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Wednesday, November 17, 1982
University of Nebraska Lincoln
Vol. 82, No. 64
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GLC schedules
forum concerning
tuition surcharge
ASUN's Government Liaison Committee will sponsor
a hearing Thursday, on a possible $30 to $50 tuition
surcharge.
"Since no one else is holding any hearings, students
will do it themselves," said GLC chairperson Nette
Nelson.
The GLC forum on the tuition surcharge will begin
at 9 a.m. Thursday in the main lounge of the Nebraska
Union.
Nelson said there may be an ASUN press conference
on the subject that afternoon.
The purpose of the hearing is to get some student
proposals on the state financial crisis and its effect on the
university, Nelson said.
After a $55 million budget shortfall was discovered in
the state operations budget, the Legislature met in last
week's special budget-cutting session. NU's share of the
budget cut is $3.5 million.-
Much of that cut would be made up by the proposed
tuition surcharge.
Nelson said the decision on how big a tuition surcharge
will be assessed is supposed to be announced today by
UNL Chancellor Martin Massengale.
Nelson said each institution is responsible for
reworking its own midyear budget. She said that to her
knowledge, UNL is the only educational institution con
sideiing a one-time tuition increase.
"The deficit at state colleges will be compensated for
in other ways," Nelson said.
The tuition that students begin paying at the start
of an academic year serves as a kind of contract between
the university and the students, she said, and it is hard for
some students to face a midyear increase in their tuition.
"We're concerned that many students cannot afford
even $50 more next semester," she said.
Nelson said the financial pinch is not an either-or
situation in which tuition must be raised in order to keep
faculty salaries at current levels.
"We're anxious to see faculty salaries continue at the
present rates," she said. "I don't see the tuition surcharge
and the issue of faculty salaries as connected."
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Staff Photo by Craig Andresen
The parking ramps of the Gunny's Complex at 13th and P streets appear abstract as the camera lens looks skyward
from the alley below.
Newsletter relates ASUN's activities
ASUN has published its fall newsletter, "The Senate
Update."
The newsletter is paid for by ASUN funds, which
come from student fees. This is the first one put out
this year, because the senate can afford to put out only
one a semester, said Greg Krieser, first vice president of
ASUN.
Krieser said most of the stories come from senators
and committees.
"We want the students to get involved in what we are
doing, so we put out this newsletter to tell them what we
are working on at this time," he said.
ASUN sent senators to the various organizations within
their colleges to find out about the concerns students
have. The newsletter is to tell the student body what the
senate is working on, Kiieser said.
"Most of the time, the student doesn't hear about
what is going in ASUN until after it has been completed."
he said. "This newsletter will tell people about what is
going on so they may get involved if they want to."
Eight thousand copies were printed by Varsity Print
&Copy, Inc, for $137.
"I'm excited about this and hope that students will
read it," Krieser said. "We don't mean to be biased.
We just want to tell what the student government is.
If there are any concerns, students may contact a sena
tor - the numbers are in the newsletter," he said.
He also said the newsletter should be picked up by
today. The newsletter can be found in drop baskets for
the Journalist.
Computer science majors suffer terminal waiting
By Bill Allen
When Jeff Mitchell goes to Ferguson
Hall or Nebraska Hall to work on a com
puter program he usually finds himself
waiting.
The junior computer science major
said he has waited as long as 45 minutes
to get on a terminal, but usually just
leaves before waiting that long.
Mike Colligan, a junior computer
science major, said a student can wait
as long as two hours for a terminal. He
said he usually leaves before then, to seek
out other terminals if possible or to come
back some other time.
The general consensus among computer
science students is the same
terminals are needed.
According to Roy Keller, chairman
of the computer science department, the
problem goes deeper than that and basi
cally comes down to a lack of funds.
Keller hopes that current recommendat
ions made by a special university task
force appointed by Chancellor Martin
Massengale will help solve some of the
problems the computer science depart
ment is having.
Keller, a member of the task force,
said it is made up of faculty members
from throughout the university and is
acting partly on recommendations made
more by NU President Ronald Roskens in 1981.
Separation sought
Keller said the main concern of the
task force at this time is developing a
separate computing system for the ad
ministration and academic areas.
This separation would be in function
only and would not necessarily involve
any new computer purchases.
Keller said that the department now
has computers tied into computer ser
vices at UNL and also rents some com
puter time from the state.
As it stands now, both administrative
and academic computing is done on the
same system.
"Ths Ttme- DuilJmj renovation
project ehould be confide J by .the
t in 3 of the next school year,
following a deferral " of S 23 5, 000 J n
capital construction projects Bt NU
The deferral was ccriirmeJ during
liit week's special session of the Ne
braska Lt.tUature.
Renovation cf the Temple Building,
hums of the theatre aits department,
began in December I9S0 and was
basically finished by' January 19S2.
Tb; tcfil cost cf ths f reject b S3.4
million, and SI 00,000 cf that figure'
his been deferred until the begmmnj
cf ths next fiscal yeir, July I,
Most of the money is kir ?nt en
ths builds itself, not cn l Howell
'The iter,
-Most people think that the work
wss'tlans on the theater, but it v. as
hardly touched. The renovation v.
done nuirjy on the classroom irci,n
Fat Overton, theater ' rnmrer, sru 1
As part of the budget crunch, t'NX
dec:;!: to defer spcr.im the last
5100,000 until next c:r. V,V:k will
' be;;n daring the summer in antiej
'pstion of paying th bills after July
1, John Amen J of the Ihysiesl Flint
Among the renovations tint need
to be fimh:J ere a marques and sound.
Voofm, A chims system will be
, install: j to tell theater 'goers ' when
are about to begin or rc.ume.
. Ah.o, the ir duct system will hi worked
ca to Lmprovs sir circulation. '
v "Basically, v.h;t vc will be doing
h to tie up the loeee ends on ths pro
ject Amend said, Ve should have it
done ty the beginning of next fall's
. semester.
The department, Keller said, doesn't
have enough faculty or computer termi
nals for each student.
Computer science is an increasingly
popular area of student interest, Keller
said. This semester one out of four stu
dent requests for classes were turned down.
Already, pre-registration figures for next
semester show 10 courses overfilled, he
said.
Comprehensive system sought
In an executive memorandum, Roskens
said he envisions a system in which all
students eventually are exposed to com
puters. Keller, who has been department
chairman for a year, believes this is an
important long-term goal because com
puters are becoming an increasingly in
tegral part of instruction. However, he
emphasized that this type of plan is de
finitely a long-term goal.
"From where we are now to get to
that point is a lot of dollars and time,"
he said.
He described the job of the task force
as to "move in that direction."
The new computer received by the
College of Engineering and Technology
last year will not help the computer
science program a great deal, Keller
said.
Although some of the engineering
students taught in computer science
would be able to do all their work on
the new computer, the number of students
it draws away from the computer science
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