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Regents to examine reallocation effort
■The board also will review 11 of
UNL's degree programs
BY VERONICA DAEHN
The NU Board of Regents will take a
look today at the reallocation of dollars in
the University of Nebraska system last
year.
For the fiscal year beginning July 1,
1999, and ending June 30,2000, die four
NU campuses together redistributed
more than $11.7 million.
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln
reallocated more than $4.6 million.
The money for UNL's reallocation
came from a 2.6 percent reduction in
UNLs overall budget
NU spokesman Joe Rowson said the
reallocation report was a way to let the
regents know how the campuses were
spending their money. No action will be
taken on the report at the 1:30 p.m. meet
ing today.
The reallocation at the University of
Nebraska has been going on for the last
three years, Rowson said. It allows univer
sity officials to take money that becomes
available and give it to high-priority pro
grams.
“The university has become a lot lean
er because of this,” Rowson said. “Any
excess funding or fat has been squeezed
out with this process.”
Money becomes available through
faculty positions that are not filled and by
taking it from low-priority programs, he
said.
UNL’s 2.6 percent budget reduction
resulted in the removal of the equivalent
of77.25 full-time positions. Thirty of these
were faculty positions. Thirty-two jobs far
students also were eliminated.
Rowson said nobody was fired
because of the reduction.
Reallocation is important, Rowson
said. The university needs that money to
pay for operating expenses.
The money NU receives from the
Legislature is only enough to pay salaries,
Rowson said. All other costs need to be
paid for with the yearly reallocations.
Though the reallocation started only
several years ago, Rowson said he thought
it was something that was always being
done.
“I hope people are always looking to
be efficient,” he said.
In other items on the regents’ agenda,
the board will look at reviews of university
programs.
The Nebraska Coordinating
Commission for Postsecondary
Education requires NU to review a certain
number of academic programs each year
and submit its findings to die commission
for approval.
TWenty existing degree programs at
the University of Nebraska were to be
reviewed by the end of the year. The board
will review 12 at its meeting, 11 of those
fromUNL
The commission looks at guidelines
such as student credit-hour production
and need for the program.
“If you don't meet their standard, there
would be a question as to whether to con
tinue the course,” Rowson said.
David Brinkerhoff, acting senior vice
chancellor for academic affairs, said he
didn't foresee a problem with any ofUNDs
programs being approved.
“There's a few cases where (the pro
grams) don't meet the requirements, but
those are typically new programs that
haven’t had time to blossom yet,”
Brinkerhoff said.
The regents also will take action on a
proposal that would make football tickets
available to the public on an individual
game basis. They would be sold over the
Internet
AMT OF
HUMOA: Actor
and comedian
David Spade
jokes with the
crowd at me
homecoming
pep nNy
Thursday night
at the Bob
Devaney Sports
Center. Students
and public
bought tickets
to see the rally
that included
introductions of
basketball
coaches and
members of the
football team.
Nelson defends ads,
predicts Tuesday win
■ Retiring Democratic Sen. Bob Kerrey
lent his support for the candidate, who
leads Republican Stenberg in the polls.
BY BRIAN CARLSON
OMAHA - Five days before Election
Day at a rally with supporters in an elec
trical workers’ union hall, former Gov.
Ben Nelson predicted victory in his
Senate race with Republican Don
Stenberg.
“Ihesday night we’ll celebrate one of
the most important victories we’ve had in
the state of Nebraska,” said Nelson, the
Democratic nominee. “This will be a vic
tory for the people of Nebraska.”
In a copyrighted Omaha World
Herald poll published Monday, 49 per
cent of respondents said they would vote
for Nelson, while 37 percent supported
Stenberg, the attorney general.
“I’m encouraged to be up by 12, but I
always keep in mind that the only poll
that counts is the one on Nov. 7,” Nelson
said in an interview.
Several hundred supporters - includ
ing retiring Democratic Sen. Bob Kerrey,
whom Nelson hopes to replace - gath
ered at the International Brotherhood of
Electrical Workers hall to show support
for Nelson.
In a brief address to the gathered
throng, Nelson emphasized campaign
themes of reforming federal farm policy,
preserving Social Security, providing a
patient’s bill of rights and extending pre
scription-drug coverage to seniors.
“I have people call my office and say;
‘This month, my prescription-drug bill
was more than my Social Security
check,’” he said. “Isn’t it awful when the
pill that can save your life instead cuts
into your savings?”
In an interview, Nelson also defended
his campaign’s recent TV commercials.
The ads criticize Stenberg’s proposal to
allow younger workers to invest a portion
of their payroll taxes in private invest
ments.
The Nelson ads say Stenberg’s plan
would remove $1 trillion from Social
Security funds, forcing higher retirement
ages or reduced benefits.
Stenberg has called Nelson’s ads
“scare tactics.” He said he would ensure
those at or near retirement received their
promised benefits.
