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j&egems approve mmon increase BY LARRY SPARKS Budget shortfalls at the University cf Ne braska mean students must begin paying for a larger portion cf their education, NU Pres ident Ronald Roskens sasid Monday. "I wish we could avoid tuition increases," he said. "But times have charged We sim ply have to look at the consumer to foot mere cf the bilL" The NU Board cf Regents took the first step in that direction Saturday when it ap proved Rcskens' 1S54-85 budget guidelines calling for a 10 percent tuition Increase. Re gent Robert Simmons cf Sccttsbluf f cast the only dissenting ballot The guidelines call for a total budget cf $4S5.6 million, a 13 percent increase in state appropriations and varying pay increases for faculty members at the three campuses. The board also approved Roskens' sugges tion that a 2 percent reallocation fund to be established to strengthen some programs while reducing or eliminating others. The regents vote again cn the budget in September, then will send its final version of the 1231 5 budget to the Legislature next spring. Roskens acknowledged that too large cf a tuition increase could decrease the num ber cf students attending school. A 10 per cent increase is not large enough to have such an impact, he said. "Donl get me wrong," he said 4it is going to hurt some, but I don't think this is a perilous increase by any means." The University of Nebraska-Lincoln cur rently has the third highest tuition rate in the Big Eight, according to Alan Seagren, NU vice president for administration. But when compared to the 11 peer institutions used for salary purposes, UN-L ranks 8th. Kven with a 10 percent increase, he said, See REGENTS, page 3 This edition is final Summer Nebraska?! Thursday's edition is the final Sum mer Nebraskan for 1SS.1. The paper has been produced the past seven weeks by the reporting, editing, ad vertising and photography classes in the University of Nebraska-Lincoln School of Journalism. UN-L's regular student paper, the Daily Nebraskan, will resume publication Aug. 2i with a special back-to school edi tion. The paper will be published Monday through Friday beginning Aug. 29. The Daily Nebraskan is published by the UN-L Publications Board. University of Nebraska School of Journalism Number 7 July 28,1983 tvj) lUJ W II W W L! LI Ll f (J) If 9 S Y 3 . r ! V 1 ( 1 " , f .s-i -v-'-vJ Israeli farmers are visiting Nebraska farms, trying to find out about corn farming. David Ariel (left), Jacob Inon and Dov Katzir listen and take notes at a test field near Columbus. rr t V m m 6 r emn m BY DAVID TROUBA Crime is running rampant. It isn't safe to walk the streets anymore. Someone has to do something but nobody wants to get in volved. This all sounds like the plot for a televi sion police show or a "dirty Harry" movie. But the the Student Watch Group on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln campus says that crime, particularly sexual assault, is a problem that needs more than just talk. Troy Lair, president of the Student Watch Group, said the group consists of vol unteer citizens working as the eyes and ears of the police. "It's a matter of students caring for stu dents. Not a bunch of vigilantes," Lair said The group, which Lair began forming over a year ago was recognized by the As sociation of Students of the University of Nebraska (ASUN) in January. According to Lair, the group has two main functions: 1) The formation of the Campus Patrol. 2) The organization of Educational Awareness workshops. Sexual assault is the main emphasis of the group and the reason for its formation, he said. According to the January 1S82 issue of "U.S. News and World Report," "A full fledged crime wave is threatening the lives of persons who work and study at hundreds Nebraska farm method BY JOAN MORRISON The 12 men milling around the van out side the motel did not look unusual. They could have been tourists. Some carried shoulder bags, many wore shorts and sandals and they talked together with the casual informality of a tour group. A man in his fifties, with graying, slightly tousled hair, bright blue eyes, an infectious smile, stepped from the group to greet the newcomer. "Ah, so you made it after all" said David ArieL Israeli, ex-kibbutznik, extension agent for the cereal crops division of the ministry of agriculture in Israel. "We're ready to leave," he said"How many do you want to drive with you? Two? Three?" He looked at the little car. "Ah, two would be best," and he signaled to two Israelis standing at the edge of the group. Jacob Inon, 38 and Uzi Naftaliahu,32, both farmers and kibbutzniks, settled into the car. Uzi drove. At first it was easy. As we followed the van toward Hastings, where the group had scheduled a tour of the NC-Plus Hybrids seed company, they talked about why they had comeHo America. According to Inon, Israeli agriculture is changing. One of its major field crops, cot ton, is no longer profitable, and Israeli farm ers are looking for new crop possibilities. Feed grains are an alternative, he said. Israel now imports 85 per cent of its feed grains, primarily from America, and with new double cropping techniques, farmers in Israel are looking at domestic corn and grain sorghum production. The problem, he said, was that Israelis have no experience growing corn, especially in the extremely arid conditions they face. "We came to study," Inon said. "We can't take American agriculture back to Israel, the conditions are too different. But we want imwois A of the nation's colleges . . . Most disturbing, the (FBI) statistics show a 55 percent in crease in sexual assaults on women" Thus, campus patrol volunteers travell ing in pairs, one man and one woman, will be patrolling "high risk areas" of the cam pus and will work during "high risk times." Both "high risk areas" and "high risk times" will be determined by surveys to be conducted by the group this fall. Each pair will use two-way radios, flashlights, plastic identification and specially-colored clothing. In addition, Lair said that organizations with knowledge of the sexual assault problem will be asked where they think the patrols would be most effective. See VOLS, page 6 to take new ideas back with us. We have to think, what's best for us?" The group has been to the San Joaquin valley in California as well as Texas and, after their four -day stay in Nebraska, they will go to Iowa and Michigan to look at crops there. But then the inevitable, and difficult, question came up. What is it like, living on a kibbutz? "If someone wants to know, they'd have to live on one to know what it is," was Inon's first response, because, he said, it is so diffi cult to explain the kibbutz to Americans. Inon and Naftaliahu are both second-generation kibbutzniks. They said that Amer icans often confuse a kibbutz with a com mune. Actually, there are few similarities. The principles of collective living were developed first in Europe around the turn of the century, they said, and the first kibbutz was established at Dagania in the Jordan valley in 1912. In the Negev, where they both live, the first kibbutz was settled 35 years ago, Inon said. Agricultural settlements in the Negev were designed to create a rural population on the sparsely populated land as well as to act as military outposts. The Israeli government reasoned, he said, that a man with a family to protect would be more alert. A kibbutz is organized around the con cept of work and collective effort, making living conditions equal for all, Nafthaliahu said. "Everybody has to work on the Kibbutz," he said. "The strong help the weak. In the city, if you have a good head for money you go up in the world, if not, you're poor. "On the kibbutz, everything is the same for everybody. Whoever is clever might be a manager of a factory. Someone else might have a simplier job, but when they go home, they both have the same things," he said. People aren't working for money, but for the good of the kibbutz. "If you work good on the kibbutz, you're a good man. If you're lazy, and you don't like See KIBBUTZ, page 7 INSIDE UN-O faces program cut Page 3 Do women face limitations in the Army? Page 2 Daily Nebraskan's new edi tor Page 8