Marching band
Memphis-bound
By Janet Fix
Associate News Editor
The UNL band is Liberty Bowl-bound and will
take off for the muddy river banks in Memphis Dec.
17, thanks to a $30,000 increase in the expense
allowance from the Big 8.
UNL Chancellor Roy Young Thursday announced
that the band and the football team will make all
expense paid trips to Memphis as UNL representatives.
Originally the Liberty Bowl had provided $95,000
for UNL to send its football team to the game.
Ned Hedges, vice chancellor of student affairs, said
Young contacted Big 8 officials and "sought some ad
justment so the band could go" to the bowl game along
with the team.
Young said Bob Devaney, UNL athletic director,
requested the increase from the Big 8 athletic directors
and faculty representatives, currently meeting in
Kansas City.
He said he and Keith Broman.UNL faculty repre
sentative, placed similiar requests with the Big 8 of
ficials. The bowl committee responded with an additional
$30,000 for the band's expenses, bringing the total
UNL expense allowance to $125,000.
The Big 8 receives the receipts from the bowl games
and part of the receipts are set aside for the schools'
bowl expenses.
Hedges said the allowance increase means the band
will not have to sponsor a fund drive as they have in
the last two years. Last year, the band's trip to Hous
ton and the Astro-BlueBonnet - Bowl cost about
$35,000.
Although the band was allotted $5,000 less than it
needed to finance its trip last year, Young and Hedges
said they did not think it would be necessary for a
fund-raising drive by the band.
Young said a fund-raising by the band might inter
fere with the NU Foundation drive currently underway.
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Colonel Lawrence W. Jackley , senior military adviser to the United States negotiating team.
Jackley: continued U.S. control
could turn Panama into enemy
By John Ortmann
Congressional rejection" of the Panama Canal treaties
signed by President Carter could lead to attacks on the
..ganal.. and increased troop committments yto defend it,
according to the senior military adviser to the United
States negotiating team. ''
Col. Laurence W. Jackley, at a press conference at the
Nebraska Union Thursday, said continued American
control could turn Panama into an enemy. The military
could not guarantee continuous and efficient use of the
canal under those conditions, he said.
With passage of the treaties, Panama will receive more
benefits from the canal and have more interest in keeping
the canal open, he said.
Jackley, whose current assignment is to promote sup
port for the treaties, said it would be helful if opponents
of the treaties read them, adding many people do not
understand the United States' rights under the treaties.
Jackley said the first of the proposed treaties would
allow the United States to run the canal until 1999 with
Panama's increasing involvement. The second treaty
would guarantee Panama's neutrality for an indefinite
period and would prevent a third nation from operating
the canal.
However, he said, most people he has encountered
are interested and looking for information on the treaties.
Jackley said contrary to popular belief the U.S. is not
paying Panama to take the canal. Panama's increased reve
nue, under the treaties, will come from tolls charge'd to
. ships using the canal, he said.
The U.S. will retain the right to defend the canal and
bar foreign troops from Panamanian soil.
Tolls may have to be raised 30 to 35 percent, he said,
adding that the increase will raise shipping costs by a small
amount.
He said the canal currently saves shippers over one
billion dollars on 13,000 transits per year at an average
toll of $11,000 per transit. Loss of the canal, however,
would add $100,000 to the cost of sending a ship to
Japan, he said.
Jackley said the cost of shipping a long ton (2,240
pounds) of soybeans from Nebraska to Japan would in
crease 30 cents per ton under the new rates as opposed to
a 50 percent increase if the canal were closed, forcing
vessels to find longer routes. The cost of a car imported
from Japan would increase by $3, he said.
The VS. is not passing off an obsolete facility, he said,
explaining that all U.S. Navy warships except the 13 big
carriers can use the canal. He added that 90 percent of
the commercial ships are being designed to use it.
Jackley said he expects Congress to ratify the treaties
by a small margin.
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By Mary Jo Pitzl
Differentiated graduate tuition at the University of
Nebraska has received more negative response than semes
terly tuition statements.
Various committees and councils at the three NU cam
puses have registered opposition to the proposed idea of
charging graduate students a higher tuition rate than
undergraduates.
At UNL and the University of Nebraska at Omaha, tui
tion is $21 a credit hour. At the NU Medical Center, stu
dents pay $14.25 per quarter or $21 a semester for every
credit hour. There is no special rate for graduate students.
At last month's NU Board of Regents meeting, a report
examining the possibility of differentiated tuition at NU
vt-as presented to the three campus chancellors. In the
interim, all three have conducted some type of study and
r resented the results to NU President Ronald Roskens,
; ccording to Steven Sample, executive vice president for
;.cademic affairs. ,
Sample, speaking for Roskens who was out of town
Hiursday, said the president will use the reports to formu
Ue hb recommendation to the regents. It Is unknown
v.hen the recommendation will be forwarded to the
iv gents. ' "
Overall reaction to the proposal has been negative. NU
officials contacted Thursday voiced little support for a
differentiated tuition scale.
The Executive Craduate Council of the NU Cnduate
College is strongly opposed to split tuition rates, Sample
s rii. The council, composed of representatives from all
thref campuses, forwarded their opinion to Roskens,
according to Sample.
At UNL, - Chancellor Roy Young said that since
graduate assistantships do not pay enough money to be
competitive with other universities, raising graduate
tuition would be unacceptable.
The assistantships, which pay graduate students filling
research or teaching positions, are all at a lower level
than what they should be," Young said. He added that an
increase of $700 to $1,000 would be necessary to make
NU competitive with other universities for graduate
assistantships.
"We are looking toward exemption of tuition for
graduate teaching and research assistants, Young said,
but added that will not be done until the level of assistant
ships is increased.
Until 'that time, according to Young, an Increase In
graduate tuition would deter students from enrolling in
NU's Craduate College.
A committee appointed by Young to study the
feasibility of higher guduate tuition at UNL concluded
that higher graduate tuition Is not acceptable.
An appreciable increase for iraduate students would
put NU out of competition with other universities,
Russell Nelson, acting associate dean for UNL Graduate
""s,$aid.
Json defined "appreciable' as an increase of 20 per
cent or more.
Nelson, who helped the committee prepare their data,
said the report reviewed graduate tuition levels at other
Dig 8 and Big 10 universities. At the schools having dif
ferentiated tuition levels, graduate tuition varied from as
low as 4 percent to as high as 71 percent over undergrad
uate tuition, according to the report.
In the Big 8, the University of Oklahoma and Iowa and
Oklahoma State Universities have differentiated graduate
tuition.
At UNO, provost Herbert Garfinkel said the proposal
has been greeted with very little enthusiasm.
To say that all graduate courses cost more than under
graduate classes is wrong, according to Garfinkel. y
If the principle of charging tuition on the basis of what
the actual course costs is to be applied to all NU courses,
some tuition charges would have to be lowered, Gar
finkel said.
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Back in the U.S.S.R.: No FAB, ASUN, CSL,
tuition, student fees,, . . but "the" big
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Bring me your DeMilles, your Altmans: At least
now students at UNL have the chance to be
film making minors .p. 6
Not another Bicentennial minute: Cip goes for
the moment when he, too, can say he got his
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