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aolltu e p ir a s iH3 a m WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29, 1970 LINCOLN, NEBRASKA VOL. 93, NO. 89 Grad by CAROL ANDERSON and BILL SMITHERMAN Nebraska Staff Writer Militant action by graduate student groups has resulted in changes at some universities, but representatives to a pro posed graduate group at the University of Nebraska do not feel the need for militant action at this time. The idea of a graduate stu dent association was conceived by Benjamin McCashland, head of the Graduate College, who saw it as just an advisory board, according to sociology graduate student Susan Jacobs. But, the form of the group has changed as the students have worked with it, she said. Graduate students need to form a graduate association to combat departmental isolation and as a means to exert greater control over their own academic destinies, Doug Wagner, graduate student in history said. The group's goal is a voice in all matters including cur Ivy Day short, sweet The University's traditional Ivy Day will be greatly shortened and upda ed for the eighty-first presentation Satur day afternoon. Three select University School of Music groups will take part in the program north of Love Library beginning at 1 p.m. Instead cf the former 11 a.m.v Chancellor Durward Varner will give the welcome and President Joseph Soshnik will present the Ivy Day traditions. Dean of faculties C Peter Magrath will be master of ceremonies. Tapping of new Mortar Boards and tackling of new Innocents will begin at 3 p.m. Ivy Day will open with a concert by the University's Symphonic Bahd directed by Donald Lentz. During the afternoon program, musical selections will be presented by the Madrigal Singers and the Varsity Men's Glee Club. Announcement will be made of the recipient of the highest women's average award and the Dean llelen Snyder Scholarship. .7-? to-- ? til f.. - t''' ' ' V v tsi Richmond Brown and students 6come together9 riculum decisions concerning grad students in their roles as teaching assistants or students, according to Wagner. "Grad students now have almost no influence," he said and need to collectivize because "the University has become so large that the in dividual student is incapable of making changes." Wagner admits that one pro blem with the group is "w h a t type of role they (ad ministration) will allow us to play." He sees no possibility of the students becoming militant like the University of Wisconsin graduate student association which recently went on strike. But he said the group's course will be determined by the response of the administra tion. Most grad students are "if not enthused are at leat sym pathetic." and faculty reaction ranges from thinking the idea is nonsense and a waste of time to a feeling that grad students can contribute to solving the Jn ir-lfiCr- . iv'nrlli: mm rr: , uv . , M(&. the Blues Band put a little sound into Monday after"non at the Union. academic problems, Wagner said. Miss Jacobs agrees that the possibility of the group becom ing militant is remote because the grad student's biggest con cern is "self-preservation." The purpose of the group is to open lines of communication between grad students and faculty since "there is no reason for them to be closed," she said. Administration Regents Many of the top University of Nebraska administrators received sizeable salary raises for the 1970-71 fiscal year. The following salaries were not included in either budget summaries or. news releases distributed to the news media. The Board of Regents ap parently resolved the salaries before their meeting last week. The president of the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, Dr. Cecil Wittson, will become the highest paid member of the University administrative staff July 1. Wittson's $40,500 salary will top that of Chancellor Durward B. Varner by $500. Salaries for other ad ministrators with University wide responsibilities include: Merk Ifobson. executive vice chancellor, $36,000 up $1,000 from the current year. G. Robert Ross, vice chancellor for student pro grams, $32,000 up $2,000. Harry S. Allen, director of institutional research and x Sf? : I ;; SI a. A graduate student in Speech and Dramatic Art, John Stone expressed concern over the future of the organization. Since the original group was formed, McCashland has resigned his job to take a post in Minnesota. "McCashland's resignation has left us kind of hanging," he said. "The organization may have trouble becoming anything if we don't have a gravy raise NU planning, $24,500 up $t,500. Gene Budig. assistant vice chancellor, $19,000 up $2,000. Carl Donaldson, director of business services, is retiring from that position but will become consultant to the president of Lincoln campuses and outstate activities at his current salary of $26,000. George S. Round, director of information and special assistant to the chancellor, $25,000 up $2,500. Francis L. S c h m e h 1 , research administrator, $26,000 up $1,000. Glenn W. Smith, director of budget planning, $21,000 up $1,500. New salaries for ad ministrators with responsibilities for the Lincoln campuses and outstate ac tivities include: Joseph Soshnik, president, $35,500 - up $2,500. C. Peter Magrath, dean of faculties, $30,500 up $2,000. Miles Tommeraasen, director of business and finance, $23.500 up $t.50Q. i I s friend on the inside of the ad ministration." Forty-four of the sixty-six graduate departments are cur rently represented In the group. At the first meeting, last month, it was realized that this was too large a group to work with and a committee of 12 students was formed to plan proposals for the next meeting, Stone said. Continued on Page 8 salaries Russell II. Brown, dean for student development, $20,500 up $1,500. Lee W. Chatfield, dean of student academic services, $20,500 up $1,500. Edward W. Janike, dean of extension, $26,400 up $1,200. Carl R. Yost, comptroller, $20,000 up $1,000. Kirk Naylor, president of the University of Nebraska at Omaha, will receive a $1,500 raise to $33,200. New salaries for college deans will include: Richard E. Bradley, Den tistry, $28,500 up $2,000. John R. Davis, Engineering and Architecture, $28,500 up $2,000. -Elvtn Agriculture, $1,500, F. FroIIk, $29,500 up Robert Pharmacy, D. Gibson, $26,500 up $1,500. Henry M. Grether Jr., Law, $27,500 up $1,500. Charles S. Miller, Business Administration, $28,000 up $1,500. For the position of dean of Teachers College, the budget includes $28,500. Walter Beggs, slated to retire from the posi tion at the end of the current academic year, now receives $22,800. Robert L. Hough, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences on a temporary appointment, receives $19,500 for t h e academic year. His successor, Melvtn George, will receive $28,500 on a full-year appoint ment. The College of Agriculture and Home Economics will be divided into two colleges. The Board of Regents did not op point a new dean for the new college of Home Economics. Virginia Y. Trotter, associate dean of the combined college and director of the Capitol School of Home Economics now receives $26,000 in that position and reportedly has the inside track for the new deanshipw
