LB 1029 would hike financial aid
Allocation to provide $2.5 million for Nebraska students
By Anne Mohri
Senior Reporter
Ten school administrators and
students told the Appropriations
Committee Monday they supported a
bill which would allocate $2.5 mil
lion to public and private colleges
and universities for financial aid.
Sen. Scott Moore of Stromsburg,
sponsored LB 1029 that would give
public schools 78 percent and private
schools 22 percent of the money for
State Student Incentive Grants.
If passed, the bill would go into
effect in the 1988-89 fiscal year.
Moore said in the past Nebraska
raised $500,000 in financial aid and
the federal government matched it.
The federal government will match
up to $500,000.
The state has about $9 million in
its general fund. Gov. Kay Orr’s new
budget proposes to increase financial
aid by $250,000 to more than $1.2
million with federal funds, he said.
“I think itonly fair a small sliver of
that (the budget) go to student aid,”
Moore said.
Supporters said the SSIG program
would allow students to choose a
college or university without mone
tary constraints.
Professor Gil Daenzer of Concor
dia College said the grant needs to be
supported “because it supports Ne
braska students for a free choice.”
Bob Skochdopole,of the Associa
tion of Independent Colleges said,
“student aid money is the best money
you could spend on higher educa
tion.” But, he said Nebraska does not
allocate enough money to the grant
program.
“We are not even on the same
plane with surrounding SSIG states,”
Skochdopole said.
Cheri Clark, president of Ne
braska Association of Student Finan
cial Aid Administrators, said Ne
braska lags behind other states in
state-supported financial aid financ
ing.
She said federal aid has been
declining since 1980 and the money
for grants has shifted to loans. Stu
dents are having to lake out more
loans and the percentage of educa
tional loans taken out by students
from 1976 to 1986 has increased 35
percent.
Moore said university officials
have not supported the increase in
financial aid.
“It’s threatening to their own pri
orities,” he said.
Pickle card bills debated on Monday
By Eric R. Paulak
Staff Reporter
More than 250 supporters and
opponents of pickle cards squared off
Monday on bills that would further
regulate or eliminate the lottery
game in Nebraska.
Four bills on pickle cards were
debated at a public hearing at the
Capitol Building. One bill, intro
duced by Sen. Patricia Morchead of
Beatrice, would make the four-year
old industry illegal.
Morchead said sales of pickle
cards should stop because of the
trouble in regulating the industry, the
potential and existing connection
with criminal activities and the large
amount of money that docs not go to
the non-profit organization sponsor
ing the sales.
Pickles sales, which started in
Nebraska in 1983, have turned into a
multi-million dollar industry. In
1987 Nebraskans spent more than
SI 35 million or the equivalent of $85
for every person in the state.
Pickle card sales arc intended to
supplement the income of non-profit
organizations, but, according to a
Department of Revenue report, only
9 percent of the $135 million goes to
the charities.
Administrative costs account for
10 percent, 3 percent goes to state
sales taxes and 78 percent goes back
to the public in prizes.
Ro^er Hirsch, deputy tax commis
sioner with the Department of Reve
nue, spoke in favor of a bill introduced
for Gov. Kay Orr to restrict the sale of
pickle cards.
He said he was appalled that $ 135
million was spent on the cards when
only $133 million was spent on
higher education by the state.
He said pickle cards do help some
non-profit organizations, “but char
ily gaming has little to do with char
ity, and little to do with gaming. It is
gambling.”
The governor’s bill, LB 1232,
would eliminate hired sales agents
and retailers, raise state taxes from 3
to 10 percent, confine pickle sales to
on the premises only, require a non
profit organization lobe 10 years old
to sell the cards and require at least
half of the organizations financing to
come from other sources.
Hirsch compared the card sales to
the automotive industry in which the
cars have exhaust problems. Those
problems include payments to out
side groups, kickbacks, embezzle
ment and fraud.
Waller Radcliffc, a lobbyist for
the Pickle/Bingo Association, ridi
culed Hirsch’s analogy. He said the
problem in the industry did not lie
within the industry, but, the Depart
ment of Revenue.
The fraud charges, he said, were
unfounded. Since July 1986, less
than .5 percent of all licensed opera
tors in the state have been investi
gated.
As far as the embezzlement
charge, he agreed this has occurred,
but the same thing happens at banks
and they arc not closed. The embez
zler goes to jail in either case.
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Campaigners smother Iowa
in preparation for 3rd caucus
By Mary Nell Westbrook
and Amy Edwards
Senior Reporters
DES MOINES, Iowa — The
Iowa Caucuses drew more attention
than in past elections as candidate
supporters and media swarmed the
streets and skywalks of downtown
Des Moines.
Heavy snow and traffic didn’t
slow caucus campaigners as they
weaved through media and com
muters during the morning rush
hour.
Supporters for former television
evangelist Pat Robertson waved wet
signs at motorists which asked them
to “Honk if you’re for Robertson,”
while falling snow faded the ink.
The snow let up in the afternoon,
but supporters’ enthusiasm did not.
They vied with candidates for the
media’s attention.
Richard Hughes of Des Moines
strolled the skywalk with a sign
urging people to “Let Iowa be a
mirror to the world and reflect eve
rywhere.”
Hughes, a campaigner for Demo
cratic candidate Rev. Jessie
Jackson, said he passed out 1,000
fliers and found about 90 percent
support for Jackson.
Hughes said the time spent cam
paigning for Jackson was worth it,
no matter what the outcome.
“I’m just scaring the death out of
(Congressman Richard) Gephardt’s
people,” he said.
During an afternoon press con
ference, media attention turned to a
Soviet journalist who was critically
questioning former Delaware Gov.
Pete du Pont, who is running on the
Republican ticket.
Media cameras focused on Vla
dimir Dounaev, one of Russia’s
most noted journalists.
Dounaev, chief of the Soviet
television bureau in Washington,
D.C., said Soviet people are eager to
learn about American elections.
“We would like to see why
Americans are wasting two years to
find a president,” he said.
He said Russians are interested in
a “peaceful four years ahead of
them.”
Dounaev, who has been a televi
sion correspondent for 25 years, said
he didn’t know who would win the
caucuses.
He said he favored Gephardt,
Sen. Paul Simon, D-Ill., Vice Presi
dent George Bush and Sen. Robert
Dole, R-Kan., but would vote for
Jackson if he were an American.
“But to say we love somebody is
the best way to ruin someone’s ca
reer,” he said.
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Des Moines, but no emergencies reported
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Phillips said Des Moines’ 6,000
hotel rooms were full, mostly because
of the caucuses. Many hotel restau
rants had extended operating hours,
and he said rental cars were unavail
able and restaurants were busy.
Because of the increased crowds,
security was beefed up, said Sgt.
Thomas Baaly, a Des Moines Police
spokesman.
Greg Struve, director of operations
for Sentry Security, said security in
the skywalks above the city was the
same — two people — but security
personnel planned to stay on duty all
night.
Baaly said traffic was congested
and parking was tight Monday, but no
major emergencies had resulted from
the caucuses.
“We keep learning every four
years,” he said.
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