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University of Nebraska-Lincoln
August 3, 1978
Tuition increase for 1979-80
approved by Board of Regents
University of Nebraska students will pay higher
tuition in the 1979-80 school year, and that decision did
not meet the approval of UN-L student regent, Ken
Marienau.
"We were a little disappointed that alternative
proposals were not considered," Marienau said.
Marienau presented a budget plan to the Board of
Regents, at their subcommittee meeting July 28,
suggesting more state tax support rather than the
tuition increase or reducing the budget by giving
faculty flat dollar amount raises rather than percentage
raises. Both proposals were rejected by the regents, as
they voted on proposed budget guidelines for 1979-80.
President Ronald Roskens said. "In all our
deliberations we tried to resist the necessity of
considering a tuition increase, however, we must
realize that inflation is a reality in our economy."
The increase would raise tuition from $22.50 to $24
for resident students, from $61 to $65 for non-residents
and by $450 per year for medical students. The
increase is expected to raise an additional $900,000
from students.
"The increased tuition will especially create
hardships for out-of-state students," Marienau said.
Raskens said that students and taxpayers must share
in the inflation fight.
Taxpayers will be requested to give $112,099,191, in
1979-80, (a $4 million increase from 1978-79) to the
University, via the Legislature.
Regent chairman Ed Schwartzkopf said the legisla
ture expects a tuition increase in the budget if asked to
allocate more funds to the University.
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Dorms overflow for third year
Approximately 100 men and 80 women will be
assigned to temporary living quarters in residence hall
lounges when school opens this fall, according to
Douglas Zatechka, director of housing.
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Outdoor trips
Toybox Fantasy
Sgt. Pepper review
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This is the third year that the number of students
requesting rooms has outnumbered available space.
The number of upperclassmen returning to the halls
is greater than any year since 1975, Zatechka said.
Zatchka said the final count in lounges will be
determined by the number of freshman who register
late and must be given living quarters and the number
of students who cancel room reservations.
Freshmen and sophomores under 20 years of age are
required by UN-L to live in University approved
housing residence halls or fraternities and sororities.
As of Aug. 28, 106 women and 67 men had requested
more rooms than were requested last year. But
Zatechka said there have also been more cancellations
than in the past.
Zatechka said the housing office is making
preparations to make the temporary quarters comfort
able for the students. The office has ordered some
additional furniture and will limit the number of
students in the lounges to four. When two lounges are
on a floor, such as in Abel Hall, only one lounge will be
used for temporary quarters.
The target date is Or , Zatechka said, to offer
permanent housing to oudents in the lounges.
Zatechka said the date is an estimate made on
historical data of students v. ho drop out of school or
move to fraternities and sororities.
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Student regent Ken Marienau (top) and University of
Nebraska President Ronald Roskens (above) presented
different budget proposals to the regents.
State marijuana harvest offers high hopes
By George Wright
The marijuana harvest in Nebraska
will begin soon, and Nebraska law
officers will be on the watch for
marijuana pickers.
"Wild marijuana is about four to
four-and-a-half feet tall now," said Chief
Deputy Delton E. Ziemann. "It will
blossom and seed in two to three weeks
and be mature. That's the time it's
picked if the harvester knows what he's
doing."
No special preparations are made by
the sheriff's office to handle the pickers,
but officers will watch fields for signs of
harvesting of the illegal plant.
Zieman said the marijuana attracts
local as well as out-of-state people,
usually from the east and west coasts
and Denver. Nebraska's marijuana is
supposedly of fairly good quality when
compared to wild marijuana in the
midwest, he said, but is not as potent as
that which grows in Mexico.
"We've had attempts to fly the
marijuana out of the state, back to
California." he said. But the marijuana
is usually transported in vans and pickup
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it is spread out on a plastic sheet or
moved to a different location to dry.
Once a week or so our helicopter will
survey fields to watch for harvesting.
and farmers also report harvesting
activities."
Not all marijuana is left in the field to
dry. Some people use heat lamps and
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laundry dryers. Zieman explained.
"We caught someone drying mari
juana in a laundromat on West O
Street." he said. "The marijuana was
taken in pillow cases to the laundry."
Drying the marijuana is necessary so it
will not mold when it is pressed and
packaged. Zieman said homemade pres
ses, some resembling garbage compac
tors, are confiscated with large loads of
marijuana. The dried marijuana is
packaged in kilo lots (two pounds, two
ounces), which are about two inches
thick and four by eight inches in size.
The sheriff's department has made
some large arrests, confiscating 250-300
pounds of marijuana, but marijuana
packages fSat are still wet and contain
stems can weigh 1.000 to 1.500 pounds.
The marijuana harvest is concentrated
in the eastern part of the state. State
Patrol Investigator R. J. Hagge said,
because marijuana requires a wet
climate which the Sandhills and western
Nebraska do not have. Marijuana grows
wild near rivers and along fences in
cornfields in the state.
This summer the State Patrol will call
famrs in pastern Nebraska tr remind
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