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Paul Morrison, ASUN second
vice president.
By Liz Crumley
"it's hazy."
That is what some council and senate
members said they think of the relation
ship between the Council on Student Life
(CSL) and ASUN.
Paul Morrison, ASUN second vice
president, said he will introduce two reso
lutions that he hopes will clarify the
situation. '
Morrison, who also is ASUN President
Jim Say's designated representative to
CSL, said the first resolution will propose
establishing a committee to discuss appeals
procedures open to students, and what
appeals should be. It will consist of CSL
and ASUN members and one Fees Alloca
tion Board representative.
The second proposal will recommend
that all CSL policy-making recommenda
tions be approved by the Faculty Senate
and ASUN.
Bypass appeals
According to Morrison, students are
often bypassing conventions,; appeals pro
cedures and are going directly to CSL. CSL
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Wednesday, October 29, 1975 volume 99 number 37 lincoin, nebraska
Nil administrators suggest
budget cuts not necessary
By Dick Piersol
William Swanson, NU vice president
for governmental relations, said he doesn't
like Gov. J. James Exon's proposed $2.3
million cut in the university's budget.
The proposed cuts are in LB6, one of
four bills Uie governor has presented ibr
consideration to the Legislature's special
session.
Exon has said a cash flow shortage in
the state's general fund could occur in
January unless state agencies budgets
are reduced by three per cent.
The governor has introduced bills to
give the state treasurer power to issue
warrants delaying general fund payments
to governmental subdivisions, and to have
the Legislature reconsider the current state
income and sales tax rates.
Wanted decision power
Swanson said NU administrators had
hoped the governor, if he requested a
university budget cut at all, would allow
administrators to decide reductions on
each campus.
The governor's bill, however, reduces
general fund appropriations three per cent
for each program, although there are some
exemptions for Areas of Excellence and
other programs mandated by the Legisla
ture. Swanson said the university probably
could help cure the governor's projected
cash flow shortage by using cash funds
(money from tuition), federal funds and
other income sources before it used general
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Legislature might not need to cut the
university's budget, he said.
Winn Sanderson, NU assistant vice
president for budget and planning, estimat
ed that UNL and the University of
Nebraska at Omaha (UNO) would have
$300,000 and $100,000 more, respective
ly, in their cash funds than the 1975
Legislature allowed them to spend. By law,
the university may not spend cash funds
unless they are first appropriated by the
Legislature.
Alternatives
. ... ... Swanson said -NU - administrators are
working on alternatives to Exon's budget
cuts to be presented by NU President
D. B.. Varner at public hearings on LB6
before the Appropriations Committee
Thursday morning.
One paragraph in Exon's bill appears
to leave the university an opening, accord
ing to Swanson. That section states that to
allow flexibility in meeting the reductions,
an agency is authorized to spend general
fund appropriations originally made by the
1975 Legislature for any program as long
as the total agency general fund expendi
ture does not exceed the appropriation
established by LB6.
That, in effect, would allow the univer
sity or any other agency to selectively
spend general funds at certain programs'
expense, Swanson said.
Unconstitutional
However, Sen. Richard Marvel of
Hastings, chairman of the Appropriations
Committee, said he thinks that paragraph
allows an "unconstitutional delegation of
legislative authority."
Marvel said Exon, Budget Director
John H. Jacobson, and Atty. Gen. Paul
Douglas will meet today to discuss that
issue. Douglas probably will issue an
Public hearings on the bills are sche
duled to begin today and continue through
Friday for the Appropriations Committee
betinning at 9 sjti. in the legislative
chamber. The Revenue Committee will
meet todsy and Thursday at 9 a.m. in the
east chamber.
inside
Midweek: UNL faculty fights for
collective bargaining p.5
Solar Energy Home: sponsored by
LES, designed by UNL students,
now open to the public p.2
Also Find:
Editorials. P-4
Arts and Entertainment ..... p.8
Sports p. 10
Qossword p.12
Short Stuff p.3
Weather
Wednesday: Partly cloudy with little
change in temperature. Highs in the
mid-5 Os.
Wednesday night: Temperatures ranging
from the low to mid-30s.
Thursday: Fair to partly cloudy, Highs
in the mid-60s.
also acts as "a final appellate body for all
appeals pertiiining to student out-of-classroom
activity."
