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r "pro" Pi OS OST I.- -J- 1 attracts 25 applicants G Prop d' attorney p i .ie v V. '' - ' T".V' 4 .v f t!6jmn V 5 1- Photo by Td Kirk State Sen. Ernie Chambers Tuesday afternoon spoke from the capitol steps to a group of marchers protesting the official handling of the Sept. 24 shooting death of Arvid SherdeS Lewis. For stories on Tuesday's events and a history of the Lewis shooting, see today's Third Dimension section, beginning on page 5. doi Wednesday, October 15, 1975 volume 99 number 29 lincoln, nebraska By Dick Piersol Although final NU Board cf Regents approval has not been given for hiring a full-time NU attorney, about 25 applicants have expressed interest in the position in the past two months, according to William Swanson, NU corporation secretary. Swanson said the regents probably will make a decision by the end of the year on whether or not to establish the post; William Erskine, NU executive vice president for administration, said the increasing complexity and volume of NU's legal work indicates a need for a full-time in-house NU attorney. Erskine said the university administra tion had considered the idea of an in-house attorney for some time. ' The Lincoln law firm of Cline, Williams, Wright, Johnson and Oldfather currently is retained at $22,000 annually as counsel forNU. Erskine said they have been satisfied with the firm's "30 or 40 year" representa tion of NU. ClineWiiliams probably would be retained for special case work and lawsuits even if the regents approve the hir ing of a full time attorney, Erskine said. A house attorney would likely handle most of NU's routine legal work he said, "probably at a salary of about $30,000." Legal work That work includes attending regent's meetings, advising the central administra tion, reviewing federal research contracts and legally overviewing the acquisition and disposition of land and other real property. Erskine said compliance with federal Equal Employment Opportunity guidelines also involves legal advice. "A good portion of ClineWiiliams fees are due to meeting estate prescriptions of bequests left to the university," Erskine 'said. "They know the legal background better than anyone. It is not uncommon that a firm be retained for such a length of time. They can usually provide immediate answers to . university legal questions because of that background." NU legal costs total about $70,000 to $80,000 annually, Erskine said. NU legal expenses An analysis of NU legal expenses com piled over a year ago for fiscal 1973-1974 showed legal costs of $80,59 1 . Of that sum5 $59,185 went to Cline. Williams, including their retainer. The rest was paid to three Omaha firms for legal work done for the University of Nebraska Medical Center and the University of Nebraska at Omaha. EUick and Spire were paid $16,470, Crossman, Barton and Norris $.178, Lorry Meyers, $758.49. The cost breakdown by campus was: UNL-$24,539, UNMC-$19,064, UNO $4,550 and university wide $32,436. Erskine said not all of that money is assessed against tax dollars. He said legal expenses incurred concerning housing revenue bonds are assessed to the housing bond fun. Despiie opposition, social work school will move By Barbara Lutz Despite opposition from students, facul ty, local and outstate social work agencies, the UNL School of Social Work will move to Omaha. .., .- .. :u Threatened by loss of accreditation, all graduate and undergraduate programs will be phased out within two years. Ron Ozaki, director of the UNL school, said, "A tentative timetable has been set up which will eliminate the master program by the end of this academic year and will elim inate the undergraduate program the following academic year." "The university is committed to quality social work education at baccalaureate and masters levels. To do this we're consolida ting the undergraduate and graduate programs in Omaha." The school's national accreditation is threatened by the Council on Social Work Education, a national organization in charge of accrediting schools, in five areas cf concern. They include: -Overall lack of support of the school by the university. -Lack of adequate faculty resources. -Lack of continuity in the school's leadership because of "recent faculty turn over." There are now 18 faculty on the school's staff, and the most recent resigna tion was thai of uio vdiuui's JiioCiOi, Tvu Ernst, who left in July to head the Univers ity of Kansas School of Social Work. -Lack of sufficient cohesiveness among the faculty. -Lack of congruity between the mis sions cf the Lincoln and Omaha campuses and the apparent inability of the school to Respond to both. Five hundred students currently are enrolled in the NU school, with about half of them attending classes on the UNL campus according to the social work office. John Sarr, assistant to the provost for program review at UNO, said the move will result in a stronger program. The chief ad-V3ntager-ha said, will be consolidation of -the school's resources. Sarr said there are "resources available to operate on only one campus." Sarr said "we do intend to provide a program that will meet the needs of both urban, and rural practitioners." Locating the entire program on one campus will eliminate duplication, he