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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4. 1971 - LINCOLN, NEBRASKA VOL. 94, NO. 55
6 NU not tamed to housing needs
by MARSHA BANGERT
Staff Writer
The City-Wide Tenants
Association has charged the
University with demonstrating
"a lack of understanding" of
the serious housing shortage in
Lincoln.
A resolution signed by Bea
Richmond, association
president, calls upon the
University to "immediately
recognize this problem" and
"promptly take steps to
remedy this housing shortage
by constructing and purchasing
additional housing for married
students."
University students living
off campus, particularly
married students, are
amplifying the lack of
University commitment to the
construction of married
student housing, the resolution
states.
The Board of Regents,
President Joseph Soshnik,
Housing Office Director Ely
Meyerson and Housing Officer
Wayne Blue will receive a copy
of the resolution by mail.
The resolution was
presented at a Tuesday night
meeting of University students
and the City-Wide Tenants
Association, a group of
Lincolnites who rent instead of
own their residences.
"University students are
aware of the housing problems
and know the tender spots in
University policy," Richmond
said. "The students should
organize."
In a report which parallels
the resolution, senior Linda
Schaefer found the University
provides 57 living units for
4,049 married students
enrolled at Nebraska first
semester, 1970-71. The
University does not have
housing for 78 per cent of its
married students.
The 57 living units are fewer
than one-fifth the number at
the University of Kansas, the
Big Eight college with the
lowest number next to
Nebraska.
In con trast to the
University, the report finds
that the Lincoln Housing
Authority provides 457
married student families with
units under a lease-rental
program. An additional 400
students rent under the
program from the Arnold
Height Housing Authority.
This program permits the
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authority to lease units from
Lincoln landlords, rent them to
low-income families at 20-25
per cent of the family income
and make up any difference
with a federal subsidy.
Schaefer noted in her report
that families often must spend
31-37 per cent of their income
on rent rather than the
recommended 25. Then the
family must cut elsewhere in
their budget. This can produce
"such serious side-effects as
malnutrition."
The difficulty in finding
housing for Lincolns
low-income people is
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Untenured education teacher
iibhard contests possible firing
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by BILL SMITHERMAN
Staff Writer
When an untenured
professor at the University of
Nebraska is told he may not be
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compounded by a low vacancy
rate (1.6 per cent) for
single-family homes, which the
poor can afford. The vacancy
rate is the percentage of the
living units available for rent.
The 1.6 per cent compares
with a 6 per cent rate for all
rental property in Lincoln.
"With students added to
this tight market, some
low-income families are forced
into doubling up in houses or
living in substandard units,"
the report states.
The report also attributes
the housing shortage to
demolition activities by the
city of Lincoln and the
rehired for the next year, he
usually leaves quietly.
But Duke B. Hubbard, a
31 -year old assistant professor
of educational administration,
is not usual. He is strongly
contesting his possible not
reappointment, which he feels
has nothing to do with his
abilities as a teacher.
In a letter to Hubbard dated
Dec. 14, Dale K. Hayes,
chairman of the Educational
Administration Department
and Hubbard's immediate
superior, wrote to Hubbard:
"According to established and
emerging procedures it is my
responsibility to inform you
that you might hot be
reemployed by the University
of Nebraska for the 1970-71
academic year,"
"Reasons for this potential
action include issues which I
have verbally reported to you
at various times. . ." Hayes
wrote.
The assistant professor has
been at the University for one
University. In the Clinton area,
for instance, the University has
torn down 50 homes as part of
the Northeast Radial
thoroughfare construction.
The report points out that
most of the building now
taking place is for moderate
and high income families.
As the University expands
eastward, it buys and
demolishes houses in the
Malone area. A 1968 research
project by graduate students in
social work uncovered
problems connected with the
relocation of residents who
sold property to the
University.
and a half years. During this
time he said he had continually
questioned the decision making
process of his department.
"The current decision
making process in the
department leads to
conformity and consensus in
the faculty," Hubbard said.
"Communication and new
ideas are thwarted and
distorted by the process."
He charged that the full
human resources of the
department are not being
utilized because faculty
members fear reprisals for
attempting change. "The
present system is not able to
assimilate new people and ideas
from the outside," he said.
Calling educational
administration "a tight club,"
Hubbard said if he had left
quietly it would have been easy
to find another job. This is the
reason most people who are
moved out of a department say
nothing. But, it doesn't change
the system to simply move out
"Many of the families had
difficulty finding comparable
housing elsewhere in the city;
the problems multiplied for the
elderly and the welfare
recipients who are on fixed
incomes," the report states.
Since the University is
directly involved in the critical
housing shortage in Lincoln,
the report recommends that
the school develop a program
to provide more housing for its
married students.
Schaefer writes, "It is time
now for the University to
become a more responsible
institution in the community."
of it he added.
"My committment and
lovalty to the profession . do
not mean lovalty to
administrators, Hubbard said,
"They , mean loyalty to the
change process that will
improve the quality of
education in the department."
The department has had
some healthy meetings since
conflict has developed over his
case, Hubbard said. "Change is
starting to come about," he
continued. "The questions that
I have tried to raise are coming
out now because of my case."
"I ask these questions
because educational
administration is really
decision making," Hubbard
said. "Right now the process is
a little sick."
The professor said he was
forced to hire attorneys for a
fight to carry his case after all
other methods had failed to
initiate some kind of due
process in his case. He said he
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