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NU preparing to lobby
against budget slashing
By Susie Arth
Senior Reporter_
The Nebraska Legislature will meet in a
special session to consider budget cuts
this week, and NU lobbying groups will
be prepared to fight for their funds.
Joe Rowson, director of public affairs at the
University of Nebraska, said the university
would prepare testimony outlining the reper
cussions the budget cuts
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The Legislature made it
clear that the cuts must be
made, Rowson said, but he hoped they would
not be harsh.
“We’re going to present our situation and
hope the Legislature will deal with us as fairly
as they can,” he said. *
Jennifer Lodes, chairman of the Association
of Students at the University of Nebraska Gov
ernment Liaison Committee, said the commit
tee would be at the hearings and ready to lobby
if the university was hit loo hard.
The operations budget is the one the com
mittee is most concerned with, she said.
A cut in the capital construction budget, she
said, would be easier to take because that would
inhibit only future projects and leave present
programs unharmed.
“(Cuts in the operations budget) would hurt
the most because it would affect us now, at the
present,” she said.
Lodes said GLC was sending copies of an
Omaha World-Herald editorial (“Cutting N.U.
a Lost Investment,” Sept. 16,1992) to senators
and expressing its agreement with thccdilorial,
which warns against cutting the operations
budget.
Sen. Scott Moore of Seward, Appropriations
Committee chairman, said the committee had
proposed similar cuts to those suggested by
Gov. Ben Nelson, who proposed culling $4.3
million from NU over the next three years.
The differences, he said, were that the com
mittee suggested going ahead with construc
tion projects at the Omaha, Kearney and medi
cal center campuses to take advantage of low
interest rales. Nelson had proposed delaying
the capital construction projects for two years,
he said.
Also, the Appropriations Committee sug
gested cutting an^dditional S250,0(X) from
NU’s energy budget.
“With our unusually mild summer and win
ter,” he said, “there should be a big chunk of
change in that fund.”
Moore said he could remember years when
S2 million to $3 million was left over in the
energy fund.
Moore said the Legislature was expecting to
address objections to the NU cuts at a public
hearing 10:30 a.m. Wednesday.
Sen. Ron Wilhem of Papillion, chairman of
the Education Committee, said he thought the
stale was facing an unfortunate situation, but
that the university was taking its fair share of
cuts.
“The impression I have is that (the budget
cuts) arc unfair to everyone,” he said. “I don’t
feel like they arc singling out higher educa
tion.”
Group wants clarification
of ROTC policy in bulletin
By Shelley Biggs
Senior Reporter
Members of the Homophobia Aware
ness Committee arc working with uni
versity officials to clarify in UNL’s
Undergraduate Bulletin the ROTC policy ban
ning homosexuals.
Barbara DiBcmard, chairwoman of the com
mittcc and director of women’s studies at the
University of Nebraska-Lincoln, said the com
mittee was asking that a passage be included in
the bulletin to inform students of ROTC’s ban
and of the possible penalties of enlisting as a
homosexual.
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When students sign up for the program, they
must fill out a questionnaire that asks several
personal questions, including one concerning
their sexual preference.
Legal actions can be brought against stu
dents if ROTC can prove that they lied about
their sexual preference when they filled out the
questionnaire, DiBcmard said.
Under ROTC’s policy, students who arc
proved to be homosexuals after their second
year in ROTC can be asked to withdraw and
repay the money they used from their scholar
ships lor tuition and books, she said. If scholar
ship students arc proved to be homosexuals
before their second year in ROTC, they will be
asked to withdraw, but won’t be required to pay
back the scholarship money, DiBemard said.
Non-scholarship students proved to be ho
mosexuals will be asked to withdraw, she said.
“If a student is on scholarship, it is more
complicated from their point of view,” she said.
Herb Howe, associate to the UNL chancel
lor, said he met with the Homophobia Aware
ness Committee last spring and discussed the
issue this summer with ROTC’s three units —
Army, Navy and Air Force.
Howe said the committee was concerned
with the degree to which the U.S. Department
of Defense was in forming people of its policies.
He said he agreed that it would be helpful to
have a clarification printed in the Undergradu
ate Bulletin that informed students of all ROTC
policies, not just the ban on homosexuals. Other
ROTC qualifications center on age, physical
characteristics and political beliefs.
Howe said nothing could be done at the
university to change ROTC’s policy banning
homosexuals.
“It’s a national policy which will have to
change in Washington before it changes in
Lincoln,” he said.
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Peter Bleed, a UNL anthropology professor, peers through a piece of
cast-iron pipe recovered from the old rear wing of the Kennara House.
The pipe is a remnant of early 1900s plumbing.
Dirty work
Field school uncovers treasures
By Matthew Grant
Staff Reporter
Visitors to the Kcnnard House mu
seum this fall will not notice the
eight weeks of strenuous excavat
ing done by UNL students over the summer.
The students, who participated in an ar
cheological field school, filled in all the
trenches during the last two days of the dig.
“It is sort of melancholy filling in pits
after you dig them,” said Peter Bleed, UNL
professor of anthropology and project coor
dinator, “but on the other hand it’s a kind of
natural progression.”
Built in 1869, the Kcnnard House at 1627
H St. is the oldest standing building in the
original Lincoln plat and was the home of
Thomas P. Kennard, Nebraska’s first secre
tary of stale. It is now a Nebraska Statehood
Memorial.
The rear section of the building was lorn
down in 1923. The remainder of the house
has been a museum since 1960. It was
reconstructed to look like it did in the 1870s,
complete with furnishings of that period.
The aim of the field school excavation
was to determine the layout of the rear wing
of the Kennard House, Bleed said, and to
give the 18 students involved a chance to
cam credits — and experience.
The ultimate aim, he said, is to rccon
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Campus Safety Week begins
JNL police focus on rape,
:heft and alcohol awareness
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By Matthew Grant
Staff Reporter
Sexual assault will be the prime concern
of the first University of Ncbraska
Lincoln Campus Safety Week, which
3Cgins today and runs through Friday.
UNL police started the event this year to
iducatc students about crime prevention and
safety.
Rape, theft and alcohol abuse arc problems
?n campus that students mustknow more about,
officer Lisa Yardlcy said. Yardley is a crime
prevention officer with the UNL Police Depart
ment.
In the first week of school, three sexual
assaults were reported, Yard ley said, but police
believe many attacks occur that they never hear
about. Rape is the most underreported crime,
she said.
Almost all victims of sexual assault or rape
know their attacker prior to the attack, Yardlcy
said. Attacks by strangers on campus arc rare,
she said.
Anywhere from l-in-3 to 1 -in-8 rapes arc
reported, Yardlcy said.
“That ’ s acquaintanccrape,” site said. “We’re
trying to let people know they do go on.”
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