Postal rate hike may stamp on UNL budgets
By Dan Dwinell
Staff Reporter
According to officials at University of
Nebraska-Lincoln colleges, the recent postal
rate hike will not affect the amount of mail sent
at UNL.
The price of first-class stamps increased
from 22 cents per stamp to 25 cents April 1.
“I think we will continue to mail as much if
not more,” said Joseph Luther, assistant dean of
the College of Architecture. He said that if the
college doesn’t receive additional money, it
might have to cut back somewhere else.
Morris Schneider, associate dean of the
College of Engineering and Technology,
agreed.
“We mail out a significant number of
items,” he said. “We just have to absorb it and
maybe cut elsewhere.”
James O’Hanlon, dean of the Teachers
College, said if they cut back on anything it
might be the mail.
“We may be more careful in what we send,”
he said.
Charles Tremper, associate dean of the
College of Law, said the increase might dimin
ish recourses in other areas.
“We do a lot of mailing in regard to admis
sions,” he said.
Ted Pfeifer, director of registration and
records, said the increase will cause problems.
“We haven’t projected what we will do for
next year,” he said. “Unless we get some more
money, which I doubt that we will, we’ll have
to cut somewhere.”
Pfeifer said he should know how the in
crease will affect the budget by May 1.
Eugene Merchant, associate dean of the
College of Dentistry, said the college doesn’t
mail many letters.
“It’s not going to be a major problem,” he
said.
Sieve Hilliard, assistant dean of the College
of Arts and Sciences, said the college hasn’t
calculated how much the increase will affect
them.
“It’s obvious it’s going to cost us some more
money,” he said. Hilliard said it shouldn’t have
much impact on how much the college mails.
Dick Schenaman,managcrofcampus postal
services, said UNL mails roughly 11,000 items
every day. He suggested the university could
send some mail in a lower class or non-profit to
save money.
Author relies
on background
for his book
By Dan Dwinell
Staff Reporter
Jim Sherwood, author of “Ne
braska Football” and history pro
fessor at the University of Ne
braska-Lincoln, spoke to students
about his book at the Nebraska
Union Tuesday.
The book, published last August,
is the fastest-selling book in Ne
braska Press history.
“Nebraska Football” began in
the summer of 1984 when Sher
wood was offered a contract. In
cluded in the contract was the con
dition that he supply his own pho
tographer.
Sherwood hired Dan Dulaney, a
1986 graduate of UNL and former
Daily Nebraskan photographer,
who shot nearly 6,000 frames and
restored several other photos for the
book.
“My background as a historian
helped me with this,” Sherwood
said.
He read newspapers and maga
zines about the Comhuskers dating
back to 1890, their first season.
Sherwood then contacted the Ne
braska Alumni Association for ad
dresses of former players. He wrote
a five-page questionnaire and sent it
to about 500 players. After getting a
50 percent response back, he chose
100 players to interview in depth.
Snerwood spoke of some players
he interviewed, including the oldest
player alive — Paul Sheilds, who
played in 1915.
Sed Hartman, a halfback that
played for the Huskers in 1922, was
concerned that Sherwood would
take his picture with his glasses on
because it would make him look
old.
“Here is a guy that heard Teddy
Roosevelt speak in 1912, and he’s
worried about looking old,” Sher
wood said. “They were all like
that.”
Sherwood said A1 Zickman, for
mer athletic director at Kearney
State College, was typical of most
of the players.
At the beginning of the inter
view, Zickman said he only had half
an hour to talk, but eventually he
talked for three hours.
“Jim, I want to thank you,’’Zick
man told Sherwood. “That brought
back memories.”
Zickman, who played football
for Nebraska 1941-43, was at his
father’s farm when he was called by
Chicago Bears owner George Halas
with an offer to play football. The
owner of the New York Titans also
called with an offer.
The Zickman farm had a party
line, so the bidding war was heard
by all the neighbors, who kept
trying to raise the bid.
The Titans dropped out, and he
was finally offered S8,000 a year to
play for Chicago. Zickman refused
and pursued a master’s degree at
UNL for a higher-paying career.
Tom “Trainwreck” Novak, who
played from 1949 to 1951, was so
tough that once he played with a rib
sticking out of his side. His most
memorable moment was when the
fans in Memorial Stadium stood up
and sang “Happy Birthday” to him.
Sherwood said he was pleased
with the final result of the book, but
wasn’t with the cover photo. The
photo shows the Comhuskers when
they wore all-red uniforms during
1986’s loss to Oklahoma.
“It would have been nice to have
shown us beating up on Utah State,”
he said.
