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University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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Touchdown!
Second floor residents and friends cheer for their favorite team during last night's Super Bowl. The group held their
Super Sunday party in the Harper residence hall. All said it was a great break from the regular study routine.
"Experiential learning opportunity"
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tare considers work-study bill
By Michael Hooper
Senior Reporter
Several officials expressed the need for a
state-based work-study program that would pro
vide financial assistance and educational exper
ience to college students, but said they are
concerned about finding funding.
Wayne Sen. Jerry Conway introduced a bill
this week that would create a state-based work
study program to provide career-orientedjobs for
Nebraska college and university students.
Currently, there are only federally supported
work-study programs in NebraskaUnder the
bill, LB371, state agencies and private non-profit
charitable or service agencies would hire stu
dents and the state would pay up to 70 percent of
their salaries.
Conway said Wednesday that the bill has
come up several times over the past few years
but has been voted down because of its cost.
The proposed cost of the work-study program
has ranged from $100,000 to $1.2 million, said
Richard Lombardi, a lobbyist for the Nebraska
State Student Association, which has promoted
the bill since 1983.
Although the bill wasn't approved before,
Conway offered it again this year because of the
need for more financial assistance to students.
He also said the work-study program would tie
students' interest to a job in Nebraska.
"It's an experiential learning opportunity,"
he said.
The Nebraska Coordinating Commission for
Postsecondary Education has found that at least
$38 million is needed in financial assistance to
college students, said Kadi Lukesh, NCCPE
administrative assistant. She said this figure is
low because the financial needs of students from
about 45 vocational schools, such as cosmetology
schools, were not included.
Steve Linenberger, NSSA executive director,
said Conway's bill would show the Legislature
that college students are willing to promote
creative alternatives to current financial-aid
programs that are being threatened by state and
national budget cuts.
Officials said that the bill might encourage
students to stay in Nebraska after they graduate
because they would already be employed here.
"In the economic-development debate, sen
ators are talking more and more about the brain
drain (the growing number of outstanding gradu
ates leaving the state)," Lombardi said. "This
bill would link them up before they leave."
Deb Chapelle, manager of the Nebraska Stu
dent Loan Program, said that many states, such
as Colorado, have state-based work-study pro
grams for college students. With the threat of
more federal cuts to financial aid, the need for
state-based work-study programs is greater, she
said.
"If Nebraska supports higher education as a
way to develop the economy, it must provide
more financial assistance," she said.
LB371 is scheduled to be discussed at an
Education Committee hearing Feb. 3.
discusses
budget plans
witli deans
By Eric Paulak
Staff Reporter
Because of the proposed $3.1 million cut in
NU's 1987-88 budget, UNL leaders are working on
a long-term and ongoing strategy that will
prevent future budget shortfalls while assuring
the quality of education.
In a meeting of all college deans and vice
chancellors Thursday, Chancellor Martin Massen
gale said each must evaluate all programs at
UNL. He said they should focus upon the ones
that will revitalize the university and serve the
purpose that the university was originally founded
upon.
To deal with the present crisis, an ad hoc
budget review committee has been created with
student committee members appointed by UNL
Student Government President Chris Scudder.
The committee, composed of students, faculty
members and members of the administration,
will evaluate the proposed 1987-88 budget and
give its recommendations on what programs can
be cut and which reductions may result in the
least long-term damage to UNL. Its report is due.
March 2.
NU President Ronald Roskens suggested that
all programs be evaluated for possible cuts and
that the chancellors consider limiting enrollment
by increasing grade-point-average requirements
and requiring students take certain courses in
high school before being allowed to enroll.
Karen Craig, dean of the College of Home
Economics, said that in a meeting with the
chancellor last Tuesday, Massengale explained
Roskens' proposals and stressed that cuts be
made and programs consolidated to help UNL in
the long run, even if that makes things tight in
the immediate future.
Craig said her college has been evaluating its
programs and is cutting back where it can while
trying to maintain professional competency.
Other colleges also are conducting planning
meetings.
In a statement adopted Jan. 16, the faculty
members of the College of Journalism voted
unanimously to advance education rather than
cut back. In a recently released statement, the
college said the "standard argument for budget
cutbacks do not fit this college." Despite an
overall decline in enrollment at UNL, enrollment
in the college has been increasing over the past
few years.
At the Thursday meeting, Massengale stressed
four questions to consider when evaluating the
university programs. They are:
What is the appropriate role of research,
graduate education and professional
education at UNL?
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tjay$'rejectedatunion;$17 million stamped
By Joeth Zucco
Staff Reporter
A nationwide campaign to dispel the
fear of AIDS has hit Lincoln: pass the
buck.
To inform people that AIDS is not
transmitted by touching people with
AIDS or homosexuals, money has been
stamped with the saying, "Gay $."
The issue was brought to Nebraska
Union employees' attention when a
student presented a bill with the slo
gan at the union's information desk.
The bill was rejected. Daryl Swanson,
union director, said that the cashier
made a personal decision in rejecting
it.
Reportedly, "gay money" is also being
passed, elsewhere in Lincoln.
Rodney A. Bell, president of the GayA
Lesbian Student Association, said that
it was discriminatory for the cashier
not to accept the bill. Bell said people
are "freaking out" because the money
says "gay" on it. He said that passing
bills on campus will show that homo
sexuals spend money here. "People get
upset when it comes to money," Bell
said. "1 think it's very important to do
it. I stand behind the people who do
it."
According to The Advocate, a gay
publication, the campaign started in
Chicago last August as a protest against
the city council's defeat of a gay-rights
bill. Two Chicago gay-bar owners, Frank
Kellas and Marge Summit, started it by
buying 100 stamps. So far $17 million in
denominations up to $100 bills have
been stamped, the article said. Bell
said that individuals in Lincoln are
stamping money, but GLSA is not.
The Chicago U.S. attorney issued a
warning against the dollar defacing,
but it was ignored.
In addition to stamping money, Chi
cago-area homosexuals have picketed
banks and withdrawn money in protest,
the article said.
"They did it to show the economic
clout of gay people and to influence the
gay's political influence in the neigh
borhoods throughout the city," Bell
said, after citing a survey that said that
homosexuals spend 19 percent of dis
posable income in the United States.
Bell said that gay businesses in Chi
cago now are asking for the dollars. An
ad in the Chicago area for Mama Mia's
Pizzaria says it "welcomes GAY $" and
will give $1 off dinners when paid with
"GAY $"
Although there is a law against
defacing money, a Secret Service De
partment spokesman said that it
wouldn't necessarily be illegal. Attempts
to contact the U.S. Treasury Depart
ment in Washington, D.C., Friday were
unsuccessful.
Tom LauderDaily Nebraskan