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thursday, november 13, 1975 volume 99 number 46 lincoln, nebraska
L Social Work School to move
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By Barbara Lutz
The UNL School of Social Work will be
moving to Omaha as a result of accredita
tion hearings in New York City Wednesday.
The Council on Social Work Education,
a national organization in charge of ac
crediting schools, renewed the University
of Nebraska at Omaha's (UNO) accredita
tion until November, 1977, announced
Ronald Ozaki, director of the UNL school.
. That November, the UNO school will be
subject to another accreditation review,
Ozaki said. The council has outlined several
"new expectations," but they will not be
entirely known until Friday, he said.
Closed hearings
The council heard the defense of the
NU schools in closed hearings Tuesday and
Wednesday. Their decision will be made
official Friday.
Ozaki said the hearing required consoli
dation of the resources of the two
campuses.
Combining the two schools will "cut
down the number of students we admit,"
Ozaki said. He said the phasing out of the
UNL School will end the graduate program
at UNL this academic year and the under
graduate program the following year.
"We will end up with 90 to 100 gradu
ate students, as opposed to 117 now and
70 to .80 undergraduates instead of 500
now enrolled," Ozaki said.
Current budget
These are only working figures, he said.
"We have to think in terms of' the faculty
student ratio." The plan is to continue
with the current budget which was ap
proved by the Legislature, with hopes of
adding one more faculty member, he said.
Five hundred students currently are en
rolled in the NU school, with about half of
them attending classes on the UNL campus,
according to the UNL social work office.
Ozaki said the next steps will be com
munication between the UNLUNO admin
istrations to formulate plans for the move.
. The NU school's national accreditation
was threatened by ' the council's criticism
in five areas. V
These were:
-Overall lack of support of the school
by the university.
Lack of adequate faculty resources.
-Lack of sufficient cohesiveness among
the faculty.
-Lack of congruity between the
missions of the Lincoln and Omaha camp
uses and the apparent inability of the
school to respond to both.
-Lack of continuity in the school's
leadership because of "recent faculty turn
over." There are now 18 faculty members. The
most recent resignation was that of the
school's director, Ted Ernst, who left to
head the. University of Kansas School of
Social Work.
Resource consolidation
John Sarr, assistant to the provost for
program review at UNO, has said the move
will strengthen the program. The chief
advantage, he said, will be consolidation of
the school's resources. Sarr has said there
are "resources available to operate on only
one campus."
"We do intend to provide a program
that will meet the needs of both urban and
rural practitioners," Sarr said. Locating
the entire program on one campus will
eliminate duplication, he said.
Two courses now in the school's curricu
lum, Social Work 100 (social welfare as an
institution) and Social Work 200 (social
work as a profession), will remain on the
UNL campus, but will not count toward a
major or an Arts and Sciences group re
quirement, according to Max Larsen, dean
of the College of Arts and Sciences, He said
the two courses can only be used as
electives. -
Attending the hearings were Ozaki, NU
Vice-President Steven Sample, UNO College
of Public Affairs and Community Service
Dean Hubert Locke, UNO Provost Herbert
Garfinkel, UNO Chancellor Ronald
Roskens, UNO Graduate College Dean
Robert Woody, student representative Re
becca Burro, Craig Collins, who represented
a coalition of concerned persons and a
representative of Fund of the Midlands
from Omaha.
Vice chancellor candidates
PfhSto by Stv Etoror
Ronald Ozaki, director of UNL
School of Social Work
Two receiving attention
By Randy Blauvelt
Two of "four to six" names submitted
to UNL Acting Chancellor Adam Brecken
ridgc as possible candidates for the position
of vice chancellor for the Institute of Agri
culture and Natural Resources reportedly
are receiving top consideration.
The Lincoln Evening Journal Wednes
day reported that Martin A. Massengale of
the University of Arizona at Tucson, and
Walter Woods, a former UNL faculty mem
ber now at Purdue University in West
Lafayette, Ind., are the top candidates for
the spot. The story quoted one source as
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U.S. Treasury plans $2 bill rerun
By Ann Owens
'That's as phony as a $2 bill!"
The saying is now obsoleta-at least for
awhile. On April 13, 1976, Thomas Jeffer
son's birthday, the government will issue a
new $2 bill displaying Jefferson's portrait
as a permanent addition to the U.S.
currency, -
But a past attempt to do this was
unsuccessful.
