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Inside today Crushing the Czts: Kansas State University looked nice pussycats, not like Wildcats.... p. 7 .. daily nebrashan mondoy, octcbsr 18,1970 vol.100 no. 23 Wmoln, nchrzzka ml t, VS IfOVG r u By Arlti Ciori The NU Hoard of Regents decided Friday to name the new UNL Sports Complex after UNL Athcltic Director Ecb Devaney. To name the convex the "Dob Devaney Sports Center", Nebraska' Gov. h James Exon or the Nebraska Legialarure will fare to make special provisions. It currently is z2zz the law to name a state building after a state employe. ' -f "Devaney has brought a winning tradition here. lie was the srpiratica and piling force behind the sports w Dave P L . ' FhefabyTad Kirk U0 Stcdisi Urgent Sevca Scorns pposed ;1 aatlea by the; KU Eaaxd cf Crests to cssse the UML Spczts Gsrplax after UTJL A&lsSs B&ectsr EeS Devsasy.' ' complex," said Grand Hand Regent Robert Kcefoot, who proposed the name change. ' Steve Shovers, University cf Nebraska at Omaha (UNO) student regent, objected to the name change, saying it was improper. Te should consider naming it after Terry Carpenter, Shovers said. Carpenter sponsored the legislation authoriz ing construction of the complex with fends from a cigarette tax. - Cafeciar approved In other action the board approved a common calendar for the three campuses in the system. The board tabled until November a student fee increase and a SI increase in the ticket price of non-conference football games, and approved a $35 million budget for the Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources (IANR). .. The common calendar will take effect ci the 1978 79 academic year. UNL, UNO, the College of Nursing and the portions of the School of Allied Health Professions of the NU Medical Center that use the Semester system wO be affected. No action will be taken until November on the proposed student fee increase. The board voted last spring to increase student fees by $4 to finance the Nebraska East Union, scheduled to open in January 1977. However, because of miscalcula tion in the cost of the Union, another $1 increase is being proposed. The $4 increase, approved last spring, will go into effect July 1977. ... MaeEer pleased : UNL Student Regent Bill Mueller said he was happy it was set aside until "we can educate the students on the reasoning and rationale "behind the increase." Although the matter was discussed last spring, Mueller said new students were not informed. "Students might feel we're railroading this through," Mueller said. "We need to take the time to give reasons why the increase is necessary." Action, on a football ticket price hike also was "deferred: The proposal would add $1 to the price of non conference football game tickets. , The $33 million improved programs request sppcaved for the IANR is in addition to IANR's continuation portion approved last month with the S1C3 million NU budget. . The improved programs portion was not submitted at the September regent's meeting because UNL Chancellor mm? Roy Young and Martin Massengale, vice chancellor for IANR, wanted more time to review the budget, said Charles Koopman, assistant to Masengale. IAf claries lew The budget approved Friday also calls for S5C0C3 to increase IANR faculty salaries. A 55 per cent salary increase for all staff members, th an additional 3 per cent increase for faculty members, was included in the IANR continutation request, Massengale said.' -Faculty salaries here are 99 per cent below the average of other land grant institutions," Massengale sald The amount requested here, along with the 3 per cent requested by the regents and the $203,1000 received by IANR in 1976-77 (from the Legislature for salary improvement) will bring the average salaries to the level of other land grant institutions," he said. The board also: . PApproved a UNO request to appty for $7.1 million in federal money set aside for areas of low employment, with the fundsjised for construction of a Health, Physical Education and Recreation building at UNO. Only Douglas and Sarpy Counties in Nebraska have high enough unemployment levels to qualify for federal money. -Approved a UNO request to apply for $7.1 million in due process for faculty members with grievances or those who face dismissal. Anofo-Ameri debate J uasday The effect of television on democracy will be debated by two British students and two members of UNL's debate squad at 7:30 p jn. Tuesday in the Nebraska Union Ballroom. - Gigi Hall and Leslie McGraw, both juniors, will debate the topic TIze House EeHsvss Hist Tele vision Diminishes Democracy with two Ezitth students from Oxford University. The debate will be in parliamentary style with audience members deciding the outcome. The UNL Speech Communication Dept. and the Union Pro gram Council are sponsoring the debate. mm slzer spectBtOfs get Mgti off-top ByMsryJontzI "I've got some last row jokes for you," the smiling fellow in the card section said. "Not to say those seats are very higfrup, but I asked the guy next to me if he was for NU or KSU (Kansas State University) and he said he was just passing through on a Detroit-to-DaHas fright" This exaggeration may be a little absurd, but from the vantage point of seats a few yards away from the huddle on the 50-yard line, the top rows rinimmg Memorial Stadium may seem like the outer limits. Top row seats, however, are not the big disadvantage many people imagine them to be, according to spectators who see Eig Red action with a bird's eye view. "It's the best seat in the house," Vernon Feye said of his seat in the last row of Section 105 in the east Satdium. Feye has been sitting in the same place since 1960, the year he graduated from UNL. "With 37,000 seats and 18,000 fans, you could sit any where you wanted," he said of the football crowds in his college days. "Now I trunk you could sell 20,000 seats for up here alone. This is where it's at." p- -: T j i j i 1 j ' 1 Even Ffcpeye cf tie Flu Gil. .....uj a tec!Hi2 InSTrd c'k'd hecc Hsoto by TJ Kirk ; actf?il"THsdi!ay sas tie creatiaa "When you sit down further, you can't see the end zone," UNL sophomore Evan Hindman said of his perch on the top row of Section 12 in the South Stadium. "These seats are higher you can't get much higher," he added, then laughed. A clear view of the game with no interference is one of the advantages of top row seats in the South Stadium, according to William Meyers of Lincoln, who ushers at home games. Meyers said he requested to usher in Section 12 because of the view of the game. "I enjoy it more. You can see everything that's played," he said. "We enjoy football," fans from the farthest west corner of the North Stadium said. "That's why we're here, that's why we freeze." Their seats, in row 78 of Section 32 catch the north wind. Elzsket treakswsai "rlanket stretched across the chain link fence in back of their seats broke some of the chilly October wind, but they suggested the university install canvas or plastic backing. "It's chilly, but the view's worth it," a fan in the North Stadium said. "If it wasn't, I wouldn't be here." Most spectators seemed happy with their seats. Preferred seating for many would be in the glass-encased comfort of the press box. "I think this is the best place to sit as far as I'm con cerned," Rosemary Haass said. "If Fd rather sit anywhere else, it would be behind the glass (in the press box.)" v v..... Dcsafvantes tso Top row seats also present disadvantages. Fans in Section 20 of the South Stadium complained of no vendor service. "I don't blame them," one woman said. "Dy the time they'd (the vendors) get up here, they'd be sold cut." Decause of the distance cf the seats from ground level, "anythirg important has to wait," a fan from the North Stadium said. "We're the last ones in and the bat ones out," She said, explaining that it generally takes from half an hour to 45 minutes to get out cf the stadium. "It's great up here, only it gets a Ettle scary," a freckle faced 1 2 year oil said, pointing to a narrow crack beneath his top row seat in the South Stadium. "When everyone stands, we can see over the tcp cf them, one spectator said. The Section 23 crc--d zlz dsnsca strated cce cf their favorite rafees-catchirs tie talbns that fans set free when the Ifekers score.