Daily Nebraskan
Wednesday, March 2, 1933
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By PatO'Leary
Sen. Tom Vickers of Farnam and chair
man of the Legislature's Education Com
mittee, spoke not only for education, but
for alternative financing for public educa
tion at the Government Liaison Committee
breakfast Tuesday.
Vickers said sales tax and property tax
should more evenly share the cost of edu
cation in the state.
He will propose that appropriations
from the sales and income taxes finance up
to 45 percent of the cost of public educa
tion. That is a 15 percent increase from the
current rate.
If the bill becomes law, there would be
a 3 percent increase beginning in 19S4-85
that would last over the next five years.
Vickers said. The success of the plan would
ultimately depend on the state of the
economy in future years, he said, but this
plan would take the pressure off the
property tax payers.
Another bill that would relieve some of
the financial burden from the state, he
said, is his own bill, LB141 . The bill en
dorses the early transfer of high school stu
dents to college. The bill is siill in commit
tee, he said.
Vickers spoke out strongly against any
type of minimum competency test for stu
dents, but he did endorse such a program
for state certified teachers.
"I don't think we have the right to close
the door to anybody,"' Vickers said. "The
students will leave if they cannot meet the
college's requirements, but they can do
that on their own."
lie said that a role-admissions study will
probably be carried out this summer. It
will help determine just what the high
schools, administration and colleges arc
responsible for in educating a student.
The bill endorsing a minimum compet
ency test for teachers was recently killed in
committee, Vickers said. There is a growing
concern that the qualified teachers are not
staying in the profession, he said, and en
dorsed some measure that would ensure
they would.
In Tennessee, the school board passed a
resolution that set up different levels of
certification for teachers, he said. The
teachers move through the levels (it is
mandatory to pass the first) based on an
evaluation by peers and are paid according
to the level they attain, he said. Vickers
said he would probably support a similar
action.
"One of the challenges we face in edu
cation is that we recognize that we are
short of money, and at the same time our
educational needs are greater," Vickers
said.
Sen . Karen Kilgarin of Omaha , is spon
soring LI35, which would put the univer
sity's pursestrings in the legislature's
control. She does not have Vickers' sup
port. Vickers said it was probably good that
Kilgarin summoned the NU Board of
Regents' attention, but the Legislature al
ready controls a great deal.
"It would be nice if you could take the
politics out of politics, but you can't,"
Vickers said. "The university, under our
(Legislature's) control, probably would
quit running because we couldn't decide
what to do."
Candidates debate
Continued from Page 1
Larry Weixelman, presidential candidate
for the Spare party, said ASUN must
accomplish something positive to organize
the students at UNL. lie said students
must get together with state legislators
to accomplish their goals.
Problems at the computer science
department were discussed in depth.
Krieser said the Action party would
work in three areas to increase funds to
the computer science department:
The NU Foundation. Kreiser said he
would try to get more private money
from the foundation to channel funds
into the computer science department.
-The Legislature. Krieser said Waverly
Sen. Jerome Warner has introduced
legislation to provide S3 million to the
university, the majority to the computer
science department's budget.
-Work Study. Kreiser said the Action
party has" testified in support of a bill to
give tax breaks to employers who hire
ccMejie students.
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Weixelman said he doubted the NU
Foundation would be of much help, since
its funds are less than the computer science
department needs to completely renovate
its system. He said UNL should follow the
steps taken by Union College. Union .
College had the foresight to plan ahead,
he said, and now has a computer terminal
in every room.
Tom Mockler, first vice presidential
candidate for Anarky, said his party would
do away with computers on campus
because "no one likes them anyway."
Laura Meyer, presidential candidate
for the Action party, said she will speak
with representatives from the Missouri
Pacific Railroad to try to solve the problem
of trains blocking students from Harper-Schramm-Smith.
She said she would try
to convince Missouri Pacific to change
its switching station. If that is not possible,
she said, she would look into the
construction of an pedestrain overpass.
Stuva said the Anarky party advocates
taking apart the track that runs near
campus.
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Photo by John Zoz
ASUN debate. From left, Laura Meyer and Kay Hinn of Action, Bill Buntain,
Rhonda Greder and Matt Wallace of Reach, and Larry Weixelman of Spare.
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