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Budget reduction
targets research,
appearance at UNL
University heart
cut by proposal,
professors say
By Kara Wells
Senior Editor
Slashing funding for the Re
search Council would “cut at
the heart of the university,” a
UNL official told the Budget Reduc
tion Review Committee Monday.
Edward Schmidt, professor of
physics and astron
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ments throughout the
university benefit from the council’s
support.
The Research Council is a broad
based organization that assists UNL
scholars, Schmidt said. The council
supports young scholars in granting
money for research and also finances
travel expenses and visiting scholars.
The proposed $38,000 cut to the
council is “excessive,” Schmidt said.
The cm is a 50 percent reduction, he
said.
The BRRC is hearing testimony
on proposed cuts as part of UNL’s 3
percent budget-cutting process. The
cuts were mandated by the Nebraska
Legislature last spring.
Researchers in human and social
services fields have difficulties in
obtaining outside support for research,
Schmidt said, and the Research Coun
cil provides that support.
But even at current funding levels,
the council can finance only 50 to 60
percent of the research proposals
submitted, he said.
The demand for research is on the
rise, Schmidt said, and it doesn’t make
sense tocut the council’s budget now.
“This is a poor place to cut funds
at,” he said.
Sitaram Jaswal, a professor of
physics and astronomy, said he has
been helped by programs provided
through the Research Council.
“If it weren’t for the Research
Council, my research would have been
much less than what it is,” he said,
adding that travel to scholarly meet
ings is “crucial” and that the council
assisted him in travel expenses.
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Possible cuts tnreaten
look, smell of campus
By Wendy Navratil
Senior Reporter _*_
From toilet stalls to flower beds,
budget cuts would affect not
only the appearance, but the
smell of campus, according to testi
monies presented at BRRC hearings
Monday.
Representatives of facilities man
agement and land
scape services pre
sented summaries
of the impact of their
departments ’
budget cuts,
$164,000 and
$48,000 respectively, to the Budget
Reduction Review Committee.
The cuts were recommended as
part of UNL’s effort to comply with a
legislatively mandated cut of 2 per
cent in its budget this year and 1
percent next year.
John Marker, operational manager
of the facilities management custo
dial division, said that facilities man
agement cuts would include a reduc
tion in his division’s funding of about
$121,000.
The cuts would mean that office
areas, and the restrooms associated
with them, would be cleaned only
twice a week, down from every other
day, he said.
“The restrooms will not smell
good,” MaiLcr said. ‘They’re not going
to be in very good shape” between
cleanings, he said.
Dusting in offices would also be
eliminated, Marker said. Not only
will this create a less pleasant work
ing environment, it will increase wear
to dust-sensitive equipment, such as
computers. Increasing debris on floors
in foyers and hallways will shorten
the life of floor coverings to about
one-third of what they are now, he
said.
“The cuts you might see here will
appear in increased costs elsewhere,”
he said.
On a brighter note, though, Marker
said the cuts would not hurt students.
The division considers maintaining
classrooms, corridors and entrances
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Gone Fishiri
Ron Hoffman, an employee with the Facilities Management Department, fishes pennies
out of Broyhill Fountain on Monday as part of the preparation to shut down the fountain
for the winter.
Survey reviews BRRC process
By Jeremy Fitzpatrick
Senior Reporter
The University Association for
Administrative Development,
an organization of manage
rial and professional employees at
UNL, will present survey data on the
budget-reduction
process to the
BRRC Thursday.
LuAnn Mace,
personnel coordina-j
tor for the agron
omy department —
and chairwoman of the U AAD’s em
ployee concerns committee, said sur
veys were sent to the 1,200 manage
rial and professional employees at the
University of Ncbraska-Lincoln.
The survey was initialed in an at
tempt to convey the concerns of pro
fessional and managerial employees
at UNL to the Budget Reduction
Review Committee, Mace said.
The survey asked managerial and
professional employees to rank UNL’s
budget reduction process in three areas:
preparation, analysis and overall opin
ion.
The reductions were initiated last
spring when the Legislature ordered
UNL to cut 2 percent from its budget
this year and an additional 1 percent
next year.
Mace said the survey, which re
ceived a 20 percent response, showed
four principal concerns among the
professional and managerial employ
ees. She said she did not want to
release ihc results until the UAAD
did so formally before the BRRC
Thursday.
The survey was one of three meas
ures the group look to prepare for the
BRRC presentation, she said.
The group also held an open forum
on Oct. 16 for managerial and profes
sional employees and requested that
they write letters to the UAAD ex
pressing their opinionson the budget
reduction process. The efforts were
coordinated by the seven-member
employee concerns committee, Mace
said.
A common concern expressed at
the open forum, she said, was that
managerial and professional people
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UNL not invited to proposed meeting
By Adeana Leftin
Senior Reporter
A SUN senators would be wast
ing their time if they attended
a proposed joint meeting be
tween UNO, UNMC and UNK stu
dent senates to promote intercampus
awareness, the CCLR director said
Monday.
Mark Vanevenhoven, director of
the University of . m fei
Nebraska at Za jMINI
Omaha’s Council
for Community and
Legislative Rela
tions, said a formal
invitation to the
Lincoln meeting
would not be extended to the Asso
Official says ASUN apathetic to UNO
nation of Students of the University
of Nebraska or UNL students. But, he
said, everyone was welcome to at
tend.
Vancvcnhoven said he didn’t think
AS UN senators needed to be in atten
dance because their constituents arc
“not concerned if UNO is recognized
or not.”
“Folks in Lincoln... the Board of
Regents and the state Legislature seem
,to forget we’re out here once in awhile,”
Vanevenhovcn said.
The proposed meeting would send
a “subtle message to Lincoln that we
exist,” he said.
However, because UNO recently
elected a new student senate, he said,
the issue has been tabled until its first
meeting on Nov. 7.
But, Vancvenhoven said he had
the support of the University of Ne
braska Medical Center and the Uni
versity of Nebraska at Kearney.
“UNK doesn’t have quite the his
tory with you folks that we do,” he
said, “but they’re beginning to see
problems crop up.”
Bob Caldwell, student body presi
dent at UNK, said the UNK student
senate had taken no formal action on
Vancvenhoven’s proposal.
He supports uniformity, he said,
but thinks it could be carried loo far.
Caldwell said he agreed that the
University of Ncbraska-Lincoln might
have certain lobbying advantages over
the other campuses because of its
location and past funding, but added
that grievances should be filed with
the NU Board of Regents and the
Nebraska Legislature.
“There are a lot of other problems
addressing us on campus that we need
to handle before addressing some
thing like this,” Caldwell said.
ASUN President Andy Massey
agreed.
He said he was still more con
cerned about budget cuts, but added,
“if they don’t have any better ways to
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