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NU President Ronald Roskens points out the details of his five-year partnership plan Saturday
during the regents meeting
City Council to hear resolutions
By Dianne Nelson
Staff Reporter
Mayor Bill Harris will introduce to
the L incoln City Council today reso
lutions to approve BCE Development
Propert' is, Inc., for downtown
Lincolr s redevelopment project,
said David Sallee, a Harris aide.
A public hearing and actual coun
cil voting will be June 20, he said.
Harris and the Downtown Rede
velopment Selection Advisory Com
mittce announced iheir selection of
BCED on June 3, Sallee said. BCED,
a subsidiary of BCE Development
Corp., the real estate development
and investment subsidiary of Bell
Canada Enterprises, replaces Taub
man Co. Inc., the Michigan firm that
withdrew from the Lincoln project in
January.
BCED and Harris will meet this
week with representatives of Selec
tion Researc h, Inc. and Bob Campbell
of Miller and Paine. On Wednesday,
Sallee said, redevelopment officials
will attend a charrette, a half-day
session to receive responses and feed
back on designs for the project.
The next step after city council’sj
Sending approval, said Barbara
ager, executive director of the
Downtown Lincoln Association, is
for the developer to talk to possible
tenants and try to “lure them in” to
Lincoln. These tenants are the anchor
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Regents approve
budqet increase
By Victoria Ayotte
Staff Reporter
The University of Nebraska Board
of Regents Saturday approved an 11.2
percent increase in the 1988-1989
university budget, which includes a
9.5 percent salary increase and a $4
million research initiative.
The increases were made possible
by additional state funding of 11.9
percent and a tuition hike of 9.2 per
cent throughout the university sys
tem.
UNL’s undergraduate resident and
non-resident tuition rates were in
creased 8.4 percent to $48.50 and
$131.75 per credit hour.
The board also allocated a $4 mil
lion research increase to certain pro
grams.
These allocations were recom
mended by a committee of 23 review
ers across Nebraska, NU Provost Lee
Jones said.
UNO will get $200,000 for tele
communications management and
UNL will receive $1.6 million for
engineering research centers,
$200,000 for materials science and
$100,000 for water quality.
UNL and UNO will each receive
$950,000 for biotechnology. UNL’s
proposed biotechnology center was
approved Saturday.
Also approved were operating
budget request guidelines for 1989
91.
Salary increases of 11.25 percent
for faculty and 12.5 percent for staff
for each of the next two years are
included in the guidelines.
“That should put us at least at the
midpoint of the peer groups, which is
our objective,” NU President Ronald
Roskens said.
Tuition increases of 5 percent each
year are also recommended in the
guidelines.
Roskens also presented to the
board a five-year partnership plan for
the university, which includes in
creased state funding of $31.5 mil
lion, federal and university funding of
$28 million and funding by the NU
Foundation and other private sources
of $27.5 million.
The university is trying to create a
“workable partnership” with state,
university and private sources by this
plan, Roskens said.
“People are responding very posi
tively,” he said. “The forward thrust
since the first of January is generating
a kind of momentum.”
The Board of Regents also ap
proved the 1988-1989 budget for the
Nebraska College of Technical Agri
culture at Curtis.
Curtis’ budget is set at $1.8 mil
lion, with $1.4 million coming
through state aid. Curtis’ tuition rates
were increased from $23.16 to $32
per credit hour.
Irvin Omtvedt, vice chancellor for
agriculture and natural resources at
UNL, said two program s w il 1 be ready
for studentsat Curtis next semester—
animal health and diversified agri
culture.
More than 50 students are ex
pected to attend the school next se
mester, he said. Some regents ex
pressed concerns about the high cost
of educating each student next year,
but Omtvedt said this is to be expected
because it’s a “transition year” for
Curtis.
The old Curtis school effectively
closed with the last graduating class
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Next hill motivates bikers through state
By Deannc Nelson
and Victoria Ayotte
Stiff Reporters
As Dan and Tim Tharp bike
across Nebraska, their only goal is
to reach the next town.
“During the ride, the motivation
is the next town,” said Tim. “When
j?oin£ up a hill, it’s to go down the
Tim, from Lincoln, is a four
ycar veteran of B icycle Ride Across
Nebraska.
Tim’s brother Dan, a three-year
veteran, and another biker, Jeff
Lauden of Plattsmouth, a three-year
biker, agreed with Tim.
“At the end of the day, no matter
how nasty the day was, you’ve made
it,” Lauden said. “It’s goal-fulfill
ment.”
The Tharps are both University of
Nebraska-Lmcoln graduates. Their
father, Gerald Tharp, is a professor
at the school of biological sciences at
U NL and has also panicipaled on the
trip.
The three bikers started their ride
across Nebraska with about 500 oth
ers Sunday morning in Fort Robin
son. They are due to arrive in Omaha
Saturday. The trip is sponsored by
Northwest Rotary Club of Omaha and
the Omaha Pedalers Bicycle Club.
Each bicyclist pays a small entry
fee for participation in the ride.
Tim and Dan Tharp said the entry
fee is minimal compared to the other
costs involved in the ride.
The cost of the bike can range f rom
$200 to $2,000, food can get expen- 1
sive and the bikers need a tent for the
trip, they said.
There’s also a lot of training in
volved in preparing for the trip, they
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