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thursday, September 13, 1979
lincoln, nebraska vol. 103 no, 13
Lack of f imds and interest close doors atNUPIRG
By Gordon Johnson
The Nebraska University Public interest Research
Group (NUPRIG) has folded, according to NUPRIG trea
surer Tim Mommaerts.
The organization has had problems paying its bills and
keeping enough members involved to do the job, he said.
NUPIRG is a student consumer advocacy group that
acts as a referral and research agency. It deals with con
sumer questions and complaints. One of the last activities
NUPIRG participated in was the Nestles' boycott last
spring.
NUPIRG began campus operations in 1971, according
to Mommaerts, and lost interest in 1974-75. Interest in
the organization picked up the next year, as membership
went up and the group's activities increased.
Mommaerts said NUPIRG was closed because it could
not pay $114 in debts and because it ran into problems
with a new constitution .
"When I finally realized that we were through, I filed
the inactivity forms," he said.
The forms were filed with the Student Activities and
Financial Services office Tuesday.
The organization has been operating illegally, Mom
maerts said, because they were operating under a constitu
tion which had not been approved by the ASUN senate.
Some of NUPRIG s members discussed declaring
bankruptcy, to get rid of the debts, Mommaerts said.
However, that idea was rejected when Mommaerts found
out it cost $50 to file bankruptcy.
According to NUPIRG executive director Leonard
Pavelka, the organization got off to a bad start last spring
when it waited two weeks before finals to start the
Nestles' campaign.
After the campaign and finals were over, Pavelka said
the "organization sort of disintegrated."
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The activity has stopped, but the clutter remains at the NUPRIG office, which has been closed due to lack of
funding and interest.
"No one in the group is happy it has to fold," Mom
maerts said.
If another group of people were to get NUPIRG started
they would have to pay NUPIRCS debts, he said.
Public hearings set
Statue requested for Alumni House for Regents' meeting
. By Michelle Car
The donor of $500,000 for a new Alumni Center has
asked that the building be named after him and that a
statue of the donor be placed somewhere on the building
grounds, according to the executive vice president of the
Alumni Association.
Jack Miller said the donor, Milton Wick, has made
several construction specifications. Millers also said that in
a discussion with the donor, Wick recognized student con
cern about the proposed site, which is the metered park
ing lot north of the Nebraska Union and east of Andrews
Hall.
Miller said Wick, an alumnist and Arizona publisher,
was especially aware of student concerns about the lost
parking spaces.
But when asked if Wick had any recommendations or
comments about student concern, Miller asked "What
would he recommend?"
Miller explained that the parking problem has "no easy
solution." He said that nearly every available on-campus
Site will eliminate some parking,
"I think he (Wick) wants to do what the Central Plan
ning Committee has said-look at other sites," Miller said.
"I think he wants, along with the students, the admin
istration, and the alumni, the best possible site-with all
things considered," Miller added.
Concerning construction criteria, Miller said that Wick
requested that the building be named "Wick Alumni Cen
ter and a sculpture of Wick be placed somewhere on the
grounds.
"It will not be a bronze bust-type. of statue, but it will
signify his interests and philosophies," he said.
Hie sculpture will not use student money and the time
to work on the sculpture will be donated by Wick's son,
who is a sculptor.
According to Miller, a state regulation exists that re
quires all state buildings to have some form of art display
on the building's grounds. Supporters of the building re
portedly will not seek state funds for construction.
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Three toublic hearints iand presentaUon of the 1980-81
capital construction budget are scheduled for discussion at
the NU Board of Regent's September meeting Friday.
Hearings oh a proposed amended constitution and by
laws of the College of Education at UNO, fee schedules
for services at the Veterinary Science Diagnostic Labora
tory and proposed bylaws of the Board of Governors of
the University Hospital and Clinic and the Nebraska
Psychiatric Center at the Medical Center are scheduled for
the 1 p.m. meeting at Regents Hall on East Campus.
The Board also is expected to set priorities for capital
construction projects. If the board approves a budget
completed by the NU Administration, the university will
be requesting $18,486,055 in state aid for capital con
struction projects.
The first five year projects suggested by the administra
tion are university-wide energy conservation, UNL Agri
culture Engineering Building remodeling, UNMC Hospital
renovation for dentistry, UNO land acquisition and re
modeling and addition to Architecture Hall and Former
Law College.
There are 13 capital construction projects on the
administration's priority list.
The regents are also expected to act on a resolution
that would dissolve the master's projgram in business
administration at Kearney State College and development
of a cooperative graduate program in business administra
tion to be offered under NU auspices at Kearney.
Also on the agenda for Friday's meeting are special
appearances by Marianne Davidson, 3422 E. Pershing Rd.,
and Frank C. Sidles, 3400 E. Pershing Rd.
Davidson, who charged that UNL Professor Wayne
Dobson has abused faculty consultantships, was denied a
special appearance request at a previous Regents' meeting.
Sidles, an attorney, said he is an interested citizen of
the State of Nebraska and wants to speak on some items
he has been thinking about. Sidles declined to elaborate
on what the issues are.
Cooperation Secretary William Swanson said that both
Davidson and Sidles are expected to speak on issues per
taining to Dobson, according to the requests received by
his office.
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state's draft Kennedy movement . . . ?tzt 6
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