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do KJ thursday, October 30, 1975 volume 99 number 33 lincoln, nebraska Marvel: no deficit haunting By Theresa Forsman Sen. Richard Marvel of Hastings, chair man of the Legislature's Appropriations Committee, said he will not allow state agency budgets to be cut until he is assured that the cuts will not come back to haunt him in January with deficit requests for the 1976-77 fiscal year. The Appropriations and Revenue Com mittees met Wednesday, one week after the start of the legislative special session called by Gov. J. James Exon last month, to pre vent a deficit in the state's general fund early next year because of cash flow problems. These occur when thestate does not have enough cash to pay the state's bills. Exon has said that for tax rates not to be raised, the Legislature must approve cuts in their May state budget LB6, intro duced in the Legislature by Exon last week, calls for a three per cent budget cut for all state agencies except the Depart ment of Corrections. The Appropriations Committee heard comments from several state agencies on their ability to withstand proposed cuts. Agencies questioned Marvel asked the agencies' representatives: If the agency can withstand a three per cent cut when allowed to decide which programs will lose funds. -If the agency can withstand a three per cent cut without the option of de ciding where the funds will be lost. If the agency's budget is cut three per cent, will it ask for a deficit appro priation next year to get part of that money back? Withstand cuts Most agencies indicated they would be able to withstand a three per cent budget cut if they were allowed to determine which programs would receive less money, as LB6 now reads. The constitutionality of that clause has been questioned and Sen. Robert Clark of Sidney said a decision from State Atty. Gen. Paul Douglas on the legality of the clause is expected by Thursday. But Marvel said he doesn't like that section of the bill because he said it usurps the legislature's responsibility to decide how state tax dollars will be spent. Many agencies' spokesmen said that unless they are allowed to decide where the cuts will be made, they will ask for a deficit appropriation next year to make up for the cut. Continued on p.6 Sororities locking up early By Sandy Mohr Because of recent break-ins at UNL so rority houses, many have been locking up earlier at night, and three are keeping their doors locked 24 hours a day. Ail sorority houses but one are locking their doors at least one hour earlier at night than they were three weeks ago, and seven of the 15 campus sorority houses are locking up at 5 or 6 pjn., about five hours earlier than usual. The most recent incident was an attempted breakin at Pi Beta Phi sorority, 426 N. 16th St., about 2 or 3 ajm. Sunday morning, according to President Pat Fiala. The vandals were unsuccessful in enter ing the house, but broke a window in the kitchen and tore the screen door on the sun porch, she said. Unwelcome visitors The Kappa Alpha Thata house, 1545 S. St., also has had "several incidents of unwelcome visitors," according to House mother "Holly" May. ; May said that about two weeks ago, two men were found wandering around on the second floor of the house, and were told to leave. Some money was missing, although it couldn't be blamed on them, May said. She said a man attempted to enter her apartment at the house by ripping the screen off of her bathroom window. The intruder departed after May said she dis covered him and asked him to leave. roof of the house attempting to get into the sleeping dorms about two weeks ago, May said. The only other Greek house surveyed that reported any intruders was the Delta Gamma house at 400 University Terrace. According to Housemother Helen Johannes, last Sunday a man walked into the house through the back door. Back door open Johannes said the back door was left open at the time, and that "really invited them in," she said. Although all hut four of the sorority and fraternity houses are on city streets and therefore the city's responsibility, Campus Police patrols them nightly, Chief Gail Gade said. The four houses on uni versity property are on N 16th St. by the Harper-Schramm-Smith residence hall complex. 