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rr Inside today daisy . N Yes, professors are paid. A faculty ssbry list begins on. p. 7 thurtxtey, October 23, 1976 vol. ICO no. 32 Hneoln, nebrs3 , n p n f ft? liiiyb DoSo COO V V 1 1 a By Pstia DiUiick Republican vice presidential candidate Bob Dole said his party is "counting on Nebraska and the llidwest to offset what may be Carter victories elsewhere." Kansas Sen. Dole spoke during an hour stop in Lincoln at a rally for Republican Senate candidate John Y. McCbl- liner. On his second campaign trip to Nebraska, Dole said he had come to help his friend, UcCoHisier. Asked about his congressional race, McCcZister said, "I think it's very dose. Dole is here to add spice to the ra2y." Dole told listeners in the crowded Kamada Inn room : - rfT , v . . - : - - J - V" i J. ' ' . J.' ' V ,- ; , - in l.iinnnlini-miwanii nrtrnmnrrii ) inini m - ,nr, ,. i r- -nnnir i .,, ,- imB-rTi.r.ii .-""r-- - , . " 4. ; . - Photo by-Ted Kirk ; Sea. Robert Dele, R2pu!.!Ia vice preiilestc! es-isesss, shack a few hszds as he left tlie Lucfa Ransada Isa ' -Vedsssry, as the ever present Secret Service kct 3 eye on the crowd. - that, If youll work six more days for President Ford and i!cCc2ister, thcyll work for you-f.IcCoHistcr for six years and Ford for four years." Dole said Ford has appointed hint to work for in creased farm exports. "I guess I will be a sort of inter national salesman," Dole said. - Prosperity in experts He added that the prosperity of rural programs lies with the export market. Dole said that despite problems, the two years of the Ford administration have been good for agriculture. The number of workable farm acres and exports have increased during that time, Dole said. Tor 40 some years the American fanners were shackled with government control," ' but "the farmer wants to produce and Republican policy is that they should have the opportunity to do that," Dole said. He said the Ford-Dole administration would want full production, fair consumer prices and good farm prices. Dole sail he thought it was strange that Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.) came to support McCoIIister's opponent, Edward Zorinsky. Dole called Byrd "the father of imposed strict re straints on exports of farm commodities" and suggested that asking for that kind of support isn't to understand "what it's like in Nebraska." v ..' Emhasgo a mistake' "I think the embargo is a mistake. There will be no embargo under the Ford-Dole administration unless there is an emergency ," Dole said. Dole said Ford has assigned him to work with the families of men missing in action in Southeast Asia. Dole called Carter's promise of a blanket pardon a mistaken priority. "We should concern ourselves with the forgotten Americans in Southeast Asia, not the draft dodgers," he said. Dole said the Ford administration was "on the road to 4 per cent unemployment." " Voters have a "phHosophical choice" between what Dele czHzd the i&ra-Lberal policies of Carter and lion dale or the conservative and moder n policies of Ford and Dole. JlCdiL2 O f If Lf f I L?JUB I IU f f j. ft , . Dy Anita Stork The constitutionality of Nebraska's death penalty law will be argued before the State Supreme Court Nov. 8. The court will hear the cases of four men who have been sentenced to die in the electric chair. A fifth case, that of Wesley Peery of Lincoln, will not be heard until several months later. . Paul Snyder, state assistant attorney general who will be representing the state, said every person sentenced to death gets "an automatic appeal" to the State Supreme' Court. ;" . "The defendants also are challenging the constitution ality of the law so our (the attorney general's) office handles the case," Snyder said. . Three of the defendants, John Rust, Richard Holton and Rodney Stewart, are from Omaha. They will be. re presented by Stan Kreiger of the Omaha public defend ers' office. " ' Holton was convicted of shooting and kCir.3 a bar tender. Stewart was convicted of shooting and killing Thomas Evans and injuring Darnel Evans in a drug re lated argument. Rust was convicted of shooting and ' killing Michael Kellogg, a civilian, during a gun battle with police after a robbery. The fourth case is mat . of Erwin Charles Simants. It is being appealed from Lincoln County District Court. Simants