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Ward of 'Remo' isn't
just a Rambo clone
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New Colorado offense
concerns Mucker coach
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October 23, 1985
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Vol. 85 No. 42
ay more cuats conuM cripple KTU
By Todd von Kampen
" Senior Reporter
NU President Ronald Roskens on Tuesday
gave the Legislature's Appropriations Commit
tee a long list of projected NU budget and pro
gram cuts and a warning that those cuts could
cause lasting damage to the university.
A crowd of about 200, many of them NU faculty
members and students, filled a state capitol
hearing room for almost two hours of testimony
against Gov. Bob Kerrey's proposed $5 million
cut in NU's 1985-86 budget. The audience
included four of NU's eight regents, ASUN Presi
dent Gerard Keating, the faculty senate presi
dents of NU's three campuses and student group
representatives.
Roskens told the committee that the NU
budget can be cut only by "changing markedly
the historic mission of this university."
"I'd like you to know that, in our judgment,
these actions are unwise and they may very well
cripple the university for decades to come,"
Roskens said. "But we have no choice. We are
forced now to submit this list to you to meet the
3 percent mid-year reduction probabilities or
possibilities."
Reductions needed
To meet Kerrey's 3 percent reduction plan,
Roskens said, UNL will have to trim about $2.7
million from its present budget and another $2.7
million in upcoming years. Possible 1985-86 cuts
could include:
$1 million in spending for current part
time faculty members and hiring new full-time
faculty members in such areas as business
administration, engineering, mathematics and
journalism.
$600,000 in equipment purchases.
$50,000 in travel budgets.
O $150,000 in library spending.
O $100,000 in women's intercollegiate
athletics.
O $100,000 in the Nebraska Educational
Television Network budget.
O $50,000 from the Nebraska State Museum
in Morrill Hall.
O $25,000 from the Sheldon Art Gallery.
O $20,000 from the Community Resource
and Research Center.
0 $50,000 from the Bureau of Business
Research.
O $50,000 from the Counseling Center,
O $150,000 from a 15 percent reduction in
the budget for extension agents.
$345,000 from the elimination of all UNL
staff other than tenured faculty members.
Permanent UNL budget cuts after July 1, 1986,
would include $542,000 from the budgets for
women's intercollegiate athletics and the Bob
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Sen. Ray Lundy of Kearney (left) talks with Ronald Roskens before an Appropriations Committee hearing.
Devaney Sports Center; $125,000 from the
Nebraska ETV budget; $250,000 from closing the
Community Resource and Research Center and
the Bureau of Business Research; $400,000 from
the extension agent budget; $80,000 from
Sheldon Art Gallery and the Nebraska State
Museum; $1.3 million from closing the NU School
of Technical Agriculture at Curtis.
Forced to close
If state support for NU is reduced by 5.6 per
cent more than $9.3 million UNL could be
forced to close the Nebraska State Museum and
the Counseling Center, reduce NETV to part
time broadcasting, cut all spending for women's
intercollegiate athletics and trim almost
$850,000 from academic programs, Roskens said.
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Waverly Sen. Jerome Warner, Appropriations
Committee chairman, said the committee must
plan for 5.6 percent cuts for state agencies in
case the Legislature approves no tax increases
during the special legislative session.
Nebraskans showed this summer they wanted
present programs continued when they told the
NU Board of Regents not to cut the NU Medical
Center's College of Pharmacy and the School of
Nursing's Lincoln division, Roskens said. He told
the committee he was "at best impatient" with
those who suggested Nebraskans want to let
other states train their students.
Each of the 1 6 people who testified before the
committee urged senators to leave NU's funding
intact. NU Regent John Payne of Kearney said
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further cuts would "decimate the institution" in
light of budget cuts in previous years.
'Frustrated and enraged'
Desmond Wheeler, UNL Faculty Senate presi
dent, said other states with budget problems
increased their spending for their universities to
encourage businesses to locate in their states. He
said faculty morale at UNL is so low that more
cuts would "convert a respectable state univer
sity into a glorified state college."
Guy Mockelman, a senior economics major at
UNO and a board member of the Nebraska State
Student Association, said students are "frus
trated and enraged" at the prospect of further
cuts. About 40 college students picketed in front
of the state capitol during the hearing.
ay Kerrey tfactfcs are wrong
By Martha Stoddard
Staff Reporter
Gov. Bob Kerrey had his facts wrong when he
suggested NU's graduate professional schools
and central administration are more expendable
than the undergraduate programs, four NU
administrators said Tuesday.
Kerrey said in a Tuesday Daily Nebraskan
article that professional schools such as the NU
Medical Center and the College of Law should be
cut first because comparatively few Nebraskans
attend them and fewer of their graduates stay in
Nebraska than those of the undergraduate pro
grams. "That's wrong," said NU Medical Center
Chancellor Charles Andrews.
Between 98 percent and 99 percent of the
students in medical center programs are Ne
braskans, Andrews said. The number of gradu
ates who stay in the state varies from program to
program. Andrews said 30 percent of doctors who
graduate from the medical center stay in the
state, but more than 60 percent of graduates who
go through the residency program stay.
Of Nebraska's more than 2,000 practicing doc
tors, 60 percent are graduates of the medical
center, said Dave Ogden, director of public
affairs at the medical center.
Harvey Perlman, dean of the UNL College of
Law, also disputed Kerrey's statement. He said
90 percent of UNL law students are Nebraska
residents. Historically, 65 percent of the col
lege's graduates have stayed in the state, he
said. Excluding Douglas County, which attracts
more graduates from other schools, 80 percent of
the lawyers and judges in the state are UNL
graduates, Perlman said.
It would be a significant loss to the state if the
law college was closed, Perlman said. Unlike
other disciplines that could be studied any
where, he said, the law college is the only state
supported institution that deals with Nebraska
law.
College faculty members often help the gov
ernor and the Legislature with legal questions,
Perlman said. The college's law library has the
largest collection of legal materials in the state
and often is used by practicing lawyers.
Kerrey said the NU central administration
costs the state $19 million, money that could be
saved without damage to the university campuses.
However, eliminating the central administra
tion would save only $1.9 million, said Alan
Seagren, NU vice president for adminstration. He
said the larger figure is the budget for adminis
tration in general.
The administrative budget for the whole uni
versity includes money for comptrollers' offices
and accounting offices at IJNL, UNO and the
medical center.
UNL Chancellor Martin Massengale said other
states are supporting education to promote eco
nomic development. He said the governor of
Tennessee listed his 10 priorities as "education,
education, education..."
Massengale said that commitment to educa
tion made the difference in the General Motors
Corp. decision to build its Saturn plant in
Tennessee.
