Moeser: Bill vital for future
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plete the projects within the set 10
years, and it would eliminate the
maintenance backlog by 70 percent
in the first three years and by almost
100 percent in 2015, Smith said.
Gov. Ben Nelson said he believed
the recommended projects would
prepare NU and the state colleges for
the 21st century.
“It is crucial that we provide a
safe learning environment for our
students,” he said. “We also have an
opportunity at this time to create the
kind of educational environment
which fosters quality, innovation and
advances in technology.”
Without an efficient and high
quality educational environment,
Nelson said, it was harder to attract
students to Nebraska’s universities
and colleges.
UNL Chancellor James Moeser
said the maintenance bill was “criti
cally important” and vital to the cam
pus’s future.
“It makes an enormous differ
ence,” he said. “It’s a quality issue.”
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GOV. BEN NELSON testifies Tuesday in favor of LB1100. The bill would pro
vide nearly $80 million for the renovation or replacement of 14 buidings on
the NU campuses.
Moeser said one or the most
important projects was the renovation
of Love Library, which he said was
the university’s “intellectual heart”
“Here we have the only research
library in Nebraska - a wonderful
collection - and we’re gradually
destroying it with a heating and air
conditioning system that is World
War II vintage.”
Burger King faces bidding war
ByIevaAugstums
Assignment Reporter
Local hamburger restaurants have
already fought over who has the best
french fries; now they’re forced to put
down their spatulas and fight a new
war.
A bidding war.
Daryl Swanson, Nebraska Union
director, said Burger King’s lease with
the Nebraska Union will expire on June
30. Any existing hamburger restaurant
has the opportunity to rent the 3,800
square-foot site as long as it can outbid
its competitors, he said.
“Hamburgers are still the king in the
fast food business,” Swanson said.
“Students love their hamburgers and
fries.”
Swanson said the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln is accepting bids
from any hamburger-based restaurants,
but has asked A&W, McDonald’s,
Wendy’s, Runza, Sonic Drive-In,
Fuddrucker’s, Don and Millie’s, Dairy
Queen, Hardee’s and Burger King to
submit bids.
Because of UNLs contract with the
Pepsi corporation, Swanson said, all
potential bidders must agree to dispense
Pepsi products.
“We have told all potential bidders
that they must dispense Pepsi products,”
he said. “So far all bidders said this was
not going to be a problem.”
Swanson said Burger King, the only
union food service that still sells Coke
products, has expressed interest to
change to Pepsi products if they receive
the bid.
“All of the potential bidders are well
known to students,” Alavi said. “I don’t
think we will have a negative student
response.”
Swanson said the student response
and feedback is necessary with a
process like this.
He said the determination of who
will receive the bid depends on the fol
lowing:
■ Brand recognition among the uni
versity community.
■ Existing cleanliness and sanita
tion practices.
■ Existing performance and sales.
■The quality of food and service.
■ Student preferences.
■ Taste (determined by a student
test panel).
■ The total amount of the bid.
The NU Board of Regents will open
all sealed bid envelopes at the
University Service’s Purchasing Office,
1700Y Street, at 2:30 p.m. on Feb. 27.
Nelson: Bill plugs brain drain
Legislators hear 12 testimonies Tuesday
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a co-sponsor of the bill, said Nebraska’s
worker shortage problem is “multi
pronged.”
Maxine Moul, director of the state'
Department of Economic
Development, agreed.
Salaries for workers in high-tech
positions have increased, she said, so
workers must be leaving for a variety of
other reasons.
However, Moul said the “brain
gain” proposal would help solve the
worker shortage problem by giving res
idents an incentive to stay in the state.
The Nebraska Quarterly Business
Conditions Survey shows more than
10,000 jobs in Nebraska remain
unfilled because of a shortage of quali
fied workers, Nelson said
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uation rates, Moul said that number
could increase to 50,000 by 2002.
She said because of a continued
decrease in the state’s unemployment
rate - currently at 1.6 percent -
Nebraska businesses are beginning to
scale back production or expansion
plans.
“The economic growth we’ve seen
in the 1990s is seriously threatened by
our tight labor supply,” she said.
Nelson said the number of jobs cre
ated from 1990 to 19% exceeds the rate
of population growth.
More importantly, he said, half the
students graduating from four-year pub
lic institutions left Nebraska for unem
ployment between 1995 and 19%.
Nelson said the state’s “best and
brightest” high school graduates are
also leaving Nebraska to attend college.
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The higher a student scored on the
ACT (American College Test), the
greater chance he or she went to a uni
versity out of state,” he said
“Of those students with high ACT
scores, more left Nebraska than came to
Nebraska from other states, creating a
net migration of a negative 116.”
Nelson said his proposal “plugs the
brain drain” by making degrees from
Nebraska institutions more affordable
and promoting jobs in Nebraska.
The proposed legislation would cre
ate scholarships for residents of
Nebraska as an incentive to enter a
degree program directing them into a
career field in which the state now has a
shortage of workers, such as informa
tion technology and the health industry.
Students receiving the scholarship
would have tn fulfill three renuirementc
■ obtain a degree from any of
Nebraska’s colleges, universities or
technical schools in a technical field
specified by the Coordinating
Commission of Higher Education.
■ complete an internship or work
experience in the field related to the
major.
■ work in Nebraska for three years
after graduation.
The scholarships would be awarded
to residents on the basis of academic
merit and would amount to a minimum
of 25 percent of tuition costs, but no
more than $5,000 per year
If a student decided to leave the state
after graduation, he or she would be
required to repay die loan with interest
Students could choose to change
their major after contracting with the
scholarship program, but they would
still have to fulfill the requirements of
the contract, including completing an
internship and working in Nebraska for
three years.
The Nebraska Coordinating
Commission for Post-Secondary
Education would decide which indus
tries in Nebraska are experiencing a
worker shortage.
The commission also would con
tract an agency to follow scholarship
students to make sure they fulfill the
requirements of the contract.
Nelson said his bill would promote
internships by creating the Governor’s
Quality Workforce Honor Roll, com
posed of those Nebraska businesses
willing to provide internships to schol
arship recipients.
He said more than 8,000 businesses
already participate in the School-to
Work Program and should be encour
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Both Nelson and Powers said statis
tics show that 80 percent of interns aid
up being hired by thebusiness they
interned with.
Board members questioned the
duration of the internship and when
scholarship recipients would carry out
their internships.
Powers said LB 1176 is written
“deliberately not to try to define every
thing” and the Coordinating
Commission would need to work with
businesses and campuses to find
answers to all the questions.
The brain gain proposal is a “grand
experiment” unique to Nebraska, he
sakl, which other states would eventual
ly emulate.
After more than two hours of testi
mony, die committee took no action on
die bill.
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