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Zumberge may cut Masters Week Funds By Mary Kay Roth In an effort to help cut spending, UNL Chancellor James D. Zumberge said he is considering dropping the Masters Week program unless other funds can be obtained. "I feel like I can hardly ask others to make budget cuts without ' putting my own house in order," Zumberge said. He said he has recommended that a moratorium be declared before plans continue for next year. Joint effort The Masters Week program is a joint effort of the Chancellor, Mortarboards and Innocents. It is held yearly and financed by the Chancellor's office. The expenses amount to about $2,700, Zumberge said. This includes lodging and food which isn't provided by housing units where the participants speak. Speakers are university alumni who are selected by the chancellor on recommendation of Mortarboards and Innocents. They pay for their own transportation. The program used to be held in the spring but was moved to November this year on the recommendation of Innocents and Mortarboards. 'Hot dogs, bananas' "I think it is a good program, but I don't want to do it on a shoestring, Zumberge said. "We can hardly invite outstanding faculty and feed them hot dogs and bananas." He said he had received a proposal from Innocents and Mortarboards making suggestions for obtaining additional funds and making some expense cuts. Richard L. Flemming, director of University Information, said the organizations have both offered to pay $250 to help continue the masters program. Flemming, who is a member of a committee that coordinates Masters Week, said the Chancellor has agreed to match the $500 if other funds can be obtained. Cutting food expense Melinda Fowler, Mortarboard member, said they had suggested cutting some of the food expenses and trying to obtain money from the student alumni board and the student fees allocation board. She said she hopes that if the program is continued its character will not be changed. "We would like to do it in the same style, but cut down on expenses," Fowler said. e ' 5V FT ry - Twit ' Internationally known journalist Sam Jaffe. -.5 ' , (MM Chancellor James Zumbf!rge "Ms? ': doily nebraskon thursday, february 6, 1975 lincoln, nebraska vol. 98 no. 77 Jaffe: US must be informed By John Kalkowski Americans have a need and a duty to know what is going on both domestically and abroad, according to Sam Jaffe, an internationally-known journalist. There are too many things which need to be reported, but are not,, he said. Jaffe is in Lincoln to speak this morning at the UNL Model United Nations in the Nebraska Union. Currently, Jaffe is a special correspondent for United Press International Radio. With over 20 years of journalism experience, he has worked for newspapers, wire services and two radiotelevision networks. He has also operated two overseas news bureaus. As citizens of the most affluent nation in the world, Jaffe said, it is the duty of Americans to stay well informed. Jaffe attributed increased interest in the news today to good journalism, such as that practiced by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, the Washington Post reporters, who did the basic exposure work on Watergate. Never know According to Jaffe, Americans will probably never know the extent of Watergate. Although the information is sketchy, Jaffe said, evidence suggests that Watergate burglars E. Howard Hunt and G. Gordon Libby were employed by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) at the time of the burglary. CIA activities have been extensive, not only in foreign affairs, Jaffe said, but domestic affairs too. "We can not bury our heads in sand, but must face the reality" of CIA activities, he said. Americans tend to put their national leaders on pedestals, Jaffe said. Not only did Nixon use the CIA for questionable activities, he said, but John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson also made use of the CIA. The CIA also operates business fronts to cover some activities, according to Jaffe. One internationally -based company was recently exposed as a CIA cover, he said. Jaffe said he has met CIA strong-arm men, whose only jobs are to kill. He described them as "men who would kill their own mothers if ordered to do so." Mail opened While serving as a correspondent in Russia, Jaffe said, his mail was opened by the KGB, the Russian secret police. He also said he believes his mail has been opened by the CIA here in the United States. Continued on p. 3 Committee to study alleged Nil inequities Chargei of alleged inequities in faculty salaries and levels of academic support between UNL and the University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO) will be studied by a Univeristy-wide committee. Conny Nelson, UNL assistant vice president for academic affairs and the committee's secretary, said the group will study faculty salaries and academic support. It will send two sets of recommendations to NU President D. B. Varner by late spring or early summer, he said. Levels of support include the two campuses' libraries, student services and computers, Nelson said, "Money is probably the primary concern," he said. "Apparently there is some feeling that there are inequities and some that there aren't. We will have to work out the terms of comparability. We don't know which way we'll have to go; the committee will have to study that." 12-member committee The committee will include four representatives from UNO, four from UNL and four from the NU central system. Steven Sample, NU executive vice president for academic affairs, and William C. Erskine, NU executive vice president for administration, will chair the committee. In addition to Nelson, Sample ar d Erskine, Glenn Smith, NU assistant vice president for administration, also will represent the NU system. UNL representatives will be Ned Hedges, assistant vice president for academic affairs; Duane Jaccks, professor of physics; Craig MacFiice, assistant professor of economics and Robert Miewald, chairman of political science. UNO representatives will be Margaret Gcssaman, chairwoman of mathematics; Elaine Hess, assistant provost; William Petrowski, professor of history; and Jack ReVelle, chairperson of decision sciences. UNO concern Nelson said faculty members at UNL think the Omaha campus has not been getting the support it is entitled to as a NU campus. "It's not a raging anger," he said, "-just concern." Richard Gilbert, president of the UNL Faculty Senate, said the committee resulted from disagreements at an intercampus faculty meeting last November. He said the disagreement was over UNO faculty members receiving more money for teaching summer school than do UNL faculty members. The question of inequities berween the two campuses probably started with the merger of the two schools, Gilbert said. Merger caused argument "The Legislature supposedly said no benefits UNO faculty had before the merger could be taken away," he said. "At least that's the way the UNO people are reading it." He said these benefits include free parking. Petrowski, chairman of the UNO faculty executive committee, said he also thinks the question goes back to the merger. 1C &4iU CM iitc nuinnm.1 niwiitig, IBM VShTV A Ltd ! UNO asked that the question of financial support of financial activities at both campuses be raised. "It is our impression that Varner thought this was a good idea," he said, "and decided a committee should be formed to look into the matter." Identical benefits Varner said he decided to establish the committee because the NU Board of Regents' policy says comparable benefits for faculty members at UNO and UNL should be "nearly as identical as possible for comparable experience and work assignments." "If the committee concludes there is a significant difference (between UNO and UNL), I would be prepared to suggest to the Board of Regents that we get funds to correct the differences," he said. A similar study was performed by the Inter Campus Faculty Salary Comparability Study Committee in 1972. The committee investigated whether NU was observing the policy of comparable salaries for comparable qualifications and responsibilities at UNO and UNL. According to the report submitted by the committee, the study showed "no compelling evidence that there is a consistant pattern of salary differentials favoring either UNO or UNL over the other campus," and that "within each campus there exist unexplained salary differentials between segments of the faculty."
