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daily nebraskan
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Foundation holds out hat for $25 million in donations
A three-year campaign to raise $25 million has been
undertaken by the University of Nebraska Foundation in
the wake of a 13 percent nationwide increase in private
donations to institutions of higher learning.
Terry Fairfield, associate vice president of the founda
tion, said the campaign, which started Sept. 23, has
already raised $S3 million in "easy money J"
"We're confident that we can reach our goal, Fair
field said. ;,
According to Fairfield, the most important step in
fund raising has been computerization' because it has
allowed organizations to keep better records of donations.
Fairfield explained the 13 percent increase for 1976-77
by saving the economic climate has improved consider-
ably. In addition, he said "more people have confidence in
higher education.
Fairfield added thatNthe "personal interest" in higher
education has. become greater. This applies to business
as well as to the private citizen, he said..
Fairfield denied the myth that money is given to in
stitutions for tax breaks by saying "nobody ever made
money by giving it away.
He said the personal element is important in fund
raising. He said people should be thanked and told where
their money is going. He added that he understands the
tough situation that faces recent graduates but said he
thinks that if properly handled, they will give what they
can.
'A $5 donation is just as important to us as $100," he
said. '
The foundation's work is financed by personal endow
ments, according to Fairfield. "If we raise $25 million"
then the university will receive $25 million," he said.
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A first,
Dennis Wilson becomes the first of the Beach Boys to record and
release a solo album
Laced with imagery of the surf and the ocean, "Pacific Ocean Blue" sings in a
uniquely beautiful Dennis Wilson style.
On Caribou Records end Tapes.
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ROTC merger
called logical,
By Jane Johnson
A final decision will be made next week
in Omaha on the deployment of college
military training forces at UNO.
A vote October 1 7th at the faculty
meeting of .the UNO College of Arts and
Sciences will decide the proposed merger
of the Air Force Reserve Training Officer's
Training Corps (ROTC) with the college.
: Since it was suggested; last spring by
Arts and Sciences Dean John Newton and
Assistant Dean Gordon Hansen, the move
has been discussed among the Arts and
Sciences faculty members.
If approved by the faculty it would go
into effect during the spring semester.
Currently, ROTC is a separate department
responsible to the provost's office.
Enrollment declined
Assistant Dc, of the College of Arts
and Sciences .Gordon Hansen said he
thought the idea began two years ago.
"The number of students enrolling in
the ROTC program was declining and it
looked as if the program would have to be
pulled altogether.
'We worked on getting enrollment back
up. Now enrollment is seven or eight
times greater than it was and there is no
longer any difficulty in getting students,"
According to Hansen, the College of
Arts and Sciences was the most logical col
lege for ROTC because' of the courses
offered. - .
"ROTC liked the idea, they felt it
would give them greater prestige, visibility
with college
but still feared
and be- an advantage to them in every
area,' Hansen said.
Move feared
Many faculty members in Arts and
Sciences are leery about the move because
they fear there will be differentiation
between the ROTC students' loyalty to the
administration and their oath to the mili
tary. Many faculty said they think it may
alter their academic freedom in the class
room. Hansen noted that a merger of the
ROTC with the College of Arts and
Sciences is being successfully executed at
the University of Iowa, University of
South Dakota, Kansas State University at
Manhattan, and other Midwestern, schools.
UNO has been receiving progress reports
from these and other schools as to how the
program is workL..' At these schools, the
visibility and participation for ROTC is
greater and they have retained their status.
Col. John Keller of the UNL ROTC
department said he sees no merger ahead
for its ROTC. v
"ROTC comes under the Vice Chancel
lor for Academic Affairs, as a result of the
Crowell Committee several years ago. The
ROTC advisory board comes under the
Vice Chancellor for academic affairs and
he controls it," said Keller.
As far as enrollment in the UNL ROTC
program, Keller said all three branches of
the armed forces have had increasing
enrollment - and there is no enrollment
problem here.
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