Monday, February 27, 1934
Daily Ncbrcckan
Pc'fia 5
AAUP concerned with more
than just faculty sal
Pro fescor Bochar's disinterested com
mitment to students and his relentless
professional integrity lends urgency to
his letter (Daily Nebraskan, Feb. 21).
I urge Professor Boohar and others
worried about a too-narrow focusing
of collective bargaining issues to look
at the AAUP's. record, here at UNL,
nationwide, and at UNO.
Locally; AAUP has been active on
thb campus for about 60 years. Its
papers have been used as foundations
for our most important governance
documents, its members have been
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Opinion
instrumental in writing those mate
rials, and monitoring their implemen
tation. Its publications form the basis
of the senate committee's annual
faculty study report.
Even in the present campaign, AAUP
flyers have addressed many issues.
The first dealt with the role of the
Faculty Senate. Only one or two flyers
focus on compensation. Even the one
Professor Boohar alludes to goes be
yond compensation when it notes that
salary levels often reveal institutional
attitudes toward the faculty more gen
erally. Surely the 16 percent gap be
tween UNL faculty salaries and those
of the mean of other schools in our
category is not unrelated to the other
aspects of faculty status Professor Boo
har so vigorously describes. I do not
believe AAUPs local record supports
Professor Boohar's fears.
Nationally: For over 70 years AAUP
has generated, implemented, and de
fended the definitive papers of the
academic profession on such issues as
academic freedom, tenure, due pro
cess, participation in governance by
faculty and students, ethic, student
-rights and freedoms, etc. It also pub
lishes each year the best information
on the economic state of the profes
sion. Its statement on collective bar
gaining commits local chapters given
representative status as collective
bargaining agents to protect and pro-
anes
mote the institutional welfare in all
these areas. Such a record supports
rather than threatens Professor Boo
har's preferred focus of attention.
Finals, at UNO r see the record here
is more complicated than does Profes
sor Boohar. In any event it should be
clear that the UNO AAUP chapter did
not insist upon only negotiating finan
cial issues; quite the reverse, it offered
to settle for less than was finally grant
ed it and has regularly made contract
proposals on a wide range of gover
nance issues,. It should be clear, too,
that neither the Commission of Indus
trial Relations nor the regents have
shut the door on a fuller range of bar
gaining. In sum, I do not believe the
record supports the contention that
AAUP on this campus, in this univer
sity system or in the academy at large
is likely to bargain on remuneration
first, last and only.
My own experience suggests that
the senate might well use the help that
would come from bargained agree
ments. Such agreements increase the
possibility that initiatives can be sus
tained and agreements maintained
more effectively. Too often what the
senate has regarded in the past as the
initiation of coherent policy has been
discovered in retrospect to have been
merely a particular concession. Such
confusions are, if not impossible, at
least not sustainable under a contract.
With any agent, the membership sets
the priorities; contracts reflect fun
damental positions of each side. I do
not expect the UNL AAUP as this
faculty's agent would set a ruinous
salary scale as its only priority, al
though salaries will surely rank high as
an issue while our scale remains so
low.
My only belief is that UNL would
profit from increased mutuality, espe
cially between those who bear the
academic responsibility and those who
bear the political and fiscal responsi
bility for the campus. I support collec
tive bargaining because I see no great
promise of that increased mutuality
without it.
James A. McShane
associate professor
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rific, now I look like Dr.
Joyce Brothers. What do
you want me to do?
Should I pat you on the
shoulder and tell you it
will be all right? Or should
I tell you you're better off
without her? Why don't
you talk to her, and if you
two can't work things out,
try to accept it. I hate
wimps (male or female)
that chase after someone
who has told them to get
lost. :
7. And my least favor
ite one of all, especially
when I'm eating lunch
with someone, This food
is ewfaL If you don't like
it, take it back. If you
don't have the nerve or
the ambition to do that,
shut up and eat it.
There. I'm through com
plaining about your com
plaints. Now that you
know how your com"
plaints sound, maybe
youH keep them to your
self. I've got my own prob
lems. " .
One more thing before
I quit complaining. If you
, order a pizza with some
one, please don't argue
about what kind to get.
This is a pet peeve of
mine. Any place in town
will make a half-and-half
(pepperoni on one half
and sausage on the other,
for example) at no extra
cost. I've seen people get
mad at each other and
cancel the order because
they couldn't decide
which kind to get. They
are obviously under too
much strain. Watch out
for those pretty red and
white station wagons.
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