was convicted of killing six members of the Henry iCellie family of Sutherland. Kreiger said he believes the death penalty is cruel and unusual punishment. In 1972 the LIS. Supreme Court ruled that tie death penalty was being fenposed in a freakish manner " Krefeer said. "This decLion, in effect, eliminated every state's death penalty. - Since then, the state has rewritten its death penalty law, Kreiger said. This is the law's first judldil test follow ing its epproval by the Nebraska Lelatun b 1973. Snyder believes the law will be upheld on the bads of a July 1976 U.S. Supreme Court decision uphclilrg sa ir statutes in Florida, Georgia and Texas. "Nebraska's law-very similar to Flori2as-estab!ished guidelines for inposing the death penalty," Snyder said. Those guidelines, Snyder said, are a list of aavating and mitigating circumstances judges must consider before sentencing. Aggsavatmg circcmstasces - :.. Snyder said aggravating circumstances, those which make the crime more reprehensible, include: -Offender previously was convicted of a - felony. The murder was committed to conceal a crime. The crime created danger to other people. A law enforcement officer was murdered. Mitigating circumstances, Snyder said, include: No previous criminal record for the defendant. The defendant's age. V f-moumostnti Accused acted under another person's domination. Accused was the accomplice of another who. com mitted the crime. "This Nebraska death sentence procedure cannot, and -in fact does not, eliminate discriminatory, arbitrary and. capricious decisions by judges who, for one reason or another, have their own view of what should be done," according to Kreiger's brief. His arguments, Kreiger said, include that "even assum ing the law's constitutionality, the particular judge did not take the aggravating and mitigating circumstances into account" when sentencing the defendants. ULS42I NILS) yQJILG? BGUBty J Y n n 1 cirrd rfinf liS)" iiJj''J'J By Anita Stork Faculty members are underpaid in the opinion of five of six UNL student government members informally questioned. Gregg Johnson, co-chairman of- ASUN's Government Liaison Committee, said there is documented evidence that faculty members are underpaid when compared with instructors at other universities. "Our university is losing a let of resources and federal grants," Johnson said. "As soon as faculty become exper ienced, they're hired away by another university." . Five Dig 8 Conference schools are members of the American Association of Universities (AAU). Based on AAU 1975-76 figures, fua professors need a 93 per cent salary increase" to bring them up to' the average compensation level of other 8 AAU schools, Johnson said. Associate professors would ceed a 5.6 per cent increase and assistant professors an increase of 3.6 cer cent, he Karen Morgan, Council on Student Life member, said professors are not paid enough. ?wcxs!sisdawa. " "I feel bad about the exodus of faculty members," Morgan said. "The morale of the faculty is down." John Welch, co-chairman of the ASUN Government Liaison Committee, said salaries are Mdefiniately too low. "The Legislature's Appropriations Committee hasn't established what kind of faculty they wanf. us to have," S7elch said. "Do they want the faculty to be in the top half of the Big 8 or first? They need to set the goals and roles for UNL." Faculty members are cot paid enough, sail Tony ViHams, ASUN first vice president. "It's evident when you see the cumber cf faculty leaving," V2IIams said. "If we want a good education we're gomg to have to pay the price." BI3 MIer, UNL student regent and ASUN president, sail he thinks faculty members are underpaid and salaries are not competitive with ether institutions ia the Big 8 and around the country. - lts easy to look at their salaries and say they're getting paid- a tot," Mueller said, "but to get top faculty members we have to pay mere. We simply need more support for faculty salaries.. - artrgnn:e CHI Darnell, ASUN senator for Teachers CcTege, said he trad no research handy to make a general state ment." However, he sail "dollars arcnt a guarantee for quality education." - To increase faculty salaries, Williams said, he would favor a possible tuition increaae. 1 think students would be wiUmg tor pay mere if the university isat up to par," he said. - Or-'r:3 cap. 7