Often students should go to ASUN first,
he said.
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more diversification without
hindrances."
Morrison said he will present the propo
sals first to a Student Affairs staff meeting
Thursday, to ASUN at its Nov. 5 meeting
and to CSL at its meeting Nov. 6.
The 14-member CSL consists of admin
istrators, faculty and eight students, ap
pointed by ASUN.
Student thoughts
CSL was formed to allow students to
contribute to policy-making matters, Mor
rison said. He said he thinks some CSL stu
dent members vote contrary to ASUN
desires, and the student government wants
more input into decisions.
"There is a tendency for students on
that board (CSL) to take the role of the ad
ministrator," Morrison said. "They should
be responsible to the people who appoint
ed them and to the student body as a
whole."
He said he thinks there would be little
opposition to his proposals.
CSL members had differing opinions.
Senior Chip Lowe said he thinks the
second proposal would make CSL an
ASUN subcommittee, and CSL would lose
its all-university board characteristics.
"When you submit it (a policy recom
mendation) to the Senate and have them
veto or not veto it, you lose what is good
about CSL," Lowe said.
Student interest
Lowe said he understands ASUN's feel
ings, but said he thinks the best interests of
students should be considered.
"I don't think you're doing the stu
dents any good by diminishing CSL. The
point is, the council is more effective at
what it does," he said.
Another CSL member, former ASUN
senator Carolyn Grice, said she thinks the
proposals are good.
"It will make it (CSL) more responsive,
especially to their constituencies," she
said.
Ken Bader, vice chancellor for student
affairs, said there is a role for each organi
zation. "Occasionally there will be concerns ex
pressed by both on the same thing,
however I don't think its necessarily bad,"
he said.
No favorite
Bader said he had not noticed that the
chancellor listened to one group more than
to another.
However, "CSL has a pretty potent
punch in that it has students, faculty and
staff on it," he said.
Morrison said there always has been a
power conflict between the two organiza
tions, and said he questions whether the
chancellor heeds ASUN policy recommen
dations as much as it does CSL's.
Unapproved 1975 NU bylaws state CSL
"shall have general policy-making power
over student social and out-of-classroom
activities subject to approval of the
chancellor."
The ASUN Constitution says ASUN
shall "serve as liaison between students and
faculty, between students and the NU
Board of Regents. . .and the general public
. . .To exercise any other powers necessary
for the general welfare of the students."
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State Sen, Jules Burbach of Crofton is speaker of the Legislature.
His Reference Committee assigned bills to committees for consideration
during the special session.
Women's Strike Day
A wareness local theme
Several Lincoln women's organizations
have planned activities today to recognize
the National Strike Day called for by
women's rights groups, its purpose is to
bring to employers' attention the impor
tance of women in the labor force.
As part of the Lincoln effort, women
are asked to recognize today as an "Aware
but at Work" day, according to Judy
Papik, UNL Women's Resource Center
representative.
"Instead of striking their jobs," she said,
"women are asked to take the option of
going to work but recognizing, or being
aware of, the national effort. In this way,
women can keep from jeopardizing their
jobs."
The Women's Resource Center will set
up a booth in the north lobby of Nebraska
Union from 8:30 jn. to 5 p.m., Papik
said. Representatives from the center will
be at the booths to distribute free badges
and arm bands which state-"Aware but at
Work."
The center also will hold a walk-in,
brown bag lunch in the Union from 1 1 :30
a.m. to 1 p.rra. open to the public, she said.
In other Lincoln strike day activities,
Planned Parenthood, 3830 Adams St., is
conducting three free workshops. The or
ganization asks women to call 466-2387 to
register.
Workshops on "Body Awareness" and
"Women and Masturbation" are scheduled
from 1:30 pm. to 3:30 p.m. and "Self
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Help for Women" and "Menopause" work
shops follow immediately from 3:30 to S
p.m. A final 6:30 to 9 p.m. session con
cerns "Women and Sexuality."
The League of Women Voters held a
breakfast this morning at which several
speakers participated, including former
KFMQ dix jockey Ann Peikinton, who
was fired from her job Monday morning
after openly supporting the National Strike
Day during her broadcast.
