Fees will be included in semester s tuition statements
By Mary Jo Pitzl
Today, when ' academic, services mails tuition state
ments, student fees will be included in the total. Comp
troller Jim Knisely said he estimates first semester student
fee payments will total about $1,290,000.
The following is a break-down of where this money,
the subject of recent administrative and student contro--versy,
goes once it leaves student's pocketbooks. The
analysis is based on the full-time semester student fee of
$66.50, according to Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs
Richard Armstrong.
Students registered ,for one to three credit hours will
pay $2 1 .50 in fees, while those with four to six hours owe
$48.50, Knisely said.
, Student fees are divided into two funds, labeled A and
B. The B fund will receive $63.08 of this semester's
student dollar and will finance university services. The
Nebraska and East Campus Unions, the University Health
Center (UHC), the recreation and intramural dept.,
recreation facilities, university offices and activities and
the bond repayment program receive B funds.
The $3.42 per student put into the A fund finances
student organizations, Armstrong said..
For the past several years, the Fees Allocation Board
(FAB) has distributed A funds to student organizations.
This year, ASUN is trying to win control of the purse
strings. The senate argues that as an elected body, they
must be responsible to the students, while the appointed
FAB has no such responsibility.
B fund break-down:
$18 debt service to repay bonds. The University
Health Center, Nebraska and East Campus Unions,
and residence halls were financed, through
$28,990,000. $21,365,000 remains to be paid
before the bonds retire in 2001, Knisely said. Last
fall, the NU Board of Regents approved a $3.50 in
crease in this category to meet bond payments for
the East Campus Union.
$26.92-University Health Center operating expenses.
UHC "supplements this income with self-generated
funds.
$10.49-Nebraska Unions operating expenses. As with
UHC, the unions also provide some self-generated
income.
$2-recreation faculties. The tennis courts on East
campus are an example of this fund's use, Arm
strong said. .
$3.14-recreation and intermural dept. operation.
$2.54-university offices and activities budgets. The
Placement Office, Student Activities Office, In
ternational Education Office, career counseling,
student handbook, environmental health and publi
cations adviser share in this allocation. This fund
was reduced by $2.42 last spring when the Nebraska
' Legislature decided state tax dollars should finance
the Placement Office, New Student Orientation,
career counseling and environmental health.
Armstrong said annual budget proposals from B fund
users determine the size of the B fund. .
The $3.42 per student allocated to the A fund repre-,
sents about five per cent of the $66.50 student fee
payment. Distribution of this fund currently rests with
FAB, although the 1977-78 board has not been named.
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friday, September 16, 1977 vol. 101 no; 10 lincoln, nebraska
Legislative committee hears right-to-privacy battle
By Tarn Lee
Citizens' right to privacy versus the right of employers
to protect themselves was the issue considered by the Ne
braska Legislature's Business and Labor Committee
Thursday. : .
The hearing on Legislative Resolution 94 was studying
the current uses'of polygraph tests and determining the
need for regulating and licensing it polygraph operators.
The Nebraska Civil Liberties Union supports limiting
the use of polygraph tests by private employers because it
sees more abuses by them than by state and local govern
ments, according to Executive Director Barbara Gaither.
Requiring polygraph tests for employment is an in
fringement of employees' civil rights, she said. It violates
the fifth amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which
guarantees that no one may be compelled to testify;
against himself or herself, and the sixth amendment
guaranteeing a trial by an impartial jury, Gaither said.
May be fired
Though employers say polygraph tests are voluntary,
they may not be hired, or may be fired, if they refuse to
take it, she said.
Physical, mental and emotional factors can cause the
test results to be inaccurate, she said. For instance, if a
person does not believe that he or she is not guilty, has no
fear or guilt, or does not believe in the polygraph,
the test may not show the person to be lying, she said.
On the other hand, if an innocent person is experi
encing fear, guilt, anxiety, tension, embarassment or has
a physical condition such as heart trouble, fatigue or head
ache, the test results won't be accurate, Gaither said.
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" Arthur Aksamit,. president of the Nebraska Association
of Polygraph Examiners said that polygraph tests are 90
to 98 per cent accurate. Aksamit said that polygraphs
measure 16 different bodily functions, including heart and
pulse rate, blood pressure, respiration and galvanic skin
response. . j
There is a measurable change in these functions when a
person is under stress, he said.
