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"',l ..—1 ■ —1 n •!„ mmmmam "B mS %4L JLJL Y ^d Weather:Monday, mostly sunny and A&E: Joe ‘King’ Car |'^m S B B warmer, high near 60 with winds from rasco plays Plaza today ■ I B the N at 5-10 mph. Monday night, —Page 6. I Bfe, I m I SE arB mostly cloudy, not as cold, low in the Sports: Mens’ basket m, ■ HI ■■ Ml TM IB SB m mid 30s. Tuesday, sunny and warmer, ball team to Australia — 1 icUlctjixal I r__ Weather:Monday, mostly sunny and warmer, high near 60 with winds from the N at 5-10 mph. Monday night, mostly cloudy, not as cold, low in the mid 30s. Tuesday, sunny and warmer, high in the mid 60s. A&E: Joe ‘King’ Car rasco plays Plaza today —Page 6. Sports: Mens’ basket ball team to Australia — Page 8. Regents approve faculty pay, tuition hikes By Amy bd wards Senior Reporter The University of Nebraska Board of Re gents thanked Gov. Kay Orr and members of the Nebraska Legislature Saturday for $20.5 million for research and faculty salaries. The regents approved the proposal for fac ulty pay raises and student tuition hikes at the meeting. NU President Ronald Roskens said the ap propriations recommended by the governor and adopted by the Legislature are the largest sum given to the university in 12 years. On said the work to appropriate the money was easy because “the Legislature understands the commitment the people of Nebraska have i toward education." Speaker of the Legislature Bill Barrett of Lexington said appropriating the $20.5 million was a major effort. Barrett said it was good to work with an administrative branch that had such a strong commitment “We’ve made a major contribution to the future of Nebraska,” Barrett said. Faculty pay raises include an 11 percent increase at the University of Nebraska-Lin coln, 8 percent at the University of Nebraska Medical Center and 8.2 percent at the Univer sity of Nebraska at Omaha. Non-faculty salary increases were approved at 9.4 percent at UNL, 7.9 percent at UNMC and 10.6 percent at UNO. Tuition rates will include a 6.5 percent increase previously approved by the regents and an additional 2 percent recommended by the Legislature’s Appropriations Committee. Jeff Petersen, president of the Association of Students of the University of Nebraska, told regents it was difficult to come before them in support of a tuition increase. Petersen thanked Roskens for keeping in mind the 3-to-l ratio for state and tuition sup port of salaries and for keeping the tuition increase under the $4 limit. Roskens said it is rare to have students who are willing to put themselves out for faculty pay raises when the government won’t. Roskens said he knows of no other campus where the student body proposed its own tuition hike. The regents also awarded contracts for the second phase of construction on the UNL rec reation center. Sampson Construction of Lincoln received the $3.5 million general construction contract. Midland Mechanical received a $962,400 contract, Commonwealth Electric of Lincoln received a $521,000 contact, and O’Keefe Elevator of Lincoln was awarded a $54,500 contract. The $5 million in contracts will pay for basketball courts, handball court space, a new swimming pool and a weight room. Financing for the project comes from $5 million in private donations, $3,500,000 in student fees and bond surplus funds. The bal ance of the project will be financed through an assessment on football tickets. The contracts awarded Saturday bring the total cost of the center with the indoor practice field to $8,850,000. Curtis bill passes last day of session From Staff Reports # / Nebraska legislators gave final round approval to the Nebraska Col lege of Technical Agriculture at Cur tis during their final day in session Friday. The bill, LB1042, finances Curtis separately from other University of Nebraska campuses It appropriates $1.4 million from July 1988 to June 1989 for the contin uation of the Curtis campus. The bill also gives Curtis an addi tional $700,000 to finish out the cur rent year. Legislators also approved Omaha Sen. Ernie Chambers’ bill to pay sti pends to football players for their contributions to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The bill failed 24-22 Thursday on final reading but was reconsidered Friday. Chambers has argued that football players deserve the stipend because football is the only sport at UNL that provides revenue for the univer sity. He also argued that football play ers are in the only spoil that prohibits them to play professionally until they exhaust their eligibility or graduate. pw®*^% I#3ViWL/Bliy ■ww^3iB8lwWI!I Jerry Johnson, South Dakota State University team member, is thrown in Saturday's bull riding competition during UNL's 30th annual rodeo at the Nebraska State Fair Parti. Rodeo competitors don’t just horse around By Lee Rood Senior Rtponer A rodeo rookie watching saddled-bronc riders or barrel races might think competitors ride for kicks, but it’s not all fun and games. At the University Of Nebraska 30th Annual Rodecrlast weekend, college students from Nebraska, Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, North Dakota and South Dakota were thrown, bucked