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Spanier tackles ROTC, restructuring
Interim director
for action office
announced
By Jeremy Fitzpatrick
Senior Reporter
NL Chancellor Graham Spanier
announced the interim direc
tor of the Affirmative Action/
Equal Opportunily/Compliancc Of
fice Tuesday and said he was initiat
' ing a search process to find a perma
nent replacement for the position.
Carmen Maurer, currently the
University of Nebraska assistant
general counsel, will be the interim
director of the office during the six
month search period, Spanier said at a
meeting of the Academic Senate.
Maurer replaces Brad Munn, who
has served in the affirmative action
office since 1976. Munn will join
faculty in the advertising department
in the College of Journalism in Au
gust.
Spanier said Monday that he was
restructuring the
affirmative action
office, which has
been the subject
of faculty enti
ty cism, by creating
QCM ATC two new positioas.
1 :-M* The position of
director will be known as assistant to
the chancellor and director of affirma
tive action and diversity. A second
position will be created within the
office after the new affirmative ac
tion director is named.
Spanier said the new director will
be a senior person in administration
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Chancellor condemns military policy
By Tom Kunz
Staff Reporter
University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s
new chancellor expressed
contempt Tuesday for the mili
tary’s ban on homosexuals and of
fered his support for an Academic
Senate resolution opposing it.
Graham Spanicr, speaking at the
Academic Senate
meeting, said he
sent a letter, along
with a copy of a
senate resolution
that was passed
QCfiJ ATfS last spring, to
I Nebraska con
gressmen earlier this week. The sen
ate resolution calls for the Depart
ment of Defense to end its prohibition
against homosexuals in the armed
forces.
If homosexuals arc not admitted to
the program by Jan. 1,1993, the reso
lution allows for the removal of aca
demic credit from the ROTC pro
grams and the elimination of faculty
status of ROTC instructors.
“I’m in entire support of the spirit
of the resolution,” Spanier said.
In his letter, Spanier wrote that he
believes Congress must intervene to
change the law.
“The elimination of discrimina
tion against any group is consistent
with my own values,” Spanier wrote.
George Tuck, the Academic Sen
ate president, said he was pleased
with Spanicr’s letter.
“The letter lays it out there in
black and white,” Tuck said. “It indi
cated his personal position.”
While Spanier agrees with the spirit
of the bill, he said he vehemently
opposed the 1993 deadline that is set
for the federal government to respond.
“I don’t think the appropriate ,
approach is to set an ultimatum,” he
said.
But Tuck disagreed.
Without the deadline, he said,
“There’s no incentive for the federal
government to act.”
The deadline, which was included
in the proposal sent with Spanicr’s
letter, will help keep the proposal
from being ignored, Tuck said.
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Big 8 plan
to increase
TV revenue
gets praise
UNL athletic officials call
proposal an improvement
By Todd Cooper
Senior Reporter
Big Eight plan to reward high-profile
football and basketball schools with an
increased share of television revenue
met with tempered praise Tuesday.
Nebraska athletic department officials said
the plan, which would allow participating teams
in 1992 to keep 40 percent of the money from
nationally televised non-conference games, is
clearly an improvement from the current 22
percent mark.
But just how much remains to be seen, said
Gary Fouraker, Nebraska’s business manager.
“I really don’t sec it as impacting us that
greatly next year/’Fouraker said. “Butacouplc
years down the road, we may be talking a
substantial increase.”
In 1993, participating Big Eight (ootball
teams that arc on national television will keep
60 percent of the revenue from non-conference
games. In 1994, those teams will keep 80
percent of the revenue, according to the plan,
which was passed by conference athletic direc
tors Friday at a meeting in Kansas City, Mo.
Beginning in 1995, Big Eight basketball
teams will keep 80 percent of the revenue from
nationally televised non-conference basketball
games.
Had the plan been implemented this year,
Nebraska would have received $160,000 in
stead of $70,CXKHrom its nationally televised
game with Washington on Sept. 21, Fourakcr
said.
“It certainly is progress,” Nebraska Athletic
Director Bob Devaney said. “Now I think it’s a
lot more fair, although it’s not going to help the
needy.”
Joe Casliglionc, Missouri assistant athletic
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Kiley Timperley/DN
Bob Kunath, a parking meter serviceman, replaces the time/amount plate on a 10-minute meter Tuesday with the
new rates after altering the timing piece so it can’t accept pennies.
Lincoln on-street meter rate going up
By Wendy Navratil
Senior Reporter
Students scrounging for dimes to plug
their meters will find those coins
won’t give them a full hour begin
ning in mid-February.
The city of Lincoln is increasing meter
rates for on-street parking throughout the
city from 10 cents to 25 cents an hour, and
pennies will no longer be accepted.
“We’ve noticed an increasing number of
employees feeding their parking meters
downtown,” said Rick Hadcn, acting city
traffic engineer. “We anticipate with the
increase in rates that it will push employees
off the street and into off-street parking.”
On campus, parking meters on R street,
12th, 13lh and 14th streets will be affected
by the change because they arc city meters.
Off-street city parking meter rates ana
university parking meter rates — 25 cents
an hour — will remain the same, Haden
said.
A rate survey of nine Midwest cities
conducted last June showed that Lincoln
had the lowest on-street rates among the
cities. The average rate for the cities’ core
areas was 50 cents an hour.
Haden said meter rates haven’t increased
since 1976, while other parking rales down
town, along with enforcement and mainte
nance costs, have.
“It explains in part why we’re having
problems getting turnover on the streets,”
he said.
The increase brought some angry phone
calls when it was first proposed, Hadcn said.
“But 1 think most people would prefer to
pay a quarter and find an empty spot,” he
said.
The rate increase will bring in about
$210,(XX) more in revenue to the city, which
currently cams about S350.000 a year in
meter revenue. The cost of converting the
meters is estimated to be about $24,000.
Spanier to begin reviewing budget
By Jeremy Fitzpatrick
Senior Reporter
Every dollar must be put on
the table to reduce UNL’s
budget by $1.7 million,
UNL’s new chancellor told the Aca
demic Senate Tuesday.
“I don’t think you will be entirely
sympathetic with what I have to do
until you know the scope of the prob
lem,” Graham Spanicr said.
Spanicr will begin reviewing ihc
final budget recom
mendations of the
Academic Planning
Committee this
week.
TomZom, APC
chairman, said he
sent the chancellor
a letter with the committee’s final
recommendations Tuesday. Zorn said
he could not reveal the details of the
recommendations because an APC
vote in September prohibited him.
Last week, the APC submitted
tentative recommendations to the
chancellor. A SI .7 million difference
exists between those recommenda
tions and the amount that Spanicr
says must be cut from UNL’s budget
to comply with an order from the
Legislature to cut 3 percent from UNL’s
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Husker basketball teams to
square off against Big 10 teams.
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Opinion 4
Sports 5
A&E 6
Classifieds 7