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Barb BrandaDaily Nebraskan
Bowie's enigmatic life
captured in biography
Arts and Entertainment, paga 9
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Husker women take 1st
in cross country meet
Sports, page 6
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September 16, 1885
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Vol. 85 No. 15
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By Todd von Kampen
Senior Reporter
State senators are demanding that NU cut its
budget because they believe Nebraskans no
longer consider higher education the state's top
priority, said Lincoln Sen. David Landis.
Landis on Saturday urged delegates at the
Nebraska Association of Residence Halls Fall
Leadership Conference to support his plan to
reallocat ing university spending from weaker to
stronger programs..
About 100 residence hall leaders from six
Nebraska colleges and universities, Iowa State
University and Kansas State University attended
the two-day conference.
Times have changed from the days when
Nebraskans gave NU unqualified support, Landis
said. Because more people can afford a college
education than could 40 years ago, he said, citi
zens and government officials have been "de
mystified" about its value. People are more con
cerned today about property tax relief and
helping the poor than they are about higher
education, he said. .
"Oddly enough," he said, "if I have to choose
between a higher education and ADC (Aid to
Dependent Children) payments to mothers in
poverty with children, 1 would spend it for
income-maintenance payments for those in great
need.
Landis is a graduate of the NU College of Law.
A continuing "brain drain" of college gradu
ates from Nebraska to other states is convincing
some people that NU is not a wise investment in
Nebraska's future, Landis said. Because of this,
he said, some state senators believe NU cannot
justify demanding "a greater share of state
resources for esoteric (course) offerings that
can't be tied to the well-being of the state."
Landis said senators also think NU manages its
money wastefully.
Under his plan, NU can give its best programs
the equivalent of "new money" through realloca
tion, Landis said. The plan calls for NU to
transfer $10 million over five years to its "more
valuable" programs. In return, the Legislature
would allow NU to keep the money in its budget,
continue to grant NU salary increases and infla
tion adjustments and set up an "excellence
fund" for NlFs use as it reallocates.
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David CreamerDaily Nebraskan
Always a fan...
UNL Athletic Director Bob Devaney takes a short break from walking stairs Saturday afternoon in Memorial Stadium
to watch the Huskers prepare for next Saturday's game against Illinois.
1985 graduates' clock plan still ticks
By Deb Hooker
Staff Reporter
The 1985 graduates' plan to buy clocks as
senior gifts for UNL is still ticking.
Tom Ash, NU Foundation adviser to the Stu
dent Foundation, said 395 May graduates pledged
$25,872 to support the project.
"We were very satisfied with the results," Ash
said. .
The original goal was $50,000. But that figure
was picked arbitrarily because 1985 was the first
year Student Foundation organized a class gift
project. The members modeled the program after
Iowa State University's past projects. Iowa State
raised $175,000 for its 1984 class gift.
"We had to start someplace," Ash said. "We
thought the $50,000 was a fairly modest starting
point compared to Iowa State's."
Last spring, Student Foundation members
called students who had applied for May 1985
bachelor's degrees. The names were taken from a
list compiled by the Records and Registration
office. Those students were asked to contribute
clock pledges.
However, Ash said the program was going
through "growing pains," and members didn't
think to include students applying for August
and December degrees. The group thought the
list was a fairly accurate account of all 1985
graduates, Ash said.
Ash said he plans at the next Student Founda
tion meeting to bring up the fact that August and
December graduates were left out. Plans for a
follow-up telephone campaign may be consi
dered. Last year, the Student Foundation recom
mended using what it called the "85 for '85
system," Ash said. With this system, students
pay $10 during the first year and $25 each of the
three following years. However, Ash said, the
Student Foundation only asked graduates to give
what they felt comfortable contributing.
But students tend to "scatter to the wind after
they graduate," Ash said, the University Founda
tion will send out reminders when the pledges are
due. Even with the reminders, Student Foundation
eventually will collect only 50 to 60 percent of
the promised money. In four years, when all the
pledges are in, the Student Foundation will buy
the clocks, Ash said.
One clock will go in each of the student
unions. The Student Foundation will reunite the
class of 1985 in 1990 to unveil the clocks.
When the Student Foundation first announced
the class gift would be two clocks, there was
some opposition. The main argument against the
clocks was that there were better ways the
money could be spent.
Ash said Student Foundation did not decide to
buy the clocks. A senior gift committee that
included representatives from student groups,
alumni, adminstration and the NU Foundation
narrowed the choices down to visitors' centers on
both campuses, a computer-based career infor
mation system and the clocks. The class then
voted on its choice.
"The purpose of the clocks was an expression
of a commitment to the university," he said. "It's
something visable and tangible."
Senior gifts will be annual projects for the
Student Foundation, he said. Ash said he doesn't
know what the next gift will be, but this spring,
graduates can expect a phone call from the
Student Foundation.
Milk crate thefts add up to $100,000 yearly loss to dairies
By Diana Johnson
Staff Reporter
Used as bookcases, storage crates
or makeshift entertainment centers,
those bulky, sturdy milk cases taken
from neighborhood grocery stores
add up to about $100,000 in stolen
company property a year, according
to some Lincoln dairies.
"Our cases are dingy gray. They're
ugly, but that doesn't stop people
from taking them," said Daryl Brown,
general manager of Beatrice Dairy
Products. "We have tried using every
color we could think of to detract
from their appeal, but that hasn't
stopped them (theives)."
Accounts of milk cases frequently
moving in and out of grocery stores
each week are kept; by dairy com
panies, but not by the store itself.
The number of cases deposited and
returned are recorded by the deliv
ery person. Grocery stores don't pay
for the stolen cases.
To decrease milk case theft, gro
cery stores put them in closed stor
age rooms. Others that lack inside
storage space must leave them on
outside docks.
Bob Ryan, dairy manager at Super
Saver grocery store, said the store
doesn't have a problem because
crates are stored inside.
"If we did catch someone steal
ing a milk crate, it would be consi
dered the same as shoplifting,"
Ryan said.
UNL food services have virtually
no milk crate theft problem, said
Hanna Hess, Selleck Quadrangle
food service manager. Almost all
milk cases are stored inside the res
idence halls, she said.
Brown said Beatrice Dairy Pro
ducts never sells crates.
"Every crate you see with our
name on it has been stolen," he
said.
Each case either plastic or wire,
is worth anywhere from $2 to $7,
said Jerry Huber, sales manager for
Gillette Dairy. At $6 a case, 22,000
stolen cases a year adds up to a
$132,000 loss to the company.
"We don't know how to control
it," Huber said. "People get hostile
when you try to tell them that milk
crate is not theirs. It is theft."
He said thefts aren't limited to
college students.
"It's everybody. It's easy to carry
things in the milk crates. They're
very handy," Huber said.
Shoplifting warnings to potential
thieves are now printed on each
mild case, he said.
Although most people steal one
or two milk crates at a time, 1 5 to 20
crates recently were stolen from
B&R IGA at 17th and Washington
streets, said Bob Frank, branch
manager for Roberts Dairy.
Milk case costs continue to rise,
increasing dairy products' costs,
Frank said. If and when milk cases
are returned to dairy companies,
their condition usually requires
costly cleaning. Since the cases
were used for storage, he said, they
are sometimes too misshapen to use
again.
Frank said he doesn't know how
to solve the problem.
"It looks to me as if it's growing
and growing," he said.
All three dairy companies sug
gested requiring grocery stores to
deposit $2 for each case delivered.
They also suggested state and fed
eral legislation that would allow
dairy companies to prosecute thieves
more directly for milk case theft.
