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Inside today Pky It AIn.Cc-ey; Two Humphrey Cohort . films to show tonight in the Union ..... .p. 12 . doJu nebraslM Wednesday, September 22, 1976 vaMCO no. 14 lincoln, ndjrcska .n 8 ! F"? KE1 IS hi t tl O I I f ft sJVa fj pi The appeals board studying the case of Steve Shavers, University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO) student body president and student regent; has decided to allow Shovers to keep those two positions, it announced Tuesday. The board decided to take Shovers off the disciplin ary probation placed on him Aug. 9 by Ronald Deer, UNO vice chancellor for educational and student services. If Shovers had remained under probation, he would have lost his two offices. Instead, the board decided to place Shovers under dis ciplinary notice, which , has never been used before, according to the UNO Office of University Relations. Under disciplinary notice, a document citing his mis conduct, will be placed in Shovels permanent record Ee. Shovers was accused of looking through confidential files without permission last July 29. ' In addition, the disciplinary notice states that if Shovers commits any other misconduct during the 1976 77 school year, he immediately w21 be suspended from classes. UNO Chancellor Ronald Roskens added his provisions to the board's decision. He ordered that the disciplinary probation be used only in Shovers case and that a seven member "blue ribbon" committee be established immed iately to offer recommendations as to how regulations and policy at UNO could be clarified to avoid a similar inci dent in the future. The committee will have until Oct. IS to make its re commendations. It will include three students, three fa culty members and one academic administrator. In making their decision, the appeals board decided that UNO regulations concerning the opening of confiden tial files were vague and that Shovers misconduct was not severe enough to merit removing him from his offices. However, the board also deckled that there was not enough evidence available to completely remove the mis conduct charge against Shovers. The board also decided that it would not be wise to remove Shovers from his offices because new elections for UNO student body president will be held in less than three months and UNO students would then have the chance to decide for themselves whether to keep Shovers in office or not. Shovers could not be reached for comment late Tues day. The appeals board consisted of three UNO students, two faculty members and one UNO administrator. '" "J ' , t , -w .... I V::-'- y: " V f-" :-r rr. I - - r r if f" - ' 1 "t .1 '; ft . - '', jy y .a - .- - . I r .-.' i --:, - - i t 'y""' i -v 1 ' m:W, Total ..enrollment dsclsnss.xlsspiie y nderorad oains Undergraudate enrollment at UNL is up, according to figures made public Tuesday by IJNL Dean of Academic Services Gerald Bowker, while total enrollment for the first semester of the 1976-77 academic year is 22,179, down from the record 22380 enrolled last year. Undergraduate enrollment is a record 16,760. The Colleges of Architecture, Agriculture, Business Admini stration, Dentistry, Home Economics, Engineering and Technology, and Teachers College showed enrollment in creases. :.' :;r'. Enrollment was down in the College of Law and in the Graduate School. Figures also show that nearly 800 students either can celed or withdrew from UNL after having registered for . fall classes. Bowker called this an "unusually large number" of withdrawals, which he said will be studied. In addition, the number of women enrolled in the university has risen one per cent, and is now 42 per cent. Figures also showed that the average number of credits taken by each student has increased slightly. Faculty Senate president objects, to By Mary Jo Ktzl Objecting to procedures outlined last week by NU President DlB. Varner to establish equity between UNL and the University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO), Henry Baumgarten, UNL Faculty Senate president, Monday presented "my own version of the truth." In a report distributed to UNL Faculty Senate members. Baumgarten outlined his objections to the Wisconsin method used by the NU system to establish educational equity between UNO and UNL. The Wisconsin method is based on cost and credit hour data obtained from the University of Wisconsin at Madison and Milwaukee, and the Univers&y of Illinois Urbana and Chicago Circle. Baussgarten said the method used by NU is unfair be cause it fails to recognize the differences between UNL 2nd UNO. UNL is a class institute by American Associa tion of University Professors (AAUP) standards, classify ing it as a doctoral-conferring school. UNO is a HA uni versity, offering some M.A. and MS. degrees. The Wisconsin method treats UNL and