monday, december 1 1, 1978
daily nebraskan
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Parent program
termed success
The new Plant Science Building, the Nebraska
East Union and East Campus greenhouses were
among the stops along the 8th annual Agronomy
Club's Parents Day tour Saturday afternoon.
Bob Cast, Agronomy Department chairman, said
that this was the most successful parent's day.
"We've been holding the tours for parents to ob
serve the facilities, and get some idea of what their
children are studying. Over 200 parsnts signed up
today to attend the tours. This figure includes some
whole families," Cast said.
The program has expanded from one to three
separate tours. One tour includes the Rehabilita
tion Lab, the Ruth Staples Lab, Food Tasting, and
Textiles.
Another tour took visitors through the new Plant
Science Building.
The "Old Tour" includes Food Science, Soil
Testing, and Tractor Testing, and usually numbers
about 150 people.
Ken Cihacek, an Agronomy Club sophomore,
led one of the tours in the afternoon.
"The club is for agriculture students, mainly in
volved in agronomy," he said. "We try to show
parents a little bit of college life. We have about 68
members in the club."
The Agronomy Club has participated in the Na
tional Agronomy Association's Competition in Chi
cago, and finished in second place, according to Jim
Schepers, an advisor to the club.
Hansen . . .
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Hansen doesn't commit himself yet as to whether more
stringent admissions standards suggested by NU Regent
Robert Simmons of Scottsbluff are desirable.
"Maybe we can cost justify that, but have we elimi
nated the possibility for someone who at 19 says 'I've
been goofing off to this point,' and now is ready to
work?" he asked.
In evaluating admissions standards it's important to
take into account projection for steady or declining en
rollments, he said.
Hansen was re-elected last month, defeating Harlan
Nelson. He has served on the board since he was
appointed by Gov. Norbert Tiemann in 1970 to fill the
seat vacated by Richard L. Herman, who resigned.
As a graduate of the University of Nebraska, he said
being a regent "is a way in which I can pay back what I
got. Second, I find the university a stimulating environ
ment to be associated with. Third, I think it's one of the
major assets of the entire state."
Hansen said he spends about 12 to 15 hours each week
on university business.
He said he always reads through his entire agenda
before coming to the board's monthly meetings, but
admitted to sometimes skimming the supporting material.
As chairman of the business affairs subcommittee, he
said there is more work, as well as additional meetings.
Hansen tried to counter an image that he is viewed as
"pro-UNO."
"I hope somebody would see me as a staunch support
er of UNL and UNMC, too. I hope I have not uncon
sciously been identified with 'this is the regent who
always does this. . . '
"I probably sound off about UNO in hopes that those
who may not be acquainted with its part in the Omaha en
vironment, that I may help them understand that."
Hansen's voting record has been consistent: three times
he voted in favor of allowing alcohol on campus.
"I don't favor alcohol," says Hansen, "but I do favor
the fact that we should recognize the legal rights the
student has.
"I think we should avoid being the local parental unit
for the student."
Hansen described the board's attitude toward alcohol
as "obtuse."
There are always students who are willing to take the
risks of violating the rule, he said.
Hansen also has abstained from voting because of
conflict of interest whenever the university receives in
vestment bids from the U.S. National Bank, as well as
when UNO considered buying land from his personal
friends or business associates.
He said he has already told the business affairs subcom
mittee he will abstain from voting on the employee health
plan since he joined the board of Blue Cross Blue Shield.
"Whenever there is even the possibility of a conflict
of interest, real or implied, it ought to be identified as
such.
Hansen said he doesn't feel that receiving free football
tickets could be considered compensation to the regents,
which is prohibited by Nebraska constitution.
A follower of fine arts at the university, Hansen said
that five or six years ago the regents were offered free
tickets to theatre and musical productions.
"This whole matter of compensation was researched
legally and it was determined then that this could be inter
preted as a possible compensation."
