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The UNL Office of Housing today will subnet to Chan
cellor Roy Young a proposed $40 increase in housing
rates for next year.
Richard Armstrong, director of housing, said the hous
ing office hopes to have the proposed increase on the
agenda for the NU Board of Regents meeting in January.
"The regents have authorized every increase we have
proposed since I have been here," Armstrong said. "How
ever, this will be the first recommendation that we have
made to Chancellor Young, so I don't know how he will
react to it."
The proposed increase, if accepted, will go into effect
in the fall of 1977, Armstrong said. The new rates would
he a 3.5 pre cent increase over this year's current hosing
fees of $1 ,225 per academic year.
Utilities, personnel costs and building and maintenance
costs are reasons Armstrong cited for the increase. He
added that inflation was the major factor for the rise in
all operating expenses.
. "We expect to recover some of those costs by an in
crease in residency," Armstrong said. He also said he ex
pects about ISO more occupants in the residence halls
next year.
Armstrong said he is sure the rate increase will be
aggravating to students and parents. However, he said he is
sure the rates for on-campus housing will compare favor
ably with any off-campus situation.
Lincoln regent Ed Schwartzkopf said the regents have
heard nothing about the proposed increase, but that it
comes as no surprise to him. '
JihthmMenh-thmMJMimybQiy operat
ic--- home today can understand the rate increase be
cause it affects all of us," Schwartzkopf said.
He said the regents probably w2i accept the rate in
crease "if they (housing office) have their facts correct,
and they aren't too far out of line."
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Warm weather lures students from the library regardless of dead week. The high today is to be ia tlie 60s.
Anonymous donor pledges support
A Lincoln businessman has pledged to match all
donations up to $20,000 to the NU Foundation's fund
raising drive to send the Cornhusker Marching Band to the
Astro-Blueboraiet Bowl, said Ed Hirsch, NU Foundation
vice-president.
Hirsch, who is drive coordinator, said late Thursday
that $13,880 had been raised so far in the drive, not
counting the businessman's pledge. -'
Although the drive- deadline originally was Thursday,
Hirsch said he has extended it to Monday. Last year the
drive ran for two weeks, he said, and a Thursday deadline
would have meant this year's drive lasted only one week.
: Hirsch said he is confident that the $40,000 goal wO
be reached with the help of the businessman, whom he
declined to identify. He sad an average of $2,000 had
been donated daily.
The anonymous donor contacted UNL Chancellor Roy
Yoursg Wednesday with the proposal, according to Hirsch.
He said the man had not decided until then to donate the
money.
UNL Director of Bands Jack Snider said he was
notified by Young at a Thursday morning breakfast of the
man's pledge.
Snider said Young told him to make definite plans to
make the trip.
. However, if the fund-raising drive does not yield the
needed funds, Snider said he thinks the band will not
attend the bowl.
... Youn added that if the band west ever its goal, the
surplus funds would be held by the University of Ne
braa Foundation for use by the bird. Ycir siid C'Jt '
anonymous donor agreed, saying he provided the mosey
to guarantee the future of the band. ' ,
Snider also said he did not know the donor's name.
Hirsch said the man wished to remain anonymous.
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Getting "people excited about curriculum" will be Her
bert GarfiskeTs first priority as interim chancellor of the
University cf Nebraska at Omaha (UNO).
Garfinkel, CNO vice chancellor of academic affairs,
was chosen Saturday by the NU Board of Regents to fill
in for Chancellor Ronald Rodeos, who was appointed
interim NU president by the regents.
"I'm concerned that I not be really a caretaker, that I
don' t just keep the seat warm," Garfinkel said.
"One has to respond in terms of one's own compe
tency experience what I can bring to the job," he said.
The kind of things I do best flow out of my experience
and interests..
Garfinkel said he would like to make the curriculum at
UNO "more provocative" and more stinxdatizg.
"People are very obsessed with the understandibls but
insufficient goal of getting ready for a later career," he
said. There is a preoccupation with occupation."
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Garfinkel said that during the 1960s, college curricu
hina my have become too innovative and as a result a
backlash may have occurred in the 1 970s.
"We may be a little too sober about it all," he said.
