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inside t 23 O n 1 n - f ) . ( ) ' ( ) 15D fridiy, rncrch 12, 1D70 vol. CD no. C3 linccfn, rtdteka Riss&S fbr Rssst: UNL freshman Oizrllc Kris is ninnins incumbent Regent Kermit Werner. ..... pS Dechred E!bb: The Student Court declared tliree ASUN Senate . . candidates eligible after . , the Electoral Comm&zon said no . . . ; . p.2 Cobs snd Tsrxls: No merger snd the Corncobs President resigns ........ p.9 Dy Sandy Riihr UNL's Minority Affairs Office may lose six of its eight staff members which would result in the discontinu ation of most of its 2d vising and counseling programs. Last week the Nebraska Legislature's Appropriations Committee struck out of LC591, the hier education bill, a proposal which would have given the office $86,000. It currently receives a state appropriation of $65,000. Previously, six of the office's staff members received .$11 0,000 fron the United States Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW) and other grants, said Minority Affairs Director Jimmie Smith. The HEW grant wl end June 30, he said, so the office haslittle time to apply to HEW for more money. The office has been trying to apply for another grant, ' but because HEW guidelines for further federal financing were not released as expected on March 5, the office has not been able to apply, said Ken Bader, vice-chancellor for student affairs. : Story postponed Because of difficulties m scheduling interviews with the four independent ASUN executive candidates by press time Thursday, the story on the independent candidates for the ASUN election wl appear in Monday's Daily Nebraskan. That is why the office tried to get money from the secretary w2I remain hi the Minority Affairs Office, which zamn sau serves aooux wj siusenxs. "I know other offices (in the university) are not going to do the job to make sure that they (minority students) get quality educatbn because they are not sensitive to minority people's needs," Smith said. Because he cannot accommodate 600 students, he said, he is now in the process of hiring another staff member. He said this person would coordinate a learning center for tutoring, academic advising, study skills development and reading improvement programs. Smith said he received "no substantive reason as to why" the offices' request was denied. "lYcmise net tact" "By not funding is saying we see no need for people with expertise in this area," Smith said of legislators decision. Smith said Bader has promised, him the Special Services program will continue. "But a promise is not a fact," Smith said. Bader said he will try to restore the office's appropria tion in the NU budget request. The Women's Collegiate Athletics appropriation was deleted at the same time, he added, and said he will try to restore that request as well. We have, as a university, an obligation to continue this (Special Services) program," Bader said. "We may have to eliminate something else, but there is no lack of corrmiitment to continue the program." state, Smith said. There is no assurance the office w23 receive the federal funds when they apply, he saM. . . . petd services .,- . . ""' "It's extremely crucial that some money come from somewhere," he sail, adding that the federal grant paid for six staff members in the office's Special Services PYograrn. Special services provides academic and personal advising, develops university courses, organizes work shops, helps with job placement and sponsors social and cultural programs for minority and low-income students, he said. - Last year the program's staff worked with minority students' organizations on campus, but Smith said this was discontinued this year. . - There were not enough hours in the day for all of us to do those kinds of things," he said. hi addition, Smith said, the program provides "a source of moral support (for 'minority students) in an all-white environment." The program further "makes the -student an individual who understands how everything in the university is inter dependent," Smith added. . Norsemen . If this program is discontinued, only Smith and his FA HA Fees Allocation Board (FAB) Thursday formed sub committees to study a report on 1976-77 student fees pre sented to the board by Ely Meyerson, dean for student development, last week. , The report, recommending a 53.50 a semester increase in student fees next year, included studies of student fee use by the Nebraska Union, the University Health Center, the Recreation Dept., Career Counseling, the Council on Student Life and Career Planning and Placement. FAB subcommittees will study the groups and make recommendations to Meyerson and Ken Bader, vice chancellor for student affairs, by mid-April. The board also heard subcommittee recommendations for eight student organizations requesting fees. Tentative recommendations made sx far are: , Alumni Association t $1,000 Committee advises new departments should' be formed The NU Eoard of Regents Academic Affairs Committee Saturday wO recommend to the board that the UNL Department of Speech and Dramatic Art be reorganized into three separate departments the depart ments of speech and communication, theater sits, and speech pathology and andiology. The board wO start its monthly meeting at 8 ajn. at Regents Hall, 3th and Holdrege streets. The committee recommendation states that the three subdivisions have little in common and that "there is no rational need for them to be joined together in what is, in practice, an unworkable cicn." NU President DJL Vainer also wO ask the board to select a bank for TU trust and rnaneement services. The university now makes separate investments through the state investments cfSser. By using t bank, NU endowment funds would be pooled and investments would be more secure because no sine fund wouil depend cn the success cf a sire invest ment, according to VHl2rn Erskine, executive viee-pres-ifent for adrsriisirstlsa. ' The remits wO meet informally with 'the Inter- ' Campus Faculty Avecry Council at 7:30 sum. in the Nebraska Center; 33ri and Ileldree streets. The council wis formed to fcprcTe communication between rt-trts and faculty mesbers at UNL the IMrsfty of i&bxsika at Oms!' end the tfaiverdty cf ttchxsski ri"..i y -urn ffflfT f&mfm 17rwVti cf the UI L Faculty Czls. Revests aba wH Leer o "Area cf ExcsIIssise report r. 11-' Sy n linicrQOS3;.rop.orJ Graduate Student Organization Ski Club Teachers College Advisory Board Horticulture Club Block and Bridle Club Vomen's Action Group Student Y' Gay Action Group Women's Resource Center UNL HEMP Association of Computing Machinery Korean Student Organization UNL Orienterring Club Nebraska Human Resource Foundation Builders American Guild of Organists 450 350 ... 0 100 1,430 225 550 500 1,200 0 40 80 20 175 300 150 Cultural Affairs UNL Tractor Club Corncobs Rugby Club UNL Rifle Club Masquer's Club UNL Wildlife Gub InnocentsMortar Board 25,000 . 75 500 380 600 245 200 130 The board will be meeting Wednesday at 4 pm. to hear the following subcommittee recommendations:' UNL Crew, Geology Club, Phi Beta Lambda, Pi Sigma Alpha, Marketing, Semper Fidelis, Angel Flight and Student Veterans. 4 Don Wesely, FAB chairman, said he encourages groups to attend subcommittee recommendation hearings for their organizations. . f 1 1 French orof 1 r wins honor for service V csis TszL CIa r- CSBt Cf Jane Dein, assockfe professor of French and vice-chairman of UNL's Department of Modern Languages and literature, was awarded the French Or der cf Academic Rilms Thursday af ternoon at Sheldon Memorial Art Galkry. Dehi was presented the award by Jean BsauHsu, cultural attache to . the French consulate in Chicago, for her work in directing an educational ex change prey am which allows UNL grad uate French students to study in France while working as graduate assistants in .French unifersilies. -' The award was established in 1CCS by the French Government to honor stiuicd writers, artists and tcssh ers, Besu!Iea praised Dsta's trmerb2s . and csmjbiy week with.ths intsr cstiensl exchsrf cf teaehr assorts. Alter Lie rxesemauon, tessa Cia.- 11-4m-S C 2 X4wmhm2 C- rrke ca Fnnse s csursl psdes tt I Hi