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September 14, 1988 University of Nebraska-Lincoln_Voi. 88 No. 12
Orr speaks to students on taxes, education
By Victoria Ayotte
Senior Reporter
More than 100 University of
Nebraska-Lincoln students
who gathered Tuesday night
to hear Gov. Kay Orr got an unex
pected visit from her grandson Taylor
Christian Gage.
“I’m doing double-duty at the
event,” Orr told UNL’s College Re
publicans. “I mean, the governor is a
grandmother.”
“He’s already a full-fledged re
publican,” said Orr, holding the infant
in her arms.
Baby-sitting wasn’t the only thing
Orr had been doing Tuesday.
Orr said she talked with republican
vice-presidential candidate Dan
Quayle Tuesday concerning a pro
posed vice presidential debate in
Omaha this fall.
“Quayle wants to debate and
Omaha is fine with him,” Orr said.
But Orr said some bad news had
come today when she talked with the
staff of James Baker, chaiiman for
republican presidential candidate
George Bush.
Orr said Baker’s staff said the
democrats have raised objections to
having the debate in Omaha.
Orr said she doesn’t know why the
Dukakis campaign would have raised
objections.
Now she said she doesn’t know
when a debate would be held.
An agreed-upon bipartisan com
mission to choose the debate sites and
dates had previously set the Omaha
vice presidential debate for the week
of Oct. 3.
Republican achievements on the
budget were the main topic of Orr’s
visit.
“If you followed the campaign in
1986,1 made some pledges,” Orr said.
“I said it was time we pul our fiscal
house in order.”
Orr said her tax overhaul, which
set the state tax system on gross ad
justed income instead of a percentage
of federal taxes, has achieved the tax
base stability the state needed.
The tax overhaul has achieved one
of Orr’s main objectives of creating
economic incentives for businesses to
locate in Nebraska, she said.
“In 15 months, we havchilover$2
billion in investment and more than
16,000 new jobs,” Orr said.
New jobs were needed to stop the
migration of people out of Nebraska,
she said.
“We need young productive
people around,” Orr said. “We want
to keep you here in the state—it’s that
simple.”
Orr reiterated what she called her
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Butch Ireland/Dally Nebraskan
Gov. Kay Orr listens to a question from sophomore Cassandra Brittons, international affairs,
while holding her grandson Taylor Christian Gage Tuesday evening following a speech to UNL
College Republicans.
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Colleges complement each other
By Shawn Schuldies
Suff Reporter
| ^ ebraska state colleges’ en
rollment and tuition has in
creased during nine of the
past 10 years, said a state college
official.
Ardis Burkholder, information
resource specialist for the Ne
braska State College Board, said
enrollment has not yet been deter -
mined for the 1988-89 school year,
but enrollment has increased from
13,115 total students in state col
leges in 1983 to 15.620 in 1987,she
Only in 1981 did enrollment at
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leges share with UNL is a lack of
funding.
A study performed by the Na
tional Center for Higher Education
Management Systems showed that
$16,723,000 is needed to bring
Nebraska state colleges' f unding to
the same level of other colleges.
One advantage to attending a
state college is the low professor
to-student ration, Burkholder said.
Nearly all students, including
freshmen, are taught by professors
instead of graduate assistants, she
said.
Burkholder said she doesn't
think the stale colleges — Chad
ion, Kearney, Peru and Wayne —
compete with the University of
Nebrsska-Lincoln for student*,
The tuition increase from $33
per credit hour for an ip-state
undergraduate student to $36.50
may help the funding problem, she
said, but most of the extra money
wil) go to just maintaining existing
programs.
Despite the funding problem,
state colleges do serve community
interests, she said.
Only 40 percent of the students
at state colleges are under age 25,
Burkholder said. Non-traditional
students might not be able to go to
UNL because it would disrupt their
lives too much, she said.
Some traditional students go to
a state college because they can’t
afford UNL s tuition, she said.
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Union Board approves requests
for capital improvement projects
By Shawn Hubbell
Staff Reporter
The Union Board Tuesday night
approved a capital improve
ment list requesting $287,825
for Nebraska Union projects.
