FAB cleans out bank books of student organizations
By Paula Dittrick,
Bank accounts turned cartwheels during
a Fees Allocation Board meeting Friday
afternoon when board members allocated
themselves more than $2,000 before giving
$200 to Nebraska University Public Inter
est Research Group.
FAB also promised to act on the organi
zation's request for an additional $2,165 at
FAB Feb. 3 meeting.
Board members unanimously voted to
recall all unspent student fees from student
organizations with a year-end balance of
more than $50.
The recall left organizations with no
student fees funding at the fiscal year's
end and boosted the contingency fund
balance to about $6,500.
FAB chairman Nate Eckloff told mem
bers that Vice Chancellor of Student Af
fairs Richard Armstrong supported the re
call of excess funds.
All campus organizations "are eligible
to come to the contingency and receive
money if they need it," Eckloff explained.
The largest amounts recalled included
$1,627 from the Student Bar Association
and $423 from the Graduate Student
Association.
In other action, the board allocated
$200 from the contingency fund to re
lieve NUPIRG's $125 debt to Gateway
Bank.
NUPIRG Student Director Don Macke.
asked for $2,365 from the contingency
fund. He said the money was needed to
support the organization's operations
through May.
NUPIRG received no student fee fund
ing for the past fiscal year, Macke said. He
told board members that NUPIRG "is
not social in nature, but uses a lot of
money to meet basic office expenses."
He said his organization conducts re
search and assists students in a number of
problems which he claimed should make
NUPIRG eligible for fees support.
NUPIRG has been categorized with
special interest or athletic groups, Macke
said, and should be reclassified.
Macke said his organization serves the
majority of students and proposed associa
tion with ASUN."
He said that he had not discussed this
idea with ASUN executives but added that
a legislative body like ASUN could use a
research branch.
FAB member Jane Motzke said ASUN
has some $1,000 left in a miscellaneous
student service account and suggested
Macke inquire about it.
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Don Macke said he preferred not to ask
ASUN for this money. He said any excess
funds ASUN should be used for the legal
services program.,
Macke said that although "we've (NU
PIRG) been used to working with nothing,
we can't do that any longer." He mention
ed a $125 overdrawn bank account and
told board members that some $2000 in
grants is pending until March.
Until Friday NUPIRG money came fror
federal grants, private contributions and
the Lincoln Action Program.
Most NUPIRG money comes from the
Lincoln Action Program, Macke said. He
asked the board to allocate funds before
NUPIRG becomes obligated to an off
campus source and off-campus problems.
He said the Lincoln: Action Program
grants were geared to.ward programs
dealing with the low income and the
elderly.
NUPIRG operations include five divi
sions: an agricultural division, a consumer
division, a legislative division, a local
division and an environmental division.
The environmental division is sponsor
ing an energy seminar on the UNL campus
scheduled for Feb. 14 and 15.
Macke said he has . been unsuccessful
finding funds to finance the proposed
seminar. Most of the needed money will
pay for promotion, he said.
Stan, 3, sits in the middle of the room
and spins in circles.
Jack, 5, bangs his head on the wall and
tears at his little-boy curls.
Theresa, 8, turns her hand over and
over, staring at it as if it were a new toy.
These children are a mystery to their
parents and physicians. Although fic
ticious, Stan, Jack and Teresa illustrate the
symptoms of a disturbance with no known
cause, cure or sure-fire treatment. These
children are autistic.
An -estimated two in every 1,000
children are bom autistic, according to
Kathy Scholl, clinical supervisor and
instructor at the University of Nebraska
speech and hearing clinic.
Besides being withdrawn and uninteres
ted in life around them, they have some
trouble communicating, she said.
With the behavior modification therapy
now used to train autistic children, only
one in every four treated have hopes of
leading normal lives, Scholl said. The rest
lose their autistic label after childhood
and are labeled as emotionally disturbed
adults. Sign language, is a new addition to
the regular speech training, has been
successful with some autistic children,
Scholl said.
She said the combination is called "total
communication" and teaches children to
say a word as they sign it.
One child at the clinic increased his
vocabulary from zero to 300 words,
including two-and three-word phrases using
signing, Scholl said.
"But there's no one wonder cure for
every child," she pointed out.
Although autistic children are behind
normal children in motor and social skills
as well as in speech, Scholl said they can't
be labeled retarded.
She cited the textbook example of the
five-year-old who had never made an
intelligible sound until the day he counted
to fifteen, receited the alphabet and
several nursery rhymes.
Although these cases are rare, autistic
children can be taught to dress themselves, 1
eat, and perform other motor activities
normally, she said.
Lynnette Green, a student in a day care
laboratory last semester, said an autistic
child she worked with could run, laugh and
liked to be hugged, just like a normal
child.
"But it was terribly frustrating (working
with him)," she 'said. "You could
never tell if he really recognized you or just
came to you accidentally."
Green said she dreaded working with
John (not his real name), but she soon
learned he was special.
"Other kids would get mad at him
because he would dump blocks all over or
cry," Green said. "They'd say, Teacher,
teacher, look what John's doing. . . They
don't understand why he does the things
he does. . John just lives in his own separ
ate, private world."
In their own world, children do not
respond to their parents, are not affection
ate and do not develop normal speech,
Scholl said.
That autistic label is used sparingly,
Scholl said. Many children come under the
heading of "autistic tendencies" instead,
she said.
According to Scholl, research on autism
is growing. The trend now is toward the
theory of a physiological cause of the
emotional disturbance, but she said there
are other theories too.
For now, however, autistic children
still are mysteries, three-fourths of which
will never be solved.
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About 500 men, women and children walked in near-zero degree weather from
10th and P streets to the Capitol in protest of the 1973 .Supreme Court ruling
legalizing abortion. See story on page 2.
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Scottsbluff Regent Robert Simmons
Simmons draws criticsn
Scottsbluff Regent Robert Simmons
has drawn criticism from Omaha Sen.
Glenn Goodrich after his appeal to the
Nebraska Legislature for the NU Board
of Regents defeat of his proposal to
abolish UNO football.'
Simmons sent a letter Jan. 12 to
senators in the sixth district accusing "a
few people in Omaha" of withholding
educational funds "to perpetuate the
tradition of that institution (the former
University of -Omaha) that no longer
exists," according to an Omaha World
Herald news story.
Simmons sent the letter after the
regents killed his proposal at the Jan. 7
meeting.
Goodrich replied to Simmons letter,
calling Simmons anti-Omaha.
"It is you (Simmons) who sustains
division in the N.U. system . . . when
that division has long since been repair
ed," Goodrich said in the letter.
In his letter to western senators,
Simmons said that UNO receives at least
$300300 in taxes each year for
football, but hinted the amount could
be as high as $500300. .
Goodrich, a member of the legis
lature's Appropriations Committee, dis
agreed, saying that the UNO football
program receives $ 1 93 JX)0. Only
$60,700 comes from state tax dollars,
he said.
Simmons said a "complicated cost
accounting' would be needed to deter
mine the actual cost of the UNO pro
gram, A cost report is being prepared
by UNO officials, according to UNO
Athletic Director Don Leahy.
