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page 8 daily nebraskan thursday, September 21, 1978 41 irr 1 M. B A Tl J A V ft . Bike licenses, theft reports increase recovery chance Photos by Mark Billingsley The one dollar cost of a bicycle license is worth the investment, according to Campus Security Officer Phil Cross. He said licenses are invaluable in locating the owners of lost or stolen bikes. Failure to report a bicycle theft may prevent the owner from recovering the bike, according to Campus Police Officer Bob Fey. Police often recover lost or stolen bicycles, but cannot inform the owner due to a lack of a reported theft on file, Fey said. "There are 24 unclaimed bicycles down at the police station, Many of them are new bikes, too." A way to avoid this problem is to get a license for the bicycle, Fey suggested. If the bike were licensed, police could return it to the owner with no problem. However, if it is not licensed, the owner must come down to the police station and identify it. "If you make a legitimate attempt to describe the property, youll probably get it," he said. It would help, he said, if the owner could remember a specific detail about the bike. If it is not claimed it can be auctioned off, he added. According to Fey, police have caught theives in the act of trying to steal a bicycle. If a person is caught suspiciously tampering with a chained bike, police may question him and ask for proof of owner snip. 'The cost of new bicycles these days makes the loss of a bicycle pretty serious," stated Fey. He urges all who have been theft victims to come to the campus police station and try to identify their bikes. He also encourages bicycle owners to purchase a city license, which will be sold for $1.00 at the Bicycle Safety Seminar, Friday, Sept. 22 outside the Nebraska Union. The program is sponsored by the University Police Crime Prevention Bureau and will inform students about bicycle theft prevention with the help of three bicycle companies. The companies, Freewheeling Bike Company, Lincoln Schwinn Cyclery, and Mr. Bike will demonstrate how locks, chains, cables and other devices can help students best avoid theft. Faculty members to review new promotion guidelines By Scott Behm NU faculty members will review proposed guidelines concerning promotions before final recommendations are made to the university president, according to Steven Sample, executive vice president for academic affairs. Sample said NU President Ronald Roskens asked the Council of Academic Officers last spring to draft a set of guide lines governing academic promotions within the university. The council is chaired by Sample and consists of several vice chancellors from the three campuses. Ned Hedges, UNL vice chancellor for academic affairs and a member of the council, said the criteria for UNL are determined by the faculty members of each college and that the requirements are not necessarily the same in each college. Minimum time question "I am not in favor of developing a uniform criterion for tenure in rank for all O o 144 N. 14th o n q r n n tarts Tc day Today 10: 00 AM. - 9 : 00 P.M. Friday & Saturday 10 : 00 A.M. - 6 : 00 P.M. Fantastic Savings on New Fall Merchandise Most of the Store on Sale units of the university. By units I mean the different colleges and campuses. Each college has its own special circumstances, traditional, and academic programs," Hedges said. "The question was raised last year, however, as to whether there should be a minimum time in rank (assistant professor, associate professor, and professor) before promotion," he said. Hedges said those concerned with the issue felt that if the administration were to apply guidelines when considering promotion it should announce and discuss the guidelines with the faculty. Clarification necessary Roskens said the issue of academic promotion is one that needs attention because of the frequency of cases in which clarification is necessary. "This (criteria for faculty promotion) has been a question raised to me many, many times since I became president of the university, from people around the state," Roskens said. "I don't have any reports back yet, but the chancellors and academic officers from each campus are to send recommendations to me by Nov. 15," Roskens said. Joan Wadlow, associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, said depart ment chairpersons and college deans have received copies of the proposed guidelines, but that no formal meetings or responses have been made. Hedges said he anticipated mixed reactions to the guidelines and added that he felt few faculty members would agree with the entire proposal. Faculty member protest Robert Miewald, former chairman of the UNL political science department, said he did not feel the proposed guidelines were acceptable. "I can't speak for everyone because 1 don't think many faculty members have seen the proposal yet, but I don't feel the guidelines concern the real heart of the things that should be considered in a promotion," Miewald said. "The proposed guidelines may be fine for administrators who lik to deal with numbers, but other circumstances have to be looked at," he said. Miewald said this type of proposal is something faculty members should work with and develop rather than let guidelines be "set from above," Although the proposed guidelines leave room for exceptional performance by candidates for promotion, the normal period to be served as assistant professor before eligibility for promotion to associate professor is five years. Associate professors would be required to serve seven years before promotion to professor. 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