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Monday Weather: Partly cloudy and cold today with a high near 18. Winds light and varia ble. Frigid and mostly clear tonight with a low of -6. Continued cold Tuesday with a high near 20. 13 Nightmares moves and improves Arts and Entertainment, page 9 7 A I I .- u Thacker, relay team qualify for national meet Sports, page 8 Daily February 10, 1986 University of Nebraska-Lincoln Vol. 85 No. 98 prop sal anno yoc By Todd von Kampen Senior Reporter UNL officials Sunday released a list of $2.7 million in tentative budget cuts. Several academic programs, includ ing the NU School of Technical Agricul ture at Curtis, will be eliminated if the NU Board of Regents approves the list. The cuts would make up shortfalls caused by the Legislature's decision last fall to reduce Nil's state support for 1985-86. The cuts, which include elimination of 1 1 faculty positions and an undeter mined number of staff positions, will be presented to an ad-hoc advisory committee Wednesday. UNL's vice chancellors made up the list after Legislative orders to make per manent and temporary cuts totaling $2.9 million. Reductions in state sup port, combined with a required 3 per cent salary increase, left UNL with a $2 million deficit this year. If the list of permanent cuts is adopted without changes, only the Col lege of Journalism and the library sys tem would escape program cuts. Total permanent cuts by division include: O Academic Affairs $975,000 O Institute for Agriculture and Natural Resources $880,000 O Student Affairs - $75,000 O Business and Finance $400,000 O utilities $100,000 O other $250,000 Bob Bruce, director of University Information Office, said the advisory committee, which includes UNL stu dents, faculty members and staff mem bers, will review the proposals next month. The committee will recommend a final list of cuts in non-academic areas to Chancellor Martin Massen gale, while UNL's Academic Planning Committee will make recommendations on academic cuts. Final proposals should be completed by March 31, Bruce said. Representatives from the affected programs, Bruce said, should send written responses to the ad-hoc advi sory committee by Feb. 21. The com mittee plans a public meeting during the first week in March to hear re sponses from representatives of ASUN, UNL's Faculty Senate, the NU Office and Professional Association and the University Association for Administra tive Development, he said. See BUDGET on 5 '",-tLJ H - "' 1 1 ' mi ' attuT m ' 'i ' ranncn 1 -OTP x:3 v i "David CreamerDaiif Nebraskan Stratton, left, and Shields pose beneath a banner that announces The Great Peace March for nuclear disarmament. 3 students march for peace By Dorothy Pritchard Special to the Daily Nebraskan Three UNL students are walking 3,200 miles across the United States to show their support for global nuclear disarmament. Sheila Stratton, a senior with double majors in social work and political science, Lori Shields, a junior in Teachers College, and F Haygeman, a senior German ma,, .-, are taking nine months off from school to participate in The Great Peace March. Thousands of marchers will walk 15 miles a day, six days a week, beginning March 1 in Los Angeles. The march will end Nov. 15 with a rally in Washington, D.C. But, Shields said, "the highlights will be along the way, not the cele bration at the end." "Education is the focal point," Stratton said. "I think the individ ual feels very powerless and unim portant when it comes to nuclear arms. My goal is to personally inspire people when they see that we are just like they are and that they can do something." The student marchers do not feel they are hindering their education by participating in the march. "The university cannot offer me the education I'll be getting on this trip," Shields said. "IT! never get the chance again in my life. My par ents are just glad I'm not taking my motorcycle across the country." PRO-Peace, the march sponsor, estimates it will cost $1 per person per mile to cover for ' showers, laundry and other expenses along the way. Each marcher will try to cover these expenses through pledges. Marchers also are respon sible for their own health insurance (mandatory for the nine months they'll be marching), their equip ment and their transportation to Los Angeles and home from Wash ington, D.C. Stratton said 3,500 people are expected to leave Los Angeles and that number could reach 5,000 by the time the march reaches Denver. "It should be OK living with 5,000 people," Stratton said. "If I want to get away I can always go for a walk. I'm kind of leery