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Wednesday, december 9, 1981
lincoln, nebraska vol. 107 no. 71
Copyright Daily IMebraskan 1981
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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By Mclimln Norris
Amid choruses of "Nail Varsity" blaring from the
steps of Memorial Stadium, Kick Mocklcr, ASUN Senate
president and student regent, presented a personal check
to UNL band member Byron Braascli Tuesday to help
cover the band's expenses for the Orange Howl trip.
The $460 check is a deduction from the funds Mockler
receives as a member of the administrative party flying to
Miami. Each person in the administrative party was
allotted an average $2,129 of the $591,575 presented to
UNL by the Orange Bowl Committee for expenses
incurred on the trip to Miami.
Mockler reduced his administrative food and incidental
expenses of $50 a day to $15 per day, equal to the band's
daily allowance, saving $210. Mocklcr said he also is cash
ing in his plane ticket and will carpool to Miami for a sav
ings of $250.
Mockler also has cancelled his $100 per night room re
servation at the Sheraton Bel Harbour Hotel, opting
instead for a room at Days Inn in downtown Miami for
$39 a night. Because hotel accommodations arc handled
by the administration, Mockler says he trusts them to
forward the $366 savings to the band.
The total savings of $826 will reduce Mocklcr's
expense budget to $424. This figure is $113 more than
was allotted for each band member by the UNL Business
and Finance Office.
Mocklcr's expense allotment of $1 ,250 is less than the
$2,189 per person average administration and regents
allotment. Mocklcr said he did not know why his allocat
ion is less, but he speculated that it is because the wives of
administrators will have their airfare paid for, although
regents' wives must pay their own way. lie said tickets for
shuttle buses and some planned events probably make up
some of the difference.
The administration's expenses allotment equal seven
times as much as the band's. Mocklcr said this "shows the
priorities of the administration and the regents."
Mocklcr encouraged the members of the administrative
party to turn over to the band an amount of their funds
they consider to be unnecessary.
"The difference (between a bus and plane trip) could
easily be made up by contributions by the regents and
administrators," he said.
Referring to an editorial in the Dec. 3 Daily Nebraskan,
Mocklcr said the difference between a plane and bus trip
is about $2,235.
The marching band is the "image" of the university,
Mocklcr said.
"It's the band that will perform the half-time enter
tainment," he said.
The band practices from 7:30 a.m. to 9 a jn. during the
week and 10:30 a.m. on game days, Mocklcr said.
The band also will need time to practice when they get
to Miami, he added.
"As a regent, I will be laying out on the beach and have
plenty of time to rest up after getting to Miami," he said.
"We wouldn't have gotten invited to the Orange Bowl
if it wasn't for the students," Mocklcr said.
"This is a prime example of the priorities of the univer
sity administration, and students must stick together on
this," Mockler said.
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jBanrf official, regents react
to Mockler 's bowl donation
ASUN Senate President Rick Mockler (left) presents
members Byron Braasch (center) and William Kellett
front of Memorial Stadium.
Daily Nebraskan Photo
a check for $460 to band
(right) Tuesday morning in
More tuition, unspent wages
finance added class sections
By Kim llnchiya
Reactions to ASUN Senate President
Rick Mocklcr's donation of a $400 check
to the UNL Marching Band wore varied
Tuesday afternoon.
Jack Snider, director of bands, said,
"This is a fantastic gesture on his (Mock
lcr's) part, lie can sec the discrepancy in
the funds. I appreciate his gesture it was
a brave and gallant thing to do."
Mockler suggested in his Tuesday press
conference that members of t lie NU Board
of Regents and UNL administrators donate
any excess funds they have to the band to
liejp defray air fare costs instead of the bus
trip to Miami.
"If all the administration people want
to do this, it would make up the differ
ence," Snider said. "But we're certainly
not suggesting that they do this."
Mockler said his contribution to the
band isn't intended to be charity, but an
attempt to reallocate what he said he con
siders to be an unfair allotment for groups
within the university.
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By Ward W. Triplett III
Students who didn't receive some of the
classes they requested during pre-registrat-ion
still may get them, the interim vice
chancellor for academic affairs said.
John VV. Strong said some classes, such
as English 150, Speech 109, and Advertising
217 all of which had a large number of
applicants but few sections - will have
additional sections by January to accom
modate the overflow.
