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Regents approve NU budget increase By Stacie Hakel Staff Reporter The Universily of Nebraska’s bud get rose to a new height at the NU Board of Regents meeting last Satur day in Grand Island. The spending plan for 1993-1994 will increase by 3.2 percent,orS31 million, as ap proved by the re gents. The new budget for 1993 94 is $985.49 mil lion, up from 1992-93’s allotted Figure of $954.5 million. NU Regent Don Blank of McCook said the money provided would even out. “It’s called a budget increase, but there arc so many ongoing things, like inflation, that it is really a budget decrease,” Blank said. “I was pleased the Legislature could give us the dol lars they gave us.” Regent Margaret Robinson of Nor folk said she had mixed feelings about the budget increase." “If it results in better education, the student to gel classes... I guess I would have to abstain from being judgmental and see what the year brings,” Robinson said. Regent Rosemary Skrupa of Oma ha took a different approach to the budget increase. "The issue that I look with was with so many of the lab fees,” Skrupa said. “It’s just another way of increas ing tuition. The justification was that they had not raised any lab fees for 10 years. "I hope that it wouldn’t gel to an. extent where it would drive a student away from a* course,” she said. "I thought it was the idea for students to make it easy to go to school, not as expensive.” Revenue from tuition will increase 7.5 percent to $78.38 million, and the revenue would come from a previous ly approved five percent tuition in crease. Twenty-nine percent of the NU budget that is stale funding will in crease 1.3 percent, from $290.9 to $294.7 million. Robinson said the tuition increase was not a surprise. “There was a small increase,” Robinson said. “We try to put those off as long as we possibly can but there’s sometimes when we have to face the music. I hope it’s not a hard ship on anyone. I don’t know how you fignt the fact that costs have gone up everywhere.” Stemming from the budget, the subject of resident tuition was dis cussed. The regents agreed that the governance committee should do a study on out-of-state tuition. Blank said the University of Ne braska docs not have resident tuition. “We say we have an in-state and an out-of-state tuition, but we really don’t,” Blank said. “We have people that attend graduate school here with intentions of becoming a Nebraska resident, and after four years they leave. ’Taxpayers should not have to sub sidize this. A student that comes from another state should pay out-of-state tuition. In-state and out-of-state lu E-Mail soon available to students By Mindy Letter Staff Reporter This fall, undergraduates will use a system that only graduate students had previously been able to enjoy at UNL. Students will be able to purchase electronic mail account as a way to communicate to professors, and each other, said Doug Gale, director of computing resources at the Universi ty of Nebraska-Lincoln. Electronic mail, or E-Mail, has been successfully used by graduate students and in selected undergradu ate classes as a way for students to communicate with instructors. Gale said. An E-mail user would use Husker net, UNL’s computer network, through a microcomputer on campus or through any computer system equipped with a modem. Tnc student is then able to access their professor’s message board through Huskcr-nct and leave an elec tronic mail message. Doug Gale said E-mail can be a handier way for students with busy schedules to reach professors because they arc able to leave a message any lime of day or night. MIf you haven'i used it, then I really can ’l describe how powerful a means of communication it really is,” he said. “Students use it on other campuses to submit homework and gel respons es and comment from professors,” AUDITIONS!! MONDAY & TUESDAY JULY 26th & 27th 1:00 P.M. JOYO THEATER-6102 HAVELOCK AVE LINCOLN, NEBRASKA •Students/Adults Needed - Everyone is Welcome!! •An original musical comedy about early N.U. football •A Hit show in Omaha last winter - now coming to Lincoln •Show opens Sept 2nd for a 5 week run - 4 nights a week •There is pay for actors •Rehearse afternoons 1 -5 p.m. for 5 weeks •Prepare 16 measures of an uptempo song •Accompanist provided •For further information contact Doug Kinney at 488-6186 Gale said. “I am