State to hire firm to design
general waste reduction plan
By Christine Pillard
Staff Reporter
A firm to design a comprehen
sive waste reduction plan as part of
LB 163 will be hired by the Ne
braska Department of Environ
mental Control this month, said
Director Dennis Grams.
LB 163 is a state recycling law
passed by the Legislature last spring.
State officials discussed hiring
the firm and the intent of a state
recycling plan at a panel discus
sion during the Nebraska Stale
Recycling Association’s 10th
Annual Conference Saturday.
Five proposals will be reviewed
by the Department of Environmental
Control Oct. 16 and officials hope
to have a firm chosen by Oct. 18,
Grams said.
The firm will outline a plan to
be used as a guide by cities or
resource districts but will not re
place programs already operating
in local communities, said state
Sen. Dianna Schimek of Lincoln.
Mary Campbell, speaking for
state Sen. Rod Johnson of Sutton,
said the law is not intended to cre
ate one large state project.
The overall intent of LB 163 is
to create funding to identify Ne
braska’s waste management prob
lems, build a hierarchy of solu
tions, and cut back on landfilling
by recycling and reusing waste,
said state Sen. Spencer Morrissey
of Tecumseh.
Under the law, the slate will
provide $500,(XX) for two years.
Natural Resource Districts, politi
cal subdivisions and cities are some
of the groups that will be eligible
for the funds.
Once the comprehensive plan is
in place, Morrissey said, additional
funds will be needed to continue
the projects.
Financing is a problem because
it isn’t fair to ask people who don’t
produce much waste to pay for the
waste of others, he said. Ideally,
people should pay for what they
produce, he said, but implement
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Security discussed
RHA suggests ways to safeguard dormitories
From Staff Reports
The Residence Hall Association
Sunday discussed means to promote
security in the halls and to encourage
cultural diversity.
Senators want to create a Crime
Stoppers program on the floors, bet
ter enforcement of escort and visita
tion policies and better screening of
security guards.
Showing an ID card to get into the
hall after visitation hours instead of
using room keys would tighten secu
rity, senators suggested. Peepholes
on all room doors would help, they
said, as would a list of emergency
phones on campus.
To promote cultural diversity, RHA
hopes to co-sponsor activities with
minority groups and increase minor
ity membership on the RHA senate.
Senators also discussed how to
improve communication and RHA
visibility on campus. The senate plans
to consider how to implement the
goals at its next meeting.
RHA members participated in a
weekend retreat at Trailridgc, between
Lincoln and Omaha, which enlight
ened members about how RHA is
organized and promoted involvement.
The retreat also created “a sense of
community” among the complex and
floor governments, said Kathy Rush,
RHA president.
Activities fill week
Homecoming 1990 festivities begin!
By Jared Wittwer
Staff Reporter
The University of Nebraska-Lin
coln will kick off “Homecoming 1990:
an Exciting NU Avenue” today in
front of Broyhill Fountain.
Student organizations will set up
booths and gift certificates will be
given away from 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Tuesday, students will appear in
the Homecoming Talent Show from
7:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. A wailyball
tournament will be Tuesday through
Thursday.
Students will vote for homecom
ing king and queen Wednesday. Poll
ing places will be located in the main
lounges of the Nebraska Union and
East Union.
Something new this year for home
coming is a comedy night with a
performer from the Funny Bone
comedy club, said Chrissy Hawkins,
homecoming chairwoman. The show
will begin at 7 p.m. Thursday in the
Great Plains Room of the East Union.
Homecoming displays will be
judged at 2 p.m. Friday with trophies
for First through third place. Most of
the displays will be located at resi
dence halls, fraternity and sorority
houses on City Campus. Several East
Campus living units will collaborate
with fraternities and sororities on City
Campus in setting up some displays.
The homecoming parade will be 6
p.m. Friday starting on Vine Street
east of Memorial Stadium and ending
on the west side of Memorial Sta
dium. The homecoming dance will
be Friday from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. at the
Culture Center and will cost SI for
students and $2 for non-students.
The pep rally will be from 11:30
a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Saturday on the
north side of the Nebraska Union.
Homecoming royalty will be
crowned at halftime of the Nebraska
Missoun football game Saturday. After
the game, UNL Live will give a free
jazz performance on the Lied Center
for Performing Arts Plaza and an
alumni post-game party will be at the
Comhusker Hotel.
