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November 1, 1985
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Vol. 85 No. 49
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David CreamerDaily Nebraskan
Haig says dollar devaluation
will lead to temporary boom
By Kent Endacott
Staff Reporter
The United States is moving toward eco
nomic prosperity despite the huge national
deficit, former U.S. Secretary of State Alex
ander Haig said Thursday.
Haig, who spoke at the Omaha Civic Audit
orium, said a decrease in the value of the
dollar is moving the nation's economy towards
a "mini boom." The prosperity will last at
least five quarters, he said.
"The dollar has fallen to where it is only 15
percent more expensive than it should be,"
he said. "That's good news."
However, Haig said, the rising protection
ist sentiment in the nation could force an
economic downturn. Farmers would be
affected the most by protectionist legisla
tion, he said.
"If you look at the domestic market it's
been a lackluster year. The reason has been
the balance of trade," Haig said. "The protec
tionists would only make it worse."
"Farmers have suffered terribly," he said.
Haig blamed the current budget deficit,
the largest in U.S. history, on the Reagan
Administration's "simplistic supply-side
economic philosophy."
"Reagan's deregulation and tax reforms
have resulted in a major hit on revenues,"
Haig said. "He must be dragged to the altar of
alternative revenues."
He said the Reagan administration "lacks
the courage to stand up to fiscal responsi
bility." "The budget must be cut," Haig said,
"even if that means cutting the defense
budget."
However, the balanced budget amendment
Reagan supports is "impractical," he said.
On another matter, Haig praised Reagan's
handling of the Achille Lauro hijacking.
"Thank God Reagan had the courage to
take action against the hyackers," he said.
"If the U.S. would have failed to act, the cost
would have been severe."
However, Haig said, Reagan should not
have criticized the governments of Italy and
Egypt publicly.
"Public criticism of a friendly government
such as Italy is a mistake," he said.
Wesley to introduce amendment
million in NU cuts
rat round
Sen. Ernie Chambers of Omaha argued t hat "if
you. . . see the amount it's going to take i.o offer
somewhat of a decent education, and you don't
offer that, why are you going to believe you're
going to get better for less? You can't do that."
Sen. Rod Johnson of Sutton said the universi
ty's budget cuts might eliminate programs
which he said help the state, such as the NU
school of technical agriculture at Curtis.
"We may well lose those things we have
worked so hard to build up," he said.
"Students who are coming out of these cam
puses. . . are those who are going to help us
work our way out of the problems (facing agri
culture)," Johnson said.
Sen. Tom Vickers of Farnam also showed con
cern about university cuts.
"I'm very concerned about the attitude of the
president of the university as far as budget cuts
are concerned," he said,
Vickers said that as a state senator there's one
thing he won't tolerate "and that is to forget
what the purpose of education is all about.
"I'd like to tell the president of the university
and (NU) Board of Regents that they ought to
look at themselves before they look at cutting
back on services to the students."
By Tammy Kaup
Staff Reporter
The bill that would cut 3 percent of the uni
versity budget for 1985-86 passed the first round
of debate 36-3 in the Legislature on Thursday.
The bill, LB1, would cut a total of $18.9 million
from the state budget, including $5 million from
the NU budget.
"This isn't a concession whatsoever on the
university or others," State Sen. Don Wesely of
Lincoln told the Associated Press in response to
the sparse opposition to the committee's
budget-trimming package.
"Whether it's good strategy or not, I don't
know, but we're attemptinglo be accommodat
ing," he said. "We'll fight next week when we
come back fresh."
In the AP story, Wesely said opponents of the
committee's recommendation agreed to wait
until second-round debate to present amend
ments to reduce cuts in portions of the budget
package.
Wesely said he will introduce an amendment
next week to reduce the university's budget cut
to 1.5 percent from the panel's suggested 3 per
cent reduction.
The university's budget would be cut by $4.9
million under the committee's plan.
Devaney doesn 't anticipate cuts
Budget cuts could mean
fewer coaches, recruits
By Deb Pederson
Senior Reporter
Editor's note: This is the third story in
a five-part series that tries to examine
how proposed budget cuts would affect
some of UNL's programs. The Legisla
ture has proposed 3 percent, or about $5
million, cut in state support for the
university.
University budget cuts proposed by Gov. Bob
Kerrey and the Legislature could hurt the qual
ity of women's athletics at UNL, several women's
athletics coaches said.
The Cutting Edge
Some programs cannot operate competitively
on less money and academic cuts would hurt
recruiting, the coaches said.
Basketball coach Kelly Hill said it was "almost
impossible in our situation to trim more out of an
already lean budget."
If faced with a budget cut, women's athletics
would have to trim funds from all programs or
eliminate a team or a coach, she said.
"It would be most detrimental to take
coaches," Hill said. "It would be hard otherwise
to maintain a competitive program."
She said no program is exempt from cuts and
no sport is more important than another.
Cutting recruiting or coaches would be bad,
but if it came to that, Hill said, it would be
Athletic Director Bob Devaney's decision.
Devaney said he doesn't anticipate any cuts.
But if cuts had to be made, he said, parts of
men's and women's athletic programs would be
affected.
Devaney declined to comment on any specific
programs or areas that would be cut.
Softball coach Wayne Daigle said his current
budget wasn't bareboned compared to schools
he's coached at before, but budget cuts would
hurt the program.
"I definitely think academic cuts will hurt
down the road in recruiting," Daigle said.
Potential recruits pay attention to the aca
demic reputation of schools, he said.
Gymnastics coach Rick Walton said cuts in
academic programs would hurt recruiting be
cause athletes look for a solid education.
"Gymnastics is not a professional sport so the
academics are very important to the athletes,"
he said.
If the gymnastics budget was cut, Walton said,
the team would adjust and still have a quality
program.
"We would cut out a trip or two," Walton said.
"It wouldn't hurt that much. We're going to do
what everyone else is and tighten our belts and
still be conference champions and make it to
nationals."
Cross Country coach Jay Dirksen said a
budget cut wouldn't hurt his program directly
because it is "the cheapest to run," but cuts in
the academic programs would hurt his recruiting.
"Cross Country has one of the highest GPA's in
sports," he said. Some team members are major
ing in pharmacy and pre-medicine, he said.
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