Two years of UNO program transferred to UNL
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University of Nehraska at Omaha industrial engineering
students will have to travel to UNL to complete their
degrees, as a result of NU Board of Regents action Satur
day. The board voted unanimously to transfer the last two
years of UNLs industrial engineering program to UNL,
where faculty and classroom size are larger.
The regents also decided to accept federal grants for
NU's health profession schools, received a progress report
on a task force to study quality education in Nebraska
and were given a preliminary view of testimony the uni
versity will present before the Nebraska Postsecondary
Advisory Committee at an open hearing in Kearney today.
Memorial Stadium expansion, although discussed
earlier at the business affairs subcommittee meeting, did
not surface at the regents general meeting.
George Hanna, dean of the College of Engineering and
Technology, told the 1 1-member board that with only
one industrial eneineerinc orofessor at UNO. "the nnlv
possible alternative would be to reduce the third and
fourth year offerings at UNO."
Hanna explained that the first two years of the major
still will be offered, at UNO, which does not break an
agreement the university made in 1972 when the engineer
ing colleges on both campuses were consolidated and
headquartered at UNL. ,
UNO student regent John Malone questioned whether
it would be more economical to move a few UNL profes-
Tractors come to Lincoln
to sow seeds of change
sors up to Omaha rather than require all industrial engi
neering majors to come to Lincoln. Hanna said this was an
Impractical idea, since UNL has better classroom equip
ment and UNO only graduates two to four students a
year with industrial engineering degrees.
It was pointed out that consolidating this program
complies with the Nebraska Legislature's efforts to elimi
nate duplicate instruction in state colleges.
Minden regent Robert Raun will present testimony to
the Postsecondary Education Advisory Committee to
night in Kearney, See p. 7
Minden regent Robert Raun presented a copy of the
testimony he will present to the Nebraska Postsecondary
Education Advisory Committee tonight. His report says
the regents are in "basic agreement" with most of the
role and mission statement for Nebraska higher education,
bufsuggested a few wording changes.
In other action, the regents voted to continue accep
tance of federal capitation grants. At the November
regents meeting, Wilber regent Robert Prokop said the
university should consider not accepting these grants, as
they set certain admissions standards which the university
would have no control over.
Saturday, UNMC Chancellor Neal Vanselow said that
since Congress recently eliminated federally-set admission
standards, the university has few objections to capitation
and enrollment -based federal grants.
Vanselow reported that if UNMC were to refuse capi
tation grants next year, it would lose about $821,000.
Without the enrollment-based grants; the dentistry, nur
sing, pharmacy and medicine schools would suffer a
$ 1 ,258 ,000 cut -back, Vanselow said.
monday, december 12, 1977 vol. 101 no. 55 lincoln, nebraska
By John Ortmann
He was old, windburned and just a little
amused as he stood alone, watching the
crowd. He was just there to observe, he
said, adding he was close to retirement and
phasing out his central Nebraska farm
operation.
He hadn't made up his mind about the
strike yet, he said, but he thought he could
hold his grain crop off the market if it
would raise prices.
Strike or not, he said, the situation was
more serious than many people realized.
He explained he had been annoyed Satur
day morning by Lincoln residents making
derogatory remarks aabout the tractorcade
over Citizen's Band radios. 1
The balance of the crowd, estimated by ;
lincoln Police at 7,000, was enthusiastic
about the American Agriculture farm strike
set to begin this Wednesday.
The rally and morning tractorcade were
organized by the group to call attention to
the proposed strike. Strike backers hope to
hold farm products off the market and
refrain from non-necessity buying until
their goal of 100 percent parity is reached.
Ceresco farmer Milton Hagaman, attend
ing the rally with his son, said he would
hold his hogs and cattle from the market if
he would take a loss on them.
Corporations will take over agriculture
if the family farmer goes under, resulting in
price fixing and higher consumer prices,
Hagaman said.
The fear of corporate farming also
brought Lincoln school-bus driver Sim
Gurwitz to the rally.
Observation of major industries led him
to the conclusion that investor capital must
be kept out of agriculture, the New Jersey
native said.
