friday, October 19, 1979
lincoln. nebraska vol. 103 no. 38
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GBA first to suffer computer budget cut
By Lynn Mongar
The UNL College of Business Administration has no
money to run its computers and is using funds from next
semester's budget as a "temporary fix."
according to Vice-Chancellor of Research Robert Rutford.
Rutford said computers used for classroom instruction
were turned back on Wednesday using funds from next
jsmester's budget as a "temporary fix."
However, operating computers for research or research
projects has been banned.
Rutford said a $250,000 computer budget cut, a shift
the way computer bills are figured and a decrease in the
overall allocation of funding will result in severe problems
for all UNL colleges.
'The business college just ran out first," Rutford said,
Rutford said he has been monitoring the situation
closely because he expected that the budget would not be
able to meet the demand for computer use.
Rutford said tie business college's computer time has
Weeping statue, mysterious legend
By Jill Denning
COUNCIL BLUFFS, IOWA-The Black Angel's
eyes glowed of death, but the only evil lurking in
Fairview Cemetery was present in the night air that
rustled the towering oaks.
For more spoofs on the supernatural see the
Fathom magazine section.
A bronze statue, blackened by wind, rain and
age, reaches out to passers-by on a brick street in
eastern Council Bluffs. Her tear-streamed cheeks
and sculptured curls laden with a halo of flowers
should invite viewers to behold the memorial of a
, beloved mother.
But instead a legend has arisen in the mysterious
forest.
According to Richard Thill of the Archive De
partment at UNO, the legend is heard by children of
all ages in the Omaha area.' ' r ": ' ' -.,
If the eyes are seen to -glow, the viewer is sup
posed to die. If the angel is seen crying, this is to
show she is mourning the loss of her children,
The statue is a memorial to Ruth Anne Dodge,
wife of the famous General Dodge of the Union
Pacific. It was given by her two daughters, Ella and
Anne, who commissioned Daniel Chester French to
build the statue,
French also designed the seated figure of Abra
ham Lincoln at the Lincoln Memorial in Washing
ton, D.C. The Angel is considered his finest work.
The legend of Ruth's death says she was a reli
gious woman who had a dream one night where she
found herself on the rocks of a lonely shore, over
come by . a feeling that something important was
about to happen!
A beautiful woman appeared carrying an urn of
crystal-clear water. The woman urged Ruth to drink
the water saying, "I bring to you both a promise
and a blessing." Ruth declined, but after the dream
occurred for three nights, she finally drank the
water. She died soon after,
To commemorate her 1916 death, the statue was
erected. It memorializes a beloved mother but holds
for all children of the area a taste of evil and death.
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Photo by Mark Billingtley
The black angel, a memorial to a beloved mother,
towers, with all Hs legends of evilness, over the
Fairview Cemetery in Council Bluffs, la.
been cut because of UNL's budget deficit.
"We can't allow people to run expenditures " he said,
KEEPING THE computers running for students is the
first priority, Rutford said. Using the computers for
research ranks behind classroom use because the primary
function of the university is to educate, he said .
. 'That's hard for me to say to the faculty, I'm having to
tell my army that we can't provide them funds with their
research," he said.
The depleted computer funds have had great impact on
research in CBA, according to one professor in the college,
Assistant Professor of Management, Bronston Mayes
said without computers he cannot do his research or keep
up with his professional development,
Mayes said the main reason he came to UNL was
because he thought research was well-supported,
"In this business, -it's publish or perish, he said,
"Without being able to do research, UNL is a very
unattractive place."
Mayes said he would be "foolish" to stay here without
financial support for'his research,
"If the university's trying to kill it's research program,
it's doing a damn fine job of it ," he said, .
CHAIRMAN OF the management department, Prof,
Sang M, Lee said that certain classes in his department
cannot be taught without computers,
, Lee said he felt that the quality of education would
suffer without the use of computers in these classes,
"If the situation continues, I'm afraid we will lose
faculty members," Lee said,
Lee said he too would consider looking for another job
if the situation continues,
"My work is based on computer use and mathematical
marvel," he added,
Rutford said he "wouldn't blame" the faculty
members for being disturbed about the situation, or
leaving UNL. - -
Alternatives and means of conserving computer dollars
are being studied, he said,
"Of course the long.-term solution is more money,"
Adjusting the computer billing system and switching to
"lower priority" system, a first-come-first-serve system,
are being considered to reduce costs and cope with the
problem, he said, ,
Rutford also suggested that each user restrict the use of
computers to when it is essential,
"We're doing our very best to come up with a solu
tion," he said,
'This is symptomatic of the way we've got resources
stretched throughout the whole university,"
Dropadd ends
Today is the last day to drop classes or change
them to or from passfail,
Students wishing to drop should take $5 and
their ' student identification cards to Room 103,
Administration Building. There is no charge for pass
passfail changes,
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Academic Policy Committee looks into complaint
By Patti Gallagher
A UNL student has filed an official complaint with the
ASUN academic policy committee in which she claims a
School of music class consists largely of "playing child
ren's games." ,
Leslie Harlow, a music major in elementary education,
is enrolled in Elementary Methods and Materials 344,
taught by Dorothy Kozak, and said much of the class time
and entire lab periods consist of playing games.
According to Sen, Susan Johnson, the Academics
Policy Committee has never received a complaint of this
kind before.
L- Johnson said she felt Harlow has a valid complaint and
the committee is investigating the situation.
"I played Farmer in the Dell as a child, and quite well
too," Harlow said in her complaint to ASUN, and added,
"but now I'm playing it again," ,
Harlow said that she is not objecting to learning child
ren's games as an instrument of teaching music to elemen
tary age students, but objects to continually playing
games played during class time, in front of the entire class,
time.
"We are (speaking for herself and her- classmates)
trained musicians and can sight read music for those songs
that are unfamiliar to us," Harlow said in her complaint,
, Harlow said the first week of classes she participated in
the games. The second week of class, she objected to the
games played during classtime, in front of the entire class,
at which time Kozak permitted her not to play, She said
this was the day after Labor Day,
On Sept. 18, in a private meeting with Kozak, Harlow
said she was told she must participate in the games.
Harlow also said Kozak asked what her goals in the field
of education are,
Kozak said her goals are to be a music conductor with
a "willing group of musicians" and included this state
ment in her official complaint.
Kozak, when contacted on Thursday, said she told Har
low that perhaps she "had taken the wrong choice in the
program ,"
, The program, which the class is included within, is
designed for students going into the teaching field, Kozak
said. -.
Johnson presented a copy of the complaint to Ray
mond Haggh, director of the School of Music, on Oct. 16,
Harlow and Haggh then met to discuss the incident.
Harlow said that Haggh "did not know of any channels
which I could use to protest the content of this class.
Haggh said in a Thursday interview that he did not
have the power to tell instructors how to conduct their
classes.
"Faculty members have the right to determine
methods of their class" and that his intervention would be
a "violation of teacher rights," he said.
Haggh said that he advised Harlow to complete the
class, and overcome the "problem of method"
Haagh said that Harlow had two options in the situa
tion; drop it or continue,
Harlow said she could not drop the class because it was
required for her teaching certificate,
Kozak said the students play games to learn how to
work with children.
Johnson said Kozak will be contacted concerning the
complaint,
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