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One floor cf Heppner Ikll in the basement of Neihardt
RcsiJtr.ce Center is suppose to be closing, but students
living there don't want to leave.
Richard Armstrong, housing director, said Tuesisy
that last semester's Student Assistant (SA) for the floor,
Chuck Beck, graduated, and the Neihardt staff must hire
a new SA or relocate the occupants. ,
After meeting Tuesday with the students who refuse to
leave, Armstrong said a decision will be made today, after
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the Heppner residents look at alternative places to stay in
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If students decide they want to stay and Neihardt
Resident Director Wtr.cen Polly and staff agree, a decision
will have to be made about a replacement for the SA,
Armstrong said.
have to have someone on the floor to take respon
sibility," Armstrong said. "Whether he will be in the
conventional form (an SA) or not, we don't know yet."
Armstrong declined to say if the person responsible
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Students applying for scholarships or financial aid
based on need or academic performance must complete a
Financial Aid Form (FAF) from the UNL Office of
Scholarships and Financial Aids, Administration 1 13, by
March 1, said director Jack Ritchie.
These students should complete the FAFs and mail
them to the College Scholarship Service by the end of
this month to insure their return before the deadline
Ritchie said.
Students applying for scholarships based only on aca
demic performance, need only give their names and social
' security numbers to the financial aids office by March 1.
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The financial aids office awards scholarships based on
academic ability then financial and work-study grants.
The office also gives the names of academic scholar
ship applicants to various UNL colleges for considera
tion for specific scholarships.
- Financial aid offered by the office other than scholar
ships are national direct loans, supplemental grants, in
centive grants and tuition waivers.
Ritchie said $9.5 million is available for scholarships
and loans for the 1977-78 school year.
Approximately 6,009 students will receive some kind
of financial assistance nest year, he said.
would be paid.
Polly srid the future of Heppner I!r.U basement resi
dents is "ur.der negotiation."
I prefer to get it done with," she mi. "I dont want it
to be a btser deal than it is. It only deals with a- few peo
ple intimately."
She declined to comment about the outcome.
Larry Glantz, a junior business administration major
from Central City and a resident of Heppner, said "it's not
fair."
1 Glantz, who has lived at Heppner for two years, said he
and other residents have painted their rooms and put in
carpeting at their own expense,
Glantz and his roommate, Barry Niedfelt, a senior
construction management major from Grand Island,
plan on staying until they change the padlocks," Glantz
said.
Residents were given until Sunday or Monday to move
out, Glantz said. He said he was told a lack of money was
preventing the housing office from hiring an SA.
. Glantz said he and his rornmate could be SAs, but were
told they do not qualify.
Although four students already have moved out,
Glantz said, the remaining seven do not want to leave
because they "just started a new semester, and our grades
will get messed up and we'd have to fix up a new room
again." -
Glantz said he found out Friday of first semester
finals week that they would have to move. .
Armstrong said the Neihardt staff made the decision
and he could not remember when he heard about it. tie
said, however, the SA's intention to resign was known
before Christmas. .
Glantz said Ron Gierhan, acting vice chancellor for
student affairs, said not enough students live on the floor
to keep it open, and there are better places to live.
Armstrong said the 15 beds in Heppner Hall are not
all in use, and there are other vacancies in Neihardt.
Ticket sale question closed
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A university investigation concerning
the resale of a number of UNL football
tickets has been discontinued because of a
lack of evidence that the sales were in vio
lation of National Collegiate Ahtletic
Association (NCAA) regulations; said UNL
Chancellor Roy Young,
r Questions' were raised concerning a pos-
sible violation of NCAA rules when two
football tickets were purchased by a Dsily
Nebraskan reporter in November for $20
each. , ""
The tickets were identified by ticket
clerk Marjorie Webster as part of a block
of tickets which were issued to football
players. NCAA rules prohibit the receipt
by an athlete of more money than the face -value
of the ticket. - -
Young said he had received a report:
from Athletic Director Bob Devaney con
cerning Devaney's investigation of the mat
ter. - - , ,
Devaney had tried to trace the source of
the tickets, Young said, and had found that
the tickets were from a section normally
used for recruiting purposes. Devaney in
dicated that about 150 tickets had been
alloted for parents of freshmen, recruits
and members of the scouting team, but
'-. that- none 'w&fc -.tickets ofjctiw p layers,
- Records are kept of all tickets issued
: from the ticket office and of tickets sold
by mail, Young said. However, he said that'
when unused tickets are returned to the
ticket office to be resold, there is no record
of whom they belonged to and no way to
trace them. Young said 95 tickets to the
Nov. 26 Oklahoma-Nebraska game had not
been used and had been returned for resale.
