Regents: Science research center top priority!
By Dionne Searcey
Staff Reporter
1 he NU Board of Regents made it
clear to the Nebraska Legislature on
Saturday that construction of the
George W.
Beadle Center
for Genetics and
Biomaterials Re
search is a high
priority, an offi
cial said.
“If we delay
(support) on this
matter, we may lose funds for some
thing that could benefit the state of
Nebraska,” NU Regent Charles Wilson
of Lincoln said.
The regents are asking the Legis
lature for $6 million to match federal
funds already awarded to the project.
Federal funds for the $23.7 mil
lion project have totalled $17.7 mil
lion. Funds from the U.S. Department
of Agriculture require a state funding
match.
The regents requested that the
Legislature provide $6 million in
matching funds for a Vine Street Utility
Expansion project at 20th and Vine
streets and for a biological sciences
greenhouse.
A bill in the Legislature, LB241,
would give cigarette tax revenues for
University of Nebraska capital con
struction projects. The bill specifi
cally lists the greenhouse and utili
ties projects as items to be financed.
Irvin Omtvedt, vice chancellor for
the Institute of Agriculture and Natu
ral Resources, said Nebraska’s Re
search Initiative has given the center
“an excellent base (in funding) to
build on.”
The Nebraska Research Initiative
is a five-year plan, now in its third
year, to infuse $4 million more per
year in state funds for NU reseaich.
Gov. Ben Nelson has proposed freez
ing the initiative at S12 million sub- j
ject to a 1.9 percent cut for all state j
agencies.
Marion O’Leary, head of the i
Department of Biochemistry at the j
University of Ncbraska-Lincoln, said i
the center is a good investment for the [
state because it will attract federal |
funding and provide new technology.
Omtvedt estimated the annual i
operating cost of the center at SI.4 j
million.
The Beadle Center will be located i
and 19th and Vine streets and will be J
three stories tall, covering 130,000 j
square feet.
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Class counsels psychology majors
By Michael Hannon
Staff Reporter
In an effort to give its students
more effective advising, the Univer
sity of Nebraska-Lincoln psychology
department is trying a new approach.
John Berman, chairman of the
Department of Psychology, said the
department has developed a one-credit
hour class, “Careers in Psychology,”
to improve the efficiency of advising
the 800 psychology majors.
Through the class, academic ad
vising information can be delivered
to 150 students at a time instead of to
each student individually, Berman said.
The class, which was started in the
fall semester of this academic year,
instructs students in the requirements
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We’ve done this with
no increased resources
from the university.
Berman
chairman of the Department of
Psychology
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for graduating with a psychology
major.
Careers in psychology and gradu
ate studies are discussed in class, he
said, and psychologists are brought in
from outside UNL to speak about
their work.
The class now is numbered Spe
cial Topics 298, but will be renum
bered as Psychology 100.
Berman said department officials
hope students will take the class as
early in their studies as possible.
Advising quality has increased with
the new system, he said. For about 10
years, faculty members each had been
assigned a certain number of students
to advise, Berman said, but it was
difficult to keep all professors up-to
date on requirement changes.
Berman said the psychology de
partment was able to improve its
advising system by reallocating re
sources within the department.
“We’ve done this with no increased
resources from the university,” he
said.
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schools, the University of
Nobraska-Lincoln has one of the
lowest rates for room and board
this year. All rates include double
occupancy, 20 meals-a-week and
air conditioning.
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Regents combat rising costs
with residence hall rate hike
By Dionne Searcey
Staff Reporter
Students will have to pay more
money if they want to live in resi
dence halls next year, the regents
decided Saturday.
The NU Board of Regents approved
an increase of 7.4 percent fora double
room with 20 meals per week. It will
cost $2,820 to live in the University
of Nebraska-Lincoln residence halls
next year. This year’s rate is $2,625.
James Griesen, UNL vice chan
cellor for student affairs, said the
increase was needed because of ris
ing inflation rates.
Residence halls hire many students,
I he said, and must comply with the
required minimum wage raise.
The cost of utilities also is rising,
he said.
“These things together bring (resi
dence hall rates) to a level that justi
fies the 7.4 percent increase,” he said.
Griesen said UNL room and board
ranks sixth in the Big Eight. Even
with the increase, he said, UNL resi
dence hall fees still will be about
$160 less than the average of other
Big Eight schools.
Griesen said officials have “tried
very hard to have an open dialogue"
with students about the room and
board increase.
Those students who are not well
informed about the reasons for the
increase may be angry about the new
rates, he said.
But students who take the lime to
look at the reasons for the increase
will agree that it is belter to raise costs
than to cut services, he said.
“Students don’t like to pay more
money more than anyone else docs,
but 1 think they will be realistic about
expenses,” Griesen said.
Students’ opinions about the in
crease were reflected in a Residence
Hall Association vote, Griesen said.
RHA voted 22-0 at its meeting earlier
this semester in favor of the increase
in hall rates, he said.
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6:29 a.m. —Ceiling tile damaged,
Scllcck Residence Hall, S15.
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