UNL receives unrestricted
funds from NU Foundation
By Melissa Dunne
Staff Reporter
The University of Nebraska
Foundation recently gave $171,556
in unrestricted funds to the Univer
sity of Nebraska-Lincoln for cam
pus improvements.
Scientific equipment purchased
with the funds will benefit several
departments, including the College
of Engineering, Cedar Point Bio
logical Station and the College of
Agricultural Sciences and Natural
Resources.
The Department of English and
the Center for Great Plains Studies
also received funds to buy the Regina
Collection, literary and research
material of the Canadian Plains.
“A number of disciplines may
benefit from the equipment, which
in many cases is not limited to a
specific department,” said Theresa
Klein, director of public relations
and publications for the NU Foun
dation.
The NU Foundation is a non
profit organization established to
raise financial support for the Uni
versity of Nebraska through the
donations of alumni, friends, cor
porations and other foundations.
Of the $375,000 total unrestricted
funds raised by the foundation this
year, $103,000 was allocated to
the University of Nebraska at Omaha
and $100,000 was allocated to the
University of Nebraska Medical
Center.
Last year, more than $1.1 mil
lion was raised in unrestricted funds.
Unrestricted funds are those that
aren’t earmarked for a particular
area.
Using this money, UNL bought
scientific equipment, remodeled the
laboratory for the Department of
Modem Languages and supple
mented merit scholarships.
Klein said she is not disappointed
with the significant decrease in
available unrestricted funds.
“It’s very hard to designate
outside influences on people who
are donating money. One year from
another can be very different,” Klein
said. “Fund-raising is a very inex
act, undefined area.”
“Although we encourage unre
stricted funds, it is up to the donors
whether they specify a purpose,”
she said.
Klein said that nearly 95 per
cent of all donations have a spe
cific destination.
Funds donated without a spe
cific destination are designated by
the Foundation’s Executive Com
mittee and the Awards and Grants
Committee according to priorities
expressed by each university.
“(The NU Foundation isn’t) in a
position to determine what is a
priority,” Klein said. “We rely on
the chancellor and president of each
university.”
“There is no set pool of funds
which we rely on each year. We
must wait until the end of each year
to see how successful we were and
what amount we have to offer,” she
said.
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and will visit new private businesses
and existing stale businesses, Ander
son said. Each team will observe an
individual business and will make
recommendations to its director, he
said.
The program also will teach mana
gerial skills to Soviet entrepreneurs
interested in starting a new business,
he said.
“(The Soviet people) wanted rapid
change, a chance to own a business,
and to interact globally,” he said.
Anderson said he expects that his
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Amy Dorssom, the Panhellenic
delegate from Alpha Delta Pi, said
she hoped some of the activities that
the committee has planned will im
prove relations between the two groups.
“I don’t think greeks like a lot of
the hostility that goes cm. They’d really
like to end all that,” Dorssom said.
“Greeks are just as willing to meet
non-greeks as non-greeks are to meet
greeks.”
Lewis said he didn’t know if the
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torical changes taking place m the
Soviet Union will prompt many stu
dents to apply for the program.
Applications will be reviewed on a
first-come, first-serve basis and by
who would most benefit from the
program, he said.
At this point, no deadlines have
been set for applying for the trip,
Anderson said. Alt students are eli
gible.
The student cost for participation
has not been yet determined because
the program is still applying for grants,
Anderson said. He estimated that the
cost would be between $2,000 to $3,000
to cover air fare, lodging, meals and
educational expenses.
committee’s efforts would bring the
groups closer together, but he said he
is going to “give it a shot.”
Vaughn said that while relation
ships between the groups aren’t bad,
campus leaders this year appear to be
more enthusiastic about interaction
between the two groups than iTt prior
years.
Dorssom added that progress is
likely this year because the commit
tee has “pretty realistic goals,” but
she did not identify what they were.
“I just hope that everyone is opti
mistic about this,” Vaughn said.
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Proposal to change ASUN bylaw
would give president line-item veto
By Adeana Left in
Senior Reporter
If ASUN approves a bylaw change
at tonight’s meeting, senate presi
dents no longer will have to approve
appropriation bills
on an “all or noth
ing basis,” a sena
tor said Tuesday.
Teachers Col
lege Sen. Trent
Steele said a bylaw
change allowing
Association of Students of the Uni
versity of Nebraska presidents to make
line-item vetoes will help the senate
run more smoothly.
In spring semesters, the Commit
tee for Fees Allocation hears testi
mony of fee users, such as the Univer
sity Health Center, student unions
and University Programs Council, for
the following Fiscal year.
The committee studies the infor
mation and makes recommendations
to the ASUN senate. The senators can
change the budget line by line.
Then, the ASUN president signs
or rejects the budget. Under the pres
ent bylaw, the president is unable to
change the budget line by line.
Steele said that in the past, ASUN
presidents have had to veto entire
budgets because of one line.
“We are in an era of tight belts,” he
said, “and it gives them a little more
flexibility when it comes to spend
ing.”
ASUN President Andy Massey also
has been working on keeping stu
dents informed about proposed budget
cuts.
The cuts are a result of a Nebraska
Legislature mandate last spring that
UNL cuts its budget 2 percent this
year and 1 percent next year.
Massey said he has collected sev
eral files of letters from students
concerning the cuts, as well as the
reports presented by vice chancellors
to the Budget Reduction Review
Committee.
But, Massey said, he has not re
sponded to the letters.
“I think that we need to let the
process go through.... It’s still kind
of early, he said.
