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legent's decision forces
to slash allocations
by Rex UerJersoa
The Fees Allocations Board (FAB)
lowered the fiscal ax on 45 student
organizations Wednesday morning.
FAB, an appointive body responsible
for doling out student fees money to
student organizations, was forced to
rewrite the budget because the Board of
Rezents refused a $4 student fee hike.
Student fees finance the Nebraska
Unions, the Health Center, debt service
on both Unions, University Offices and
Activities, such as the Placement Office
and Career Counseling, as well as the
student organizations.
Dr. Richard Armstrong, vice chancellor
for student affairs, told FAB that the
budget for student fee-financed services
other than FAB controlled . orsrisa
tions had been cut to the bone. FAB
controlled organizations would have to
absorb the rest of the budget cut, he said.
Last year student organization's
budget totaled $199,200, about $4.36 of
the $63 fee for a full time student After -the
Regents voted down a fee increase
student organizations were left with
$133,950.
FAB drew up three budgets. One
based on the present student fee level,
one based on a one dollar increase and
another based on a $1 .50 increase.
The Cultural Affairs Center took the
, biggest t. The center was . originally
given $28,500 in 1977-78 to be used in
the 1978-79 school year.
In the revised allocation the center was
given nothing. FAB board members
explained that because thv center is the
only organization budgeted a year in
advance, and because it has other sources
of money, they could most easily absorb
the cut.
In the budgets based on a one dollar
and a $1.50 fee increase, $15,000 was
restored to the center.
The organizations that serve all
University, of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL)
students were given top priority by FAB.
Most organizations serving only their own .
members were cut.
Most of the small international and
.sports clubs got no money at all in the
zero-increase budget. In the other two
bud-;t3, FAB lumped thoss clubs
tojsther ia the M'olti-Cultyrsl Affairs
Office and the Sport's Club Council.
The Multi-Council Affairs Office got
$5000 ia th zero increase-based bucket,
and $ 1 0,0C3 ia the other budgets.
TAB gsve the highest priority to the
Associated Students of the University of
Nsbraska-Iiacola . (ASUN), . the " Daily
Nebrazkan, sad ths Union Pragma
CossmII (UFC).
The . ASUN budget was cut frora
$53,000 ia the . original . badgst'
recommendation .to $32,163 ia the
revised budget. 'The Dsliy Nebraskan
allocation was cut from $37,503 to
,$30,003.
The UFC appropriation was cut the
least of the three bis money gutters. Its
budget went from. $58,142 to S55,CC3.
UPC requests have decreased every
year for the past three years.
- FAB board member ' Jay Manske said,
"We are cutting them less because they
have a good track record." '
The UNL Child Care Project, the
target of much criticism at the last Board
of Regents meeting, was granted $7,500
in the revised budget, down from
$16,000.
Regent lames Moylan of Omaha had
told the Summer Nebraskan that, the
project should not be supported by
student fees.
"We're not a child-care institution," he
said, "we're an educational institution."
FAB board members granted the
$7,500 because without support from
student fees, the Child Care Project
would closff.
Other student groups affected by
yesterday morning's meeting . and the
appropriations are listed below.
' Organization '
( NUFIHG ";'. .
Student Alumni Ass.
Master's Week
Engineering Week
Student Bar Ass.
Contingency Fund
Women's Resource Center
Appropriation
$0
$500
$503
$1,790
$500
0
$1000
Completion of Plant Sciences
mldifig marks end of boom
year ,tae building
going on. at UNL
director of , the
It has been a long time since members
of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
community have been able to walk
completely through either of the
campuses without itepplrg over, around
and through some new? major
construction project.
By tla tr.! nsst
boom 'that lz. lucn
should be over.
- Ilariey Schraier.
Physical Plant, saii most of the major
. constnictioa projects .are winding down.
Schradsr said the b'oHdirg boom began
ia 1962 with the Cather-Pound doraitory
coaxjlex; It is esdisj now, 15 years later,
v-ita the "cocpktioa cf the life Sciences
Euildinf tad a new Plant Sciences
bulling ca East Campus.
The Life Sciences Euililr.g should be
cjia for chzti ia the fall, tcccrdirg to
Schradsr.
Tha bi;ili;s wis about six months.
tr'i'rJ kZz1-s, fcs sail, fcecacse' the
contract with the plumbing
r-b-coatractor was tensLostsd, tzi hzs
since been recontracted.
Some parts of the building have
already been occupied.
Ray Craig, a plumber working on the
Life Sciences Building said some of the
materials, such as sinks and pipe fittings
have not arrived yet.
"Itll be close" he said of an August
completion date. ,,
The Life Sciences buHdina was be;nin
three years ago, and cost a be at $6.2
million.
The Plant Sciences project ca East
Campus will be done next Hay, Schradsr
ssld. The greenhouses are slightly behind
schedule because of a six-week strike, but
the laboratory facilities will be done
sooner thaa expected.
'hca current construction projects are
finished, Schrader said soe cf tie old
buildings will be renovated.
Scheduled for itaovctioa are Bessie
Ilall sad Eraicroft IL0, Schrader ssil.
Alicmga Daocrcft . is stmcixrzZy
sound, ater hzs fesca k&kinjt through its
walls, Le said.