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April 11, 1986
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Vol. 85 No. 137
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Barkley Center addition dedicated today
By Janis Lovitt
Staff Reporter
More than 40 years ago, William
and Edna Barkley of Lincoln estab
lished a $200,000 trust for UNL.
When the.Barkleys established
the trust, they wanted it to be used
for a center that would prepare
teachers to train children and adults
with speech and hearing problems.
Mrs. Barkley, who lost her hear
ing in her later years, became inter
ested in programs and services for
the hearing impaired. After attend
ing courses at UNL, Mrs, Barkley
and her husband decided they
wanted to help expand the pro
grams. The Barkleys' wish came true
when the Barkley Center on East
Campus was dedicated in 1976.
The Barkleys probably would be
pleased with developments at the
center, said John Bcrnthal, director
of the Barkley Center.
Undergraduates and graduates in
special education and communica
tion disorders learn skills in teach
ing handicapped children and adults,
he said.
Not only does the Barkley Center
work with speech and hearing de
fects, but the centers' studies have
expanded into areas of mental
retardation, behaviorally impaired,
language and learning disabilities
and gifted children and adults, Bern
thai said.
Participation in the program grew
so much that the members of the
Barkley Trust fund decided to add
to the original building, he said.
The result is a $1.8 million addi
tion, completely funded by the trust, '
that will be dedicated today at 3
p.m., he said. A 2 p.m. lecture will
precede the dedication ceremony.
The addition will provide more
space for research, an important
part of the Barkley Center's pro
grams, Bernthal said.
Three new classrooms will be
added, complete with closed circuit
TV. Another large classroom for pre
school children's play will be added,
he said. The play area in the room
will begin inside and extend out
doors. An area for food preparation and
laundry room for the preschool
laboratory also will be added.
The decication ceremony will
begin with lecture by Ronald Kelly,
assistant dean of the National Insti
tute for the Deaf and director of the
Division of Communication Pro
grams at the Rochester, N.V., Insti
tute of Technology.
Kelly, a UNL alumnus, will pres
ent a speech on the importance of
quality education for the handi
capped. At 3 p.m., the dedication cerem
ony will move to the south entrance
of the building, Bernthal said, Tours
of the center will follow.
An open house is scheduled for
Sunday from 2 to 5 p.m. The dedica
tion ceremonies and the open house
are open to the public.
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By Todd von Kampen
Senior Reporter
Gov. Bob Kerrey announced $32.6
million in line-item vetoes to the 1986
87 state budget Thursday including
$3.1 million of NU support.
The vetoes, if sustained by the Legis
lature, would leave NU with a net 1.5
percent increase in general-fund money
next year. Kerrey signed a bill giving a
3 percent salary increase for NU and
other state employees without making
any line-item vetoes.
Joe Rowson, NU director of public
affairs, said university officials need
time to look over the vetoes before
making any comment. But ASUN Presi
dent Chris Scudder said Kerrey's deci
sions are "creating a bigger problem
and making no strides to solve it"
without some kind of tax increase.
"If they don't take a tax increase,"
she said, "they lose the university."
Kerrey told a capacity audience in
the Capitol that the line-item vetoes
represent "$32.6 million that will be
left in the hands of citizens and busi
nesses." He said he believes Nebras
kans cannot afford to make up an esti
mated $13 million revenue shortfall
this year with a sale or income tax
increase.
Supporters of the various state
agencies are certain to oppose the
cuts, but the state has no choice but to
make them, Kerrey said.
"There is no spending reduction
that doesn't, on the surface, appear
unrealistic . . . What the Legislature
accomplished during the special ses
sion was unrealistic, but they did it and
we survived."
If the line-item vetoes are sustained,
NU would:
Receive $159.1 million in state
support, down from the $161.9 million
approved by senators in LB 1251, the
main budget bill. NU's 1985-86 budget
after last fall's special session totaled
$161.9 million.
