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Inside today Alittbcsre and lots of love keeps pfcnts healthy p. 6 . . ' . daily fiebraskao fridsy, octcber 8, 1073 vol. 1C0 no. 22 lincdn, ncbrcca Mosidele: Corfer mim . ' Gaei7ay : :Sahf controversy m Tai'3 moro wsm Cy Erysnt Ekk&s 1$ eroiyfeody h27 with the banking situation at UNL? Gateway Cook is happy. The Nebraska Union management is happy. Even the National Bank of Commerce is happy. The students? Well, they seem to have mellowed on the subject since last winter. Gateway Bank, which has a branch in the Union, initiated an activity charge last February, causing a few heated debates about whether the bank should or could be expelled from the Union space it occupies. Dennis Applebee, vice president for Gateway's depositor services, said Thurs day the bank's account and financial losses were lower than expected. The lower financial losses could be due partly because Gateway is paying the Union $11,772.12 less in rent this year. This is because when the bank's option to renew the lease came up in July, it passed, forcing the Union to open the lease to bidding. Gateway was the only bidder, as it was originally. However, rather than paying last year's fee of $1625 per square foot, Gateway won the bid for $4 per square foot per year. Last yyzz e bank began charging customers 25 cents to cash a check unless that person had a minimum balance of $50 in a Gateway account. "We didn't open as many accounts on the campus bank this year as we did a year ago, Applebee said. "Cut we feel the total overall effect has been good. Yes, we're pleased." The bank reported last year that it was forced to be the only bank in Lincoln to adopt the check cashing policy because, of a 22 per cent drop in net returns in 1975. "Our earnings are better at this point than last year," Applebee said. "We have lost accounts, but it has not -been near what we thought it would be." The National Cask of Commerce has picked up several accounts since the charge was added. "If you knew how many, you would put it in a headline, said Mike Hins NEC vice president of marketing, But Higgins could not say what effect Gateway's charge has had on the influx of accounts. There is really no legitimate way of telling," he said. "We had a substantial number of student accounts come at the time free checking was removed from the campus." But he added- 1 access! this fall are a result partly from the banks dose location to campus. "Free checking wasn't an issue this fall," he said. The people who were really upset made the change last year." AI Bennett, Union director, sail he was not aware of continuing student concern about the bank's charge. It continues to be the only Lincoln bank to have one. It's my opinion that the service is staisfactory to the bank's clientele," he said. "It continues to be the only viable way of keeping a check cashing service available to students." vo conduce By Gecrgs IIZLzt Democratic vice presidential candidate Walter Honda!; told a crowd of cheering Jimmy Carter fans Wednesday night that Carter proved that he should conduct America's foreign polky by his per formance in the second round of debates with President Gerald Ford. Mondale addressed 'approximately 500 persons in the ballroom of the Omaha I Id ton just after the crowd viewed the debate on a giant television screen. The Minnesota senator told the audi ence that Carter seeks a foreign policy that "represents the values of the American people," that "draws strength from the American people through a fully employed economy," sr . speaks of the values of the American people. - Mondale expressed disbelief that Ford referred to Eastern European nations as being independent of Soviet control. "Any student in a Nebraska sixth grade who gave that answer would be passed over until the next year," he say. ShosXd hare met Sclzhenitsyn - Mondale said this demonstrates why Ford should have met with exiled Russian author Alexander Solzhenitsyn "instead of turning his back on him" when Sol zhenitsyn was in Washington D.C., last year. - Mondale was introduced to the crowd by Gov. J. James Exon. Exon watched the debate with Mondale in the Minnesota senator's hotel room, along with Iowa Sens. Dick Clark and John Culver. -.: - State Democratic ' 'party officials 'and " htor leaders joined Mondale ..in greeting, , supporters.