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Wednesday, January 16, 1985
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Wednesday night, very cold and not as windy,
with a low of 7 (-13C). Thursday, partly cloudy
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While hundreds of students lineup outside the doors of the Nebraska Union
EsUroora waiting to go through the first dry cf dropadd, Dottis RosentEud, in
charge of the drop express line, yawns in asticipsiion of the coining "excitement."
Rosenthal said the drop express line Is & new addition to the raase of obstacles
stadents run before completing dropadd course adjustments.
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By Gen Gentnsp
Senior Reporter
Students dreading the dropadd
process are often victims of their
own mistakes, assistant director of
registration and records Tony
Schkade said Tuesday.
Schkade said students make many
mistakes, including rushing to add
a class on the first day of dropadd.
"Students wishing to drop a class
are not going to drop it until the
lines go down," he said. "They have
until 4 p.m. Monday, so why would
they want to stand in line? The
courses won't be open until a spot is
dropped."
When dropadd doors opened at
1 p.m. Tuesday, the line stretched
south down the staira in front of the
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ASUN and GLC offices, north in
front of Union Square and ended
just past the union's bakery shop.
Schkade said the line was that long
because students with time appoint
ment cards did not come at their
designated times.
"We handed out some time
appointment cards for 9:15 a.m.
(Tuesday)," he said. "But when we
opened the doors at that time, no
one was in the hall. For some reason
they all came at 10:30 a.ra."
Although the line was long,
Schkade said, the wait for most stu
dents was only about 10 or 15
minutes.
Bob Reid, associate director of
registration and records, said 2,301
students went through dropadd
Tuesday and from them, 1,453 "prob
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One such student was Jerry Dil
lon, a junior geology major who went
through the line six times over a
period of 2V4 hours. Dillon said he
tried to register for Psychology 181
and was rejected three times. The
fourth time he was successful, he
said, but couldn't find an open reci
tation for the course and had to go
through the line two more time to
register for the different classes.
Mike Cords, a freshman educa
tional psychology major, said he had
been through the line three times in
three hours.
Tom Dierks, a senior industrial
engineering major, said the whole
process wasn't as bad as he thought.
"I'm just tired cf hearing eve
ryone else complain," he said.
UNL spared, Lied postponed
Kerrey trims budget
By Brad Gilford
Senior Reporter
UNL and the state's other post
secondary schools escaped spending
cuts in Gov. Kerrey's reduced budget
proposal, but the Lied Center for the
Performing Arts didn't.
Kerrey presented the new spending
plan to the Legislature on Tuesday
during his State of the State address.
He trimmed $19 million from the budget
he unveiled Dec. 6, lowering total
spending to $8646 million, a 5 percent
increase from last year. His first plan
called for $883.6 million, a 7.3 percent
hike.
At the
Statehouse
Kerrey plans to postpone for one
year funding for the Lied Center, a
move he estimated will save $1.35
million in fiscal 1985-86. He also
announced he would delay the state's
scheduled takeover of Omaha and
Lincoln municipal courts.
The governor's revised spending
recommendations are funded primarily
by the elimination of 54 existing sales
tax exemptions. Kerrey said he is not
proposing a general sales tax on
services. Fewer exemptions will give
the state a broader sales tax base, he
said, and bring Nebraska "more in
line" with neighboring states' tax codes
while adding revenue.
Kerrey pledged to keep income and
sales taxes at present levels, 19 percent
and 3.5 percent respectively.
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By Gene Gentrup
Senior Reporter
The state's new legal drinking age,
21 as of Jan. 1, will have little effect on
local drinking establishments, accord
ing to some Lincoln bar owners.
Bob Russell, manager for Bo's, 27th
Street and Cornhusker Highway, said
the effect of the new law will come
about slowly because of the "grand
father" clause.
"As each day goes by we'll lose that
many more drinkers," he said.
Russell said he is unsure if raising
the drinking age to 21 is a good idea
but said he supported the legislature
in 1980 when they raised the drinking
age from 19 to 20.
"There are a lot of 19-year-olds in
high school who were drinking and
shouldn't have been," he said.
Russell said he doesn't plan to do
anything different to make-up for the
lower number of drinkers. He said
drink specials will be for "competitive
reasons only."
Ban Brett, general manager for P.O.
Pears, 322 S. Ninth St., said he doesn't
expect to notice any real problems for
the next eight months.
"We won't have new people coming
in," he said. "We'll just have an older
crowd."
President Reagan last summer signed
Vol. 84 No. 82
Education, one of Kerrey's budget
priorities last year, was kept intact. He
still allows $11.4 million for improve
ment of teachers' salaries and $9.3 for
post-secondary education.
Kerrey also is asking $3.3 million for
the Nebraska Scholarship Fund. The
fund was established in 1981, but
appropriations to it have never won
legislative approval.
Kerrey outlined a design for the
state's colleges and universities,
highlighted by:
A faculty challenge fund at UNL.
The university would raise funds from
within via reallocation, and every dollar
would be matched with two state dollars.
The money would then go to teachers
who had achieved outstanding records.
Faculty renewal. Kerrey said
reforming present retirement and
pension requirements would allow
teachers who were suffering "burn out"
to leave the university without
sustaining financial penalty.
A superboard. The governor said
he favors the recommendations made
by the Citizens' Commission for the
Study of Higher Education to put state
colleges and the NU system under the
same governing body. The move would
put the state's limited resources to
better use by eliminating duplication
and allowing specialization, Kerrey
said.
Kerrey favors letting the people
decide whether the board would be
appointed or elected The state colleges'
Board of Trustees is appointed, and the
NU Regents are elected.
Sen. Peter Hoagland of Omaha said
Tuesday he would introduce a bill
calling for the "superboard." Hoagland
last year introduced a bill to have the
governor appoint the regents, but it
lacked enough support for passage.
a bill requiring states to establish a
21-year-old drinking age or lose some of
their highway funds.
The legislature passed LB56 on Feb.
8, 1984, to reduce drunken driving
deaths and injuries among young people.
In 1983, Lincoln police arrested
more 20-year-olds for driving while
intoxicated than any ether age group.
However, Brett and Russell said they
expect to see more minors attempting
to enter local bars using false identifica
tions. "There are people always trying to
get in always new ways to try and get
in," Brett said. "Our doormen have a
good reputation for checking identifi
cations. We'll keep our reputation for
spotting fake I.D.S."
Barb Felker, manager at Chester
field, Bottomsley & Potts, 245 N. 13th
St., said the new law will be "good for
drinking and safety, but bad for busi
ness." She said she doesn't expect any
problems with minors during the day
with the "older, business-typs crowd in
attendance." But, she said,, when the
younger drinkers come in, the bar
could have problems with false I.D.S.
This is the fourth time in the state's
history that the drinking age has been
changed. After it was lowered frcm 21
to 20 in 1SS3, it was lowered asain to 19
in 1972. In 19S0, it was raised to 20.
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