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I Friday, November 2, 1984
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Vol. 84 No. 51
Wcsthcr: Mostly sunny and warmer today with
a high of 60 (1 5C). Friday night, not as cold with a
low of 38 (3C). Weekend outlook, partly cloudy
skies with a chance of showers late Saturday.
Highs In the lower 60s (16C) on Saturday, cooling
to the lower 50s (12C) Sunday. Lows in the mid-
303 (2C). Bob BrubtcharDally Nebraskan
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Center tied to university
UNL child
care DFoiect's future uncertai
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By Barbara Comito
Dally Nebraatin SUff Reporter
At about 1 p.m. on any given
weekday the east entrance to
Commonplace chapel is lined with
tiny blue tennis shoes and red
Stride Rites.
Beyond the entrance, on blue
canvas cots, 3 and 4-year old3 are
lying down for nap time. If you
miss the shoes, you might notice
the bright yellow and orange walls
that lead downstairs to the Uni
versity Child Care Project.
The future of UCCP, established
more than 12 years ago as a no
cost parent co-op, has been made
uncertain recently by the univer
sity's agreement to buy Common
place. United Ministries in Higher Ed
ucation, which has housed UCCP
and provided its utilities without
charge, needed to sell Common
place for financial reasons, ac
cording to Rev. Larry Doerr, UMHE
minister.
While UCCP was a major con
cern in the sale, UMHE knew a
"built-in guarantee" that UCCP
could remain indefinitely was im
possible, Doerr said.
In the university's agreement
to buy, a stipulation guarantees
UCCP its current location until
May 1 0, 1 085. The executive board
of UCCP is preparing a proposal
to request an additional year,
according to Valdeen Nelson, ad
ministrative director of UCCP.
If that additional year is not
granted, UCCP may be forced to
close the child care center, because
it' would be difficult to find a
licensable location near campus
in such a short time, Nelson said.
On the surface, the problem
may not seem so severe. Com
monplace is being purchased as
an annex to the Nebraska Union
to house student organizations,
according to Richard Armstrong,
vice chancellor of student affairs.
Couldn't UCCP remain at Com
monplace as a university organi
zation? The pivotal question: Is
UCCP a university organization?
The project was established in
1971 by Jack Richie, former direc
tor of the UNL Office of Scholar
ships and Financial Aid as a form
of financial aid to student par
ents. His office, ASUN and UMHE
were the original supporters of
the project.
Over the years UCCP hired more
staff. Costs went up. The univer
sity's and ASUN's budgets grew
tighter, and they withdrew their
financial support of the project.
Suzanne Brown, assistant to the
vice chancellor of student affairs,
however, remained an official liai
son to UCCP. .
The project's payroll is proces
sed through the university. UCCP
has as one of its three major goals
to provide experiential teaching
experience to university students.
Forty percent of their clients are
students, who have first priority
on waiting lists, and 30 percent
are university staff.
So while UCCP i3 financially
independent of the university, it
is unquestionably tied, Nelson said.
The project has been unable to
seek outside funding because of its
tie with the university, she said.
When the project's board sought
funding from local organizations
such as the Cooper and Woods
foundations, they were bluntly
told that the university should
take care of its own, Nelson said.
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Panelists favor 'silence time'
"Silence time" should be allowed in pub
lic schools, according to three panelists
.who discussed religion's impact on polit
ics Thursday in the Nebraska union.
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Larry Hohm, UNL assistant professor
of philosophy, said he encourages schools
to allow students a moment of silence
time without telling them it is meant for
prayer.
"Schools should not promote prayer
because promoting religious activities is a
disregard to the rights of people who
wish not to take advant age of that right,"
he said.
Hohn said if a school designates five
minutes every morning for prayer, the
school is promoting rather than requir
ing prayer. This should not happen, he
said.
"If a school simply allows prayer, they
are allowing the students to promote
prayer," he. said.
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Bereuter defends absence
from House Ag Committee
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By Brad Gilford
Daily Nebraskan St&fTEepoiter
U.S. Rep. Doug Bereuter said he has a
greater impact on agriculture than he
would if he sat on the House Agriculture
Committee.
Bereuter told a crowd of students at
the Nebraska Union Thursday that he is
one of few Midwestern, agriculturally-
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Rep. Bereuter
concerned representatives on committees
that are vital to agriculture. The Agricul
ture Committee is stocked with members
who "will always be sympathetic to agri
culture," Bereuter said, so his absence
does not Jmrt Nebraska.
Bereuter sits on the Banking, Finance,
Urban Affairs, Foreign Affairs and Ways
and Means committee. He is on the For
eign Affairs' trade subcommittee and the
tax writing subdivision of the Ways and
Means Committee.
"Those subcommittees have more effect
on agriculture conditions than the Agri
culture Committee itself," Bereuter said.
Monica Bauer, Bereuter's Democratic
opponent, has partially blamed Bereuter
for the decline in the number of family
farms and for the poor condition of
Nebraska's agriculture economy. She has
pledged to seek appointment to the Agri
culture Committee if elected.
Bereuter rejected that claim and said
he and the entire Nebraska Congressional
delegation vote "pro-agriculture 100 per
cent of the time," with few exceptions.
"It's natural," he said, "it's our lifeblood.".
Bauer also has criticized the money
Bereuter receives from political action
committees. Bereuter said his studies
show that Bauer receives a higher per
centage of her campaign funds from
PACs.
"Our studies show that she gets about 8
percent more," Bereuter said, "but that
figure is of course proportionally less
than ours."
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Joel SartortDally Nbraskan
Marion Ingnani of Lincoln, a. ComiaonwssJth depositor, participates in a
protest march eroond the Capitol.
Depositors search for 'beef1
in Nebraska bank guarantee
By Brad Clifford
Daily Nebraskan Staff Reporter
Commonwealth Savings Co. depositors
acknowledged the first anniversary of the
institution's closing with a day-long dem
onstration Thursday outside the CapitoL
They braved 30-degree temperatures
and chilly winds to send a sharp message
to the governor and Legislature: "Do some
thing for us."
About 100 people lined the north steps
early in the afternoon carrying signs sug
gesting that even Clara Pellar couldnt
find the beef in the Nebraska Depository
Institution Guaranty Corp.
"Where's the NDIGC? " "Nebraska, the
Good Life for Bankers," "In Nebraska, A
Penny Earned is a Penny Lost" and "Put
Your Money in a Sock" were slogans on
some of the signs.
One of the most dramatic signs read,
"Commonwealth Solution Only 25 Votes
Away."
Carried by Rosella Kasl of Wilber, the
sign alluded to the Legislature, which
with a majority vote could appropriate
state funds to either revive Common
wealth or pay depositors directly.
Kasl said she is not demanding that the
state write a check to depositors. She just
wants the state to "do something for us,"
she said.
"I want them to find a way to return at
least $30,000 for each account that would
not be too detrimental to taxpayers," she
said.
Kasl, who joined the demonstraton at
10:30 a.m. and planned to stay until 6
p.m., said she and her husband had
$60,000 in Commonwealth. They put
$30,000 in two accounts to take advan
tage of NDIGC protection.
"I believe with all my heart that the
state should honor that guarantee," Kasl
said.
When NDIGC failed, Kasl said, her trust
in people was shaken.
"It has made a dis-beiiever of me," she
said.
The depositors want to begin negotiat
ing, she said, but first the accusations
must stop.
"I have no beef with the Copples," she
said. "We're trying to do something decent.
We feel they're doing us wrong."