Hansen said he attends nine or 10 productions at
UNL Kimball Recital Hall each year and pays for his
tickets
He said if a regent wanted to see an exhibit as a toward
excellence committee member, he could justify getting
New Nebraskans younger, smarter
but those leaving have same qualities
Newcomers to Nebraska are likely to be young, well
educated and from an urban background, according to a
study conducted by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Bureau of Sociological Research.
In the seventh of its reports based on findings in the
Nebraskans Annual Social Indicators Survey conducted
last February through April, the bureau looked at migra
tion in Nebraska. Nebraska has reversed a 70-year trend
toward net migration, low since 1970. Between 1970
75, Nebraska registered a .9 percent gain in newcomers to
the state, an abrupt change from the net migration loss of
5.2 percent in the 1960-70 period.
While newcomers to Nebraska tend to be young and
among the better educated, people who plan to leave
Nebraska tend to possess the same characteristics.
On the move
According to the survey, a substantial number of
young people intend to seek employment outside of
Nebraska. The state now has more people entering the
state than are leaving, suggesting that Nebraska "will not
suffer substantially in the exchange," according to the
report.
The survey also revealed that nearly 70 percent of the
respondents live somewhere other than the com unity into
which they were born, and that 10 percent who moved to
Nebraska had moved to Nebraska in the last two to eight
years. Most of the newcomers listed job-related causes for
moving to Nebraska.
The least mobile residents were found to be older Ne
braskans, farmers and the least well-educated. The survey
free tickets.
The Orange Bowl Committee is paying expenses and
air fare for the Orange Bowl, and not the university, he
said.
Hansen was one of two regents last winter who
opposed removing mandatory fee funding for political
speakers.
He called the issue "one of the more difficult votes
because I really believe in the free market concept. None
theless, I think there is the obligation on the part of the
university to provide the student with the opposing view
point." Because of competing activities for funds it's difficult
to fund such a program voluntarily, he said.
"If we don't do it on a mandatory fee basis I think
there is a possibility we can do it if the university can
consider utilizing tax funds.
"If we do that you bet your sweet life there are going
to be people who are going to say Vait a minute, you're
not going to use my tax dollars to support viewpoint A.' "
Hansen said the Lincoln chapter of Young Americans
for Freedom "did a service for lecture programs in
also revealed that the rural non-farm .population was
among the least stable groups surveyed, and that the
Omaha population was more residentially stable than any
other group except the farm population.
. Most to Omaha
The survey found that Omaha received 30 percent of
the newcomers to Nebraska, 14 percent moved to
Lincoln, and 46 percent moved to other urban areas in
the state. Only six percent moved to rural non-farm areas,
and four percent to farms.
Nearly half of the new arrivals gave job-releated reasons
for moving to Nebraska. Others came to attend school in
Nebraska or for family-related reasons.
Of the 10 percent of the respondents who moved to
Nebraska within the last eight years, there was a signifi
cant tendency to have moved from big to smaller cities.
The largest group of movers to small towns and rural non
farm areas were from cities over 50,000. However, this
could indicate the development of suburban rings around
larger cities rather than real small town living, the report
noted.
All respondents in the survey were asked whether they
expected to move in the next two years. Most people,
80 percent, intend to stay put. Of those who expect to
move, 39 percent intend to move to another place in the
same location, 30 percent intend to move to another Ne
braska community and 31 percent expect to leave the
state. The major reason for leaving the state given by re
spondents was a new job.
pointing out that balance had not been achieved."
Hansen did object to some of the language used in
YAF's letters to Nebraskans. He said after listening to a
tape of Jane Fonda's speech that it was unfair to call her
views a "hate America philosophy."
He said he was impressed by the Student Court's
approach to handling YAF's violation.
Hansen said he opposes a voting student regent as "a
direct conflict of interest.
"If a student had run against me in district two and
had won I would say there is no question he ought to be a
voting member."
Hansen said he will propose at the next regents'
meeting that the student board members' votes be
recorded but not counted.
The University of Illinois already uses such a pro
cedure, he said.
Hansen said the student regents have been very helpful,
especially on the subcommittee level. On issues such as
stadium expansion in which the regents have acted
opposite of what students wanted "there is no question
they were considered," he said.
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