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April 9, 1986
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Vol. 85 No. 135
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Staff Reporter
Tvvo parties have presented presi
dential candidates for the Residence
Hall Association in today's residence
hall election.
Students will vote for Ken Libby
from the Unity party or Mike Baacke
from the Advance party.
Libby is running alone, but Baacke
has three other executive candidates
on his ticket. Students also will decide
on members of individual complex
governments for the 1986-87 school
year.
No referendum or survey questions
have been placed on the ballot this
year.
Libby, a sophomore business admin
istration major, is an RHA senator and
was this year's co-chairman for Resi
dence Hall Week.
Baacke, a senior computer science
major, is RHA secretary. He is also chief
executive of the Harper-Schramm-Smith
complex.
Both presidential candidates said
the campus alcohol policy is an impor
tant issue facing RHA. Libby said
although a change in policy allowing
alcohol in the residence halls is not
likely for several years, RHA needs to
study the issue and set goals for having
the policy changed if ASUN fails to set
up a task force on the issue.
Baacke said banning alcohol on
campus hinders alcohol education in
the halls.
The candidates also said they want
residents to be more aware of RHA
activities by having meetings and open
forums in the halls periodically instead
of limiting RHA meetings to the Nebra
ska Union.
Libby said low-occupancy rates in
the halls concern his party. He would
like RHA to work with deans and pre
admissions officers to attract more
students to the university, in turn
attracting more students to the resi
dence halls, he said.
Baacke said his concerns include
working for different meal plans that
would let students pay for fewer meals
if they choose. Currently, students
must pay for 20 meals a week as part of
their contracts.
Baacke said he also would try to
develop a priority system for assigning
single rooms. Current policy doesn't let
some students who deserve single rooms
get them, he said. i
Advance party vice-presidential candi
date Pete Castellano is a sophomore
political science major, Castellano is
RHA vice president, an ASUN senator
and a UNL delegate to the Nebraska
State Student Association.
Polls will be open at different times
in each complex: Harper-Schramm-Smith,
10 a.m.-8 p.m.; Burr-Fedde, 5
p.m.-7 p.m.; Cather-Pound-Neihardt,
4:30 -6:15 p.m.; Abel-Sandoz, 10 a.m.-6
p.m.; and Selleck, 10 a.m.-8 p.m.
By Todd von Kampen
Senior Reporter
For officials at the NU School of
Technical Agriculture at Curtis and
West Nebraska General Hospital in
Scottsbluff, the waiting is the hardest
part.
The two institutions were among the
beneficiaries of about $2 million that
the Legislature added to the 1986-87
budget. UNSTA got $245,000 as protec
tion against deep budget cuts, while
the NU Medical Center got $100,000 to
begin an already-approved bacheloi's
degree nursing program at Scottsbluff.
The budget won final passage Friday.
But on Monday, Gov. Bob Kerrey said
on an Omaha TV station that the extra
spending "will have to go" as part of
$45 million to $50 million in line-item
vetoes to avoid a tax increase. The
added uncertainty increases the ten
sion of awaiting the budget's fate, said
officials in Curtis and Scottsbluff.
"You know what it's like waiting for
a government or organization to do
something," said Jeanne Moriarty, vice
president of patient services at WNGH.
"It's kind of nerve-racking."
"It's terribly tough," said UNSTA
Associate Director for Academic Affairs
Jerry Huntwork. "I'll tell you, this last
year has been pure hell. Certainly, on
staff and on students, this last year has
been real tough."
As passed, the budget bill gives
UNSTA the money it needs to stay open,
Huntwork said. The amendment that
added the $245,000 directs the Insti
tute of Agriculture and Natural Re
sources to spend a total of $1,245 mil
lion on UNSTA's 1986-87 budget. Farnam
Sen. Tom Vickers, chairman of the
Legislature's Education Committee,
sponsored the amendment.
Even the $1,245 million budget
represents a 10 percent drop from this
year's spending, Huntwork said. With
out the added $245,000, he said, UNSTA
will have to leave faculty positions
vacant and push even harder for coope
rative programs with community col
leges. UNSTA has contacted every com
munity college in Nebraska about
possible cooperation, he said.
Huntwork said UNSTA did not press
Vickers, whose district includes the
school, to propose the amendment gua
ranteeing UNSTA funding. But he said
he was not surprised senators voted to
approve the amendment.
"I really feel that the state senators
realize that we have a problem," he
said. "The thing to be addressed now is
the revenue (to pay for it). We've got to
alie r something."
Moriarty said the money for WNGH's
nursing program is intended to avoid
future problems. National nursing
groups are pressuring states to require
a bachelor's degree in nursing before a
nurse can be licensed. North Dakota
already requires a degree.
'You know what it's
like waiting for a
government or
organization to do
something. Its kind
of nerve-racking.'
Moriarty
"The difference is that licensed
graduates will be able to work versus
not being able to work," Moriarty said.
If some states continue to limit licens
ing requirements to a diploma, like the
one WNGH offers, nurses with diplomas
might not be able to work where they
want.
Many of WNGH's nursing graduates
do not have the money to go anywhere
else for school, Moriarty said. If licens
ing requirements change and the Pan
handle does not have a nursing pro
gram, some students will be unable to
enter the field, she said.
Moriarty said the $100,000 will go
toward beginning courses for the sopho
more year of study. She said WNGH
eventually will need $500,000 a year,
divided between the hospital and the
state, as the students move into their
junior and senior years. Freshman
courses can be taken at Scottsbluff s
Nebraska Western College or other
schools.
Phonathon pledges pass half-way mark
By Michael Hooper
Staff Reporter
The phonathon is on.
On Monday, five days after UNL's
Student Foundation started the phona
thon, the Class of 1986 had pledges
$27,465 pledges to support the UNL
library system, said the foundation's
adviser, Tom Ash.
All pledges, which the group hopes
will exceed $50,000 by Friday, go toward
the senior gift, Ash said.
The pledges are scheduled to be col
lected over four years, with each con
tributing senior donating $100. After
four years, Ash said, the money will be
put in the bank as two endowment
funds, one of which will be used to buy
books and periodicals. The other will
buy needed library resources.
With these difficult economic times,
1986 graduates wanted to leave some
thing more academic than last year's
senior gift of two clocks, Ash said.
Ash said the foundation set up a
22-member committee last fall to re
search possible senior gift ideas.
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construction cf ths Lied Center f:.r
Performing Arts and provides fcr
s&fety improvements at NU
Unas the Legislature's ealier com
mitment to provide $3 million to
build the Lied Center.
On a 4 1-4 vote, senators gave final t The bill also appropriates $325,000
round approval to LB 1252, which ' from the Nebraska Capital Construe
appropriates $350,000 for the con- tion to NU to be used for fire and life
struction of the Lied Center. safety improvements.
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