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By Rex Seline
More than $440,000 will be spent
this year on six UNL areas of
A m excellence as NU's answer to the
ifOQ C Question of what NU President D.
r WUO J b Varner calls, "the best possible
wav tn df-vplon our resources. "
YPpllPnnP According to UNL Chancellor
Icnce ';re ; ro ;;r mis of the Univer
s ty al,;xfiM .ddit.orai funds in
orcc u rro it specific, internally
define. got. t .
Appropriations include $127,500
ife sciences; $86,000 for
chemistry; $75,000 for journalism;
$106,300 for nontraditional educa
tion; $20,800 for crop physiology
and S25. 000 for animal science.
Six specific areas were desig
nated because "we reafize that it is
unlikely lhat we can move all parts
of tne University to a level of
distinction at once," Varner said.
"Decisions as to what program
would receive money were made at
thecamous level."
Search for excellence
Varner a Idee that the program
is an Outgrowth of efforts in a
universitv-v.ide search for excel
lence. ' ; "
"We have been involved in
developing a five-year plan for the
total Unicrsity." he said. He said
UNL wr!' receive the money
from the p'an out that both UNO
and the nrjdical center will also
receive some fends.
The procedure for allocation of
funds was developed by the
legislature and has drawn national
interest according to Varner.
Neale Copple, director of the
School of Journalisrr, added,
"Since this program has started,
from many parts of the country, I
have heard Nebraska callea a
leader in the development of a new
approach to budgeting . "
Copple's school, which will
receive $25,000 next year, has
developed two goals for the use of
the funds. First, the legislature
mandated that a graduate program
in journalism be started in the fall
of 1975. The second goal is to
maintain the level of Instruction on
the undergraduate level, according
to Copple.
Biggest chunk
Receiving the biggest chunk of
excellence funds is the School of
Life Sciences. Gary Hergenrader,
interim director, said the program
will be a good idea "if the
administration come through with
funds for a few years. You can't
achieve excellence overnight."
The Life Sciences faculty is still
working to develop exact goals but
Hergenrader said their funds will
be generally used to "upgrade the
undergraduate and graduate pro
grams." In addition, funds wiil be
set aside to acquire a permanent
director.
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Frank Baker, chairman of the
Animal Sciences Dept., said the
money will be used "in a strikingly
efferent way than other depart
ments. "
More of the money will be
cp t in research programs than
in teaching and extension," he
vinry Baumgarten, chairman of
tht Chemistry Dept., said that his
de, irtment has had "lots of
meetings" to try to define their
gools. He said that "even, before
th excellence program, we were
try ng to affect improvements in
the undergraduate and graduate
programs."
The $86,000 allocation will go to
he p recruit graduate teaching
assistants as well as a new
permanent chairman for the de-pa-tment,
according to Baumgar
ter The money will also be used to
hir . an X-ray technician and a
sn .11 amount will go to initiate a
pn ;ram to bring in outstanding
sp-vikers.
i don't think anybody in the
adninistration thinks that this sum
wni handle it all on its own but it
wi:l help evaluate our program,"
Ba.imgarten said.
Jutside evaluators are to be
bf jght in to examine those
d irtments classified as Areas of
E silence to supplement the
m- apartment evaluations.
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Buses 'fare'
to students
Lower bus fares and
more downtown bus ser
vice help students get to
campus economically, ac
cording to Richard Frank,
general manager of the
Lincoln Transportation
System (LTS).
Frank said Thursday
public transportation sys
tems will help to lessen
fuel shortages and lower
fuel prices within five
years.
"Public transportation
systems must provide
more and better service by
increasing the service of
present bus routes and
adding new routes,"
Frank said.
LTS added three new
bus routes . through the
downtown area Aug. 26
and lowered the student
bus fare from 30 cents to
15 cents a ride.
Frank said he thought it
would be cheaper for
students to ride busses to
campus rather than drive
their cars.
He predicted that more
people will ride buses this
year than last year but had
no statistics available.
Three million people trav
eled on LTS last year, he
said.
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Friday
12 p.m. President's Office,
Chautauqua Committee - Nebraska
Union.
12:30 p.m. Inter-Varsity Christ
ian Fellowship - Union.
12:30-Muslim Student Assoc. -Union.
1 :30 p.m. American Pharmaceu
tical Assoc. - Union.
2 p.m. President's Advisory
Council -Union.
3, 7, and 9 p.m. "King Lear" -Gheldon
Art Gallery
3:30 p.m. Jazz and Java -Union.
3:30 p.m. Chemistry Dept.
Seminar-110 Hamilton
3:30 p.m. Horn Economics
Crafts Day - 1 21 Home Ec Bldg.
7:30 p.m. Inter-Varsity Christian
Fellowship - Union
8 p.m. President' Office, Dinner-Union
8 p.m "Look Back in Anger" -Lincoln
Community Playhouse
friday, October 4, 1974
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