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By Tish Mocklcr
Hie $6 million budget cut currently
before the Nebraska Legislature would
sliift the funding of the university to the
backs of students, student regent and
ASUN President Matt Wallace said in a
press conference Monday. Wallace said
whether this shift is fair is up to the
governor and Legislature to decide.
Wallace said that while the university
has experienced some funding increases,
overall it has lost ground. When
adjustments are made for inflation of
books and periodicals prices, the library
system has fallen behind in its funding
by 50 percent. Over the last few years,
book prices have inflated 95 percent and
periodicals prices have inflated about 192
percent. Wallace said that the library
system, wliich is the lifeblood of the uni
versity, li3S had to cancel more than
800 periodicals because of insufficient
funding.
Wallace recalled Gov. Bob Kerrey's
figures that one of three jobs in Nebraska is
agriculturally related.
Salaries for professors at state
agricultural experiment stations are already
very low, Wallace said. Nebraska ranks
in the lower half and sometimes the lower
fourth of states in salaries for professors,
associate professors and assistant
professors.
If the proposed cut passes, he said,
there will be no money left for high
priority items identified by the
Legislature's Appropriations Committee,
including 3.5 percent salary increases,
3.5 percent operation increases, computer
training, conservation surveys, equipment
and the library system.
Faculty salaries rank seventh in the Big
Light schools, he said. He questioned how
the Legislature expects staff to be devoted
to UNL and Nebraska when they can make
more money where education is a higher
priority.
The number of students has increased
at UNL 18.5 percent since 1973, while the
number of faculty has increased only 5
percent, he said. Budget cuts have caused
this lack of faculty growth and non-availability
of classes, he said.
Wallace agreed that it was ironic that
the Legislature was able to find money for
the veterinary school and not for the rest
of the university.
ASUN and GLC are lobbying at the
Legislature about the cuts and are sending
letters to the governor and legislators,
Wallace said. In a petition urging the
Legislature to restore the $6 million to the
university appropriation, ASUN has
collected 2,000 signatures. The petition
also is being signed at UNO and the NU
Medical Center in Omaha.
Wallace said all he is asking is that
students now get the same quality of
education as students in the past have,
and that the governor and Legislature be
more committed to education.
to be reviewed
By John Koopman
Nuclear freeze supporters have another chance
Wednesday afternoon when the Nebraska Legislature
reconsiders a resolution calling for a nuclear freeze.
S'.ate Sen. Rod Johnson said he filed a motion to
reconsider the resolution because the original vote was
so close.
The resolution, LR 57, was defeated on a tie vote,
23-23, and needs two more votes to pass.
"A couple of senators (Lowell Johnson and Loran
Schmit) were gone," he said. "That could've changed
the vote the other way."
Johnson said he has not decided yet how he will vote
when the issue comes up again. Johnson cast a no-vote
ballot the first time a vote was taken on the resolution,
and voted against the bill as a member of the Government,
Military and Veterans Affairs Committee.
The resolution is a combination of two others, LRs
49 and 50. LR 49, introduced by Sens. Don Wesely and
John DeCamp, called for an immediate and verifiable
freeze on testing and deployment of tactical nuclear
weapons. LR50, introduced by Sen. George Fenger,
denounced the freeze and called for the people of the
Soviet Union to make the same request of their leaders.
Johnson said he thought the nuclear freeze resolution
has best been used as an "educational tool." He said he
thinks the resolution has "served its purpose" and that it
should not be taken any further.
"We have too many other pressing problems we need
to deal with, such as the budget and taxes," he said.
Johnson said state legislatures have very little impact
on foreign policy. He said individual citizens have as much
weight with Congress.
Johnson said he had been prepared to withdraw his
motion for reconsideration unless Wesely thought he
would have enough votes for the resolution to pass.
Wesely asked him Monday to maintain the motion, he
said.
Wesely said he has been lobbying other senators who
are "wavering on the issue." He said senators who he
thought would vote for the freeze the first time, didn't.
He said it is possible the resolution will pass this time,
but he is not sure about it.
Wesely said he felt "pretty good" about getting 23
votes the first time. The nuclear freeze supporters have
come a long way already, he said.
Wesely compared the freeze resolution with the Peace
Through Strength resolution which was passed a couple
of years ago. The Peace through Strength resolution
discouraged treaties and resolutions with the Soviet
Union and was passed 29-3, he said. Considering that
the freeze resolution is almost the exact opposite of
Peace Through Strength, he said, it is amazing that the
resolution did so well.
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Members of the UNL rowing team Brad Kuhn, left, and Jamie McClain participate in a row-a-thon last weekend
in front of the NBC Building, 13th and O streets. The event raised money to support the crew's activities.
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Hywoodl '(Domes to UNL
By Kris Mullen
Lights. Camera. Action. The plans have been finali
zed : Hollywood comes to, UNL this Thursday, Friday
and Saturday.
UNL will be the fictitious Des Moines University in
the Paramount Picture "Terms of Endearment."
Brian Brosnan, Paramount's location manager, has
been working with Ray Coffey, UNL's business manager.
Coffey said Paramount's plans are :
The cast and crew from Paramount Pictures will begin
shooting segments of "Terms of Endearment" Thursday
with an outdoor foot-chase scene. The scene, which
involves actress Debra Winger, will take place in the areas
around the Botany Greenhouse, Burnett Hall and the west
side of Love Library, and will end near the College of
Business Administration.
Paramount will set up cameras on the roof of Avery
Hall to catch shots of students as they move between
classes
The crew will move to Architecture Hall Friday. The
building will be used to represent a building on the
Kearney State College campus.
The office of James Porter, architecture professor,
will be redecorated to be an English professor's office.
Saturday, the Art Education offices in Richards
Hall will become a doctor's office in Kearney.
Coffey said Paramount was looking for a room that
looked like a "Norman Rockwell's doctor's office."
He said Paramount liked the old wood shelves with glass
doors in Richards Hall.
Paramount will set up a base camp on the east side
of Memorial Stadium, Coffey said. For the three days
or so that the company films on campus, their catering
vans, trucks of cameras, lights, make-up and costumes,
and all else needed for movie production will be located
there.
The university will be paid $1 ,000 a day for the use
of the area to park and do the filming.
Paramount also will reimburse UNL for any other
costs incurred by the university.
For example, Coffey said, the grounds crew will
plant shrubs around Architecture Hall to give it a "more
established" look.
The university also required that Paramount pay for a
plywood platform that will be built on Avery's roof to
protect it from any damage the cameras may cause.
Paramount is being very cooperative about not inter
fering with UNL's normal routine, Coffey said.
"We've got to minimize problems of students getting to
and from classes," he said. "Our primary purpose is
education."
Some faculty and staff members will be asked to park
their cars in different lots when the parking lot between
CBA and Love Library is used in the chase scene, Coffey
said.
Paramount, of course, wants to make certain that the
same cars remain in the lot for the shooting.
If it rains Thursday, Coffey said, filming will be re
arranged so the exterior chase is not shot in the rain.
Between 300 and 400 UNL students will be used as
extras in the shooting, h3 said.
"That's a benefit for UNL," he said, "because that's
an experience that usually happens only in Los Angeles."