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4 1 I Tuesday, November 16, 1982 University of Nebraska-Lincoln Vol. 82, No. 63 1' -5 it- : 1i - iff : I' 9 a. Ft -- , 0 ' H&" Regents will meet to decide where to cut $3.5 million Staff Photo by Craig Andresen Members of Delta Delta Delta sorority and Alpha Gamma Rho fraternity are spon soring a "bury the Sooners" campaign before the upcoming Nebraska-Oklahoma football game. The Greek houses are collecting aluminum cans next to a covered wagon near Broyhill Fountain. Staffing the area Monday afternoon were, from left, Cathie Beller, a sophomore business administration major; Tori Dinkelman, a sophomore business major; Kevin Himmelbert, a freshman agricultural economics major; and Todd Bridgman, a freshman animal science major. By Pat Higgins The NU Board of Regents will meet this weekend to determine how to cut S3. 5 million out of NU's budget as a result of the Nebraska Legislature's special session. Regents contacted Monday said plans are not definite as to where the cuts will be made. Recommendations from the administration will be used by the regents to provide direction. NU faces a reduction of $2.94 million as a result of a 2 percent across-the-board cut. Selective cuts for the university in crease this amount by $600,000, to $3.5 million. Robert Lovitt, assistant vice chancellor for business and finance, said only informal plans have been drawn up as to where the cuts will be made. No formal plans will be made until after the regents provide some direction after their meeting this week. Larry Walklin, UNL Faculty Senate president, said discussions are taking place between members of the faculty senate and the administration as to where the cuts could be made. Regent Robert Koefoot of Grand Island said that a possible solution would be to postpone faculty salary increases until July 1 instead of the planned Jan. 1 raise. Koefoot emphasized that he had not spoken with any of the other regents about the postponement of faculty salary hikes. Regent James Moylan of Omaha, the board's chairman, said that he is disappointed with the cuts made by the Legislature. The regents and the admini stration will have to evaluate where the cuts will be made. Moylan said it is difficult to make such a large cut this late in the semester. Personnel cannot be cut since their contracts do not expire un til July 1 . Not replacing personnel who quit was offered as a possibility by Moylan. Supplies4 will probably have to be cut also, he said. The cuts made by the Legislature in cluded a figure of $275,000 for system wide savings in utilities this winter. Regent Ed Schwartzkopf of Lincoln said that UNL has a "great" record in conservation of energy. Harley Schrader. director of the Physical Plant, said that by prudent operation of buildings and diligence from the NU community, savings could be made in the utility bills. "If we don't have a super-cold winter, we'll be able to make some savings," Schrader said. Scoreboard artist gets a charge ou tofh is wor Al Eveland is still making his presence known at UNL. The former UNL football team placekicker, Interfrater nity Council president and Innocents Society member graduated from UNL in 1977. But on home football Saturdays, Eveland's work is displayed to the 76,000 plus fans in Memorial Stadium - he runs the electronic scoreboard. Eveland said that after graduating, he stayed at UNL as a graduate student. In the fall of 1977, he stopped over mm - to see if help was needed with statistics for the football season. "Don Bryant (UNL sports information director) told me he had every position filled, but he did need another person to help with the new scoreboard," Eveland said. "I just happened to be there." Three people operate the scoreboard during the ball game, he said. The scoreboard, which was purchased by three business firms in exchange for advertising has a small computer. Eveland said most of the logos used are installed in the computer's memory. The scoreboard also can have words, statistics and game scores typed into it, he said. "Generally, we make our own logos," Eveland said. "Wc have been at it long enough now that we have most of the things we need." Eveland sail1 there is a grid that is a scale model of the scoreboard. He puts a clear sheet of plastic on the grid, which has light underneath. The opaque light shows on the scoreboard, so that each spot covered on the grid lights on the scoreboard. Eveland said that on the morning of a game, he can grah a paintbrush and make new logos for the scoreboard. Although Eveland has a degree in art education and had planned to be an art teacher, he now works at the First National Bank as manager of the auto bank. He ; l X : f J 1 v U j - J N It,.-,-,, nn,. . ,1m, .Mm , r- ,n ,. rlll-l-l.r ,..,,,- r - , ' i I ll r r nnr, , J Scoreboard operator Al Eveland proves his skill at controlling the UNL scoreboard by displaying on the screen the f u r:i,. i u 1 u said he plans to continue a career in banking, but he still enjoys drawing. The scoreboard is checked periodically during the week, and Eveland said he arrives by 8:30 a.m. or 9 a.m. to make sure everything is working. Eveland said the scoreboard has been in operation for every home game, although once it was knocked out by lightning. "We got it fixed a half-hour before game time," he said. "We had to drive to Lawrence, Kan., Friday night at midnight to borrow the University of Kansas' com puter unit. Since they had an away game, we were able to borrow their unit." Roslteris, chancellors to discuss surcharge Kll 'President Ronald RoskcnS w3I meet with NU chancellors thb week to discuss departmental cut back! tnd the possibility of an added surcharge to tccond-semcster tuition. Jim Raglin, NU director of public affairs, said a surcharge it just one ilternative being discussed to h?Jp offset the $2.94 million budget cut Imposed by the Nebraska Legislature on the university for next semester. The state fravickd the urJvmity i& $147 million Ln 4id for the 192 2 U fiscil year until Saturday, when thfi Legislature ticpted a 2 percent cutback for the.. rtiiinti! cf Li ycjr Each NU chancellor has been assisted to report on departmental cuts that can be made in areas such as equipment, guest lecturers and other areas, Raglin said. The chancellor! reports are the first step In deter mining the possible surcharge that might be imposed. , ! , The amount of money saved through departmental cutbacks, as submitted by the chancellors,; will be subtracted from the $2.94 mClion. leaving a balance to be mads up by the surcharge and other possible means, Raglin sal J. ...... - An "additions! $600,000 b selective cuts raises Lhe toUT budget reductioa for NU to $3.5 mHIicn. - Eveland said that lightning-diversion equipment has been installed since that time, so it won't happen again. The crowd watches the scoreboard because it shows them statistics, information on records and scores from other games, he said. Scoreboard operators use two or three different sources, including the UNL sports information depart ment, television and radio to get scores and statistics, he said. "We just play around with the scoreboard and have a lot of fun," he said. Eveland said the messages to fans in different parts of the stadium evolved over the years as an accident. "We were using south as a direction, and the students in the south stands reacted to it," he said. "We tried it with the east, south and north since then, and they seem to enjoy it." The scoreboard also is important to the players, Eveland said. "When the offense is doing a superb job, we generally don't have a chance to plug them, but they generally store," he said. "When the" defense docs a good job, we try to plug them." Eveland said he can tell at the beginning of the game what it will be like from the electricity of the fans and players. The players can tell when the fans are with them, and they put more intensity into their performance on the field, he said.