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Proposed aid to state colleges postponed LB388, which was proposed to assist state colleges in meeting their revenue bond payments, has been bracketed indefinitely, according to the bill's sponsor, State Sen. Leslie Stull of Alliance. When the bill was bracketed indefinitely on Feb. 28, it was, in effect, set aside until next session, Stull said. He said he has proposed an interim study committee to assist the Appropriations Committee with their decisions on the bill next year. "We want to make the study broad enough to look at our problems of space," he said. "If new buildings are needed, we want to be able to ask for the money for the new buildings." State colleges at Wayne and Peru are having problems meeting bond payment obligations, Stull said. The colleges are taking in less than they need to pay interest and principal on the bonds, he said. Before 1943, the legislature provided the funds for these residence halls, Stull said. Since then, the institutions were permitted to issue their own revenue bonds to build residence halls. This power was later broadened to include student centers, he said. UNL is not having trouble making their bond payments, Stull said. "UNL is in good shape," he said. "The regents have outstanding bonds of some $22 million, and have oVer $5 million in their retirement fund, so they are in good shape." Residence Hall Association (RHA) representative Jim Say said the bill would create a revolving fund to consolidate payment obligations of the state colleges and UNL. This would permit the state to buy the bonds now held by the regents on UNL residence halls and the union, he said. As reported in Friday's Daily Ncbraskan RHA President Tim Evensen said passage of the bill would lower student housing payments, since $200 of the present fee payment goes toward payment of the revenue bonds. Dean says he forgot where loyalty belongs Continued from p. 1 Nixon was also a leader who was "in total control as President," Dean said. He said people who worked with Nixon saw a man who was a fast study, very able and was very disciplined in the allocation of his time each day. First shock Dean's first shock in the Watergate affair, he said, was when former-president Nixon, in an August 29, 1972 press conference from San Clemente, Calif., "announced to the world" that Dean had investigated the Watergate affair and found no White House involvement Dean added that there was no such investigation. "Nobody was more surprised to hear about it than I was," Dean said. But he said he "somehow justified in my mind" the upcoming cover-up then. . "Maybe it was not wanting to think about what I was doing, or because of the company I was keeping" at the White House, Dean said. He said he wanted out of the expanding coverup in January and February of 1973, but found he was too deeply involved by then. One of the "triggering" events that eventually led him to expose the coverup occured March 19, 1973, when he learned Howard Hunt, a former CIA agent who was involved in the break-in of National Democratic headquarters in the Watergate Complex, was "blackmailing the White House," Dean said. Last straw "That, to me, was the last straw " he said. "I was just not going to be involved in answering any demands of Hunt, and I didn't think anybody in the White House should." , The next morning, he said he told Nixon of the "cancer growing on the presidcncy"-the extent of the coverup. Dean qualified convicted Watergate conspirator G. Gordon Liddy's statement that Dean cooperated with the Special Prosecutor's Office "only to save my own ass." Self-preservation was involved, he said, adding that he would be less than candid if he did not admit it. But Dean stated that after Nixon sent him to Camp David, Va., for a rest during late March, he returned with the conviction that "1 would never lie for them. I let them know that and I neve'r have." Dean, who called Watergate a "corrupt use of power by government officials for political purposes," said it was both one of the worst and best moments of his life. ' He said it was the worst moment because of the grief it caused him and his family; his four month jail sentence, which he said was not a "country club"; and the "fact that I'll always wear the scarlet letter of Watergate for the rest of my life." Maturing However, he said the episode was a maturing experience. "I was ambitious. I got blinded by my ambition. I did my damndest to please my superiors," Dean said. "I forgot that each man's integrity belongs to him, and that's where his loyalty to his integrity belongs." He told the crowd that ambition is not a bad trait. "It's the way things get done. I just wish all those who are ambitious 'good luck' and I hope you keep your head better than I did." Referring to the lectures he has been conducting on college campuses, Dean said he viewed tho chance to talk with students as a "golden opportunity to share my past mistaken judgments, hoping that it might be of some meaning to you because every person is capable of having his own Watergate." He said he has been surprised by the number of campuses asking him to continue the lecture series, which ends next week, and the amount of fees they have offered. Some, which he said he will not accept, reached $6,000 to $7,000. "I do think there is a point where It would become commercializing on Watergate, and that was not my intent," he said. The UNO Student Programming Organization paid Dean $3,500 for his appearance in Omaha. monday, march 10, 1975 W - - .1 AA you neea a caicuiaiur you need it now. No waiting for delivery. 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