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In a preview of an upcoming wrestling meet between UNL and Northern Iowa (DN. Feb.
2), a drop quote was attnbuted to UNL basketball coach Danny Nee. UNL wrestling
coach Tim Neumann made the comment. _
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February 3, 1989_University of Nebraska-LincolnVot. 88 No. 93
Engineering surcharge could continue
By rat uinstage
SiWT Reporter
and l>ee Rood
Senior Hditor
Students in the College of Engi
neering and Technology could
pay a tuition surcharge of S9
per credit hour for the second con
secutive year if the Nebraska Legisla
ture doesn't approve funding to keep
the college’s accreditation.
Vice Chancellor for Academic
Affairs Robert Furgason said the sur
charge “is certainly an option that
will be considered,” if the Legisla
ture doesn’t appropriate $525,000 to
the college over the next two years.
Furgason said the money, used to
replace and update lab equipment in
undergraduate programs, is needed to
meet accreditation requirements set
by the Accreditation Board tor engi
neering and Technology during its
1987 visit to the engineering college.
Gov. Kay Orr did not include any
money for the equipment in her 1989
91 NU budget recommendation, he
said.
Furgason said that if the Legisla
ture does not include the engineering
college equipment funding in the
final biennial budget, other options
will ha'c to be considered or the
college’s accreditation will be “in
severe jeopardy.”
One option would be a continu
ation of the surcharge, he said.
Another option, Furgason said,
includes transferring funds from
other university department budgets.
Funds also could be taken from the
temporary instruction budget, a dis
creiionary lund administered oy
Academic Affairs. These funds arc
currently used to provide extra ses
sions of courses in high demand, he
said.
Stan Liberty, dean of the engineer
ing college, said he would never rec
ommend the surcharge as an option.
“It would have to come from
someone else,” he said.
To keep its accreditation, Liberty
said, the college will need the ongo
ing ability to update and replace
equipment. Another one-time sur
charge won’t do that, he said.
The first surcharge, which caused
many students to complain last year,
served its purpose of showing the
accreditation board that the college
intends to fix the equipment funding
problems, he said.
But to solve the problem once and
iot an, me siaie ana me university,
not students, need to deal with the
problem, Liberty said.
“I just feci this is something that
needs to be dealt within the base
budget of the university,” he said.
Furgason said he felt NU “ex
plained the issue quite well,” to the
governor and the Legislature, but
understands Orr has to balance the
total budgcL
If the surcharge is continued for
the engineering students, the admini
stration may consider surcharges for
other departments with similar lab
equipment funding problems. Fur
gason said those departments could
include, but are not limited to, com
puter sciences, biological sciences
and modem languages.
“There arc no simple answers,”
he said. “We didn’t used to have the
scicniuic equipment nccas mat now
exist in (traditional) non-scienlific
areas.”
Bryan Hill, chairman of the Gov
ernment Liaison Committee, said
funding problems for lab equipment
not only plague the engineering col
lege, but the whole university.
Hill said the NU Board of Re
gents’ two-year budget included re
quests for $525,000 in engineering
lab equipment and $1.2 million for
lab equipment in other UNL depart
ments. No money was included for
cither in Orr’s budget, he said.
Hill said it is unfortunate that UNL
officials would consider surcharges
to cover the costs of lab equipment,
but that the consideration might be
just what he needs to get students’
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Bill would require
NCAA to abide by
due process laws
By Jana Pedersen
Staff Reporter
A bill directing any intercollegiate athletic
association to abide by Nebraska’s re
*■ ^quircments for due process was ad
vanced Thursday out of the Judiciary Commit
tee of the Nebraska Legislature.
The bill’s sponsor, Sen. Ernie Chambers of
Omaha, said LB397 is necessary to prevent
national organizations such as the National
Collegiate Athletic Association from ignoring
due process under the state’s Civil Rights Law
when administering sanctions against colleges
and universities in Nebraska.
Federal requirements for due process under
the 14ih Amendment do not apply to private
national organizations, according to a recent
ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court, Chambers
said.
Because of this ruling, Chambers said, the
state “is now in a situation where the NCAA is
not bound by due process to any of the state
institutions.”