Success or environmental center
hinges on funding, director says
UNL administration
asked for support
By Rebecca Gaston
Staff Reporter
The director of the University of
Nebraska Environmental Resource
Center urged faculty and administra
tors Tuesday to support the new addi
tion to the Nebraska Union.
Dave Regan, speaking at a press
conference at the opening of the cen
ter, said UNERC needs funding to
properly supply the new center, which
is located in room 236 of the union.
Fund-raising projects are planned,
and private donations have been made
through the NU Foundation, said
Regan, a UNL law student. The cen
ter nopes to raise $10,000 this year.
But the lack of response to re
quests for donations from faculty
members and administration has been
disappointing, Regan said.
“At a time when the university is
cutting budgets, here a bunch of stu
dents are doing their best to expand
their educational resources,” Regan
said. “I think the faculty and admini
stration should support the center.”
The goal of the center is to provide
a place for students, faculty and the
community to acquire information
about environmental issues, Regan
said. It also can connect people with
environmental groups across the
country, he said.
“(The Environmental Resource
Center) is here to support the efforts
of environmental education on cam
pus,” said Jeanne Kay, the center’s
faculty adviser.
Ecology Now, Biology Club-Tri
Beta, Wildlife Club and the Natural
Resources Law Society are helping
with the center, Regan said. A repre
sentative from each group will serve
on an operations committee to decide
the role of the center, he said.
The center will be open from 9
a.m. to 5 p.m. daily depending on
volunteer availability.
Union Board members to investigate
procedures at Omaha student centers
By Wendy Mott
Staff Reporter
Eight of the University of Nebraska
Lincoln Union Board members will
visit two Omaha colleges Oct. 8 to
compare policies and facilities.
The retreat is designed to allow
board members to review unions and
union board procedures at both
Creighton University and University
of Nebraska at Omaha.
Beginning Sept. 30, Union Board
members also will take comments
and suggestions regarding union serv
ices at a booth in the Nebraska Union
for an hour a week.
Board President Chad Hartnett, a
senior accounting major, said mem
bers will try to be available for an
hour during the union’s busiest pe
riod, which is from 10:30 a.m. to 1:30
p.m. •
Board members are looking into
plans for a security system so art can
be hung on the Nebraska Union’s
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Gallery Wall, located in the main
lounge.
Nikki Anderson, a sophomore pre
pharmacy major, suggested having
UNL art students paint a mural on the
wall to save security expenses, bul
other board members preferred a less
permanent alternative.
The board will meet again Oct. 1
at 5 p.m. in the East Union. All Union
Board meetings are open to the pub
lic.
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of racial incidents recently, UNL
should have a group ready to respond
if such incidents occur.
“People from all ethnic groups and
races should know that if anything
(from) racial slurs to passing around
literature that denounces a racial group
occurs, they can come to us,” he said.
“We will be able and willing to ad
dress the problem on their behalf.”
Also, RPAT members hope to create
situations where studpnts at UNL, a
predominately white community, will
be compelled to learn about the dif
ferent cultures that make up the world,
Harris said.
“More than anything, we want to
help expand the students’ knowledge
base of different cultures,” he said.
“By the year 2000, these (minority)
groups will make up a majority of the
American population, and those who
don’t want to face it now will be in for
a rude awakening when they reach
the work force.”
Greg Smith, a graduate student at
UNL, said the team has been working
since last spring to accomplish its
goals.
The team has planned a Sept. 27
retreat to Milford, where RPAT
members will be accompanied by about
100 representatives of various stu
dent organizations, Smith said.
“When the student representatives
go back to their organizations, we
hope they will have a better idea
about how to deal with the differ
ences in cultural and racial diversity
among their members,” he said.
After the retreat, RPAT members
again will meet with the representa
tives of each student group to sec if
the retreat was helpful.
Through activities such as thq re
treat, Harris said, RPAT members
hope to prevent serious race-related
problems from arising by offering
support to students who think they’ve
been victimized.
“We don’t want students to keep
their problems bottled up,” Harris said.
“We hope they will come to us with
an incident or problem before the
situation is allowed to get out of hand.’
Eleanor Roosevelt
topic of 2-act play
From Staff Reports
A one-person, two-act play about
Eleanor Roosevelt starring Broadway
and Hollywood actress Toni Gillman
will be presented at 8 p.m. Sept. 23 in
the East Campus Union’s Great Plains
Room.
Tickets for the event, sponsored
by Friends of the Commission on the
Status of Women, the Nebraska
Humanities Council and the Women’s
Resource Center, cost $ 10 a person or
$5 with a student ID.
I-POLICE REPORT--,
Beginning midnight Monday,
Sept. 16
9:16 a.m. — Vehicle tires sliced,
Harper-Schramm-Smith complex
parking lot, $168.
1:12 p.m. — Hit-and-run auto
accident, parking lot at 16th and Y
streets, $100.
2:21 p.m. — Hood ornament sto
len, parking lot at 14th and W
streets, $30.
4:57 p.m. — Vehicle window bro
ken, parking lot at 14th and Avery
streets, $50.
4:58 p.m.—Nuisance phone calls,
Andrews Hall.
7:17 p.m. — Purse stolen, Oldfa
ther Hall, $127.
8:04 p.m. — Woman ill, Abel Hall,
transported to Lincoln General
Hospital, 2300 S. 16th St.
9:46 p.m. — Backpack stolen, Pi
Kappa Phi sorority, 425 University
Terrace, $114.
11:02 p.m. — Check forged, Abel
Residence Hall, $41.