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January 17, 1986
Fricke says
more Regents
oppose freeze
By Kent Endacott
Senior Reporter
More NU regents support a 3 percent
faculty salary increase than support a
faculty salary freeze, said Regent
Donald Fricke of Lincoln on Thursday.
"If you're going to increase the uni
versity's budget by 2.3 percent," Fricke
said, "then we can certainly afford a 3
percent increase in faculty salary."
Gov. Bob Kerrey recommended a 2.3
percent increase in NlTs current budget,
which would include a 3 percent raise
in faculty salary.
Regent Robert Koefoot recently said
that he may propose a salary freeze if the
university does not receive more than
the proposed 2.3 percent.
Kerrey recommended in his State of
the State address that Nebraska appro
priate $165.6 million for the fiscal 1986
87 budget.
While in North Platte Tuesday,
Koefoot said that if he makes his prop
osal, he will submit it before the next
fiscal year, which begins July 1. Koefoot
could not be reached for comment
Thursday.
Regent Kermit Hansen of Elkhorn
said the NU Board of Regents will
request a 4.6 percent, or $4.9 million
salary increase when the Legislature
considers NU's budget.
A salary increase of 4.9 million is
needed to keep NU competitive among
its peer institutions, he said.
Even so, Fricke said an increase of
4.6 percent in faculty salaries over the
proposed 3 percent would be too much.
"At this point, with the economy in
its present condition, we can't reallo
cate," Fricke said. "It's just too great of
a differential."
Hansen said the board of regents
also will give priority attention to NU's
equipment budget.
"We need to get back to where we
are buying new and better equipment,"
he said. "There have been serious cuts
in the equipment budget over the past
five years. In the end, it's just cheating
the students."
Students' pasts
By Merry Hayes
Staff Reporter
A survey of 541 UNL students con
cerning crimes they have committed
has revealed some "disturbing" results,
said Chris Eskridge, NU criminal jus
tice professor.
"We're supposed to be the heart of
America with conservative, middle-class
values, the salt of the earth," Eskridge
said in response to the results. "I think
it's a little bit disturbing."
The 30 question survey included
questions about crimes such as cheat
ing, gambling, shoplifting, using illegal
drugs, hiring a prostitute and commit
ting sexual assault. The frequency of
crimes committed was not a factor.
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reveal cheating,
78 percent reported cheating on
a test.
25 percent cheated on a term
paper.
94 percent drank some form of
alcoholic beverage as a minor.
56 percent used maryuana.
78 percent drove while drunk.
64 percent shoplifted an item
worth less than $10.
8 percent took items from their
roommates.
0 And 39 percent illegally gambled
more than $10 on a sporting event.
The average number of self-reported
deviant activities was eight.
Yet 93 percent of those surveyed said
they generally consider themselves law
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a "predominance of self-grandisement,"
he said.
Sixty-three percent of those who had
committed eight crimes or less said
criminals should be given harsher
sentences than they now receive.
"It's a 'get them, not me' kind of
attitude," Eskridge said. "You're only a
criminal if you get caught."
None of the students taking the sur
vey had ever been convicted of a felony.
Eskridge said the survey, given in six
of his criminal justice classes, does not
necessarily reflect the crimes perpe
trated by the university as a whole.
"It seems that there is a basically
general acceptance of self-report sur
veys," Eskridge said. "But I question
the generalization ability of them."
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begin So show
cyfis' effects
By Todd von Kampen
Senior Reporter
Editors note: This is the first of
a three-part series on the effects
of NU's mid-year budget cut.
Like a farmer hoping for spring
rains, UNL officials are hoping for good
weather their wish is for low utility
bills.
They're also hoping that computers,
typewriters and ceilings will last another
semester without falling apart.
Students, too, are watching for
changes. Many fear courses in their
colleges will dwindle before they com
plete their degrees.
Most of the long-term effects of the
Legislature's 2 percent cut in NU's
state support for 1985-86 aren't visible
yet, UNL officials said. But as UNL tries
to adjust to the sudden loss of operat
ing money, they said, the signs of
budget cuts are showing up in basic
features of university life.
' "Some of the sidewalks are begin
ning to break up," said George Tuck,
professor of journalism and secretary of
the UNL Faculty Senate. "...Modern
languages were doing duplications on
the backs of old tests. Some of them
you couldn't even read."
UNL officiate chose larger cuts in
their operating budget because they
would best preserve, the university's
strengths, said Robert Furgason, vice
chancellor for academic affairs.
Across-the-board cuts, he said, could
do lasting damage to some of UNL's
best programs.
"I don't want to go to the least com
mon denominator, which is mediocrity
everywhere," Furgason said.
Randal Haack, NU budget director,
said the NU Board of Regents allocated
UNL almost $1.8 million of the univer
sity's $3.3 million budget cut. Of that
total, he said, UNL officials cut:
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O $630,000 in equipment purchases.
O $140,000 in spending on equip
ment maintenance and repairs.
O $250,000 from the utility budget.
O $38,000 in contracts with other
schools that teach Nebraska veterinary
medicine students.
O $220,500 in miscellaneous spend
ing. The personnel cuts mean UNL won't
be able to fill many vacancies in the
faculty and staff, Furgason said. How
ever, the exact number of temporarily
unfilled jobs won't be available until
later in the year, he said.
In anticipation of the budget cuts,
Furgason said, UNL cancelled plans to
add 70 course sections in high-demand
areas like business, journalism and
English composition.
Business students will have prob
lems getting courses in the future
because extra sections in lower-level
classes could not be added, he said.
The conflict that developed this
week over registration for a section of
Economics 212, Furgason said, was
indirectly related to the budget cuts.
The students who found themselves
without a class, he said, shouldn't have
been allowed to register for that par
ticular section.
But, Furgason said, 70 students had
submitted special appeals to enter the
economics course besides those who
were improperly registered. Although
UNL added an extra section, he said,
students shouldn't believe sections
can be added at will.
"At the very last minute," he said,
"you may not be able to go back and
find a properly qualified instructor."
Although students may be able to
find ways to graduate on time, Furga
son said, their luck in finding open
sections may soon run out.
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