CFA cite Umnoifflg' tadlsiii irecraestl;
By Kathy Stokebrand
The Union Board and the Union director came before
the Committee for Fees Allocation Tuesday night and
requested $600,000 of Fund B student fees but were ten
tatively allocated $592,663 for 1980-81.
The committee recommended that the board anticipate
saving $5,000 more ($20,000 as opposed to $15 000)
from personnel vacancies in 1980-81. In the past few
years the savings. incurred by the union for open positions
has averaged about $40,000, said CFA member Bob
Knuth.
The board projected a profit of $2,337 for 1980-81. It
was requested by the committee that the unions have a
zero profit budget objective and remove the income from
some area of the budget.
Union Director Daryl Swanson said the committee was
"splitting hairs" in its recommendation and should recog
nize the effort that went into the budget request to main
tain it at the same level for three years.
The budget did not address the utilities problem the
unions will face in 1980-81. Vice Chancellor for Student
Affairs Richard Armstrong said he directed the board and
Swanson not to include it because the problem "has so
many variables that it would be an injustice to the union
to try to include the issue in the budget."
If the utility bill for the unions was included in the
budget Armstrong estimated fees per student per semester
would increase by $5.87.
The unions' meeting room space usage alone is about
50 percent student and 50'percent non-student, according
to past Union Board President John Kreuscher.
"This facility differs from the health center, which
basically serves only students," he added.
Last year the Legislature decided t6 eliminate state fi
nancing for the unions' utilities. Options available to the
unions are to: 1) persuade the Legislature to reconsider its
decision 2) raise student fees 3) reduce andor eliminate
services 4) charge the university for its non-student usage
or 5) some combination of 2, 3 and 4.
Swanson said the utility bill for 1980-81 will be about
$255,000. He estimated from past records that the univer
sity could be billed $240,000 for its use of space and ser
vices by the administration, staff, and faculty.
Plans for installing meters for the first time in the
unions are in the designing stages but the money for the
project has been allocated, Swanson said.
The Deli, Swanson said, lost approximately $9,000
since its opening a year ago, but he added it "is being eval
uated. It is not a fast food operation, which concerns us."
APU asks foundation
o i,Thf JS!111115 five-yc,ar Pan recommends the addition of - manual personalized service durina the slow hours
a hard-dip ice cream line to the Deli. This would require Totaf food services fo? the : AJKi Ta7e op atine at
changing the present counter system at the Deli by adding a $92,000 loss, Swanson said operating at
SreVr2Sh?r S1"8 CUnter th3t WUld lndude ,ce v .7i!e 0nly way t0 break ven is with a Crib," he
KwrS . r a said. Renovation of the Crib received first priority iA the
Larry Brandt, executive food service manager, lairttB.; unions' five-year plan and should begin in the summer of
Deliisjhe type of operation that will meet the need tos? 1981, Swanson said 8 "
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thursday, february 7, 1980
lincoln, nebraska vol. 104, no. 19 . v
Photo by Mark Billingsley
John Strong
to return gold coins Law f acuity meets to back Strong
The African People's Union called Wednesday for the
NU Foundation to return the 1 ,300 South African gold
kruggerands it accepted from an NU alumnus.
"Either it was an absolute act of political ignorance
or it is an outrageous policy of aiding and abetting the
South African government doctrine of genocide against
black people," an APU statement said.
NU can not afford to be ignorant of the prevailing
conditions in Africa and President Carter's effort in send
ing Muhammad Ali to Africa to encourage black athletes
not to participate in the Summer Olympics is one indica
tion that the United States is becoming aware of the
oppressions in Africa, the release said.
Comparing the situation in Iran with that in Africa, the
APU said there is no crisis yet in Africa, but returning the
coins would be a symbolic step in averting one.
By Michelle Carr
Members of the UNL Law College faculty met last
week to pledge their support of John Strong, dean of the
aw college, and to encourage him to stay at UNL, accord,
ing to two law professors.