"We recognize that doing things at the
eleventh hour is an inconvenience to the
students, and we regret that," Strong said,
"but we've had to go through a very diff
icult transition period, and we appreciate
eve ry one's toleration."
The 3 percent budget reduction has pre
vented hiring teachers for some departments.
However, Strong said it would have
been "cutting our own throats" to not
open more sections.
"We felt that if we did not staff these
classes, we would lose students, thus losing
fee money and tuition revenue," he said.
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nbudgeted income from excess tuition -
money that wasn't budgeted last year -and
savings from positions that have been
vacant for parts of the year will pay the
salary of the additional teachers.
Strong said adding a section costs an est
imated $1,500 to $6,000.
The Departments of Chemistry, English,
Modern Languages and Literatures and
Teachers College classes may add sections.
The list of sections to be added is not
complete yet. Strong said.
When all of the possible sections are ad
ded, he said, course availability will not dif
fer dramatically from last years' offering.
About 5.000 students over the entire
campus didn't receive classes they request
ed, he said. Some departments turned a
way many students, while others were able
to place most of the students registering in
that department.
Engineering Dean Stan Liberty said the
budget deduction for his department was
small and no classes were cut.
"Everything listed in our pre-semester
course offering will be taught in the
spring," he said.
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hotel rebate) is not by itself going to be
able to fly the band down," Mockler said.
"But if regents and administration as a
whole prioritizes them as being more
important we certainly could fly the band
down.
"The reason is not because we can't
afford to fly, it's because administration
had relegated the band to the lowest
priority for this trip."
"Not too late"
Mockler said he had heard some people
say it is too late to change any of the
situation.
"We keep hearing that we should have
taken action earlier. We tried and we would
have loved to have participated in the
decisions. But they were made behind
closed doors. Only now can we attempt to
rectify the situation," Mockler said. "It's
not too late. That argument is a real old
one."
Regent Ed Schwartzkopf of Lincoln
said he hadn't seen MockJer's figures, but
he called the donation a fine gesture.
But he added, "If Rick is really concern
ed for the university, he should, in all good
faith, make a good and honest effort to
contribute to the university and help allevi
ate the 3 percent budget cut.
"This is a fine gesture. Many of us have
given to the NU Foundation but we
haven't called a great big press conference
to announce it."
Schwartzkopf said that if Mockler is
sincere in his efforts to help the band, he
should organize a fundraiser for the band.
"Why doesn't he go out and organize
things to eliminate this? This is the first
year the band could go without a fund
raiser. If Rick wants to do something, he
should have a fundraiser go to the
foundation and say he wants to head up
this kind of drive so this never happens
again ," Schwartzkopf said .
Limited fundraising efforts
Snider said the band has never raised
any funds for bowl trips except for the
1975 trip to the Fiesta Bowl in Arizona.
Private donations have helped defray band
expenses in other years, but no organized
fundraising efforts have been started
except that year.
Schwartzkopf said the trip to Miami
isn't all "fun and names." lie said regents
and administrators will have a chance to
talk with other Big Eight and Atlantic
Coast Conference administrators about
problems UNL shares with other schools.
But Mocklcr said any business conduct
ed in Miami could be conducted in
Lincoln, at less expense.
"As a regent, I have not been informed
about any business to be conducted at the
Orange Bowl," Mockler said. "Certainly
I'll have an opportunity to meet with other
officials, but I don't feel that justifies the
tremendous expense allotments and hotel
accommodations."
Schwartzkopf said, "If I were to do that
(make a donation) I wouldn't do a big
press conference to announce it. You
know, I played in the Rose Bowl as a start
ing guard so I enabled the band to go. You
just don't go around tooting your own
horn. People will know you are contribut
ing without telling them."
Mockler said the regents have missed the
point of the statement he and band
members are trying to make.
"The point is that students are not a
priority for them but they should be,"
Nlockler said. "Students are the very reason
they (regents and administrators) are here.
They wouldn't have jobs, wouldn't be
elected and they certainly wouldn't be
going to the Orange Bowl without them."
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Wednesday
Who Will Lead Us? Faculty Senate changes
guidelines for selection of admini
strators Page 9
Road Test: A review of the latest effort
from The Cars Page 12
A Repeat of History: The 1981 Husker
football team finds itself in about the
same position for a national champion
ship as the 1970 team did before the
Orange Bowl Page 16