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Students march to the Capitol Tuesday afternoon to protest the Legislature’s proposed 5 percent budget cut to the
University of Nebraska. About 150 students attended the march.
Students protest NU budget cuts H
Some miss class
to express views
in Capitol march
By Jeff Zeleny
Senior Reporter
LeAnne West is concerned
about her future at the Uni
versity of Nebraska-Lin
coln.
jor, said students rarely get an op
portunity to voice their opinions to
lawmakers. When they do, many
students should take advantage of
the opportunity.
Tuesday, West and every stu
dent in the NU system were given
that opportunity in a Government
Liaison Committee rally protest
ing proposed budget cuts by the
Legislature’s Appropriations Com
mittee.
“This is the
only chance
students have,”
t said.
is our
chance to
iget down
(here). We
I need to show
we won’t stand for it anymore.”
About 150 students marched
from Broyhill Plaza through Cen
tennial Mall to the north steps of
the State Capitol, where a rally was
held before the Appropriations
Committee heard testimony on
$13.98 million of proposed NU
cuts.
Sen. Dave Landis of Lincoln
told the marchers the future of the
NU system must be on everyone’s
mind.
“I worry about not just the per
son today, but I worry about people
tomorrow, (the) next decade and
next century,” Landis said. “The
university is key for making our
selves well for the future.”
Landis earned his graduate and
law degrees from UNL, and said he
understands the frustration students
face.
“I know what it’s like to be in
your fourth year and you can’t get
your degree,” he said.
“You can’t chop down the trees
and harvest them now, it ruins the
future,” he said. “You have to let it
go and prosper for the future.”
Westand her friend, Kim Kalhol,
missed class to attend the rally.
Kalhol, an undeclared freshman,
said she was disappointed more
students didn’t attend the rally.
“It would have made a bigger
effect,” she said. "It affects every
student.”
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Cold wind
greets NU
appeals
at hearing
By Chuck Green
Senior Reporter
As University of Nebraska at
Kearney Chancellor Wil
liam Nester addressed the
Legislature’s Appropriation’s Com
mittee Tuesday, a chilly wind blew
through Room 1520 at the State Capi
tol.
The breeze, coming through the
open windows in the room, caught the
curtains and nearly toppled the Ne
— braska state flag
I lo the floor.
It was an ce
ric foreshadow
ing of the day’s
' testimony.
For almost
seven hours, the
* nine-member
LEGISLATURE ‘JS*
stale budget, heard pleas from Uni
versity of Nebraska administrators,
faculty, staff and students to avoid
what would be the fourth budget cut
targeted at the university in two years.
Most of those who testified said
further cuts from NU’s budget would
endanger its survival, and the survival
of the state.
The Appropriations Committee
announced in January thaialmost $ 14
million would have to be shaved from
NU’s budget in the next two years.
In the last two years, SI2.1 million
has been cut from the university’s
budget.
Andrew Sigerson, AS UN president
and the student regent from the Uni
versity of Ncbraska-Lincoln, said the
entire state would suffer from further
cuts at NU.
“It’s not just dollar figures you’re
cutting, it’s people,” he said. “If stu
dents leave the state to become doc
tors, lawyers, or whatever, it’s not
like they’re going to come back when
they’re finished with school. They’re
going to stay wherever the arc at the
time.”
Sigerson said he was “angry, frus
trated and nervous” when he heard
there would be further cuts.
“Every year, we come down here
to fight for money we think is neces
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Academic Senate members split on possible tobacco ban
East Campus classes,
facilities renovation
discussed at meeting
By Angie Brunkow
Staff Reporter
Academic Senate members had mixed
reactions Tuesday to a possible pro
posal to ban tobacco products entirely
on campus.
Jack Goebel, vice chancellor for business
and finance, had asked senators to give him
direction for developing the policy.
Goebel said several
groups had requested the ban.
“There seems to be little
sympathy for any variation
from that theme," he said.
Janet Hanna, an extension
S EN ATE rcprcMtiiaiivc from Burwcll,
xv>*.> said the university, one of
Nebraska’s largest employers, was in a position
to set an important precedent for the rest of the
state by implementing the ban.
“The university can act as an excellent role
model,” she said.
ButRoycc Ballinger, biological science sena
tor, said banning all tobacco products from the
university was illogical. Smoking is the only
way tobacco products can adversely affect
those besides the smoker, he said.
Chewing tobacco does not harm anyone but
the user, he said.
“Where do you draw the line?” Ballinger
said.
Jack Siegman, sociology senator, said
chewing tobacco should be banned because it
was unclean.
Don Jensen, psychology senator, said the
smoking ban should be flexible, allowing smok
ers to smoke in rooms with separate ventilation
systems.
In other business, Goebel Said the list of
candidates for a University of Nebraska-Lin
coin recycling coordinator had been narrowed
to three.
Goebel said the university had been “waf
fling” for many years about how to deal with
recycling, but progress was being made with
the appointment of the coordinator.
“While it’s a very slow process, it’s a pro
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VOICE emerges as ASUN campaign’s big spender
Proposed budget
five times higher
than PARTY'S
By Jeffrey Robb
Staff Reporter "*•-_
Which studenteloction group
wins the race for ASUN
will be decided today, but
the spending race, at least, already has
i
v, .•
been won.
VOICE trca
ASUN surer Kelly
n—l-1 Archuleua said her
-— party would spend
about$2,500onthis
Year’s campaign.
it amount is five
limes as much as
the $500 PARTY treasurer Andrew
Peshek said his group would spend.
VOICE’S spending on work-party
supplies alone, such as refreshments,
plates and napkins, was at least $ 150,
according to ASUN campaign finan
cial records.
Senatorial candidates under the
VOICE banner each contributed $35,
and VOICE advisory board candi
dates paid $25, according to the
records. As of Feb. 26, these fees had
added up to about $1,000.
Keith Benes, VOICE presidential
candidate, contributed $400. Second
Vice-Presidential candidate Jill
Anderson chipped in $250.
On Tuesday, VOICE’S bank ac
count was in debt $422, but Archulctta
said the group soon would make a
deposit to cover the amount,
y According to records, PARTY sup
porters contributed only $477 to cam
paign funds. PARTY presidential
hopeful Steve Dietz said it was sug
gested that senatorial candidates in
nis group contribute $10 each, but as
of Feb. 26 only two had paid.
Dietz said he wished PARTY had
had a budget as high as VOICE’S to
work with.
“I could have done some things
that I would have liked to have done
if only I had more money," he said.
Dietz said his limited funding was
frustrating, but he didn’t want this
year’s race to turn into a spending
spree.
He said he heard of past campaigns
where more than $7,000 was spent.
But he said the message PARTY could
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