CFA decreases UPC budget requests
By Victoria Ayotte
Staff Reporter
and Mary Nell Westbrook
Senior Reporter
Members of the Committee for
Fee Allocation voted Tuesday night
to reduce parts of the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln’s University Pro
gram Council’s student fee request.
CFA members have one area of the
budget left to consider Thursday
night, but have already made
$9,982.42 in cuts.
UPC’s initial request was
$163,717.51.
CFA considered the UPC City
budget, UPC East budget, American
Minority Council budget and Execu
tive Board budget.
The Fund Allocation Committee’s
budget request was tabled until
Thursday night’s meeting.
The CFA’s subcommittee on UPC
presented a report that recommended
reducing UPC’s overall funding re
quest by $12,541.27.
This proposal would have in
creased student fees by 60 cents to
$3.63 for UPC. This is a 21.4 percent
more than last year.
The report was initially accepted
by a 6-2 vote before an appeal was
made by UPC officials.
Barb Meister, executive board
coordinator for UPC, presented nine
reasons why UPC programs need the
requested funds.
Meister said UPC may appeal its
budget requests further to the Asso
ciation of Students of the University
of Nebraska. UPC has made similar
appeals in the past, she said.
A lot of the problems associated
with the appeals stem from recent
changes in CFA procedure. A new
format for procedure began last Octo
ber, too late for UPC to make adjust
ments in its budget proposal, Meister
said.
“The new procedures imple
mented need serious evaluation,” she
said.
Meistcr said the percentage expen
ditures as of Jan. 1,1988 can’t reflect
what expenditures will be for next
year because several of this year’s
programs have yet to occur.
UPC also targets a zero balance of
its budgets and does not intentionally
over or underspend, she said.
Programs are not locked in and
need to be flexible, she said.
“Things happen and it’s a dynamic
process,” she said.
UPC’s City budget request was
reduced from $55,310.85 to
$52,145.93, while UPC East’s re
quest was reduced from $20,510.65 to
$20,350.75.
American Minority Council’s re
quest was reduced from $17,794.01 to
$16,136.80, and the Executive
Board’s request was reduced from
$5,100 to $2,834.
Last year’s budgets were $51,749
for City, $ 19,291 for East, $ 16,591.50
for AMC, and $2,711 for the Execu
tive Board.
Michele Krieger, CFA’s UPC
subcommittee chairperson, said the
reason for most of the reductions was
that the subcommittee didn’t feel the
requests were justified.
IjSL refunds available for some students
By Randy Lyons
Slaff Reporter
Students who received Guaran
teed Student Loans after Oct. 20,
1987, and were charged an additional
.5 pcrccntorigination fee w ill receive
a refund.
The additional charge by the fed
eral government was dropped when
the new federal budget was passed by
Congress. The fee was an attempt to
help balance the federal deficit and
bring it in line with the Gramm
Rudman-Hollings deficit reduction
bill.
At least 250 to 300 University of
Ncbraska-Lincoln students were af
fected by the additional charge, said
Doug Severs, assistant director of
loans in the Office of Scholarships
and Financial Aid.
Severs said the financial aid office
will notify students of refund checks
that are sent to the office. Most of the
checks will total about $20, he said,
but it depends on the amount of the
loan.
The Department of Education
gave lenders three options forrelurn
ing the money.
Nancy Bocche, student loan ad
ministrator and credit representative
for Havelock Bank, 14th and M
streets, said a check can be written
and given to the borrower. Another
option, she said, is to apply the refund
amount to a reduction of the loan
principal or add it to the next check of
a multiple disbursement loan.
She said Havelock Bank is apply
ing the refund to the principal of the
loan. The student’s bank account is
credited. Students have been notified
that this has taken place, she said.
Joyce Jones, supervisor for stu
dent loans at Union Bank at 19th and
O streets, said students who received
GSLs through Union Bank will re
ceive refund checks. She said the
checks will be sent beginning Feb.
