UNL was to use public money to pay Ayers

Journalstar.com ^ | 10-23-08 | Melissa Lee

[stan_sipple]

Contrary to previous reports, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln did intend to use public and NU Foundation funds to pay for William Ayers’ visit, UNL said Thursday. Ayers’ $1,000 honorarium was to have come from state funds allocated to the College of Education and Human Sciences, UNL said. The education college had invited Ayers to deliver the keynote address at its Nov. 15 student research conference.And Ayers was to have been reimbursed for travel, lodging and food using grant funds held at the NU Foundation, UNL said.When UNL announced Ayers’ planned visit on Oct. 16, it said no state or foundation money would be used for the appearance.But that statement wasn’t reviewed by campus business officials before it was made public, said Christine Jackson, vice chancellor for business and finance.

And a review of documents showing the intended source of funds for his visit — prompted, UNL spokeswoman Kelly Bartling said, by inquiries from State Auditor Mike Foley and numerous members of the public — revealed the statement was inaccurate.

“It was just an honest mistake,” Bartling said. “But there have been enough questions raised about it that we needed to figure out from the accounting standpoint what the intent was and where the funds were going to come from. ...

[Don Corleone]

“It was just an honest mistake,”

Yup! BTW wanna' buy a bridge over the East River? Cheap!

[conservativehusker]

Well the state and city of Omaha did buy a foot bridge over the missouri - of course it’s names the Bob Kerry bridge....Here we are a red state but we have plenty of liberals

[MountainDad]

That's right! And isn't it wonderful that the homeless people downtown now have a nice new bridge to take a dump on?

Did You hear about that?

[stan_sipple]

we need the bridge to make it easier to rob gamblers at the casinos in CB!(sarc)

[stan_sipple]

thanks to ACORN’s efforts the Rats signed up plenty of new Rats in Douglas County

[conservativehusker]

While I wouldn’t be surprised to hear about the homeless..I thought it was folks walking thir dogs..either way..it’s par for the course in todays society.