working on a manu script with other people and we send copies back and forth with comments which we incorporate for the next draft.” Gale said UNL was still working out the details of how to incorporate the use of E-mail on a wider scale. He said the university is trying to come up with a solution that would allow the electronic mail system to grow as E-mail became more popu lar, without taking money away from other computer systems. “It’s easy to set up an E-mail sys tem with just 300-400 users — it’s another thing if 10,000-20,000 peo ple become interested in E-mail,” he said. “We don’t have enough comput er systems on campus for that kind of No Appointments Necessary 476-9466 i *6°° Off i ■ Full Service Oil Change ■ ■ £ @> dt) * *18 | *We change oil. oil filter up to 5 quart* | *We lubricate the chassis I 'We check and fill: Transmission fluid, I ■ brake fluid, battery fluid, power steering I fluid, and washer fluid | * We check anti freeze, air filter, wiper | ■ blades, tire pressure, vaouum interior, ■ and wash your windows Best Service In | Just 10 Minutes | Moat brands available Expires 9-30-93 ,_MprvFriS-^Sa^SJ^ _ ition, break down, is a sham; I have no problem with people coming here for school, but the law needs some sub stance to it” In other business Saturday: •The regents approved the appoint ment of Gladys Styles Johnston, pro vost at DePaul University in Chicago as the new chancellor at the Universi ty of Nebraska at Kearney and vice president of the University of Nebras “I think she’s an outstanding selec tion ” Skrupa said. “She’s humorous, but a no-nonsense administrator. She has taught secondary school so she knows the ropes from the ground up. If you knew her, you would automat ically like her.” Johnston will succeed William Ncsler on Aug. 1. . #A policy allowing the vice chan cellor for business and finance on campus to approve contracts with sporting good manufacturers or vend ers was approved by the board. The contracts will allow coaches to receive money for product endorse mcnts, the university to receive free shoes or equipment from the manu facturer and the manufacturer to re ceive increased exposure of thei r prod ucts when they arc used by university athletic teams. •The regents approved Dr. Harold Maurer as the dean of the College of Medicine. Maurer will become dean on Ocl 1. “He’s not a job jumper,” Skrupa said. “For 20ycars he has been at the University of Virginia, which means he is loyal. We need loyalty and lon gevity in that position.” •A nationwide search will be con ducted to replace John Peters, dean of the UNL College of Arts and Scienc es. Stephen S. Hilliard, chair of the UNL English Department, was rec ommended to serve as interim chair starting Aug. 1. Peters had been the dean of the college since 1989. He was recently name vice chancellor for academic affairs at the University of Tennes see-Knoxvillc. interest.” Gale said UNL might defray the cost of E-mail by charging students who want the account a small fee. That way. he said, the university Do*) 8«dd«frf>fr would be able to purchase more need ed systems and modems as E-mail caught on. ,rIn most places. E-mail has caught on like wildfire,” he said. Storm Continued from Page 1 Insurance will cover all expenses ex cept tree damage, be said. “Obviously you don’t loose that many trees without having an im pact," Smith said. As the storm moved eastward, it left many Nebraska cities with no power arid severe damages. Lincoln was hit hard by the storm, but destruction to the University of Ncbraska-Lincoln campus was limit ed to trees, said Bud Dascnbrock, director of landscape services. “We completely lost 12 trees at this point that we know about," he said. Dascnbrock said that the biggest tree that fell was cast of Mantor Hall on City Campus, and that East Cam pus also had tree loss, but wasn’t as severe. “East Campus has more big trees, but city campus has more big build ings that cause more wind tunnels," he said. Omaha also received storm dam age as the storm continued to move cast late last Thursday night, but the University of Nebraska at Omaha re ported minor tree damage. A two-root maple tree was dam aged by the UNO tennis courts, said Neil Morgensen, UNO director of fa cilities management. “We were very lucky,** he said. Residents in 51 Nebraska counties were not as lucky. 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