Publicity may have increased Fonda speech crowd
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By Anne Carothers
Although several groups opposed Jane
Fonda's speech Tuesday night at UNL,
Fonda attracted one of the largest crowds
for a Talks and Topics speaker during the
last 10 years, said Sara Boatman, Union
Program Council (UPC) adviser.
About 2,000 persons crowded into the
Nebraska Union Centennial room to listen
to the 39-year-old actress and political
activist, Boatman said.
Boatman said she thinks some of the
persons in the audience may have come as
a result of publicity, about the opposition
to Fonda's speech. However, she added she
thought the speech would have drawn at
least 1,200 without the publicity.
Young Americans for Freedom also pro
tested Fonda's appearance, Boatman said.
Contacted Wednesday afternoon,
Regent Robert Koefoot of Grand Island
said although he personally opposes Fonda
and her beliefs, he did not formally oppose
her visit but requested information about
her appearance.
Koefoot said he did not attend the
speech nor had he read any newspaper re
ports on the speech.
Responding to a statement made by Jay
Yost, UPC Talks and Topics chairman, in
the Daily Nebraskan that UPC is not ac
countable to the regents, Koefoot said
there is accountability. The NU Board of
Regents is "responsible for whatever
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Political activist and actress Jane Fonda.
reported that one regent requested infor
mation relating to Fonda's speech, as a
result of several calls he received from per
sons expressing concern about Fonda's
visit to UNL.
A Republican women's group and
Yost Wednesday said he thinks UPC is
in the end accountable to the regents be
cause the regents have final approval of fee
allocations.
However, "on a day to day basis, UPC
must be accountable to the students. The
regents are not the ones who are using the
programs and they do not pay the student
fees," Yost said.
Koefoot added that he thinks students
should not have to pay for a speaker they
are not going to listen to, and suggested
Talks and Topics speakers not be paid for
with student fees.
Speakers should be paid for by ticket
sales at the door, Koefoot said.
Yost said he does not think a speakers
program could pay for itself from admis
sion sales.
Boatman said $1.50 of each student's
fees goes toward UPC, This amounted io
only a few cents per person for the Fonda
speech. She added that Fonda was paid
$2,500 plus expenses.
For $1.50, UNL students can attend all
Talks and Topics programs, Yost said,
whereas an admission charge of $1.50 per
program, such as those at the University of
Nebraska at Omaha, would cost the
student more.
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UNL Faculty Senate votes to support
budgeting process change-on condition
By Rex Henderson
The UNL. Faculty Senate Tuesday voted to support,
with some qualifications, a revision of the NU budgeting
process for instruction, research and public service.
The change would reduce the amount budgeted for the
colleges; but would not change the total amount spent.
Ned Hedges, vice chancellor for academic affairs, told
the- senate that NU now budgets more for instruction, re
search and public service than is expected in income.
The budget is balanced by the inclusion of an account
ing figure Hedges called a "minus". The minus equals
the difference between budgeted expenditures and bud
geted income.
Theoretically NU generates the savings in proposed
expenditures to cover the minus when staff and faculty
positions go unfilled and planned purchases are not made,
Hedges said.
Extraordinary action ,
However, the increase in the "minus" figure "has forced
the university to take "extraordinary action" to balance
the budget in the past five years, he said-The "extra
ordinary action" has included intentionally leaving faculty
positions unfilled and delaying bill payments, he said.
Hedges said this "does not solve any problems, only
delays them."
Hedges said he advocates cutting the planned budgets
of the colleges in the 1978-79 school year to bring them
closer to planned income and, reduce the minus figure.
This year's budget for instruction, research and public
service in all UNL colleges, excluding the Institute of Agri
culture and Natural Resources (College of Agriculture)
totals nearly $45 million. The minus is $1.4 million, about
3.2 percent of the budget.
Budgeting changes
Hedges said unless budgeting changes are made, next
year's minus .figure would reach $1.6 million.
