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About 120 law students gathered for a town hall meeting Thursday night to
protest the midnight closing time of the East Campus Law Library. Gene
Crump, president of the Student Bar Association, led the flashlight meeting.
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friday, September 12, 1975 volume 99 number 1 1 lincoln, nebraska.
By Teni WQlson
Law students concerned about the Law
College Bldg. library's hours and fining
system rallied in front of the library be
tween 11:00 p.m. and midnight Thursday.
According to Eugene Crump, president
of the Student Bar Association, law
students will list their grievances and pre
sent them to Gerald Rudolph, dean of
university libraries, and Acting UNL Chan
cellor Adam Breckenridge. Crump said stu
dents hope Rudloph and Breckenridge will
find a solution to what he called a year-old
problem.
Students are dissatisfied with - the
library's hours of 6 a.m. through 12 p.m.
because the library is closed during what
Crump called, "peak study hours." Crump;
said the former law library on city campus
was open 24 hours daily.
I Michael OTIara, law student and law
librarian, said although the city campus law
library was open 24 hours a day, it was
only staffed until midnight.
Ethnics code
Crump said the reason law students
object to being fined is because law stu
dents have been on a Code of Student
Dicipline approved by a law faculty vote
in 1969. The code states law students'
responsibility for library materials, and
calls for removal of students from law
school if materials are damaged or library
laws are not observed. He said students
have respected this ethics code in the past
and do not need a monetary fine imposed.
According to Sue Sovereign, law school
.library assistant, the system of fines is the
same as other university libraries, except
that the law library has a two-week loaning
period, while other university libraries loan
materials for tour weeks.
O'Hara said fine , system rates have been
reduced from $1 to 60 cents. He said the
law library personnel "has doubled over
backwards" to help law students, and has
added two more professionals to their
staff.
Sovereign said that since two-thirds of
law library material is research and non
circulating, there is no need to have fines
for these materials, she said. If students
obtain a, special permit, research materials
may be borrowed overnight.
Law library fines for non-research items
are: Overnight 60 cents per item for" the
first hour overdue, and 10 cents for each
additional hour; two-day and two-week
16ans-60 cents per item the first overdue
day or week and 10 cents each additional
' day or week.
Two-day grace period
Sovereign said the library also has a two
day grace period for two-week loans and a
half-hour leeway for four-hour loans.,
' Crump said students also are rallying!
because instead of adding $50,000 to the
Law Library Fund as required by the Legis
lature for the 1974-75 fiscal year, Love
Memorial Library apparently used $30,000,
leaving only $20,000 for added spending.
He said an audit should be performed to
determine exactly what happened to the
money.
O'Hara said students are not justified
in rallying because the $50,000 allotment
is more than any other university libraries
received;
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unding report awaits medical center
By Rex Seline
Already more than nine months past its
original completion deadline, the university
funding report being prepared for the,
governor probably will be delayed at least
another month, the funding commission
chairman said this week.
Omahan Gus Lieske said the committee
he chairs still is waiting for a University of
Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) funding
study from consultants Peat, Marwick and
Mitchell Co., before they submit their final
report to the governor.
Although not a factor in the delay, dis
sension concerning recommendations on
funding that the committee will make in its
final report also has been troubling com
mittee members.
Lieske 's Commission on University
Funding was established in August of 1974
and was directed to submit its final report
to the governor by Jan. 1, J 975, to help
bim determine the 1975-76 NU budget.
Old City Hall, Federal Bldg
Lieske said he is not concerned about
the delay in reporting.
. . "The original discussion to set up the
committee took place in January of '74
with the idea of January , 75 as the dead
line," Lieske said. "But the commission
was not appointed until August."
"We determined that we wouldn't be
able to do an adequate job in that time
(from August until January). We will be
finished in time for the next session of the
Legislature." .
Governor J. James Exon also said the
delay is hot a matter of concern.
"The timing of the report is not nearly
as important as the recommendations they
make on the subject of funding," Exon
said.: '. . ' '-' "
Portion completed
The agricultural portion of the final re
port was submitted last spring, Lieske said.
