Nebraskan
APC advances cut proposals to Spanier
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Speech, classics
departments not
proposed targets
By Wendy Navratil
Senior Reporter
The Academic Planning Com
mittee on Nov. 25 spared the
speech communication and
classics departments from elimina
tion in its tentative recommendations
to reduce one component of UNL’s
budget by 1.13 percent.
The 1.13 percent recommended
reduction in the BUDGET
component of
UNL’s budget that
includes academic
and student af
fairs, research and
graduate studies programs, the chan
cellor’s office and die business and
finance department falls short of the 2
percent reduction goal.
“As it is, we aren’t quite there
yet,” said Thomas Zorn, chairman of
the APC and Budget Reduction Re
view Committee. “I think the feeling
among the committee members was
that it was more important to make
good cuts than just to make target.”
The APC exceeded this year’s 2
percent reduction target for the UNL
Institute of Agriculture and Natural
Resources’ component of the budget
when it recommended a 3 percent
reduction for IANR a week ago last
Thursday. The APC also recommended
a 3 percent reduction in Nebraska
Research Initiative funding.
The IANR and NRI 3 percent re
ductions combined with the other
programs’ 1.13 percent reduction
averages out to a budget reduction for
UNL of 1.88 percent, or $2,546,256
— a total shortfall of about $157,000
from the 2 percent reduction goal for
this year.
After coming up with the extra
$157,000 to satisfy this year’s goal,
UNL for next year will have to find an
additional $1.3 million in cuts to sat
isfy the 3 percent legislatively man
dated cut, Zorn said.
The APC recommendations are only
tentative, Zorn said. Programs tar
geted for cuts may send their depart
ment head to testify one more time
before the APC formally votes to
recommend the cuts to the UNL chan
cellor for consideration.
UNL Chancellor Graham Spanier,
in conjunction with reviewing the
APC’s recommended cuts, must find
the remaining $157,000 in cuts to
meet this year’s goal of a $2,703,162
reduction in the UNL budget.
“The current phase is nearing an
end,” Zorn said. “But we haven’t,
unfortunately, completed the budget
cutting process altogether. I suspect
we’ve created something of a prob
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Chancellor,
hall residents
mingle, dine,
talk issues
Spanier feasts on food, input
on alcohol, visiting policies
By Wendy Navratil
Senior Reporter
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Chancel lor Graham Spanier look a break
from the usual meetings with adminis
trators and faculty to introduce himself
to a younger facet of the University of Ne
braska-Lincoln Nov. 25.
Spanier joined about 20 students at Selleck
Residence Hall for dinner and an informal
discussion, followed by a basketball game and
a lour of the Cathcr-Pound Neihardt Residence
Hall complex.
No special dinner was prepared for the
occasion — Spanier and James Griesen, vice
chancellor for student affairs, went through the
cafeteria serving line with residence hall stu
dents.
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— and he filled his plate.
“Four choices,” he said. “You’re not going
to gel any better than this for institutional
food.”
The quality of the food wasn’t the only
residence hall issue raised during the evening.
After dinner in the Selleck Formal Dining
Room, students and Spanier discussed resi
dence halls programming and policies.
The students’ biggest complaint centered
on limited visitation hours, which, for most
residence halls, run from noon to 2 a.m. daily.
Doug Zatechka, director of housing, said
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The goalposts come down in celebration of Nebraska’s 19-14 win over Oklahoma on Saturday.
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angeBowl-Bound
Huskers resDond to Colorado critics
By Todd Cooper
Senior Reporter
Pardon Comhusker tight end Johnny
Mitchell if he seems preoccupied
this week. He has a few letters to re
turn.
Moments after Nebraska, 9-1-1 overall
and 6-0-1 in the Big Eight, sealed an invita
tion to the Orange Bowl with a 19-14 vic
tory over Oklahoma on Friday, Mitchell
began responding to letters he had received
earlier in the week.
“I got letters all week from Colorado fans
— thinking we were going to sit down and
give them a free trip to Miami,” Mitchell
said. “But it don’t work that way.
“From now on, there’s no free rides in
Lincoln.’’
And Mitchell said he’ll send that mes
sage to Buffaloes like Darian Hagan, who
predicted Oklahoma would win Friday.
Instead, No. 11 Nebraska earned a trip to
Miami, Fla., to play No. 1 Miami in the
Federal Express Orange Bowl. Meanwhile,
No. 15 Colorado will head to Miami to play
Alabama in the Blockbuster Bowl Dec. 28.
“Tell (Hagan) to have fun at the Block
buster,” Mitchell said. “He can come visit
us at the Federal Express Orange Bowl.
Matter of fact, tell him I might have a ticket
waiting for him at the Orange Bowl."
But all taunting aside, Mitchell said he
was motivated beyond just beating Okla
homa on Friday.
“1 just didn’t want to give it away to
Colorado,” Mitchell said. ‘‘1 don’t think
they deserved the Big Eight championship
and to go down to the Orange Bowl.
‘‘I hope they’re sitting at home mad now.”
Oklahoma might be as well after the
Huskers scored 19 unanswered points to
rally from a 14-0 deficit in the first half. The
last score came on Calvin Jones’ 15-yard
touchdown run with 2:57 remaining.
But Nebraska’s crucial run of the day
came one play earlier. Trailing 14-13 and
facing fourth-and-one at Oklahoma’s 19
yard line, Nebraska Coach Tom Osborne
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