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By Todd Von Kampen
Senior Reporter
UNL's first priority should be stu
dents and education, not research,
extension services or sports programs,
says UNL student regent Gerard Keating.
Although Keating, a senior agribusi
ness major from Atkinson, had never
held a student government office at
UNL, he said he learned the job quickly
while helping the NU Board of Regents
decide how to handle the budget shor
tage the Legislature handed NU this
spring.
Financial problems do not mean
NU's programs and educational quality
must suffer, Keating said. Research
projects and extension services are
important, he said, but they should not
rely totally on public funding while tui
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"The number one priority of the uni
versity is teaching; their second and
third priorities arc extension and
research," Keating said. "And if that's
been established, I think we should
make the necessary cutbacks in exten
sion and research before we sacrifice
the opportunity for students to have an
excellent education."
Keating said he opposed closing the
NU Medical Center's College of Phar
macy and the Lincoln division of the
School of Nursing. He said he received
about 100 letters and phone calls from
students who supported keeping the
two programs. The regents voted to
retain the programs, but imposed a
steep tuition hike for all medical cen
ter programs.
Keating said he supported the Legis
lature's decision to cut state financing
in half for sports programs at NU and
the state colleges. Until the state is in
better financial shape, he said, private
citizens should donate money to sup
port sports they favor. People who
wanted other programs cut before sports
are "short-sighted," Keating said.
"Sports is secondary," he said. "It's
just a small part of what they're (NU)
therefor."
The proposed $20 million Lied Cen
ter for the Performing Arts, however,
should not be considered a waste of
public and private money, Keating
said. Although the state will pay $5
million of construction costs, he said,
NU will not have to pay most of the
center's operating costs. Money now
being raised from private sources will
be put in a trust fund and the interest
will be used to run the center, he said.
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Although some have called the Lied
Center a "showplace for the rich," Keat
ing said, the opportunity for UNL fine
arts students to develop their skills is
more important.
"I definitely think this is something
the state can afford because of the
massive return they'll get," he said.
Other issues Keating considers impo
rtant include:
O NU administrators should not
fall back on tuition surcharges, such as
the 5.5 percent charge for 1985-86
approved on top of a scheduled 10 per
cent hike, to make up for lost revenues.
"Anytime there's a financial crunch,"
he said, "the administration goes to
the students to raise the money rather
than make cuts" in research and exten
sion services.
A student recreation center to
replace recreation rooms torn down
inside the Nebraska Union would be a
valuable recruiting tool. A rec center,
Keating said, would not only keep stu
dents money inside UNL but would
help attract new students. Private
donations should be sought to build
the center, he said.
Q NU should expand, rather than
cut its outstate programs, including
the technical agriculture school at
Curtis and a proposed bachelor's degree
program in nursing in Scottsbluff.
Keating said people in western and
central Nebraska would be served bet
ter by such programs.
O To increase the students' voice
on the NU Board of Regents, student
regents should be allowed to vote on
board resolutions. Keating said he and
the other student regents do as much
work as the voting regents and are as
well-informed about NU issues. He said
he plans to push for introduction of a
bill in the Legislature that would give
student regents voting privileges.
O Students should realize the power
they have to influence NU policy. Unlike
high school student governments,
Keating said, regents and administra
tors want and expect students' sugges
tions on university problems. He said
students with concerns should contact
him or their ASUN senators.
Keating, 21, also is vice president of
Alpha Gamma Sigma fraternity and is
active in UNL's College Republican
chapter. He worked in Scottsbluff as an
assistant loan officer for the Federal
Land Bank Association this summer.
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and supplies more easily in the new
store, he said. The additional space
will allow for better presentation of
merchandise and easier traffic flow
during the back-to-school rush, he said.
Current plans call for the new store
to open sometime between Feb. 1, and
April 1, 1986, Oppegard said.
The first floor of the new bookstore
will be used for selling art, engineering
and office supplies, gifts, sportswear
and greeting cards, he said. Both the
general-reading and the textbook de
partments will be on the second floor,
Oppegard said. The second floor was
chosen, he' said, to keep the book
shopper away from the main flow of
customer traffic. The second-floor book
departments are designed so the
shopper can browse through the selec
tions in a library-like atmosphere, he
said.
The basement of the new building
will be used mostly for office space and
storage, Oppegard said, but there will
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