"One basic value of the report is the
"methodology established for doing the
UNL
, city consider
study," Lieske said. "The establishment of
the methodology has taken most of the
time of the commission."
'..'.It will be easy for anyone to use the
formulas the committee has established to
make funding recommendations in the
future, he said. But the use of formulas is
what bother James Q'Hanlon, committee
member and acting chairman of the UNL
Physical Education and Recreation Dept.
"I don't think that we should decide
what higher education needs in this state
on what they did in Kansas or Iowa last
year," O'Hanlon said.
Budgets averaged 1
O'Hanlon said that Lieske proposed that
each year's university budget be
determined by taking the average of the
budgets of the top three area universities
from the previous year. 1
"I don't like deciding on a reactive basis:
whatever the other states did last year, we
do this year," O'Hanlon said.
OTIanion joined William Erskine, execu-
tive vice president for administration, in
filing a minority report with the governor.
If a formula is to be used, it must also
take intd consideration the ability of the
""state to pay the costs of higher education,
O'Hanlon said.
, "I just have a real question about
formula budgeting, period," he said. "Do
we value agriculture as highly as the
average spent on it or more? Some areas
should receive more money than the
average, some less."
Preliminary findings have indicated that
there might not be a need for as much
money as has been spent in the past for
higher education in the state, although that
does not mean less money - for the
.University, Lieske said. ,
, The committee has not met since July,
but will meet again when the UNMC study
is completed. At that meeting, the
committee will put together their findings
and prepare their recommendations, Lieske
said..., - '
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Bldg. and the old City Hall into a perform
ing arts center has been introduced to the
city of Lincoln, and, according to Mayor
Helen Boosalis, the plan has met with
much enthusiasm. -
Boosalis said discussion on the perform
ing arts center has only started, but the
Lincoln "City Council has endorsed the
concept as feasible.
Financing for the project would come
from UNL, the city and possibly some
private donations, Boosalis said. ;
2,500-aeat theater
Lincoln architect Larry Enersen origina
ted the plan whereby the two vacated
buildings on the block between 9th and
10th streets on P St. would be altered and ,
connected with a 2,500-seat theater serving
the university and the city. y, ,;
A new Lincoln performing arts center
has been discussed for years, with possible
construction costs running more than $10
million. Encisen's renovation and building .
improvement plan runs from $4 million to
$5 million. ;' .
..The Mutual Development Corp.. -will,
own the Federal Bldg. after federal offices
vacate to the new structure on O St., John
Campbell, corporation president, said.
According to Campbell, the corporation
believes the arts center would make best
'possible use of the building and endorse its
progress.
, . Non-profit corporation
Boosalis said, that for tax reasons the
building probably would be bought from
the Mutual Development Corp. by a newly
formed, non-profit corporation.
John Frey, Lincoln Found?ion presi
dent and Lincoln businessman, said he cur
rently is looking into the possibility of 15
to 20 businessmen forming such a
corporation.
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story p. 2
The asking price of Mutual Develop
ment Corp. is $775,000, Frcy said.
Boosalis said speculative plans are that
UNL and the city will share costs of build
ing the center, but UNL will be owner and
oprntor of the theater.
However, she added, the percentage of
costs each would pay is unsettled.
If the plan is approved, money the city
would pay will have to come frcm general
obligation bonds which will be city
financed and voted on by Lincoln citizens
in the May election.
Space leased for $1
Boosalis said the city also will lease of
fice space on the first and second floors for
$ 1 annually plus maintenance costs which
would be about $72,000 annually.
Five city offices will be in the building
so that all city departments will be central
ized in either the County-City Bldg. or the
old Federal Bldg.
A similar fine arts center p!an was dis
cussed a few years ago, when NU officials
suggested converting the Coliseum into a
center. Another plan involved construction
of a new. complex located where the
Temple Bldg. now stands;
However the cost ($10 million to $15
million) did not seem worth the effort,
UNL Chancellor James Zumberge said,
i Zumberge said 'he arts center now
needs "a clearly uteu.'led source of money,
not only funds to build the theater and
renovate the building, but also funds to
maintain it us an ongoing enterprise."
Frey said that many uncertainties about ,
the plans will be cleared up in upcoming
meetings.
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