The senate endorsed the budgeting process change on
four conditions; j, ' ' ' - ''
-Support operations should be economized to the
maximum amount possible before cutting the instruction,
research and public service budget. ''.'
-The administration should ask the Nebraska Legisla
ture for as much as possible before allowing reductions,
-The cuts should occur over a period of several years,
instead of a single year cut.
Consultation
The'Senate also voted that the procedure for making
budget cuts should include consultation with the facul
ty and department chairmen, and proposed cuts should be
reviewed by the college deans and the Faculty Senate,
Hedges said he would meet with the deans next week
to present his proposal for making cuts.
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Councilman: amendment would cause inequalities
By Mary Jo Pitzl
Human rights legislation may suffer some inequalities
in Lincoln as a result of an amendment proposed by a city
councilman.
Joe R. Hampton's proposed amendment to the city's
human rights ordinance has. drawn protests from fellow
councilman John Robinson. who said the amendment de
nies equal opportunities to all Lincoln residents.
The amendment also has caught the attention of
several Lincoln citizens and council members, according
to Hampton.
"There is a certain amount of uncertainty and mis
conceptions .about this," Hampton said, explaining that
this confusion has resulted in a public hearing on the
amendment at Monday's 7:30 p.m. council meeting.
"Hampton said his amendment is a consolidation of
city, state and federal human rights requirements.
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"The only part I've had with this particular question is
that it be sent to the (city) law office and that they elimi
nate the ambiguities that occur between city, sta.te and
federal levels," Hampton said.
Exceeds requirements
He explained that the current human rights ordinance
exceeds the requirements set by the federal and state
governments, and the amendment is an attempt to stream
line the three levels.
This should make the ordinance more consistent with
other guidelines and hopefully speed the legal procedure
handling human rights complaints, Hampton said.
The amendment, prepared by City Attorney Charles
Humble and Commission on Human Rights secretary
Gerald Henderson eliminates the words "sex. ..age.,,
marital status. . .receipt of public assistance. . .disability. . .
ancestry"' when they appear in several sections of the
ordinance. Many of the sections are related to housing.
Robinson said he objects to the amendment because it
does not protect all segments of the lincoln population.
He said he particularly objects to the areas that apply to
housing, and said the amendment makes employment dis
crimination possible.
Hampton said he thinks his amendment will not deny
citizens equal rights protection. ,
Bureaucracy
"I can't believe with the bureaucracy we live with
today that if it's not covered in the city, the feds will get
it," Hampton said.
i will certainly vote against the amendment," Robin
son said. "We should leave things as they are. That is the
only alternative I would accept. I don't think in terms of
compromise in these areas."
Robinson said he questions the motives underlying
Hampton's amendment and suggested that his reasons for
revising the amendment go beyond an interest in coordi
nating the human rights guidelines.
Since Hampton represents many business interests, he
may be concerned that the businessmen are being
unnecessarily ' bothered by discrimination complaints,
according to Robinson.'
Discrimination guidelines
Robinson, who said he has represented many people
in state and federal civil rights litigation cases, said the
federal guidelines cover discrimination based on race,
color, sex, religion, and national origin.
The proposed amendment differs from the federal
guidelines in that it eliminates sex as a basis for
discrimination.
Since early 1977, approximately 50 human rights
complaints have been filed with the Commission on
Human Rights, according, to equal opportunity officer
Henderson. Many of these complaints are still being
settles, he said.
Henderson said the' process time for human rights com
plaints varies with the severity of the charge. Only after
it has been established that discrimination actually
occurred does the complaint advance to court, Henderson
said.
Hampton said that hopefully, one of the side effects of
the amendment would be to speed the time involved in
solving the complaints.
Many claims
"A lot of the claims for either party dragged on for one
or two years," he said, explaining this may be due to the
trouble in meeting city, state and federal requirements.
Henderson said that the federal Equal Opportunity
Commission has cases that are four years old and there are
three-year-old cases still on the state level.