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Official sees bleak future for NU budget By Kara Wells Senior Editor The university’s hopes for a more optimistic economic out look for Nebraska were dashed Thursday, a university official said. Neale Copple, interim direc tor of university relations, said the state Economic Forecasting Advisory Board’s projections were disappointing. The board, at its meeting Thursday, did not revise its overall revenue estimates for the next two years, which proj ect little growth. The board is estimating reve nue of $1.37 billion for 1990 91, $1.43 billion for 1991-92 and $1.5 billion for 1992-93. University officials had been awaiting the projections, hop ing for a more favorable out look than the previous estimates, made in February. A more favorable outlook may have meant that the Nebraska Legislature’s Appropriations Committee would increase the amount it is proposing to give the University o» Nebraska. inis is bad news lor the slate and everyone,” Copple said of the unchanged projections. The Appropriations Commit tee so far has proposed a 4 per cent increase for faculty and staff salaries at NU for the next two years. At the same time, it is proposing a 4 percent across the-board cut for all state agen cies, including NU. NU faculty and staff mem bers had been receiving salary increases of more than 10 per cent for the last three years. For every 1 percent salaries would be increased under the current proposal, Copple said, the uni versity would have to come up with SI.4 million. “If we account for the things we have to do (at the univer sity), we still don’t end up with enough new money to give raises,” Copple said. NU requested $893.1 mil lion in 1991-92 and $971 mil lion in 1992-93 in state support for the four campuses — the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, the University of Nebraska at Omaha, the University of Ne braska Medical Center and the University of Nebraska at Kear ney, which joins the NU system July 1. The Appropriations Commit tee has not made final the budget proposal it will submit to the full Legislature. The deadline is May 1. Calendar of festivities set Earth Day celebrations start early By Adeana Leftin Staff Reporter With Earth Day slated for Mon day, many organizations are spring ing up to celebrate. Jeff Riggert, records and recycling coordinator for Ecology Now, said the group has several events planned for this weekend. An Earth Day Fair will be today from 10 a.m. until dark, he said. During that time, Ecology Now will host a recycling drive. Riggert said anyone can bring recyclables to an area near Broyhill Fountain where Ecology Now will supply barrels for collection. He said any profit from the recy cling will go to Citizens for Environ mental Improvement, a local envi ronmental group that is $12,000 in debt. Information, buttons and T-shirts will be available, Riggert said. Earth Party U.S. A., also sponsored by Ecology Now, will begin at 3:30 p.m. today. The Acoms, Bone Gravy and Sideshow will play at Broyhill Fountain until 7:30, Riggert said. Tonight at 7:30, Cesar Chavez, an advocate of farm workers’ rights, will speak in the Nebraska Union Ball room. At 9 a.m. Saturday, Ecology Now will conduct a cleanup along W. Van Dorn Street that will end near Wilder ness Park. Riggert said anyone inter ested in participating can contact the Ecology Now office. Riggert said Ecology Now will focus this year’s events on counter acting a slip in environmental aware ness. Ecology Now members hope their efforts will increase involvement, he said, by helping to “get people in volved and bring about a better future for everyone on the planet.” Other weekend events include the Jazz Fest and Earth Day Fair from 1 - 5 p.m. Sunday in the Pinewood Bowl at Pioneer’s Park sponsored by groups from Nebraska Wesleyan University. Also on Sunday, free earth walks will be offered by the Chet Ager Nature Center. There are three tours: More than Trees, Prairie Spring and the Earth Speaks. Each will begin at 1,2 and 3 p.m. Women faculty members urge proposal adoption By Dionne Searcey Staff Reporter University of Nebraska-Lincoln female faculty members are pressing the NU Board of Regents to iron out the disparities between male and female faculty salaries and hiring rates. The Women’s Caucus of the UNL Faculty on Thursday sent a letter to the University of Nebraska regents signed by 90 percent of women fac ulty members at UNL. The letter urged the regents to adopt the recommenda tions of the Chancellor’s Commis sion on the Status of Women. The recommendations call for hiring more women administrators, imple menting family leave and day care policies and establishing equal sala ries for women and better programs for women staff members. The letter came one day before the regents’ forum on gender issues. The NU regents requested the forum to solicit input on the status of women. The number and rank of male and female faculty members and the number of male and female adminis trators are among the topics to be discussed at the forum. Steve Willbom, a member of the Chancellor’s Commission on the Status of Women and a College of Law professor, said the topics stem from concerns raised in meetings, open forums and studies completed through out the year. One study, he said, showed “seri ous salary disparities” between male and female employees. The report showed that over the past 12 years men were paid an