Nelson said Stenberg’s plan may help
younger workers, who would benefit
from higher investment returns, but it
would jeopardize the funds needed to
pay promised benefits.
“I stand by my statement that his pro
posal would destabilize the Social
Security system,” Nelson said.
He also disputed Republican Party
ads accusing him of siding with Vice
President A1 Gore against tax relief.
Nelson said he supported eliminating
the inheritance tax and the so-called
“marriage penalty,” which forces some
married couples to pay more income
taxes than if they were single.
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Panel: Don't
ignore racism
BYJILLZEMAN _
With the backdrop of the American and state of
Nebraska flags, a group of eight sat in front of more
than 150 people and addressed how to overcome
problems of race.
The eight panelists participated in a town hall
meeting Thursday in the Nebraska Union audito
rium as part of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Hendricks Symposium.
The symposium was created to support the
exploration of controversial political issues in a
non-partisan manner.
The theme of the meeting was “Overcoming
Problems of Race: Are Law, Politics and Protests
Enough?”
John Hibbing, political science professor, and
Miguel Carranza, associate professor of sociology
and ethnic studies, represented UNL in the discus
sion.
The other six panelists came from across the
country to discuss and represent their back
grounds.
Other panel participants included Mack Jones
of Clark Atlanta University in Atlanta, Linda
Williams of the University of Maryland, Rick
Thomas of the Santee Sioux Tribe of Nebraska,
Eduardo Bonilla-Silva of Texas A&M University in
College Station, William Nelson of Ohio State
University and Dianne Pinderhughes of the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
The discussion was moderated by Lucius
Barker from Stanford University in Stanford, Calif.
The panelists agreed racism existed in the
United States, and while law, politics and protests
are helpful, they don't solve the problem.
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Osborne's foe accepts 'Other Guy'status
Editor’s note: This is the last of two stories on the
3rd District Congressional candidates. Thursday,
Tom Osborne was profiled.
BY TIM KARSTENS
The Saint came marching in. No blaring trum
pets or angelic proclamations, just a barely dis
cernible buzz.
The Other Guy stopped and wheeled around.
With a wave of his hand - part exasperation, part
simple acknowledgment - he mumbled: “There he
is.”
Silhouetted against an intense midday sun out
side the tent at a agricultural trade show in Grand
Island, the Saint smiled and chatted quietly, auto
graphing hats and plastic tote bags.
He wore a crisp white shirt, neatly pressed olive
green pants and a blue and gold diamond- patterned
tie not a centimeter below or above the belt line. It
was perfection concocted by Heaven's spin doctors,
perfect as going 13-0.
The Other Guy had white, tousled hair and wore
a baggy white shirt that hung over his too-long gray
pants, which hung over sensible black Rockports.
“Come on, let’s go meet him,” the Other Guy said.
Soon, the Saint craned his neck and smiled
broadly, extending a firm, sweat-free handshake.
“Hello, I’m Tom Osborne.”
And so it was, two men - the Saint, Republican
Tom Osborne, and the Other Guy, Democrat Rollie
Reynolds - vying for the hearts and minds of
Nebraska's 3rd Congressional District. IWo men on
vastly different trajectories who want to go to
Washington. IWo men standing face to face in the
blast-furnace heat of early autumn in rural
Nebraska. TWo men who have virtually nothing in
common.
One has been to Tokyo, the White House, Miami
and New York. The other to Broken Bow, Ogallala,
Table Rock and McCool Junction. One is world
famous; the other has to introduce himself in his
Steven Bender/DN
Rollie Reynolds,
the Democratic
candidate for
the 3rd
Congressional
District said he
has finished his
campaigning for
Tuesday^ elec
tion. He is the
underdog
against former
NU Football
Coach Tom
Osborne.
own hometown. One played professional football;
the other went to the Korean War. One was a leg
endary football coach at the University of Nebraska;
the other attended the University of Nebraska
College of Agriculture.
One is a sure bet The other has no chance.
It is part Shakespeare, part David and Goliath,
part IWilight Zone. And when the votes are tallied on
Nov. 7, it could be the most lopsided election in
Nebraska political history. Whatever you choose to
call it, it is not 3rd District Congressional Nebraska
politics as usual.
In one comer is Tom Osborne, the 63-year-old
Republican candidate from Hastings by way of
LeMoyne, his adopted 3rd District home. He was a
three-time national-champion football coach of the
beloved Nebraska Cornhuskers, the university
where he earned a doctorate in educational psychol
ogy.
And he is the current paradigm of attributes
Nebraskans feel makes Nebraska the Good Life:
hard-working, God-fearing, trustworthy. In
Osborne’s sprawling 3rd District, a 63,000-square
mile electoral behemoth the size of Iowa,
Republicans outnumber Democrats 2-1.
Here, Dr. Tom is loved and revered. Parents name
their children after him. Even detractors - if you can
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