NU tops education study's list;
report to include public comment
By Jena Dahlmot Bourn a
Because it is the most comprehensive of Nebra
ska's schools, the University of Nebraska will be "the
single most important part" of the study by the
Citizen's Commission for the Study of Higher Educa
tion. The university system is also the primary
research and graduate education facility.
The study, however, will consider all Nebraska
colleges and universities, including private institu
tions. According to commission director James
Olson, 20 percent of the state's college students
attend private schools.
The commission will present its recommendations
to Gov. Kerrey by the end of the year, Olson said.
"I told the governor we'd have the report under
his Christmas tree," Olson said.
The commission will study issues such as the
quality of Nebraska's higher education, the coordina
tion and possible duplication of resources at
different schools, cost effectiveness and forms of
school government.
The 66-member commission will have monthly
meetings throughout the state. Each meeting will
include time for public comment, Olson said. The
next meeting will be Aug. 16 in North Platte.
Olson said he is meeting with the chancellor's and
presidents of all Nebraska colleges and universities.
Commission members also will study the fiscal
position of the state, economic trends, statistics
from the various schools and changes in the stat s
population. They will use the information along with
public comment, to form their recommendations.
The commission will study problems facing in
stitutions of higher education. One of those prob
lems, Olson said, is financing. All over the country,
states are having trouble supporting their schools,
he said. '
Also, he said, schools face a declining population
because the number of 18-year-olds is decreasing.
This trend is expected to last into the mid-lB90s.
At the same time, "the impact of technology is
such that people who are working need retraining
more often than ever before," Olson said.
Schools also face the challenge of maintaining the
quality of the education they provide, he said.
The commission will do its work in three phases,
Olson said. The first phase, a survey of Nebraska's
needs between now and the year 2000, began at the
commission's July 9 meeting.
In the second phase of the project, the commission
will survey the state's present educational resources.
The third phase will include development of a set of
recommendations to be presented to Kerrey.
After the report is completed, Olson said, the
commission will exist for six months, to lead public
discussion and implementation of the commission's
findings.
Olson, who is employed full time by the commis
sion, received his master's degree and a decorate in
history from the University of Nebraska. He recently
retired as president of the University of Missouri.
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By Mike Wcitel
The University Police Department this fall will
extend its patrol hours for residence hall parking
lots, according to a Parking Advisory Committee
decision.
To keep unauthorized cars out of parking lots,
UNL police will patrol Parking Areas 1, 2 and 3 until
11 p.m. on weekdays. In the past, police patrolled
the lots until 5 p.m. on weekdays.
Also beginning this fall, UNL police will patrol the
506 parking meters on campus until noon on Satur
days, including football Saturdays. Ticketing cars at
unpaid meters before noon on Saturdays has pre
viously been ignored, the committee said.
Spurred by the need for more parking space, the
committee also discussed the addition of a gravelled
parking lot north of the Harper-Schramm-Smith
residence hall complex. Construction bids are to go
out next week, pushing for a September completion
date.
To avoid possible traffic accidents during the first
few days of the fall semester, the left lane of 17th
Street east of the Cather-Pound residence halls will
be closed from R Street and made into a loading
zone for incoming students. UNL police parking
control officers will help.control the increased traf
fic from students moving in the residence halls.
The committee also decided to change the staff
and faculty lots, Parking Area 12 and Parking Area
1 9, to Parking Area 1 0. The decision is one of the first
steps toward eliminating the number system and
developing a color system of parking lot enforcement.
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Lincoln customers approve action
Workers began tearing down a McDonald's
restaurant Tuesday in San Ysidro, Calif., where 21
people were shot to death on July 18.
A manager of a Lincoln McDonald's said cus
tomers have expressed approval of the restau
rant's handling of the incident.
- "Several customers have commented about
how sad the whole thing is," said T&mmia Reich-,
waldt, manager of Lincoln's Mth and O street
McDonald's. Customers are "glad McDonald's is
doing what it's doing" to meet the requests of
survivors and to set up a survivor's fund, Reich
waldt said.
