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July 22, 1986
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Vol. 85, No. 166
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Committee to stuidy SAFi
stuadent group banking fees
Campus organizations bank illegally off campus
By Michael Hooper and
James M. Lillis
Senior Reporters
The Nebraska Union Board set up
a subcommittee Sunday to study
whether the Student ActivitiesFi
nancial Services Office can con
tinue to assess student organiza
tions fees for banking with it.
Recognized student organizations
must bank with SAFS at a charge of
50 cents per month and 10 cents for
each transaction, which generates
nearly $2,500 each year.
Jerry Roemer, ASUN chairman of
special topics, said the fees keep
some organizations from banking
with SAFS because they can bank
for free off campus.
"Right now there are organiza
tions that bank (illegally) off cam
pus," he said.
Roemer said student organiza
tions should not be charged for
banking with SAFS because it would
not only be less expensive, but it
would also "entice them to come
back to the union" to bank.
Student organizations do not col
lect interest for banking with SAFS.
It is used to pay for the service,
Roemer said.
Daryl Swanson, director of the
Nebraska Union, said SAFS must
assess the fees in order to generate
the funds necessary to provide the
banking service.
Roemer said that because the
UNL Board of Regents cut out $2,500
from the union's budget for SAFS,
the fees can be eliminated. SAFS
can continue assessing fees to stu
dent organizations for banking,
Swanson said.
Section 3.11 in UNL Bylaws says
fees have to be assessed for banking
services.
Swanson said that if the sub
committee studying this issue de
cides to drop the user fees and
make up the difference in student
fees, the Union will abide by the
decision.
Roemer said the fees should be
eliminated because SAFS generated
more than enough money to pay for
the banking service. SAFS expenses
are $28,894 a year. It collected
$32,726 last year from student fees,
interest collected on student organ
izations' banking and user fees, he
said.
"It sounds like the implementa
tion of these fees has been delayed
pending the results of the subcom
mittee," Roemer said.
The subcommittee will have its
first meeting Wednesday at 7:30
p.m. in the union. As soon as school
starts the subcommittee will report
back to the Union Board.
Union Board
may franchise
Union Square
By Kim Schawrtz
Staff Reporter
Bereuter initiates grain storage plan
By Scott Thien
Staff Reporter
Midwestern farmers, including Neb
raskans, may have some of their grain
storage problems eased thanks to
implementation of a new program last
Friday by Congressman Doug Bereuter.
At a press conference at the UNL
East Union Friday, Bereuter said the
nationwide program is called Storage
list, an Agnet computer network pro
gram that lists both grain producers
with storage needs and farmers that
have available storage facilities.
Bereuter said the program was deve
loped at his request for the UNL Agnet
computer network under the direction
of Dr. James Kendrick, a professor of
agricultural economics at UNL.
Bereuter said he got the idea for the
program, which took about a week to
complete, after visiting with several
Nebraska farmers and following dis
cussions in Washington with Agricul
ture Secretary Lyng and other Depart
ment of Agriculture officials.
Bumper harvest expectations and
the possible shortage in available grain
storage facilities served as an impetus
for developing the program, he said.
Since commercial grain elevators will
generally be filled to capacity, Storage
list, which lists the names, addresses,
phone numbers and storage facility
specifications, will feature mainly on
farm storage.
". . .It is entirely possible for a
farmer with storage facility needs or
space to live near a producer or eleva
tor that has available storage and just
not know it," he said.
Bereuter said Storagelist will pro
vide farmers in whatever county they
live in "the opportunity to seek out
potential, unused or partially filled
grain storage facilities" in any Nebraska,
South Dakota or North Dakota county.
In addition to the location of the
storage facility, other information such
as the type of storage (ex., metal bin,
flat storage or upright silo), aeration
method, rent and the amount of storage
available is also listed.
In Nebraska, the Storagelist pro
gram is available through any agricul
tural county extension office or directly
to Agnet clients, he said.
Bereuter said he is not only confi
dent that the program will work for
Nebraska, but for the midwest and the
Great Plains as well.
In addition to Storagelist, other
steps have been taken in an effort to
ease the upcoming storage problem,
Bereuter said. Bereuter recently urged
U.S.D.A. officials to expand the Export
Enhancement Program to all countries,
including traditional grain customers.
He said Nigeria would be an ideal
client, as well as the Soviet Union, in
most years the largest U.S. grain
customer.
Agnet has a program similar to Stor
agelist called Feedlist, which matches
sellers and buyers for feeds such as hay
and ear corn. Other listing services
include programs for horticultural crops
like fruit, vegetables, flowers and trees,
feedlot space, seed stocks and sheep.
For more information about Agnet,
or to request an input form for Agnet to
make an entry in any of the listed pro
grams, contact the UNL Central Agnet
office at 472-1892.
Vice Chancellor Rudy Lewis has
given Union Board Director Daryl Swan
son and a subcommittee permission to
work with the UNL Purchasing Office
to draft bid proposals for a food service
franchise in the Union Square.
"The subcommittee I've worked with
has worked up a list of Nebraska-based
and national franchisers," Swanson
said. "We plan to send our proposal to a
wide variety of franchisers."
College of Business Administration
Chairman Robert Justis, Kim Phelps,
assistant to the vice chancellor for bus
iness and finance, Ronald Pushcar,
Nebraska union director of food servi
ces, Peg Johnson, representing Vice
Chancellor Lewis, Francis Lotterle,
chairman of the franchise industry
advisory council, and Cheryl Babcock,
coordinator of the franchise studies
program, make up the subcommittee.
"We'll send an outline of our needs
and things we think a franchise should
consider, and have them tell us what's
feasible," Swartson said.
The final draft of the bid proposal
must be approved by the Board of
Regents before it can be sent to pros
pective franchisers.
The subcommittee's draft requires
the franchise to work with UNL's Inter
national Center for Franchise Studies
in providing jobs and an internship for
franchising studies, but Swanson said
that all items are negotiable.
"Wre will sit down with each com
pany and modify proposals until we
come up with a working plan," Swan
son said.
Swanson said a franchise could bring
national marketing and name recogni
tion, attracting new customers that the
Union Square cannot.
According to Swanson, UNL food
services grossed $2.3 million last year,
but lost $100,000 due to costs and price
considerations.
"We cannot operate as effectively as
a private operator. We run all of the
university's food services, and that
kind of diversity is no longer cost effec
tive," Swanson said.
Union food service is required to
offer larger salaries and benefit pack
ages to employees than private opera
tors, and the academic calendar makes
food service operation difficult because
of the slow summer periods, Swanson
said. The Colonial Room has been
closed for the summer to cut costs. ...
"We think there is an advantage in
leasing out 10 percent of our food ser
vice business. Union Square brings in a
quarter of Union food services yearly
gross. It made $235,000 last year. Fran
chisers feel they can triple that figure,"
Swanson said.
He said that there is some risk
involved in bringing a franchise into
the Union.
"A franchise could run the Harvest
Room right out of business," he said.
"After getting a private operator in
Union Square, the plan is to renovate
the Harvest Room, and offer even more
variety in menu selections, and operate
it ourselves. If we cannot operate suc
cessfully, we may lease out thit space."
Under the proposal the Colonial
Room may permanently close.
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