Lose $100,000 that had been
added by senators to start a bachelor's
degree nursing program at Scottsb
luff s West Nebraska General Hospital.
Scottsbluff Sen. William Nichol,
speaker of the Legislature, walked out
sypp.n
of the news conference when Kerrey
announced the cut.
Retain the $245,000 added for
the NU School of Technical Agriculture
at Curtis. But Kerrey's line-item vetoes
removed the requirement that the NU
Board of Regents spend $1,245 million
on UNSTA next year.
O Retain $50,000 set aside to pay
for a director of NU's new food process
ing center. Kerrey also struck the
requirement that the regents spend
the $50,000 for that purpose.
Kerrey said the regents will face
"some very hard decisions" regarding
NU's future. But he disagreed with crit
ics who say NU cannot afford another
budget cut.
"They will survive, unless one has to
redefine the word 'survival,' " he said.
" 'They will survive, but they will be
different."
"It scares me to think that Kerrey
doesn't realize that this is not survival,
because either way we lose," Scudder
said.
If senators do not override the vetoes
and raise taxes, she said, faculty
members will get a salary increase "at
the expense of programs for students."
Lincoln Sen. David Landis, who
attended the news conference, said he
expects override attempts on all the
line-item vetoes when the Legislature
reconvenes Monday. But he said he was
uncertain if the necessary 30 senators
would vote for the overrides.
"I think you have to ask people like
(Coleridge Sen. Elroy) Hefner and
(Anselmo Sen. Howard) Lamb on what
they're going to do," Landis said.
Hefner said he will vote to sustain all
the vetoes and thinks the vote on the
overrides will be close. He said he also
plans to fight any tax increase.
"I know it's going to mean many
sacrifices," he said, "but the sacrifices
won't be as great as when the farmer or
small businessman is foreclosed on.
There's a lot of unhappy people out
there."
ASUN will set up a phone bank in the
Nebraska Union main lobby today for
students to call their senators about
the budget issue. The phone bank also
will be open Saturday from 8 a.m. to
noon.
Advance party candidates win RHA elections
By Linda Hartmann
Staff Reporter
Advance party candidates for Resi
dence Hall Association offices were
declared unofficial winners in the 1986
87 elections, according to results re
leased Thursday.
Mike Baacke, a senior -computer
science major took the presidential
position with 60 percent of the vote.
Ken Libby, a sophomore business
administration major who ran alone on
the Unity party ticket, took 32 percent
of the 504 ballots cast.
Eight percent of the votes were
write-ins.
Polls in the Cather-Pound-Neihardt
and Burr-Fedde residential complexes
were open several hours Thursday morn
ing, the day after official elections, to
compensate for the complexes' shorter
election hours Wednesday.
Current RHA President John Dan
forth said election regulations require
the polls stay open from 10 a.m. to 8
p.m. But Cather-Pound-Neihardt and
Burr-Fedde couldn't get enough people
to staff the polls for that long, he said,
so Thursday morning hours were added
to compensate.
The Advance party set several goals
in its campaign, which Baacke said he
will pursue as president.
"Cable television is something we're
going to get next year," he said.
In addition, Baacke said he would
like to make changes in the food ser
vice meal system, alcohol policy, sys
tem for assigning single rooms in the
halls and communications with residents.
Vice presidential winner Pete Cas
tellano, a sophomore political science
major, said he would like to see resi
dence hall students more involved in
campuswide activities such as ASUN,
the NU Student Foundation and other
groups.
Castellano said his double role as
RHA vice president and ASUN senator
will be advantageous as RHA attempts
to change the policy prohibiting alco
hol on campus and other issues of
campuswide concern.
Teresa Schimonitz, a senior animal
science major, will be RHA secretary.
Russ Johnson, an undeclared sopho
more, will take over as treasurer.
Some positions in the individual
complex elections will be decided in
run-off elections next week because no
candidate received a majority of the
vote.
Burr-Fedde residents will have the; r
complex government elections i:.
meeting next week.
