mondayfebruary 16, 1976
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daily nebraskan
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By Ann Owens
Utica Sen. Douglas Bereuter told the NU Board of
Regents that he is concerned about what he called the
declining quality of education at UNL.
Bereuter said the main reason for. the. so-called decline
is that faculty members and resources do not match the
growing student population.
Other reasons, he said, include NU rescuing the Uni
versity of Nebraska Medical Center when it was in danger
of losing accreditation and taking over Omaha's municipal
university, now the University of Nebraska at Omaha
(UNO).
Bereuter said the more drastic decline is at the under
graduate level.
Quality not sustained
Bereuter said he believes in parity of educational
quality between NUcampuses, but added "we haven't put
enough resources into UNL to sustain quality."
He said Nebraskans don't understand the situation.
'They are deceived by a winning football team and
new buildings," he added.
The Nebraska Legislature sometimes reaches into
matters it shouldn't, Bereuter told the board. But he said
he is afraid the university has tried to achieve parity by re
straining UNL.
If someone has to be blamed, Bereuter said, it would
be "various decision makers" including former ; and
current administrators, regents and legislators.
Bereuter, a UNL graduate, told the board that he
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Second district Rep. John McCollister, who is cam
paigning for the Republican nomination, addressed
questions on forced busing, foreign policy, defense
spending and his campaign at a Lincoln press
conference Friday.
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would continue to pursue "quality" for UNL
He said that he plans to speak with Omahans who he
said influence the Legislature and "who have very aggres
sive ideas.."
"Some go far out," he said, "and won't be satisfied
until this (UNL) is a shell."
Upgrading UNL
Other plans, Bereuter said, involve earmarking money
for upgrading educational quality at UNL, cutting down
class sizes and dismissing those graduate assistants who are
"inappropriately" teaching classes.
"I hesitated speaking to the board today because the
new chancellor (of UNL, Roy Young) is here," Bereuter
said. "But if what I have to say has any merit, he might as
well hear it the first day."
According to NU President D.B. Varner, the board was
fortunate in hearing Bereuter while Young was present.
He added that he was encouraged by Bereuter's concern
and that he wants to "pursue the thrust of this."
The board thanked Bereuter and Omaha Sen. Glenn
Goodrich, who also attended the meeting, for their in
terest in the university.
Varner recommended that Regents' committee
"systematically look at quality of undergraduate educa
tion at UNL and UNO and report to the board at its next
meeting."
The board voted to talk to Gov. J. James Exon and
form a student-faculty-citizen committee to study the
quality of education at NU.
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cation at UNL had declined.
McCollister is critical of busing,
farm and business regulations
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The greatest legislative priority for the next U.S.
Congress is to reduce the "backbreaking" federal regula
tion of farms and small businesses, according to. second
district Rep. John McCollister.
He told a Lincoln press conference Friday that federal
regulations have hit small business disproportionately
hard, compared to larger businesses. -
McCollister, who is campaigning for the Republican
senatorial nomination, said that if elected he wanted
assignment to the Commerce and Small Business
committees.
He also addressed questions on forced busing to achieve
racial integration, foreign policy,' defense spending,
government spending and his campaign.
McCollister said forced busing is "not a good tool" to
achieve integration and "90 per cent of the people object
to it." He said integration could best be accomplished by
continually ending discrimination in housing and
employment.
v Wary of agreements with Soviets
The federal government, he said, is responsible for the
difficulty in reducing unemployment.
"The U.S. Treasury elbows its way into the capital
market," leaving private business with a hard time
attracting capital. Five out of six jobs in America are in
the private sector, he said.
McCollister said the federal government has added
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more to the national debt in the past two years than in
the previous thirty. He said he supports cuts in govern
ment spending on foreign aid, food stamps and welfare.
He also said the growth of federal housing and health care
programs should be curtailed.
In foreign policy, he said the Soviet Union has violated
detente, most recently in Angola, and said he would be
wary of any future agreements with the Russians. He said
he voted against cutting off aid to the anti-Marxist
Angolan factions.
President Gerald Ford and Secretary of State Henry
Kissinger have been rendered incapable of conducting ef
fective foreign policy and there was "no way 535 repre
sentatives of Congress could operate a clear- policy,"
McCollister said. The U.S. Constitution reserves that right
to the executive branch, he added.
"Subconscious talking more"
On defense spending, McCollister said he supports the
B-l supersonic bomber but is "frankly uneasy with the
cost escalations."
"My subecuscious has been talking tome more lately,"
. he said.
The recent U.S. Supreme Court decision overturning
campaign spending limits would affect his campaign very
little, he said adding that he has raised $70,000 so far and
will limit himself to spending $100,000 for the primary
election.
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