The crowd, which rally organizers said
arrived on more than 5,000 farm vehicles,
applauded when told by Nebraska Gover
nor J. James Exon that the true story of
rising food prices is not being told.
An increase in prices paid to farmers
should hot cause a rise in food prices at the
retail level, Exon said, because middlemen
account for . most of the cost of food.
Bert Evans, UNL economics professor
told the group 100 percent parity simply
means the farmer will receive enough to
pay his bills.
Evans, who also farms near Bloomfielcl,
said the federal government should estab
lish permanent programs the farmer could
depend on from year to year.
The practice of bigger and bigger farm
ing, which has been promoted by the
United States Department of Agriculture
and other institutions, is not the answer,
Evans said Big farming works to the
advantage of the farmers' suppliers, not the
farmers, he added.
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Tractors of all sizes and shapes rolled through Lincoln streets as part of the Farm
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'Encouraging signs' keep Yoder going
Photo by Mark BiHingslty
Kayc Yoder demonstrates a drum used to keep
time with chants. The drum was given to her as a
souvenir by a monk who participated with Yoder
in the 1977 Japan Peace Walk protesting the use
and development of nuclear weapons and devices.
By Anne Carothers
Although she spoke of a young Japanese girl slowly
dying from radiation sickness, after the Hiroshima bomb
ing, Kaye Yoder's voice was quiet. If she felt any bitter
ness, any rage; neither her face nor her voice showed it.
"The girl had .heard a Japanese legend that if she made
1,000 paper cranes (by folding and cutting paper to look
like a crane) she would be saved,' Yoder said..
She paused.
"She got to 900 before she died," Yoder said.
Yoder, a 60-year-old political activist from McPherson,
Kansas, has been in Lincoln for the past week speaking on
nuclear disarmament and nuclear polk t ion.
Yoder participated in the 1977 Japan Peace Walk last
summer along with 40 other Americans. The purpose of
the walk and the World Conference against A and H
Bombs which she attended, was to express the desire for
the elimination of nuclear weapons, Yoder said.
Although she is now concentrating on speaking out
against nuclear weapons, Yoder has been politically active
for more than 10 years with other Issues such as the femi
nist movement and protest against the Vietnamese war.
The small soft-spoken woman said she is not scheduled
on a speaking tour; she just goes to speak, whenever people
call her and want her to come.
Speaking before large groups does not come naturally
to Yoder and she said she would rather do other things
such as talking with small groups of people or partici
pating in marches to express her concern.
"1 don't care to speak to large groups but it has to be
Jone," Yoder said.
She also minimized her work as a political activist,
answering questions about herself with quick short
answers, immediately moving on to reveal various facts
and horrors about nuclear weapons.
i don't see myself as doing much. It is everyone
working together doing things," Yoder said.
Yoder, however, does much to express her concern
rncli as the Japan peace March, a U.S. walk for disarma
ment, traveling to Washington twice a year to talk with
her congressmen, circulating petitions and speaking to
various schools and church groups.
Althougn change is slow, roder said it is not feelings
of bitterness or rage that keep her working toward her
goal. She explained that she sees "enough encouragement
from people along the way" to keep her working.
"I don't get angry with people for not acting or seem
ing apathetic, but I admit I would like to see things step
ped up a bit," Yoder explained.
"A lot of people say if we pray we'll be safe. I don't
see that. I think I have to do things," Yoder said.
Yoder's husband, Russell, is not active in political
issues as his wife is.
"He likes it better when I stay home. I like it better
too, but there are things that have to be done," she said.
The Yoder's have three married children.
Yoder's optimism for change continues and she said
she is convinced that the key to that change is educating
the public. .
inside mondcuj
Take a deep breath and chew: Lancaster was
one of three Nebraska counties told to clfcan
up its air ,-. ... . . .p. 6
Labyrinth: Nebraska Union might 'seem Hke a
maze to students after plans to rearrange
are implemented .p. 7
Whatever happened to Timmys mother?: June
Lockhart says she likes her mother image
as an actress. .... . . ......... . . . ; p. 8