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Interviews to help
decide budget cuts
Spanier speaks
to college deans,
vice chancellors
By Susie Arth
Senior Reporter
UNL Chancellor Graham
Spanier and his cabinet are in
the process of interviewing
college deans and vice chancellors to
determine where to lower the ax for
budget cuts.
Herb Howe, associate to the chan
cellor, said Spanier had completed
m more than half of
BUDGET his interviews.
“We are at
tempting to give
Q the cabinet an un
w derstanding of
what each of the
colleges and each
of the vice chancellors offices arc all
about,” Howp said.
“We sit down and see what needs
to be strengthened and ask ‘If you had
to take a cut, where woujd you take it
from?’” $
Upon completion of the interviews,
Howe said, the chancellor and his
cabinet will makedecisionsas to where
the cuts will be taken.
Randal Haack, director of budgets
and analysis, said the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln had absorbed about
a $3.4 million budget cut in the past
year. The university system as a whole,
which includes the University of Ne
braska at Omaha, the University of
Nebraska at Kearney, the University
of Nebraska Medical Center and UNL,
has swallowed a $6.9 million reduc
tion in the past year, he said.
Haack said he intended to issue a
report to Spanier in December of his
recommendations on how to phase
the cuts into the permanent budget.
Some of the cuts would be tempo
rary, he said, while others gradually
would be phased into the final, per
manent budget.
See BUDGET on 3
Admissions standards
hearings to begin today
By Corey Russman
Staff Reporter
A second scries of public hear
ings to discuss proposed
changes in admissions stan
dards for three of the lour University
of Nebraska campuses starts today in
Nebraska City.
University officials are using the
hearings to explain the proposed
changes and to gain input from the
public, said Joe Rowson, director of
public affairs.
Rowson said the first set of hear
ings, which took place Nov. 18-20,
was successful. Tcachcfs, counsel
ors, parents and school board mem
bers attended |hc meetings, he said.
Rowson said the input received
from the hearings showed a general
support for the proposed changes, but
there still were issues that needed to
be considered.
For example, Rowson said, con
cerns were raised as to whether el
ementary and high schools would be
able to accommodate changes in ad
missions standards at the University
of Nebraska-Lin'coln, the University
of Nebraska at Omaha and the Uni
versity of Nebraska at Kearney.
“Some individuals feel it is the
wrong way to go,” he said.
After the hearings, Rowson said,
the proposed ad m i ssion s sta ndard swill
go to the NU Board of Regents for
review December 12. The new stan
dards would take effect in the fall of
1997.
The proposed changes in admis
sions standards would require stu
dents to complete 16 core courses in
high school to be admitted to an NU
campus.
The new core would include four
years of English, three years of math
ematics, natural sciences and social
sciences, two years of study in one
foreign language and one additional
course.
Students applying to UNL would
have to fulfill the additional require
ments with an algebra-related math
course. Applicants to the two other
campuses could fill the requirement
See ADMISSIONS on 3
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Wind sprints
Kelly Daley, a freshman pre-veterinarian major, jogs through the melting snow on a
windy, but warm, Tuesday afternoon.
Bike thieves target academic halls, official says
60 bicycles taken
so far this year
By Steve Smith
Staff Raportar_
niversityofNebraska-Lincoln
students who ride their bikes
to class had better beware;
their main mode of transportation may
be snatched from under their noses.
UNL police Sgt. Mylo Bushing
said bikes that had been stolen on
campus usually were nabbed from
outside academic halls, and not near
residence halls as many people
thought.
During the fall semester, Bushing
said, 61 percent of bikes reported
stolen were taken from academic
buildings such as Avery and Andrews
halls.
Only 39 percent of the bikes were
taken from residence halls, such as
the Harpcr-Schramm-Smith and
Cathcr-Pound complexes,or fraterni
ties and sororities, he said.
Although bikes arc left for short
periods of lime outside academic halls,
Bushing said, they arc hit the hardest
because their owners arc in class.
“It docsn’t take very long for some
one who has been doing this for a
while and who is carrying a pair of
wire cutters in a backpack to swoop
down and lake a bike while everyone ’ s
in class,” he said. “It’s not as if the
students arc leaving these bikes there
for long periods of lime.”
Students living in residence halls
arc less likely to get their bikes stolen
because they take them to their rooms,
Bushing said.
“Normally, though, they can’t lake
their bikes to class,” he said.
Time of day hasn’t played a big
_ part in the thefts either, Bushing said.
Reports of stolen bikes have come in
at all hours of the day.
He said about 60 bikes had been
stolen since August — the average
number of bike thefts compared to
other semesters. But Bushing said he
could remember semesters during
which more than 100 bikes were taken.
The best way to prevent bike theft
is to use a good lock, Bushing said.
“Some students will spend $1,200
to $ 1,400 on a bicycle, but not invest
in a good lock,” he said. “The idea is
to get a good lock so you’re not just
saying, ‘Here, just take it.’”
A U-lock, or a thick lock that sus
pends the movement of tires, makes it
more difficult to steal a bike than a
conventional lock that simply attaches
a bike to a rack or pole, Bushing said.
Students also neglect to copy their
bike’s serial numbers so they arc able
to identify it once it is recovered,
Bushing said.
Other identification is acceptable,
he said. The UNL Police Department
offers a system called Operation ID,
which involves engraving a code onto
the bicycle and registering it with
police. Interested bike-owners can
contact the police department for more
information.
Source: UNL Police Department
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