said. Ozaki said "our concern (at the school) is that we have a smooth transition with minimal disruption and additional expense to students and their families on the UNL campus." Bill Tiwald, a part time undergraduate student at the UNL school, said he is opposed to the move. "I will have to switch my major or take classes in Omaha." He said this is impractical, not only for financial reasons, but because he has a family to support. Max Larsen, dean of the College of Arts -and Sciences, said the UNL administration was "as stunned as the students and faculty, when they learned this was going to happen." He said the students feel the de cision was made at the systems level but it seems that Omaha alone made the decision, he said. "Even though we have a major of social welfare in this college, we were not includ ed in the decision of moving," he said. Larsen said it is "just unprecedented that someone would cancel a major with out consulting us (the College of Arts and Sciences)." The social work program is "important not only for students who become pro fessionals in social work, but also for those in education or those dealing with social institutions. They had planned to leave two courses here, but they don't count toward a major or an Ar ts and Sciences group requirement," he said. He said these course then could only be used aselectives. The two courses include Social Work 100 (social welfare as an institution) and Social Work 200 (social work as a profession.) Ozaki said he did not knew how much it will cost to make the move to Omaha or who will pay for it, because the school does not have funds in its budget to help faculty relocate. 'The feasibility study of 1967 assured us that faculty who needed to relocate would have help from UNO." But he said "all of those involved in the decision, except for NU President D.B. Vamer, are no longer at the university." . . Computer failure delays PACE total Student donations to the Program for Active Commitment to Education (PACE) were to be tabulated this weekend, but because of computer malfunction, the totals will not be known until later today. i r-. x?.. itxii assistant bursar, the total amount donated will be "about five thousand dollars." "We were approaching four and a half thousand," Fouraker said. "It's pretty well stabilized right now. It's about the same every semester." PACE contributions are made by marking the "yes" box on tuition state ments. If marked, students add $3.50 to the amount due on their tuition bill. The $3.50 is placed into a PACE account by the computer. According to Fouraker, students donated $5,200 last spring and $6,300 one year ago. Summer session tuition statements contain "ossibie PACE donation? of. $1.75, haff of the regular semester charge. Donations from last summer's tuition bills were $122 for the three-week session, $520 for the first five-week session nd $315 for the second five-week session. PACE contributions are used to give financial aid to needy students. According to Ron Fritz, assistant director of the Office of Scholarships and Financial Aids, about 45 students have received $8,750 worth of PACE money this semester. Last year, Fritz said, about 43 students received a total of $10,093.56 from the PACE account. ArcnrHJn , to Carl Mueller, UNL's fiscal manager of grants and contracts, university employes also donate to the PACE program. During the fiscal year from July 1, 1974 to June 30, 1975, university staff members donated $2,189.50 to PACE. "There have been several donations made by businesses and organizations," Mueller said. "But they have been very minor." UNL crosswalk victim fair A UNL student was listed In fair condi tion at Lincoln General Hospital Tuesday, according to a hospital spokesman, after being hit by a car Monday morning. Jan McKtoiMy, 18, 7225 Oxford Rdn suffered scalp cuts and a bruised left hip sfisr being struck by a car at 8: 10 ajn. on North 10:.h street, between T and U streets in front of the 501 Eldg. Gale Zurr.brunn, a 20-ycar-cJd UNL stu dent, 2310 Garfield St., Apt. 5, was ticket ed by a Lincoln policeman after the mishap for failure to yfcld the right of way to a ' pedestrian, " According to John Duve, Campus Police traffic and parking coordinator, the cross ing always has been a problem spot, but improvements are at least a year away. Pedestrians sometimes block traffic and the traffic is dangerous to pedes trians," Duve said. According to Duve, Campus Police will recommend that the city install a traffic light t the crosswalk. Robert Ilolsinser, city traffic engineer, ' gives a different picture. "There is no money appropriated for it (traffic light) in the 1974-75 or 1975-76 burets" IfolsLfiger said. "The demand for a li$it in that area isn't that great." lluhfagst said the crosswalk is "well marked" with crosswalk signs and street markers. inside Preview: Showboat, a musical by the UNL Opera Dept. starts Thursday p.10 Also Find: Editorials p.4 Aids and Entertainment. . , . . p.10 Sports p.ll Short Stuff p.2 Weathar Wedstesiljy: Mostly ranny skies, temper atures in the mid to tipper 60s. Northwest winds ranging from 5 to 10 ra.pJi. . Wc&teaJay Cooler with tempera tures in the rmd-30s. Thnra-Jav: Mostly sisnnv end ennler. Crosswcrd ; . p.12 Temperatures hi the mid to upper 60s.