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
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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.
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