aver age of $600 more than women faculty members. Men and women faculty members hired since 1978 experi ence a salary gap of $ 1,300 to $2,300. The forum will be at 8:30 a.m. at Varner Hall. Regents to rule on implementing faculty phased-retirement plan By Dionne Searcey Staff Reporter The NU Board of Regents Friday will decide whether to implement a retirement policy that has been called unacceptable by some UNL faculty members. The “phased-out retirement pro gram,” as referred to by Academic Senate President James McShane, would give faculty members between the ages of 55 and 65 the option to cut their workloads to no more than 50 percent. Faculty members would be forced to retire seven years later. McShane has said that in order to participate in the program, members would have to sign a waiver giving up federal rights that prohibit age dis crimination. The Academic Senate expressed its dismay earlier this semester about the proposed phased retirement plan. The Voluntary Phased Retirement Appointment Policy would make eli gible any faculty member who has been employed by the University of Nebraska for 10 years. The program would provide a one-year trial period in which members could return to full-time service. In other business, the NU regents are expected to approve the level of student fees at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln for 1991-92. The recommended student fee level would mean a $5.68 increase in the nonrefundable portion of student fees of $147.46. The recommended student fees would total $6.7 million, opposed to the 1990-91 total of $6.4 million. Kingon Continued from Page 1 countries is a shortage of investment in them. “The investment isn’t forthcom ing from the West,” Kingon said. He said it is important to consider the ramifications for the United States of the economic slump in the EC nations and their neighbors. Last year, the United States did $190 billion in two-way trade with the EC, and in 1991, more than $200 billion is predicted. Although officials in Washington like to talk about Japan, the EC na tions collectively are the biggest trad ing partner of the United States, he said. “We are each other’s most impor tant economic partner,” he said. Kingon said that if the United States, the EC and the rest of the world aren’t able to invest in one another’s econo mies, the world economy could suffer greatly. “If we don ’ t come out of our reces sion ... soon... it is a prescription for major trouble.” Council Continued from Page 1 Board of Regents or Nebraska State College Board of Trustees, he said. But some commission powers could step beyond coordination, Wood said. The commission’s power to estab lish statewide transfer of credit, se lective admissions and enrollment policies, tuition and fees and peer groups would give it the authority to make policies that guide decision making, he said From a legal stand point, he said, the us* df jbe word policy in the legishftadrf hinge on powers jeMry^dl* gtwen?; ing boards. “• * -. • ** Those power!'doubt be fwticn larly worrisome, he said, wnce state higher education goverotog boards now have little ability to influence senators “Our input, as far as the Legisla ture goes, is not particularly welcome or effective,” Wood said. Tom Johnston, a spokesman for the Nebraska community colleges, said there is almost an animosity between the Legislature and the gov erning boards. That means that if the governing boards don’t work with the Legisla ture collectively, they wqo’l have any impact, Johnston said. Joseph Preustffcf, kfcnt of Central Community ^ , said he thought it would hd for ihb councilto serve tothenewcooixliM^^iw&dWh than to continue 4 ?* • •• It would be better to be tut Outside group looking in, he* said. th#ftiOgct independently. ^ VjrvVv •; A, p Beadle Continued from Page 1 • The future University of Ne braska at Kearney would receive $2.3 million to build an addition to Copeland Hall. UNK, which will join the NU system July 1, had requested $1.3 million more than the Appropriations Committee granted to renovate the remainder of the hah. • Wayne State College would receive $4 rmJhott to construct a tedd ing to house its towhtea? program The committee ijecttnea to approve any funds for tbfcteaflftqutqn of foqr greenhouses onJEaat CdteNS The request was tct The com mince’s proposals wHl go/or approval before the Ml tegrs lature. A POLICE REPORT Beginning midnight Wednes day, April 17 9:23 a.m. — Bicycle stolen, south side of Nebraska Union, S210. 12:42 p.m. — Bicycle stolen, 480 N. 16th St., $360. 3:39 p.m.—Two-vehicle, non injury accident,parking lot west of Selleck Residence Hall, $250. 3:43 p.m. — Two magazines stolen, Love Library, $20. 4:32 p.m. — Man indecently exposed, north of Love Library. 8:31 p.m. — Vehicle door dented and punctured and window cracked, parking lot north of Veterinary Sciences, $250. Caneun Air/Kc.... $324 Air/Beachfront Htl/1 wk $504 Aquamaria Singles .. .. . from $505 I Cruises 3 nghts/Air Costa Rica.$628 6 nghls/Air Rio, Brazil Air/Linc. $729 Good life Tour & Travel 423-4500 Bread of human life topic of food series From Staff Reports The head of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln animal science department will speak in the East Union today at the final session of the brown-bag lunch series “Food for Thought.” Elton Aberle’s noon address on “If Not By Bread Alone ... 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