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By John MLnnick
The Fees Allocation Board (FAB) approved a student
fees increase of $1.50 for 1977-78, Thursday night. This
increase is in addition to the already approved $6.32
increase.
Nate Eckloff, FAB chairman, said student fees will be
increased $7.82 next year. He said $3.50 of the increase
will be used to pay off a union debt.
Eckloff said an additional 35 cents will cover a deficit
from last year. This deficit was caused by changing en
rollment when the 1975-76 FAB estimated that there
would be more full-time students than part-time students
this year. Two cents of the increase will go into the
contingency fund, Eckloff said.
The rest of the increase will go toward funding student
organizations. v , ''
Eckloff said he is in favor of recommending to the vice
chancellor that next year student funds go only, to fund
the three largest fees users, the Daily Nebraskaii, ASUN
and the Union Program Council. .
FAB recommended that $243,530 be spent to finance
the clubs and organizations requesting funds at the uni
versity. "We were trying to aim for $200,000 this year, but we
just discovered it was too late to do anything to stop an
increase," Eckloff said. .
FAB was unable to meet an April 30 deadline to send
its recommendations to Vice Chancellor for Student
Affairs Richard Armstrong and was granted an extension
to May 7.
The board also did not take action on board member
Skip Walter's recommendation to cut the budget for
ASUN from $67,609 to $32,156.
"We didn't take any action on the ASUN allocation
because we would not have allowed ASUN due process,"
Eckloff said.
The board listened to several student group appeals
Thursday night and made the following changes; $420 to
Soccer Club, from a previous allocation of $0, $400 to the
Gay Action Group, from a previous allocation of $0, $500
to International Club, from a previous allocation of $300.
The board also approved an increase for the Women's v
Resource Center from $1,725 to $3,497, $400 to Delta
Sigma Rho from a previous allocation of $0, $600 to the
Nebraska Public Interest Research Group (NUPIRG) over
a previous allotment of $250 and a $150 increase to the
Society of Women Engineers over a previous allotment of
$0.
The board refused to change the allocations of the
Horticulture Club, Rugby Club, and the Engineering
Board E-Week Committee. .
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By Dswn Baxter
Food is the most powerful tool in development of
world peace, according to former secretary of agriculture
Earl Butz.
In a Thursday press conference at the Nebraska Center
for Continuing Education, Butz said he preferred the
"exchange of bushels to the exchange of bullets.
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Who says football players don't have a sense of humor? During one of last year's scrimmages Ron Prustt broke
everyone up when he playfully pinched redshirt Elmer Goins. Coins has since left football and joined the
Vienna Boys Choir as lead soprano. For more humor, see the Daily Halfasskan joke issue starting on p. 7.
rade posting alternatives
The practice of posting UNL students' grades, even if
by social security number, is in most cases a violation
of the Buckley Rights to Privacy Act passed in 1974,
according to UNL's ombudsman. .
Allan' Dittmer said the Buckley Act means that at no
point is a student to be indentified when student records
are involved, including both grades and social security
numbers.
Dittmer suggested instead that teachers give the stu
dents their grades individually, or use, code names. At the
least, he said teachers should only use partial social
security numbers.
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"When countries are dependent on the UJS. for food,
we've got them where it hurts," he said.
At UNL as part of the Distinguished Lectureship series
sponsored by Beatrice Food3, Butz said he advocated a
market system for foreign exchange, where there would
be no rrdnimum price for grain and no grain reserve.
"We're becoming a residual storehouse of grain for the
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Dittmer said the law defmes addresses, names of par
ents, social security numbers and anything else that could
be "easily traceable" as identifying characteristics. These
are not to be used when educational records are involved,
he added.
While the law appears to be clear on the subject, there
is no university policy concerning how grades are to be
'posted.
Dittmer said the closest thing to a policy statement '
was written in 1975 by then Vice Chancellor for Student
Affairs Ken Bader. Dittmer said it was more or less &
summary of the Buckley Act and did not include specific
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world," Butz said. "We say we won't sell grain below a set
price. Other countries are selling large quantities of it at a
lower price and we're left with grain to store."
Butz said that in making food the tool for world peace,
the farmer should not be used as a pawn by creating
export embargos. -
"Bureaucrats love to be able to shut off food to a
country to get it to comply," Butz said. "We can't ask the
farmer to invest a lot of money in raising crops and then
put a limit on his access to the market."
Butz said he wanted most to be remembered for the
"sense of pride and belonging that he brought to the far
mer. "If the new secretary of agriculture had to be a Demo
crat, I'm glad it was Bob Bergland. He's very perceptive
v and well-informed. I'm pleased with his initial recommen
dations. They're very moderate," he said.
He added that the "moderate budget recommendations
by Bergland have been doubled in the House of Represen
tatives' version of the Omnibus Farm Bill.
He said that while he built a personal political power
base in the Midwest, he doubted that a Democrat could
do so because of the Midwest's predominantly Republi
can politics.
Butz said that since Bergland is a believer in govern
ment intervention in farming, the government will get a
.firmer hold on the farmer.
Butz is now professor emeritus of agricultural econo
mics at Purdue University. He will be in Lincoln until this
afternoon, speaking at seminars and attending agricultural
economics classes. He also filmed a segment of Agri
scope, which will be broadcast on the Nebraska Educa
tional Television Network at 12:30 pin. Saturday.
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