Concerns outlined
Attorney announces candidacy for board
By Emily Rosenbaum
Senior Reporter
Lincoln attorney and former UNL
Parents Association President Earl
Scudder announced his candidacy for
t ie NU Board of Regents on Thurs
day.
Scudder, a partner in the national
law firm Heron, Burchette, Ruckert
and Rothwell, said his primary con
cerns for Nebraska’s higher educa
tion arc affordability and increasing
graduation rates and careers within
the state.
Calling himself “Nebraska’s fam
ily regent,” Scudder said the pro
posed changes in higher education
governance are not the most impor
tant concerns of Nebraska families.
Instead, he said he would work to
provide alternative financing for col
lege students. He pointed out that
tuition has risen more than 100 per
cent in the last 10 years, but state
funding has not kept up with infla
tion.
Many faculty members and re
sources have been lost because of
cutbacks, and the university already
is “cut to the bone,” he said.
Scudder said he wants to add
motivational career counseling and a
broader range of foundation courses
to improve the current 40 percent
graduation rate at the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln.
“ If we’re going to let people come
in, then we’re going to do our best to
see that they graduate,” he said.
To keep students in Nebraska once
they graduate, Scudder said he wants
to develop existing research at UNL
to create more careers in the state.
He added that the inclusion of
Kearney State College in the univer
sity system should be done without
placing it under the governance of the
board of regents if the merger would
“dilute resources available to UNL. ’ ’
However, if KSC is placed under
the board’s governance, all state col
leges also should be coordinated by
the board, he said.
The proposals to change higher
education governance through com
plex changes in the Nebraska
Constitution are not needed, he said.
The current system of electing the
eight regents is the most effective
way of determining public opinion,
he said.
The proposals would create seven
boards of trustees for each NU cam
pus and state college and a new board
of regents to coordinate higher edu
cation in Nebraska. The governor,
with approval of the Legislature, would
appoint board of trustee members and
five of the 11 regents.
The proposals lessen voters’ power
to select who governs Nebraska’s
higher education, he said.
* ‘ My concern is that we don’t take
the right to vote away from Nebras
kans,’ ’ he said. ‘ ‘I don’t think that (55
governor-appointed members) creates
the kind of accountability to the elec
torate that Nebraska needs.”
Although students ‘‘ought to have
the right to voice their opinions,” he
said he is ‘‘quite pleased” with the
current system in which student re
gents have an unofficial vote on the
board. Scudder said he is against giving
students an official vote.
f cudder said a proposal made by
State Sen. Scott Moore of Seward to
provide a student-regent vote would
give unequal representation because
only one of the campuses at a time
would have the vote.
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lake up space and create health risks
because mosquitos grow and breed in
them, Haas said.
Thalken said planning for a plant
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includes a $1 tax on each new tire
sold in the state.
The bill, advanced to the second
round of debate in the Nebraska
Legislature on Wednesday, also in
cludes other provisions to raise money
for recycling and waste management
projects, Johnson said.
air to meet new Environmental Pro
tection Agency standards of smoke
emission, keeping air pollution in
check, he said.
“It’s technically possible to do all
this,” Haas said. ‘‘The problem has
been politics.”
bility study would be the next step, he
said.
Money for that study could be made
available by a bill proposed by state
Sen. Rod Johnson of Sutton, Haas
said.
LB 163, known as the Waste Re
duction and Recycling Incentive Fund,
Haas said ures already are used tor
fuel at plants in Oregon, California
and parts of the Midwest.
Firestone Tire and Rubber Com
pany has built two plants in Des Moines,
Iowa, and one in Decatur, 111., he said.
A system of “scrubbers and
baggers” take the smoke out of the
Federal farm bill draws
criticism from farmers
Doug Isakson
Staff Reporter
Farm subsidies, commodities prices,
and environmental concerns were the
main issues explored Thursday at
UNL’s East Campus Union when
farmers and legislative representa
tives met to discuss the 1990 federal
farm bill.
Several farmers were angered by
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Clay
ton Yeutter’s plans to eliminate all
subsidies on U.S. grain exports.
Corky Jones, a farmer from
Brownsville, said the change would
hurt Nebraska farmers and was made
without input from voters.
“In this country we have a repre
sentative democracy form of govern
ment,’’ Jones said. “We elect people
to make policy decisions. ThisGATT
(General Agreement on Tariffs and
Tradc) deal supersedes and does away
with that process. ... I don’t think
strong enough language can be used
here to explain how upsetting that is
to me and lots of my friends and
neighbors.”
Several farmers also agreed that
the farm bill needs to be simplified in
order to be effective and should in
clude government guarantees that
commodities prices will cover the
production costs.
Farmers expressed concern over
the amount of research devoted to
chemicals and fertilizers rather than
environmentally-sound agricultural
methods.
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
student group Farm Action Concerns
Tomorrow’s Society, sponsor of the
discussion, also showed a slide pres
entation produced by the League of
Rural Voters about the history and
effects of farm subsidies.
The presentation said current trade
decisions will determine whether farms
will continue to be owned by families
or be controlled by “absentee own
ers, speculators, and corporate farms.”
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proposals is the question of crediting
faculty members for membership in
the Faculty Senate, Diffendal said.
According to Herbert Howe, in
terim associate to UNL Chancellor
Martin Massengale, the proposals to
overhaul the Faculty Senate first must
be approved by the Association of
Students of the University of Ne
braska.
Then the proposals would have to
be approved at a university-wide
faculty meeting, followed by a fac
ulty referendum by mail. The NU
Board of Regents finally would have
to approve the changes, possibly at its
March meeting, he said.
The Senate Restructuring Com
mittee, set up in May 1987 by the
Faculty Senate, has been working on
the proposals since that time, Wheeler
said.
Tuition
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is being acted on.”
Although Nebraska presently
doesn’t have a law for tax-exempt
college funds, the 1988 federal tax
law contains a provision to exempt
interest on U.S. Savings Bonds from
federal income tax if they are used to
pay higher education costs and if the
parents’ income is within specific
limits.
James Griesen, vice chancellor for
student affairs at the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln, said fiis office
previously has looked into a tuition
installment plan that would spread
tuition payments throughout the school
year.
He said the current plan works
because students do not have to pay
tuition until five to six weeks into the
semester, unlike other institutions that
require payment upon registration.
He said UNL’s $20 late registration
fee “is not a very high fee.”
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