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lincoln, nebraska vol. 107 no. 45
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The chamber of the Nebraska Legislature may be this busy again by Thursday if Gov. Charles Thone announces a
special legislative session in a press conference this morning.
NU official said to be leaving state
By Roger Aden
Steve Sample, NU executive vice president of academic
affairs reportedly is leaving Nebraska to become president
of the State University of New York at Buffalo.
Marty Rosen, campus editor of the universitys news
paper, the Spectrum, said Sample's appointment will be
announced Wednesday at a meeting of the University
Council.
The University Council is a group consisting of
prominent individuals from the Buffalo community who
have an interest in the university, Rosen said. The council
must answer to the state university system's board of
trustees.
Rosen said the chancellor of the state university
system, Clifton Wharton, must approve the choice before
the board of trustees approves the appointment. Rosen
said Wharton has endorsed the selection of Sample.
One withdrew
Rosen said it was rumored that the list of candidates
was narrowed to two, when one of the candidates with
drew his name from consideration because the salary was
not enough ($64,000 a year).
Sample refused to comment on the matter, but Jim
Raglin, NU director of Public Affairs, said Sample is a
candidate for the post being vacated in January by Robert
Ketter.
Rosen said it has not been mentioned if Sample will
take the post in January or for the 1982-83 academic
year.
Ketter is returning to teaching after serving 10 years as
president, Rosen said. She said the university traditionally
has been a liberal arts school and some people felt Ketter
was allowing that tradition to go downhill.
In addition, Rosen said the state university system in
New York is having serious financial problems because of
budget cutbacks, and Ketter has been accused of not
being effective in dealing with New York Gov. Hugh
Carey on the issue.
Incomplete buildings
Working with Carey on budget cutbacks will be one of
Sample's main concerns, Rosen said. She said 10 new
buildings were scheduled to be constructed on the campus
by the late 1970s, but funding cuts have delayed
scheduled completion of all 10 buildings until 1990.
Rosen said Sample will be judged by the students on
his ability to find space for the 39 student groups that will
be displaced from the student union when it becomes a
dental facility.
Sample has applied for several university president
positions in past years and has been a finalist for two of
those positions - at the University of Oklahoma and at
Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.
In addition, Sample was a candidate for the president's
post at Colorado State University and Auburn University,
before withdrawing his name from consideration.
Rosen said the Buffalo university is one of 27 schools
in the state university system and has 27,000 graduate
and undergraduate students.
Rec center gains from football, cards
By WardW.Triplett III
The proposed UNL Recreation Center is getting an
added boost from the efforts of a fraternity and a resi
dence hall floor.
Schramm 4 is sponsoring a non-stop card-a-thon. Dan
Berlin, student assistant and organizer, said he hopes it
will generate at least $500 to donate to the proposed cen
ter. "We Jiave a guy on our floor who is on the Rec Board,
and he said that lack of student support would kill the
rec center," Berlin said.
"We thought it would be a good idea to donate the
money we got from this year's card-a-thon back into
something students could later use. It also should show
that students are still behind the center."
It is the second card-a-thon the floor has sponsored in
as many years. Last year, more than 40 players alternated
shifts for 108 hours, and earned nearly $300 for the Ne
braska Center for Youths and Children. This year, at
least 30 of the floor's 61 men are playing Spades, Hearts,
Pitch and other games in a tent next to the Smith Hall
tennis courts. The first four started at 6 pjn. Sunday
night, and if things go according to plan, the last four
should call finish at 6 p on. Friday.
Governor may call
legislative session
By Kim Hachiya and Steve Miller
Gov. Charles Thone is to announce today at a 10 ajn.
press conference his decision whether or not to call a
special session of the Nebraska Legislature, his assistant
said.
Jack Hart said, "I really don't know one way or
another. He will make his opinion known at that time."
Thone was unavailable for comment Monday afternoon.
Diane Snapp, an assistant to Hart, said her office had
not been advised whether the session would occur.
"According to the front page of the paper (the Monday
Lincoln Journal) we are, but we haven't heard one way or
another. We have been advised to say his decision will be
made known at that time," Snapp said.
Thone promised the Legislature at the end of last
session that he would not raise taxes to cover expenses
budgeted for by last session's legislature, and that he
would call a special session if and when appropriations
exceeded revenues.
Tax revenues are expected to be at least $30 million
short of the $733 million budget appropriated last session.
About $12 million of the projected shortage comes from
federal budget cuts. Thone said in May that he would not
call a special session if shortages came from federal budget
cuts alone, but only if state generated revenues fall short
of the budget goal.
Could begin Thursday
Sources at the Capitol said if the session is called it
could begin as. early as Thursday or Friday.
Lincoln Sen. Steve Fowler said Monday it was rumored
that Thone would announce that he will call a special
session of the legislature.
Fowler said he hoped Thone would have a definite plan
of action if he is planning to call a special session.
"Hopefully he will announce whether he has a plan to
morrow too," Fowler said. "I certainly hope he doesn't
convene us without a plan.
He said Thone has rejected the idea of raising taxes and
expects some sort of budget cutting.
"I hope he has a specific plan before he does any
cutting," Fowler said.
"There are always things that can be delayed or
deferred but then again we're working on a very tight
budget. I'm not sure if there is much to cut without
getting hurt."
DeCamp predicts session
Sen. John DeCamp, Neligh, said he had heard that the
governor would announce that the session will be called.
When asked if any amount of the budget could be cut
easily DeCamp said, "It's not going to be easy. What is
one person's idea of easy is not necessarily someone else's
idea of easy.
"We're going to need 33 votes to make a decision and
getting 33 people to decide to go to lunch when they are
starving is not easy."
DeCamp proposed legislation in May that would have
provided a 2.5 percent across the board cut in appropriat
ions. The bill was rejected.
He said another approach would be to trim excess
amounts off specific areas.
"That approach is going to have problems," DeCamp
said. "When one guy has to deal with cuts and sees other
guys that aren't getting cuts he's going to be asking
why?'
"That is why I suggested last May that everybody go
the same way. I predicted then that we would be having
problems and meeting in order to consider this very thing
(budget cuts)."
DeCamp said raising taxes could alro be a possibility.
Patrick O'Donnell, clerk of the Legislature said there
have been only two special sessions called sirfce the
Legislature went to annual sessions in 1971.
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"That would be a university record, according to the
residence hall and recreation people I've talked to," Ber- ii-
lin said. The Man in the Media: Several professors discuss the rela-
"It might even be a Big Eight record as well. I plan to tionshiP of Rev- Jerrv FalweU t0 the nation's press
get on a Watts line and call the other seven schools to veri- FaSe 6
tiat Rockabilly Rebel: Joe Ely defies categorization with his'
Earlier this month, Sigma Alpha Epsilon donated the ique brand of country-oriented music ..... Page 8
proceeds from its flag football tournament to the Recrea- xt u t, r k n n u t n
tion Center idea as well. That amount was $350. Name of the Game: Nebraska football Coach Tom Os-
mm borne said defense spelled success for the Iluskers in
Continued on Page 7 their 60 win against Missouri Saturday Page 10