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Gov, J. James Exon
By Marjie Lundstrom
NU will suffer budget slashes if the Nebraska Legisla
ture approves Gov. J. James Exon's 1977-78 budget
proposal.
In his annual State of the State Address and budget
presentation Thursday, Exon said his budget was "tight,
but prudent,"
Exon said although he was a strong supporter of NU,
he strongly objected to what he called "excessive
appropriations" by the university.
The university has been "amazingly successful in
lobbying the legislature," he said, adding that the request
ed 18 per cent increase is "far in excess of real need."
"1 was astounded when the university requested a
further general fund increase for .operations of 18 per cent
for fiscal year 1977-78," Exon said.
Exon said he recommends a 6,5 per cent increase for
the entire university system budget.
Exon said the budget increases would be 5.4 per cent
at UNL, 5.5 per cent at the University of Nebraska at
Omaha (UNO) and 4,5 per cent at the University of Ne-
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braska Medical Center. The NU Board of Regents would
be given $1,9 million to be distributed among the
campuses at its discretion.
Exon suggested this discretionary money be distributed
so UNL and UNO would receive 8 per cent in total in
creases and the medical center 4.6 per cent.
He also suggested that NU central administration's
budget be cut 10.6 per cent.
Exon also proposed to dismantle much of the NU
central administration and shift the power from the NU
presidency to the campus chancellors. ,
He said this would "restore the three chancellors to
more traditional roles of leadership."
Exon also suggested the members be assigned a
personal staff to aid them in making decisions on uni
versity governance.
Because the new capital construction budget is limited,
he said, he has recommended the construction of only
three new structures.
Those recommended are a tractor testing facility for
East Campus, the Health, Physical Education and
Recreational Bldg, at UNO and a physical education
. facility at Peru State College.
The university proposed construction of eight new
buildings is not included in his budget, Exon said.
"We cannot afford that and maintain operation funds
to guarantee quality education in our state," he said.
Because full-time enrollment has been declining, he
said, he has allowed only for maintenance and repair re
quests. ,
Exon also made recommendations on the medical
Howe: next century's world issues
o demand international cooperation
By Barbara Lutz
The world problems of the next century-hunger,
population and energy-"all call for close cooperation
among nations," the Model United Nations keynote
speaker said Thursday,
James Howe, senior fellow of the Overseas Develop
ment Council in Washington, D.C., told the more than
200 participants that "We are citizens of a shrinking
planet and we must work together."
We no longer live in a world, he said, "where we can
compete at the expense of others. We can achieve our
goals only as they also gain theirs." ;
Howe, a UNL graduate, -said that since 1974, Nve are
feeling the effects of the oil embargo and the challenge of re
developing nations to the South."
Nations busy solving common problems face "outside
forces beyond our control, beyond one nation's control,"
he said.
Howe outlined several world problems "that demon- -strate
our world interdependence," and will teach us "the
need for us to work together and not to exclude the
South."
The problems he outlined are: '
-Human hunger: We are not immune in America,"
he said, "if there is a drought in Russia, we feel it."
-Population: "Since Adam and Eve to 1800, the
population increased one billion. Now it only takes eight
years to produce one billion people."
In addition, Howe said, the highest fertility rate is in
the fourth world, the countries of the South.
-Energy: "At the turn of the century or 10 years later
oil, gas and uranium will be exhausted."
-Environment: "We need to protect our air, water and
land," Howe said. The United Nations created an environ
mental program to monitor ecological systems, he said.
-Saving oceans from over-fishing, ship and industrial
pollution: "Only international cooperation can save the
waters."
In addition, he said, nuclear proliferation, dependency
"on raw materials, unemployment, stagflation, recession,
rural to urban migration and terrorism call for world
cooperation.
Howe said he predicts 4a sharp challenge of the
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South." The biggest headache for United States foreign
policy is when the South demands economic trade
reforms, he said.
Howe said the South would like to sell the North
more raw materials and manufactured goods, but
Americans feel their jobs would be threatened."
The South also will demand more aid, he said. Because
aid is in the form of food and manufactured goods, it is a
boon to American farming and industry, he said.
Howe said he is hopeful that the new administration
will gradually be more responsive to these demands,
especially in the trade field.
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Exon said statistics have shown that the higher the
number of total graduates, the fewer that practice in
needy areas. .
"Nebraska taxpayers have handsomely expanded fund
ing for our medical college," Exon said, "With the hope
and promise that more general practice physicians would
be available, for rural practice,"
"I have not been satisfied," he said.
Exon said he is opposed to the request for a cardiovas
cular facility on the medical center campus.
He said he has been advised that the facility might
"expensively and unnecessarily duplicate existing
facilities.
The idea deserves more study, and we should not be
stampeded into such an undertaking," Exon said.
Lack of staff, theft
postpone AlicorrVs
publication again
The lack of an adequate staff and communication
problems have togged down" work on Alicorn, the un
dergraduate literary magazine, according to editor Ron
Block.
"We have had a number of problems," he said, "es
pecially with our staff decreasing in size. We have only
three members of our staff left (out of an original eight)."
Because of the staff size, Block said that he could not
estimate when the publication might come out.
"We hoped to get it out before Christmas, but we ran
into a manuscript theft problem that set us back," he said.
"Now with the small staff it is difficult to find the time to
put it all together."
The staff has been out of touch with each other since
Christmas, he said.
"With one solid week of work "he said, "we should be
able to get it put back together."
Alicorn is paid for by a fund left by a late UNL English
professor, Orin Stepanek.
Material is submitted by UNL students seeking, "a start
in the publishing world," said Robert Stock, faculty
adviser and English professor. -
"Our publication is not oriented toward professional
publishers, but rather those seeking a first publication,"
he said.
The job of the staff is to critique the manuscripts
submitted to them, decide whether they, are to be pub
lish able, and layout the pages.
The magazine includes short stories, poems, art, photo
graphs and line drawings.
Alicorn charges 25 cents a copy to cover expenses the
fund money does not cover.
"Filling the magazine," Stock said, "has never been a
problem, as we have more than -enough material submitted
to us."
"The content is good and I will be very depressed if
Alicorn does not come out," Block said.
News: The UNL Placement Office gives students tips on
applying for that alter-graduation or summer job p.6-7
Entertainment: What were you doing when you were 14
years old? Cameron Crowe was writing lor Rolling
Stone magazine .p.l 2
Sports: Three seniors will make their last regular season
home baske tball game Saturday against the University
of Missouri .p.14
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