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February 2,1989 University of Nebraska-Lincoln Vol. 88 No. 92
Campus Rec pursues student fees hike
By Lisa Twiestmeyer
Staff Reporter
Campus Recreation will ask for
a $7 per student per semester
increase in student fees when
it presents its 1989-90 budget request
to the Committee for Fees Allocation
tonighL
Stan Campbell, director of Cam
pus Rec, said $6.76 of the proposed
increase will be used to pay program
ming, operation and maintenance
costs associated with the completion
of Phase II of the Campus Recreation
Center.
Phase II of the rec center is sched
uled for completion July 15. The
phase includes construction of an
addition to the east side of the NU
Coliseum, including basketball, vol
leyball and raquetball courts, a
weight room, equipment rental and
check out area, and a renovated
swimming pool.
The added $7 per student per
semester would increase Campus
Rec ’ s student fee budget to $963,689,
a 51.7 percent increase from this
year’s budget of $635,346.
The $6.76 increase would gener
ate $317,085 in 1989-90 for the rec
center. The remaining 24-cent in
crease, amounting to $11,258, would
be used to increase the budget for
such programs as Outdoor Adven
tures and club sports.
Campus Rec’s student fee alloca
tion is part of Fund B of the Univer
sity Program and Facilities fees that
students pay each semester. Fund B
also includes the budgets of the Uni
versity Health Center, the University
of Nebraska-Lincoln Debt Service
and the Nebraska unions. Fund B fees
are non-refundable.
Campbell said he does not antici
pate opposition to the proposed in
crease. In spring 1987, Campus Rec
went to various student groups and
informed litem of how much student
fees would increase because of the
rec center, he said, and the students
gave their approval.
“We have been very realistic and
very up front about the costs,”
Campbell said. “All we arc asking
for is what students previously com
mitted to.”
During the 1985-86 AS UN elec
tions, a question was included on the
ballot asking students if they sup
ported the construction and mainte
nance of a rcc center that would be
partially funded by an increase in
student fees.
According to AS UN records,
2,089 students voted in favor of the
center and 1,065 voted against.
Campbell said the NU Board of
Regents and the administration also
approved construction of the center,
and were aware of the needed student
fee increases.
The 1988-89 budget included a
$3.54 per student fee increase for the
rec center, Campbell said. Campus
Rec had estimated a $4 increase for
that year. The estimated fee increase
for the 1989-90 budget had been be
tween $7 and $8, he said.
“We have stayed within what
we’ve been telling students all
along,” Campbell said. “Obviously
we want to keep (fees) as low as
possible and still provide what stu
dents expect.”
Kevin Lytle, chairman of CFA,
said he does not expect any problems
in approving the Campus Rec budget.
Students gave their support for a fee
increase before the center was ap
proved, he said. Even if CFA didn’t
approve the budget, he said, their
decision wouldn’t make it past the
administration.
CFA Fund B recommendations
must be approved by Chancellor
Martin Masscngalc and the NU
Board of Regents.
Financial aid director
rectifying problems
by merging offices
By Natalie Weinstein
Staff Reporter ___
The problems students faced this year
with the Office of Scholarships and
Financial Aid won’t repeat themselves
next year, the director of the office said
Wednesday afternoon.
‘‘I say this confidently. Our problems are
behind us,” John Beacon told about 10 stu
dents at a forum in the Nebraska Union set up
by the University Program Council’s Talks &
Topics Committee.
Beacon said he knows some students will
have to sec it to believe it.
“I don’t expect you to sit there and believe
me,” he said. “I have to buy back your confi
dence.”
Beacon said the office will begin processing
award notifications in mid-April. Last year, he
said, the office did not start working on them
until mid-June.
Students should receive their award notifi
cations by the end of spring semester or in early
June, he said. Students will then have the entire
summer to process their student loan applica
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ASUN passes bill to create
test files in UNL libraries;
ethics of bill not challenged
By Ryan Sleeves
Staff Reporter_ __
Student access to old tests could soon be
come a little easier at the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln.
The Association of Students of the Univer
sity of Nebraska passed a bill Wednesday night
instructing ASUN’s Senate Academic Com
mittee to work to establish a test file in UNL
libraries.
Th< file would store tests that UNL profes
sors have given in the past. Graduate Sen. Stan
Mommaerts, chairman of the Academic Com
mittee, said he will work to have the files
available to students by next fall.
According to the bill, many greek houses
and other student organizations already have
test files, giving members of such organiza
tions an unfair advantage over nonmembers.
The bill, passed by a vote of 12-7, also states
that the disadvantage will continue as long as
UNL professors “do not substantially rewrite
their tests.”
I" it has been pointed out that this would be
anti-academic - that people would use it to
cheat,” Mommaerts said. “But I see this as
pro-academic ... because it will make profes
sors change their tests.
But senators didn’t challenge the ethics of
the bill. Instead, some senators were concerned
about potential costs, the extra work load li
brarians could incur and the worth ol such a
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Wednesday morning.
Bill suggests required ‘volunteer work’
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By Kathy Borman
Staff Reporter
' 11 introduced in Congress last week
/ Democratic leaders would seek to
ake civilian or military volunteer
service a prerequisite for most federal student
financial aid in the future.
The bill, called the Citizenship and National
Service Act, would require young people to
volunteer for one or two years to a civilian or
military post in return for sustenance pay while
serving in the program.
Upon completion of the service, partici
pants would receive a voucher worth $10,000
for civilian work and $12,000 for military
service. The money would act as a grant for
college, job training or housing downpay
ments.
Sen. Sam Nunn, D-Ga., introduced the bill
in the U.S. Senate Jan. 25. A similar version
was introduced by Rep. Dave McCurdy, D
Okla, in the House of Representatives.
The Senate bill was drafted in large part by
the Democratic Leadership Council under the
chairmanship of Nunn, according to Pam La
londe, press secretary for the council. She said
experts in military and civilian service were
among the sources contacted in drafting tne
bill.
Civic obligation was the “pillar behind the
program,” Lalonde said.
“This has become too much an entitlement
society,” she said.
James Gricsen, vice chancellor for student
affairs at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln,
said lie opposes the bill because it would dis
criminate against minorities. Only potential
students in lower income ranges would have to
participate in community services for financial
aid, Gricsen said.
“Thus, there would be a disproportionate
effect on minorities since they fall into the
lower income ranges,” he said.
Gricsen said he wouldn’t object to a pro
posal to augment existing grants with commu
nity service-based grants. But requiring com
munity service to receive most federal grants
“would be the wrong move,” he said.
Lalonde said the bill was designed to take
care of many of the country's social problems
through the community service arm 01 the plan.
The work of the Civilian Corps would involve
jobs such as day care, care of the elderly and
efforts against illiteracy.
Sustenance pay while serving in the pro
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insurance for those serving in the civilian corps
and two-thirds of basic military pay for those
serving in the military.
The basic plan of the bill would require a
one- or two-year commitment to civilian work,
to be decided by the volunteer, or a two-year
commitment to military service.
“Military is usually the greater commit
ment,” staled Julie Abbot, legislative director
to Nunn. She said that a young person also
could volunteer to the military reserve for eight
years in exchange for a $12,000 voucher.
“Essentially the voucher would replace
current grant programs,” Abbott said.
She said most people would not be eligible
for federal loansor grants without participating
in the program.
People who still qualified financially for aid
after receiving the voucher would be eligible
for other forms of federal aid, Abbott said
Abbott said a few young people would be
exempted from the program, including young
mothers. These people would be eligible for
current forms of student aid.
Abbott said about 800,000 young people per
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