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Tuesday, July 30, 1985
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Vol. 84 No. 171
Weather: No relief in sight humidity-wise as unseasonably
mild conditions will continue throughout the week. Mostly
cloudy today with a 30 percent chance of thunderstorms and a
high of 82 (28C). Partly cloudy and cool tonight with a low of 66
( 1 9C). Partly cloudy for Wednesday and Thursday with highs in
the middle 80s (28C) and lows in the upper 60s (20C).
Barb BrandaTh Nebraskan
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By Gene Gcntrup
News Editor
The NU Board of Regents decided
j Saturday against closing the Lincoln
; nursing program and the College of
! Pharmacy.
1 The board adopted a plan by Regent
Robert Koefoot of Grand Island to raise
1 University of Nebraska Medical Center
tuition an average of 36.2 percent and
to make internal reallocations of
$500,000 to keep the programs alive.
"It (Koefoot 'splan )
is not a solution,
it's a postpone
ment "
Simmons
Under the plan, tuition in the Col
lege of Pharmacy would increase from
$1,509 to $2,409 or 59.6 percent; for
dentistry students, tuition would
increase from $3,126 to $3,981 or 27.5
percent; for medicine students, tuition
would increase from $3,621 to $4,808 or
32.8 percent; and in the nursing college,
tuition would increase from $1,082 to
$1,358 or 25 percent.
The tuition increase would generate
Regents
By Gene Gentrup
News Editor
A two-year moratorium on construc
tion projects and a set of tuition
increases were approved Saturday by
the NU. Board of Regents as part of
guidelines for the 1986-87 budget.
Vet school contract
will be improved
By Gene Gentrup
News Editor
Despite a divided opinion on the
future of a cooperative program fund
ing NU and an existing school of vete
rinary medicine, the NU Board of
Regents adopted Saturday a resolution
directing NU administrators to seek
improved contractual arrangements
with other states for the education of
Nebraska students seeking veterinary
medicine degrees.
On a 5-2 vote with one abstention,
the board adopted a resolution by
Regent Margaret Robinson of Norfolk
that places an emphasis on the conti
nuation of the current practice where
by Nebraska contracts to send its stu
dents to other states for their veterinary
education.
Robinson said the resolution does
not eliminate the possibility of an
agreement with an existing school for a
cooperative program with NU, but does
reflect the view of state legislators
which last month passed a bill autho
rizing a cooperative agreement between
NU and an existing school to allow
students to divide their training be
tween two states. NU President Ronald
Roskens and four NU regents have
visited vet school programs at Missis
sippi State and Kansas State univer
cy, nursing
about $950,000 in funds for the medical
center. The increase would take affect
in 1986.
UNMC Chancellor Charles Andrews
had recommended phasing-out the two
programs to deal with the medical cen
ter's $2.1 million shortfall for fiscal year
1985-86.
Andrew s, whose proposal met strong
statewide opposition in recent weeks,
was commended by Regent Koefoot as
"the right man for the right time at this
University."
Koefoot said the past two months
"has been hell" for the university and
during this period Andrews has shown
his honesty and his "personal and pro
fessional integrity."
Andrews said he accepts the Regent's
decisions but still defends his original
proposal.
"The citizens of Nebraska have
spoken through their elected Board of
Regents, and, although I feel my
recommendation was in the best inter
ests of the Medical Center, I accept the
Board of Regents' decision to the con
trary and shall proceed to carry out its
instructions with dedication and
vigor," Andrews said.
Pharmacy and nursing officials said
they are prepared to make realloca-
have no
"We must ask consumers, namely
students, to pay an increasing cost of
their education," NU President Ronald
Roskens said. "I regret that we don't
have a choice."
NU officials, sticking with their top
priority of raising faculty salaries,
approved tuition increases of 5 percent
sities.
Legislators cut $140,000 from the
project, proposed by NU officials. The
legislature authorized instead accep
tance of $100,000 in livestock industry
contributions for future capital con
struction costs but decided against
appropriating any state funds to build
a veterinary college.
The contracts NU officials are seek
ing should ensure NU's participation in
decisions on admissions, curriculum
and research, according to the resolu
tion. Regent James Moylan of Omaha, w ho
voted against the resolution, called it
"premature." NU could still reach an
agreement for a cooperative agreement
with an existing school that would
allow at least part of the students'
instruction and clinical work to take
place in Nebraska, Moylan said.
"I would support it a year from now if
there were not state or private funding
available at the time," Moylan said.
Voting for the resolution were
Robinson and Regents Robert Koefoot
of Grand Island, Robert Simons of
Scottsbluff, Don Fricke of Lincoln and
Kermit Hansen of Elkhorn.
Moylan and Regent Nancy Hoch of
Nebraska City voted against the resolu
tion. Regent John Payne of Kearney
abstained.
