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November 4,1987 University of Nebraska-Lincoln Vol.87No.50
Orr says Curtis school should stay open
By Bob Nelson
Staff Reporter
Gov. Kay Orr said Tuesday in
Norfolk the Nebraska College for
Technical Agriculture at Curtis
should remain open as part of the
University of Nebraska.
Orr said she will seek amendments
to the 1987-89 biennial appropriation
to give Curtis $350,000 for its current
fiscal year and $1.4 million for the
following year.
In a letter addressed to NU Presi
dent Ronald Roskens, Orr said, “The
development of a new role and mis
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sion for NCTA is extremely important
as is the reevaluation and redirection
of its curriculum.”
Orr said Curtis should remain open
because the success of Nebraska’s
agricultural economy is vitally linked
to the state’s educational efforts and
ability to take full advantage of new
methods, technology and techniques.
Orr said Curtis can and should play
a key role in assisting and supporting
the implementation of these advance
ments.
Roskens could not be reached for
comment Tuesday.
The Curtis school’s future had
been in question since the NU Board
of Regents voted last spring to stop
university financing of the school
'We're tremendously
optimistic and
elated. The whole
community is on
cloud nine.'
-Huntwork
because of budget cuts.
In May, the Legislature approved
$2.6 million to keep Curtis open for
two years. Orr vetoed all but $500,000
needed to phase the school out be
cause of a need to balance the state
budget.
Regent Don Blank of McCook
stressed that the money Orr wants to
allocate to maintain the Curtis school
will come from additional allocations
by the Legislature and not from the
present NU budget. He said the budget
cuts the regents made by eliminating
Curtis last spring will remain.
Blank said the regents didn’t vote
to drop Curtis because it wasn’t a
quality institution, but because the
university had to make budget cuts
and the Curtis school was the target of
those cuts.
Blank said Orr’s budget amend
ment proposal will now have to be
approved by the Legislature. Blank
said he thinks the Legislature will pass
Orr’s amendment because of past
legislative votes on Curtis.
Gerald Huntwork, associate direc
tor of the Curtis school, said he and
Curtis residents were very pleased
with Orr’s decision.
“We’re tremendously optimistic
and elated,” Huntwork said. “The
See CURTIS on Page 3
Andrea Hoy/Daily Nebraskan
On location
The “Bom to Lose” crew works on a scene at Morrill Hall Tuesday. See story, page 6.
Feds take an extra bite out of student loans
By Randy Lyons
Staff Reporter
The federal government will take
an extra bite out of Guaranteed Stu
dent Loans through Nov. 20 to help
reduce the national deficit which
reached $221 billion in 1986.
The additional charge will be as
sessed through the origination fee,
which students must pay when the
loans arc taken out. The fee rose from
5 to 5.5 percent of the loan amount as
of October 20.
Dallas Martin, president of the
National Association of Financial Aid
Administrators, said students were
charged the extra .5 percent because
of an order to Congress by President
Ronald Reagan which would bring the
deficit in line with the Gramm
Rudman-Hollings deficit reduction
act.
“GSLs have been affected first
because they are not forward-funded
and co.ne out of the current year’s
budget,” Martin said.
If the amount targeted for reduc
tion is not met by Nov. 20 when
Congress takes a second look, money
will be reduced by 7.5 percent starling
July 1 for programs like College Work
Study and Pell Grants, he said.
Twenty-seven percent of all na
tional programs are affected by the
order, Martin said. Of those programs,
50 percent of the cuts must be from
defense-related programs and the
remainder from non-defense areas, he
said.
Students who are affected by the
order will be charged up to an addi
tional SI2.50 for the origination fee.
The order also will create added de
lays and paperwork for financial aid
offices and lenders, Martin said.
Doug Severs, assistant director of
loans in the Office of Scholarships and
Financial Aid at the University of
Ncbraska-Lincoln, said his office had
to send many Guaranteed Student
Loan checks back to the lenders to
subtract the fee.
At UNL, 30 to40 checks have been
delayed and another 30 were sent
back. This continues to slow the proc
essing time of the office, he said.
“The sudden change was cruel,”
Severs said. “The change on a day’s
notice shows lack of sensitivity to the
students and all others involved.
Some of the checks that had been
received by the financial aid office
after Oct. 20 had been sent without the
additional fee charged and had to be
figured by hand and then returned,
Severs said.
Nancy J. Boeche, student loan
administrator and credit rcp'cscnta
tivc for the Havelock Bank at 14th and
M streets, said the bank had a few
problems until Oct. 26, because the
guarantee agencies didn’t have their
software updated to handle the prob
lem. The problems have since been
corrected, she said.
The special allowance rate given to
banks, which allows them to earn a
profit from lending students money,
was also reduced from 3.25 to 3.20
percent by the order, Boeche said. The
reduction allows the government to
pay the lenders less and also receive
the additional .5 percent from the
origination fee, both of which will
help reduce the national deficit, she
said.
ASUN to vote on tuition bill
By Lee Rood
Senior Reporter
ASUN senators will vote to
nighlon an amended bill asking the
University of Nebraska Board of
Regents to consider raising tuition
for faculty salaries.
Shawn Boldt, second vice presi
dent of ASUN, said he expects the
bill to receive student and area
media attention.
See ASUN on Page 5
Kames and Exon
weigh Ginsburg
By Amy Edwards
Senior Reporter
Allegations that Supreme Court
nominee Douglas H. Ginsburg vio
lated criminal conflict-of-interest
laws are a serious concern, Sen. Dave
Karnes, R-Neb., said Thursday.
Ginsburg had almost $140,000
invested in a cable television corpora
tion when he “personally handled” a
Justice Department effort to have the
court extend First Amendment pro
tection to cable operators, according
to The Associated Press.
AP reported Tuesday that the
American Bar Association and the
Office of Government Ethics are re
viewing the allegations.
Karnes said the allegations should
be not only his concern, but the con
cern of everyone involved with the
hearings.
Ginsburg, 41, a former head of the
| Justice Dcpaiimcnt’s antitrust divi
sion and now a Circuit Court of Ap
peals judge, was nominated b> Presi
dent Reagan Thursday to succeed
retired Justice Lewis Powell on the
Supreme Court.
Karnes said Ginsburg is in a
“unique position” because he is so
young and has not published many
cases reflecting his judicial philoso
phy.
i ne nearmgs on umsnurg win es -
tablish his qualifications, Karnes said
from Washington, D.C., in a tele
phone press conference. Key factors
in the hearings will be his character,
.judgment and intellectual ability.
Sen. Jim Exon, D-Neb., said in a
press release Friday that the Senate
should refrain from “choosing up
sides in the first inning” of the nomi
nation of Ginsburg to the Supreme
Court.
Exon said he was surprised and
disappointed when sonic Judician
Committee members came out
against the previous nominee, Judge
Robert Bork, before his hearing. Exon
said he felt the same way when some
Judiciary Committee members came
out in support of Ginsburg Thursday
in “the pep rally-type” announcement
made by Reagan.
Mark Bowen, Exon’s press secre
tary, said the senator will wait until
more is known about Ginsburg to
comment further.
John Gruhl, associate professor of
political science at the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln, said Ginsburg’s
nomination “confirms expectations
that Reagan would nominate someone
who has not made public statements
and is very unknown.”
Gruhl said the senators arc more
likely to object to a candidate’s ethics
than his ideology because ethics are
less controversial and the American
people react belter to an ethical objec
tion than to an ideological objection.