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Hopping a freight
Jonathan Cress climbs on “Iron Horse Legacy” during Haymarket
Heydays. The fourth annual celebration provided many people with a
look at Lincoln’s past.
Foundation supplements
university’s finances
By Paula Lavigne
Staff Reporter
and Deb McAdams
Editor
The University of Nebraska recently re
ceived
$266,000 from the Ostdiek family of
Lawrence and a $4 million donation from Ken
“We may be working with a donor and the
donor suggests something to start a fund for a
women’s croquet team,” she said. “We would
talk to the chancellor or dean who may say that’s
not a priority and would send the donation
back.”
She said people were allowed to make their
donation as specific as they desired but they
were encouraged to make it available to as many
ncm aioui, apnysician irom
Bcnkelman. Donations, like
any other financial input,
run through a gamut of pa
perwork, people and pro-'
cesses until they end up ben
efiting the university, its
students, faculty or staff.
Donations arc handled
by the University ofNcbras
ka Foundation, an indepen
dent, non-profit corporation
established in 1936 to pro
vide an avenue for private
individuals and organiza
tions to invest in the univer
sity.
Theresa Klein, director
of public relations and pub
lications at the Foundation,
said the organization was
NU Foundation
Benefits to the University
Source: 1993 University
Foundations Annual Report
Fiscal Year 1992
Student Assistance
Faculty Assistance
Research
Academic Programs
Museum, Library, Fine Arts
Building Improvements
Alumni Associations
Other
$5,240,012
$1,073,690
$921,816
$5,610,795
$896,589
$890,869
$168,000
$12,150
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strictly a donor-driven organization where ev
ery gift was designated by the donor for a
specific purpose.
The Ostdieks designated the money to go
into a scholarship fund for full-time UNL stu
dents who have graduated from rural high
schools in Nebraska.
Part of Stout’s donation will eventually cre
ate Kenneth C. Stout Chair as well as a fund
providing unrestricted support, both for the
School of Biological Sciences. The rest will go
to Nebraska Educational Telecommunications.
Although donors can direct the money to where
they wish it to be applied, they don’t have free
rein. Instead, the endowment funds have to go
to an area of need defined by the president and
chancellors, Klein said.
areas ol need as possible while still satistying
their intent.
Their donation can go towards scholarships,
programs, faculty or colleges in general, she
said. The donation may be unspecified, in which
case it would be directed toward the area of
greatest need.
People within the foundation meet with the
donors and their lawyers to design the best
possible program for both the donor and the
university, she said.
There are three, basic types of donations:
expendable gifts provide funds that arc imme
diately available, endowed gifts are invested to
earn interest, and deferred gifts are usually
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U N L to improve computer labs
tjy Angela jones
Staff Report* _
Students will be seeing a signifi
cant number of improvements
this fall in the public computer
labs across campus, a university offi
cial said.
Doug Gale, director of the Univer
sity of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Comput
ing Resource Center, said their goal
was to upgrade the public labs, mak
ing it easier for students to access
Internet and other tools.
One of the major improvements
will be the addition of 48 Power Macs
to the public labs in Sclleck Quadran
gle and Sandoz Hall, and 19 IBM PC
Clones distributed to various labs.
Gale said the Power Macs were a
new technology that would allow the
students to use both the new software
plus the old IBM and Mac applica
tions.
In addition, Gale said they they
were trying to finish wiring most of
the public labs so that students would
be able to access Internet directly.
Internet is a series of little net
works interconnected by a big back
bone, said Guy Jones, the center’s
director of technical services. “It al
lows students to access different
branchcsofuniversities, private orga
nizations and government agencies,
and obtain information from across
the world,” Jones said. “When UNL
students get into the network, they
nave a higher speed connection than
any other institution.”
MI Dnct, wh ich was created by Gale,
connects a seven- state regional area
to the main Internet system.
Internet is growing rapidly at UN L,
allowing students to get more infor
mation from a computer program at
their desk than they can get in Love
Library, Gale said.
Gale docs not see Internet being
used as a classroom tool. Instead it is
used as a research tool outside of the
classroom, he said.
“Internet will provide a powerful
tool in the assignment process, allow
ing connection to an instructor’s syl
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