Brides are older,
more mature. ..Page 3
progr
tions in their program and are finding
alternatives to do so.
College of Pharmacy Dean Arthur
Nelson, said a private fund-raising
"Tf w cruel Mr d fact
remains that the
current shortfall of
funds at the medi
cal center mill not
disappear. "
Koefoot
effort currently underway should offset
two-thirds of the proposed $900-a-year
tuition hike that Koefoot's proposal
prescribes for the 250 students in his
school. Nelson said $110,000 of an
estimated need for $140,000 has been
raised.
The College of Pharmacy will reduce
expenditures next year by joining with
the College of Medicine to offer joint
courses in basic sciences including
pharmacology and microbiology, NU
officials said.
The reallocations at the College of
Nursing that will permit the continua
tion of the Lincoln program, NU offi
cials said, will divert funds from a pro
choice but to raise tuition
for undergraduates, 15 percent for
graduate students, 20 percent for stu
dents in professional programs other
than the University of Nebraska Medi
cal Center. Tuition increases would
average 36 percent for medical center
students.
The regents, who must submit their
budget to Gov. Bob Kerrey by Sept.
15, are requesting $170.4 million in
general fund appropriations, 3.1 per
cent more than the $165.1 million
appropriated by the Legislature in fis
cal year 1985-86.
Roskens said NU officials plan to
wait and see the salary increase re
quests of other state employees before
submitting its own set of requests.
"We'll use a double barrel approach,"
Roskens said. "Our first and continuing
committment has to be to enhance our
salary circumstances, particularly for
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Eight high school girls participate in cheerleading lessons outside of Mabel Lee Hall Monday
as part of the Universal Dance and Cheerleading camp. Fifty-three high schools from
Nebraska and Missouri are represented at the camp which ends Wednesday.
Chaplin brought to life
at film festival. ..Page 5
ams remain open
posed doctoral program.
Though the pharmacy college and
Lincoln nursing program were not
eliminated, board members remain
cautious as to the future of the two
programs.
"It (Koefoot's plan) is not a solution,
it's a postponement," Simmons said of
NU's financial problems, which expe-
Nursing dean pleased
with regents ' decision
By Deb Pederson
Senior Reporter
The Dean of the NU College of
Nursing, Rosalee Yeaworth, said Mon
day that she was "very pleased"
with the Board of Regents decision
Saturday to retain the Lincoln nurs
ing division.
"It's not complete elation,"
Yeaworth said. "The alternative was
hard to swallow."
The alternative included increas
ing tuition 25 percent from $1,082 to
$1,358 for the 1986-1987 academic
year, giving the $130,000 generated
from the elimination of the asso
faculty. Competitive salaries
are a must."
NU tuition would increase to the
average of its peer institutions with the
exception of the University of Nebraska
at Omaha and the University of Nebraska
School of Technical Agriculture at Cur
tis. Those institutions are currently at
or above those levels.
Under the two-year moratorium pro
posed by Roskens, all projects in pro
gress will continue as planned. Only
seven projects were proposed by
Roskens instead of the originally sche
duled 10.
"I think it is time that we faced the
fact that the economic circumstances
are such that we simply cannot be
anticipating new facilities in the im
mediate period ahead," Roskens said.
Regent Margaret Robinson of Nor
folk said the moratorium would dem-
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rienced a mere .8 percent increase in
state appropriations this year, the low
est increase among NU's Big Eight and
peer instituions.
"The cruel hard fact remains that
the current shortfall of funds at the
Medical Center will not disappear,"
Koefoot said.
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ciate degree program to the Medical
Center and cutting an additional
ten faculty positions on top of the
seven positions already scheduled
for elimination, Yeaworth said.
Scheduled for elimination are
empty-line positions that won't be
filled. Yeaworth said she hoped the
turnover rate at the college would
be enough to provide the ten addi
tional position cuts so that con
tracts wouldn't have to be cancelled.
When asked about the college's
future, Yeaworth said she didn't
think the Lincoln nursing program
would be a vertical cut in the future.
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onstrate the university's "committment
to holding down costs."
The projects would cost $5.9 million
for the next fiscal year. The university's
previously announced proposed capital
construction budget contained projects
that have required $19.2 million in
1986-87.
Next year's proposed projects include
$1.8 million in renovation for UNL's
Morrill Hall, $1.2 million in computer
equipment systemwide, and $905,000
in fire and life safety improvements
throughout the Nl system.
Other projects needing funding under
Regents proposals include improving
and equipping classrooms and labora
tories at UNL, replacing utilities at
UNL, renovating UNL's Nebraska Hall
for Engineering, and major energy con
servation projects at UNL 2nd the Med
ical Center.
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Mark DavisThe Nebraskan