"They're not frightened or anything," she said,
"they realize it could happen anywhere."
Joan Kroc, widow of the McDonald's chain
founder Ray Kroc, donated $100,000 to start a
fund for survivors of the nation's worst one-day
mass murder. The McDonald's chain contributed
$1 million to the fund, and individuals have con
tributed, close to $200,000 more, a secretary for
McDonald's media relations office said.
Off The Wire
National and international news
from the Rcutcr News Report
Houoe approves
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WASHINGTON The House of Representa
tives, trying to overcome a constitutional ban
on prayer in public schools, Thursday voted
overwhelmingly to allow voluntary silent prayer
in schools. The 378-29 vote came as an amend
ment to an education bill The amendment
said no state or local agency shall deny indi
viduals in public schools the opportunity to
participate in moments of silent prayer.
The Supreme Court has ruled prayer in pub
lic schools violates the constitutional doctrine
separating church and state. Earlier this year,
the Senate failed to pass a constitutional
amendment which would allow school prayers
even though President Reagan lobbied hard
for such action. Supporters of the House action
said it would not lead to organized religious
activities.
The voluntary silent prayer measure would
have to be approved by the Senate and signed
by Reagan before it could become law and then
would most Jikely face a legal challenge to
determine if it is constitutional Before approv
ing the silent prayer amendment, the House
defeated another amendment which would
have barred federal funds to schools which did
not allow voluntary prayers. Yesterday, the
House passed and sent to Reagan another bill
which would allow religious groups to use pub
lic school facilities for meetings and other
activities before and after schooL Supporters
said the so-called "equal access" bill only would
give religious groups the same rights as non
religious clubs and other organizations to use
public facilities. Opponents said it would open
the way for cults to use the schools.
Cease-fire short-lived
TRIPOLI Ten people died and 50 were
wounded in a fresh round of fierce fighting
Thursday following the collapse of a cease-fire
agreement between warring factions, official
sources said. It brought the total number of
dead in the two-day battle to 30 and the list of
wounded to 200. The cease-fire lasted only one
hour before the fighting over school examira
tions was renewed.
As the pro-Syrian Arab Democratic Party
militia and the Sunni Moslem Islamic Unifica
tion movement battled with heavy machine
gun and rocket' fire, the Ministry of Education
in Beirut announced that examinations for
high school certificates had been suspended
throughout the nation. Ministry sources cited
the fighting in Tripoli and Israeli interference
with the tests in southern Lebanon as the rea
sons. In Tripoli, where the exams have tradi
tionally been held in a university building
located in AOP-controlled territory, the fight
ing was sparked by a Sunni faction demand
that they be held in an area under its control.
Lebanon's Prime Minister,-Rashid Karami,
arrived in Damascus, the Syrian capital, Thurs
day, where he was expected to discuss the
Tripoli clashes and security arrangements for
the greater Beirut area with Syrian leaders. An
all-party security committee in Tripoli sent an
urgent appeal to Karami ami Syrian President
Hafez Al-Assad to help end the fighting once
and for all.
Meanwhile, the United Nations Interim Force
in Lebanon declined a government request to
ship the sealed exam papers from Beirut to the
South after Israel objected, officials said. Bei
rut radio speculated the Israeli action was
linked to the closure Wednesday of Israel's
Liaison Office north of Beirut, which had
served as the only direct link between the two
governments.
Disloyal terrorist shot
BELFAST The Irish Republican Army
said Thursday it had killed on e of its own guer
rillas because he was an informer. Brian McNally,
25, vas shot through the head early Thursday
and dumped in a ditch on a road in Newry,
County Down, near the border with the Irish
Republic. The IRA, fighting to force the with
drawal of British troops from Northern Ire
land, said in a statement that McNally had
given information to the police about IRA
volunteers. It said the police had offered McNally
$32 a week and a holiday in Spain in return for
information. The police declined to comment
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Dally Nobraskan
Friday. July 27. 1984
