ASUN criticizes regents ' faculty tenure action
The Board of Regents action Saturday on faculty
tenure recommendations was criticized in an ASUN
resolution passed Wednesday night on an 18-1-6 vote.
At their meeting the regents deferred action for
one month on pending faculty tenure
recommendations and directed Steven Sample,
executive vice president for academic affairs, to
"conduct a study of tenure policies at the University
and formulate recommendations to the Regents for
reducing the tenure fraction at the University over
the next several years."
The ASUN resolution, introduced by Sen. Jim
Wefso, protested the "arbitrary methods by which
this action was taken, as it can only hinder an
unbiased, comprehensive study of faculty tenure
policies."
The regents' action "makes any study biased to
reduce the number on tenure," Wefso commented,
and makes no provision for increasing or maintaining
the present number. There are also no provisions for
student input in any study, he noted.
"Students should have a voice in decisions dealing
with a continuing policy such as tenure," Wefso said.
The resolution also recommends that Sample
include representation from the ASUN Center for
Educational Change (CEC) and "the proper
representatives of the Faculty Senate"
In other action, the Nebraska-Oklahoma football
game if Norman, Okla. next Nov. 22 was declared
"migration" on a 26-0-2 vote.
The resolution, introduced by Sen. Gina Hills and
Susie Reitz, stated that the game would be declared
migration, "considering that students and fan
support, enthusiasm, and spirit have a definite
influence on the outcome of the football game, and
since the effort should be appreciated by the
Nebraska football team (although the Nebraska team
should not desperately need any support to defeat
Oklahoma).
A resolution establishing a "special three-person
committee to negotiate the release of the control of
the Student fees to the ASUN" was defeated 11-12-4.
Several senators spoke in favor of the "general
idea" of the bill but said they felt it "put ASUN in a
fighting position" and was "too much of an
ultimatum."
In other business, a previously -passed resolution
recommending funding for the inter-campus bus
system, was brought up for reconsideration and
amended to support funding from the university
budget rather than from the 711 Instructional
Budget.
Senator Joe Roh also announced that the rumored
"spring day" Friday afternoon is not officially
recognized by the administration. Students are not
excused from afternoon classes unless their instructor
cancels the class.
Summer
schedule
offers 63
workshops
Death and dying is one of 63 summer
workshop topics to be offered at UNL
from May 19 to Aug. 7.
The workshop on death is designed for'
teachers, mental health workers, social
workers, clergymen and people who deal
with patients and the families of patients
faced with death, said Alan T. Seagren,
director of summer sessions.
Other workshops included in the
summer programs range from jazz
improvisation to an introduction to
computers.
"The special workshops are a response
to newer kinds of inventions or
innovations," Seagren said. "They are
intended to provide professional
development experience that might go
beyond degree requirements," he added.
Seagren said workshops are
experimental courses that are not offered
as regular courses. The workshop topics
may be developed into regular courses or
dropped entirely, depending on the
enrollment response to them, he added.
In addition to workshops offered this
summer, students may also choose from
1 ,400 courses in 70 departments during
four summer sessions, Seagren said.
Students may take courses during the
presession, first and second five-week
sessions or the eight-week session.
While older students will be attending
UNL this summer, high school students
also will be traveling to Lincoln to study
in the All-State Fine Arts Course.
The Nebraska high school students will
study under the direction of UNL fine
arts faculty members and graduate
"students, said John P. Moran, director of
the School of Music. The younger
students will study art, dance, theatre,
debate, public speaking, and oral
interpretation.
Other cultural activities also will take
place at UNL during the summer.
The School of Music will present an
opera, "Carmen," July 10 through 12.
The Nebraska Repertory Theatre will
present four plays from June 27 through
Sept. 6. The plays are "Portraits,"
"Steambath," "All's Well that Ends Well"
and "Private Lives." Tickets may be
obtained at the Howell Theatre, 12th and
R streets.
Information about the workshops and
summer sessions also may be obtained in
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