Furgason
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students, Furgason said.
“It’s a chance to develop a core
curriculum that I think looks at the
leadership and character we want
students to have ...,” Furgason said.
He said he plans to establish pro
grams similar to the UNL founda
tions and honors programs at Corpus
Christi and extend the university’s
multicultural activities.
Hispanic students make up about
50 percent of Corpus Christi’s stu
dent population, so a need exists for
extensive multicultural programs,
Furgason said.
The presidency will differ in many
ways from his job at UNL, Furgason
said.
“I’ll have total responsibility for
putting the parts together” to expand
the university, Furgason said. “It will
mean working with faculty in getting
the new course work, the deans to get
the funding in place ... and working
with the legislature.”
He will be responsible for making
sure Corpus Christi’s move from a
two-year undergraduate to a four-year
undergraduate university flows
smoothly. The change involves spend
ing $40 million on construction, hir
ing 40 to 60 faculty members and
ensuring that support services are
supplied, Furgason said.
Martin Masscngale, UNL chan
cellor and NU interim president, said
Furgason has done an excellent job as
vice chancellor.
Masscngale said the university
regrets Furgason’s leaving UNL but
is pleased that Texas values UNL’s
top administrators.
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Fourakcr said the wording of the
legislation makes it difficult to know
when it would go into effect, but for
now the athletic department is taking
a “wait-and-see” approach.
This year’s 20-pcrccnt budget cut
for all non-profit sports would case
the cutbacks necessitated by a retro
active bill, Fourakcr said.
“That’s one reason, at this point,
we haven’t really gone off the deep
end trying to make some rash adjust
ments,” he said.
The20-perccnt cutback was made,
for the most part, to make up for
television and bowl game revenue
that could have exceeded $6(X),(XX)
but was lost with the suspensions of
the Oklahoma and Oklahoma State
football programs.
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a S6.4 million budget this year. The
budget has been increasing at a 4
pcrcent rate each year, he said.
That means, Osborne said, that
next year the football team “would
have to spend $256,(X)() more to pro
vide the same services, the same
program, not increasing anything, just
staying even.”
With the 2 percent lid, the football
program would have to eliminate
$128,000 of the $256,(XX), Osborne
said.
Finding something the athletic
department could cut would be a
problem, he said.
“So much of what we have is fixed,”
Osborne said. “Our guarantees tor
opponents are in there. That’s fixed.
We can’t change that. We can’t change
tuition, room and board. There’s noth
ing negotiable there. We’ve got to fly
to Oklahoma. Wecan’tchange travel.
That’s got to happen.”
That leaves cutting athletes’ schol
arships, coaches’ salaries and recruit
ing, Osborne said.
"The most important dollars we
spend are in recruiting. It’s only a
small percentage of our budget, but
that’s our lifeline. Thai’s what keeps
us going,”Osborne said. “If you’re in
a competitive business, you can’t afford
to do this. You can’t be hamstrung in
this way.”
The team s schedule has a lot to do
with the athletic department’s income,
Fouraker said.
“Your cost will vary greatly on
whether you have a home contest vs.
an away contest — your revenues the
same way,” he said.
A lot of the cost depends on the
guarantees paid to a team coming to
Nebraska to play vs. Nebraska play
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If you’re in a competi
tive business, you can’t
afford to do this. You
can’t be hamstrung in
this way.
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NU football coach
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ing somewhere else, Fouraker said.
Nebraska pays visiting conference
foes $ 175 ,(XX), the maximum allowed
in the B ig Eight, and keeps the rest of
the $950,000 in gate receipts and
concessions income.
The Comhuskers got $60,(XX) two
years ago to play at Kansas State,
Fouraker said.
The limit could hurt the football
program’s ability to compete with
major teams, Osborne said, but is
trivial compared to other, more im
portant concerns.
“Athletics is such a small part of
the overall picture,” he said, “but,
things being what they are, some people
will listen more to what happens to
athletics than they will to their schools
and roads and care of the elderly, care
of abused children and things that are
a lot more important.”
Jaksha said Osborne should make
his stand known on all aspects of the
Nov. 6 election if he is going to make
it known on the 2 percent initiative.
“If Coach Osborne chooses to give
political advice on ballot issues, then
if he is going to be fair, then he better
announce his position on all seven
ballot issues,” Jaksha said, as well as
in the races for governor, stale auditor
and other offices.
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