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'1 Weather: Mostly cloudy today with occasional flurries. Possible accumulation of one to two inches of snow and a high of 25. Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph. Flurries continuing tonight with a low of 15. Friday continued cold and a high of 22. Carr's jumpshot sinks No. 9 Sooners Sports, page 15 y N j J Precocious poodle V f dogmatic about fame Diversions, page 7 February 20, 1986 University of Nebraska-Lincoln Vol. 85 No. 106 7i 0 : I I n Mark DavisDaily Nebraskan Roskens speaks to the Legislature's Appropriations Committee during a hearing Wednesday. ossein U encelleoce real issue By Kent Endacott Senior Reporter NU president Ronald Roskens asked the legislative Appropriations Com mittee Wednesday to increase NU's funding to help it become an "effective partner in the state's economic re covery." Roskens said further reductions in state support for the university would be devastating. "It's at the point where you (state legislators) need to decide if you want a first-rate university," Roskens said. "It's no longer an issue of increased efficiency or program reductions. The real issue that we must face is whether we want to retain an excellent univer sity. "If we decide we want -to maintain an excellent university, then we must find a course for, financing it," he said. Roskens introduced the NU Board of Regent's 1986-87 budget request of $172 million, up from the NU budget proposal introduced by Gov. Bob Kerrey in November. Rosken's budget calls for a 6.2 per cent increase in UNL faculty salary in addition to the 3 percent across-the-board salary increase called for by Kerrey. "We're now struggling to maintain our faculty," Roskens said. "The in creased salary proposal is necessary to maintain our faculty salary level at a median among our peer institutions." The Appropriations Committee pro posal for the 1986-87 NU budget is $158.5 million. UNL football coach Tom Osborne told the committee that budget reduc tions have caused many high school seniors to pick other schools because they don't believe UNL offers a quality education. "It may be a little unusual for the committee to hear from a football coach," Osborne said. "But I get into the high schools across the country, and what I've been hearing is that they think it's impossible to get a good edu cation in Nebraska. "It's frustrating to hear a kid say he's going to go to Iowa University, Iowa State University or the University of Kansas for academic reasons," he said. "I could understand if they wanted to attend an Ivy League school to get a higher quality education, but these are the schools we're supposed to be equal with." Osborne also said classes are seriously overcrowded at UNL because of budget cuts. "Freshmen have been having a harder and harder time getting the classes they sign up for. It's to the point where some freshmen are having to miss prac tice. This may not seem like anything too serious, except when everybody tells you that you have to beat Okla homa." Dr. Lowell Saterlee, UNL food pro cessing center director, said other institutions are actively recruiting top faculty members at UNL.' "Three of the professors at the food processing center have been approached by other offers," he said. "They have resisted, hoping that the economy in Nebraska will turn around. "But they're starting to show a real concern for the approach the state is taking towards higher education," he said. Debate riohts res y in By Todd von Kampen Senior Reporter Supporters of a plan to give a vote to student regents hope to attach it to a constitutional amendment that would give the governor power to appoint reg ular regents. ASUN President Gerard Keating said Wednesday that Neligh Sen. John DeCamp plans to offer an amendment to LR32CA that would give one of the three student regents one full vote on a rotating basis. Senators will debate the amendment, which won first-round approval last year, this morning as the first item of business. DeCamp and Ord Sen. Carson Rogers are co-sponsors of LR306CA, which would give student regents one com bined vote. The amendment reached the first stage of debate before Attor ney General Robert Spire ruled last week that it violated both the U.S. and Nebraska constitutions. Spire said the amendment violated the federal "equal protection" clause by giving student regents less than full voting power and raised the number of regents over the maximum allowed by the Nebraska Constitution. DeCamp's amendment, Keating said, raises the maximum number of regents from eight to nine and gives one stu dent regent the same voting powers as a regular regent. A further amendment in the works, he said, would give UNL's student regent the vote for the first year, followed by the student regent at UNO and then at the NU Medical Cen ter. The Legislature would have the power to decide which campus gets the vote if DeCamp's first amendment passes. Keating said student leaders prefer the original student regent amend ment because they oppose giving the governor the power to appoint regents. But if LR32CA fails, he said, student leaders will try to get DeCamp's amendment attached to LR306CA. illilliilKBiliifiHlii , , x. ,. . . ' In-1! ? J.'H,'r-- IS:, goals: liliilHBi Ll!7 it? !' .'Aiure to rc;U is tv ..V i : ft, 1 A :. J. I f:, c;r.: ; I ! " AX h " 'J :'i 0 . M . ' !i I 'if .f- i-i .. : i - -' j j :y & I ? i .' -.