about the showers. They're solar-powered and hold only two to three gallons per person per day." "I think it's important that peo pie know this isn't a mobile Wood stock or an overland Loveboat," Shields said. "There will be no !rugs or alcohol. It's i march of the lie .iVp-i u..4 ' There will ' all of people going ar ; they're saying nuclear weapons is waste of tax dollars and they're not keeping us safe." Shields and Stratton have ueen training for the march by walking and bicycling. They leave Feb. 5 for Los Angeles, where they will receive training in non-violence measures, public speaking, public relations and living in "tent cities." Shields and Stratton said anyone who would like to march part time or march just through Nebraska (June 5 to July 4) should contact Nebraska coordinator Diane Randall Mustonen at (402) 348-1068. Adiltlontl Budftt Cuti IRNR odnl c alfalfa othtr tudtnt si ) at Tt jiuilniii a f Inane Keating confident ruling will favor student vote By Todd von Kampen Senior Reporter A legislative committee's decision Friday to advance a constitutional amendment giving regents one com bined vote on the NU Board of Regents is "a giant step forward" for NU stu dents, ASUN President Gerard Keating said Saturday. But Monroe Sen. Lee Rupp, chair man of the Legislature's Constitutional Revision and Recreation Committee, said LR306CA will die if Attorney Gen eral Robert Spire rules that it violates the federal principle of "one man, one vote." The committee advanced the amendment, which is sponsored by Neligh Sen. John DeCamp and Ord Sen. Carson Rogers, on a 4-1 vote. Critics of the amendment have chal lenged its legality because it would give NU students a voice through two votes on the board of regents one through the student regents and a second through the regent who repres ents the students' home district. Deputy Attorney General Gene Crump said Friday that Spire should rule on the amendment today or Tues day. Rupp said the committee had plan ned to wait until Spire issued his ruling oefore voting to advance the bill. But the load and importance of business in the 60-day legislative session convinced the committee to pass the amendment, he said. "That's not normally the way we do business," Rupp said. Keating said he remains confident that Spire will rule that the amend ment can be considered. Similar amend ments in other states have survived challenges under the "one-man, one vote" principle, he said. "Now it's time for the Legislature to consider it, make the decision and let the people of Nebraska make the final decision as to how this institution should be governed," he said. Rupp said senators probably would wait several weeks before debating the amendment. When they do, Keating said, ASUN and the Government Liai son Committee will lobby for its pas sage on a similar scale to their efforts last fall to trim cuts in NU's budget. Keating said the effort to pass the amendment should continue after his term expires next month. The two par ties that already have announced their . candidacy in the 1986 ASUN campaign have supported the amendment in their platforms, he said. NCLU may file suit over 'Mail, Mary' cancellation By Jonathan Taylor Senior Reporter ihe Nebraska Civil Liberties Union may file a lawsuit against the univer sity if the Sheldon Film Theatre doesn't show a previously scheduled film, said John Taylor, executive director of NCLU. The controversial film, "Hail, Mary" by French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard, was canceled by Sheldon Director George Neubert last week. "If the problem is not solved prior to the originally scheduled dale for the film (May 29), that will be an indica tion for NCLU to pursue litigation," Taylor said. But the attorneys have not yet deter mined who may be named as plaintiff and defendants in the suit, he said. Before any legal action is taken, Tay lor said, the NCLU first will "try to settle the problem through administra tive actions at the university." The NCLU's goal is to reverse the decision made to cancel the film, Tay lor said. "The way the university deals with that is its problem," he said. The NCLU board of directors made its decision to pursue the "Hail, Mary" issue Saturday after studying a recom mendation by the Lincoln Lawyer's Panel. The panel said the cancellation of the film violates the First Amend ment, and Taylor said the board agreed. "The feeling of the board . . .is that we have a situation where we have a film by a noted director, which, by the university's action, people are being denied access to," Taylor said. See HAIL, MARY on 5 Giinci: j Pzo 3