thursday, february 2, 1978
daily nebraskan
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Moratorium freezes allocations to Areas of Excellence
Bv Todd Hereert
A freeze on additional funding requests
for 1978 should have little impact on NU's
Areas of Excellence programs, according
to Dick Johnson, program coordinator.
But, the programs, designed to launch
certain NU academic areas into national
prominence, will not receive any more
funds during the moratorium than they
received last year during the moratorium.
not affect the excellence programs, John
son said, because of the pre-planned nature
of the programs.
"The programs are goal-oriented. Each
academic area in the program decided its
goal and requested the funds they needed
to achieve that goal over a year ago. There
were never any plans fdr expanding the
program,' Johnson said.
The freeze on additional funds will The moratorium on additional funding
requests excludes new programs in the
Institute of Agriculture and Natural
Resources and salary increase; requests.
The freeze is not directed specifically at
Areas of Excellence programs, sa Bob
Lovitt, assistant vice chancellor for busi
ness and finance. .'''. . ' '
Bill Swanson, vice president of govern
mental relations at UNL, said the NU
Board of Regents declared the moratorium
to allow NU additional funding-emphasis
for faculty salaries.
Letter -drive against tuition increase 'ineffective9
A letter-writing campaign urging parents
to contact the NU 'Board of Regents about
a proposed tuition increase has had little
effect, according to Government Liaison
Committee (GLC) Chairman Mike Herman.
"I had hoped for much better than what
came out of the mailing," he said.
Herman spoke to the NU Board of Re
gents Jan. 15 about the tuition increase,
but said he had little impact. He attributed
part of this to a lack of response from the
mailing.
Approximately 300 letters were sent to
parents of freshmen and sophomores at the
end of last semester. Besides explaining the
proposed $22.50 tuition rate and UNL
ASUN delays
position paper
Presentation of a position paper supporting mandatory
student fees was delayed one week at Wednesday's ASUN
meeting for revisions.
The paper, to be presented by President Greg Johnson
will counter opinions voiced by some members of the NU.
Board of Regents stating that student fees benefit only a
few students, Johnson said. "
Line A'funds which support' bfgahizations'iantf activ'
ities such as ASUN, the Daily Nebraskan, and guest
speaker programs make possible a wide range of activities
"students could not possibly afford on their own," John
son said. - v .
During Wednesday's open forum outgoing Union Ad
visory Board President Dave Roehr addressed the senate in
what he termed his "state of the (Nebraska) Union mes
sage to the senate."
He reported that the Union Advisory Board has
adopted a new set of bylaws giving the new Nebraska
Union Board, a decision-making power. ' "
He also said that the long-range planning task force ' :
for the union has hired a college union evaluation group
to prepare a detailed survey of services to be administered
either this semester or next fall.
In other reports, first vice president Charles FelMngham
reported that the survey of library services his been
approved by the library staff and the educational' psy-1
chology department and is now being printed, and should ,
be distributed shortly. N :
In ASUN voting Senator Mike Herman was elected by?
acclamation as speaker pro tempore-of the senate, re-
placing Bill Skoneki whd resigned for "academic reasons.'
Four students were also elected to fill vacant Senate "
seats for the remainder of the term.
Unanimously elected were Dan Lamprecht for the Col-"
lege of Agriculture, Brian Mumaugh for Arts and Sciences '
and Mike Nolan for the Graduate College. Susan Rath also
was elected from Teacher's College , . .-'-;-"
Four vacancies remain to be filled,' while one senator': .
was not present for installation. " , : - -
The Senate was again plagued by quorum problems this: r
week, as senators drifted in and out throughout the meet- -.
ing, despite a call of the house requiring senators :;
to stay in the room during the meeting. .
At one point, Kirk Kuhlman was brought in from ;
another meeting in the building to maintain a quorum.
faculty's low salaries, the letters urged pa
rents to write their local regent about the
issue.
Herman said GLC should have sent
more letters and should have informed
each parent which regent to contact.
ASUN President Greg Johnson said the
committee has not evaluated the cam
paign's effect, but he added the campaign
may have had organizational problems.
"It wasn't a scientific mailing list,"
Johnson said. "We just ran them from the
(Builders) Buzz Book. We had problems
because we didn't have a method and a
particular group of people as a goal. How
ever, we were not after a conditioned re
sponse." "It's the first time we've tried to do
something like this (the letters)," Herman
said. He added that the GLC probably will
try the mailings again later this year and
ask, parents to contact state senators and
regents about the issue.
The mailings are part of a six-part plan
to combat the tuition hike. The plan in
cluded a Dec. 6 news conference, the letter
to parents, an ASUN resoluti6n unani
mously passed against the raise, a speech to
the regents, letters to students and the
Daily Nebraskan, and communication with
the Nebraska Legislature.
"Our studies show. that UNL faculty
salaries are way below average, and improv
ing salaries is the number one priority on
this yeaTs budget.' Swanson said. -""V "
Johnson said he is not ' worried about
the freeze because the Areas' 'of Excellerice
program does not want to expand. ! iJ
The program..-, is designed to build
specific academic programs which were
strong at UNL into exceptional programs
on the national level, he said.
Not every area can be exceptional; ! '
Johnson said, and efforts to expand the '
number of excellence programs Would
only dilute its overall influence, ' " f '
The UNL Areas of Excellence programs
are in architecture, chemistry, life sciences, ,
animal sciences, crop physiology, water
resources management, non-traditional
education, journalism and music!
Fee board meets
The Fees Allocation Board will meet. f
Friday February 3 at3:30 pjn. in
Nebraska Union 216. ; ; .
The board will discuss requests for
emergency ftindstfTorlthe UNL ''Crew'
coaching-' staff and the Student Baf Asso
ciation, . .
Revised budgets arid audits of the; Com
mittee also will be approved. , :, x C ' . " ' )
There will be an open forum at the end: .
of the meeting. ' ; . ..j!';,;?.
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