms," womens
physical education instructor Pat Sulli
van , said at the first session of
WomenSpeak 74 Wednesday.
. Women Speak 74 is a series of
' weekly discussions with women in a
particular field.
According to Sullivan, last year the
-women's basketball team went to an
away game in Oklahoma. The 12
members who went drove down in a
van. were allowed $2 daily per person
for food and slept four in a room in a
motel that "wasn't exactly Howard
Johnson's."
"You can't feed an athlete on $2 per
day," Suiiivan said, "and you never see
Jbaskitbai! coach Joe Cipriano driving
his team to a game in a bus."
- However, things are looking up for
women's athletics, she said. Their
; budget this year is $60,000. Last year's
vwas about $15,000.
This year's budget includes $30,000
for full-tuiton waivers for women with
athletic talents. Thirty-nine women will
receive grants this year, Sullivan said.
., Asked if the women's athletic prog
ram was developed enough to warrant
giving $30,000 in financial grants,'
Sullivan responded that some lesser
quality athletes were given grants.
Sullivan said she didn't think in
creased money going into women's
athletics has put men on the defense.
-Rather, It has put women on the
offense, she said.
Commenting on UNL Athletic Direct
or Bob Devaney's attitude concerning
rfHSnsy for women's athletics, she said:
"Dsvaney is trying to M one step ahead
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for next year.
According to Sullivan, UNL fails
".'Somewhere in the middle of the financial
road in camparison to other colleges and
universities. Some universities, she
said, receive as much as $150,000 for
women's athletics while some private
institutions receive only $1 ,000 per year.
Women coaches have fared better in
salaries, this year, Sullivan said. Last
year, coaches were paid the equivalent
of teaching two classes. This year they
are paid the equivalent of teaching four.
Changes Sullivan said she would like
to see include: women in sports
receiving equal coverage in the sports
section; more participation in athletics
by women and female competitors being
treated as athletes.
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Pat Sullivan speaks on women's
athletics at WomenSpeak 74.
Colleges seek funds)
By Lynn Silhasek
A meeting to discuss a possible lobbying by
UNL and the four Nebraska state colleges for
additional state financial aid has been set between
student body executives from the colleges and
UNL, according to ASUN president Ron Clingen
peel. Speaking at ASUN Senate meeting Wednesday
night, Clingenpeel said UNL and Nebraska state,
technical and community colleges received federal
incentive funds for the present school year, to
encourage a matching amount of state funds.
Funds were not appropriated by the state
legislature to match the grant, however, and if
' they are not appropriated next year, the federal
funds may no longer be available, Clingenpeel
said. The meeting has been set for Saturday at
Kearney.
The funds were appropriated through the State
Student Incentive Grant Program (SSIG), and
provided $50 million nationally to state schools,
according to Ritchie. He verified that Nebraska
had failed to match the federal funds it had
received through the program, but said he did not
have the exact figures on the amount of money
allocated to Nebraska schools by the program.
The money to schools was made available by the
Education Amendments of 1972.
State aid for education at UNL is available
already under several programs, including
Regents' scholarships, University awards, and
other tuition remission programs, Ritchie noted.
The total amount of state aid provided by these
programs is a little more than $600,000, he said.
In addition, the Legislature has appropriated
money to individual schools for various purposes,
he said.
Any increase in these existing avenues of state
aid for students has been small, considering rising
education costs, and "the Legislature has been
remiss in riot providing mm aid," R Itch! 3 sddri. .
He, nqfed fhaf about 28 fJtaes have, established a,
fund-matching system, in which students may
apply for aid to be used at any school of their
choice.
officials want more vet school contracts
-Editor's note: This is the second of two stories
jexamlning whether or not there is a need for a
.ilinry school In Nebraska.
By Rsndy Gordon
" As in the television commercial on allergy
treatments, university officials, a state
legislative committee and a federal commis
sion appear ' to have a choice of three
remedies for the lack of a Nebraska school
offering a doctorate in veterinary medicine.
