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February 20, 1986
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Vol. 85 No. 106
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Roskens speaks to the Legislature's Appropriations Committee during a hearing Wednesday.
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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.
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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.
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