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Tuesday, March 6, 1934
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Vol. 83 No. 114
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Vice chancellor Goebel questions
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accuracy of AAUP wage claims
By Iona Z. Kopplemnn
A UNL administrator Saturday responded to
faculty union charges that UNO and UNL salaries
are not all created equaL.claims that in fact, UNL
teachers get the short end of the budget stick.
Jack Goebel, vice chancellor for business and
finance, said American Association of University
Professors materials, including a Daily Nebraskan
ad and flyers to UNL faculty "require careful anal
ysis." "It does not represent the current situation accu
rately or offer a fair comparison," Goebel said. The
figures circulated by the union understate current
salary averages at UNL by a significant amount.
"In addition, the assertion that differences which
may exsist are directly the product of collective
bargaining at UNO is a claim that is not supported
by the facts."
, UNL AAUP chapter president Linda Pratt said
she doesn't think Goebel has figures different or
more accurate than those used by AAUP to chart
their comparisons with UNO.
"We got our figures from the state budget office
sheets and from the office of institutional develop
ment and research," Pratt said. "If he has different
figures for 1 982-1983, he should release them."
Gdebel said the apparent higher salaries of some
UNO faculty over UNL faculty resulted primarily
from UNO's merger into the University of Nebraska
system 18 years ago.
Pratt said the merger didn't affect salaries as
much as collective bargaining did. She said it was
only after collective bargaining was implemented
that UNO got a comparatively larger amount of the
university budget than UNL.
Goebel said it was inappropriate to compare UNL
to UNO or UNO's peers, "like Western Illinois or
Central Missouri State." Goebel said the most ap
propriate comparison group for UNL faculty salar
ies is the AAU-Land Grant universities.
"Our Board of Regents has established an AAU
Land Grant comparator group for UNL. In terms of
long-range potential, that is the group with which
UNL should be compared," Goebel said.
Pratt said if AAUP would have compared salaries
with AAULand Grant schools, "the discrepancy
would be even worse" by a margin of 16 percent.
"It shocks many faculty members to discover that
UNL and UNO have rather comparable salaries,
even though the role and mission of the two com
puses is different," Pratt said.
Goebel contended that UNL faculty will benefit
significantly from a "differentiated salary request."
"In our 1984-1985 request, that difference
amounts to a 37 percent greater increase in salary
for UNL faculty," Goebel said.
YAF svreacls conservative views
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series cn UNL psHtied creeps.
The goal of the Young Americans for Freedom is
to create a conservative America. To attain that
goal, YAF has formed "Project One Million," accord
ing to the national chairman of the YAF Political
Action Committee.
Terrell Cannon said the project will attempt to
register one million young conservatives. The pro
ject also helps recruit new members, he said. By last
Wednesday, he said, 50 new members had joined the
120-member UNL chapter in four days. The Lincoln
chapter has about 200 members.
Cannon said that informing voters about issues
and candidates also concerns the YAF.
"Voters are undecided because they are unin
formed," Cannon said.
To become informed and to understand political
issues, Cannon said, voters should be better edu
cated. Also, he said, newspaper articles should
affect people intellectually, leaving emotional im
pact to the television stations.
But, he said, stations should include more com
mentary and debate about the issues.
If voters are better educated about issues, Cannon
said, they will know who to pick as the "right" candi-
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UNL professor's paper airplanes keep his
fame aloft Pegs 3
Much Ado About Nothing receives a round
of huzzahs Pa3 8
UNL women's basketball team begins
Big Eight tournament competition
P2S3 10
Index
Arts and Entertainment 8
Classified 10
Crossword 11
Editorial 4
Off The Wire 2
Sports 10
date. This will save that candidate from spending a
great deal of money on campaigning, he said.
To educate voters, the YAF brings speakers to
UNL and other Nebraska college campuses.
