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cuts, with the rest of the decrease taking into effect the
amount of underwriting money unavailable because of
grant cuts.
Bowlin is not the only person on campus concerned
about Reagan's proposed budget cuts.
"With really drastic cuts, the Sheldon Film Theatre
won't exist," said Dan Ladely, Sheldon Film Theatre
director.
"The idea that the private sector will pick up the
extra tab is all hogwash," Ladely said.
Hardest hit, Ladely said, will be newer film pro
jects and rural film projects.
Ladely said he was amazed when he first saw the
National Endowment for the Arts film budget, which
allocates two-thirds of its money to New York and
California.
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Large companies give a lot of money to film projects,
Ladely said, but tend to give their money soley to big
national programs, "which is just like advertising."
"The big programs get the lion's share of the money,"
Ladely said, "while the rural people will get hurt the
worst."
The arts have a tradition of being only for the rich,
Ladely said, but recent developments, such as the Out
reach Arts Program, have brought valuable projects to
the poor.
Ladely estimated that one-third of the Sheldon Film
Theatre Budget comes from grants.
Sheldon presently is understaffed and has to rely on
student work-study help, Ladely said.
To offset a situation Ladely describes as "not looking
very good," Ladely said he will have to adopt additional
fund raising measures.
Ladely said he is raising admission prices in May,
putting more emphasis on popular films and declaring
May a fundraising month, during which there will be
a membership drive toward the formation of a new
"Friends of Sheldon Film Theatre" group.
Ladely said that showing older, traditonally popular
films always brings in large crowds, but he lamented the
fact that "people don't support 'unknown' work."
Seeing a new filmmaker, Ladely said, was bet t or ihan
seeing a Marx brothers movie over and over again, "but
we have to compromise."
Part of the Sheldon Film Theatre's budget involves
bringing films to rural areas through a program called
"The Traveling Motion Picture Show."
The Nebraska Arts Council, he said, has done a superb
job of bringing arts to people in rural areas.
When asked what would happen if rural areas were
cut off from the arts, Ladely repliedThey'll have to
move back into the dark ages."
Both Ladely and Bowlin arc optimistic that Reagun
might not get the amount of cuts he has asked for.
The last 15 years, Bowlin said, have been a boom
period for the arts.
"Developing arts organizations is a slow process," he
said. "It would be a great tragedy for all of that growth
work to be lost.
"The arts are too fragile to bounce back from a 50
percent cut. It's not as if there are large amounts of
money out there for the asking."
And when asked if the present inflation does justify
a cutback in "frills" such as arts endowments, Bowlin
replied, "In times like this you need the arts more than
any other time."
Conference helps counselors
prepare students for university
Representatives from more than 200 high schools
and community colleges took part in the annual Prin
cipalFreshman conference Thursday on the UNL
campus.
The main purpose of the conference was to discuss
transition problems students may have when entering
the university.
Counselors and principals met in individual confer
ences with former students after attending several work
shops at the university earlier in the day.
"My one concern from today is that most of our
students were lacking in knowledge about what to ex
pect down here," said Janet Wilke, a counselor at Omaha
North High School.
"I think we have a big job on our hands to inform our
current students about the university," she said.
University freshmen also were asked to fill out a quest
ionnaire on how well they were prepared for college.
The most common complaints students voiced in the
workshops were lack of challenging classes, lack of indi
vidualized work, and lack of preparation for the college
workload.
"This reinforces what we have been telling students
Organic farming to be topic
Robert Papendick, a research leader with the United
States Department of Agriculture will present a free
public lecture on organic farming in the United States
at 8:15 pjn., Friday in Olin Auditorium B on the Ne
braska Wesleyan Campus.
The author or co-author of over 90 technical and semi
popular articles and seven book chapters, Papendick
will speak on "Organic Farming: New Perspectives for
Conservation and Production in Agriculture."
Prior to making his evening presentation, Papendick
will deliver a lecture on tillage systems to UNL students
and faculty.
all along," said Darrell Bonar, Hastings High School
counselor.
"The students here say to tell the juniors of this year
to take the hardest English courses, science courses
and as many of these as possible to prepare for college.
"At the time, they wanted it kind of easy, and passed
the hard classes up. They say now that they wish they
had taken up some of those," he said.
Bonar added that he had picked up some good ideas
to take back to Hastings.
Bernice Littlejohn of Omaha Northwest High School
said her school will attempt to set up a day when current
university students can talk to high school juniors about
how to make transition easier.
"It's too late to talk to the seniors, since they've al
ready planned their schedules," Littlejohn said. "But
the college students can give the juniors an idea about
what classes would be best to take."
Wilke, a first year counselor, said she was anxious to
get back to North and start working with the college
bound students there.
"I found out a lot of problems students have here,"
she said. "I think it has helped me get a better view
of what I should be doing for our students now."
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A Symposium On
Chicano Folklore
Featuring Dr. Ruben Cobos
"The Man & The Legend"
Speaking on Chicano
Folklore & Chicano Humor
Wednesday, April 8, 1981
9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Nebraska Union
City Campus UNL
Room will be posted.
Free admission
Sponsored by:
UNL Chicano Graduate Student
Association
UNL Institute of Ethnic Studies
Financial Sponsors:
UNL Affirmative Action Office
UNL Convocational Committee
