daily nebraskan
thursday, february 71980
page 6
Roskens : UNL's tuition will go up with inflation
By Rich Jurgens
Student tuition will continue to increase
as long as inflation does, UNL President
Ronald Roskens said Wednesday night.
In a Nebraska ETV network broadcast,
"University, on Call," Roskens said the NU
Board of Regents is planning a 10 percent
tuition increase for undergraduate educa
tion, a 25 percent tuition increase fo; med
ic'al and dental students and a 20 percent
increase for pharmacy students.
UNL Chancellor Roy Young said in
order to meet the guiding principles of any
university, tuition would have to meet the
cost of inflation.
With the 15 percent increase in tax
revenues, Roskens said the university
would be able to give a salary increase of
10 percent at all levels, and a 10 percent
increase in operations for goods and ser
vices. He added that with the increase,
utilities at UNL could be paid, new build
ings could be opened, and there would still
be money left to alleviate some of the
problems of overcrowded UNL colleges
like the colleges of business administration,
engineering, agriculture and home econom
ics. He said a less than 10 percent hike
would have to result in a reduction of staff.
Dealing with the question of faculty
teaching more and doing less research,
Young said that some classes now are too
large and some classes can only be taught
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with a small number of students, and that
there cannot be any Ph.D programs with-
out research. . . ,
Roskens said the public has expressed
that the faculty could do more teaching.
"Our faculty, generally by and large, is
a faculty that is wholly committed. They
are not looking for easy routes or light
loads," he said.
Roskens said it would be possible to
have a university without research, but
then the state would not have the benefit
of research productivity.
UNO Medical Center Chancellor Neal
Vanselow said a university's purpose is to
create knowledge through research, not
merely to disemminate already . known
knowledge.
Del Weber, UNO chancellor, said a
university is still the vehicle where most
research is done,
Roskens also said he thought it was jus
tifiable that the NU Board of Regents and
other high administVative officials got their
' transportation and lodging paid for for this
year's Cotton Bowl trip. He added that the
money came from the athletic budget not
tax money.
Roskens was asked why money was
budgeted for the NU president to have a
maid in his home. He said much entertain
ing must be done, and it should not be a
job expected for a spouse'.
Oil executive says industry
at mercy of foreign trade
By Rose Fitzpatrick
If oil companies produce oil for society,
the government is obliged to take it off the
companies' hands, a retired Mobil Oil
Company executive said Tuesday.
However, Paul Stefanik said, he thinks
nationalization of the oil companies would
be a mistake. .
Stefanik, who spoke Monday at UNL's
Business Week, said Tuesday, that the fail
ure of nationalized chemical companies in
Italy is an example.-
When they were nationalized, the com
panies were pressurized to raise salaries as a
social responsibility, regardless of whether
they received good service.
"They (the companies) operate not to
generate economic profits but to provide
social benefit. That's the function of
government."
Stefanik said that state-owned enter
prises are not the best economic value for
society.
But he said that "it doesn't matter who
the plant belongs to." ,
Stefanik said the oil industry makes no
profits from normal operations and has to
borrow money for six months each year.
If the oil business had the money, it
could have been working on making syn
thetic oil from shale, he said.
If there is one answer (to the energy
problem) it is solar, he said, but we "can't
risk our national security by putting all our
eggs in one basket."
Stefanik is also on the Global Economic
Justice board of the Lutheran church.
' "It involves our usage of our material
goods and the use of our talents to help
our neighbors help themselves," he said.
"Our ministry is to help them by show
ing them how to become a more produc
tive society,"
, Stefanik said the developing nations
want U.S. technology and would not find
alternate technologies desirable. However,
developing nations do not want the U.S. to
make choices for other nations, he said.
He said that the oil companies benefit
from purchasing oil from nations without
the technology to develop it themselves,
but he admitted that in a few years these
countries might wish they had kept the oil
for themselves.
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