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February 21,1990 University of Nebraska-Lincoin Vol. 89 No. /£g>
CFA rejects fee use
for program offering
leadership development
By Roger Price
Staff Reporter
The Committee for Fees Allo
cation recommended cutting
, $24,696 from the Campus
Activities and ProgramsbudgetTucs
day because committee members said
they thought its leadership develop
ment program belongs in an acadcm ic
college.
CFA mem
ber Lewis Coul
ter said the lead
ership develop
ment program
is‘‘a great pro
gram, but its in
the wrong
place.”
Another
CFA member,
Tom Macy, said he would not support
spending student fees for an academic
program.
‘‘This is so blatantly out of the
realm of student fees that it is laugh
able,” Macy said.
Committee members expressed
concern that students enrolled in the
Emerging Leader Program, one of
the CAP programs, are paying tuition
for credit from the educational psy
chology department, while the in
struction is paid for with student fees.
“It astonishes me that students are
paying tuition, and we’re paying
$25,000 out of student fees for this
program,” CFA member Chris Poller
said.
Coulter said several academic
departments also offer leadership
programs. The Agriculture Education
department’s 202 course actually is a
course in leadership development, he
said.
CFA also recommended eliminat
ing the student-fee subsidy for union
employees’ half-price meals.
Daryl Swanson, director of the
Nebraska Unions, told the committee
that discounted meals arc common
practice in food services.
But CFA members said they would
only support subsidized meals for food
service workers, not for all union
employees.
CFA member Julie Jorgensen said
workers in the CAP office should not
receive the same food benefits as
workers in the food services.
Coulter told the committee that
giving all union employees half-price
meals would be “like a receptionist
at the health center getting brain
surgery for half-price.”
CFA also recommended eliminat
ing two new student staff positions
from the budget for the Women’s
Resource Center, a sav ings of $4,8(X).
Brad Brunz, CFA member, said
not enough students use the center to
justify the new staff positions.
“I just don’t think it is a very
travelled area. It’s not standing-room
only. I even think that maybe there
could be a belter thing there (instead
of the resource center),” Brunz said.
Other committee members said
they thought the center adequately
could meet the needs of its student
users with the current staff.
Potter said representatives of the
center never adequately explained
why it needs two additional staff
members.
CFA also recommended deleting
$500 from the center’s request of
$2,000 for the purchase of books and
magazines, cutting it to its 1989-90
level.
Coulter said, “You can buy an
awful lot of magazines for $1,500. ’ ’
Several items CFA deleted Thurs
day from the budget of the Office of
Campus Recreation were reinstated
after OCR’s appeal.
CFA granted OCR an additional
$1,500 after OCR director Stan
Campbell showed the committee that
towel service and locker rental showed
profits last year.
Although CFA stood by its deci
sion to eliminate paid training of
intramural referees, it did grant an
additional $7,500 to pay the referees
for training once they have com
pleted the initial training workshop.
William Lauar/Dailyffcmbraskan
Colin Croft, a senior integrated studies major, listens to state Sen. Ron Withem of
Papillion at the GLC meeting Tuesday night.
Education bill key to cohesive governing system
Withem supports restructuring
By Emily Rose.ibaum
Senior Reporter
State Sen. Ron Withem of
Papillion told University of
Nebraska-Lincoln students
Tuesday that the bill to restructure
Nebraska’s higher education gov- '
emment would help to create a
more cohesive governing system
and reduce ‘‘turf fights” between
campuses.
Withem,chairman of the Legis
lature’s Education Committee,
spoke before a group of students
attending a Government Liaison
Committee meeting and explained
LR239C A, which was advanced to
the legislative floor Feb. 12.
Under the current system,
Withem said, governing bodies of
the universities, state colleges and
___
community and technical colleges
don’t communicate well because
their members often compete for
money and other benefits for the
schools they represent.
Some opponents of the legisla
tion have maintained that the change
would create a "leveling” of the
campuses, he said.
That argument says the seven
campuses, as a result of being
overseen by a coordinating Board
of Regents for Nebraska Higher
Education, would become identi
cal, he said.
Withem said consultants have
told him that the role and mission
of each campus would not radi
cally be changed by restructuring.
“Leveling is going to happen or
not going to happen regardless (of
governance changes),” Withem
said.
The University of Nebraska
Medical Center will remain a
medical center and not turn into an
“auto shop,” he said.
He said he also doesn’t think the
restructuring plan would cost much
to implement.
Some of the * ‘lumbering central
administration” will be eliminated
by the new system, saving state
money, he said.
Although there would be some
“marginal costs” in the beginning,
in the long run, the restructuring
would “help us spend our money
more wisely,” because the system
would be more efficient and gov
erning bodies would work together,
he said.
See WITHEM on 5
UNL cost ranks sixth among Big Eight schools
Andy Manhart/Dally Nebraskan
By Victoria Ayotte
Senior Reporter
To attend the University ofNc
braska-Lincoln, students pay
an average of $133 dollars
less per year than students at other
Big Eight universities, according to a
report from the office of the vice
chancellor for student affairs.
In-stale tuition, mandatory Ices and
room-and-board rales for the Big Eight
schools averaged $4,373 for 1989
90, according to the report.
UNL’s SI,530 yearly tuition for
30 credit hours, mandatory fees of
S280 and housing cost of $2,430 rank
it sixth, with a total cost of $4,240
among Big Eight schools.
Other Big Eight universities’ rates
in order: University of Colorado at
Boulder, $5,298; University of Okla
homa at Norman, $4,685; University
of Missouri at Columbia, $4,553; Iowa
State University at Ames, $4,426;
Oklahoma State University at Still
water, $4,272; University of Kansas
at Lawrence, $3,786; and Kansas State
University at Manhattan, $3,721.
Those figures do not include health
fees at Colorado, Missouri or Iowa
State, because they arc optional at
those universities.
Boulder also leads the pack in cost
of living, with a rating of 103 on a
100-poini index compiled by the re
search division of the American
Chamber of Commerces. One hundred
points is the average on the scale.
Lawrence, Ames, Norman, Lin
coln, Columbia and Stillwater round
out the cost of liv ing comparisons. A
cost-of-living index figure was un
available for Manhattan.
Lincoln’s cost-of-living figure is
93.2.
Charles Lamphear, director of
UNL’s bureau of business research,
said the cost-of-living standards do
not necessarily compare, though, with
the cost of attending school in each
city.
The cost-of-living index is for a
typical household, not a typical group,
such as students, he said. The index
includes average prices for groceries,
housing, utilities, transportation, health
care and miscellaneous goods and
services.
Lamphear said a “big chunk” of
the index is formulated from housing
costs in the cities, which may not
compare with housing rates in the
universities’ residence halls.
“I doubt if students even look at
that (cost of living),’ ’ Lamphear said,
when selecting a university.
Although other costs are included
in the cost of living for students at
each university, tuition, fees and
housing costs constitute the major
part of the total expense, Lamphear
said.