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By Mike Schmoldt
Gov. Bob Kerrey explained his budget
philosophy and discussed other economic
issues Monday before a crowd of about
250 people at the Nebraska Center for
Continuing Education.
Kerrey, guest speaker at a breakfast
meeting of Lincoln legislators and their
constituents, said he based his budget
proposals on a 4 percent increase over
last year's expenditures.
"Unemployment is still up and farm
prices are still down," Kerrey said. "In
these times, an austere budget is called
for."
Half of the $747 million budget for
1983-84 will go for state aid to local
governments and individuals, he said.
Another 23 percent represents aid to
higher education and 22 percent will be
spent for government operations, he said.
Kerrey said he assumed during the
budget-making process that the
Legislature would increase the income
tax rate to 20 percent of the federal
income tax effective March 1 and that
the sales tax would remain at 3.5 percent.
The state income tax rate increase will
not become effective until this summer
if the Legislature does not pass the tax
bill with an emergency clause. Kerrey said
he hoped the clause would be added in
order to avoid cash flow problems.
Aid to state colleges and the University
of Nebraska will total SI 74 million,
representing an increase of 4.9 percent
over last year. Kerrey called that a major
increase.
Another budget increase is more than
the state can afford, Kerrey said. A state
law passed last year requires the state to
take over counties' shares of Medicaid
payments, now 14 percent of the total.
Kerrey has introduced a bill that would
delay the takeover one year until July
1984. Counties asked the state to take
over Medicaid payments because counties
do not administrate the Medicaid program.
Kerrey said he is forming a task force
this week, composed of city, county and
state officials, to sort out which programs
are administrated by which branch of
government, and to find out who is
receiving benefits and who is paying for
them.
In the face of these and other budget
problems, Kerrey did not rule out the
possible need for "mid-year corrections"
or budget changes like the ones made in
the last special session of the Legislature.
Kerrey criticized the federal
government for "an extraordinary deficit -S200
billion." The debt is drawing off
money that could be invested in business
ventures that would create more jobs,
he said.
"I intend to go out and aggressively
recruit industries like the food
processing industry," Kerrey said. "I'm going
to encourage people to invest right here,
even though the federal government can
bid a better price. I'm going to S3y to
Nebraskans - don't do it."
"A S20 billion deficit years ago would
have been considered inflationary. Now
economists are saying that a $200
billion deficit has produced the lowest
inflation rate in years. That's confusing,"
he said.
Kerrey said he distrusts a proposed
tax on services as a cure for the state's
financial problems.
"You don't tax your way out of pro
blems " Kerrey said. "A lot of things we
can do in government don't cost a lot of
money. It doesn't cost anything for me to
be an advocate for the state.
"Nebraska has a history of being
progressive. We C3n continue to be
progressive if I am successful in recruiting
strong administrators and managers and if
I can control expenses at the state level."
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By Kristi Lynch
When you hear the word bartender, do you associate it
with the male gender? Well, times have changed and
women now are being seen behind the bar as much as
men, mixing spirits and pouring ale.
Jill Shaw is a bartender and one of six managers at
Horsefeathers, WC's and WC's South in Lincoln. Shaw,
who is working on her master's degree in counseling at
UNL, said she thinks society stereotypes occupational
positions for males and females.
Behind the bar, she said, it makes no difference
whether a bartender is male or female.
Shaw said a female bartender can get a customer who
is acting obnoxious out of the bar just as easily as a male
bartender can.
"I think it depends on the bartender," she said. "If
I'm a woman who people don't respect, then it would
be harder to kick someone out; I just know it's respect."
A bartender can't take anything personally when bar
tending, Shaw said.
"You've got to be tough in the bar," she said. "Some
one may yell and scream at you, but you can't take that
personally."
Sydney Knox, a UNL student majoring in account
ing, is a bartender at P.O. Pears. She said she sometimes
runs into problems while she is bartending, but she has
learned how to handle them.
"Occasionally, you will get a man who likes to push
you around," she said. "Or you get a lot of come-ons
or offers, but I just say, 'I have to work until 2 (a.m.)'
or 'thanks but no thanks.' "
Knox said she may have had some opposition from
some of the males when she started bartending.
"I got the feeling that they felt a woman was not
capable or physically strong enough to do it," she said.
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Staff photos by Joel Sartore
The tip jar sits on the bar
at Horsefeathers, where
UNL graduate student Jill
Shaw tends bar several times
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By Mona Koppelman
Cornhusker football players arc told to play football
"for nothing," or "for the love of the game," while UNL
rakes in cash and benefits, according to Sen. Ernie Cham
bers of Omaha.
Chambers appeared Monday before the Legislature's
education committee to present LB211, which would
classify UNL football players as university employees,
while keeping their amateur status.
"Other students in other pursuits get paid for what
they do on campus . . . nobody says this pay causes this
student not to be a student in fact. It's hypocrisy," he
said.
Chambers cited examples from colleges that were
making under-the-table payments to their players.
"Now these people at the NCAA can talk all the
hypocritical baloney about amateurism all they want
to," Chambers said, "but they know that these athletes
are being paid . . . and not only with money; they're
being paid with female flesh, too."
James O'Hanlon, UNL representative to the Big Eight
Conference and the NCAA, said that LB211 would make
athletes professionals, despite the provision in the bill
preserving players' amateur status.
O'Hanlon said that in November 1982, the NU Board
of Regents passed a resolution providing lifetime disability
protection to anyone injured in an athletic contest. Mem
bers of the Big Eight conference passed a similar resolu
tion in December 1982, and the NCAA in April will
present a disability insurance plan of up to $5 million for
an injured athlete.
Sen. Sam Cullan of Hemingford asked O'Hanlon if
this program, that is "directly related to their (the
players') participation in the sport," was not itself a form
of compensation.
"There are two kinds of compensation," O'Hanlon
said. "Those the NCAA allows and those the NCAA does
not allow." O'Hanlon said the disability protection was
a form of compensation, however.
"As Sen. Cullan pointed out, the insurance plan that
they've adopted is compensation," Chambers said.
"They're acknowledging that these athletes, because of
what they do and the money generated and the risks to
them, are entitled to some recompense and they're not
doing it."