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Orr: State must see effects of anti-waste drive By Brandon Loomis Staff Reporter Gov. Kay Orr told reporters at a press con ference Friday that Nebraskans should have the right to say whether their state will be the home of a five-slate low-level radioactive waste site, but should first understand the consequences. A current statewide petition would allow voters todccide whether Nebraska should with draw from the Central Interstate Low-Level Radioactive Waste Compact Commission and build its own waste site. The compact also includes Arkansas, Kansas, Louisiana and Oklahoma. Orr said if Nebraska withdraws, federal law will require the state to build its own waste site by 1993. At that time, it may not be legal to exclude other stales from using it, she said. “Certainly, Nebraskans should have a say,” she said, “but we must be certain they know what their votes are saying.” Orr said Nebraska may not legally be able to withdraw from the compact, since an elected legislature and governor decided to go ahead with the project. Orr said she would not sign her name to the petition. “It may be a moot question legally,” she said. In other business: • Orr said her proposed restrictions on pickle-card sales will not be “the nail in the coffin” for charities that want to gamble le gally. Orr’s bill requires charities to be inexistence for 10 years before obtaining a pickle-card license and prohibits them from selling the cards off their premises or at bingo games. The bill would also increase the state’s tax on card sales from 3 percent to 10 percent. Since an increasing number of charities arc depending entirely on gambling, an undepend able resource, they should be required to derive at least 50 percent of their income from other sources, she said. “I 'm very serious about all these measures,” she said, “and I think they’re fair.” It is necessary to define charity, she said, and to crack down on people who take advantage of current laws. • Orr said the Employment and Investment Growth Act, Nebraska’s tax incentive program for expanding businesses, will help rural areas of the stale, not just Lincoln and Omaha. .She said recent projections snow tne law win ormg $87 million annually to the state’s livestock and feed industries. • Orr announced the appointment of Earl Witthoff, a 1961 graduate of the University of Nebraska School of Law, as district judge of the Third Judicial District. Witthoff was judge advocate in the U.S. Army from 1961 until 1964, when he became involved in private practice. He replaces Judge Dale Fahrnbruch, whom Orr appointed to the Nebraska Supreme Court. • Presidential candidate Jack Kemp said Fri day he will consider Orr, among others, as a running mate should he win the Republican nomination. Orr said she has not discussed the issue with Rep. Kemp, R-N.Y., and is not interested in seeking a higher office. Library serials study continues Professor says budget reduction would hurt research mission By David Holloway Staff Reporter University of Nebraska-Lincoln Faculty Senate members will discuss a motion Tuesday to oppose a $15,000cut to the 1988 UNL library serials budget. The motion was tabled for study at last month’s meeting. John Turner, classics professor, moved last month that the Faculty Senate go on record as opposed to the budget reduction and that the Senate request that Chancellor Martin Mas sengale restore the money to the seri als budget of the university libraries. Given the cost of restoring back files in the future, this reduction cannot be sustained without serious damage to the research mission of the university, Turner said in the motion. Faculty Senate President Jim Lewis said the university buys fewer journals each year as a result of rising prices. The journals the university re ceives are the lifeblood of the school and the surrounding area, Lewis said. The university usually ends up having to do away with about 10 percent of the journals each year to make the books balance, Lewis said. The university may gel a 6 percent increase in the serials budget and a 19 percent increase in the price of the journals, he said. “This is something that the faculty is tremendously interested in,“Lewis said. “The desirable goal would be if we could find enough money so we wouldn’t have to cut out any jour nals.” The Faculty Senate meeting be gins at 3:15 p.m. in the Nebraska Union. CFA recommends fee increase Proposal for 75 - cent increase will be voted on by ASUN Senate By Mary Nell Westbrook Senior Reporter The Committee for Fees Alloca tion decided Thursday to increase student fees 10.7 percent next year. CFA unanimously increased Fund A student fees to $7.77 per semester. The 75-ccnt increase covers the Association of Students of the Uni versity of Nebraska, the Daily Ne braskan and the University Program Council. CFA’s recommendation must still be approved by AS UN, university officials and the NU Board of Re gents. ASUN will get a student fee in crease of 4 percent per student each semester. The DN’s fee request dropped 2.1 percent per student each semester, and UPC's request dropped 2.6 percent without including the al location for the newly formed Kim ball-Lied Performing Arts Commit tee. CFA recommended $153,225 for UPC’s 1988-89 budget. The Kimball Lied Performing Arts Committee makes up $60,000 of UPC’s budget. ASUN’s student fee allocation increased to $131,159. The DN's request remained at $39,193. In other business, the University Health Center, which falls under Fund B student fees, presented its fee request to CFA. Kunle Ojikutu, director of the health center, asked the committee for a 2 percent decrease in student fees. If the regents approve a salary increase for university staff and fac ulty members, the request would rise to about S percent for managerial and operating costs. Since construe lion is completed at the health center, student fees can still be decreased despite the increased cost of lab work. The health center is spending $3,000 more on gloves, $2(X) more on special needle covers and $300 more on aprons this year. Gerald Flcischli, health center medical director, said these precau tions stem from the AIDS epidemic. He said other precautions include wearing goggles in situations where blood may splash into a health worker’s eyes. More people are using the health center for various tests for sexually transmitted diseases, he said. This creates a need for more lab assistants, he said. Ojikulu said the health center is also lacking in mental health care. He asked for $70,(XX) to $80,(XX) a year to bring a part-time psychiatrist back to full-time status. Twelve years ago, the health cen ter employed five full-time psychia trists. In 1979-80 the number was down to two. In 1982, one of those resigned. Now the health center only has one, and she has been reduced to part-time, Ojikutu said. CFA members tentatively arc scheduled to make their recommen dation on the health center’s student fee request Tuesday night. School Pressures giving you a headache? Choose the YMCA for fast relief. College can be a fast track with plenty of pressure. Fortunately. when you need relief there's the YMCA. At the Y you can swim, run, play racquetball. lift weights, enjoy exercise classes, and many other exciting activities. 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