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friday, february 27, 1976 vol. 99 no. 88 lincoln, nebraska
"Anris in space: UNL Assistant Professor
Leendert Kersten is designing
equipment for NASA ....... . . p. 2
Put on hold: The decision on building
the regional veterinary school
was delayed again, and the Nebraska
Legislature appears to be
getting impatient ..... . ....... ... . .p. 9
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By Dick Piersol
The Nebraska Legislature's Appropriation Committee
Wednesday added $4.5 million to the 1976-77 fill budget,
including $850,009 earmarked for undergraduate c ca
tion improvement at UNL. 4
The action increases the committee's NU budget re
commendation to $92.4 million, $8.2 million more than
Gov. J. James Exon's recommendation. The $4.5 million
was added to the committee's previous tentative budget of
$875 million. , v -.. '
The committee has not decided yet on several issues
necessary to report the budget to the Legislature for
debate, such as pay raises and capital construction. The
committee will meet Monday to iron out those issues.
Bereuter't amendment
The $4 J million total is the result of action on five
issues. '. ,
The $850,000 for undergraduate improvement at UNL
is contained, in an amendment introduced by Utica Sen.
Douglas Bereuter. It provides funds for starting a four
year program to reduce class sizes, to eliminate graduate
students from teaching assignments "where such assign
ment is not in the best interest of quality undergraduate
.education" and to recruit additional faculty members.
The Bereuter amendment specifically authorizes
expenditures for up to fifteen cash awards to faculty
members for outstanding undergraduate classroom
instruction and for hiring instructors, including, but not
limited to, senior faculty members, "particularly noted
for their instructional excellence."
The amendment requires the NU Board of Regents and
administration to assure the Legislature that during fiscal
year 1976-77 the total number of graduate students with
teaching responsibilities does not increase. Combined
undergraduate teaching hours also must not decrease and
at least 75 per cent of the faculty's additional workload
will be for undergraduate Instruction.
Marvel opposed
, .The regents also would be required to report to the
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Legislature at the 1977-78 budget hearings on the results
achieved, submit proposals for continuing the program
and consider the 1976-77 expenditures as part of the
continuing budget request.
. The amendment was adopted 72, with Sens. Richard
Marvel of Hastings and Robert Clark of Sidney opposed.
Marvel is committee chairman.
The committee also voted to restore $15 million and
$887,339 for faculty workload revision at UNL and the
University of Nebraska 'at Omaha (UNO), respectively.
Those amounts had been removed from the committee's
budget recommendations previously in an effort to define
the university's role as primarily an undergraduate teach
ing institution, forcing the NU administration to justify
its research function.
A proposal to appropriate $500,000 for UNO to gain
tax support parity with UNL was amended to $300,000
and adopted.
The committee also passed an appropriation to the
University of Nebraska Medical Center for a brain scanner.
left m? $6oS uiiBDuSe
On a vote of 54, the committee voted to submit the
NU budget to the Legislature for approval with a variation
of single sum budgeting requested by the regents.
Appropriations would be made in single sums for UNO;
the medical center; the Institute fof" Agriculture and
Natural Resource s,, operating costs for the new sports
complex at UNL and . UNL academic, extension and
instructional programs.
The central administration appropriation is broken
down into cash amounts for the computer network,
.administration, State University of Nebraska, physical
plant and other administrative functions.
- The provisions for flexibility in" spending those
appropriations passed on a 5-4 vote.
Clark said the $4.5 million in additions amounted to a
"stacked committee" action, with Omaha and lincoln
lawmakers trading increased spending programs. He said
Exon probably would veto parts of the NU budget if it
passed the Legislature because it amounts to $82 million
more than the governor recommended.
Clarification of court opinion sought
Although the ASUN Student Court ruled Monday that
the ASUN Senate's rescission of its Council on Student
.Life (CSL) appointees was invalid, legal counsel for the
CSL member is seeking clarification of the court's
opinion.
Bruce Smith, legal counsel for the plaintiffs, has
requested that the court clarify its opinion that removal
of the Senate's appointees can be based on their failure to
follow ASUN Senate policy
Smith is a first year law student from South Sioux"
City.
The court stated in its opinion that ASUN Senate
could remove its appointees, who hold office for definite
terms, only upon cause after notice and hearing.
The opinion also stated that an officer generally may
not be removed for religious or political reasons.
However, removal for failure to follow clearly stated
policies of ASUN Senate would be a political reason, ac
cording to a request for clarification that Smith filed with
the court. Consequently, he said, he wonders if the court
contradicted itself in its opinion. ',
Smith also said that since CSL is UNL's supreme appel
late body, a situation could be created where the council
would hear student grievances regarding ASUN policies
A conflict of interest therefore would exist, he
said, if CSL student members must abide by and com
ply with Senate policies, "yet decide the fate of stu
dents challenging those same policies."
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Empty fPlag cabinets, empty boxes, empty desk at the Southeast Nebraska Selective Service office mark the
death throes of the draft.
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Editor's note: Saturday marks the close of the
Sou&esst Nebraska Selective Service office. It, along
with Selective Service offices across the country ere
befog closed, marking the draft's end. Remembering
the peace deraoastrstitms md draft protests, the Dally
Nffbnrfcsn sent reporter Ukk Pfersol to witness one f
the final days f this office. , .
By Dick Piersol ,
"Hey, reporter," spake the seasoned editor with
foreboding rampant in her voice. "We want you to do a
piece on the Southeast Nebraska Selective Service of
fice closing., you're the only one old enough to know
much about it."
Reporter cursed under his breath, stroked his grey
ing cuds and replied without much hope, 'Well it it's
closing Friday why can't we lrun an obituary
Monday?"
"Git gone, slacker!" site replied, "and take Pho
tographer with you."
"That's easy for you to say, Editor," Reporter mut
tered so she couldn't hear. "With the Equal -Rights
Amendment, they might send you to boot camp."
Thus dispatched, the two nging alleged journalists
made their way slowly to the Federal BIdg. to record
the dying gasps of the local draft board offices.
Comforting hollow
Both were grateful fugitives from active military
duty, Photographer because of a large lottery number
and a bum leg, while Reporter was just a bum and
unfit, '
They complained aloud to the sunny afternoon.
"I thought I was quits with conscription in '73,"
said Reporter, who had escaped by two weeks the Pres
ident's friendly greeting. .
They entered the stone and glass Federal digs and
commented. Photographer on the building's inefficien
cy. Reporter on how the floor looked just like the
ceiling. . -
Entering the state Selective Service director's outer
office they encountered several nameless clerks, none
showing that eagerness peculiar to an inveterate news
source.
The room was spacious, with a long row of file cabi
nets that sounded comfortingly hollow when struck
with an idle foot.
"The state director is out," said a helpful woman,
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An Ivy Day protest at UNL in 1979. The draft's
heyday was at the height of the Vietnam War, '
and campuses across the country were, rocked
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"but you may speak to his assistant."
"Thanks," replied Reporter, accustomed to this
kind of treatment.
Assistant director Edwin Scott began a rambling dis
course on the Selective Service System's slow death
since they stopped drafting young men for military
service in January 1973. '
The county selective service offices had been con
solidated into nine area offices in Nebraska. The U.S.
Defense Dept. had started to promote an all-volunteer
army the same year.
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