Regents will tour technology park
prom staff Reports
In addition to its monthly
meeting Saturday, the NU Board
of Regents has a tour and three
subcommittee meetings set for
today.
The regents will tour Transcrypt
International Inc. and the Lincoln
Technology Park. Transcrypt and
the technology park are coopera
tive efforts between the city of Lin
coln and the university. The tour
will begin at noon at 4800 North
west First St. in the Highlands sub
division.
.frT The Academic Affairs Subcom
mittee will meet in Varner Hall at
2:30 p.m. to discuss the role of
telecommunications. Following
that, the Planning Subcommittee
will meet to talk about tuition policy.
The Governance Subcommittee is
scheduled to meet at 4:30 p.m. to
address the schedule for strategic
issues.
Before Saturday’s meeting,
scheduled to start at 8:30 a.m., there
will be a public hearing about a
proposed change in the UNL weap
ons policy on campus. The pro
posal would change the Student
Code of Conduct and make stu
dents keep their guns at the Univer
sity Police station. Residence halls
and greek houses are currently al
lowed to hold weapons.
The regents also will be asked to
approve a program statement for
the Nebraska Union expansion
project. The project has an esti
mated cost of $12.7 million.
Red Cross offers solid disaster relief
i-rom stan Heports
Within minutes of last week’s ex
plosion in Oklahoma City, the Red
Cross was on the scene providing
emergency services. Nearly 3,000 Red
Cross workers have been mobilized as
part of relief efforts.
In addition to food and shelter,
Red Cross members are offering
professional psychological coun
seling to help victims cope with
stress, according to a Red Cross
press release.
Two Red Cross shelters were
opened after the bombing to provide
safe places to rest for people in need.
One shelter remains open, with 54
residents. A total of 68 people have
sought shelter.
Since the blast April 19, Red Cross
workers have served more than 37,000
meals.
The cost of the relief operation has
been fully met by donations from the
public. More than $6.8 million has
been donated to the Red Cross since
the explosion.
The Red Cross is not currently so
liciting donations, but money gi ven to
the “American Red Cross Disaster
Relief Fund” will be used to continue
assistance to victims in Oklahoma City
andother disaster areas.
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federal building. At least 14 of the
dozens of victims were children.
The newspaper didn’t specify who
kept the diary, how many people were
involved in the plot or what deadline
th,e bombers were trying to make.
However, the bomb went off ex
actly two years after the deadly gov
ernment raid that ended the standoff at
the Branch Davidian compound in
Waco, Texas. Authorities say
McVeigh held extreme anti-govern
ment views.
He was arrested during a traffic
stop 90 minutes after the explosion
but was not linked to it until two days
later.
The sources said they didn’t know
when or where the diary was found or
whether it mentions anyone other than
McVeigh by name.
Proposed budget
stresses education
By J. Christopher Hain
Senior Reporter
A state budget packed with in
creases was released Thursday by the
Legislature’s Appropriations Commit
After months of
deliberation, the
committee rec
ommended a 5.6
percent increase
for the state and a
5.5 percent in
crease for the Uni
versity of Ne
LEGISLATURE braska.
The proposed
two-year budget of $3.64 billion is
$78.1 million more than the amount
recommended by Gov. Ben Nelson.
Wednesday, Nelson criticized the
committee for not makingenough cuts,
and he threatened heavy use of his
veto pen.
In delivering the budget Thursday,
Appropriations Committee Chairman
Roger Wehrbein of Plattsmouth called
the committee’s budget responsible.
“It’s the kind of budget Nebraska
should have,” Wehrbein said.
He said the budget showed an em
phasis on investment in higher educa
tion.
“Higher education fared fairly well
in our budget,” he said.
Randal Haack, NU assistant vice
president and director of budgets and
analysis, said the Appropriations Com
mittee recognized university needs that
the governor did not.
“It’s a very positive sign,” Haack
said.
The committee ’ s recommendation
included full funding for a 4 percent
salary increase for faculty, full fund
ing for President Dennis Smith’s sug
gested engineering education enhance
ments, 16 new faculty members in
1995 and 26 new faculty members in
1996.
