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Cuts Continued from Page 1 could do long-term damage to the quality of the curriculum. “It’s a problem that would affect us immediately and in the years to come,” he said. Despite the cuts the college has made, Peters said more budget reduc tions seemed inevitable. “We* ve done all we can in terms of efficiency,” he said. “If we have to go into drastic planning now, I don’t know if we could find an acceptable plan.” Stan Liberty, the dean of the Col lege of Engineering and Technology, said his college could not absorb a 5 percent cut as well as some of the larger colleges on campus. Unlike arts and sciences, Liberty said, the engineering school couldn’t afford to combine course sections and sacrifice the quality of the curricu lum. “A lot of our sections are one sec tion only,” Liberty said. “We don’t have the option of combining sections like some bigger colleges do.” He said getting rid of selected re 1—" 1 mm—mmmmmmmmm—mmmmm search projects would probably suffer first if the budgetcuts passed. “There’s simply no way to accept budgetcuts in the engineering college except through project elimination— we won’terode quality,” Liberty said. Liberty said the choice to elimi nate some research projects was a difficult one to make, but it was the necessary one. “In our case, it’s not that I adhere to program elimination; it’s just that it’d be the only way to absorb the cuts,” he said. “Any time a program is eliminated at UNL, it’s pretty trau matic.” Liberty said the 1.5 percent cut passed by last year’s Legislature led to a $200,000 decrease in the engi neering school’s budget. “We’re trying tadcal with that cut right now,” he said. “We’re running on red ink as it is. Thecuts from before are still bothering us — and there’s still more to come.” Inevitably, UNL will suffer when it tries to compete nationally for top professors, Liberty said. “When you cut (the budget) in engineering, you cut f rst in research,” Liberty said. rThen that leads to prob lems with faculty recruitment and fac ulty retention.” Sally Wise, president of UNL’s Academic Senate, agreed. Wise said UNL would suffer long term damage because of the potential loss of quality professors. “We try to recruit nationally (for faculty), and we’re always trying for the best when we recruit,” Wise said. “When we lose faculty, we’re losing them to other universities — ulti mately, the UNL student loses out” Wise will either speak or select a speaker to address the Legislature’s Appropriation Committee budget hearing Tuesday. Amongothers sched uled to speak are Regents John Payne and Charles Wilson, NU President Martin Massengale and UNL Chan cellor Graham Spanier. “We want to get the message to the committee that the university is a Nebraska treasure,” Wise said. MAKE MY DAY! WE WLL ON MARCH ttTH NEBRASKA UMON CITY CAMPUS, ROOM # POSTED at 7:00 pm SUMMER job Big Eight Continued from Page 1 cuts would be handled using across the-board procedures. The other 1 percent, he said, will be accounted for with a 5 percent tuition increase. Dowen said OSU’s budget prob lems were because of poor national economic conditions and “a general disenchantment with higher educa tion" in the state. “The public will not stand for tax increases to fund higher education," Dowen said. “It is not a high priority.” In contrast, ISU President Martin Jischke said that historically there had been a high commitment to education in Iowa. The relatively positive eco nomic conditions in his state accounted for ISU’s expected budget increase. Jischke said he expected increased funding for wages, library systems and research projects. John Struve, Kansas State University’s budget director, said KSU also was expecting increased appro priations of 3.5 percent for operating expenditures and 2.5 percent for wages. Struve said he thoughtoverall sup port for higher education in Kansas was high, but that the appropriations to the university by the legislature reflected the state’s lagging economy. 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