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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
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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.
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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.