If the bill is passed, he said, future NCAA
sanctions against any state college or univer
sity could be reversed if the institution can
prove the NCAA violated Nebraska due proc
ess laws.
‘ ‘Enforcement is placed on the institution,”
Chambers said.
Richard Wood, vice president and general
counsel to the University of Nebraska, spoke
in a neutral position on the bill. Wood said the
university generally agrees with the bill’s in
tent, but said he had some concerns about its
legality.
According to a 1947 Nebraska Supreme
Court decision, the primary purpose of state
due process laws applies to government, not
private, actions, Wood said.
During executive session,Chambers said he
would consult Wood further on the constitu
tionality of the bill.
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The UNL E-Z Ride” shuttle will give students rides from parking lots to campus.
Van service helps combat weather conditions
By Brad Rundquist
Suff Reporter
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Police Department started operating a
free shuttle van Thursday between the
parking lots and campus in response to arctic
temperatures.
Lt. John Burke, police parking administra
tor, said three vans, marked UnL E-Z Ride,
will operate “until it warms up/'
Burke said the shuttle has no set pick-up
points. People wanting a ride should "flag
down” the vans, he said.
He said that two of the vans have a capac
ity of eight and the third can hold IS. The
shuttles will begin running at ? a.m., he said,
and will run until night classes are done. They
will be driven by employees of the UML
Police Department, he said.
Burke said the idea for the shuttle was
‘Must a good idea” by an employee of his
office, and is something they should, and are
glad to, provide.
He said the shuttle service, including leas
ing of the largest van from University Auto
pool, costs about $100 a day.
The vans have been used in the past to
transport people to and from university con
ferences, Burke said.
Dr. Gerald Bleischli, medical director of
the University Health Center, said that no
cases of frostbite have been treated so far his
year at the health center, but that the shuttle
“certainly would help" rediscc the chances.
Campbell: Campus Rec refund unnecessary
By David G. Young
Staff Reporter
Student fees allocated to Cam
pus Recreation should not be
refundable since everyone can
benefit from its programs, said Stan
Campbell, director of Campus Rec.
Campbell presented Campus
Rec’s 1989-90 budget request to the
Committee for Fees Allocation
Thursday.
Responding to comments made by
CFA member Keith Malo, Campbell
told CFA members that using student
fees to finance the Campus Recrea
tion Center is the same as using fees
for the University Health Center.
“Physical activity is one of our
best forms of health insurance,”
Campbell said. ”1 guess I feel that the
amount of money going into the rec
reation center in light of the services
involved is a very reasonable re
quest.”
Malo had suggested that student
fees allocated to Campus Rec, which
are non-refundabic Fund B fees,
should be refundable, as Fund A fees
are.
‘Tm not a Campus Rec person -
l don't use the facilities,” Malo said.
”Of all the Fund B users, this is the
only one 1 would suggest a refund for.
1 teci like l m being obligated to join
the Campus Recreation Center.”
Fund A organizations arc the As
sociation of Students of the Univer
sity of Nebraska, the Daily Nebras
kan and the University Program
Council. Organizations in Fund B are
the Nebraska unions, the University
Health Center and Campus Rec.
James Griescn, vice chancellor for
student affairs, said refunding stu
dent fees allocated to Campus Rec is
inappropriate because of the costs of
processing refunds,
Griescn said refunds are made
available to Fund A organizations
because students may object to ideas
presented by r und A tec users, borne
students request refunds from fees
allocated to the University Program
Council because of disapproval for
certain speakers, he said. Likewise,
Daily Nebraskan refunds are re
quested by some students who dis
agree with its editorials. This prob
lem is not present with Campus Rec,
Griesen said.
Campus Rec has requested a $7
per student per semester increase in
student fees. If the request is ap
proved, Campus Rec will receive
$963,689 for 1989-90. The 1989-90
student fee request represents an in
crease of 32 percent from this year.
Campbell said S6.76 per student
per semester of the requested in
crease is needed to support Phase II ot
the Campus Recreation Center. Last
year, Campus Rec received a $3.54
per student per semester increase.
“There’s no doilbt in my mind
that the $6.76 would represent the
largest yearly increase.'' he said.
“As phase III comes on line, we will
have additional services which need
to be financed. I'm quite confident
that they will not total Quite as high an
increase as the $6.76.
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