Weather: Mostly sunny in the west and
partly cloudy in the east Thursday.
Wanner with highs in the 40’s in the eas*.
to the lower 40’s in the far west There
will be a few high clouds Thursday night.
Lows will be in the teens to around 20. It
will be mostly sunny, breezy and mild
Friday. Highs will be mainly in the 40’s.
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-Diversions, Page 5.
Sports: Campus Rec. may
restructure male intramural
sports.
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Regents will vote Saturday
on Osborne salary proposal
By Bob Nelson
Senior Editor
The NU Board of Regents will vote Saturday
on a $8,900 salary increase for Nebraska Coach
Tom Osborne that would bring his base salary
to $97,900.
If approved, Osborne’s salary will be higher
than University of Nebraska-Lincoln Chancel
lor Martin Massengale, University of Nebraska
at Omaha Chancellor Del Weber and Gov. Kay
Orr.
NU President Ronald Roskens said he is not
bothered by Osborne’s salary proposal. He said
Osborne’s proposed salary, up from $89,000, is
not unusual when considering the field he is in.
“In virtually all fields wc have to think of the
market place,” Roskens said. “Professional
deans (such as Andrews) are an example of
that.”
Athletic Director Bob Devancy said
Osborne’s proposed raise is well deserved.
“There’s quite a few coaches with worse
records getting paid a lot more money than
Tom,” Devancy said. “In a more metropolitan
area, he could make a lot more money in
endorsements.”
Devancy said Osborne had a chance to make
more money at Ohio State. The Buckeyes
reportedly showed interest in Osborne after
firing coach Earle Bruce in November.
“If we let him slip away people would
always wonder if we could have given him
more money,” Devaney said.
Devaney said he didn’t think it was inappro
priate to have a football coach being paid more
than a chancellor of a university.
“They OK’d it,” he said. “Anyway, a
coach’s job is in a little more jeopardy.”
Osborne’s proposed salary is higher than the
coaches’ salaries at Kansas, Colorado and
Oklahoma State. Oklahoma did not have cur
rent salary figures and other Big Eight schools
would not release the information.
Mike Jones, business director at Kansas
State, said Osborne’s salary is not unusual at all.
Jones said there are many things more than just
base salary to take into consideration when
figuring how much money a coach actually
makes.
“Coaches often get huge supplements to
their salaries,” Jones said. He said the base
salary just scratches the surface of what some
coaches make.
Jones used North Carolina basketball coach
Dean Smith as an example.
“Smith’s base salary is a little over
$100,000,” he said. “That’s nothing compared
to his total income, which is over $1,000,000.”
Jones said the big money is in endorsements
and television shows. “Metropolitan areas have
big viewing audiences,” Jones said. “Those
make the coach’s income soar. If Nebraska
wants to keep a coach, they may have to pay
twice as much because Nebraska doesn’t have
a big viewing audience — especially for a
coach like Osborne.”
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New student ‘Reunion’ includes six businesses so far
By Anne Mohri
Senior Reporter
Six businesses have agreed to
gather for a “Reunion” under the roof
of the new student center to open in
March.
And that’s the name for the new
—m — i
student center to be at 16th and W
streets — The Reunion.
The businesses have signed to open
stores in The Reunion: Union Bank
Student Loan Center, a drug and sun
dries company with pick-up and de
livery dry-cleaning service, a news
press store, a game room, a video
rental store and a copy center, accord
ing to David Hunter, one of four part
ners of the Hardy Building Coip.
Hunter said Wednesday that the
corporation still is negotiating with
three other businesses and plans to
announce them within 10 days.
The businesses will begin moving
into the privately owned center by
March and all businesses will be in by
the end of April.
By offering inexpensive services.
Hunter said, the student center will
benefit students.
The 24-hour copy center will have
a full typing service, Hunter said. Its
officials are soliciting university pro
fessors for the right to sell class pack
ets.
Hunter said professors are inter
ested in doing business with the new
student center because it is on campus
and more accessible to students. The
packets would cost less than they do
now, he said.
