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The Affirmative Action Plan (AAP)
report will show that the University hired
more minority individuals and women this
year, according to UNL Director of
Personnel Roy V. Loudon.
The report will be finished by April 15,
Loudon added.
AAP is a policy to insure equal
opportunity employment that was approved
March 6, 1971, by the Board of Regents.
To continue receiving federal funds, the
University developed the policy to show a
commitment to equal opportunity hiring
required by the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and
the Federal Equal Opportunity Act of 1972.
Barbara Coffey became the equal
opportunity coordinator for the three
campuses November 1971.
Coffey said that she would be gathering
statistics from the personnel directors and
vice-chancellors of academic affairs of the
campuses for the AAP report.
The report will show the number of
minority persons and women who applied
for jobs and how many were hired by the
University since April, 1972, Coffey said.
The report will survey clerical, food
service and other classified jobs as well as
teaching an administrative jobs, she said.
The first step of AAP was a campuswide,
computerized survey of each employee's
department, job, age, sex, salary, date of
hiring, education and race, according to
Loudon.
He said there have been problems with
that survey. It is needed to show results of
AAP, however, because personnel records do
not indicate a - person's race or national
origin, he said.
One method of the plan recommended
for putting more women and minorities into
all levels of UNL jobs has been wider
recruitment, he said. Then, when qualified
blacks or women are sent with other job
applicants to supervisors, the supervisors are
required to put their reasons for hiring in
writing.
The goal is to force supervisors and
department chairman to justify not hiring a
person for other than arbitrary reasons of
sex and race, Loudon said.
State court upholds
student fee collection
Opponents of mandatory student fees at the University of
Nebraska were dealt another judicial blow Friday when the
Nebraska Supreme Court ruled that collecting them does not
violate a student's constitutional rights.
The unanimous decision upheld a recent Lancaster county
District Court ruling which denied an injunction against
further fee collection. It also was similar to a Federal District
Court ruling last month which held that mandatory fees are
constitutional.
This lastest ruling may draw to a close the lengthy court
controversy over mandatory fees. However a bill to outlaw
most mandatory fees is being held in a legislative committee.
In its ruling, the Supreme Court said: "Within reasonable
limits, it is appropriate that many different points of view be
presented to the students."
Although "a lack of sound judgment in some respects" may
have occurred with fees expenditures, "they hardly furnish a
basis for injunction relief against the defendants," the court
said.
The court decision also stated that fees appear not to have
been "directed toward a particular point of view."
Although some speakers "have expressed views that are not
acceptable to many of the students," the judges ruled it is not
a controlling issue in the case.
"If such views are expressed only as a part of the exchange
of ideas and there is no limitation Or control imposed so that
only one point of view is expressed through the program, there
is no violation of constitutional rights . . .," the court said.
Nebraskan writers
win Hearst Awards
Two Daily Nebraskan staff writers have finished second and
eighth in the William Randolph Hearst Foundation journalism
awards program.
Mary Voboril tied for second in general news writing for an
examination of the mental health effects of the 1972 Rapid
City, S.D., flood. Steve Strasser placed eighth for a profile of
Tom Osborne, new UNL football coach.
Voboril will receive a $400 award and Strasser will receive
$150. The UNL School of Journalism will receive matching
grants.
This is Strasser's second win in the competition. He placed
fifth in the 1971 contest for a profile of a welfare mother.
The wins move the journalism school into first place in the
nationwide competition for school honors.
Voboril has worked as a staff writer and copy editor for the
Daily Nebraskan. She also is employed as a copy editor for the
Lincoln Journal. Strasser has served as a staff writer, news
editor, east campus editor and night news editor for the Daily
Nebraskan.
Gateway under fire for 'offensive language'
Furor generated by a cartoon in Gateway, UNO's
student newspaper, has yet to die down, the
publication's managing editor says.
UNO Chancellor Ronald Roskens protested
publication of the cartoon in a letter to UNO
publications adviser Terry Humphrey. Copies of the
Roskens' letter were sent to the Board of Regents and
NU President D.B. Varner.
"I had hoped the issue would have died down by
now," said Greg Knudsen, Gateway managing editor.
"We have more important things going on here that
we need to worry about."
An Umaha newspaper resurrected the ssue last
Thursday. A 16-inch story began "The Board of
Regents may be heading for another go-around over
the contents of student publications in the University
of Nebraska system," after the publication of a
cartoon.
The cartoon in question appeared on the Gateway
editorial page in the Feb. 7 issue. It showed a
gardener, labeled "Ros" (in reference to Roskens),
unloading a wheelbarrow load of manure on a cluster
of mushrooms, labeled "student body."
The caption below the cartoon read, "Treat 'em
like mushrooms. Leave 'em in the dark and keep
feeding 'em bullshit."
In his letter, Roskens said the language of the
cartoon was "low-grade" and "in exceedingly poor
taste."
"You may be sure that members of the Board of
Regents are interested in our stance with respect to
this question. It again raises the question of using
student fee money to support the Gateway," the
letter continued.
Roskens also said in the letter that it was only the
cartoon's language, not "any implied criticism" of
himself, that concerned him.
Knudsen disagreed.
"We feel Roskens took the cartoon personally. His
letter represents a kind of threat," he said.
The incident may test the regents' year-old
attempt to set guidelines for the student publications
within the NU system. The guidelines, although not
specifying which words are considered "in bad taste,"
say "ideas can be conveyed and news reported
accurately and honestly without the use of pictures,
words or descriptions that a significant portion of the
readership finds offensive."
The guidelines further call for the student press to
"know its own audience, the academic community,
and to interpret these guidelines based on that
knowledge."
Knudsen said most of the criticism directed at the
Gateway as a result of the cartoon came from persons
besides students-that is, from UNO faculty,
administrators and non-university concerns.
Knudsen said he did not think the word "bullshit"
offended the student audience.
Tom O'Neill, a student member of the UNO
Publications Committee, also defended the cartoon.
He said it "expressed how students fep on campus In
a vernacular familiar to them."
Knudsen said he expects the matter to be brought
up at the March 4, Board of Regents meeting.