The annual capital improvement
list requests funds to pay for new
equipment, refurbishing, building
repairs and modifications to city and
east campus unions.
Daryl Swanson, union director,
said the noncy for the capital im
provemert > comes from repayment
of revenue bonds, which total $29
million. These bonds were taken out
in 1964 and 1966 and were used for
the construction of residence halls
and the University Health Center.
Repayment of the bonds comes
from excess housing fees, Swanson
said. Excess fees occur when occu
pancy rates in the residence halls are
more than 85 percent. The remaining
fundscomc from student fees, he said.
Because the state Legislature will not
support financing the construction of
non-academic facilities, revenue
bonds are commonly used to generate
proceeds to build student and auxil
iary services, Swanson said.
In the past, windfall money from
the revenue bonds has been used to
build an addition to the health center
and remodel rooms in the union,
Swanson said. The money can be used
only for the purchase of equipment,
repairs, maintenance and improve
ments, he said.
The request for funds must'nftw be
approved by James Griesen, vice
chancellor for student affairs, the NU
Board of Regents and the state Legis
lature, Swanson said.
Requests for equipment purchases
include: trash compactor $8,500;
cash registers $20,000; upright lift
5,000; replacement of custodial
equipment $6,200; replacement of
lighting control board $ 1,000; display
case $3,500; four convection ovens
$16,000; banquet cart holding oven
$2,300; food transport equipment
$4,840; china, glassware and silver
$14,640; food service equipment
$13,445; meeting room furniture
$9,000; office furniture and equip
ment $9,500; replacement of lounge
furniture $10,000; reupholstering of
lounge furniture $8,000; two micro
computers $6,100; computer upgrade
$3,000; kitchen equipment $6,500.
Funds for refurbishing include:
meeting rooms $ 12,000; replace tiles
on north entry $3,800; replace carpet
and reupholstcr furniture (east union)
$10,500; carpeting/floor tile
$14,500; vinyl and paneling for meet
ing and TV rooms $5,000; cafeteria
serving line (east union) $6,000.
Requests for building repairs and
modifications: Great Plains Room
$5,500; bowling pinsetters (east un
ion) $2,000; asbestos removal (Com
monplace) $4,000; office suites
$49,000; activities suites $18,000.
UNL commuter'lot parking permit sales stop
By Ryan Sleeves
Senior Reporter
WE ARE SOLD OUT OF AREA TWENTIES
(COMMUTER LOTS). SORRY!"
This is the sign that greets University of
Nebraska-L incoln students as they ap
proach the UNL police station.
Lt. John Burke, UNL parking administrator,
said he stopped (he sale of the commuter stu
dent parking perm its, which are sold to students
living off campus, toavoid overcrowding prob
lems. He terminated the sale Aug. 31, he said,
after the number of commuter permits ex
ceeded the number of parking spaces by 20
percent, he said.
’That’s probably mild compared to other
institutions around the country,” he said. “It’s
not uncommon to go as high as 50 percent.”
UNL officials sold about 4,500 commuter
permits this semester compared to 3,275 sold
during the first semester of 1987.
“Inis is the most commuter students I’ve
seen bring their cars on campus,” said Burke,
who has worked at UNL six years.
Burke said he is unsure what caused the
increase. It could be attributed to more students
with part-time jobs, he said, which sometimes
forces them to drive to school.
The increase in commuters has caused about
a 20 percent increase in the number of parking
tickets issued, Burke said. Most of the tickets
arc issued to students who don't have a permit
or who park in the wrong areas, he said.
Ron Fuller, parking staff assistant, said
police exercise more discretion in waiving
tickets during the first few weeks of school. But
waiving tickets ultimately depends on the situ
ation and the behavior of individuals displays
when he or she requests a waiver, he said.
Students who still need a parking permit can
buy temporary lot permits from IJNL police for
$10. These permits are valid for the semester
but students who purchase them are restricted
to two lots located south of Court Street near the
Bob Devaney Sports Center. The lots offer
about 17S spaces, Burke said.
Some students parking in the temporary lots
have complained that they're too far from
classes, Fuller said. But many students walk as
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