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Zumberge stresses students' role as adults
By Nancy Stohs
UNL Chancellor James Zumberge, world-renowned
glaciologist who has made scientific expeditions to Alaska,
Antartica and Greenland, gets orders to "break the ice" even in
Nebraska.
So he was ordered this summer in the following message from
a North Carolina UNL alumna:
"I simply cannot understand you. If you are stupid enough
not to know that our country is fast approaching second-rate and
that alcohol is one of the chief reasons, I'll tell you so... How did
(you) ever get to be chancellor of Nebraska?"
This is one of several dozen letters alumni and parents sent
Zumberge criticizing his support of the alcohol and visitation
proposals defeated by the regents in June.
Zumberge, who said he hasn't changed his stand, answered
every one.
"The Legislature declared students adults," the father of four
college students said. "Adults are provided with the opportunity
to make a choice. I don't want to have to make choices for
students that they should be making themselves.
"The only way you grow up is to learn to decide between
right and wrong, not to have someone telling you all the time,"
he said.
He said the same applied for extending visitation hours. He
said 24-hour visitation h impractical "because it goes beyond the
logic of students that their dormitory room is home. Nobody has
24-hour visitation in their home."
However, Residence Hall Association's (RHA)
eight-hour-weekday and 12-hour-weekend requests were
reasonable, he said.
"The regents tend to equate both requests by students
(alcohol and visitation) in the same way," he said. The regents see
liberalizing either one is as a step tcvard greater student
immorality according to Zumberge.
Answering letters and backing student's rights isn't
Zumberge's only job. He said his main goal as chancellor is to
"create an environment scholars can thrive in," so students are
"as free as they want to pursue academic goals with the least
administrative interference."
Practically, this means "getting enough money to make it all
possible," he said.
The Minneapolis native came to UNL two years ago from the
University of Arizona, where he was earth sciences college dean.
He was graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1946
with a B.A. in geology and received his Ph.D. there in 1950, also
in geology.
Zumberge, 49, has spent 23 years as either a college
administrator or instructor. However, he said he hasn't let his
geological interests crumble with his administrative paperwork.
On the walls of the office, which contains his celebrated
round table used during conferences, hang maps of Antarctica,
Greenland and Great Britain, and on his bookshelves is Elements
of Geology, one of 10 books he wrote.
"I don't go just to go," he said of his polar trips, one of which
produced Cape Zumberge, Antarctica. "I go to Antarctica for the
same reason the chemist goes to his laboratory or the astronomer
to his telescope. It's part of the research problems I'm involved
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His job at UNL is full-time, he said, but he still has a "spiritual
interest" in expeditions and plans on making one next fall, "the
regents and the Lord willing."
Meanwhile, he said there are several changes he would like to
see at UNL
"If I could somehow do away with the mess of registration, or
give to students at first request the exact class they want, or
figure out a way to get the library functioning...
"Or insure that when you go to class you'll be met by a
professor who's not a 'hack' but an outstanding, stimulating
teacher...! his is what has to be done," he said.
"What I'm describing is unattainable Utopia," he said, "but
simply because it's perfection doesn't mean we shouldn't strive to
get as close as possible. That's the name of the game all through
life."
He said he wished faculty members would be less suspicious of
the administration's intentions and actions. He said he disagreed
with the staff's frequent assertion that they're "timid" in asking
for state financial support.
His advice for students is to keep the "number one priority"
in front of them all the time. "Many are spending increasing
amounts of time in activities not uniquely related to the college
experience," he said.
Ther are many things you can learn at a university," he said.
"But there's no place else to go to earn a degree. Do what only
UNL can offer you. Take advantage of its unique aspects."
He also urged students to adopt his current attitude toward
alcohol on campus and coed visitation which he described as
"firm, persistent, but patient."
UNL Chancellor
James Zumberge
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