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Health Center budget reduced by 1 cent By Heather Lampe Staff Reporter After almost two hours of de bate, ASUN reduced the University Health Center’s budget request of $3,031,555 by one cent Wednesday night. The Commit tee for Fees Allo cation originally had recommend $10,204.40 decrease in the health center’s request. Doug Oxley, a senator for grad uate studies, proposed an amend ment to the bill that would grant the health center its original request, but the amendment was voted down. “They go on a basis of what they need, and when they ask for it, they do need it,” Oxldy said. Mark Byars, a senator for gener al studies, again moved to amend the proposed bill, this time only decreasing the health center’s re quest by only one cent. “I think because it was such a close vote, we need to discuss it further... I think we need to distin guish between being fiscally re sponsible and being a tightwad,” Byars said. The amended amount of $3,031,554.99 was passed by a nar row vote of 14-12. Kunle Ojikutu, director of the University Health Center, said the sum the health center requested amounted to an increase of less than one dollar per student, per semester. “All we’re asking for is .89 per cent, which amounts to less than a dollar per student. Now I don’t see any of you being able to buy aspirin for less than that,” Ojikutu said. In other action, ASUN passed an appropriation bill that reduced the Nebraska Union’s budget re quest of $1,71 3,597 to $1,700,266.50. Cuts to the Nebraska Union’s budget were made in the budgets of the Women’s Center and the Of fice for Student Involvement. ASUN passed the Campus Rec reation Center’s requested increase of $62,174 by granting the budget request of $1,730,345 for operat ing costs and $294,564 for repair and improvement costs. The increase in the Campus Recreation Center’s budget will be used to cover costs of an Injury Prevention and Care Coordinator. The coordinator will attend to those injured in Campus Recreation pro grams and facilities. The increase also will be used to pay for the new Super C ircu i t work out equipment, sports clubs such as baseball and hockey, and repair and improvement of Campus Rec reation Facilities. The total Campus Recreation budget equals $35.25 per student, per semester for operating costs and $6 per student, per semester for repair and improvement. Equity Continued from Page 1 Schwendiman continued: “Com mittee W of the AAUP was apparently the avenue chosen for an attack on the College of Business Administration because it would be seen as having more credibility than this outside group.” The AAUP called the memo an insult and said: “The charge that Com mittee W acted as a tool of a conspir acy hatched by an outside group is completely false and an insult to the AAUP.” Leo Sartori, president of the UNL chapter of the AAUP, said Wednes day night the AAUP had been work ing for two years on the report with the administration’s knowledge. Sue Ellen Wall, a member of the Nebraska Women’s Pol itical Network Wednesday called Schwendiman’s charges “ludicrous.” Wall said the network, a group of volunteers championing women’s public policy issues, became involved in helping women faculty in CBA only after the women had taken every avenue to work out the problem within the university system. “This issue came off campus be cause these women had done every thing they could do on campus,” Wall said. Claudia Price-Decker, chairwom an of the Chancellor’s Commission on the Status of Women, said the findings in the Committee W report were similar to complaints women faculty members brought before her committee last year. Price-Decker said women faculty members in the business college were working with the chancellor and other UNL administrators to solve their prob lems. “1 believe that if they continue to work with the administration, I’m sure they will be heard,” Price-Decker said. Sartori said, although the accuracy of the report had been challenged by university officials, he believed its finding were valid. “Discussion with a substantial num ber of women in the college has led me to feel there are serious problems,” Sartori said. The AAUP also said in its state ment it was willing to work with the university to solve its gender-equity problems: “We do not stereotype the College of Business Administration asaden of Neanderthals.... We believe there is a centerofgood sense in the college that recognizes a need for change and is willing to work toward improvement. “We all need to work together to identify constructive steps and then to implement them.” Jazz Continued from Page 1 “Somehow people have the idea that improvising means you can do whatever you want. That’s not the case; there are parameters. “I t’s j ust l ike when you speak. When you have a conversation with some one, you’re improvising. You’re not creating a new language; you’re speak ing English. You have a general sub ject you want to talk about, but you improvise the delivery. It’s spontane ous and comes ofT the top of your head. “That’s the same thing a jazz per former does.” Sharp got up and went to his stereo. He found a tape, Jazzmatazz, and popped it into the tape deck to illus trate his point. “Peace y’all,” a rapper said after a few jazzy blasts from a horn, “and welcome to Jazzmatazz, an experi mental fusion of hip-hop and live jazz “Hip-hop. rap music; it’s real. It’s musical, cultural expression based on reality, and at the same time, jazz is real and based on reality.” “You see,” Sharp said, “there you go. That’s what I mean.” The marriage of these styles of music leaves Sharp optimistic about the future of the jazz industry. He even predicts that swing will be the next dance craze. Only time will tell if his prediction about the future ofjazz is accurate, but the audience at Morgan’s Upstairs seemed to enjoy Sharp’s performance with Spiral. Lincoln resident Miriam Stevens was no exception. She said she came specifreally to hear Spiral because she loved jazz. “Jazz is like tapestry woven over a basic sound.” she said. “The chords are pleasing, the rhythm is pleasing, and it touches on every emotion. Ev erything just weaves in like the threads of a tapestry.” TAN with Us... FREE! TAN at Lincoln's Largest Tanning Salon TODAY, and find out how to begin receiving your FREE tanning sessions!!!!! MAX TAN INC. Located just 5 mins, from City Campus on West 0 St.ln the Westgate Shopping Center Command . A Tan Tan 99< Single Session $19-95 One Month Unlimited Call for other specials located inside the newly remodeled Shear Success 210 Gateway North 467-3625 Student Travel 1-800-777-0112 —S7i The worlds Urgent itudent & youth travel organisation 5TA TRAVEL SPRING BREAK? 20% OFF EYEWEAR With Your Student I.D. 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