Bill would
create NU
bond fund
The UNL Residence Hall Association (RHA) Thursday lacked
the quorum necessary to vote on proposed amendments to the
RHA constitution.
Therefore, President Tim Evensen postponed discussion of the
amendments to hear representative Jim Say's legislative report on
LB388.
Say said the bill, introduced in the Unicameral by Sen. Leslie
Stull, would create a revolving fund to purchase revenue
obligations of the NU Board of Regents, the Board of Trustees of
Nebraska State Colleges, and the State Board of Education.
Say said the bili would allow the state to purchase the bonds
now held by the Regents on UNL residence halls and the Nebraska
Union.
Evensen said at least $200 of a dorm resident's room and board
fees goes towards payment of the residence hall bonds. He said
passage of LB 388 would lower student housing payments.
Say said the bill is being held up at present but still could be
brought to the floor this session if enough support was expressed.
RHA members were asked to encourage hall governments to write
Sen. Stull supporting the bill.
Evensen reminded members that RHA elections will be held
March 31. Deadline for filing for office is March 17.
Compares with sfafe colleges
SUN funding asked at hearing
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225 people will participate in each course,
Varner said, and 75 per cent will work for credit
hours.
Based on approximately 8,000 academic
credit hours, Varner said the SUN program
compared favorably with state funding of
colleges.
SUN needs the state's money, Varner
contended, partly to show the National Institute
for Education, which develops many of the
educational programs, that Nebraska supports
this type of education.
Coordinate continuing education
Varner said SUN could serve as a means of
coordination between the University of Nebraska
and the state colleges. "SUN would let us
coordinate statewide continuing education
programs through existing community colleges,"
he said.
Varner said that all general education
requirements might some day be conducted by
television. One advantage of the system, he
contended, is that a course, once developed, is
good for four or five years.
Considering the university's request for
$589,000 for fieldhouse maintenance, the
committee objected to the types of data
provided by the administrators.
"Whenever you have expenditure estimates,"
committee chairman, Sen. Richard Marvel of
Hastings complained, "they are always readily
available, but when we want to know income
estimates, from things like concessions or high
school basketball games, you don't have any
data."
Guarantee asked
Appropriations Committee members asked for
a guarantee that university officials would not
continually return to the, legislature with appeals
to revise tuition revenue estimates.
Varner told the committee, "I'll give you an
ironclad guarantee to not ask for revaluation in
the future if you will give UNO a reevaluation at
this time."
The tuition revenue estimates were mentioned
at Monday's committee hearing, when UNO
Chancellor Ronald Roskes complained of budget
imbalances because of faulty estimates.
Varner told the committee, "I don't like
disputes over appropriations like this, it smacks
of bailing out. But, there are some inadequacies."
Sen. Marvel said he has become more
impressed each day with suggestions to give the
university system appropriations in one lump
sum, "and then we could let the university fight it
out internally over the money matters."
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the discovery of the future:
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march 12 8:00 - burr lounge
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human relations in the year 2000
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