- Also present .were- Demccrst t ic ccngreoGal candidates Pauline Aadcr- son and John Cavanaugh. ; Predictably enough, most persons ia the ballroom after the debate thought Carter had outsccred the President. However, not everyone in the ballroom was a Carter-Mosdale fan. Several persons sittmg ia the middle of the crowd carried signs reading "Stop Abortion-Give LIFE a Chance' and "Abortion Separates Mothers." When Ford appeared on the screen or appeared to have scored a point on Carter, they cheered. . . : SmZizg peanuts " -. But these people were far outnumbered by persons carrying posters depicting a foreign, policy niversity operators work to solve the u By Deb Pslnssr You need to talk to your professor but you don't know his office telephone number. Or you see a cute girl or guy that you would really like to get to know, but you don't know the name, much less the telephone number. Or the cold you've had for the last three weeks suddenly makes you feel faint and you need help, fast. In each case, who do you caQ? 472-7211, the university operator, of course. Ruth Mkhalecki, director of UNL's Telephone and Radio Communications Center, said operators often handle calls like these. Twenty-three operators, five per shift, handle the electronic switchboards around the clock to provide UNL students, faculty and staff with answers to their questions. The five electronic switchboards, called consoles, and their operators, are huddled ia & small, rectangular room in Nebraska I Ml 211. When a question comes in thai one operator can't asnwer, she puts the caller on hold and asks her co-workers fcr help. "Between the five of us, we get it an swered," said Joanne Sturgeon. University operators try to be helpful, Mkhalecki said, although this year they are working under Srery trying circumstances.' ";- - -Nc Centsex sys&sa "They (university operators) bear the brunt of complaints" against the new Centrex system, she said, although it is not their fault "not all the bugs are worked out." V With conversion to this system, univer sity operators also have become the student information center. They have the telephone numbers and addresses of all UNL students, although if operators are giving out wrong cumbers, it isn't their fault, Michalecki said. Students should report an incorrect number or address to the office of aca demic affairs, she said, because that is the input source to their computers. An up date sheet is received by the center about every two weeks, she added. University operators are also watchdogs of the UNL security system, Mkhalecki s?d. A control panel at the front of the room slsh vdsen an emergency hzppcns anywhere ca campus. Operators then call the appropriate cumber, such as the fire statica, LuccLa Fcike Dept. (LFD) or a Cct2cedcap.7 peanut with a wide grin or those who cheered when Carter called Henry Kcsir.ger president of the United Stztes as far as foreign polky was concerned. At a press conference after his appear ance in the ballroom, Mondale said a Car ter administration would open up the decision-making process in foreign polky by submitting treaties to the Senate for ap proval instead of making executive agree ments, which need no Senate approval. He also said new safeguards to pre vent misuses of power by the CIA would be started by a Carter administration. Mondale accused the Ford Ammistra tion of not working with Congress or Am erican allies in shaping foreign polky. Amajsrerrof Mondale again referred to Ford V state ment on East European countries, saying the President made a "major error" in say ing they were autonomous of the Soviet Union. "People with origins" in these nations will be very clear in expressing their notions of what Ford said " Mondale added. He accused Ford of preparing the de fense budget, not on the basis of national security, but to undermine the primary challenge of Ronald Reagan. He said he did not know of anyone who has cot studied the defense budget "and not found fat there." Mondale was questioned about a report by the General Accounting Office that said American pilots reported that most of the crew of the captured ship Mayaguez were cot on the clnd American troops later attacked to save the crew. the report, but that based on news stories about the report, he thought the analyst and evaluation of intelligence was very . weak. . polky on Angola, which he said might have sucked the U.S. into another Vietnam. "Congress terminated (American) in volvement over the objections of the Ford ' administration who wanted to continue their covert onerations." Mondale will debate bis Republican counterpart, Sen. R--rt Dole of Kansas, Oct. 15 in Houston, Tex. Fi3ot; fey 5; :'fn Srr frff-' Lbiftrfty cptrrtr Szls Dissa h cze cf 25 stairs hzzfZzz czfxtsy