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Wednesday, December 3, 1986 Daily Nebraskan AUF awards money Grants include Affirmative Action, GLSA and ISO By Michael Hooper Senior Reporter Last week the All University Fund committee chose 11 projects to receive money from the $20,000 left in the AUF budget. Of 37 proposals, the committee decided to partially fund 10 and fully fund one. "Most of this money is starter-up money," said ASUN president Chris Scudder. "Hopefully, somebody will pick up the funding" for each proposal after the money runs out, she said. The $20,000, which has been sitting in a bank collecting interest for the past three or four years, came from several philanthropic organiza tions on campus. In the past the members of the organizations who donated to AUF would vote for three charities that would get funding each year. Student organizations lost interest in this pro cess of funding charities, Scudder said, so AUF "died of its own accord." The criteria for funding was that each prop osal must be for UNL students, have a lasting impact on UNL and be financed by no other source, Scudder said. The $20,000 will be handed out Jan. 20, 1987, Scudder said. She said all money will be monitored to make sure it is used on the proposals. The fund distribution included: $2,000 to UNL's Affirmative Action Office. The money will be used to purchase a golf cart that permanently and temporarily handicapped students can use to get around campus. If a student breaks a leg, he may catch a ride on the cart, or if someone's wheelchair breaks down, he or she can also use the cart to get to clasees, said Cathy Shellogg, activities coordinator in the office of Campus Activities and Programs. 0$827 to the Academic Success Center for video programming. O$4,000 to award outstanding academic advisers. Each year for the next four years a teaching council will award an outstanding adviser $1,000. O$500 to the GayLesbian Student Associa tion for printing informational pamphlets and flyers. O $1,900 to Student Legal Services to print a revised version of its handbook. The current one is out of date, Scudder said. O $4,000 to the Multi-Cultural Affairs Office. The office will award one minority student a $1,000 scholarship each year. AUF Distribution Multi-Cultural Affairs $4,000 Outstanding Academic Advisers $4,000 Farm Action Concerns of Tommorrow $2,000 International Student Organization $2,000 Student Legal Services $1,900 Watershed film $1,214 African Peoples Union $1,000 English DeptComputing Center $1,000 Academic Success Center $827 GayLesbian Student Association $500 O$l,000 to the African Peoples Union to help fund a Big Eight Black Student Government conference. 0$1,214 to help finish filming "Watershed," a film written by UNL English student David Boles. O$l,000 to the English Department and Com puting Resource Center for computer software that will help students publish their creative writing. Only Boles' "Watershed" film received full funding. He started filming it but ran out of funds, Scudder said. The money will help him finish the film. The film is good, Scudder said, and it will improve the university's image in film-making. YouVecomej Join the March of Dimes MMBlPIH CXfiCIS KXINCMIIONHHB1 You want U TO LEND YOU $25!TO 0 YOU Can Study Koacs, mm mvEis and lepm e-how To Say, "The Bm is Small," In German?! (TDK Student loans from r7 s a A knowledge. Stoo in 7 rFT LJ U J at our downtown f i oiiice to nnd out 1 ! Havelock Bank. Helping cover the cost or valuable c z c zi' more. Havelock Bank L ENOCH 14th & M Streets 6145 Havelock Ave. 70th & Adams Member FDIC 4fiAl6" Pizza ! f y VrO i 11 bkjs M pllfiln DEUVEREDx i 'i -3 mtmmr mammm mmb m w i kh m mm uiv b s ? j m i "V 1 ii ;i v R A -m ( Hr S D)fT7? r- r-' f . 2 Large Pizzas (Cheese Plus 1 1temRound Only) NO LIMIT TAX EXP. 13187 (Cheese Plus 1 1temRound Only) - NO LIMIT -EXP. 13107 (Cheese Plus 1 1temRound Only) j NO LIMIT - EXP. 13187 ((:tt8y,((X'HOS5 '.ill! lit I 11 i 1 1 I'Bt (CI, mi-Hi) Page 3