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Vol. 88 Nc 139
Regents’ stand stirs debate
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By Roger Price
. Staff Reporter
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A ‘ ‘compromise’ ’ made by the NU Board
of Regents has stirred more debate
^ about whether officials should examine
the effects of Kearney State College entering
' the University of Nebraska system before sup
porting the merger.
NU President Ronald Roskens announced
i Saturday that regents would support LB247 if
| it is amended to stale that the Legislature
F would reconsider integrating Kearney into the
NU system in 1990 if a committee studying the
move recommended against it.
Under LB247, Kearney State College
would become the University of Nebraska at
Kearney in July 1991.
Regent Don Blank of McCook said the
regents’ support for the amendment is a com
promise that the regents have been working
toward for some time.
The regents, he said, have supported a study
of Kearney’s role all along, but he would have
preferred only to consider adding Kearney to
the NU system after the study’s completion.
‘ ‘ 1 just hope the senators stick by their words
and reconsider the move in 1990,” Blank said.
AS UN President Bryan Hill said he feels
that if the bill is passed, even with the regents’
proposal, the decision on adding Kearney Stale
to the university system already will have been
made.
“I think they are making their decision right
now, and it will be really tough to change it in
1990,” Hill said.
Hill, who also is the UNL student regent,
said he still supports the AS UN Senate’s reso
lution against Kearney’s addition until after the
study has been completed.
“They’re still putting the cart before the
horse,” Hill said.
State Sen. Don Wcscly of Lincoln said he
thinks the regents and the NU central admini
stration were right to recommend a study be
fore adding Kearney to the NU system. But
Wcscly said he was disappointed in their deci
sion to support LB247 before hearing the re
sults of such a study.
Wcscly said that with the university’s an
nouncement, Kearney already may be on its
way to joining the system.
“If the decision is to proceed and act... no
matter what the study says, eventually it will be
a done deal,” Wcscly said.
Joe Rowson, NU director of public affairs,
said even with the university’s support, LB247
still faces at least one major challenge -- legal
ity.
An opinion issued by Nebraska’s Attorney
General Robert Spire said the Legislature docs
not have the power to move Kearney from the
state college system to the NU system, he said.
Rowson said he expects the bill to be chal
lenged in court if it is passed.
NU president says he will decline
LSU nomination for chancellor post
From Staff Reports
University of Nebraska President Ronald
Roskens said he docs not want to be
chancellor at Louisiana State Univer
sity, according to Joe Rowson, director of
public affairs for the University of Nebraska.
Roskens was one of 32 people nominated
for the LSU position. The nominations are
made to the search committee by persons hold
ing similar positions at other universities,
Rowson said.
Rowson said it is not unusual for people in
Roskens’ position to be nominated by search
committees because of the limited number of
major research institutions.
Roskens is still waiting to receive a letter
from the search committee at LSU before he
formally declines his nomination, Rowson
‘said.
According to an article in the Omaha
World-Herald, Roskens has been nominated
for several positions at other universities since
1982. These include the University of South
Florida, the University of North Carolina,
Texas A&M and Iowa State University.
Alien Schaben/Daily Nebraskan
Members of Beta Sigma Psi and Delta Upsilon spent Saturday afternoon
playing in the mud at the Delta Upsilon “Oozeball” tournament near 20th
and Vine streets.
Hill says he’s ambivalent about proposed tuition hike
By Jerry Guenther
Staff Reporter
—
A SUN President Bryan Hill
said he has mixed feelings on
a recommendation that could
increase tuition 5 percent at the Uni
versity of Nebraska-Lincoln in each
of the next two years.
Friday, the Nebraska Legisla
ture’s Appropriations Committee
gave preliminary recommendations
For the 5 percent increase at all state
operated colleges and universities
except the University of Nebraska at
Omaha.
The committee recommended to
increase tuition by 5 percent at UNO
only during 1990-91 after some
members said that UNO’s tuition
rates already arc near the same level
of its peer institutions.
Hill, also the UNL student regent,
said he wasn’t surprised by the com
mittee recommendations, but is con
cerned about a trend of tuition in
creases at UNL.
“It’s not a major increase,’’ Hill
said. “But I’m always worried that
students are paying a larger percent
age of the instructional costs of edu
cation compared to what the state
does.’’
UNL students pay about one-third
of instructional costs through tuition,
Hill said. A few years ago, they paid
one-fourth, he said.