He said he also is concerned that students are not
taking advantage of all the opportunities that the college
campus offers, expecially at UNO, where many students
have part-time or full-time jobs.
There is a gap between the student center and the art
gsllery," he said. .
Garfinkel said he had no forewarning of his appoint
ment as acting chancellor.
Until that time, he said he had been preoccupied by
North-Central Accreditation team's review of UNO.
. He saM he has talked with Roskens only once since
Saturday about taking over the chancellor's office and
that a longer meeting between the two men is scheduled
for Saturday.
Garfinkel said Roskens has teld him, however, that he
(Garfinkel) will be "fully in charge" of UNO.
No trouble expected '
With that in mind, Garfinkel said he does not expect
much trouble with persons who would want to delay
decisions until Roskens returns as chancellor.
New Alumni logo features f lexibility
The best aspect of the UNL Alumni Association's new
k?0 is its flexibility, according to Jack Miller, executive
vice president of the association.
Developed at a cost cf $2j000 by Market 8, a Lincoln
advertising agency, the logo wiH be used starting in
January 1977 on printed forms, membership and reunion
mterkls and stitbrsry, ILUcr szii. .
The cost incites ristratioa of the isgo with the state
cf Mibrsia asd with the federal goitnunsst, as well as
devebpssest cf the logo itsdf, he said.
The Afessi Association preiioasly had used direst
k?goi for virions programs witlaa the association,
sal J, bst tims wz$ no logo that ecUksIIy reprented
the Alunci Asmdstksn itself.
"Ve t.c;i a Lt? thai woiZ 1 ilcz'.Sy us i 3 CT'izizi-
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C.z 73 t!J po-7$ rtiz;:?, t; r i.
T.-s urrriity ths clTU. tz:l;:-n t: 1 r-.l
tr,r:J tl-iii-zi cf Cjs Vl tlls ir rr.i U"
The Alumni Association letterhead currently carries a
line drawing of the Alumni House taken from a 1931
.yearbook, he saM.
The new logo is easily reccf nizsble and is much more
flexible for our purposes," Miller said. "While we wi3
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There may be those who might want to wait out some
dscidons," Garfinkel siii. 1 don't intend to do that on
something important. I intend to press with vigor on it.
However, Garfinkel add 'he thinks he has "the nec
essary relationship" with his UNO collegues so that he
thinks he will have no difficulties in working with them as
chancellor.
Garfinkel will take Roskens place on the 16-mernber
committee seeking a permanent replacement for outgoing
NU president D. B. Varner.
Garfinkel said he was surprised that Roskens was
picked as interim president.
Saying that although there would be some members of
the UNL staff who would be worried Roskens, as presi
dent, would favor more funding for UNO at UNL s ex
pense, Garfinkel noted there
also
would be UNO
personnel worried that he would 1ean over backwards"
to be fair to UNL at UNO's expense.
Hfcre ratisnal fsrasdi needed
Garfinkel said he supports the regents policy on
parity of funding between UNO and UNL, that com
parable pre-grants should receive ccmparsble funding, but
slid a "more rational" formula for determining parity
funding could be found.
There is an allocation formula," Garfinkel said,
"but it's an arbitrary one.
There has to be a better, inore rational basis for fund
ing than what we've had, he said. Ve ought to Sein
with one."
lie said the current parity formula is a comproinise"
and not the formula that Garfinkel weld h-ve come up
mfth if it were left to him. But he said it was a formula '
that met the different objections of the two campuses.
The present parity formula is based on Vefiirj"
the credit hours offered by the undergraduate and gra
duate censes at both UNL and UNO to determine how
The cr&Lt hoars were weighted to take into conad.gr
ation the acsdrab level of ths hoars (frjissm, soplx
more, junior, ssibr, raaers, dsctorate) and ala wMdi
acai:nis dIsc;rHr5 ihe courts in.
The nvJYmy is mMrtl by tha rcgsnU to request
$520 jm from ths 'Ncbr&i Lc-Mitare fcr UNO this
. Gzdk&si fsU thers wedd ba isarj roca for f?r-
tcsa by KiO if tht rrrsiihcJ it srt oesjct !cr
esoiE far $zn$y. .
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