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Moeser: Lid would j ; cause UNL damage I KlfiJE UMJp from page 1 But the amendment is calculated to increase state revenues in the first year off of an “artificially reduced rate” in the 1999-2000 fiscal year, Moeser said. Dave Newall, the director of leg islative policy for the state’s depart ment of revenue, said the passing last year of a legislative bill that cut sales tax by a half-cent for 1999-2000 would cause the state to take in about $90 million less than it would have otherwise. “That means there’s less revenue to spend the year after,” Newall said. The move was made to reduce the cash reserve fund, he said. It was a way of returning tax money to the taxpayers. Income tax also has been cut, and in the last legislative ses sion, that cut was extended perma nently. A long-term financing crisis already projected by NU also adds to the problems the university could face, Moeser said. The university system is not get ting enough from the state to accom modate its costs, Moeser said. So the university has been devising a plan to compensate for that. But die added pressure from the amendment could cause the univer sity to struggle. “You add this on top of that, and we collapse,” Moeser said. “We are under a very different environment.” Whole courses of study would be shut down, faculty and staff mem bers would be released, there would be a reduction in services statewide, and what the university could do for me stuaeni overall wouia decrease, Moeser said. Tuition u percent, he said. Tuition is not subject to the same >f cap on. tax revenue other state-fund ed agencies are, said Michelle Waite, assist^pt to the chancellor for com munity relations. Moeser Said this is one way the amendment’s writers protected the university.. “They’ve basically said the uni versity is not at risk because of its ability to raise tuition,” he said. Moeser said he doesn’t foresee the NU Board of Regents approving the increase, but he said that would be what is needed to make up for the money the university said will be lost. And, such an increase in tuition would defeat the purpose of a land grant university, Moeser said. That purpose is to provide an accessible and affordable education to every one. But, Moeser said, he doesn’t believe the business group advocat ing the amendment is trying to hurt the university. Waite said those promoting the amendment depend on the university system to provide knowledge. It is an important part of the state, she said. The consequences caused by the proposed amendment are unintend ed, Moeser said. “I don’t think they set out to dam age the university at all,” he said. “I don’t think they realized when they wrote this they were actually , inflicting great damage on the University of Nebraska.” REFUNDS from page 1 are not entitled to some services, Jablonski said. But the system is not perfect, he said. Jablonski said a loophole exists where a student could receive a refund, and still use services such as the Daily Nebraskan discount. He said part of the policy depended on students’ honesty. Refunds are not available for Fund B, which pays for services such as die University Health Center and Campus Recreation Center, Jablonski said. Daryl Swanson, director of Nebraska Unions,. said the refimd policy has existed since 1980, when the NU Board of Regents approved it. Swanson said in the early?! 9fOs some students were upset because mandatory fees were being used'to fund things they thought were objec tionable. Events leading up to the 1980 ■ J - ■■ . refund policy included two 1970s lawsuits against UNL concerning \ student-fee funded programs that g offended some students. Some students objected to their | fees being used to help fund things } such as a peace rally after a Vietnam t War-related student strike, the ASUN purchase of a birth control handbook and an ASUN conference where Black Panther Bobby Seale was scheduled to speak. In the 1980s and 1990s, the rea soning behind applying for a refund has shifted Jablonski said the most common reason students want their Fund A fees refunded is to have more money in their pockets. Students also say they don't agree with mandatory fees, they don't use the services or they don’t agree with die services, he said. Refund applications can be | picked up m the Student Organization Financial Services Office, NebraskaUnion 222. r