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October 25, 1985
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By Linda Hartmann
Staff Reporter
Students will be the losers if the
Legislature makes major cuts in NlTs
budget, said Robert Furgason, vice
chancellor for Academic Affairs. And,
he added, UNL students should be
concerned.
Talk of large budget cuts is a real
threat to quality education at NU, Fur
gason said. NU not only is losing valua
ble faculty members, but it also can't
enhance the students' education.
Attempts to add a new freshman
orientation course and more honors
courses have failed. Now administra
tors may have to cut existing courses,
he said.
The College of Arts and Sciences is
among those schools facing possible
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G.G. Meisels, dean of the college,
said he will do his best to minimize the
effects of possible cuts on students.
But, he said, heavy cuts this late in the
year could cause serious problems
since most of the college's funds al
ready are used.
Around 80 percent of the college's
budget is committed to staff salaries,
and cutting courses won't save money
that is not available to spend, he said.
The remaining 20 percent of the
budget also is committed, Meisels said.
For example, faculty members in the
chemistry department buy all supplies
at the beginning of the school year.
Money in the personnel categories of
the College of Engineering and Tech
nology budget also is committed, said
Dean Stanley Liberty. The college is
operating on the assumption that next
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Police arrest 49
in local drug raid
By Donna Sisson
Staff Reporter
Nearly 50 people were arrested and
more than $600,000 in personal prop
erty and illegal drugs were confiscated
in a series of drug raids Wednesday
morning.
No UNL students were arrested.
The raids were the result of Opera
tion Southern Line an investigation
conducted over the past four years by
the personnel from the Lincoln and
UNL Policej the Nebraska State Patrol,
the Drug Enforcement Agency, the FBI,
the Internal Revenue Service and the
Lancaster County Sheriffs Office.
Organized Criminal Drug Enforce
ment in Nebraska Task Force has been
working on the case for about VA. years,
said Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert
Kokrda.
UNL police have been part of the
et cut
student
eait
semester's class schedule will remain
unchanged, even with large budget
cuts, he said.
The college may have to close some
courses eventually, but such closings
would not be possible next semester,
Liberty said.
The engineering college depends
heavily on part-time teachers to fill
class schedules. Liberty said layoffs to
cut sections of these courses would
create havoc among students unable to
get courses in the proper sequence for
graduation.
No classes in the College of Journal
ism are expendable, said Dean R. Neale
Copple. But, he said, if budget cuts
eliminate many part-time facutly mem
bers, the number of course sections
offered will be cut.
Coppl&said most of the Journalism
College's 1,036 students can get needed
courses. But, offering fewer sections
will cause many students to delay tak
ing necessary courses, he said.
"We have the leanest budget of any
major journalism program in the coun
try," he said.
Copple said the college has main
tained its high reputation despite a
student-professor ratio that is nearly
double the average ration of other Big
Eight journalism schools.
The Journalist laboratory newspaper,
operation of KRNU radio and other
profession-oriented programs in the
college could be eliminated to com
pensate for budget cuts, he said. That
would hurt the reputation of the school,
he said.
"We've pushed the facultyjust about
as far as we car " Copple said.
drug unit for about three years, said
Gail Gade, director of the department.
Three or four UNL police officers were
involved in the case, he said. About 100
law officers from the various agencies
were involved.
Seventy-four people were charged in
12 indictments issued Oct. 18 by the
Federal Grand Jury in Omaha. The
indictments alleged that these people
were invovled in a series of conspira
cies to distribute cocaine, maryuana
and LSD in Lincoln.
The various federal charges included
selling, distribution andor possession
with intent to distribute controlled
substances, use of communications
systems in the distribution of con
trolled substances and transporting
controlled substances across state lines.
. The arrests are just the beginning of
the court process for the case, which
could last more than a year, Kokrda
said.
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University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Native Americans say life is taken for granted
By Jane Campbell
Staff Reporter
When Charlee Archambault came
to UNL from the Rosebud Indian
Reservation in South Dakota, she
said, she thought people didn't
respect each other.
Archambault, now a sophomore,
said people stress respect for life at
her home. At UNL, she said, it seems
as though life is taken for granted.
"We were told you never know
when life will end so you should try
to be kind to each other," she said.
"You don't want to leave bad feel
ings behind."
Most UNL freshmen experience
some culture shock when they begin
college. But for 'about 35 Native
American UNL students, the shock
is stronger.
Besides adjusting to the univer
sity, roommates and a larger com
munity, Native Americans often
encounter major cultural differen
ces, said Webster Robbins, an asso
ciate professor of ethnic studies at
UNL.
"Values on the reservation are
not the typical middle-class values,"
he said.
Although many people on the
reservation are poor and unemploy
ASUN votes
By Jen Deselms
Staff Reporter
The ASUN Senate passed an amend
ment Wednesday supporting construc
tion of the proposed Lied Center for the
Performing Arts.
Sen. Jerry Roemer said the senate
supported the center because Nebraska
needs a performing arts center and the
money from the Lied Foundation, a gift
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Archambault
ment and alcoholism rates are high,
Archambault said, people would
offer everything they have to others.
Archambault said Native Ameri
cans don't express themselves verb
ally. "If somebody did something I
didn't like," she said, "I wouldn't
say anything, out of respect."
Archambault said most people
have no eye contact with each other.
When she came to UNL, she said,
eye contact made her nervous. Con
temporary Native Americans are be
ginning to have eye contact, she
said, but many still feel uncom
fortable. "I've never seen my grandparents
look at each other (in the eye)," she
said.
Archambault said she thinks
Native Americans avoid eye contact
out of respect for the other person.
Archambault said she has never had
eye contact with her 6-year-old
brother.
"(Avoiding eye contact) is not
something you're told," she said.
"It's something you grow up with."
Native Americans are taught to
respect everything the land, the
people, and especially their elders,
said Shawn Bordeaux, a freshman
who also is from the Rosebud Indian
to support
to the university, can't be used for any
thing else.
"We would be fools to turn it down,"
Roemer said.
The center is being financed by a $10
million gift from the late Ernst Lied, a
former Omaha businessman. The uni
versity has raised another $10 million
in private contributions.
"It's the biggest single contribution
to the university ever," Roemer said.
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Reservation.
"White people don't respect one
another as much," Bordeaux said.
He said he has met people at UNL
who walk into another person's
room and help themselves to what
ever is in the refrigerator. Bordeaux
said he was taught to knock and
show courtesy in another person's
home.
Respect is part of his religion, he
said. Catholicism, integrated with
traditional Native American cus
toms and ceremonies, is the pre
dominant religion on the Rosebud
Reservation.
Bordeaux said many people are
naive about Native Americans. He
said he met a girl at UNL who
thought Native Americans still lived
in tipis.
"Yeah," Bordeaux said, "I have a
four-bedroom tipi with two bath
rooms." People judge others for being
Native American, he said. Bordeaux
said he hasn't been affected as an
individual by prejudice at UNL, but
many people can't tell he is half
Native American. People who have
darker skin and typical Native
American features probably are
more affected, he said.
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The resolution gives ASUN's reasons
for supporting construction, including:
O The Lied Center is vital to stu
dents' cultural growth and development;
' P It fills a cultural void;
O Ernst Lied estate is giving $10
million as a challenge gift, and univer
sity supporters statewide and nation
wide have responded with more than
$10 million in additional support.
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