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thursday, march 2, 1978 vol. 101 no. 79 lincoln, nebraska
Speaker fund removal could cut fees
Despite a projected $5.52 student fee
increase to cover inflationary costs within
Fund B, the removal of speaker funding
from mandatory student fees may cut stu
dent fees by less than $1, according to
Richard Armstrong, vice chancellor for stu
dent affairs.
Calling the projected figure a "planning
tool only" Armstrong said the $5.52
assumes no transfer of. any savings from
Fund A to Fund B.
He said money is interchangeable
between the two funds and he said a saving
in Fund A could be transfered to Fund B.
He said speaker funding is "such a
minute point of the whole base of student
fees that it simply cannot be a big factor
in that regard." .
The decision to discontinue speaker
funding from fee support was reached
during an NU Board of Regents meeting
when regents considered recommendations
from the task force on student fees and
from NU President , Ronald Roskens.
Task force member Armstrong said the
task force was formed to investigate
student fees after the regents became con
cerned over possible fee increases.
Their charge instructed Roskens to con
sider adding student fees direct'y to tui
tion payments on a per hour basis, instead
of listing them separately, Armstrong said.
The task force discouraged including
student' fees within tuition costs because
too many problems were involved. Arm
strong said .
"For example, UNO student fees are
S36, as compared -to our fee of S66.50.
If we were to convert those figures into a
per hour tujtion, expression, that would
mean that UNL and UNO students would
pay different tuitions, which is contradic
tory to the objective of the regents to keep
the tuition level the same," Armstrong ex
plained. He added that the switch would make
inside
the allocation of tuition funds hard to dis
tinguish, and would strip students of all
fee control.
Regent Ed Schwartzkopf of Lincoln
said, "The idea to change over to tuition
was merely a way to change the negative
image of student fees. There really were no
economics involved."
Schwartzkopf added that most fees
were not reducible since they pertain to
necessary services. "Most of the items we
talked about were not significant dollar
wise in reducing fees," he said.
However, task force chairman Hans
Brisch said, "I think the potential to
reduce costs is contained in the recommen
dation. When you compare inflation with
these rates, we could maintain, if not
lower, the fees."
Armstrong said fees for next year have
not been determined since campus organi
sations have not yet submitted their bud
gets to FAB. "The Fees Allocation Board
will be hearing from the four organizations
under Fund A in the next few days and it
all depends on what they feel about their
particular requests."
The four student-operated organizations
include Cultural Affairs, the Union Pro
gram Council, ASUN arul the Daily Nebras
kan. FAB adviser Jack Guthrie said, all four
organizations have been granted extensions
to submit their budgets, ranging from
March 2 to 13.
Students currently have some fee con
trol through the Fees Allocation Board
(FAB), which 'has the power to review and
make recommendations to UNL Chancellor
Roy Young on fees in Fund A.
Card section nixed
by band directors
Because of alleged student apathy
and general disorder, UNL officials
have decided to eliminate the card
section in Memorial Stadium.
But now another question has
been raised. Who gets those seats?
Robert Fought, director of UNL's
marching band, said, he and Jack
Snider, director of UNL bands, have
discussed the matter with athletic
director Bob Devaney but no deci
sion has been made.
Fought said he requested that
band seating be moved over one
section to occupy part of the seating
previously filled by the vjr'. section.
Moving the band into the dif
ferent seats would help the band's
unity by keeping them in a tight
block, he said, and would make it
easier to work with the cheerleaders.
"Our percussion section is now on
a concrete slab in the front," he said
Fought said he assumes that the
seats not occupied by the band
would be included in overall lottery
for student seating.
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Dateline Panama: Connie Casari,
junior journalism major, returns
from Panama with a report on the
canal pg. 5
Push-button journalism: Columnist
Jim Williams divulges the Daily
Nebraskan's secret pg. 8
Player not needled about hobby:
UNL defensive tackle Randy
Poeschl takes time out to needle
point: pg. 10
Photo by Ted Kirk
Cathy. Allen gave up a career as a social worker at Planned Parenthood and now manages an all-woman staff at the Amazon Amoco
service station, 1235 S. 1 Ith St. Allen said her work isn't easy, but she says it is exciting.
Manager shifts gears, changes careers
By Gail Reid
Not everyone in today's society has the
courage to march to a different drummer.
But, rolling up her sleeves, 25-year-old
Cathy Allen marched out of her life in
social work and into a career as manager of
a service station.
At 5-foot-5, 1 10-pounds, Allen manages
an all-woman staff at Amazon Amoco sta
tion. 1235 S. 11th St. One of her four em
ployees is a mechanic who graduated from
Southeast Community College. All of the
women pump gas and work on cars.
Allen has had no formal training, but
learned by observing at the station and by
taking a class in foreign car tune-up.
"It is not easy to learn to repair cars,
but it is exciting to fix one," she said. "I
get immediate gratification from the
work."
Lobbyist works for elderly
By Gail Reid
His hair is white and his gaze intent. Sit
ting alone, the 79-year-old lobbyist moni
tors the activities on the floor of the Ne
braska Legislature.
This is the 20th legislative session for
Erwin Campbell, a lobbyist protesting what
he calls Nebraska's "unfair social security
laws."
Campbell said he is really "kicking
about" the state's social security laws be
cause they discriminate against the elderly
poor.
The Homestead Act, which received
first-round approval by the Legislature last
week, is a social security bill to "help the
rich man and has no respect for the little
man." Campbell said.
Campbell said he became interested in
lobbying and legislation dealing with secur
ity pensions in the 1930s and became in
volved with a group working in 10 major
cities to reform pension laws in the 1950s.
He became a registered lobbyist in Nebras
ka in 1957 and has attended legislative ses
sions since.
His eyes are weary, his white hair is ru
fled. He wears a baggy suit and carries his
belongings in a paper bag. He said he does
not think he has been very effective in per
suading senators to reconstruct the social
security laws.
"But it is important for "me to continue
lobbying for reform," he said.
Campbell said his lobbying gives him the
opportunity to express his concerns for the
elderly and has allowed him to learn about
the legislative process first hand.
His role also keeps him active.
"It is important to have some w.iy to
keep busy and to exercise vhen old age
sets in and the Legislature rovides that
opportunity." he said.
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Photo by Bob Pearson
Erwin, Campbell, 79-year-old
lobbyist, monitors the Nebraska
Legislature and works for reform of
social security laws.
Allen said she is living proof that
women can learn to work on cars. "I feel 1
can fairly accurately diagnose what is
wrong with a car."
The drastic employment change resulted
from her social work, which, she said re
quired her to give until she could not give
any more.
"I got burned out," she said.
The two jobs correlate, she said. She
now educates people about car systems. At
Planned Parenthood, she educated people
about birth control, she said.
Allen said she would like to train people
about a car's system so they will not be
"ripped off by mechanics.
"Anyone who owns a machine should
understand how it works and how to care
for its upkeep," she said. Too many people
do not take a car investment seriously.
Allen said she is pleased when she inter
ests women in information about their
cars.
Some men are surprised when they learn
a woman will be working on their cars and
often feel a woman cannot do the job, she
said. However, most customers are good
natured, she said.
Besides friendly customers, Allen said
the employees are easy to work with and
the amount earned is directly related to the
amount of work done. In social work, the
pay did not always reflect the amount of
work, she said.
Allen said she plans to buy the station
and commit the next five years to it. Other
plans include a "rent a heap" service, she
said, where person can rent a cheap car for
a day or a week.
"We'll buy 'em, fix 'em up, and rent
"cm." she said.