CFA increases budget recommendations
By Roger Price
Staff Reporter
The Committee for Fees Allo
cation voted Thursday night to add
$16,500 to the 1990-91 budget
recom
menda
tion for
the Uni
versity
Program
Council,
as
groups
p r e -
sented
student-fee appeals to the commit
tee.
CFA added $15,750 to the rec
ommendation for the Kimball-Lied
Performing Arts Committee, bring
ing its total request to $90,750, a
21 percent increase over the 1989
90 allocation. CFA previously had
voted not to increase the $75,000
1989-% allocation in 1990-91.
The committee decided to add
the money after Hiedi Putensen,
KLPAC co-chairwoman, presented
figures showing a 21 percent in
crease in attendance at Kimball
performances between 1987-88 and
1988-89. . ,
The recommendation for Chi
cano Special Events and Program
ming also was increased $750 after
its chairman, Ness Sandoval, ex
plained the importance of the addi
tional money to CFA.
The committee added $500 to
the Chicano Special Events rec
ommendation so that it could bring
a Chicago band to the University
of Nebraska-Ui&oln campus for a
dance at Broyhill Memorial Plaza.
An additional $250 was recom
mended to Chicano Special Events
for a movie night to pay for re
cently released films.
CFA members den ied an appeal
by UPC City President Jennie
Johnson for a $500 increase in
Walpurgisnacht’s budget recom
mendation.
Johnson told CFA die money is
necessary because of a revised
income figure for next year’s
Walpurgisnacht, based on revenue
figures from this year’s event, which
took place last week.
Johnson said $2,500 was raised
by Walpurgisnacht this year, $2,750
less than projected.
Based on that, Johnson asked
CFA to reduce Walpurgisnacht’s
projected income and increase its
student-fee subsidy by $500.
Several CFA members said they
understood the revised figures but
felt there was still room lo make
cuts within the budget they ap
proved.
‘‘I just think there is a lot of fat
left in the budget,” CFA member
Lewis Coulter said.
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Better math backgrounds needed
Official: Expectations deter math majors
By Todd Neeley
Staff Reporter
Low expectations placed on stu
dents in junior and senior high schools
has helped contribute to a decline in
the number of math doctorates earned
nationwide, a University of Ncbraska
Lincoln official said.
Jim Lewis, chairman of the mathe
matics and statistics department, said
“students respond to the level of
expectations,” and many parents and
teachers don ’ t expect high school and
junior high students to work hard at
math.
By the lime high school seniors
are ready for college, he said, they
tend to “steer away” from math.
Students entering college with math
majors should have better math back
grounds, Lewis said.
“We need to get a better work
ethic on math to get ahead,” Lewis
said. “That isn’t a part of this coun
try.”
At UNL, the goal is to award four
or five math Ph.D.s a year, Lewis
said. In the 1960s and ’70s, UNL
awarded three or four most years, he
said. In the ’80s, the average dropped
to about two. Butin the last two years,
Lewis said, the average has been about
four, and the goal is within reach.
Although the number of math
doctorates granted nationwide in
creased in the past few years, it is still
only two-thirds of the number awarded
in the ’60s.
But more jobs in math were avail
able in the ’80s than in the ’70s,
Lewis said, creating a shortage of
workers. He said it is estimated that
between 1997 and 2002, there will be
10 jobs for every eight mathemati
cians with Ph.D.s.
Last year, foreign students earned
54 percent of Ph.D.s at U.S. universi
ties, Lewis said. But more foreign
students arc reluming to their home
countries, so universities will have to
look to American students to make up
for the loss, he said.
U.S. freshmen are picking other
majors “for the bucks,” Lewis said,
“and there isn’t a lot of money to be
made in math.” Fewer than 20 fresh
men at UNL are math majors, he said.
To encourage more high school
students to become math majors in
college, some UNL faculty members
help “retrain” high school teachers
to prepare their students for college,
Lewis said.
Don Miller and Mel Thorton, as
sociate professors of mathematics and
statistics at UNL, conduct the Ne
braska Mathematic Scholars Program
every summer for about 60 Nebraska
high school teachers. Established in
1986, the program is sponsored by the
National Science Foundation.
