friday, december 9, 1979
daily nebraskan
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, Photo by Mitch Hrdlicka
Associate Prof. John Lynch
Lynch: 'Radical 9 label
an unusual one for me
By Kent Warneke
An associate professor of Life Sciences
said he has had the unusual experience -for
him-of being called a radical ,
. John r Lynch has been - extensively
involved in past weeks with the petition
endorsed by UNL Arts and Sciences
faculty members to dissolve the NU
Central Administration,
- "I'm not a big -city -type of person, I like
small towns and the accompanying rural
attitudes and I am a conservative to the
point that I have been called a Tedneck,"
Lynch said.
"But I felt I had to do something be- .
cause the things that I enjoy-teaching,
research and education-in a broad sense,
were being threatened," Lynch said.
Lynch was born in Iowa and reared in
Illinois. He received his bachelor's and
master's degrees from the University of
Illinois and his Ph.D. from the University of
Kansas before coming to UNL 10 years
ago.
"My special area of research is in tropi
cal America, near the equator, so it didn't
really make much difference where in the
United States I was in that respect," Lynch
said. "But(I did want to be close to a major
museum with a significant portion on
South America, and I can reach it in less
than a day's drive at the University of
Kansas."
MUSEUMS OFFER a controlled collect
ion that frees a piece of time that does not
restrict researchers to the present, Lynch
said.
Lynch said ideally he likes to travel to
South America once a year to work on
different -projects. Hopefully, he said, he
will spend thel981-82 school year there,
provided he receives federal support
required for this type of project.
However, the proposed trip to South
America is still in the future and Lynch is
committed toward what he calls "an invest
ment in my future."
"1 have seen the financial crisis that is
facing UNL and I feel it is incompre
hensible that it could have gotten to this
-point," Lynch said.
Lynch said in his department, many
"super" young scientists have been hired
and the mid-career types, of which he is in
cluded, are expecting a great deal from
them.
'The time spent getting these young
people and working with them is an invest
ment for the future and if the university
cannot keep them here I want to know
why," Lynch said. ' . ;
Lynch said he thinks many people may
not realize UNL is a Class I institute, which
means it has a doctoral program.
Consequently, expectations of the faculty
are great. UNO is a Class II institute, which
has no doctoral program, Lynch said.
"I DONT ARGUE WITH the fact UNO
deserves an increase in its budget," Lynch
said , "But I find it truly disgusting that the
flagship campus (UNL) is at the bottom of
the heap."
UNL has the biggest total budget, but in
terms of percentage of increase, UNL is on
the bottom, Lynch explained.
"NU President 'Ronald Roskenssaid
that it is up to the people in Nebraska as to
what kind of a university they want,"
Lynch said. "It is possible that we do not
have a population great enough to support .
a Class I institute."
'Teaching isn't just standing in front of
400 kids giving a lecture, but many people
think of it that way" Lynch said. "I work
on a Tot of various papers, but I will always
stop whatever I'm doing to Help a student
with hisher problem and try to work,
something out."
Work behind the scenes on things such .
as university committees is all part of being
a teacher, Lynch said
"Even starting a revolution if you have
to," he added. -
A cartoonist by hobby, Lynch had a .
cartoon printed in the Daily Nebraskan
last week and said he might submit more.
'Musty'. 'wafer corrected
The Lincoln water department received
about 50 phone calls Thursday from resi
dents who complained that their water had
a strange taste.
Rich Robinson of the water department
said too much anhydrous ammonia was
added to the water at the city's treatment
plant at Ashland.
Anhydrous ammonia is added to the
city's water to chemically bind the chlorine
to the water, Robinson said. However,
earlier this week, an equipment malfunc
tion caused too much of the substance to
be added to the water, accounting for the
taste, which Robinson 1 described as
"musty."
' Robinson said the corrections have been
made and the water should be back to
normal by Friday. He also said the level of
ammonia was not high enough to cause
health problems.
Area hospitals, including the University
Health Center, reported no reports of
water-related illness.
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