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Vol. 76, No. 46
The Doily Nebroskan
Monday, December 10, 1962
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By GARY LACEY
Nebraskan Staff Writer
A governor, confronted with the problems
of balancing an enormous state budget, was
showered with the monetary problems of
maintaining higher education Friday as Uni
versity representatives presented their pro
posed budget for the coming biennium.
At a hearing in the statehouse, Chancel
lor Clifford Hardin, told Gov. Frank Morrison
that in preparing the budget requests, Univer
sity officials were motivated by the aims to
provide the best educational opportunity for
Nebraska's youth, and to m a k e Nebraska a
more positive force in America.
To accomplish these aims
the University, In a pro
posal submitted in early No
vember to the tax commis
sioner, asked $36,991,987
from the state's general fund.
The figure is an $8,895,987
increase over the $28,096,000
given the University for the
last biennium.
Blueprint
"Although there is no get
ting away from emphasis on
dollar costs, the budget is
important because it is a blue
print of what the University
can do for Nebraska and Ne
braska's people. And in one
sense it is a compilation of
proposed expenditures; in a
more real sense, it is a pro
posal for the further invest
ment of this state," said
Chancellor Hardin.
More specifically, the pro
posed budget will bring the
salaries of the professional
staff nearer to the average
of other midwestern univer
sities, modernize the College
of Medicine in Omaha, ex
pand and deepen programs
in agriculture, and strengthen
the University libraries, Har
din said.
He explained that the Col
lege of Medicine renovation is
absolutely imperative if Ne
braska is to be in the main
stream of modern medicine
further postponement simp
ly must not be considered.
To emphasize the import
ance of receiving the request
ed grants for the specific
needs listed by the Chancellor
in his opening address, sev
eral of the vice-chancellors
and deans gave detailed re
ports to Gov. Morrison.
Dr. Joseph Soshnik, vice
chancellor of business and
Marvel, Quigley
To View Budget
Gov. Frank Morrison said
Saturday that he would meet
with State Sen. Richard
Marvel of Hastings, and John
Quigley, legislative analyst,
before he makes his budget
recommendations.
He said that he will discuss
"budget problems in general,
including the University re
quest," with them.
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PRAYING Regents and University officials seem to as
sume the attitude of prayer in hopes that the one third
increase in budget will be granted. (Photo by Pixie Small-wood)
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finance, compared the
salaries of NU instructors
with regional averages using
information provided by the
United States Department of
Education.
In all salary classes, he
said, we are from $600 to
$1,200 below the regional ave
rage. "With the money asked for
EXPLAINING Chancellor
Hardin explains in his open
ing speech the wants and
needs of the University to
Gov. Morrison and Forrest
Johnson, state finance dir
ector. (Photo by Pixie
Smallwood)
Still One Way
The trial test of one-way
student traffic between first
and second floors of Burnett
will continue today and
Wednesday, said Bill Dunk
lau, chairman of the Student
Council student traffic flow
committee.
He pointed out that going
up the west stairs and down
the east stairs does not
pertain to stairs between
basement and first and sec
ond and third.
Students should go in the
west door, out the east door
and the middle door will be
two-way. Daily Nebraskans
will be distributed at the
middle door.
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in the proposed budget we
could abolish the gap in pay,
assuming that the other uni
versities don't increase their
salaries, but this is improb
able," Soshnik said.
Soshnik explained the me
chanics of the entire budget
to the Governor and the tax
commissioner, emphasizing
that the budget is presented
in two parts one which
gives the total amount of
money needed to maintain
the University's present pro
grams, and one labeled
growth and development
which provides extra money,
initiates new programs and
strengthens existing p r o
grams. Development, Growth
Of the $8.9 million increase
in the proposed budget, $3.3
million is asked for growth
and development.
Soshnik said that extra
money was needed in almost
all academic areas because
of the increase in enrollment.
Dr. E. F. Frolik, dean of
the College of Agriculture,
said that the biggest problem
is an increasing difficulty in
holding present competent
staff members. He said that
salaries for agriculture pro
fessors arc slightly below the
midpoint in national charts.
Frolik cited one particularly
fine member of his staff who
is paid a salary of $13,600 and
has been contacted by other
universities that will pay
him much more.
Seven Areas
The Ag Dean pointed out
to Gov. Morrison the follow
ing seven areas where he de
sires to improve the Ag Col
lege increase staff effici
ency, continue development of
the field laboratory at Mead,
pursue economic marketing
and its development, increase
attention to Nebraska's plant
diseases and insect problems,
Lowest in Federal Aid
Hardin, Dean Cite
Med School Needs
The University College of Medicine is the lowest state
appropriated institution in the United States in the amount
of federal aid received, Chancellor Clifford Hardin told
Gov. Frank Morrison at the University budget hearing
Friday.