UNO as the "same type of university in allocating funds for budget equity. According to Eumrten, the President's Equity Policy Committee studying campus parity was warned that the Wisconsin method was not directly tppEeabb to UNL-UNO without scrs5 ftvirisss. However, the com mittee Ignored these wamkgs, and, using the Wisconsin method, computed a SI, 063,250 dilfsrence in tgst allocations between the two caspusss, Baumgsrten said. However, before this can be accepted as the basis for determining budt allocations, it must be wetted by "many ether st:ctiva and elective factors," Erom- girten said. grams and their roles in the missions of the institutions. Ills objection is in giving credit to a formula report based on "foreign data." -. - Investrte parity policies ' , Last summer, a committee was appointed by Varner to investigate parity policies at schools more similar to UNL. One of the schools studied was the University of Tennessee, whose calculations for cost per student credit hour were applied to UNL. The study concluded that UNL uas underfinanced by HJS to $1.9 million, a direct contrast to the conclusions based on the Wisconsin method. Another proposal out of the Wisconsin method would improve an enrollment ceiling at UNO, because it is allegedly the underfinanced institution. According to Baumgarten's report, the overfunded school UNL would have to accept the displaced students at no extra cost to the state. One way to limit enrollment at UNO would be to restrict any student living further than a 25-mile radius from the UNO campus, Baumgarten said. Students excluded by this restruction could be sent to UNL. Baumgartens minority report will be discussed at the Faculty Senate meeting Oct. 12. m ifm ammmmiors omces csrae a by:,cut . "No mssic number can ttll you everythirg,"he said. A lot of other factors fafhtsee deferences in costs, Ha listed seise of these factors as the history of the university, hiring and prcnctfcn practices and acadmis : drea credential. ' " Until such isr-:s are bassd on facts, Eurirtan ssii in an fetervkw.he rtccmnsands UNL fjsstdty css&eishxvs no further invchtmtnt in the parity fcue. &ssssxtta ssys he has no objections tot secures a.'-sta funding for all programs at UNL and UT0 in accordance with the dcng2nliatcd nsads cf thasa pro- Dy Rcsty Cur!!:ini UNL adrnsistrators, faculty and staff-not students have received the dirtiest end cf janitorial service cutbacks causad by UNL Physical Plant budget cuts, according to John Dzerk, Physical Plant operational manager. . l Nine custodial positions, costing $68CX) in salaries,;., benefits and supplks, were trimmed last summer in an amendment, sponsored by Omaha State Sen. John Cav- , anai2, to the Nebraska Legislsiure's budget bUL Daerk said janitors have received ahncat full cooperation daily bafcre the cut, now are deaned every other day. nKs were quits a few complaints from faculty and staff about full wastebaskets and ashtrays and dirty floors after .they cams back from sunmar vacation, , Baerl: said.- We started the cutback durtsg tha summer, and the staff just didnt realms tha probkms we were having and tha reasons for the problems. . . ' - Cutcxpldrsd - Dzerk said janitors have receded almost full cpexation and frar complaints sines the ssrvica cut was explained. Eat clas-rooms, corridors and rtstrocms in haar "Even tha Administration Eldj.- and : the Rsints IIl ara c!d evary ether dry (cnaa dianad diHy). Uz& said. "Apparently we hm got their sapport. . bast custcdial ssrrioa cm a priority basis, Diss ssii. . two campuses, but right now we only have 180," he said. "We're cut to the bone. According to Dzerk, the budget cut is the second in five years for the Physical Flint. "In 1972, an outside consulting firm was brought in by the administration to get things to the minimum, la said. "They cut 15 per cent, plus five per cent man hours, and we just had to live with it. Not only service, but janitor morale has suffered, Dzerk said. Uiadaifftadh tasked "From the service areas it's sometimes unfortunate, he said. "I think there was a lack cf understanding with San. Cavanarh- But I do know that its been tcuh cn morale for custodians. Sometimas thay're ta2ig care cf twice as much as they used to. Since the recent cutback went into effect, several jan itors have quit. "About 10 per cent of thtni have quit, fcr cna rearcn or another, Daerk said. "But Po sure the buit cut hid an effect. Many cf Cam had prida in their wcxk, tzl hated to sea things as dirty as thay ware. Ahhouh nina. position wars cut in the budt, Dznk said -no janitor has bean ralaaaad becauss cf tha redis- "Thz university is fortunate to haTs such loyal cssto- :s v.ho are d:vcttd to thair jobs, hs ttii. "iVa c5- "We raa!!y shoallhaTs 2C0 janitors wciii23 cn tha aran t t-s bwst, bat rna.y cf t.iam do a cod j ba. :::2