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ilfG in unsi f fh -if. a r -' ) .... . ,w By Ann Owens Roy Young, nominee for the UNL chancellor, will attend the NU Board of Regents monthly meeting Satur day. His appointment will be recommended for the board's approval by NU President D.B. Varner. . The board will meet at 8 ajm. in Regents Hall, 3835 Holdrege St., after a breakfast and press conference with Young at 7 a jn. in the Columbus Room of the Nebraska Center for Continuing Education, 33rd and Holdrege streets. The regents also will be asked by Utka Sen. Douglas Bereuter to act with the Nebraska Legislature to restore what he called quality education to UNL. According to the Lincoln Star, Bereuta said actions to improve the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) and the University of Nebraska at Oraaha (UNO) have overshadowed UNL. "It is time to put more money into UNL," he said. The regents also will be asked by Ken Bader, UNL vice chancellor for student affairs, to approve a legal age con sumption and possession of alcohol in university student living units and to approve a 244xur guest visitation option for undergraduate students. A 24-hour option is already available for graduate students. According to Bader, current housing options offer students a limited range of living environments. Other items on the regents' agenda include: -Consideration of a request by Bader and Miles Torn meraasen, vice-chancellor for business and finance, to in crease next year's UNL residence hall room and Board rates $35 for double occupancy and $50 for single occupancy. . . ' . -A report, presented by William Erskine, executive viceesident for administration, comparing NUs 1976 77 budget request with the Nebraska Legislature's Appropriations Committee's recommendation in LB 690 and Gov. J. James Exon's recommended appropriation in LB975. - NU's request for total financing was $148,265,034,931, LB690 recommended $137,202,469 and LB975 recom- menaea lJ,fOO,UJ4. -Approval of space requirements and a proposed budget for Omaha's Downtown Education Center, as re quested by UNL Chancellor Ronald Roskens. daily inside tiocfo f riday, february 13, 1976 vol. 99 no. 80 SAT: The Scholastic Aptitude and achievement tests may soon include a written portion. . . Out of My Head: A symphony of cognitive dissonance Roses are Red: And the Daily Nebraskan recognizes romantics with a Valentine's Day ad contest winners ana losers. . . . . .p.5 p.ll . p.16 Basic education grants' status expected in a wee rv By Nancy Clark UNL students receiving Basic Education Opportunity Grants (BEOG) should know the status of those grants in about one week, according to a UJS. Office of Education official. The federally-financed BEOG program needs to draw $160 million on its 1976-77 appropriations to meet this academic year's obligations, said Diane Sedicum, assistant to the head of the BEOG program in a telephone inter view from Washington, D.C. If Congress fails to advance the funds, students could face 1975-76 grant cuts of about 20 per cent, she said. This would affect about 1,350 UNL students, accord ing to Debbi Knight, a UNL financial aid adviser. Sedicum added that BEOG officials "are working close ly with Congress" and "are confident of a quick resolu tion" of the problem. "Our opinion is that Congress will budget the addition al funds rather than back down on commitments already made" she said. BEOG was budgeted $820 million for the 1975-76 academic year. Sedicum said a recent Associated Press article on the program's budget problem was "mislcading." "By concentrating on what would happen if grants were cut, the article implied that (grant) rewards would be reduced " she said. "But no one is suggesting that rewards should be reduced." The BEOG budget always has been difficult to estimate because it has been in a transitional stage, Sedicum said. The program, which Congress tacked on to the Higher . Education Act in 1971, is geared to reach its full potential in stages. During its first year of operation, 1973-74, only fresh men In post-secondary institutions were eligible. Sopho - mores became eligible in the second year and juniors in the third. In the 1976-77 academic year, the program is scheduled to reach its full potential, Sedicum said, when all undergraduate students, full- and. part-time, will be eligible. Sedicum said the number of applicants then should stabilize and become more predictable. This was the first year that officials underestimated the program's cost, she said. Sedicum said in its first two years of operation, of ficials overestimated costs, resulting in a total surplus of About $242 million. - This year, about 74 per cent of the BEOG applicants, about 13 million recipients, qualified for aid, she said. This compares to 51 per cent or a total of about 574,000 recipients in 1974-75. About 2.6 million applications have been received for next year, and applications are coming in at a rate of about 15,000 a week, Sedicum said. Site attributed the increase partially to students be coming more aware of the program. She said many in stitutions require students who file for financial aid to also apply for a BEOG. Financial aid applicants at UNL are required to apply for the program, Knight said. Officials believe that the grants, which range from $200 to -$1,400, are an "excellent" resource and should be tapped first. According to Knight, UNL has received no word from the national program that the grants will be reduced for UNL applicants. In 1973-74, 366 UNL students received BEOG grants for total appropriations of about $32,146. About 723 stu dents received BEOG aid in 1974-75 for $256,709. Last semester, 1,172 students received $532,190, averaging about $454 per recipient, she said. M odel United Notions-a deleqaf ion for the future? By Bryant Brooks - The fusion of the first global community is taking place in the United Nations, according to Nicholas Goncharoff, executive director of international education and cultural affairs for the YMCA. Goncharoff is one of four persons in Lincoln to parti cipate in the Nebraska Model United Nations (M UN) this week in the Nebraska Union. The event, which will last through Saturday, is a joint effort by UNL, Nebraska Wesley an University and Lincoln high schools. s 1 J V A v ' ' rtwtotvTw! Kirk Israeli delegates to the ModI United Nations (MIJN) l-stea attentively to a speaker during Thursday cession. The MUN conference win continue through Satofay. - ' " . f The other three participants are T.B. Sam, member of the permanent mission to the United Nations from Ghana, Zaim Im&m, member of the permanent mission to the United Nations from Kuwait and Dr. John G. Stoessinger, professor of political science at Hunter College in New York City and special consultant to the United Nations. Goncharoff said that non-governmental intfrnationsl agencies such as the YMCA should play the role of referee' between the governments and military and industrial machines. He said that a few large countries no longer can dominate the assembly. "The great powers are reluctant to support the U.N. because they cannot control it like they used to," Gon charoff said. - Stoessinger added that the United Nations has been called a "tyranny of the majority" by those upset with larger countries' diminishing power. The four agreed that the major world conflicts do not revolve around communism and capitalism as much as be tween producers and consumers,rich and poor and white and non-white. , " "The U.S. has to adjust itself to being one among -many," Stoessinger said. He added that the most cohesive bloc is the Third World powers, 100 of which he said wefe born since World War II. Goncharoff will address the MUN Economic and Social Council today at 1 p jn. in the Nebraska Union. Imam and Sam are here as resource persons to organize blocs and caucasing. Imam commended the MUN and said he hoped it signaled a new interest in the United Nations. "We used to find the galleries packed but now they are often empty because people want actipn-not just resolutions," . he . said. H believe these students . represent the future." v The MUN General Assembly convenes today and the conference will adjourn Saturday at 5 pan. with presents- tion of awards to outstanding delegations. ' : 1 ' ' ( : -
