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Photo by Mark Billingsley
Dave Frye, member of Phi Delta Gamma fraternity, takes his turn sitting at the
top of a pole in front of his fraternity house. The pole-sitting scheme is an
attempt to raise money for the Nebraska Human Resources Center.
Court:
establish a
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SUN can
ate body
By Mary Louise Knapp
The ASUN Student Court Tuesday
handed down a declaratory judgment stat
ing that it does not have the power to es-
tablish an appellate body, and therefore
cannot hear the appeals of four religious
student groups the court placed on proba
tion last month.
According to Chief Justice Scott Cook,
the only body that may act to create, or
ganize and empower an appellate body is
ASUN.
"The groups will have to go to the legis
lative branch (of student government),"
Cook said.
The court had ruled that Christian lec
turer Josh McDowell's campus speech Jan.
30 violated the NU Board of Regent's reli
gion policy.
Tlu four groups that sponsored
McDowell's appearance at UNL-Campus
Crusade for Christ, Baptist Student Union,
Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship and
Navigators-UNL-were placed on organiza
tional probation for one year. N
Lynn Rogers, a member-of Navigators-
UNL, said he was not surprised at the
student court's judgment.
"This is basically what we had said all
along, he said. "There is no appeals pro
cess set up.
Rogers said students were able to appeal
cases to the Council on Student life before
this slimmer. But CSL was abolished, and
the regents "let the appeals process die
also, Rogers said.
Rogers said he is not sure the ASUN
Senate can create an appellate body.
"Any appellate body would have to be
approved by the regents, and we don't
know whether they would approve it, he
said.
Rogers said that the lack of an appellate
body is just another right that is being
taken away from the students, and that
they should be aware of this.
Navigators-UNL has been working with
attorneys and the regents to try to change
policy on appellate bodies.
"1 think we have a strong case, he said.
"We have talked to people all over the state
and throughout the nation who are also
concerned with students rights.'
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NU foiiiget bill passes
overnor's OK pending
LB999fc which contains the NU operat
ing budget, cleared the last legislative
hurdle Tuesday and was sent to the gover
nor for approval with a vote of 43-2.
LB999 would appropriate $1313
million to NU. The university requested
$1335 million in state support and Gov.
Charles Thone recommended that $125S
million be approved for fiscal year 1980
81. The bill, which passed without debate,
would give $2.1 million to the NU Central
Administration; $483 million to UNL City
Campus; $212 million to the Institute of
Agriculture and Natural Resources;
$655,000 to the Bob Devaney Sports Cen
ter; $19.6 million to UNO and $38 million
to the NU Medical Center.
The Legislature decided to appropriate
$27,814 to study the merits of creating a
veterinary college compared to those of
giving Nebraska residents state support to
attend out of state schools.
The total university appropriation rep
resents a 1257 percent increase over last
year.
The appropriation for last year was
$1155 million. Included in another
appropriations bill this year was $483,000
that would be added to this year's budget
base to cover utility deficits. When this
amount is subtracted from the appropria
tion, general fund support would increase
only 1 1 percent.
Total operations and state aid to the
university would be $1985 million, up
11 percent from this year's budget. This
figure includes all sources of revenue ex
cept restricted federal funds.
Three regent candidates
agree on budget revision
By Patti Gallagher
Editor's note: This is the first in a series
on candidates for the NU Board of
Regents.
vie Three" former UNL students-now .two
lawyers anda rancher's wife-who are vy
ing for a seat on the NU Board of Regents, -agree
that the university's budget needs re
visions and that faculty salaries should re
ceive some of the excess from these
revisions.
According to Donn Raymond of Gering,
"Their (faculty) pay is of the top priority .
"You can have all the buildings you
want," he said, "but if you don't have the
professors they are to no avail."
Raymond, 49, who practices law in
ScottsbluiT, says he has been vitally
interested in the university since earning
his two UNL degrees: a bachelor's degree
in 1955 and a juris doctor degree in 1958.
"1 strongly feel that the University of
Nebraska is the heartbeat of the state,"
Raymond said.
Raymond said the coming years are
going to be "trying times' for the Regents
because of double digit inflation. Inflation
and taxes necessitate cuts from the NU
budget, he said.
Raymond said he thinks Gov. Charles
Thbne's voluntary 7 percent limit on state
-spending should be applied to the univer
sity budget.
He called deficient faculty salaries a
serious problem and said that a 7 or 8 per
cent spending lid may have to be allocated
to salaries alone.
Raymond said that recent distress in
faculty .regent relations is a result of
salaries. He said he thought the faculty had--the
right to form a collective bargaining
group. Discussion of UNL faculty joining
the American Association of University
Iftofessors began last fall.
Raymond said that he is against im
posing entrance exams on incoming
students. The role of the three non
voting student regents should remain
the same, he said, adding that he is open
to discussion.
Regent candidate Judy Imig disagrees'
about the role of student regents. Three of
the 43,-year-old mother's five children
are enrolled at UNL. Because the student
regents do not vote, she said, "students
don't carry much weight with the regents.
Imig said shed like to see each of the
student regents get a vote, but she said trie
first step might be to give them one collec
tive vote.
Imig attended UNL in 1954 and is now
involved with her husband in a famiiy
ranching business 17 miles north of Thed
ford. The 32-county District Six is nearly
half of the state, she said, but because the
district is primarily in the panhandle, tax
payers there feel quite far removed from
the university.
Imig said the most important issues are
, open vs. closed university admissions (she
advocates open), budget problems and the
central administration.
It seems that at the central administra
tion level, it is top heavy," she said. Imig
said she would support cutting some
positions, therefore being able to increase
faculty salaries.
A third regent candidate, Harold Kay of
North Platte, agrees that faculty salaries are
not sufficient.
"A real effort should be made to get the
best faculty- possible-ta get the best
education possible, Kay said.
He said that some segments of the uni
versity budget might be spread a little bit
too thin. By beefing up successful pro
- grams, she said, faculty would be attracted
and could be paid more.
Kay said that he does not oppose efforts
by the faculty to form a bargaining faction
because "yu can just deal, with one pro
fessor. "I figure if they want to be represented
by someone that's their business," he said.
Kay, 53, is a 1952 graduate of the NU
Iaw School, He practiced law in Omaha
from 1952 to 54, and has been a lawyer
in North Platte since then.
Kay has v served on numerous school
boards and committees, including the NU
President's Advisory Council, the NU
Foundation, and the North Platte Board of
Education, He also ran for a position on
the Board of Regents six years ago, he said,
losing to current regent Robert Raun by
four votes.
"With the experience 1 have had in
education I think that I can have a better
communication with the university, includ
ing students and faculty, than we. have
right now," he said, s
Kay said he would like to see the
regents monthly meetings be conducted
across the state to improve communi.
cation. He also suggested that UNLs
Student Union would be a good site for
regents meetings to gain better student
regent relations, r v
Kay said that the student regents are a
bridge between the students and the
regents." Because of student regents
one-year terms and because they are not
elected and do not represent a large area,
Kay said they should not be voting mem
bers of the board,
n issue of importance for the future is
the central administration, Kay said. He
agreed that the administration system
needs a more scrutinizine evaluation.