"We try to present topics the ordinary student
doesn't have access to," Cannon said. ;
An example is the recent visit to UNL of Igor
Glagolev, a former Soviet consultant for SALT nego
tations. Future speakers include an MX missile sys
tem expert and a former Soviet military officer who
was involved in the Afghanistan invasion.
The group also offers trips to educational events
for its members, Cannon said. YAF often provides
financial aid on these trips, he said.
Last weekend YAF members traveled to the Con
servative Political Action Conference in Washing
ton, D.C. The conference featured President Reagan
as its keynote speaker. Cannon said Reagan has
worked closely with the YAF even before he was
governor of California.
"We don't always support 100 percent his means,"
Cannon said, "but we always support the goals."
To indicate their support for the group is sincere,
he said, YAF members pay $3 dues per year. Cannon
said this does not cover the cost of the services the
group provides each member, which includes a
quarterly magazine. The group doesn't usually have
fundraisers, he said, but relies on contributions to
cover costs. ,
Cannon said the YAF will concentrate on re
electing U.S. Sen. Roger Jepsen, R-Iowa.
"We narrow down to one prime interest because
of our limited resources," Cannon said.
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Photo courtesy of UPC Talks and Topics
Dorothy Lyman
Soaps' comedienne
Opal to discuss
television success
Dorothy Lyman will discuss soap operas and Hol
lywood acting today at 6:30 p.m. in the Nebraska
Union Centennial room.
Lyman, who played Opal Gardner on the ABC
soap opera All My Children and currently stars in
- Mama-'s Family,wi speak-about her-start in soap
operas and acting. Lyman's presentation, entitled
"Our Life in Art by Dorothy Lyman and Opal
Gardner," is sponsored by the University Program
Council.
George Davis, chairman of the UPC Talks and
Topics committee, said Lyman also will discuss how
acting and drama have effected her life.
"It will be a motivational talk," he said. She will
talk about achieving goals and the importance of
having a dream and making it happen."
Davis said Talks and Topics tries to schedule
speakers who will be both educational and enter
taining. He said he thinks Lyman will be both.
Roxanne Fixsen, a UNL pre-law freshman, said
she has watched All My Children for eight years.
She said Lyman was an outstanding actress in the
soap and since Lyman left, the show is not as funny.
Fixsen said she likes to watch Lyman on Mama 's
Family. ,
"It shows what a good actress she is because she
can adjust to very different roles," Fixsen said.
Angie Thacker, a UNL sophomore in the teacher's
college, said All My Children is her favorite soap
and she said she has watched it every day for five
years.
She said she is glad Opal's part was left open and
not "killed." Thacker said she hopes Opal will return
to All My Children even if only for a visit.
Thacker said she does not see anything wrong
with people watching soap operas unless they
devote their whole days to them.
Tickets are available in advance or at the door.
. Tickets cost $2 for students, $3 for non-students.
By Brad Kuftn
. Ron Stuhr is fighting mad about the University of
Nebraska's new health insurance program and he
plans to slug it out all the way to the Nebraska
Supreme Court.
It's a matter of money. Stuhr, a single custodian at
UNL, is angry because $1.9 million in state funds
were used to decrease out-of-pocket premium costs
for university employees who are married or have
children.
Last year, the university paid $83 a month to
every employee in the university health insurance
program.
With the new program, effective Aug. 1, 1S83, the
university pays $128.28 per month for employees
choosing family coverage and $101.60 per month for
those choosing employee-spouse, or employee-child
coverage. The university still pays $63 for employee
only coverage.
Although employees received no cash raises this
year, less money spent on insurance means more
money in their pockets.
For employees needing spouse or dependent cov
erage, the program switch adds up to a $495.36
increase in net yearly pay. Employees choosing fam
ily coverage will take home $860 more per year with
the new program.
Stuhr says that as a single employee, he has been
unlawfully excluded from benefits offered to mar
ried employees and employees with children.
His case will be the first test of the marital discrim
ination clause in Nebraska's Fair Employment Act.
The act also forbids discrimination based on sex,
race, color, religion, disability or national origin.
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