The polygraph test often is used for an accused person
to prove he or she is not guilty, he said.
Employers rights
"Employers have a right to protect themselves and em
ployees have a right to exonerate themselves," he said.
- He favors the use of polygraph tests "whenever neces
sary" to prevent employee theft and to investigate poten- y.
tial employees past records, he said.
' "There is too much emphasis on the rights of criminals
and not enough on the rights of employers,"' he said.
Aksamit said he favors licensing of examiners to elimi
nate, those unqualified for the job.
-He
also said there needs to be a board set up to set
standards for examiners and investigate complaints. He
suggested that this ' board be incorporated into the
attorney general's office,.
Senator Wally Barnett of Lincoln, who sponsored an
unsuccessful bill to regulate polygraph testing in the last
session of the Legislature, also testified in support of
licensing examiners,
. Paul Conley of the Lancaster County Public Defender's
office said he favors licensing of polygraph examiners be
cause interpreting results from an exam requires
judgement.- ' " '
Evidence from a polygraph exam is not admissable in
court because the possibility of human error in the inter
pretation of results is too great, he said.
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Looking for disabilities
Jim Preston of Nebraska Motor Carriers testified that
his company uses polygraph tests for potential employees
to determine if the applicant has any physical disabilities
which would impair his or her driving.
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Tim Jones, vice-president of Tires Inc. in Omaha said
he uses the test to find out if job applicants are interested
in long term employment, honest, have any drug or
alcohol problem, or "have any medical problems that
would interfere with their work, he said.
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Stadium's new scoreboard operators
enjoy animating the gridiron activities
( By Anne Carothers
A computer and four men are responsible for all the
messages, advertisements and animated tharacters that
football fans see on the new Memorial Stadium score
board. Al Eveland, one of last year's Husker kickers, said he
doesn't even know how much he is getting paid to run the
scoreboard. But he added that he doesn't really care.
"I'd do it for free; to feel like I was still part of the
team," Eveland said. Eveland was graduated last year and
is working toward his masters degree at UNL.
The other three men are: Tom Nycum, assistant dir
ector of the physical plant at UNL; Jim Hines, systems
analyst for Agricultural Meteorology; and Steve Ruff,
a real estate agent in Lincoln. .
All the advertisements are entered into the computer a
week, before the game, but Nycum said the operators
could add spontaneous messages during the game
Comes-in handy
That is where having Eveland around comes in handy,
Nycum said. If Eveland happens to see a play where the
lluskers are "really going to pile them up", Nycum said,
they can put a message like Crunch 1 up on trie board.
Eveland said he missed being on the field but that he
felt like he was "still doing something.' .
The new scoreboard was purchased from the Ameri
can Sign and Indicator Corporation by three companies in
Lincoln, with the stipulation that for ten years they alone
would have advertising rights, Nycum said. The companies-First
Federal lincoln, Gateway Realty, and Mutual of
Ornaha-phn on turning the ownership of the score
board over to the university in ten years, he explained.
After the university has ownership of the scoreboard,
they will be able to sell its advertising space to anyone
who wants to buy it, Nycum added.
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The computer and the men who run it are in the
southern most booth of the lower level of the press box,
Nycum said. However, they, do not do any of the score
keeping, he said. The scorekeepers are in another booth
on the other side of the press box, said Ed Johnson, bas
ketball coach .at Northeast High School, who runs the
time clock,. . -'
Johnson said that he and LeRoy Seng, another teacher
i.t Northeast, run the time clock, scores, quarters, time
outs, downs, and the yards. They also handle information
6n possession of the ball and the position of the ball on
the field, Johnson said. 1
Although he doesn't get to view the game from the
standpoint of enjoying' it, Johnson said he likes his job..
He added that he and Seng operated the scoreboard
several years before the new scoreboard was installed.
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Mime Keith Berger. . . , , . . . p. 12
Byorth beaten by bureaucracy: UNL Student battles
administration and loses p. 3
UNL-Gate; Senate considers possible conflict of interest
by administrator . . . . , p. 6