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Tuesday, November 16, 1982
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Vol. 82, No. 63
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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
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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
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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
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Scoreboard operator Al Eveland proves his skill at controlling the UNL scoreboard by displaying on the screen the
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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..
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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
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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.
