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. Diary Continued from Page 1 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. Solutions Continued from Page 1 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. Snowflakes Continued from Page 1 “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. Command A Tan Tan 991 Single Session $19.95 One Month Unlimited Call for other specials located inside Shear Success. 210 Gateway North 467-3625 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. DOUGLAS THEATRES Movie Info: 441-0222 _^CallforShowtimesl_ PRESS: 0 * CINEMA TWIN 0 | DOUGLAS 3 STUART 0 » COMING SOON 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 John HOPPE, Jr. Airport Authority • UNL Graduate 1970 • CBA Alumni Assoc. - Life Member • Chancellor's Club Paid for by Hoppe for Airport Authority, Alice Dittman, Treasurer, 5631 South 48th St., Ste. 300, Lincoln, NE 68516 Beware the (Children