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University of Nebraska-Lincoln students wound their way through the masses in front of
Avery Hall Monday morning on the way to class. Monday was tne first day of classes at
the university. The 1994-95 academic year concludes May 5.
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Budget, UNO college
top ASUN concerns
By Melanie Brandert
Staff Reporter
The engineering debate and the up
coming budget discussions in the Ne
braska Legislature will be the two main
issues before ASUN President Andrew
Loudon this year.
Loudon, who has
been president of the
Association of Stu
dents of the Univer
sity of Nebraska
since April, said
ASUN passed a res
olution last semes
ter opposing the cre
ation of a separate undergraduate engi
neering college at the University of
Nebraska at Omaha.
A task force is farther studying the
need to establish a separate engineering
college at UNO. The group will make
recommendations to University of Ne
braska President Dennis Smith this fall.
Loudon said ASUN’s Government
Liaison Committee would lobby state
senators and Nebraska taxpayers to con
vince them that another engineering
college in Omaha wasawasteof money.
During the past five years, Loudon
said, 50 percent of NU’s engineering
graduates couldn’t find a job in their
field in Nebraska.
“Nebraska is graduating twice as
many graduates as it needs,” he said.
Loudon said he disagreed with the
argument that businesses in Omaha
needed an engineering college there to
retrain their employees. Employees al
ready are taking UNL classes inOmaha
through satellite hook-ups and televi
sions, he said.
“It’s a duplication of services al
ready provided,” Loudon said.
The engineering college at UNL costs
$12 million to operate, he said. A
separate engineering college at UNO
half the size of UNL’s college would
cost another $6 million to operate.
Loudon questioned who would fund
the proposed engineering college at
UNO. The Nebraska Legislature will be
forced to make cuts from the state bud
get, he said, because of a $96 million
shortfall in state funds that is expected
-a
The most convincing
argument we can make to
the Legislature is that
budget cuts hurt the
students’ education.
—Loudon
ASUN president
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to occur during the next two years.
Aside from the engineering debate,
that budget shortfall will be another
focus of student government this year,
Loudon said.
GLC members will lobby against
university budget cuts to the Legisla
ture’s Appropriations Committee, he
said.
The Legislature will approve the NU
budget for 1996-1997 this spring.
Student government lobbyists will
enlist the assistance of students, Loudon
said. Students should talk with slate
senators and ask them to explain how
budget cuts would alTcct their educa
tion, he said.
“The most convincing argument wc
can make to the Legislature is that
budget cuts hurt the students’ educa
tion,” he said.
He said ASUN would have to make
sure UNL had a “lean and clean” budget
in order to prevent budget cuts in other
areas.
“I don’t think wc have a lot of fat in
our programs,” Loudon said. “(But) if
we do, we need to get rid of it.”
The first ASUN meeting of the se
mester will be Wednesday evening.
During the meeting, senators will ori
ent themselves with the Legislative
budget process.
The group also will fill the chair
manship for the Committee for Fees
Allocation on Wednesday night,hc said.
Loudon said he did not think the
senate would encounter any major prob
lems this year. He said he was opt im istic
about the senators’ ideas for the upcom
ing year.
“We have a very excited senate.”
UNL will do polar study
By Ken Paulman
Staff Reporter
The university has won a three
year, $12.4 million contract for polar
research. Chancellor Graham Spanier
announced at a press conference Mon
day.
The National Science Foundation,
who awarded the University of Nc
braska-Lincoln with the grant, has the
option of renewing the contract for a
fourth and fifth year, Spanier said. The
money will be used to provide logisti
cal support and expertise for teams
conducting polar research.
If renewed, the grant would total
more than $21.8 million—the largest
single research grant in the universi
ty’s history, Spanier said.
The contract will re-establish the
Polar IccCoring Office, or PICO, which
originated at UNL in 1974 and operat
ed here until 1988, when the operation
was moved to the University of Alaska
at Fairbanks.
Although PICO was based in Alas
ka, the office continued to operate on
a sealed-down basis at UNL and was
known as the Snow and lee Research
Group.
The primary focus of the research
will be the drilling and coring of the
polar ice regions in Greenland and
Antarctica, as well as high mountain
glaciers.
These core samples arc a record of
the Earth’s climate and environmental
history and have enabled scientists to
reconstruct the Earth’s climate for the
past 100,000 years, said PriscillaGrcw,
UNL’s vice chancellor for research.
About IS to 20 professionals out
side UNL will ioin the former Snow
and Ice Research Groupon the project,
which will operate from the Whittier
Building.
Polk i 10 poki
Beginning midnight Thursday
2:10 p.m. — Accident, Area 10, $200
damage
3:07 p.m. — Stolen credit card, 425 Uni
versity Terrace
,,ems,aken-715N 16th St,
$350 loss
6:09 pjn.—Selleck Residence Hall food
dock, property recovered.
Beginning midnight Friday
1:20pjn.—Accidental alarm, 1229 R St
4:22 pjn. — Money taken, Nebraska
Union, $600 loss
4:43 pjn. — Possession of fireworks,
West lot, Administration Building.
5:50 pjn. — Bike stolen, Cather Resi
dence Hall, $200 loss.
6:06 pjn. — Intoxicated person, north
east comer of 17th and R streets, taken to
detoxification center.
6:31 p.m. — Disturbance, 721 K St.
7:30 p.m. — Injury, Memorial Stadium
11:46p.m.—Prank phone calls, Neihardt
Residence Center.
Beginning midnight Saturday
2:52 a.m.—Sign damaged, 39and East
Campus Loop, $25 damage
4:19 a.m. — Injury, Campus Recreation
Center.
2:53 p.m. — Damage to vehicle, 519 N
16th st., $200 damage
4:12 p.m.—Prank phone calls, Neihardt
Residence Center
4:17 pm. — Accidental alarm
4:27 pm. — Injury/sickness, Hamilton
Hall, person transported to Lincoln Gen
era! Hospital.
6:26 p.m.—Damage to vehicle, 14th and
New Hampshire streets, $90 damage
9:30 pm. — WaUet taken, Broyhill Foun
tain, $62 loss
11:15 p.m. — Vandalism, Harper
Schramm-Smith Area 3 parking lot, $500
damage.
Beginning midnight Sunday
1.09 am. — Outside police assistance,
21st and P streets.
8:41 am. — Alarm/fire, overheated mo
tor, Avery Had, $1,500 damage
1:30 pm. — Accident, Areal 7D, South
Stadium, $250 damage
2:56 pm.—Shirts taken, 715 N. l6thSt.
$550 loss.
10:27 p.m.—Prank phone cads, Neihardt
Residence Center
