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daily nebraskan
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deficits will result
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The letter explained that Islam was a
religion based on love, peace and the re
spect of human rights. If this is true, then
why are devoted followers of Islam in Iran
killing, destroying, threatening and remov
ing basic human rights from its citizens and
those of visitors? Various atrocities have
occured for thousands of years in the false
name of religion.
. Mary Ann Bowman
Sophomore, Undeclared
Day care expenses
This is in response to the open letter to
Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs Richard
Armstrong from the members of the UNL
Coalition for Day Care Funding (Daily Ne
braskan, Nov. 14). I think that any serious
inequality that existed in the university's
function as an educational institution was
corrected, not created with the 1978 stu
dent fee restructuring. I am an unmarried,
childless, poor student. Why should I help
pay for someone else's day care? I would
no more expect the university to pay my.
tuition so that I could "achieve my educa
tional potential" than I would expect it to
pay others' day care expenses for the same
reason. When you said that "All direct
financial support from the university was
eliminated," you should have said that all
direct financial support from students via
student fees was eliminated .
Child bearing and rearing is a large re
sponsibility. Today there is no reason that
people who wish to remain childless can't.
Before a couple, or mother alone, decides
to have children,, they should decide
whether they can support thsm and go to
school, too-without others like myself
who choose to remain childless having to
help defray, their cost;. I feel that I already
support enough dependent mothers via
federal taxes. The 1978 student fee reallo
cation reflected the current national trend
of over-burdened taxpayers objecting to
supporting causes and programs that they
don't endorse, and I, like the growing
majority of others, am whole-heartedly for
tliis trend.
Erik T. Van Fleet
Junior, Electrical Engineering
Chamber s is questioned
I was very touched with State Sen.
Ernest Chambers concern with the issue of
the death penalty (Daily Nebraskan, Nov.
14). I wish to congratulate him on his
realization of the sanctity of human life.
Finally, I am in total agreement with his
statement that the "laws of a society
should not reflect the most barbaric. . .
things in society." However, I am a bit
confused about his feeling that even if
Nebraska did have a system of specificity,
the state would still not have the right to
take a citizen's life. There seems to be an
overt inconsistency with the Senator's
philosophy in this matter, for he has
ignored the fact that our society already
has a system of specificity and has
granted the right to take another's life.
This right is employed over one million
times per year, and still Chambers supports
it. As a matter of fact, he fights diligently
for it, that is, for the right of a mother to
kill her unborn child. ,
Chambers also suggested that if
executions are so good, why hide them.
"Why keep it secret, clean and separate
from the people who supposedly want it
society?" I ask a similar question, "Why
are the realities of abortion kept secret
from society?"
Important parts of the "informed
consent" clause were struck out of LB316
(which , would require a woman to be
educated about what she was actually
carrying) in an attempt to hide the realities
of abortion. Therefore, shouldn't it follow
that Sen. Chambers would support such a
clause since-he states that we shouldn't
hide any of the gruesome details of one of
our laws? In actuality, he does not. How
long will we stand; for such inconsistency
from out lawmakers? How can we trust
one to, make the right decisions for us, if
one's thinking is so obviously illogical?
JudyTiehen
President UNL Students for Pro-LIFE
if budget increase not met
By Michelle Carr
If a 15 percent increase in state general
funds is not met, UNL will be faced with
severe budget problems, according to two
UNL administrators.
UNL Chancellor Roy Young told the
NU Board of R-gents that even a 15 per
cent requested increase does not help solve
budget matters, such as, operating and
utility budgets, replacing reductions in
equipment and computer budgets and in
creasing needs for improvements.
Young and Martin Massengale, vice
chancellor of the Institute of Agriculture
and Natural Resources, presented budget
proposals" using a 7 percent and a 10 per
cent appropriation increase, which the
regents requested during the October meet
ing. With a 10 percent appropriation in
crease, the UNL budget, not including the
Institute of Agriculture, would suffer a
$1,443,880 loss, Young said. This includes
a reduction in the equipment budget, de
partmental computer budgets, faculty re
search, Teaching Council which occurs in
. the. 15 percent appropriation increase
budget plan. The $1,443,880 would have
to be cut from the continuation budget, he
said.
To meet the deficit, Young said, 96
faculty and staff positions would be
eliminated, programs would be reduced
and fees for laboratory courses would be
charged.
WITH A 7 percent appropriation, in
crease, UNL would face a $2,725,799 re
duction and this total would not include
$940,000 to restore the equipment budget,
departmental computer budget, faculty re
search and Teaching Council budgets
through savings, or the shortfall in the
utilities budget, Young said.
A 7 percent reduction would require a
reduction of 181.5 faculty and staff full-
r time equivalent positions, he said.
1 "' A task force, which included vice
chancellors, deans, faculty and students,
prepared the impact of various appropria-
. tion levels and recommended that the
budget should not eliminate schools or
colleges or graduate programs, Young said.
The task force recommended that other
methods of increasing income be investi
gated, such as efforts to improve efficiency
of UNL resources and rational considera
tion of alternatives for major program
change, he said.
Enrollment limits may be applied to
selected colleges or to UNL as a whole if
savings cannot be achieved, Young said.
"WE BELIEVE it is critical that we
make the strongest effort possible to
obtain a 15 percent increase in appropriat
ed funds."
With a 10 percent appropriation in
crease, the Institute of Agriculture and
Natural Resources will have a $957,000
budget deficit, Massengale said. Reduction
of programs, elimination of 38 faculty and
staff positions, and a possible reduction of
publications and 'services offered would
occur he said. A decrease in the frequency
of certain course offerings and an increase
in the faculty workload also would occur,
he said.
With a 7 percent appropriation increase,
the institute would have a deficit of
$1,535,200, Massengale said, and 64
faculty and staff positions would be elimin
ated, along with the implementation of the
alternatives used in a budget of 10 percent
increase, he said. v
Massengale noted that enrollment and
demand for courses in agriculture and
natural resources have increased during the
past ten to fiftenn years.
"It should not be a surprise that any
programs we eliminate will have signific
ant impact on someone we serve in the
state."
NU PRESIDENT Ronald Roskens
pointed out that low appropriation in
creases in the past have resulted in only
modest salary increases and in absorbing
increases in the cost of energy. Roskens
stressed that appropriations have not
matched the rate of inflation.
Roskens also equated the need for a 15
percent appropriation with the quality of
education.
Roskens termed the 15 percent ap
propriation support a "realistic figure" that
the regents should vigorously support.
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