and bruised competing at the Nebraska State Fair Park. George Pfeiffer, UNL’s rodeo team faculty adviser, said because of the hard work and money in volved in rodeo riding, many of the students involved have to take the sport seriously. AM of the lOrodeos in the Great Plains region require a $50 entry fee for competition, Pfeiffer said. Forty dollars of the fee goes into a jackpot for the top four winners at each rodeo. If a team member doesn’t win, he can lose a lot of money fast, he said. UNL’s team didn’tmake a lot of money this week, placing fifth out of nine teams. Pfeiffer, a UNL agricultural economics professor, said that it wasn’tunusualforahome team not to do as well as other teams. “It requires a lot of concentra tion to do well,” Pfeiffer said. UNL team members were busy this weekend selling tickets and setting up, he said, so it was diffi cult for them to concentrate. Some of UNL’s team members said lack of practice also hurt them in this weekend’s rodeo. Greg Adair, UNL’s rodeo team captain, said be hadn’tpracticed all year and didn’t place in this com petition. Adair, a senior animal science miyor, said he will spend about eight hours a week practicing for the six remaining rodeos this sea son. Rodeo riding isn’t too hard to learn, Adair said. “It’s mostly hard work and de termination that’ll get you there,” he said. Adair, like many other rodeo cowboys, said he learned the sport from his family. Most students in college rodeos today have fathers, brothers and sisters also involved in the sport, he said. Most rodeo competitors say there isn’t much danger involved in the sport. But for spectators watch ing team members dive on cattle or being tossed from bucking horses, it may seem hard to believe. Adair said only one or two people in the region “break some can be dangerous, but so can all he said. Reece, another UNL team member who placed fourth in bareback riding, said it’s all a matter of experience. “You just have to know what you’re doing,” he said. Reece, a senior agricultural economics major, said he has been learning the sport for 12 years. Like Adair, Reece, of Valen tine, said he got involved because his father was involved in the sport Reece said his sister also com peted in rodeos. No women are on UNL’s rodeo team, but they are involved in the sport at other schools. Group supplies training UNES members ‘learn while they live it’ By David Holloway Staff Reporter A University of Nebraska-Lincoln student group is offering hands-on experience in business for students. The group will organize entrepre neurial ventures for students, said Matt Henderson, University of Ne braska Entrepreneurial Society presi dent These ventures include free re search and implementation of en trepreneurial business ventures, all the way from the development of the new product ideas to marketing and sales, he said. “LINES is different than most business organizations on campus,” Henderson said. “We leam as we live it. There are statistics out that show famous entrepreneurs usually don’t hit it big until their third time around. Maybe our program will help young entrepreneurs leam the mistakes while they’re in college, so when they do get out, they will be more apt to be successful when they take on their own ventures.” Five students founded UNES, which had its constitution approved by AS UN last month. Robin Anderson, the faculty ad viser for UNES, said the group was started by Henderson, junior business management major; Jeff Petersen, junior broadcasting major; Jon Donlan, junior business major; Deb bie Petersen, senior sociology major; and Bill Champion, junior marketing major. Anderson said he hoped the group could help students start their own businesses while still in college. People interested in becoming members of UNES can attend the Third Annual Nebraska Productivity and Entrepreneurial Conference to day, where applications will be avail able. The conference, sponsored by the College of Business Administra tion, will be at the Lincoln Hilton. Registration forms for the confer ence are available at the Nebraska Center for Production and Entrepre neurs, 1237 R St., in Anderson’s of fice. Applications for UNES are also available there. “Entrepreneurship is kind of a hobby to me, but I hope to someday have my own business,” she said. UNES is not only a place for entre preneurs to meet but will also teach students valuable on- the-job training. ‘To go into your own business, you have to have 100 percent energy and 110 percent commitment,” Pe tersen said. “UNES can’t give a per son the energy it takes to be success ful, but it can teach a person the skills you need to know. i warn 10 stress mat we re not a bunch of materialistic brats,” Pe tersen said. “I think Steve Jobs, who founded Apple, said it best: ‘The journey is die reward.’ That’s what really motivates us. “It’s not the material and the money we are going to make, but the journey to get there.” UNES is an affiliate of the Asso ciation of College Entrepreneurs. In March, UNES members went to the association’s national convention in Washington, D.C., where people from 40 countries and more than 3,000 entrepreneurs were present, Henderson said.