UNO Gateway,
senate find
middle ground
™ Budget is up 8 cents a student
S* By Margaret Behm
^ Staff writer
The UNO student senate
and the school’s student news
v. paper set aside their differ
ences to come to a budget
compromise.
The student senate voted
on April 6 to give the Gateway
$ 1.79 out of the $8 per stu
dent, per semester total of the
University Program and
Facility Fees Fund A. The
amendment has been passed,
along with the overall budget.
The student senate worked
hard to reach a compromise
on the Gateway budget
because of varying opinions,
said William Marunda, stu
dent body president and junior
political science major.
The senate originally
- voted to decrease the funding
from $ 1.71 to $ 1.60 on March
23.
“Some people think it’s
worth it,” he said. “Other peo
ple don’t think it’s worth the
paper it’s printed on. Of
course I fall into the category
of the first group of people.”
Christina Kadlec, editor in
chief, said the newspaper is
glad to have most of the fund
ing it asked for back. The
Gateway originally asked for
$1.85.
Marunda vetoed the origi
nal amendment to cut the
budget to $1.60.
“I felt it was a step in the
wrong direction for the
Gateway.” Marunda said. “I
thought it should be at least
the same as last year. But I
think it would be detrimental
to the operation of the paper.”
An attempt to override the
veto failed in the student sen
ate. Then the student govern
ment reconsidered the budget.
The reasoning behind the
original funding decrease that
was proposed was because
some senators were upset with
the quality of the paper,
Marunda said.
“I think that every student
organization has its highs and
lows,” he said. “There has
been some questioning of the
quality with the Gateway in
the past.”
I Kadlec said that there
were going to be occasional
mistakes in the paper because
it’s a student newspaper.
“I feel that the newspaper
has improved, just over the
past year,” said Kadlec, a jun
ior continuing studies and
communications major.
“There’s always going to be a
few mistakes because it’s a
learning experience.”
Kadlec said her greatest
concern wasn’t necessarily the
budget cut but the meaning of
the cut.
“The important thing is
that whenever a government
body wants to dictate the con
tents of a newspaper, it is very
close to censorship.”
Devaney’s -7
widow put
others first
DEVANEY from page 1
Pat Devaney said. “She was that way with people,”
she said.
Phyllis Devaney died early Wednesday of a
massive stroke at her daughter’s home in Palo Alto,
Calif., where she lived for the past 18 months.
Services are being held today at Stanford
Memorial Church in Palo Alto. A memorial service
will be held in Lincoln, but a date has not been set.
She will be buried in Lincoln next to her hus
band.
“She was a lady of enormous grace and com
passion and dignity and serenity,” said Pat
Devaney, who is a retired associate dean of research
at Stanford University.
Phyllis and Bob Devaney were married for 61
years when he died May 9,1997.
Mike Devaney, Phyllis’ son, said Bob Devaney
often cited Phyllis’ loyalty for the reason he was
successful.
“She epitomized the support factor for my
dad,” Mike Devaney said.
Phyllis met Bob Devaney at Alma College in
Michigan. To help him get through school, she
taught at a high school near Alma, said Mike
Devaney, of Rye, N.H.
“She was very much a part of the things he did,”
he said.
But Phyllis Devaney was not impressed by her
status as a famous football coach’s wife, Pat
Devaney said. Bob Devaney was the coach of the
1970 and ’71 national champion teams.
Phyllis Devaney deemed character as more
important than status, Pat Devaney said. She said
that part of this attitude came from her mother’s
roots: She was raised on a dairy farm and grew up
in a modest house.
In Lincoln, she worked for many charities,
including the Salvation Army. She also enjoyed
bowling, dancing with her husband and traveling,
Pat Devaney said.
Mike Devaney said his mother always thought
of others first and spent much of her time by her
husband’s side.
“I never knew anyone that didn’t like her,” he
said.
Building will
help unite
college faculty
TEACHERS from page 1
well as the planned renovation of Avery and
Hamilton halls, also are being funded by the bill.
The original plan was to use the money to reno
~ vate Bancroft and Lyman halls.
But Haecker said officials quickly decided to
construct a new building to replace the aging build
ings.
Architects came up with the design after receiv
ing input from faculty members.
Haecker said the building would be organized so
that faculty and students could work in groups.
. O’Hanlon said the best part of the new building
j will be the classrooms.
“There will be more wireless technology,”
O’Hanlon said. “I think the real advantage for the stu
dents is the kind of classrooms we are going to have.”
Santmire said she qnd other faculty members are
ready to leave Bancroft Hall for their new home.
“The facilities are going to be a lot better,”
Santmire said. “Right now, it’s too hot in the summer
and too cold in the winter.
“We’re all looking forward to it.”
DNA matches
man, murders
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP)
- A middle-aged father of
five who often cruised
Spokane’s red-light district in
a flashy white Corvette is
linked by DNA and other
physical evidence to at least a
dozen murders, authorities
said Thursday.
Spokane County Sheriff
Mark Sterk said samples of
DNA taken from Robert Lee
Yates Jr. matched DNA
found on the bodies of at
least eight prostitutes.
Other physical evidence
links him to the murders of
four other women, the sheriff
said.
All of the victims were
shot to death, and their bod
ies dumped in remote loca
tions. The 47-year-old Yates
has been charged in only one
death. Additional charges are
expected to be filed against
him, the sheriff said.
Detectives hope to provide a
list of those victims with a
link to Yates on Friday, he
said.
“Detectives tell me
they’re comfortable with 12,
up to 18,” Sterksaid.
Yates, an aluminum plant
worker and National Guard
helicopter pilot, was being
held Thursday in Spokane
County Jail in lieu of a $1.5
million cash bond. He
requested an attorney during
a court appearance
Wednesday.
His wife could not be
reached for comment.
Authorities have refused to
disclose the whereabouts of
his family.
Yates was among hun
dreds of suspects investigat
ed by a police task force
formed three years ago.
Award named for late Melvin Jones
From staff reports
A new award is being created in
, the memory of Melvin Jones, the
former vice chancellor for business
and finance who died last September
.from a heart attack.
. The award, sponsored by
.Leadership Lincoln, is called the
Melvin W. Jones Mentoring Award.
jThe award will recognize a commu
fnity member who mentors others,
said Deane Finnegan, of Leadership
Lincoln.
Finnegan said she hoped mem
bers of the university community
would nominate individuals.
“Students, faculty, administra
tors - anyone who is seen as a good
example of mentoring is eligible for
the award,” she said.
“We hope students, faculty and
administrators will send in nomina
tions.”
Letters should discuss how the
nominee has developed significant
relationships to assist others in
career, personal and community
goals; the impact they have had on
others’ lives; how they have promot
ed service to others and how they
have demonstrated community
trusteeship through mentoring rela
tionships.
Nomination letters should dis
cuss how the nominee’s actions
relate to the criteria and should be
mailed to Leadership Lincoln, 920 O
St, Suite 300, Lincoln, Neb., 68508.
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