summer nbfas
number 1
university of nebraska - lincoln
june12, 1979
No stadium addition bond rate but,
UNL will ask foir bond sale EC
By Gordon Johnson
This wrek the University of Nebraska
Lincoln will be Bending a letter to the
executive board of the legislative council
of the legislature asking them to approve
the sale of bonds for a $6.4 million
Memorial Stadium expansion, a Univer
sity official said.
William Erskine, NU executive vice
president of administration, said that by
law the University must receive legislative
approval before bonds may be issued to
finance the stadium expansion.
If the legislature is not in session, he
said, approval must come from the
executive board of the legislative council.
Two groups have formed, however, who
oppose the building of a stadium addition.
Bud, Cuca, as ASUN president, is leading
the fight against stadium expansion on
behalf of the students.
Another party, Frank Lauerman, an
Arizona businessman and UNI Touch
down Club member, is campaigning to
build a new stadium instead of expanding
the old.
The proposed expansion will add an
additional 9,206 seats to the stadium at a
cost of $6.4 million. '
Public sale bids of the bonds is expected
to be at 10 a.m. on June 22 With bid
approval to be sought from the NU Board
of Regents June 23, according to a letter
sent to the regents from Robert Lovitt,
Acting Vice Chancellor for Business and
Finance at UN-L.
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A bond rating agency would rate the
University's ability to finance the bonds
sold. The better the rating the lower the
interest rate paid by the University for the
bonds.
Standard and Poor, a bond rating
agency, would not rate the University
because the bonds are payable solely from
ticket sales, the letter stated.
Because the University could not get a
bond rating from Standard and Poor the
interest rate of the bonds Could go up, the
letter stated.
"I think it is very important that you
note that this lack of rating on the national
market could increase the net interest
cost up to .05 percent, or approximately
$300,000 additional interest costs if the
bonds run to maturity," Lovitt stated in
his letter.
However, Lovitt said, the interest rate
does not have to go up. If the bonds are
bought locally, the rate may stay the
same, he said.
Some opposition expected
The University administration can ex
pect some opposition to the stadium
expansion when they get to the legisla
ture, said Cuca.
He said he hopes to get some key people
to testify at a public hearing Which will be
held before the legislature takes any
action.
Cuca, however, does not feel that there
is a very good chance of the expansion
being stopped.
"If we look at it realistically, our
chances are not very good," he said.
Because the make-up of the board is
largely conservative, he said, he expects
the executive board members to vote the
same as the regents.
Key business peepla
The only chance they have, Cuca said is
by getting some key business people from
around the state to testify against the
stadium expansion, because they would
be listened to more than students.
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One member of the legislative council
has expresssed his concern to the board of
regents about further expansion of the
stadium.
Senator concerned
Sentaor Donald Dworak of Columbus
said in a letter to the regents that because
of delining enrollments and greater de
mands for public funds, he thinks it "is ill
advised to expand Memorial Stadium at
this time."
"I feel the current 76,000 capacity is
adequately taking care of the fan demand
during very peak Cornhusker seasons,"
Dworak said.
However, Regent Robert Prokop from
Omaha said if Sen. Dworak gets his way,
"he'll have to answer questions to the
people who want football) tickets."
"There's also some people who'll want
to know why some have better tickets than
others," Prokop said.
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possible
If things go as predict
ed, some men and wo
men may be living in
residence hall lounges
this fall, UN-L housing
director Douglas Zate
chka said.
Applications are still
be accepted from fresh
men and sophomores
who will not be 20 until
after Oct. 1, he said.
UNL Board of Regents
rules require that un
married freshmen and
sophomore students un
der 20 who do not com
mute from home reside
in on-campus housing.
No previous freedom
Zeisset said it is important to understand that 10 years
ago patients were not allowed freedom in sexual matters.
In the past, White explained, patients were not allowed
to mix with patients of the opposite sex, and often were
reprimanded for any type of sexual overture from holding
hands to sexual intercourse. If a young woman was
showing any type of interest in a male patient, she would
have been locked up immediately in the female ward,
White said.
However, changes have been made, especially in the
past six years, Jeffries said.
Zeisset attributes the changes in attitude to "the sexual
revolution."
"We are beginning to look at sexuality as a part of our
existence," Zeisset stated.
White said that while the sexual revolution may have
spurred the change, the federal government enforced it. If
it had not been for the power of the federal government to .
with ld money from the state unless it complied with
federal guidelines, many of these programs would never
have been started, White said.
"This' is an example of how once a change has been
made, we step back and ask, 'Why didn't we do that
before'?" White related.
No rooms yet
Even with advances made in the field of patient's rights',
Zeisset said, the state has not gone so far as to furnish
rooms where patients might have sex, as has been done in
other states.
A few years ago the regional center's administrators
were thinking of having one room set aside just for sex,
but discarded the idea because of a fear of rejection by the
Legislature, Zeisset said.
The center's attitude, Jeffries explained, is not to
encourage aex among the patients, but to treat it in a
natural way, unless the relationship becomes damrging
for one of the parties or harmful to therapy. The main
thing the center stresses is discretion, aha said, so the
relationship remains private.
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