If that trend continues, Hill said,
some students might be unable to
attend UNL because tuition will be
too high.
But, Hill said, the committee has
made some other recommendations
that are favorable to UNL, which
makes the tuition increases “under
standable."
Hill said he was pleased that the
committee recommended Wednes
day to appropriate $1.9 million for
replacing instructional equipment at
NU.
He said he hopes the recommen
dation will eliminate the $9 per credit
hour surcharge engineering students
are paying for instructional equip
ment in the college.
Overall, it’s a difficult situ
ation,” Hill said. ‘‘I just hope down
the road that UNL doesn’t become
too expensive for some people.”
Undergraduate resident tuition
increased 8.4 percent for 1988-89,
2.3 percent for 1987-88,4.8 percent
for 1986-87 and 9.9 percent for 1985
86.
During committee discussion Fri
day. Sen. Scott Moore of Stromsburg
said he thinks tuition should rise at
UNL by at least 5 percent because the
committee has already tentatively
recommended larger funding in
creases for UNL in other areas, such
as faculty salaries.
*4 You can ’ t have your cake and eat
it, too, and we’re giving them their
cake,” Moore said.
A study the NU Board of Regents
uses to compare UNL tuition and
faculty and staff salaries with peer
institutions shows that the cost of
tuition at UNL is 27 percent lower
than peer institutions’ tuition.
Some of the universities in UNL’s
peer group are Iowa State, Minne
sota, Purdue, Penn State, Maryland,
Wisconsin and Ohio State.
Tuition charges at UNL are cur
rently $48.50 per credit hour for resi
dent undergraduates and $64.50 for
resident graduate students.
The committee is expected to dis
cuss university capital construction
budgets after the Legislature ad
journs Monday.
UNL students arrested at Nevada nuclear testing site
By Diana Johnson
Senior Editor
and Curt Wagner
Editor
INDIAN SPRINGS, Nev. -
U.S. Department of Energy
officers arrested five Uni ver
ity of Ncbraska-Lincoln students
luring a massive peace demonstra
ion Saturday at the Nevada Test Site,
8 miles northwest of here.
Joe Bowman, Tyler Divis, Nell
ickcrsley, Brent Hintz and Carl
Garner crossed a barbed wire fence
inclosing the 1,350 square mile test
ite at 1 p.m. PST, joining thousands
if people protesting the nuclear
weapons testing facility.
The UNL group linked hands with
.incoln High School students
earruiia tckersicy and Kali loblcr
and Ramana Lewis of Ashland, Ore.
The group walked side by side
about 50 yards across the desert and
were met Dy special uut security
officers. Officers handcuffed the
Lincoln group with plastic flex-cuffs
and escorted them to other groups of
demonstrators who also had scaled
the fence.
Using flex-cuffs, the officers
chained these groups together and
marched them about a quarter of a
mile through cactus and desert sand
to a large chain link and barbed wire
holding pen near the entrance of the
test site.
Thousands of people who hoped
their protests would slop nuclear test
ing chanted, sang and danced during
the day-long rally in 90 degree heat.
Many of the protesters followed
Shoshone Indian Corbin Harney over
a cattle guard that serves as the en
trance to the test site, land the
Shoshones claim is righUully theirs.
They immediately were arrested for
trespassing on federal properly.
Some demonstrators cooperated
with officers while others went limp
and were carried or dragged to the
holding pen. Others clustered to
gether arm in arm, sat on the cattle
guard, and had to be forced apart by
officers.
According to the Nye County
Sheriff’s Department, DOE officers
made 1,070 arrests Saturday, the
ninth day of “Reclaim The Test Site
II.” The gathering drew about 5,000
people from across the United States
and much of the world, including
West Germany, Australia, Japan and
the Soviet Union.
Saturday’s arrests brought the to
tal number of arrests for the 10-day
event to 1,565. These numbers do not
signify the actual number of indi
viduals arrested, according to DOE
media spokesman Jim Boyer. Many
activists were arrested several times
throughout the week, he said.
Those arrested were held at the
site’s pen for about four hours before
being bussed to Beatty, about 75
miles northwest of the test site en
trance. They were then taken to
Beatty High School where they were
given citations and released on their
own recognizance.
More demonstrators were arrested
Sunday, the lastday of the protest, but
numbers were not available.
Brandon Loomis and Connie Sheehan
contributed to this story.