Hamburger Patty, Cinammon
Sams, Amigos, the Plump Tomato,
Little King and Yogurt Sensations
will make up the food court in the
center. The court will seat 200 stu
dents.
Hunter said the food court proba
bly will close at midnight unless there
is student demand for a later time. The
food court will provide free delivery
to both City and East campuses from
7 p.m. to 2 a.m.
Hunter said menus for the busi
nesses will be available to students.
Hunter said The Reunion will have
a 1,100-sqare-foot conference room.
The room will be open to groups and
organizations for meetings and as a
general study area.
The student center will open at 6
a.m. and close at 2 a.m. He said the
retail businesses probably will close
about 9 p.m.
On Sundays, the food court will
open at the usual time and deliver until
2 a.m., Hunter said. But the other non
food businesses probably will not
open until 1 p.m. and close about 9
p.m.
The Reunion will be open all
summer, closing down for only a few
days during the Christmas holidays,
he said.
Work positions at the student cen
ter will be filled by students, Hunter
said.
“Everywhere we can use students,
we will,” he said.
James Ford, a University of Ne
braska-Lincoln English professor,
won $100 for naming the student
center.
Dave Hansen/Daily Nebraskan
Jeff Smith of Sampson Construction reviews blueprints Wednesday for The Reunion,
the new student center at 16th and W streets.
Curtis remains optimistic about its survival
By Jamie Pitts
Staff Reporter
Gerald Huntwork, associate direc
tor of the Nebraska School of Techni
cal Agriculture at Curtis, said even
with the school’s future on the legisla
tive floor, he can still offer potential
students a standard, but flexible, cur
riculum and an optimistic staff.
Huntwork said students can be
confident that major areas of study
still will be offered if LB 1042, the bill
to finance the school, is passed. These
areas include: environmental/natural
resources, animal science, veterinary
technology, horticulture and farm
equipment mechanics, he said.
Huntwork said no faculty members
have been fired, although the fate of
the Curtis school and its curriculum
has been undecided since last spring
when the University of Nebraska
Board of Regents proposed to stop
financing the Curtis school to scale
down the university’s budget.
Gov. Kay Orr then vetoed a bill that
would have financed the school for
two years. Orr later agreed to finance
the school for one year.
Since then some faculty members
have left and those positions have not
been refilled, Huntwork said.
With LB 1042 now before the
Legislature, Huntwork said he and the
rest of the Curtis staff are optimistic
that the school will get the money it
needs to stay open for the next two
years.
LB 1042 would allocate $350,000
for 1988 and $1.4 million for 1989.
Huntwork said the fate of Curtis after
1989 is not in question, because the
Legislature reviews all state-funded
agency budgets biannually.
Not knowing the future of the
school has “generated a pioneering
spirit,” among faculty members,
Huntwork said. Faculty members will
have an opportunity to be part of
something new, he said.
If senators do not approve LB 1042,
Curtis will close in June. After May
27, the remaining 49 full-time stu
dents enrolled at Curtis will have
graduated. The only other students are
those attending part-time to pick up
classes, Huntwork said.
Should Curtis get the funds, Hun
twork said he expects a moderate
increase in new student enrollment
during the next few years. Huntwork
said it will probably take two to four
years for Curtis to reach its previous
enrollment of more than 300.
No curriculum changes will be
made until the results of a survey,
scheduled to be completed by Feb. 1,
are received, Huntwork said. The
survey will show how much need
there is for a two-year technical school
and what type of curriculum it should
offer students seeking an associate’s
degree in technical agriculture, he
said.
If the results of the survey are fa
vorable, Huntwork said, Curtis will
begin recruiting more.
All interested students now are
placed on a pre-enrollment list until
the financing is definite.
If LB 1042 passes, the students on
the pre-enrollment list will be moved
loan enrollment list so the admissions
process can begin.
But until a decision is reached,
Huntwork said, he and the faculty at
Curtis will remain optimistic.