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By Theresa Forsman
More confusion, unanswered questions
and longer lines will be results of the
$500,000 reduction in university adminis
trative expenses imposed by the
Legislature, according to Ken Bader, vice
chancellor of student affairs at UNL.
UNL's share of that budget cut is
$190,000, said Lyle Johnson, budget
analyst for the university.
The cut will be absorbed in student
services, UNL's business and finance
office, the Office of Information and in
UNL Chancellor Roy Young's office.
Advisors will no longer be sent outstate
to advise high school students planning to
attend UNL, Bader said. Also, the general
information booklet will no longer be sent
to freshmen enrolling for the first time, he
said.
There will be more confusion and
concern among students and parents as a
result of ending these services," Bader
said.
The Help Line, which provided coun
seling and answered questions for UNL
students, will be discontinued, Bader said.
"The Help Line is one of the great
things we have got going for us. There is
no question that it was providing a
valuable service," Bader said.
Bader and others whose offices were
affected by the cuts decided where to cut
services or personnel.
The cutbacks on UNL have been
applied equitably," he said, "We have all
shared in this."
Bader said that though much evaluation
was involved in deciding where to cut the
budget, some cuts will have a negative
impact. ,
It was impossible to cut the budget
without cutting services, he said, because
there is no slack in UNL's administrative
budget.
Eedsced services -Other
services eliminated or reduced
this year:
No part-time or substitute clerical
coverage for the offices affected.
Reduced telephone, travel and
subscription expenses. .
Fewer personnel in the student
counseling center, the minority affairs
office and the Greek advising office.
Reduced funds for the day-care
center.
The honors brochure for prospective
honor students will not be printed.
Costs of senior checks, which tells
students which credits they need to
complete degree requirements, will be
absorbed by each department, Bader said.
Departments will be assessed according to
the percentage of their students who used
the service this year, Bader said.
The departments do not know where
they will get the money for this," Bader
said. They are already running' deficit
operations."
The budget cut was intended to reduce
administrative costs at the systems
(central administration) level rather than
on the individual campuses, Omaha Sen.
John Cavanaugh told the NU Board of
Regents at their June 23 meeting.
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Cavanaugh introduced the amendment
which imposed the budget reduction.
According to Johnson, the budget cuts
will be distributed as follows:
$58,188 from central administration.
$138,017 from the university com
puter system.
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$37,324 from the University of
Nebraska at Omaha (UNO).
$73,712 from the University of
Nebraska Medical Center.
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A tuition increase for UNL's College of Law approved at
the June 25 meeting cf the NU Board of Regents is difficult
to justify in light of conditions at the law college, said
Steve Mercure, UNL Student Bar Association (SBA)
president.
The board raised tuition for law students $33 a year to
$517 for Nebraska -residents and to $1,CC5 for
non-residents.
A tuition hike for students in the College cf Dentistry
also was approved.-Tuition increases for the rest cf UNL's
colleges were approved at the becrd's May meeting.
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Students in UNL's professional colleges pay a blanket
rate computed on an hourly basis. First year law students
take 33 hours, and 30 hours each year for the next two.
yearsMercure said. ' - ,
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In a letter submitted to the regents, Mercure outlined
the SBA's opposition to the increase: . .
Increasing enroSmeats are not feeing met by
increasing the number cf faculty membrs or services
offered. -
Excessively Large closes are ught.
The job placement program at the law school is
inadequate. -
Mercure. said he wreta tha latter because he wasted to
call public attention to "the bet that the College cf Law is
net reccivirj the quality cf education; to justify a tuition
increase at this tfcn."
. The letter was submitted to Omaha Regent Jamts
Moyha, chdrzezn, prier to the besrd cestkg, Uercure
Althcrb Mercure sdi he did est speak at tha pubis
netting in eppedtha to the mcrease, fee was "czdrr the
. irapresslan tht the board would give it seme attesta."
Mercure ssM he did net feel the hsue was given essngh
ccssidsratba fey the regsats.
"It was a foregone eczduden that tuition rates would fee
raised," he ssid. Tst alczg with the increase I wcu!i D:e
to see the mosey go into developing the faculty, bztructicn
and atmosphere cf the CcHsge cf Law."
. The tdriidctrttica his est ciTca the law sthcel the
asppcrt it Eteia to dsvdap its qtIIty," Msresrt ciii.
Lincoln Regent Ed Schwartzkopf said there was little
discussion among board members about Mercure's letter. '
There was not a great deal cf information opposing the
rate increase," fee said, "and to my knowledge no one had
requested to appear or.tse agenda at the meeting."
The board agsw! tL JZzsi issrease was justified
because of rising-; inflationary costs. Also. " we were .
concerned with keeping the tuition rates of the
professional colleges in Ike with undergraduate tuition
rates." Schwartakopf said.
Henry Grether. dean of the College cf Law, said the
regents had assured feist that when the rtes were raised, :
they would fee consistent with the rate cf increase
approved for undergraduate colleges earlier this year.
In addition to the problem areas described ia Mercure's
letter, ether student concerns, fee said, are a lack cf the law
school administrative centre! over the law library.
. izsdsquste minority reemitmcnt programs aad mandatory . '
student fees which fea siii da net feitf Irsr students.
The SBA cutlintd their ccsecrss in a repext to a jdzt
: American Ear AscktienAmera Aresdtiea cf Law
Schools inspection committee. Law schools are inspected
periodically, usually every seven years, Mercure said.
UNL's College cf Law wa3 last renewed by the
associations 14 years ago, he said.
Mercure said the SBA met with the rzrpectiea team,
which was chaired fey the dean cf the University cf
Oklahoma CcHege cf Law, and was receptive to the SHA's
ccacerns.
But the status cf any change is in Unbo rijht cow,
Mercure said, festases cf the chssga in deans. '
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