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By Maxine Kubicck
A $190,000 anticipated surplus in UNL housing funds
will not be channeled into rebates for students living in
residence htEs, according to Gary Partridge, asastant
director of finance for the UNL Office of University
Housing,
Partridge said that for the last couple of yean, the
housing office has had surplus funds at the end of the fis
cal year. However, he told the Residence IM1 Association
(RHA) Thursday that all excess money must revert to a
"surplus fund" as part of a trust agreement with the
Comptroller's office and the NU Board of Regents.
Judy Siminoe, RHA president, questioned whether the
excess funds could be returned to students as rebates on
their housing payments. Based on last year's housing
office surplus of $200jOOQ, each student theoretically
would jt back about $40, she said.
Partridge sdd the surplus occurred because of a higher
occupancy rate to the residence halls than was anticipated.
About 200 more students took out housing contracts than
were expected, he ssld.
"Many people operate under the assumption that any
money we have left at the end of the year leaves the hous
ing office and that they never see it again," Partridge said,
That assumption is false."
Partridge said all money left over after operating expens
and retirement of bonds goes into a surplus fund. This
money cannot be carried over and applied against next
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By Theresa Foreman
Any form of sex in Massachusetts on Sunday is illegal.
This is just one of the laws Massachusetts Legislator Elaine
Noble said she is working to change. The second-term
member of the State House of Representatives spoke to a
group of about 200 in the Nebraska Union ballroom
Thursday night.
The first admitted lesbian to be elected to state office,
Noble told the group that more gay persons will be willing
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to admit their gayness when the laws are changed to
protect them.
Tm a felon in my state" according to Massachusetts
law, Noble said. She said that because people are pro-
secuted and discriminated against for being gay it is
important for her to speak out against that oppression.
But the rights of gays is only one of Noble's concerns.
Besides gay, she also described herself as a politician and a
hard worker. She puts in 12 to 18 hours a day &z fee rest
of her colleagues, she said, and added that they respect
her for that. "None of them laugh at gayness any more,
Noble said, because they've all been touched by gay
people in their constituencies,"
She railed Massachusetts the most puritan state in the
country but said she is making progress "one step at a
time."
Among successful bills Noble has sponsored is one
authorizing a youth employment program and one
extending rights of tenants. Noble said she concentrates
her work as a legislator on political reform and the rights
of all minorities.
She stressed that she did not run as a gay candidate but
as a qualified candidate who would not hide her lesbian
iara. She" said that when she was running for her first term,
her most adamant opponent was a woman "who used to
come up to me at candidate rallies and hit me with her
umbrella, screaming "Sodom and Gomorrah." Alter she
won the election, Noble said, the woman told her that
alihougn she didn't like the fact that Noble had won, she
would try to work constructively with her.
"It was then I realized that she and I had both come a
long, long way,"- Noble sail She said candidates have a
responsibility to educate constituents as well as listen to
them.
She urged her audience, to become involved in seme
way in government. "It cat the nicest, most glamourous
job, and it doesn't pay much if your honest, but it's your
responsibility," she said.
Ncbb worked for President Jimmy Carter's 1976 presk
dentid campaign on a local level. Many of the workers in
Carter's early campaign at local levels were g:y, she said.
"Jimmy Carter owes us a lot and some cf us are going to
call that debt in," she said. "Gay r&itj is an iue of
human rights he cant avoid," Noble said.
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year's costs, he said.
Portions of the surplus are then appropriated by the
housing office and used for capital Improvements such as
carpeting, improvements to comply with fire codes and
remodeling to accomodate handicapped students, he said.
The housing office has appropriated $13 million for
capital improvements since the 964-65 bond issue, he said.
Using this year's occupancy rate as a projection for
next year's rate, Partridge said the housing office "should
come out pretty even next year," Even though residence
hall rates have been raised $40 for 1977-78, increased
costs are such that the money will be needed to cover
operating expenses and no surplus is anticipated for next
year, he said.
"It might appear unfair to see that $190,000 go into a
surplus fund, but you must consider that if we diJnt pay
anything into that fund, we wouldn't get anything out of
it," he said,
"VVe would have to raise the rats even more than they
ire being raised now," he said, "The end result is the
same-the students get the benefit
Candidates quit,
endorsing SUN
By Betsie Ammons '
Independent ASUN executive candidates Scott Cook,
John Welch and Don Wesely announced Thursday that
they have withdrawn from the race.
In a 12:30 pjn. announcement, originally scheduled to
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be made Tuesday, they said they endorse Students for
University Need (SUN) party candidates including Greg
Johnson for president, Charlie Fellinghara for first vice
president and Ken Christofferson for second vice presi
dent. Cook had registered for the March 16 election to run
for president, who also serves as student regent. Welch and
Wesely were, running for first and second vice president
.respectively.
Although they did not organize a party for the elec
tion, the three filed together for the executive positions,
" Wesely said they filed for candidacy in response to the
filing of independent candidate Eric Carstenson. They said
they believe Carstenson is this year's Greek Slate presiden
tial candidate.
In a prepared statement, Wesely related Carstenson's
candidacy with that of current ASUN president Bill Muel
ler. He said Mueller began as an independent candidate
and then participated in the Greek Slate "and there is
every reason to believe" Carstenson will do the same.
TTie three decided late Thursday night to fib before
last Friday's deadline, according to Cook. He said they
fled with the intention of withdrawing .and throwing
their support to SUN. Cook also is running for Senate
with the SUN party.
They -did not say why the announcement was delayed
from Tuesday. However, Wesely's name was not on a list
of eligible candidates released Tuesday because his re
gistration was being processed by the university. The elec
tion commission announced Wednesday that Wesely was
eligible.
Wesely said they "thought a review of last year would
be appropriate. We came out in the open and we're re
vealing everything "he said.
. He also said "They (the presumed Greek Slate candi
dates) maintain strict secrecy, avoid any publicity and
manipulate students by rekindling old animosities
between students who are members of the Greek system
and those who are not."
Carstenson said Thursday he thinks there may be a
Greek Slate, but he has not been told of it. He said some
persons may be organizing it and endorsing him without
his knowledge.
He said another possibility is that those who might or- .
ganize a Greek Sate are supporting SUN party candidates.
Two of the three SUN executive candidates are Greeks.
Carstenson said he thinks SUN executive candidates
knew that Cook, Welch and Wesely would withdraw from
the race.
Although Fellinghara said he had an indication this
may happen, he added that he did not definitely know
until Thursday morning.
He had his first indication of their plan last week
before the filing deadline, he said.
Carstenson said the whole thing Snakes roe mad."
"Evidently when the SUN shines oa Greg Johnson, it
shines through a polluted sky," he said.
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