15.
Although Students will receive
money refunds, Severs said, the
quick changes in legislation have
caused additional costs for lenders,
guarantee agencies and Financial aid
offices.
He said the changes amounted to
five to six extra hours per week of
clerical work at UNL. Most of the
expenses of the changes are not
shouldered by the Department of
Education, Severs said; they just
notify the agencies to do the work and
the cost is passed on.
Boeche said Havelock' Bank
wasn’t notified until Dee. 30 about
the change in legislation.
“The government reports for the
bank close Dee. 31, and so we had to
make a lot of changes before finish
ing the reports,” she said.
Boeche said the changes caused
about 16 hours of additional work for
the student loan department. She said
that although the new rules cost the
bank, the bank will benefit eventu
ally because the change in the law
will allow the banks to make more
profit.
The special allowance rale, estab
lished by the government to allow
banks to earn a profit by granting
loans, rose to 3.25 percent, Boeche
said. Previous changes in legislation
had reduced the rate to 3 percent.
Although this year’s budget
passed and the additional .5 percent
origination fee has been repealed,
Severs said, it is possible the charge
could occur again next year.
“If they come to a point where
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legislation is not going to meet
Gramm-Rudman-Hollings, they’ll
have to do it again, Severs said.
“Knowing the relationship between
Congress and the president, it’s a
possibility.”
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Helmet bill to be reconsidered
By Amy Edwards
Senior Reporter t *
Motorcyclists in Nebraska are
once again facing the possibility of a
mandatory helmet law as legislators
voted 30-16 Tuesday to reconsider
LB428.
Sen. Vard Johnson of Omaha filed
the motion for reconsideration Jan. 27
after the bill failed to pass final read
ing by two votes Jan. 26.
Johnson said he filed the motion
because he w as away on business and
missed the final reading.
Sen. Ernie Chambers of Omaha
said Johnson’s absence was not a
valid argument for reconsideration,
because it could lead to an endless
number of reconsidered bills if some
one didn’t like the outcome of the
vote.
Sens. Jacklyn Smith, Frank Kor
shoj, Scott Moore, Sandra Scofield
and Marge Higgins also spoke against
reconsideration of the bill.
Smith, of Hastings, and Moore, of
Stromsburg, made a priority motion
to return LB428 to select file for a
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the following: Chancellors Martin
Massengalc, UNL, Del Weber, Uni
versity of Nebraska-Omaha, and
Charles Andrews, University of
Nebraska Medical Center; Vice
Chancellor Irvin Omtvcdt, Institute
of Agriculture and *Natural Re
sources; Faculty Senate President
Jim Lewis, UNL; student regents
from each university branch; non
faculty representatives; business,
community and parents’ organiza
tions; university laculty and univer
sity students.
Sen. Dave Landis said the appro
priation decision will not come down
to decimal points and salaries at peer
institutions.
“It comes dow n to a gill instinct,*
he said.
specinc amendment.
The amendment would require
only motorcyclists 19 years old and
under to wear helmets and show proof
of motorcycle safely education.
Smith said the amendment would
be a good compromise, since motor
cyclists would support the amended
bill.
Scofield, of Chadron, said she
supported the amendment. Without
it, she said, the legislation would be
resented and would “drive a wedge
between us and our constituents.”
Sen. Dan Lynch of Omaha, the
original sponsor of LB428, read
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names ot motorcyclists over the age
of 19 who were killed in accidents in
1987. Lynch said the amendment
would not save lives, because most of
the motorcyclists killed in Nebraska
were more than 20 years old.
The bill failed to return to select
file with a 22-25 vote.
Moore then moved to bracket the
bill until today. Twenty-five votes
were needed to bracket the bill. The
motion failed 24-23.
Sen. William Barrett, speaker of
the Legislature, said later that the bill
w ill return to the floor for final read
ing next week.
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