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Governor’s plan announced, officials react
Requested NU
1991-93 budget
cut by Nelson
By Lisa Donovan
Senior Reporter
C ranting a mere fraction of the
University of Nebraska’s
budget request, Gov. Ben
Nelson proposed a funding plan that
would slash additional monies for such
priorities as faculty salaries and re
search.
Nelson, in his State of the State
address Thursday to the Legislature,
proposed giving NU a 7 percent in
crease in state funds for the 1991-93
biennium. The university had requested
ar. increase of 26 percent over 1990
91 for the biennium. The state budget
is approved every two years, with
only emergency deficit requests con
sidered the second year.
Broken down, the university would
be allotted an increase of 1.9 percent
in 1991-92 and 5,6 percent in the
second half of the biennium, 1992
93.
The university requested for 1991 -
92 an additional $33.4 million, but
me governor recommended 20.1
million more than the 1990-91 appro
priation.
For 1992-93, the university re
quested an additional $37.7 million,
while Nelson proposed an increase of
3>i:>.o million.
For 1990-91, NU was appropri
ated $273,356,690 in state funds.
Nelson also proposed an across
the-board 2 percent cut for all state
agencies, including the university.
Nelson’s budget now goes before
the Nebraska Legislature’s Appro
priations Committee, which can draw
up its own budget or change the gov
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Gov. Ben Nelson proposed on Thursday to give the University of Nebraska* an estimated 7 percent''^
increase In state funding for the next two years. NU officials had requested an approximately 26
percent increase in September
Nelson's proposal would give NU $20.8 million more than the $273,356,690 appropriated for
1990-91.
1991- 92
1992- 93
$306,821,891
$344,597,045
U$278^578,38" I
$294,273,968
‘The University of Nebraska consists of the NU centra! administration and the following institutions: University of
Nebraska-Lincoln, University of Nebraska at Omaha, University of Nebraska Medical Center, University of Nebraska at
Kearney and Nebraska Technical School of Agriculture in Curtis.
Source: State of Nebraska Executive Budget
Amie DeFraln/Daily Nebraskan
NU officials:
Needs not met
by state budget
By Dionne Searcey
Staff Reporter
Gov. Ben Nelson’s budget pro
posal for the University of
Nebraska met with shock and
disappointment from some NU offi
cials Thursday.
“We were expecting a bleak pic
ture. It’s still kind of a shock, but we
have to go forward from here,” said
Don Blank, chairman of the NU Board
of Regents.
In September, NU requested a 12.3
percent increase in state funding for
the 1991-93 biennial budget. During
his State of the State address Thurs
day, Nelson proposed an increase of
1.9 percent next year and 5.6 percent
for 1992-93.
“We’re going to have to sit down
and try to maintain a level of excel
lence,” Blank said. “We will main
tain a level of excellence. How, I
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Allied airforces
take back town
in all-night fight
DHAHRAN, Saudi Arabia (AP) - Allied
forces bombed Iraqi armor headed to
ward Kuwait and snatched back a Saudi
Arabian town from defiant Iraqi tank troops
Thursday after lighting the sky in a fierce all
night battle.
Iraq said its incursions at Khafji and other
border points signaled the start of a “thunder
ous storm” on the desert floor. Another U.S.
plane — with 14 people aboard — was shot
down behind Iraqi lines.
A U.S. air squadron commander, Lt. Col.
Dick White, spoke to pool reporters Thursday
about intelligence reports that 800 to 1,000
Iraqi vehicles were moving toward the border.
But after returning from a Bight, he said he did
not actually see a large number of vehicles.
Members of Congress said after briefings
from Pentagon officials that a modified C-130
equipped with small cannons and machine
guns, part of a Special Operations mission, was
shot down over Kuwait. Sen. Joseph Lieber
man, D-Conn., said 14 people were on the
plane.
Baghdad also claimed it captured the first
women prisoners of the 2-week-old war. The
United Stales refused to confirm the report, but
conceded that a woman was among two sol
diers missing in action.
Allied aircraft continued to dump a hail
storm of munitions on Iraq’s front-line troops
in Kuwait, the crack Republican Guards. Iraq,
in turn, lofted another Scud missile into the
Israeli-occupied West Bank. Israeli officials
said there were no casualties.
Iraq shot down another U.S. plane, a source
at the Pentagon said. And a grim ritual began
on the home front— the military began notify
ing the families of 11 Marines who were killed
in the fighting around the Saudi town of Khafji.
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Steven Dunbar, assistant professor of mathematics and statistics, views computer-generated figures on the Bessey
Hail mathematic computers.
Math teacher lights up students’minds
By Mindy Wilson
Staff Reporter
As Steven Dunbar works equations on
the board, 20 pairs of eyes watch his
every move.
Every once in a while,
he'll crack a joke, rousing
laughter in the classroom.
As he goes through the
roster, calling on students,
most are eager to respond.
An air of informality be
tween teacher and students
is readily apparent.
Dunbar, an assistant professor of mathe
matics and statistics at tne university oi
Nebraska-Lincoln, says he tries to convey
his enthusiasm for math to his students.
That and the ability to make a student
think about the subject are what make a
good teacher, he says.
“That doesn’t mean telling them every
thing about it. Sometimes it’s just the oppo
site,” he says.
A good teacher makes students want to
explore the wonders of a subject, he says.
Dunbar says he usually gets enthusiastic
about teaching, so that’s no problem.
Engaging students’ interest can be tougher.
“I try to present interesting examples in
class and have them catch fire,” he says.
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continually rolling a ball of putty between
his fingers, his chair gliding back and forth
across the floor.
Dunbar says his goal for teaching is to
have students who have been through any
math class be “successful mathematicians,"
able to present and analyze information
effectively in and out of class and later in
life.
He wants them to “be able to look at it (a
problem) and say ‘Aha!’ I know how to
handle that," he says.
Originally, Dunbar says in his deep voice,
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