'This doesn't mean that we don't help the city police," Gade said. "We're not going to just ignore it." About three cars patrol the city campus at night, Gade said. Neither Gade nor Lt. Jerry Smith of the Lincoln Police Dept. said the vandalism at the Pi Beta Phi sorority house this weekend had been reported to them. Lt. Smith said there is no increase over last year in vandalism at Greek houses. ' ' r.'t- ' l i ! J 1 r ft 1 tN J V"! f t.Tvf -SAi.v;-- V Photo by John KalkowsM Jim Hartz, right, co-host for NBC's "Today Show,' interviews Gov. J. James Exon Wednesday on the steps of the State Capitol. Hartz and the 'Today Show" film crew taped a short Bicentennial segment on Nebraska to be aired Friday morning, between 7 and 9 ajn. inside lodtm Cars and winter: How to ready the first for the second A special section beginning on. p.7 Women and Strike Day: How the first observed the second . . p.6 - Law students and bar exams. How the first questions the second p. 16 Also Find: Editorials. p.4 Arts and Entertainment p. 12 Sports p.14 Crossword p. 16 Short Stuff p.2 Thursday: Mostly fair and wanner. High temperatures in the upper 60s. Thursday night: Fair and mild. Temper atures in the low 40s. Friday: Partly cloudy, temperatures ranging from the low to mid-60s. jgsfa x won't r Wilkinson: criminal code repressive v Phono by Kwln Higlty Frank Wilkinson, executive di rector of the National Commit tee Against- Repressive Legislation. Senate Bill No. 1 is the most repressive legislation the Senate ever has undertaken, the director of the National Committee Against Repressive Legislation (NCARL) said Wednesday. Frank Wilkinson said the 753-page re vision of the VS. Criminal Code (called the Criminal Justice Reform Act of 1975) is supported by liberals and conservatives in the Senate, including , Nebraska Sen. Roman H rusks. "As it stands now," Wilkinson said, "the bill will have no impact on crime, but will definitely infringe on a person's freedom." Cuts freedoms According to Wilkinson, the bill would: -Provide mandatory executions for certain crimes under certain conditions. -Provide three to seven years andor a $100,000 fine for passing vaguely defined "classified information to a person who is not authorized to receive it." Officials such as Daniel EUsberg who helped leak the Pentagon Papers would be subject to im prisonment under this ruling, as would re porters receiving and editors printing such information, he said. -Expand wire tapping authority, con tinue 48-hour "emergency" wiretaps with out court fpproval end direct telephone companies and landlords to cooperate "forthwith and unobtrusively" with government wiretappers. -Impose a 15-yearS 100,000 fine for al legedly inciting other persons to engage in lawless conduct that would destroy the federal or state government, he said. It in fringes on a person's freedom of speech, he added. Stifle the prosecution of public ser vants if illegal conduct (such as Watergate) is the result of a "mistaken belief that it was "required or authorized," or based on "written interpretation issued by the head of a government agency." -Threaten civil rights, peace and other protests with infringements on the right of assembly. Press ignored The law virtually was ignored by the press during its drafting, because of the Watergate and impeachment proceedings occurring at the same time, he said. eThe timing was extremely unfortu nate," he said. "The press ignored it for bigger stories." "Many people are just hearing of this bill for the first tune because of Water gate," he said. . Senate Bill No. 1 is expected to come ,up for vote before Christmas or in the first , few weeks of January, Wilkinson said. "We have little hope of stopping it in the Senate," he said, "but we are encour aged we can ultimately stop it in the House. "We're really not counting on any of the Nebraska congressional delegation to help us," he added. NCARL allies with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), and ha said Ne braska's congressional delegation has never been favorable to civil liberties. "If Hruska gets a few hundred letters, he may see that his home ground is shaky," Wilkinson said. "Hruska wants to go out of the Senate as a hero," he said. "He doesn't want to be branded for the next hundred years as the author of this bill if it's not accepted by the public." Election issue He said the bill is bound to be an issue in the 1976 elections. "Ten weeks after he took office, Ford endorsed the criminal code, so you know what stand he will be taking," Wilkinson said. "The bill is actually Nixon'i bill," he said. "It was drafted under Attorneys Gen eral John Mitchell and Richard Kleindienst, both involved in Watergate."