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4 percent gets nod
Legislative committee
OKs NU salary hikes
By Tabitha Hiner
Senior Reporter
• np he Nebraska Legislature’s Ap
propriations Committee moved
a step closer Thursday to so
lidifying the 4 percent salary increase
for NU it had recommended in its
preliminary budget report.
During executive session, commit
tee members tentatively decided to
appropriate increases of $10,619,129
during 1991-92 and $23,171,652
during 1992-93.
NU had requested increases of
$28,354,000 for 1991-92 and
$59,680,000 for 1992-93, which would
amount to 10 percent increases each
year.
Committee members discussed
whether the money should be allo
cated in a lump sum — as the NU
Board of Regents had requested — or
campus by campus, but no decision
was reached.
North Platte Sen. David Bcmard
Stcvens said he agreed with the cam
pus-by-campus allocation. He called
the campus at Kearney a “no-man’s
land.’’
“With Kearney the way it is—not
technically being in the university
system ... I don’t sec where we really
have any other choice than going
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Beadle Center funding
generates controversy
By Jeremy Fitzpatrick
Staff Reporter
Congressman Doug Bereuter ex
pressed alarm Thursday over
suggestions that state funding
for UNL’s Beadle Center could be
postponed, advising that the state
finance the project this year.
Funding for the George W. Beadle
Center for Genetics and Biomaierials
Research is based heavily on a $17.7
million grant from the U.S. depart
mentsof Agriculture and Energy . The
grant must be matched by $6 million
in non-federal funds.
Darrel Choat, a legislative aide to
the Republican congressman, said,
“There are rumors floating around
oul there regarding whether or not the
state needs to take (financial) action
now, and we would like to address
those rumors.”
U.S. Sen. Bob Kerrey, D-Neb.,
had said Tuesday that definite finan
cial assistance for the project is not
needed from the Nebraska Legisla
ture this year as long as slate senators
made a commitment to it.
Choat said, “Technically, Sen.
Kerrey is correct that they don’t need
the funds this year. But what are they
going to do next year?”
He questioned whether the state
would have fewer budget concerns in
a year or two. At the end of the
project, if the Legislature hadn’t
appropriated the money, the state would
be liable for it, he said.
Robert Spire, special counsel to
Kerrey, said he doesn’t think the
positions of the two congressmen are
significantly different.
“There is strong agreement by
everyone involved — Sen. Kerrey,
the regents, Congressman Bereuter,
the governor and the Legislature —
that the Beadle Center can be an
exciting project for Nebraska,” Spire
said.
“The point the senator was making
is that the payment does not have to
be simultaneous with the appropria
tion.”
Spire said the Nebraska Legisla
ture appropriates money for two-year
periods, and that if it set aside funds
for the center in the current session,
the state treasurer would not have to
“write the check” until next year.
“It may be just as tough to write
the check in a year, but it may be
easier if the economy turns around,”
he said.
State Sen. Scott Moore of Seward,
chairman of the Appropriations
Committee, agreed with Spire that a
commitment by the state would be
sufficient to ensure federal funding
for the center.
“You don’t need a check today,”
he said.
But he was critical of the univer
sity’s handling of the funding issue.
“The university has led a lot of
people to think that the Legislature
has to appropriate this money. Actu
ally what is required are non-fedcral
funds from whatever source,” he said.
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Finishing touches
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Animal rights activists protest rodeo
by uionne searcey
Staff Reporter
Animal rights protesters trying
to corral support for their cause
urged UNL rodcogoers to “say
whoa to rodeos” Thursday night.
About 10 people stood silently at
the gate of the Nebraska State Fair
grounds, braving cold winds to hold
signs reading, “This is not the wild,
wild west,” and “Cruelly for a buck.”
The protest was to “make people
aware of the cruelty invoked in ro
deo,” said a University of Nebraska
Lincoln student who asked to remain
anonymous because she is enrolled in
animal science classes.
Walter Baglcy, a Lincoln ex
rancher, said most people think ro
deos are a way to “preserve American
heritage.”
Sometimes people attend rodeos
just for “thrills, ’ Bagley said.
“They hope to sec someone bucked
off of a bull chase someone ...,” he
said. “It’s exploiting animals to get
their thrills rather than preserving our
heritage.
“If you want to preserve our heri
tage, do it on a ranch,” he said.
Bagley, who grew up on an Fast
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UNL Chancellor Search Committee ranks applications
By Adeana Leftin
Staff Reporter
The UNL Chancellor Search Committee
began to prioritize Thursday the more
than 200 applications it has received to
fill the vacancy left by NU President Martin
Massengale, the committee chairman said.
Harvey Perlman, dean of the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln College of Law, said some
of the candidates have been ranked into three
categories.
The First category is for applicants who most
interest the committee. The committee would
like more information on applicants in the
second category. The resumes in the third
category have some gaps in them, Perlman
said.
The categories were decided based on appli
cants’ resumds and letters, he said.
Later in the search, Perlman said, the com
mittee will be in a better position to make
“discreet inquiries” about individual candi
dates.
He would not comment on the number of
applicants in each category or if any internal
applicants were among those considered.
Perlman said the number of women and
minorities who applied is not available and will
not be released until the search is concluded.
But he said he thought a number of women
and minorities were nominated.
“We have urged the faculty to be aggressive
along those lines,” Perlman said.
He said this first look at the resumes was an
“extraordinarily rough cut.”
“Wc haven’t narrowed the field at all,”
Perlman said.
Based on the resumes that have been re
viewed, he said, there are several strong appli
cants from all across the country.
Perlman said he still receives one or two
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