Libraries fared particularly well
under the committee’s budget.
The committee met NU’s request
for a 15 percent inflationary increase
and suggested $1.13 million for im
proved library holdings. In addition, a
“trailer” bill will include $750,000
more for library acquisitions.
The committee also suggested sev
eral capital construction projects for
the university, including the renova
tions of UNL’s Burnett Hall.
But both the state and university
budgets still have plenty of chances to
be cut. Beginning Thursday, the bud
get bill, LB392,must pass three rounds
of debate on the floor of the Legisla
ture.
And with the governor promising
vetoes, Haack said, he could not specu
late about a tuition increase.
The committee’s budget did not
assume a tuition increase.
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funding would eliminate 1,500 fed
eral grants. Large grant programs, like
the Pell Grant program, would be
scaled back.
John Beacon, director of scholar-y
ships and financial aid, said the elimi
nation of the interest subsidy on fed
eral loans would hit students hard when
it came time to pay up.
For students, especially those en
tering five-year programs or graduate
studies programs, the cost of getting
an education would go up as much as
50 percent without the subsidy. With
the loan subsidy, the government pays
for the interest that accrues while stu
dents are in school.
Student opposition to the federal
cuts is mounting. The National Asso
ciation of State Universities and Land
Grant Colleges, a Washington-based
lobbying group that UNL is a part of,
has set up a hotline for students to call
in their opinions to their congressional
representatives.
At a March conference of Big 12
student governments, leaders passed
a resolution that would send a mes
sage to Congress opposing the inter
est subsidy elimination.
Clinton, in a March 31 meeting
with college newspaper editors, said
he would veto legislation that cut fed
eral support for student aid.
White said solutions to the prob
lem of rising costs and shrinking aid
were few and complicated. Her best
advice was to start saving.
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“We’re open and friendly,” she
said. “We feel like a ma and pa store.”
The Clovers said they wanted to
get to know their customers, not just
serve them. That is the best part about
running the business, Betty Clover
said. Her customers include univer
sity students and families.
“We visit with people and find out
a lot about them,” she said. “We take
their pictures and try to remember
their names.”
After a customer comes for the
third time, the Clovers take his or her
picture and posts it on a bulletin board.
The bulletin boards are now filled
with pictures, and the Clovers have 3 8
photo albums full of pictures of cus
tomers from the last five years.
“We consider them satisfied cus
tomers,” he said. “We want people to
come back and see their pictures.”
Another reason why the store is a
hit is the Snowflake punch card. After
buying 10 Snowflakes, customers re
ceive a free one.
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When customers fill a card, Betty
Clover adds their names to her com
puter. She has more than 2,000 names.
Lincoln Mayor Mike Johanns, who
has completed 34 cards, has visited
Snowflakes more than any other cus
tomer.
Don Clover said his favorite treat
was the Rainbow Snowflake, a combi
nation of ice cream, cherry and blue
bubble gum flavored syrups.
“The kids say it’s awesome.”
Another popular flavor is I Don’t
Know, a combination of pink cham
pagne and guava syrups, Don Clover
said.
“That’s for people who come and
when I ask them what they want and
they say, ‘I don’t know.’”
Although other ice cream parlors
are in the area, the Clovers aren’t
worried about competition.
“They don’t bother us,” Betty Clo
ver said. “We are entirely different
than them.”
Her husband agreed.
“They’re more worried about us
than we are about them,” he said.
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Beacon said options were limited
for the short-term.
“It’s far better to pay for education
as you go,” he said. Students should
be careful not to take more financial
aid than they need, Beacon said.
“Don’t take necessarily what the
financial aid office gives to you,”
Beacon said. “Even if you borrow
$500 less over four years, that’s $2,000
less you’d have to pay back.”
Other options are available for stu
dents to deal with education costs, he
said, including working, even mini
mally, while taking classes.
If a student worked 10 hours a
week at $5.60 per hour, that student
could earn about $ 1,800, Beacon said.
“That’s $1,800 less you’d have to
borrow.”
Staff Reporter Julie Sobczyk contrib
uted to this report
Tuesday, May 2nd
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