Strong was interviewed last weekend for the position
of dean of the Oregon Law School. Strong said he will
make an announcement Friday concerning his interview.
He would not comment on earlier reports that he would
have to make a decision about the job on Wednesday,
John Gradwohl, a UNL law professor, said the faculty
members gathered last Thursday to discuss the possibility
of Strong leaving. '
According to Gradwohl, the faculty met to "try to en
courage him to stay and to help him make the decision to
stay."
UNL Law Professor Stephen Kalish said the faculty
met because it had heard that Strong was considering the
job in Oregon.
Strong said he went to Oregon because he was invited,
He added that he had worked as professor and associate
dean of the University of Oregon law college for eight
years before coming to UNL.
' Continued on page 9
Religious groups unaware or unruffled by suit
By Mary Jo Pitzl
Two UNL sophomores said they intend to file a peti
tion today asking the ASUN Student Court to revoke the
charters of four student organizations that sponsored
Christian activist Josh McDowell's UNL visit last week.
Scott Pers.-on said he and his roommate, Randall Lam
brecht, hope to have their petition filed by today.
ASUN President Bud Cuca confirmed that Persson told
him the petition would charge the organizations with vio
lating the university's religion policy.
The policy forbids the use of university facilities for
any organized event featuring religious worship or testi
mony. Revocation of the groups' campus charters would
deny them recognition as student organizations and the
benefits of that status, Cuca said.
Members of the four organizations to be named in the
petition seemed to be either unaware of or unruffled by
the pending petition.
Groups unaware
Kirk Conger, a member of Campus Crusade for Christ
and coordinator of McDowell's Lincoln visit, said "the
only thing I know Is what I read in the paper."
He said that he and members of the Baptist Student
Union, Campus Crusade, Inter-varsity Christian Fellow
ship and the Navigators-UNL have not met officially to
discuss what the groups would do if petitioned.
Sue Ewert, Inter-varsity president, said that organiza
tion has taken a "wait-and-see" attitude. If a petition Is
filed, the plaintiffs won't get far because the religion pol
icy is too vague, she added.
"We'd like to see the rules clarified so we can know
how far we can go and can't go," she said.
Brett Yohn, staff director of the Baptist Student
Union, said no university official has contacted the four
groups. .
Yohn added the would-be plaintiffs would have a dif
ficult time substantiating their charge in Student Court.
Philosophy, too
There is a difference between church and state and
church and religious thought," Yohn said. If a lecturer is
prevented from giving his view of life, Yohn said, that
would eliminate philosophy and social science professors
as well as religious lecturers.
Yohn said that three years ago the Baptist group con
sulted an attorney to determine the feasibility or over
turning the university's religion policy,
The attorney told the group it would need $10,000 to
sue the university and have the policy changed, since the
case might have to be carried all the way to the U.S.
Supreme Court, Yohn said.
"I'm sure that if they kicked us off, we'd have no prob
lem raising $10,000," he said, referring to ramifications of
having the groups' student charters revoked. He estimated
there are about 400 students in the Christian groups.
The general stance of the Christian groups is that we
want to cooperate with the university," Yohn said. "We
don't want to fight a rule that we can get around."
He said the campus Christian groups have been "getting
around" the policy for several years by not advertising
any sort of religious event and not talking to people about
Christ unless they talked first.
Joe Eisenberg, a former UNL student who filed a peti
tion with the Student Court five years ago after
McDowell's last visit, said he will be advising Persson if the
need arises.
"I want to prepare him for the consequences," Eisen
berg said. He met with strong opposition after filing his
petition five years ago, he added.
Manning the phones: University officials responded to
3uestions from viewers in a television program Wednes
ay evening Pa-e 6
Up against the wall: UPC art displays will hang in "the
Nebraska Union until the end of the semester , . , Pa-e 8
Love that crowd: Husker gymnastic coaches said the team
deserves the fans p4e 10
