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i I' msn&y, fcnu'ry 24, 1077 p:i 1 1 NLns QOilclt rijlO.'iOllOWSnQ' bj!l;.0hBOQ0 Since the change in the GI Dill of Rights on Jan. 1, UNL and the Veterans Ad ministration (VA) have been negotiating regulations which prevent overspending of veteran educational aid, said Ted Pfeifer, UNL director of registration and records. The Educational Assistance Program has replaced the educational aid the GI ElH previously supplied to veterans. Under the Educational Assistance Pro gram, the serviceman elects to pay from $50 to' $75 each month toward educa tional benefits. The payments will total a third of the amount tzczbrzd for educa tional benefits, accordkg to Sgt. Pad Ken shak of the Army Recruiting Office. . The government wl pay $2 for every $1 ihe serviceman pays,' Konshak.. sdd. lie added that any person who erd&sd before Jan. 1, 1977, wiU be entitled to tfo' GI E21 benefits. ... . 'S - . Pfeifer said UNL is negotiating its Stan dard of Progress report with the VA. The regulations under negotiation will measure the student veteran's progress in school more closely, he said. The VA's proposed regulations should cut down overspending, he said. The university has agreed to notify the VA immediately of any veteran's suspen sion so the VA can stop payment, Pfeifer said. - Beginning in the fall semester of 1977, he said, the VA wO no longer pay a veter an at the beginning of the month. "This change is significant for veterans in terms of budgeting their money," Pfeifer said. ' ' , The veteran who has been suspended from the university must have an interview with the VA to receive funds even if the student has regained university eligibility, Pfeifer said. A grade of incomplete, pass, withdraw or fail wiJl not count toward the veteran's eligibility requirements according to one of the regulations being negotiated, he added. Another regulation being negotiated requires the university to notify the VA of any dropped or added class on a veteran's schedule. Pfeifer said that at this time, it would be difficult, if not imposs ible, to keep track of the drops and adds and notify the VA. Nickel won't buy : Lincoln's probl&m is s-day parking compus.po A nickel no longer can buy one hour of parking on the UNL campus. Parking meters now cost 10 cents for one . hour or 25 cents' for two hours of parking. John Duve, parking and traffic coordinator for Campus Police, said the increase was needed to help pay for 160 new meters bought to replace meters that have outlived their lifespan. The meters cot about $100 each, he said. A parking meter usually is expected to last about 10 years, Duve said, but there are some meters on campus that are more than 15 years old. In fact, he added, the meters a block north of the Nebraska Union are no longer in production. Duve said $20,000 was collected annually from the meters before the increase with 75 per cent of it going for maintenance. A full-time worker is paid $10,000 to $12,000 annually to maintain the meters he said. Other expenses include snow removal, replacement of old meters and the patching of parking lot surfaces. "We have to take in a certain amount of revenue to maintain the lots," Duve said, "and the parking meter is one way to do that." He said it costs about $5 a meter to convert them to the new rate. ' Duve said the additional money . raised from the increase can be used for more meters in the future and to pay for increased parking space. Lincoln apparently faces a different sort of problem with its parking meters than Omaha does. Omaha Mayor, Robert Cuanhghsm has suggested removing parking meters from downtown to attract more shoppers. It was reported that $350,000 a year is taken in from the meters, but the city makes only about $1,000 a year from the meters because of maintenance costs. Lincoln makes much more money from its meters, however, said Tom Butcher, Lincoln's acting traffic engineer. The city's problem is all-day parking. Butcher said total revenue brought in by the meters for 1976 was $206,000. He estimated that between $140,000 to $150,000 of that was spent for maintenance, and enforcement. " This included parking meter maintenance cost of printing tickets, and the salaries of a full-time repairman and police officers who write parking tickets. ' The approximately $50,000 left over goes into the general fund, Butcher said, and is used for such capital improvements as building off-street parking lots and the CentrriiWnR':3igft I" said the parking meter cfC v . . ?as increased from five cents to 10 cents and parking fines were doubled from $1 to $2 to cut down on all-day parking. "There is a great need for short-time parking in the downtown area," she said. A good percentage of the park ing spaces is used by all-day parkers such as employes, she said. "By doubling the fines," she said, "we hope to free more spaces for customers." UNL to display Chicago architecture A nationwide tour of Chicago architecture between 1880 and 1910 wO be on display at UNL's Architecture Hail Gallery through Feb. 4, according to architecture! instructor and shopmaster Roger Holmes. - Holmes said the tour is supported by the Smithsonian Traveling Exhibition Service and sponsored at UNL by the College of Architecture. The Smithsonian Institution describes the exhibit as a selection of photographs and measured drawings of structures that attained importance in the Chicago School of Architecture between 1880 and 1910. The exhibition traces the school's development and includes work by renowned architects and engineers, Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright. Works were selected from files of the Historic American Buildings Survey by the National Park Service, which has financially supported intensive projects to record significant Chicago structures. Holmes said the exhibit was financed by the Architec tural College Gallery and Exhibition Committee's budget, which allows for two or three exhibitions from outside the college during the semester. 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