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thursday, august 27, 1981
lincoln, nebraska vol. 107 no. 5
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Professional schools fill despite tuition increase
By Mary Louise Knapp
In spite of increased tuition rates, graduate and pro
fessional colleges at UNL are receiving more applications
than they can accept, officials say.
The NU Board of Regents voted this summer to re-,
quest a 15 percent tuition increase for medical, dental,
and other professional schools and a 10 percent increase
for graduate students, plus $2 more for each graduate
hour taken.
The regents also requested a 10 percent tuition in
crease for undergraduates.
Bob Lovitt, assistant vice chancellor for business and
finance, said the tuition increase was necessary because
the cost of instruction for professional and graduate stu
dents is higher than for undergraduates.
Lovitt said graduate students are usually taught by
senior faculty members who receive higher salaries than
other faculty members. Equipment costs for students in
fields such as dentistry and medicine are also extremely
high, he said.
Henry Cherrick, dean of the College of Dentistry, said
the higher tuition rates have not affected enrollment at
all.
Foul study results
mistreated-official
By Tom Shelton
CaDing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's
report a "desk-top audit," Jerry Hood, chief of water and
waste management of the state department of environ
mental control, said the declaration of Lincoln as a pol
lution "hot spot. Jias been "mistreated and misinter
preted. An EPA official said he stressed that the studies are
highly preliminary. Bill Landis, public information speci
alist at the EPAs regional office in Kansas City, said the
studies may be expanded through actual monitoring of
streams by EPA technicians.
Hoed said the National Resources Defense Council
misinterpreted the EPA's reports and leaked them to the
press. He said the NRDC made the reports sound more
serious than they really were.
"The EPA never intended to say the ,34 cities in their
survey were the most contaminated areas in the country,'
Hood said.
"They (NRDC) took the list and made their own inter
pretations about what they meant, Hood said. He said
the reports were given more credence than they merited
because of their speculative nature.
The EPA's nationwide survey was based on projections,
not actual monitoring of streams.
"They (EPA) should put people in the field and take
samples," Hood said.
Hood said the industries of the entire state have tried
to comply with the EPA's disposal recommendations.
'They have gone far beyond the requirements of the
EPA, realizing the EPA may place more stringent rules
on discharge in streams," he said.
Hood indicated that the EPA may change its advice on
industrial disposal as more data is collected about the
damaging potential of various wastes.
Ron Maulsby, public information director for Lincoln's
Goodyear Plant, said his company clings to its claim that
the EPA's study was highly speculative, and that Good
year has complied with the EPA's demands that waste be
disposed by using the best technology available.
Landis said the EPA's nationwide hunt for pollution
seed beds was prompted by pressure from environmental
groups.
"The environmental groups felt we weren't doing our
job, and they wanted us to be more expedient " he said.
Landis said the significance of the EPA's studies cannot
be fully assessed until those further studies are done.
"Keep in mind this, is very preliminary " he said.
4Were not saying yes you do (have pollution), we're
saying it is possible because of industries around the
streams.
The EPA's official statement reaffirmed the fact that
its surveys were compiled "not by water samples but
rather by paper and pencil calculations on toxic pollutants
that may be present based upon the rate of discharge of
toxic pollutants by industries into streams."
Ann Grosuch, EPA administrator, recently sent a letter
to Gov. Thone which apologized for any misinterpreta
tions resulting from the EPA's study. Hood, who has a
copy of the letter, said he would not disclose any further
details of its contents until a later date.
"In fact, we have many more students than we can
accept," he said.
Cherrick said fees for the dental college are about the
same as the national average. Students will pay a flat fee
of $949 per semester this year. Non-residents pay $2,098
per semester. '
The dental college is filled to capacity with an enrol
lment of 66 students this semester, he said.
Chancellor Neal Vanselow of the College of Medicine
said the number of applications to the college has far ex
ceeded the number of places for students.
"The students have known that due to the univer
sity's Five-Year Plan, tuition would increase," he said.
Vanselow said the usual tuition increase for state-supported
public schools this year is 13 percent, and the in
crease for private schools is 15 percent.
"The reason that our tuition increase is a little higher
than most public schools is that our tuition has been
lower for quite some time," Vanselow said.
Because of the new economic policies of the Reagan
administration, the medical college will lose large amounts
of federal funds, thus making tuition increases necessary,
Vanselow added.
Russell Nelson, associate dean of graduate studies, said
he has received no complaints from graduate students
about the tuition increase.
"There is no slowdown in coming (of graduate stu
dents)," he said. Although registration of graduate stu
dents will not officially end until Friday, Nelson said that
the number of student applications received is already
more than anticipated.
More than 10,000 applications have been received so
far, he said.
Nelson said a graduate advisory council consisting of
faculty and graduate students has recommended the
regents study the proposed increase further.
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Professors: Competition still prevails
even though antitrust policy is lenient
By Laura Garrison
A UNL assistant professor of law says President
Reagan's antitrust policy can be predicted from state
ments he has made and from the support Big Business has
given him.
Robert Heidt, who was a lawyer for the Department of
Justice's antitrust division in San Francisco before coming
to Lincoln, said Reagan is one of the most lenient presi
dents since the 1930s in his antitrust policies.
Antitrust policy describes a set of laws the federal and
state governments use to ensure competition among busi
nesses. Citing the recent merger of Conoco and Du Pont,
Heidt said antitrust laws have relaxed enough to allow big
companies to buy small businesses. Because of the relaxa
tion, a merging trend is possible.
The easing of antitrust policy resulting from ideas sup
ported by Reagan's advisors and a substantial number of
economists and lawyers who do not care whether small
businesses survive and believe large companies often ope
rate more efficiently than small businesses.
Small companies who bought oil from Conoco feared
Du Pont would be the preferred customer after the mer
ger. The merger threatened to foreclose possible custo
mers and suppliers of Conoco, he said.
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"If there would be many mergers like Du Pont and
Conoco, small businesses would find themselves compet
ing more with Big Business and they would be at the dis
advantage " Heidt said,
Heidt explained that big businesses can do better in a
wave of mergers than small ones because loans can be
borrowed more easily and cheaply. Large businesses can
advertise more cheaply, and are not as likely as small
businesses to close during temporary recessions.
J. Clay Singleton, UNL assistant professor of finance,
said that although Reagan is more favorable towards
mergers than previous administrations, the antitrust laws
still are strict and strong enough to prevent excessive
merging.
Singleton said past administrations have theorized that
bigness in business is bad. Reagan and his advisors are say
ing that's not necessarily so.
Both professors agreed that future mergers will not
affect the consumer in prices he pays for goods, and said
that despite business mergers, competition still prevails.
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