Regents approve budget, raise
tuition, purchase Husker Hall
By Colleen Kenney
Staff Reporter
The University of Nebraska Board of
Regents met at both ends of the state
this summer, approving the university
budget and a tuition increase, a bond
issue for Morrill Hall and the purchase
of Husker Hall and land to be used in a
swap for a National Guard Armory.
The June 19 meeting was held in the
usual place, Varner Hall in Lincoln. But
for the July 25 meeting the regents
traveled by plane and car to Scottsbluff.
“The board felt that since we are
regents for the whole state, it’s impor
tant to have a meeting in the western
part of the state,” said Regent Nancy
Hoch of Nebraska City.
The Scottsbluff meeting was "pretty
cut and dry,” said Andy Pollock, UNL
student regent and ASUN president.
The regents, chancellors and their
assistants toured the Panhandle Re
search Station, a part of the university,
and saw a demonstration on the cen
ter’s crop transplant operation.
The center’s transplant program has
shown improvement in crop yields,
especially of sugar beets. The center
tries to find alternative crops for
Nebraska.
The regents also toured the West
Nebraska General Hospital, where the
NU Medical Center has a nursing pro
gram, now in its second year.
The regents approved a $4,027,300
bond issue for the renovation of Morrill
Hall to be paid off at a rate of $695,000 a
year by cigarette tax revenues.
“The bond issue means we’ve final
ized the gymnastics to get the renova
tion started,” said Regent Don Blank of
McCook. “They wanted to get work
started on it.”
At the June meeting, the regents
approved the 1987-88 general operating
budget, which included a 2 percent
tuition increase and $880,000 for facul
ty salary increases.
The $176.2 million budget is $11.6
million more than the 1986-87 budget
for the university.
Tuition for undergraduate residents
a credit hour now is $44.75, a $1
increase from last year.
“I always hate to see us raise tuition
because that doesn’t mean the state is
doing its fair share,” Hoch said. “But
when you’ve had five midyear cuts in
the last seven years, that requires addi
tional funds; the university's increase
in tuition is part of that.”
The faculty salary increases are NU’s
part of a $1 million state allocation.
The rest of the money will go for faculty
salary increases for the state colleges.
The regents approved a 10-year con
tract with Electronic Media One Inc.,
of Omaha for the addition of two new
scoreboards for Memorial Stadium.
The scoreboards will be placed on
each side of the south end zone, above
the bleachers and below the stadium
seats, said Kim Phelps, assistant to the
vice chancellor of business and finance.
UNL previously received $8,000 a
year in royalties for advertisements
used on the scoreboards, he said, but
with the new contract UNL will get
“substantially more” — about $240,000
over 10 years.
The regents approved buying 8.4
acres of land in Lincoln northeast of
33rd and Leighton streets for about
$102,000. That land will be part of a
swap with the Department of the Army
in exchange for the John J. Pershing
Armory building to the south.
The use for the land has not been
decided yet, said Joe Rowson, NU
director of public affairs.
“We have a whole list of options,” he
said.
A university report said the building
may be used by the Institute for Agri
culture and Natural Resources, which
is near the armory on East Campus.
The regents approved acquiring
Husker Hall from Cornhsuker Co-op, =
Inc., for $240,000 — the amount the
cooperative student housing hall is in
debt.
Husker Hall had incurred two “rather
large debts,” Phelps said: paying off
the bond for the building and payment
of back property taxes to the City of
Lincoln. ’
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