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m t *i uaily g 73/40 I ^1 £l C. B^ ^| 1^1 night*clear 1 j. ^1 L/JL d ^JVdJL B. Objections aired at budget hearings Officials fight for coaching endorsement By Jeremy Fitzpatrick Semor Reporter~ Officials representing UNL’s coaching endorsement program and the proposed College of Fine and Performing Arts testified on behalf of their programs in hearings before the BRRC Tuesday. The hearings are part of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln ’ s ongo ing budget reduction proc ess, which was initiated last spring when the Legisla ture ordered cuts in UNL’s budget of 2 percent this year and 1. percent next year. Proposals submitted by the chancellor’s office to the Budget Reduction Review Committee to meet the cuts included the elimination of the Teachers College’s coaching endorsement program and the temporary elimination of funding for the proposed College of Fine and Performing Arts. Charles Ansorge, chairman of the school of health, physical education and recreation, ar gued that savings from cutting the coaching endorsement program would be less than the $15,400 outlined in the chancellor’s proposals. “If we take into consideration the loss of tuition from other courses which arc required for the 150-175 students in the endorsement, there is going to be a loss of about $40,000 in tuition, he said. Larry Lusk, associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, presented a proposal to the BRRC regarding the proposed College of Fine and Performing Arts. The chancellor’s budget-cutting proposals recommended eliminating $150,000 in fund ing for the college until it is approved by the new Nebraska Coordinating Commission on Post-Secondary Education. Lusk said the proposal had led some to the incorrect conclusion that the college had been slated for permanent culling. He requested lhal the chancellor immedi ately communicate to the coordinating com mission that the temporary removal of funding was not intended to undermine the college. Faculty challenges procedures used to determine cuts By Wendy Navratil Senior Reporter From deep concern to outright objection, faculty representatives Tuesday ex pressed dissatisfaction with the budget cutting process underway at UNL. The first round of the Budget Reduction Review Committee hearings initiated the next Ql inPCT phase in the University of DUUUu I Ncbraska-Lincoln budget reduction process. The process began last spring when the Nebraska Legis lature mandated a 2 per cent cut in this year’s UNL budget and a 1 percent cut for next year. In the coming weeks, the BRRC will con sider faculty and student input regarding the proposed budget cuts and the procedures guid ing the budget-cutting process. Representatives of the College of Arts and Sciences executive committee were the first to present their doubts regarding the fitness of the budget proposals to the BRRC. Esther Cope, a member of the arts and sciences executive committee, said the com mittee had “fundamental objections both to the procedures that have been used and to the cuts that have been proposed” in the arts and sci ences college. The cuts would include the elimination of the speech communication and ■the classics departments. Cope said that the college was forced lo recommendation* (or cuts wuhm the College of Arts and Sciences during the summer. Only 21 of the college’s 424 faculty members have 12-month, as opposed to 9 month, contracts. “Finding us in the summer is itself a daunt ing task; getting us together to participate in decisions about the future of our college would be virtually impossible." The cuts that the college recommended both complied with the set guidelines and protected the interests of the college, she said. But they were not adopted in the budget-cutting propos als. The explanations she has heard for the cuts that were proposed, she added, appear to “defy reason.” “I know I am not alone in having had my confidence in this university shaken,” she said. Ellen Baird, co-chairwoman of the Faculty Women’s Caucus, pointed out inconsistencies between the proposed cuts and the goals of — See BUDGET on 6 Funding for Beadle Center approved by House By Kara Morrison Staff Reporter Approval by the U.S. House of Representatives has brought a University of Nebraska-Lin coin biological research facility a step closer to completion. The House approved the Agricul ture Appropriations Conference Re port, which includes $4.5 million of funding necessary to begin construc tion on UNL’s proposed Georg6 W. Beadle Center for Genetics and Bio materials Research. Rep. Doug Bereuter, R-Neb., urged the House to approve the report in a statement Tuesday. About $17.9 million in federal funds had been appropriated for the facility, Bereuter said. The approval of $4.5 million more in federal funding, combined with state and matching funds, brings the total project funding to $30.9 million, he said. The $4.5 million in funding will enable the university to provide for each of the three units — biotechnol ogy, biochemistry and chemical en gincering — that give the project its uniqueness and effectiveness, Bercu tcr said. Marion O’Leary, director of the UNL Center for Biological Chemis try, said he is “delighted” about the progress in funding for a project that will benefit the university and the state of Nebraska. The project, which has been in the planning stages for three years, is unique in the United Slates because three groups of scientists will be working together, O’Leary said. Together, chemical engineers will be able to make the discoveries of biochemists and biotcchnologisls practical, he said. The Beadle center, which will house labs “among the finest anywhere,” is also expected to spark interest in undergraduate and graduate programs at UNL, O’Leary said. Before construction on the center begins, President Bush must sign the bill to finali/.c funding, but O’Leary is optimistic. Negotiations will then take place with the Department of Agriculture, a step thatO’Leary said he is expecting ' to be “casual.” Roor plans for the Beadle center arc proceeding to detailed stages and will be ready for presentation to the NU Board of Regents in December, O’Leary said. If everything goes on schedule, he said, ground will be broken for the center next summer. O’Leary contributes much of the See BEADLE on 2 AS UN president opposes budget bill Senate to study action on ROTC legislation By Adeana Leftln Senior Reporter Horizontal budget cuts would do more damage to the university than the cur rently proposed vertical cuts, the ASUN president said Tuesday. Andy Massey, president of the Association of Students of the University of Nebraska, said he opposed legislation proposed by some ASUN senators calling for hori zontal cuts instead of vertical cuts. ■ The cuts are a result of a Nebraska Legisla ture mandate last spring that the University of Nebraska-Lincoln must cut 2 percent from its t budget this year and 1 percent from next year 's , budget. ’ In September, vice chancellors recommended vertical cuts in their departments to the Budget Reduction Review Committee. The committee began to hear responses to the cuts from af fected departments Tuesday. In November, the BRRC will forward budget cutting recommendations to the Academic Planning Committee, an advisory committee See ASUN on 6 Academic Senate urges faculty input in budget cuts. Page 2 A former quarterback becomes a coach. Page 7 iNDEX Opinion 4 Sports 7 A&E 9 Classifieds 10