But unlike the ad, their cure has not been
discovered In 30 seconds.
. While university officials are attempting to
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veterinary schools, the unicameral committee
and the federal commission are studying the
possibility of building a state or regional
college.
. Ousne Acker, vie chancellor of the
Institute of Agriculture and Natural Re
sources, said the university Is discussing with
Htlx schools the possibility of signing ten year
contract tgrtements allowing Nebraska
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v Acker said he hopes the discussion will be
completed by late November and that
modified contracts will be signed soon
afterward. Many of the current contracts are
for-two years.
' H said the NU Board of Regents in June
asked that ho and UNL Chancellor James
Zumberge seek additional contract space.
Nil has a Department of Veterinary
Scltnct which offers two years of pre-veter-Inerfon
study. The department conducts
rtsesrch, teaching and educational extension
programs.
' But students must take four years of
doctorate work at another university.
NU now has contracts or memorandum
agreements with five universities, including
Iowa State University, Colorado State
university, Kansas State University, Okla
homa State University (OSU) and the
University of Missouri. The sixth school NU
is;-discussing an agreement with is the
University of Minnesota.
The current agreements with the five
Midwest schools allow 70 Nebraska students
to attend each year while paying resident
tuition at the school. NU then pays the
difference between the respective univer
, sities' resident and nonresident tuition.
Acker said NU may have to Increase the
amount paid to schools accepting the
students. He said New Jersey University
recently agreed to pay Pennsylvania Univer
sity $12,000 a year per student. The highest
amount now paid by NU is $7,340 to OSU.
Acker said some of the schools with which
NU is discussing contracts may require that
NU pay an amortization fee on the use of
their buildings.
"I think we should have a long-term
agreement so the Nebraska livestock Industry
and our youth will be confident an
opportunity to pursue the veterinarian
profession is still there. If the Legislature at
some future date does not want to build a
college we can fall back on these contracts for
awhile," Acker said.
Veterinary Science Dept., said he hopes the
number of Nebraska veterinary students
attending other schools for doctorate work
will be increased to 25 students for each class
(freshman through senior) during tho current
negotiations.
Or. Marvin J. Twiehaus, chairman of the
Veterinary Science Dept., said ho hopes the
number of Nebraska veterinary students
attending other schools for doctorate work
will increase to 25 students for each class
(freshman through sophomore) during the
current negotiations.
This would raise the number of students at
out-state schools to 100, up from the 7n now
attending.
Twiehaus said he thinks the contract
method "can take core of our qualified
students at the present time." But ho said he
believes either a regional or a state
veterinary school will eventually need to be
built.
Acker said it might be ten years between
the initial funding of any new NU school and
the graduation of the first class of students.
Regent Edward Schwartzkopf of Lincoln,
said "there is no question that the state
needs a veterinary school. The only question
is whether the state can afford it." It is
estimated a school will cost $20 million to $50
million to build.
He said the regents, at their June meeting,
asked Zumberge and Acker to seek other
schools for possible contracts and try to
increase the number of NU applications
accepted at the schools with which the
university already has agreements.
Schwartzkopf said the regents have not
been removed from making a future decision
on the possible need for a Nebraska
veterinary school, even though the university
administration said they will not argue pro or
con for the establishment of a school.
"We must be right in the middle of the
issue," he said, "and be able to make a
decision as information becomes available."
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contracts with other schools, a state
legislative committee and a federal regional
commission are studying the possibility of
establishing a regional or state veterinary
school.
See related story page 7
Bellwood State Sen. Loran Schmit, chair
man of the Unicameral's Agriculture and
Environment Committee, said the committee
sent letters to five Midwest states to see if
there is interest in a regional veterinary
coilege.
Schmit ?2id the letters were sent to the
Minnesota, North and South Dakota, Wyom
ing, and Montana agriculture committees
shortly after a committee hearing on the
veterinary school June 26.
Sea Vet School, pg. 6
