daily thursday, april 20, 1978 lincoln, nebraska vol. 101 no. 102 Administrators cut fee board fund recommendations 'The Fee Allocation Board recommenda tions for funds A and B during the 1978 1979 year have been cut by $77,552 by UNL administrators. Revised recommenda tions will be considered by the NU Board of Regents Saturday. FAB Chairman Nate Eckloff said he and other board members have seen the admin istration recommendations, and Richard Armstrong, vice chancellor for student af fairs "made the cuts in a student-oriented way." The largest dollar cut from FAB recom mendations was a $50,000 reduction in the debt service budget. The debt service is a Mk o I J( ff '--J w l-'-'ig---- .iffctJ U ,V-, jdr 'iM mJ-tZ3 WW , ... . . ,. . - JM'II! , .i : . 1 i - - Photo by Ted Kirk Despite Wednesday's wet and windy weather with a high temperature of 42 degrees, Assistant Sports Information Director Bill Bennett (left) and UNL diamond announcer Steve Pederson braved the elements for a doubleheader against Dana College. For more on baseball, see page 14. fund set aside to repay money borrowed by UNL to finance construction. Armstrong explained that the board mistakenly calculated that $1 of student fees would generate $43,500 in income. A more realistic estimate of the income gen erated by $1 of student fees is $40,722 for the debt services. He said that the board did not consider the fact that students registered for less than seven credit hours do not pay for the debt service in their re duced students fees. Armstrong also recommended a $10,250 cut in the University Health Cen ter budget for the same reason. Armstrong explained that students taking less than four credit hours do not pay for the health center budget in their fees, nor are they eli gible to use health center services. A $6,200 cut from board recommenda tions for the Daily Nebraskan budget was recommended by Armstrong. "The Daily Nebraskan is an activity about which the regents have some con cerns, and I simply didn't think the ($11,000) increase from last year in that budget recommended by the FAB would be acceptable to the regents," Armstrong said. Armstrong also suggested a $539 reduc tion in the ASUN budget, but added $500 to that budget by giving ASUN future FAB responsibilities. Eckloff said he does not oppose shifting FAB responsibilities to ASUN if ASUN seeks advice from faculty members and the administration. FAB recommendations included $10,000 set aside for the speakers program, provided the regents allowed some manda tory funding of speakers who may fit the as yet undefined speaker definition. Armstrong said FAB's $10,000 recom mendation was simply "lost," and there is no money in the proposed Union Program Council budget for speakers. Armstrong said all cuts were necessary to compensate for the FAB miscalculation of income and to keep within the limits to be determined by the regents. Television exposure helped to recruit solo baton twirler By Randy Essex They don't look much like a football player, although they are as accustomed to marching across yard markers as the offen sive line. And, like a quarterback, they are being recruited for their 80-yard tosses on the field. The solo baton twirler for the Cornhus ker Marching Band received about $700 a year in scholarship money, and that amount may increase, according to the twirler. Band director Robert Fought said money is "scraped together for the twirlers in any way we can get it." He said the twirler's scholarship is included in the band's annual $16,000 budget. The present benefactor of "scraping" is 19-year-old freshman Debbie Kerpchar, inside a native of Stratford, Conn. Kerpchar said although she was offered a "full ride" to Boston University, she chose UNL because she could get more television exposure here. Kerpchar explained that exposure is important to her future as a professional twirler. "I could also become a teacher and make money, or if I passed the examina tion, I could become a judge (of twirlers), and make money that way," she said. Fought said there will only be one twir ler next year. The band had two twirlers for the first time last fall. Charla Jean Wil son, a featured twirler last fall, left the university after last semester. Fought said there will be no auditions for twirlers this year because Kerpchar still has a year remaining on her contract. The decision to have just one twirler was made so the remaining twirler could be given more financial aid, he said. Fought said other universities generally offer more scholarship money to twirlers than UNL. This makes it difficult for UNL "to compete for the best twirlers, he said. "We recruit on a nationwide basis m much the same way the athletic depart ment recruits for football players," Fought said. "The twirler catches the eye of the camera and the spectators," Fought explained. The twirler is an important part of the band's television appearance. "It is important for us to have a good twirler," Fought said. Kerpchar said she first read of audi tions for her position in a publication called Drum Major. thursday Love missing index cards A new fellow on the block : Adminis trators recommend an action sen ior fellow for Centennial College. page 2 Costly pranks: Bombs are expensive even when they do not go off .... page 7 Architecture and theater buildings get new hope: State senators over ride governor's veto of capital con struction bill page 9 All the author cards indexing books written, edited or compiled by John, Robert and Edward Kennedy were dis covered to be missing from Love Library files last week. Dean Waddel, UNL assistant dean of li braries, said the cards are believed to have been stolen but there are no suspects. Waddel said University Police have not been called because there is little chance the cards will be found. "I don't anticipate that we will find them," he said. UNL faculty members have been noti fied of the missing files and have been asked to watch for students turning in re ports or papers on any of the Kennedy brothers. Such a student would not be considered guilty, Waddel said, but may provide a lead. Librarian Sandra Herzinger said it is not known how many cards are missing. The cards eventually wiH be replaced by tracing the books through title cards, but it will be difficult, she said. "We don't know how many books there are because the cards are missing," Her zinger said. The replacement process will be time consuming because the books are scattered in different locations under various head ings, she said. Photos by Bob Pnon Debbie Kerpchar, solo baton twirler for the Comhusker Marching Band, says television exposure is important for her career. J