The $2 bill was issued until 1966, when
it was removed from circulation. Accord
ing to Steven Sarle, U.S. Treasury Dept.
director of public affairs, so few $2 bills
were printed then that people either kept
them in safety deposit boxes for novelty
items or considered them bad luck.
This time the government hopes to print
400 million $2 bills annually. And if the
public mn them, the government will save
$4 million a yetf in printing costs.
FewerllfcSli
Stria said the government hopes to .
eventually print 50 per cent less $1 bills.
He added that a need exists fcr s denomin
ation between fee $1 bill sad th $5 bill
and that if consumers use the $2 bill, they
will have to carry less currency.
However, Sarle said that problems might
arise finding space for $2 bills in some cash
registers. Cash register manufacturers and
retail and banking associations will meet
soon to discuss possible cash drawer ad
justments, he said. Either new cash regis
ters will be made or additions will be put
on old registers.
According to National Cash Register
representative Bill Sheahan, all modern
ctish register have spaces for extra bills,
charge account receipts and coins.
Nebraska Union '
, The Nebraska Union cashier department
will use $2 bills only if the public demands
them, according to Daryl Swanson, assistant
director of the Nebraska Union.
Swanson said that in the past the Union
has been a distribution'center for new cur
rency. Silver dollars have been put back
into circulation unsuccessfully, he said.
"The bmk tries to impose them on us
but we won't take them, because custo
mers won't take them," Swanson contin
ued. "The same thing will happen to the
$2 , bill unless the public accepts it."
Swanson added that the Union already .
handles more currency denominations than
it wants to.
"Before Nebraska had state sales tax we
rounded off prices to the nearest nickel,"
he said. "Now we have to waste time hand
ling pennies and the customer has to waste
time standing in longer lines."
The key point continues to be public
acceptance, Swanson said, and the federal
government cannot impose the $2 bill on
the public unless the public approves.
According to Sam Whitworth, First
National Bank of Lincoln cash manage
ment officer, nobody wanted $2 bills when
they were in circulation earlier and the
same thing will probably happen this
time. -;..,
"Sounds besutifd"
'The $2 bill sounds beautiful on paper,"
Whitworth said, "but it all boils down to
this will you want to cany it in your
purse?"
' According to Sarle and a Lincoln Can
teen Vending Company representative, no
adaptation will be made in vending or
dollar bill change machines.
'The $1 bill will continue to be a
prominent denomination," Sarle said. "The
vending machine and change machine com
panies probably wouldn't benefit from
sdspting to the $2 bill."
saying Massengale was being given prime
consideration.
According to Roy Arnold, vice chancel
lor search committee chairman and chair
man of Food Science and Technology be
cause of the possibility of damaging the
position's attractiveness, the names were
not -to be released until a decision was
reached.
Arnold said the search committee sub
mitted "four to six" recommendations to
the chancellor out of "more than 100"
applications and nominations. He refused
to announce the other recommendations.
Massengale and Woods are the only can
didates on the final list who have visited
the UNL campus, Arnold said.
Breckenridge speculated that the final
recommendation would be before the NU
Board of Regents at their December meet
ing, but also refused to disclose the other
candidates' names. .
The final decision on the new vice chan
cellor is vested with the regents, who will
act following the recommendation of
Breckenridge and NU President D.B.
Varner. The regents' choice will fill the po
sition vacated by Duane Acker, now presi
dent of Kansas State University.
Massengale, 42, currently is chairman of
the Agronomy Dept. at the University of
Arizona, director of the American Society
of Agronomy and the Arizona Crop Im
provement Association, and past president
of the American Crop Science Board.
Woods has taught at UNL and Iowa
State University. He now teaches at Purdue
University. In 1969, he was honored by
Murray State College in Murray, Ky., his
alma mater, as outstanding alumnus of the
year.
Both men are natives of Kentucky.
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Stopped: Young Socialists
told selling their literature
on UNL is against
regulations... p.5
Also Find: ,
Editorials. . . p.4
Arts and Entertainment p.8
Sports p.10
Crossword p.12
Short Stuff p.2
Weather
Thursday: Sunny and warmer. Highs
ranging from 45 to 50. Westerly to south
westerly winds from 10-20 m.pji.
Thursday night: Continued clear, with
lows in the high 20s to low 30s.
Friday: Mostly sunny and wanner. High
temperatures in the mid-50s.
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