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daily nebraskan
tuesday, february 5, 1980
UPC executives say CFA attitude is changed
By Kathy Stokebrand
Two University Program Council
executives, referring to the Committee for
Fees Allocation's approval of the Health
Center's increased request, said they see a
change in CFA's philosophy.
A vote like that and the other increases
since our hearing mystified us because the
philosophy of CFA shown to us was that
cuts had to be made and student fees kept
down. Since then we have seen a dramatic
change in that philosophy, shown by the
significant increases approved since our
hearing," said Greg Venburg, UPC-City
president.
440ne CFA member said they expect an
increase in student fees of three to four
dollars," he added.
The committee also approved an
increased budget request for the
" Recreation Dept.
We came in with a'45 percent increase
and were cut back," Venburg said.
Able to appeal
UPC will be able to appeal the tentative
allocation on Feb. 14, 19 or 21 said Steve
Speer, a CFA member. An appeal schedule
should be set up at the CFA meeting
Tuesday night, he said.
"II hasn't been formulated how much
we will appeal for," Venburg said .
4,On the surface $100-200 cuts don't
look like they would harm progress very
much,- but the budgets were carefully
planned and. are very tight," Venburg said.
In 1975-76 UPC was allocated $66,360
and this year the committee approved a
$53,324 allocation for the council, roughly
a $13,000 cut "which is significantly
reducing Fund A which is the last strong
hold students have on their fees," said
Glenn Poppert, UPC -East president.
Walpurgisnacht cut
The committee reduced the request for
Walpurgisnacht from $2,435 to $135. It
is one of the most successful events at UNL
and was cut because UNL could collect a
fee at the door from non-students,
Venburg said. Logistically that's
impossible, he said.
Free University was limited to a one
semester program for next year again, al
though the budget requested funding for
two semesters. It was tried last semester on
a trial basis "and we feel we're ready to ex
pand to a two-semester program," Venburg
said.
Another program that received a partial
cut in funds was the College Bowl.
This is like the king of trivia bowls, a
kind of trivia quiz show where teams
compete against each other," Venburg ex
plained. UPC requested $860 and received
a tentative allocation of $550 for the bowl.
The cuts were made for travel expenses
that the winning team at UNL would re
quire to participate in regional and nation
al bowls, Venburg said.
Restrictions not included
The restrictions on spending fee money
for travel were old rules of the Fees Alloca
tion Board, which allocated fees before
CFA was formed. To his knowledge the
restrictions are not included in CFA guide
lines, Venburg said.
Previously, the restrictions were intend
ed to prevent .the siphoning of UPC funds
for UPC members' travel expenses, but
CFA intends to use the travel money as a
prize for winning students in the trivia
bowl, he said.
UPC East primarily is concerned with
the cuts CFA made in the new programs
called for in its budget,, Poppert said.
In the past. UPC East put much
emphasis on Cornstock, a large outdoor
concert held on East Campus each spring.
"We requested and were given $9,300 for
Cornstock last year, out of a total UPC
East budget of $14,461," Poppert said.
This year we felt it was hard to justify one
program using two-thirds of the budget,
especially since the program depends on
the weather," he said.
Variety and new programs
The 1980-81 budget for UPC East was
planned to bring variety and new programs
to East Campus, Poppert said. CFA
approved the reduced request of $4,850
for Cornstock for 1980-81 .
There was much concern among CFA
members that there would be no charge for
these new programs. But there was no
charge for Cornstock in the past, Poppert
said. The requests for the new programs
plus next year's reduced request. for Com
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UPC East also has a travel program
which received a budget cut. The money
requested for this program, Poppert
explained, would go for publicity only. He
said the program should be self-supporting
after it gets off the ground.
These trips differ from those offered by
the Recreation Dept. in that they are not
necessarily sports-oriented, he said, adding
that a shopping trip to Kansas City was
available.
' " Major cuts
The UPC Culture Center budget
received "major cuts to the special events
which are our major events. That's why
we're here," according to Levetta
Chamberlain, UPC Culture Center
president.
Special events that received cuts were
Black History Month, Chicano Awareness
Days, Native American Awareness Week
and a Women's Panel to be held in conjunc
tion with UPC City's Women's Week.
The funding for the Women's Panel will
go to ethnic women speakers, Chamberlain
explained.
"As far as the Culture Center goes, in
appeals we -are going to push for all the
amounts we originally asked for for our
special events programs " Chamberlain
said.
The CFA, according to Chamberlain,
sees just one figure and doesn't see the
underlying planning for budget requests.
CFA seems to feel that cuts have to be
made but don't understand the
implications of those cuts, she said.
Church council advocates
cleaner energy production
By Kevin Field
Nebraska beware.
As the energy problem worsens,
pressure will increase to have large
energy plants such as nuclear reactors
and coal-fueled generators in sparsely
populated areas. The reasoning is that
the fewest number of people would
get hurt if something should go wrong.
Nebraska could have such plants
in the future, according to Chris .Cowap,
staff associate for economic justice
of the National Council of the Churches
of Christ. She has led the council's
program on energy issues since 1975.
Cowap was in Lincoln during the
weekend to speak to several church
groups and to a College of Engineering
and Technology class on the ethical
implications of energy production and
use. .
One of the greatest challenges facing
our society today is how to share
limited amounts of energy without
poisoning ourselves by polluting the
wider environment, she said.
One of her major goals, she said, "is
to establish clarity about the theology
of the subject. What is . the role of
people in relation to the environment?"
She added that the first book of the
Bible says man shall have dominion
over the world. She said she thinks
mankind has mistaken that to mean
dominations
Three main points
There are three main points to the
energy policy statement developed by
the council, she said. The environment
must be preserved, the programs must
be fair not only to today's population
but also to future generations, and
everyone must be given a chance to
participate.
Cowap said the council supports
a policy which will not depend on
nuclear fission or long-term use of coal.
These forms of energy have too many
health and safety, risks to workers
and to the general public, in addition
to potential danger to the environment,
she said. " -
The council . calls for increased con
servation of fossil fuels and a gradual
switch to renewable energy sources.
Citing a Harvard Business School study,
she said that if. conservation were taken
seriously, 50 percent of what we are
using now could be saved. It also has
been predicted that by the year 2000,
between 20 and 30 percent of our
energy needs could be supplied by re
newable sources, she said.
Conservation will work, said Cowap,
a resident of New York City. For the
five years before 1972, consumption
of electricity was increasing at a rate
of 5.6 percent per year in New York
City. After the oil embargo of 1973,
consumption dropped to an increasing
rate of 1.1 percent per year, she said.
Leaders behind
"I'm coming to the conclusion that
a great many ordinary citizens are way
ahead of our political leaders in. this
area," she said.
" Cowap said there is a need to assess
technology seriously and to ask value
questions on new developments. She
added that there is a need to be selective
in what is developed and the decisions
should not be left up to the scientists
and experts.
"There is a necessity to explode the
myth common among the non-scientific
community that scientists are objective,"
Cowap said. "We should, be aware of
various biases they might have in decid
ing what they are going to develop."
She added that non-scientific people
tend to put too much credibility in
scientists, and that becomes a major
reason decisions are left to the expert.
"Everyone has a right to be involved
in the decision-making . process and
should demand to be given their rights,"
she said.
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