"There does not appear to be. a viola
tion of the rules and the investigation will
not be continued," Young said. "The tick
et operation here is running as well as any
. in the country." "
SMe's moisture deficit hits agricultural p
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Nebraska weather is much lika a nationally advertised
antiperspirant-arid and extra dry.
The state is short of moisture and has been for about
three years, said James Zoller, head of Nebraska National
Weather Service. The shortage ranges from a one-inch
deficit in the Panhandle and a four-inch deficit at North
Flatte to a 12-inch deficit at Omaha. Northeast Nebraska
has been hit even worse by a lack of moisture, he added.
; Agricultural loses in 1976 resulting from drought and
unusually low livestock market prices were estimated to
be about Sli billion by Germ Kreuseher, state agricul
ture director.
Kreuseher estimated farmers lost $150 million on the
wheat crop and from $350 to $403 minion on feed grains
last year. Cattle losses came to more than $603 minion
ark losses on pork, sugar beets and other crops brought
the damages to the $13 billion, he said. r
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A decrease in the lend of the water table has been
another result of the past three years of drought, Zoller
said, and could increase the damage to crops.
The moisture shortage picture probably wont brighten
this winter. . -
Winter is the worst time cf the year to make it up,"
ZcZzxizll.
A rawfaS cf 12 inches is equal to about one inch of
niii. Much of this sow becomes runoff, he said.
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A combination cf easy factors, ether than a saortsse
cf rah, w3 determine the effects cf a ccaliaaicg &rov.$A,
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said Dick Viese, professor of soils in the UNL Agronomy
Dept. The time precipitation occurs during the growing
season, the kind of crops planted, where they are planted
and the frequency of drying winds also wi3 affect yields,
he said.
If the precipitation outlook still is pessimistic when
planting time arrives, Vi'eise said, he will recommend
decreasing the number cf plants in each acre and switch
ing to droi:'J rsant crops like grain sorghum to reduce
the nred Tc: v i :i. Sut, he szli thre is no single solution
to drc"!.t-r:I-lc J problems.
- c-y has a crystal ball to nuke firm suscstkms
for m ii 11;'. jro-tr,' he sail -
The rmoimt cf precipitation received this sprir wO
afleet crop production ti ls summer, he cilcd.
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T1Vs pin to take quite a lot cf raia tli spring to do
zzy good," siid tlsrmsa Tocicr, Delias Ccusty estea
sion aent. Com and soybeans wO need a lot cfmofctixre
ia the ErL-g zr,i rjrr?r. At this peat we're just red
dry iri c-r Icutlsck (for crop prcduction) is pretty
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A dry spring and summer wont have a devastating
effect on the corn crop, Tooker said, because half of it is
irrigated.
But, he added: lt can have quite an impact on wheat
and dryland corn and soybeans."
Tooker said there are several steps that can be taken to
lessen damage to crops ia dry weather.
Tm going to encourage farmers to put ia some graia
sorghum. It's more competitive in dry land 3255,"
he said. He recommended planting variety of crops so
Nebraska's economy doesn't rest only oa one major crop.
Tooker said he aha wO urge farmers to use what he
called sub surface tUsge." Ia this method of tUsge, the
soil is plowed deep enorh to klU weeds but not so deep
that moisture is removed from the soiL
Desil es affecting agriculture, a continuL-g drought may
damr-5 Nebraska s cats! resources. Jim Carrey, chief cf
recreation areas wilt, tl: Stste Game and Farks Commis
sion, said, some man-made lakes in the state would be ia
Krious ccntiGn if t 5 drctht persisted.
lie also said tree plaztlrg prcrams, ss well as mstrs
trees, would rJT:r from the lack cf predpitstisa.
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