Student lobbyists plan no break
By Jan Calinger
Staff Reporter
The ASUN Government Liai
son Committee will keep lobbying
" against budget
cuts over the
summer,
Chairman An
drew Loudon
said at a press
conference
Sunday.
“We wish
to ensure stu
dents that even though they will be
on vacation, their student lobbyists
at the Unicameral will be hard at
work all summer,” he said.
Loudon said GLC, the student
lobbying group for the Association
of Students at the University of
Nebraska, had already begun to
speak with members of the
Legislature’s Appropriations Com
mittee.
Loudon said GLC warned to
start its lobbying early in order to
avoid communication problems and
start a rapport with members of the
committee.
Loudon said one obstacle GLC
faced was its demand for fewer
budget cuts for the University of
Nebraska without possible ideas
for cuts elsewhere.
“I understand the difficult posi
tions the members of the Appro
priations Committee are in,” he
said. “However, it’s notour job to
find out where the cuts are going to
be made.”
Loudon said GLC did notadvo
cate a tax increase for Nebraskans
in lieu of budget cuts, but instead
preferred to have NU budget money
come out of other slate expendi
tures.
“This office won’t go on record
as being for higher taxes,” he said.
“I do think, however, that there’s a
lot of fat in government.
“If the Slate of Nebraska wants
a quality education for its students
coming out of high school, then we
have to stop culling the university
and start cutting other areasof state
government”
Loudon also said GLC didn’t
advocate a tuition increase for NU
students.
“I hear rumors of tuition in
creases of up to seven percent in
the next year, and that’s scary. I
think we’ve got to fight to keep
tuition low.”
Loudon said GLC would con
tinue to talk to Appropriations
members until the Legislature re
cesses in the beginning of June.
“ASUN’s Government Liaison
Committee will be fighting for the
interests of students while they arc
busy with ... the hustle and bustle
of summer.”
Art
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tween S100,000 and $125,000.
Ncubcrt said Ncri was an internation
ally prominent sculptor working with
marble and bronw. Ncri lives in Cali
fornia near San Francisco.
Ncuberl said the Sheldon Art Gal
lery would further improve the out
door collection by placing large la
bels near each sculpture.
The labels will include the
sculpture’s title, date and medium.
The labels also will include an en
larged autograph of the artist.
The outdoor sculptures, which have
developed a national and international
reputation,arc becoming a focal point
of the Sheldon gallcryrs collection,
Neubert said.
Despite the grumblings and criti
cisms of some students and faculty, he
said, people arc drawn to U NL just to
see the sculpture garden, which con
tains many pieces by prominent art
ists.
“With all this new emphasis on
sculpture, we arc programming the
outdoor collection to the forefront,”
Ncubert said.
He said the staff at Sheldon was
working on a tour map that would
show visitors how to find each piece
on campus.
He said part of the sculpture
collection’s success was a result of
the work and care of Landscape Ser
vices.
“They’ve been great partners,”
Ncubert said.
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Nebraska's newest Wal-Mart, 27lh
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Roland Mcirosc, store manager,
said he expected business from col
lege students to make up a sizeable
part of sales, especially because the
store was fairly close to the Univer
sity of Nebraska-Lincoln campus.
Barb Jastcr is one of several UNL
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Theatre
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“Al the moment, it’s loo early to
tell how it will affect graduate stu
dents,” he said. “I would guess they
will be trimmed slightly.”
The University of Ncbraska-Lin
coln is the only college in the state that
offers a Masters of Fine Arts degree,
Miller said, so the program couldn’t
be cut too severely.
An additional $7 million cut is
looming over the entire NU system,
with $3.5 million being targeted for
UNL. The Appropriations Commit
tee is expected to present the entire
budget plan to the full Legislature this
week.
If those cuts arc passed, it would
spel 1 d i sastcr for the theatre and dance
department. Miller said.
‘‘If future budget cuts come down
it will have a major impact,” he said.
“One of our programs will go by the
wayside. Thcrcrs no other way of
handling it.”
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