Dr. J. P. Tollman, dean of the College of Medicine, said
that the main reason federal aid is not available to the
College is because they didn't have adequate staff
members to carry on various research projects.
According to a University fact sheet, of the $8.9 mil
lion increase from the general fund in the proposed 1963-65
budget, $2,117,065 is requested as the first segment in a
ten year over-all development program for the Medical
College and the University High School.
The report said that the medical educational system
is seriously impaired by the shortage of teaching beds,
by a lack of patients with diverse medical problems
by a teaching staff too small to perform instruction ade
quately. The University Hospital has 145 beds, some 150 to 250
fewer than is required of a school the size of the Uni
versity. Lack Facilities
It is estimated that at least 12,000 patients were turned
away from the University Hospital last year because beds
and facilities were not available. About 4,000 patients were
accepted for care.
The first segment in a ten year program, this bienniel
request, the report said, is a realistic one because the Uni
versity recognizes the time needed to plan for hospital con
struction. The staff and services requested in the present pro
posed budget can be absorbed into the exisiting physical
plant and hospital.
Particularly in the clinical areas, the teaching faculty is
too small because instructor's areas of interest are limited.
In the four departments of clinical examination there
are eight full-time members, compared with 64 full-time
members at the University of Kansas.
More Members
Included in the budget request, are additional members
in clinical medicine". A full-time department of radiology
will be created and five more will be added as
surgical instructors.
The college will continue to use the volunteer instruc
tors to fill out the teaching staff.
In the areas of internal medicine, three additional staff
members have been requested in the following areas infec
tious diseases, pulmonary diseases, renal diseases, en
docrinoloy, hematology and allergy-immunology.
In addition to medical student teaching, a sound med
ical center trains nurses, technologists, therapists and pro
vides services by caring for the indigent sick of the state,
the report said. '
The varied functions also require more beds and pati
ients with a myriad of problems. At present the Col-,
lege of Medicine does offer many areas of specialization,
such as: orthopedics, urology, endoctrinology, hemotology,
Because other specialized areas are not offered, a Ne
braska student has to transfer to another medical school to
receive training.
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begin additional state home
economics work, increase
state work and initiate a pro
gram of teaching and re
search in wild life manage
ment. Adam Breckenridge, vice
chancellor for faculties, ex
plained the situation of t h e
College of Arts and Sciences,
the College of Business Ad
ministration and Teachers
College.
He said that the College of
Arts and Sciences is "t h e
principle teaching arm of the
undergraduate college, com
posing one half of all the
credit hour teaching."" He
said that if the University
wants the same number of
quality high school graduates,
then staff additions will have
to be made in most every de
partment. The College of Business Ad
ministration has ready a plan
No Tuition Increase
In University budget pro
ceedings at the statehouse
Friday, J. G. Elliot, a mem
ber of the Board of Regents,
said that the Board is not at
present, considering a raise
in student tuition to supple
ment the amount being
asked from the state gener
al fund.
to initiate a Master's degree
in Business Administration,
Breckenridge said, but funds
are needed for the extra staff
members required to t e a c h
graduate business courses.
Staff Members
Breckenridge reported that
the College of Engineering
and Architecture needs at
least five new staff members
to take care of the number of
students who transfer to the
college after spending two
years in a junior college.
He also requested addition-
Ask Increase
al funds for the University
libraries, Teachers College,
the University TV station, the
Trailside Museum at B't. Rob
inson and the school of den
tistry. Approximately the same
dollar amount was asked to
maintain the University phys
ical plant lights, heat, build
ings and ground maintenance.
Vice Chancellor for gradu
ate and professional study,
Roy Holly, illustrated the
College of Medicine's predica
ment. Tradition Threatened
He said, "The College has
a long tradition for training
fine physicians, however, re
cent allotments have kept us
from moving forward in many
areas of medicine."
Holly said that presently
the College of Medicine em
ploys instructors on a volun
tary basis which makes for
a piecemeal curriculum.
CONCENTRATING Gov. Frank Morrison follows budget
figures as Business and Finance Director Soshnik presents
the University's budget request. (Photo by Pixie Small
wood) Salary Adjustments
Require Higher Budget
In an attempt to bridge the
gap between salaries paid at
the University and salaries
paid at other midwestern uni
versities, officials are asking
a $3.3 million increase for
salary adjustments.
