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.V os: si p&wyGim) roprGsoravi By Janet Fix Ronald Roskens, selected Saturday es NU president by the Board of Regents, said he sees no problem in making the transition from campus chancellor to university president. He said he disagrees with those who question his ability to represent all campuses of the university equally. .,1 1 J Roskens was chancellor at the University of Nebraska ai Omaha (UNO) before being tabbed Interim president in December. He said Sunday that as chancellor he worked for UNO full time, "but now I have a broader function as primary spokesman for the university." Roskens, 44, succeeds D.B. Varr.er who stepped down Jan. 1 to become chairman of the board of the NU foundation. "I hope my actions will demonstrate that I am capable of making the transition and will have no problem in representing the university system equally," Roskens said. Appointment announced The regents came out of executive session at 11 a.m. Saturday after a three-hour meeting and announced the appointment of Roskens to the $49,500 a year post. Roskens said his appointment was only one of many topics discussed in the executive meeting. "But there were several factors which 1 felt had to be discussed with the board before-1 accepted the position," he said. "I felt I needed to get a general understanding about the board's view of the university as they see it. Our views need to be congruent." nqoS! xj v, J u U Li kJJ j J Roskens said the university will continue to operate as it has in the past and he foresees no major chants. Roskens said the immediate concern of the university is the upcoming budget before th3 Nebraska Legislature. The university needs to obtain adequate support from the state to continue current programs and services, he added. Concentrate tiT "Our time needs to be concentrated in representing university needs with those who are in a position to respond," he said. Roskens told the regents Saturday that budget cuts by the Legislature could hurt university programs and pro posed faculty salary increases. Roskens became UNO chancellor on July 1, 1972, after coming from Kent State University in Kent, Ohio. He was executive vice president at Kent State when four students were killed in 1970 as National Guardsmen tried to quell protests about the United States incursion into Cambodia. Omaha Regent Kcrmit Hansen Saturday called the selection of Roskens a "magnificent" decision. Roskens' appointment leaves the UNO chancellor's post open. The regents appointed Roskens to begin the selection committee process to fill the vacancy. Herbert Garfinkel has been serving as interim chancellor since Roskens moved up. Photo by Ted Kirk NU President Ronald Roskens agents deman monday, april 18, 1977 vol. 100 no. 108 lincoln, nebraska d authority, urge lump sum budget By Janet Fix The NU Board of Regents Saturday demanded that they be given the authority to manage and govern the university and urged the Nebraska Legislature to make its budget appropriations in a lump sum to the university system or individual campuses. The statement is a part of a continuing battle between the regents and the Legislature about the upcoming bud get proposal. Some legislators would prefer to make line-item, or canpus-by-campus budget allocations, the. board said. Ronald Roskens, approved unanimously as NU presi dent by the regents Saturday, said, the proposed cuts by the Legislature will endanger several university programs. Harry McFadden, 'interim University, of Nebraska Medical Center chancellor, agreed that budget cuts will hurt university programs. "But the board will push for lump-sum allocations, not line-item funds, so that accountability for allocation of funds can lie with the board," he said. LBS33, if pasted and signed by the governor, allocates $100.6 million to NU. The University had asked for $1 10.5 million, Roskens said. The bill also would increase faculty salary to 5.5 per, cent increases rather than the board's recommended 8 per cent increase. It also would cut medical center funds and funding for the UNL Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources, he said. Fee increase The regents also heard an ASUN proposal presented by ... Charlie Fcllingham, first vice president-elect, and Ken ChristofTerson, second vice president-elect, for upcoming student fee increases. A UNL student fee increase of 1 1 per cent, from $63 to $73 a semester, beginning next fall will come be fore the board, May 21. The meeting will come after many UNL students have left for summer vacation. The ASUN proposal was to establish a task force to study future fee increases and to study the possibility of developing a schedule of increases, Fcllingham, said. The task force would re-evaluate the system of allo cating student fees to student organizations. " Fcllingham asked the board to be aware of the stu dent's concern with rising student fees and to be willing to hear task force proposals. The task force should complete its study by the end of the fall semester, he said. Increase needed "The ASUN decided that the proposed fee increase is ' ;'"'needed"if students "are.' to""'contihue" id receive' the same level of services and programs they are now receiving,' Christofferson said. "But then we can also ask ourselves if all the services we are receiving are necessary." Christofferson said many students think they are not benefitting from certain campus organizations but some of their student fees are supporting the organizations. Christofferson cited the University Health Center as one organization which might be reconsidered. Most stu dents have their own insurance plan so the Health Center's service does not benefit all students, he said. Continued on p. 2 Parking increase protest formed by Gather residents By Janet Lliteras A protest against the proposed parking fee increase is being organized by a group of Cather Residence Hall residents. ' The chancellor's parking advisory board meets Thursday to decide how much, if any increase is necess ary. . ; ; : Mark Pfeffer, a sophomore architecture major from Omaha, said he and some friends from the ninth floor of Cather are circulating petitions, passing out flyers and writing protest letters to block the increase. Petitions have been distributed to all residence halls, sororities and fraternities, he said. The group hopes to set up a booth in the Nebraska Union lobby today and Tuesday to solicit support from off-campus students, he said. ', . The group hopes to get 3,500 signatures on a petition, he said. Rather walk "Everybody we've talked to would just as soon walk five blocks rather than pay it (the increase)," Pfeffer said. "The parking services are not all that much any way. They won't get much better with the increase either." By signing the petition, students are agreeing that they would rather walk than buy a parking permit at a higher price, he said. According to a Residence Hall Association member Q f ,v f News: The ponies are off and running, but off-track bet ting is still in the starting gate p. 5 Entertainment: Local projectionist Dale Mace voices his views on the current picket lines. .... p. 8 Spcrts: UNL's women's tennis team captures the school's first Big 8 conference tennis title p. 10 who did not want his name used, 50 per cent of the people from each residence hall floor need to sign the petition to reach the goal. As of Sunday afternoon, he said, not enough signatures were being gathered. There were petitions on floors that only had two signatures. "If we had had more time and more manpower we might have been more effective," he said. John Duve, UNL parking and traffic coordinator, will present the petitions and letters from concerned students to the committee Thursday. Golden facilities "We're supposed to provide all those wonderful golden parking facilities," including paved parking lots, side walks, better lighting, drainage systems and signs, Duve said. "It's easier if you have the money to do that with." "People think it's outrageous to pay 6.8 cents a day (about $2 a month) for parking," he said. 'And yet they plug 15 cents into a coffee machine. TheyVe paid twice what they did to park all day on campus. "We need to catch up with the world," he said. "We need to get up where we can break even. We need to de cide on a program and figure out what the break even cost :. , There is a need to examine the cost each year, he said, so that there is a gradual increase in price to make up for the inflation of such things as construction material costs. There should have been a price increase sooner, but the decision has been put off each year, he said. If the committee decides not to increase the permit price there will have to be a cut in services, he said. The cut probably would be in the maintenance budget, he said. UML CAMPUS 3 MILES