Junior Mathematics Prognosis, for
high school juniors, helps students
choose college-preparatory math
classes to take as seniors in high school,
Lewis said.
According to Donald Miller, vice
chairman and professor of the mathe
matics and statistics department, more
women and minority students also
must reach the Ph.D. level.
At UNL, there must be more fi
nancial support for computing labs,
which would allow students in math
classes to work with “real-life” situ
ations, Miller said.
Iwo UINL groups join forces
to recruit Hispanic students
By Mindy Mozer
Staff Reporter
The Office of High School Rela
tions and the Mexican-American
Student Association have joined forces
to recruit Hispanic students to the
University of Nebraska-Lincoln, a
representative said.
According to Victoria Romero,
High School and College Relations
representative, the two organizations
will sponsor a program Feb. 18 in
Scottsbluff to give Hispanic students
there more information about college
life.
“We want the Hispanic commu
nity to know the university is com
mitted to meeting their needs,”
Romero said.
During the program, Jenell Sever
son, assistant director of the College
Work-Study program for the Office
of Scholarships and Financial Aid,
will introduce Scottsbluff students to
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the application process for financial
aid.
Martin Ramirez, a psychologist in
the Counseling Center, also will talk
to students, Romero said.
Frank Sanchez, president of the
Mexican-American Student Associa
tion, said 10 MASA students plan to
help with the recruitment
According to Sanchez, the pro
gram is targeted toward Scottsbluff
Because the majority of Nebraska’s
Mexican-American students live in
that area.
Sanchez said it’s important for
Nebraska to recruit Mexican-Ameri
cans to the university. If they are not
recruited, he said, many students will
go to the University of Wyoming,
instead.
“This is a way for our organiza
tion to reach out to Mexican-Ameri
can students,” Sanchez said. “Maybe
we can spark their interest in our
university.’’
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Beginning midnight, Feb. 6.
9:65 a.m. — Hit-and-run car acci
dent reported. Area 10, east of
Memorial Stadium, $150.
2:14 p.m. ** Windshield reported
broken on car, Area 10, Harper
Residence Hall, $400.
4:11 p.m. - Hit-and-run car acci
\ dent reported, Area 3, north of
■ Harper Residence Hall, $50.
i 5:13 p.m. -- Checkbook reported
; stolen from student's room, Abel
Residence Hall.
7:44 p.ita, Wallet reported sto
len, Lee and Helene Sapp Recrea
tion Facility, $50.
8:55 p.m. - Mirror reported stolen
from car, Area 1,17th and R streets,
$50.
2:13 am. — Television cable re
Csd stolen, Harper Residence
, $5.
8:30 a.m.- Staff member reported
injured, tripped on sidewalk, 16th
and Vine streets. Taken to St Eliza
beth ’s Hospital, treated for injuries
to right arm, elbow and shoulder
and released.
.m. — Gold bridgework re
stolen from Dental College,
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4:24 p.m. - Hit-and-run car acci
dent reported, Area 2 paticing lot,
Sandoz Residence Hall, $350.
Diversity
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there last fall and saw the pro
gram in action.
According to Sanchez, the
program not only will help
minority students adjust to col
lege life, it also will put out
standing minority students into
leadership positions and get them
involved in campus activities.
“If we want to break dis
crimination barriers, we need to
get minority students into lead
ership positions,” Sanchez said.
Doug Zatechka, director of
housing at the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln.said the pro
gram will cost about $7,000 for
the academic year.
The program will be financed
by university housing and the
Affirmative Action Office, he
said.
Offutt
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dow near the pilot’s seat, where he
looked out once to wave.
Shortly before 9 a.m., Bush climbed
down the steps of the B-l B, jumping
about two feet to the ground from the
last step.
He then left the runway and got
into a limousine to continue his tour
of Offutt. The remainder of the tour
was closed to all but a few media
members.
Bush tlew from Offutt to Colum
bus, Ohio.
Death Penalty
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decked not to pass a law permitting
the death penalty mainly because of
the cost.
‘ ‘ I don ’t know how you put a price
on justice,” he said.
Often, life-sentence cases cost as
much as death penalty cases, he said.
It is important to try death penally
cases and their appeals as quickly as
possible, he said.