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Some telemarketing
firms hold surprises
Students, clubs prey to questionable tactics
By Wendy Navratil
Senior Reporter
UNL students, especially during the holi
day season, may be tempted to accept
job offers on impulse from fund-raising
telemarketers just to make a little money.
But some Lincoln organizations arc issuing
warnings that students—and organizations —
should look before they leap into an agreement
with an unfamiliar fund-raising telemarketer.
Dan Shattil, general manager of the Daily
Nebraskan, said that an accumulation of un
paid bills by a few people advertising for tele
marketers in the University of Nebraska-Lin
coln student newspaper alerted him to some
?[uestionable practices ol a few telemarketing
irms.
By contacting some of the charitable or
ganizations that hired the firms to direct their
fund-raising drives, Shattil said he discovered
that he was not the only one who had experi
enced difficulties with the few companies.
The few, individual firms in question were
hired by charitable organizations to direct a
telephone fund-raising campaign. The firms
would offer some sort of incentive to the pub
lic, such as a dining-out coupon book, in return
for a donation to a charitable organization.
The Lincoln Optimist Club, a charitable
organization that focuses on providing oppor
tunities for children, was one of the non-profit
organizations that had problems with a tele
marketing campaign.
But Russ Bayer, former president of the
club, said his organization’s conflict centered
not on the national fund-raising firm that it
hired, called Network International, but on the
individual hired by the firm to direct its Lin
coin effort.
“The funds were being collected and appro
priately deposited,” Bayer said, “but then the
item that was supposed to be delivered was
not.”
Bayer said he ended up filling his garage
with about 2,000 coupon books, and every time
a complaint over an undelivered book came in,
he had to send one out.
Bayer added that some of the workers, mostly
college students, complained that they hadn’t
been paid according to their agreement with
the individual.
David Peace, current president of the club,
said it was still using Network International for
fund-raising, but that a new individual was
directing the effort — this time quite success
fully.
Lincoln Zehr, president of the Children’s
Heart Foundation in Lincoln, said the founda
tion contracted with a firm called CSI Publish
ing and was going to raise funds through sales
of a coupon book as well. When sales didn’t go
as planned, the firm wanted to put on a concert
to raise money instead.
The foundation would not agree to the
changes, Zehr said, so the contract was dis
solved.
Both Bayer and Zehr said that people who
are contacted by an unfamiliar telemarketing
firm should check with Lincoln's Better Busi
ness Bureau for ihcirrecord. Any contributions
they make should be checks written out to the
charitable organization rather than the fund
raiser.
Students considering applying for a tele
marketing job and charitable groups should ask
for and check references, and have all terms of
the contract spelled out before entering an
agreement.
NU regents to consider bid for CB A addition
By Roger Price
Staff Reporter
The NU Board of Regents will
consider at its Saturday meet
ing a S4.88 million bid from
Builders Inc., for the construction of
the addition to the College of Busi
ness Administration.
Joe Rowson, director of public
affairs for the University of Nebraska
system, said the CBA bid was about
$500,(XX) less than the board had
Proposed budget for Beadle Center up for approval
expected.
Construction on the 45,000-square -
foot addition is expected to begin
early next year and should be com
pleted by June 1993.
The board also will be asked to
approve a reduced construction budget
for the George W. Beadle Center at
19th and Vine streets. About $2 mil
lion had to be eliminated from the
budget because of funding shortfalls.
To accommo
date the shortfall,
the equipment
budgets for the
center and neigh
boring green
houses will be re
duced. The pro
posed budget for the project is now
$31.3 million, with $21.9 million
coming from the federal government,
$6.5 million from the state and $2.9
million from UNL and private sources.
Construction on the center is sched
uled to begin in July 1992.
In personnel matters, the board
will be asked to approve the appoint
mentofSandraSpanicrto the English
department as an associate professor
and the reassignment of Brad Munn
as affirmative aclion/equal opportu
nity officer.
The appointment to the advertis
ing department as an associate pro
fessor and the changing of the title of
Michael Mulnix, public relations di
rector, to executive director of uni
versity relations, also will be consid
ered for approval.
The regents also will be asked to
approve the new revised phase fac
ulty retirement program.
Budget talks move to Miami
Decisions on cuts
decorate holidays
By Adeana Leftin
Senior Reporter
Administrators hope to use the Univer
sity of Nebraska-Lincoln’s winter break
to make some final decisions on what
budget cuts will be presented in January to the
INU Board of Regents, an
official said Thursday.
Herb Howe, associate to
the chancellor, said admin
istrators have planned sev
eral meetings on budget cuts
during their stay in Miami
for the Orange Bowl.
“It will be a good opportunity to get a lot of
work done," he said. “No calls ... no crisis."
Also, on Dec. 19, UNL Chancellor Graham
Spanier will meet with the Academic Planning
Committee to discuss both its recommenda
tions and where he can come up with an addi
tional $1.7 to $2 million in cuts.
Two weeks ago, the APC sent its recom
mendations totalling $930,000 in cuts to City
Campus programs to Spanicr. For the past three
months, the APC and the Budget Reduction
Review Committee have been reviewing areas
for budget cuts mandated last spring by the
Nebraska Legislature.
The Legislature ordered that UNL cut 2
percent from this year’s budget and 1 percent
next year.
Because the recommendations forwarded
by the APC fell short of the required 2 percent,
Spanier must decide the areas for the rest of the
cuts.
Spanicr has been meeting with college deans,
vice chancellors and his cabinet to develop
some different scenarios, Howe said.
Butafinaldecision,Howesaid,is“tentative
and up in the air right now.”
Howe said Spanier hopes to present his cut
recommendations to the NU Board of Regents
at its January meeting. He said he expects
Spanier to announce his proposals shortly be
fore that meeting.
Correction: In a story about a proposed dass on
cultural diversity published in Monday's paper John
Harris, special assistant to the vice chancellor tor
student affairs, was misquoted Harris said the pro
posed class would not be mandatory. The Daily
Nebraskan regrets the error _
Volleyball team reaches
for the beach.
See supplement
Economic growth expected to be slug
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1991 musical hits rated. Page 10
INDEX
Wire 2
Opinion 4
Sports 7
A&E 9
Classifieds 11
Committee
concentrating
on minority
candidates
By Wendy Mott
Staff Reporter
Search efforts for senior vice chancellor
for academic affairs will concentrate on
finding qualified minority and female
candidates, a UNL official said Thursday.
Herbert Howe, associate to the chancellor,
said UNL Chancellor Graham Spanicr sent
letters to land-grant institutions asking for nomi
nations, especially those of women and minor
ity candidates, to fill the newly created posi
tion.
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