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. Students have heard a lot about involvement in
the last few years; maybe too much. Because
sometimes the idea can drown under the rhetoric.
' To some, involvement has come to represent a
lot of vf'eaningless hassle. Let's face it. It's time
consuming to put effort into some club or
organization. Is it really going to be worth your
time? What will you gain by it? These are
important questions to ask yourself before you
make a decision about "involvement."
And only you know the answers. Because only
you know what you want for youself from your
education, from your social life, and from your
future. Only you can choose a program of
involvement in activities that suits the way you live
and think.
But if involvement is what you really want out of
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'Every citizen participates in NU'
ii turs w..'r in (ho n'nht nlare. As crowded as
your schedule may look to you right now, the
chances are that never again will you be so able to
arranqe your own lifestyle. So why not take
advantage of it? Why not take advantage of your
flexible schedule, of being around other students
with an interest in the University community and
its future? There'll never be a better time to get
into the mainstream of community action.
So think it over. Take a look at your goals and
your abilities and decide if "involvement" is for
you. We hope it is. Because all of us together can
do a lot.
And if you're having trouble getting started, let
us know. Maybe ASUN can help.
Ron Clingenpeel
ASUN President
Welcome to the community of the University of
N braska. .
! use the word community in order to emphasize the
diversity and breadth of the institution's contituencies
and activities.
NNU is one of the nation's major universities,
serving more than 36,000 students through three
separate campuses, a School of Technical Agriculture,
and a new non-traditional program of higher education
known as SUN. .
The University offers its students literally hundreds
of different programs at the bachelors, masters and
doctoral levels in the fine arts, agriculture, the
humanities, the sciences, and the several professions..
The University also carries on research, both pure and
applied, at the cutting edge of man's intelletual horizon
in dozens of different fields.
And the University of Nebraska, through its tradition
off agricultural extension and various othr" public
service and extension programs, is constantly bringing
cultural events, practical assistance and new knowl
edge to the people of Nebraska.
To carry out this broadly based program of
instruction, research and public service the University
employs a faculty and administrated staff of about
3.500 and a support and service staff of nearly 4,500,
and expends an annual operating budget from all
sources of nearly $125 million.
Eut as large and diverse as the University is, the
University of Nebraska community is much larger still,
ancj, even more diverse. Every citizen and taxpayer in
the State of Nebraska participates in a very real way in
the affairs of this.University.
First of all, as a constitutional entity of the state, the
University is owned by the people of Nebraska.
Nebraskans directly elect the regents of the University,
who in turn operate the University in trust for the
people of the state.
These. same votersfarmers, craftsmen, students,
housewives, businessmen, laborers, retired people-
also elect the members of the state legislature and the
governor who in turn approve appropriations for the
operation of the University. And of course, in the final
analysis, it is the people of the State of Nebraska who
pay the taxes that make these appropriations a reality.
Though such interinstitutional arrangements as the
newly created University of Mid-America, and
programs for training Nebraska students in optometry,
library science and veterinary medicine at institutions
outside Nebraska, the University of Nebraska includes
within its larger community the citizens and institutions
of a number of our sister states.
Finally, through various international instructional
and research programs and through our substantial
foreign student enrollment, the University can sensibly
count within its community the peoples of many foreign
nations.
Recently the University of Nebraska community
undertook a new commitment toward achieving
excellence in several important aspects of the
University's operation. The process of making this
commitment involved students, facuity, adminstrators,
regents, citizens, legislators, the governor and various
other constituent groups.
Therefore, as ypu goi about. the business of being
students as you study, write, attend class enter into
discussions with your professors and colleages, create
and experiment I would ask that you do everything
you can to help us better understand the leaching
learning process and to improve the quality of this
process at the University of Nebraska to a level of
excellence unprecedented in the United States.
Again, welcome to the broad and diverse community
of the University of Nebraska. It is a community i n
which most of you have already been participants for
several years, and in which I. sincerely hope you will
continue to be active participants for the rest of your
lives. .
D. B. Varner
NU President
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'Students are rewarded for search'
The beginning of a new fall semester is an
experience that has no equal. Whether you are a
freshman at the very start of your college career or
a seasoned senior who has learned "the ropes,"
you cannot help but feel the exhilaration that
permeates the atmosphere at the start of fall
activities on campus.
The physical appearance of both the city and
east campuses has changed since the beginning of
summer. The new field house dominates the vsew
to the north of the city campus. Old Stout Hall is
gone, and in its place will rise the new Life
Sciences Building.
The, center of the campus is still in a state of
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Students who were freshmen when the addition
was started in 1971-72 wi! be juniors this fall
Hopefully, before they are seniors, the Love
Library addition will be in full service to the
academic community.
The east campus scene is also changing. The
new Law Building in the northeast corner is fast
taking shape, and by spring the College of Law
hopes to move fn.
The Home Economics staff is settling into its
new building ready for the fall semester, A new
Animal Health Science Building and a new east
campus Student Union are also scheduled to get
under way this year.
Besides new buildings, the Lincoln campuses
will have some new faces. A new Dean ofLibraries,
Dr. Gerald Rudolph, will arrive in Lincoln October
1 from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute, and a
new Dean of Continuing Education, Dr. Quentin
Gessner, will arrive September 1 from the
University of Michigan,
daily nebraskan
Dr. James Gunnerson from Northern Illinois
University has already made his debut on campus
as the new Director of the Museum
This summer saw the departure of Dr. Virginia
Treticr, vice chancellor for Academic Affairs, to
Washington, D.C. where she now serves as
Assistant Secretary for Education in the Depart
ment of Health, Education and Welfare.
Dr. Adam Breckenridge, professor of political
science, is acting vice chancellor for Academic
Affairs until a permanent successsor to Dr. Trotter
is found. Dr. Trotter's administrative assistant in
Washington is Dr. John Stephens, formerly the
assistant to the chancellor. His successor here is
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Psychology, who, some upperclassmen may
rememDer, won a aisunguisnea teacning award.
It is true that many students rpend four ye.'irs
here and never get over the feeling that the
University is too impersonal.
It is a unique place, peopled by 20,000 students
and 1,000 faculty members. To those who search
actively for the personal element of university life,
they will be rewarded with discovery.
It is my very real hope that this academic year of
1974-75 will be for you your best year yet. The
extent to which that hope will become a reality is
up to you on the one hand and the University on
the other.
Together, perhaps we can jointly improve the
quality of life on this campus, and make the
personality of the University a little easier to
discover.
James H. Zumberge
UNL Chancellor
Wednesday, august 21, 1974