If the proposed budget is
accepted by the legislature,
average salaries would be up
12.3 per cent in 1963-64 from
1962-63.
During the past two years,
the University has found it
self at a disadvantage in
many cases in attempting to
hold some of its staff mem
bers, because of an average
gap of approximately $1200;
this includes instructors, as
sistant professors, associate
professors and full professors.
Many of the professors who
have left the University for
other schools say that they
did not do so just for the sal
ary increase, but for other
benefits such as a 12 per cent
contribution for retirment
double the Nebraska rate
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SALARY AVERAGES
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Dr. J. P. Tollman, dean of
the College of Medicine, said
"It is what we aren't doing
that is the problem."
Gov. Morrison asked wheth
er the budget had any excess
fat which could be trimmed.
Adoption Stressed
C. E. Swanson, a mem
ber of the Board of Regents
from Lincoln, said, "This
budget unequivocally and
without reservation should be
adopted."
Chancellor Hardin com
mented that professors were
close to the breaking point in
many areas of workloads."
Hardin also pointed out
that the college student at the
University today is "harder
working and more serious
than ten years ago."
Citing some recent Univer
sity accomplishments Hardin
said the school of journalism
was tabbed as the best in the
nation and the law school
and free tuition for staff
members children.
According to a University
reoort. the University has
still made progress, as indi
cated in the chart below. The
University has lost many
good men, but it has also re
tained many because of their
attachment to the school and
the state.
Adding to the problem of
attracting qualified faculty
members is the fact that in
some states manv new col
leees and universities are
being constructed. One state
alone is spending $11 million
annually for the construction
of new institutions.
To staff the new institu
tions, these states are look
ing to existine schools across
the country for their faculty."
Chancellor Clifford Hardin
said, "If we want to assure
our children of a duality edu
cation in the future we must
take steps now to attract and
hold competent educators
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Growth
Salaries, High Costs
Cause Ag Problems
Of the $8.9 million increase
from the general fund in the
1963-65 budget, $2,250,365 is
being asked for the College of
Agriculture.
This budget request reflects
growth and development
items of $856,184 for the Agri
cultural Experiment Stations
and Agricultural Extension
Service; an additional $100,
500 for resident instruction:
and the remainder for main
taining the present programs
in agriculture.
The funds would provide
services to Nebraska agricul
ture in seven ways:
1) by increasing the effici
ency of the present staff; 2)
by continuing the orderly and
planned development of the
Field Laboratory at Mead;
3) by giving increased atten
tion to economic develop
ment, marketing and utiliza
tion; 4) by giving increased
attention to plant diseass and
insect problems of the state;
5) by meeting demands for
additional home economics
work over the state; 6) by
increasing outstate work; 7)
by inaugurating a program of
teaching and research in
Wild Life Management.
Another proposal in the
College of Agriculture budget
was $74,000 for increased em
phasis on plant diseases and
insects. In 1962, black stem
rust caused a loss of 25 per
cent of the wheat crop in the
state.
To provide added emphasis
to these problems, the Col
lege of Agriculture is asking
funds to hire an entomologist
to work on corn rootworm
and grasshoppers, a plant
pathologist to do research on
rust control ana epidemiology,
and a horticultural specialist,
well-trained in plant pathol
ogy and entomology, who
would work in diseased and
insect problems in trees,
lawns, and ornamentals.
, The proposal for develop
ment of the ag field lab at
Mead is reauestine $225,284
which will be involved in
transferring operation and
development as part of a ten
year plan of consolidating the
Ag College land.
The result ot tnis develop
ment is a shift in the opera
tions of the College of Agri
culture. It has termmated tne
lease on 480 acres of land
southwest of Lincoln which is
owned by the Burlington Rail
road.
Almost $214,000 for in
creased research in econom
ic development, marketing
and utilization is being re
quested from the legislature.
Another area which will re
ceive aid is in crops utiliza
tion research, and the area
of expanded personnel and
research in outstate areas
is requesting $60,000.
Funds amounting to $70,
000 is asked to support the
Wild Life Management cur
riculum program which would
provide for specialists in the
field of game birds, water
fowl and fish management.
Gov. Morrison said that he
had deleted funds from the
State Department of Agricul
ture's budget set aside for
vegetable research, because
he felt it was the job of the
University College of Agricul
ture. Dean Frolik said that
no such funds were set aside
for this project. Gov. Morri
son requested that the Dean
meet with Pearle Flnigan, di
rector of the State Depart
ment of Agriculture, and work
this area out.
By
Fricdrich
Ducrrenmatt
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