Fifth-place
financial
ranking
debated
University academic programs could
be either underfinanced or efficiently
financed, depending on how a legislative
report is interpreted, state officials said
Friday.
The report, which was released in
February, is a cost analysis of
instructional programs at six Big 8
universities. Those universities studied by
the legislative fiscal analyst were
Colorado, Iowa State, Kansas, Missouri,
Oklahoma and UNL. Kansas State and
Oklahoma State Universities were
omitted in the report because of lack of
time to gather data.
The report stated that UNL was fifth
among the six schools studied in average
unit costs to produce a student credit
hour. The fifth-place ranking of UNL
indicates that UNL academic programs
are under-budgeted by $2.9 million, Winn
Sanderson, UNL assistant vice president
fro Budget and Planning, said.
ISU tops list
On the other hand, Legislative Fiscal
Analyst Alan Moeller, said the fifth-place
ranking in average costs indicates that
UNL is efficient in producing credit
hours. Average costs to produce a student
credit hour at each of the universities
studied were Iowa State, $81, Missouri,
$77, Kansas, $67, Colorado, $66, UNL,
$64 and Oklahoma, $47.
Those disciplines costing UNL the
most money to produce student credit
hours were Computer Science ($126 per
credit hour), Engineering, ($127 per
credit hour), Health Science ($189 per
credit hour), and Physical Science ($100
per credit hour).
Those disciplines which cost. UNL the
least money to produce a credit hour
were Military Science ($26), Psychology
($34), Business ($41), Social Sciences
($44) and English ($45).
Larry Braskamp, assistant to the
chancellor, said unit costs cf academic
programs indicate nothing about the
quality of a program.
"Quality programs"
"A good department does cost money
to produce a quality level of instruction,"
Braskamp said. "It's not an economic
condition, but a commitment to produce
quality educational programs."
Sanderson said administrators must be
more concerned with program quality
than with the quality of individual
departments. .
"We (administrators) must look at the
role and mission of each department to
decide how programs are to be funded,"
Sanderson said.
Human potential conference explores self-uni
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Approximately 600 people searched for relief
from tension by attending "BodyMindSpirit: Self
Unity" a human potential conference at the
Cornhusker Hotel April 1 1-13.
The conference, sponsored by the University of
Nebraska Extension Division, brought eight
nationally known leaders to Lincoln to conduct
sessions at the meeting. .
People's fantasies tell about their feelings, said Dr.
William Schutz, author of "BodyMindSpirit: Self
Unity", at a Saturday morning session.
Schutz believes everyone can fantasize, and he led
the group at the session through exercises he called
"guided daydreams."
In the first exercise, Schutz had the participants
hum, first without a melody, but when a definite
song came to mind they were to raise their hands. He
said the unconscious choice of songs was an
indication of how they felt at that moment.
No accidents
"This exercise is a simple way of getting down
deep into your thoughts," he said. "It is a general
philosophy among psychologists that there are no
accidents; everything that happens in the world
happens on purpose."
Schutz then asked the audience to examine why
they do or do not volunteer. He asked the group to
close their eyes, and think of two people having a
discussion about the pros and cons of volunteering.
The characters in the fantasies ranged from
ex-husbands to army sergeants. Schutz said such
fantasizing is a useful way to solve any conflict.
Another exercise was to imagine sitting in a
meadow, with a cow and bull standing under a large
tree. Schutz asked for reactions on what the cow and
bull would do. He said many psychologists interpret
the cow and bull as one's parents, and this fantasy is
supposed to reveal one's feelings for them.
lie then asked everyone to imagine themselves on
a beach, walking toward the water, and eventually
reaching the floor of the ocean. There they found a
door to a cave, and saw something trying to get out.
Schutz wanted the group to decide if they would
open the door.
Left door closed
The general consensus of the group was to leave
the door closed.
Schutz said in this exercise the cave represented
one's conscience and also sexual feelings.
Dr. Karl Pribram, a notable brain surgeon from
Stanford University, spoke at the Saturday afternoon
general session about "The Organization of
Consciousness".
According to Pribram who lectured to
approximately 500 people half of which were prone
on the floor, there are three classes of consciousness
included in the brain. He said these were perception,
transcendental reality, and self-consciousness which
in turn relate to the mind, spirit, and body.
Pribram, head of Stanford's Neuropsychology
Laboratories, said the problem of consciousness is
just being academically tackled now with three
popular views being considered: consciousness is
everywhere, the brain should only be examined in a
. practical sense, ' and self-consciousness means
awareness. . ,
He claimed that since the 1960s a classical therapy
which involved differentiating oneself to become
more aware of other people has been in practice. This
was labeled the problem of intentionality, which is
based on biofeedback.
"Feed forward"
Questioning the usual interpretation of the
physical universe, Pribram, who serves on the
American Board of Neurological Surgery, advocated
"feed forward" and reasoned that by merely
recombming the brain, a person can buy himself more
mental power.
"Reorganization is an intentional mechanism that
has a tremendous capacity if it's done right," he
continued.
Pribram said many were conscious as an act of
faith and that when people agree they are consciously
together, they are already in a spiritual realm.
He suggested that if people wouldn't look at the
physical universe through lenses, then many
paradoxes might become understandable.
"Maybe the world out there isn't the way we
perceive it," Pribram concluded.
In another Saturday afternoon session; George
Leonard, co-director of Esalem Institute's Center for
Theoretical Studies, led a workshop on "The Energy
Body in Action".
Art of Aikido
Using techniques derived from the Japanese
martial art of Aikido (a way of harmonizing oneself
with the spirit of the universe), Leonard, author of
The Ultimate Athlete, presented his approach to the
"energy body."
Leonard, who served for 17 years as a senior
editor of took magazine, said awareness of the
Energy Body creates a unity of the mind, body, and
spirit, thus producing a new way of dealing with
conflict.
Through simple mental and physical relaxing and
exercising, participants experience their energy bodies
and those of other people, he said, and become aware
of this energy flow and received a sense of well-being.
"Once you start sensing this, the world will
become more fascinating," claimed Leonard.
Leonard used another technique to achieve this
feeling of well-being called soft eyes? This gives a
person the ability to perceive everything and nothing
at the same time, much like a basketball does, he said.
Leonard claimed that it is important for our
culture to feel each other in this way so that we will
become compassionate to others and feel harrnony.
"If we used what this technique has to offer, we
would be totally aware of everything and wouldn't do
horrible things to other people."
Acker unanimous
KSU regents pick
Continued from p.l
The KSU Board of Regents in announcing Acker
as its new president said "Acker was the unanimous
choice of board members. Acker comes from an
attractive and productive background in
administration and his entire career has been marked
by success," they said. Acker recieved his bachelor
and master's degrees from Iowa State and his Ph.D.
from Oklahoma State.
Previous experience
Acker was an instructor in animal husbandry at
Oklahoma State University from 1953-1955 and an
animal science instructor from 1955-62 at Iowa State
University, where he attained the rank of associate
professor. .
He then became associate dean of Agriculture at
KSU until 1966 when he became dean of the College
of Agriculture and Biological Sciences at South
Dakota University. He held that position until 1974
when he came to UNL.
Acker described his UNL colleagues as
"tremendous" and said he had enjoyed his "very busy
year at UNL."
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