Ward Wllllams/Dally Nebraskan
Sherwood
Voices move ethanol bill
By Curt Wagner
Senior Editor
and Victoria Ayotte
Senior Reporter__
The University of Nebraska-Lin
coln could receive more fuel for re
search if the Nebraska Legislature
passes a bill it gave second-round
voice approval Tuesday.
LB 1217 would give the Ethanol
Authority and Development Board
the power to consider grants to any
postsccondary institution, said Todd
Sneller, adviser to the board.
“It expands our ability to look at
something besides cities, counties
and villages,” he said. Previously, the
board could only give grants to these
municipalities.
According to the bill, grants would
be used for development or marketing
of ethanol-based non-food products.
Up to five million dollars could go
to the University of Nebraska or other
postsccondary institutions under the
bill, said Sen. Chris Abboud of
Omaha, one of the bill’s sponsors.
Thomas Krepel, assistant to UNL
Chancellor Martin Massengale, said
the bill won’t affect the university,
but agreed it would improve chances
for ihe university to receive grants.
“All 1217 does, and all it is in
tended to do, is simply provide addi
tional grant-making discretion to the
state ethanol authority,” he said.
Sneller said if LB 1217 becomes
law, he is confident grant requests
from postsecondary institutions will
increase.
Central Community College with
branches in Hastings, Grand Island
and Columbus, is currently modify
ing vehicles to use pure ethanol as fuel
rather than a combination of ethanol
and other fuels, Sneller said.
Sneller said he understood some
UNL officials were interested in get
ting grants for ethanol-related studies
at a food processing center.
“It will peak Central Community
College’s interests. And I’m quite
confident people from the university
... will follow through,” he said.
Abboud said he thinks the bill will
increase ethanol research tremen
dously. Ethanol research is important
to Nebraska because of the big com
industry here, he said.
“It’s a big opportunity for the
University of Nebraska. It’ll help
with their research capabilities,” he
said.
Slain ex-Husker hoped to return to NU
BECTON from Page 1
“He had some ability. He was a typi
cal walk-on — he was making some
progress and he had some talent.”
Osborne also said Becton was
contemplating returning to Lincoln.
“He came out a little late—1 don’t
think he came here until school
started (last year),” Osborne said. “He
was a very good person. He was plan
ning to come back, and we would
have liked him to. He went home to
earn money so he could come back.”
Dauway said Becton was working
at a sporting goods store in Brooklyn
before his death.
Besides his parents, Becton is sur
vived by his stepmother, Saundra
Becton; stepfather, John Dauway;
two brothers; and four sisters.
Education money remains in Orr budget i
ORR from Page 1
Educational television was cut
about $88,000; the Nebraska State
Historical Society was cut $38,000;
Administrative Systems were cut
$332,000; Economic Development
was cut $30,000; Arts Council was
cut $250,000 from the general fund
and $50,000 from federal funds. The
Crime Commission was cut
$300,000.
The vetoes brought the total state
budget down to $963.9 million.
Methods of regulating pickle cards debated 1
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by one company in Nebraska, but this
proposal was stricken.
Abboud spoke in support of the
amendment, saying it “goes to the
very essence of the pickle contro
versy and could help to reduce fraud.”
Sen. Pat Morehead of Beatrice
opposed the amendment, saying that
the people feeding the machines with
the pickle cards could also fix the
system.
“I’m still not ready to move into
the arena of machines,” Morehead
said.
In closing, Schmit again said his
amendment is the only way to control
pickles.
“The thieves are about to be cor
ralled,” he said. “Either 1232 is to be
a mechanism whereby you regulate
and control or it is to be a sham,” he
said.
Schmit’s amendment failed to
receive enough approval in a 18-16
vote.
Legislators will begin debate to
day on 17 additional amendments to
the bill, Abboud said.
College would welcome improvements 1
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out students in a “cookie-cutter mold”
by requiring all students to take the
same classes, Spann said. Such a
system, he said, would be the “an
tithesis of a liberal education.”
Journalism college students have a
broad range of interests and talents,
which is why the college places an
emphasis on advising.
The college tailors a student’s
curriculum through advising, he said.
The college requires an adviser’s
signature on all registration work
sheets.
If a student expresses interest in
working in a specific region of the
world or for a certain employer, ad
visers will help students choose
classes that emphasize what that re
gion or employer centers on.
The college’s curriculum is ulti
mately in the hands of the faculty
members, he said.
“The faculty feels the curriculum
is their turf,” he said.
The curriculum committee is
merely advisory, he said. The com
mittee can make recommendations
and do research, but cannot make any
decisions. This situation is “pretty
much the same” throughout the uni
versity, he said.
If journalism faculty members do
not approve of proposed curriculum
changes — no matter who proposes
them — the faculty will not accept
those proposals, he said.
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