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lincoln, nebraska vol. 107 no. 70
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the Dairy Store.
CouncH, others discuss
changing city road plan
By Mary Louise Knapp
The Lincoln City Council and members
of community groups discussed a proposal
to amend the city s Comprehensive Plan
Monday that would delete from the plan
all references to the Northeast Radial and
propose an alternative roadway between
17th and 19th streets from lloldregc to V
streets.
Lincolnites, in an election last April,
voted down a proposal for the radial,
which would have connected downtown
Lincoln to the llavclock area.
The Planning Department had recom
mended earlier that the radial be eliminat
ed from the Comprehensive Plan and that a
corridor between 17th and 19th streets be
designated as an alternative. A previous
proposal that 16th and 17th streets be des
ignated as alternatives was rejected by the
council because UNL officials said that
solution would bisect the campus.
Council member Mike Steinman pro
posed an amendment to the proposal
which would delete references to the radial
from the Comprehensive Plan, and make
no references to an alternate roadway.
Steinman said passing the original pro
posal would mean bypassing the normal
channels by which amendments to the
Comprehensive Plan are formulated.
Amendments to the plan are usually dis
cussed by various subcommittees of the
council before they are brought to a pub
lic hearing, Steinman said.
Playing God
Louis Shackelford, another council
member, said Steinman was employing
"political demagoguei-y by proposing the
amendment and said that Steinman had
previously proposed the original resolution
to the Planning Committee.
Steinman replied that he had merely di
rected the issue to the Planning Committee
for its consideration.
"I think we should honor the vote of
the people in the spring (against the radi
al)," Steinman said, adding that a proposal
for an alternate roadway might revive fears
of a "son of radial," that is, the radial
proposition under a different name.
C. lidwin Murphy, a member of the Uni
versity Place Community Organization
Board of Directors, spoke in favor of the
resolution with Stcinman's amendment at
tached. "The University Place Community Or
ganization has had a consistent record of
opposition to the proposed Northeast Ra
dial and has had representatives of the
Board of Directors addressing the City
Council on this matter on a number of oc
casions," Murphy said.
Voters said "no"
"I should not have to remind you that
the people voted 'no build,' " Murphy said.
"They did not express themselves concern
ing alternatives."
Mark Hunzeker, 2015 Park Ave., said he
supported the resolution without the Stein
man amendment.
"To use the 'planning process' as an ex
cuse to avoid the issue seems odd to me
when the planning process has already been
subverted (by the original amendment),"
Hunzeker said. "To use it now would not
be shooting straight with the voters."
"The real substance of the issue is to
provide an alternative," he said.
A vote by the council members on the
resolution is pending.
UNL lacks money chairman
By Roger Aden
After four years as chairman of the
Department of Speech Communication,
Gustav Friedrich is leaving UNL for a
similar post at the University of Oklahoma
at the semester's end. He is also leaving
some bad memories.
In a letter published in yesterday's
Daily Nebraskan, Friedrich said he recalled
"too vividly the countless frustrating barri-
Chairman's resignation is debated
By Roger Aden
The resignation of the chairman of the
UNL Department of Speech Communicat
ions said his subsequent criticism of people
and groups connected with the university,
has drawn mixed responses from UNL
officials.
Gustav Friedrich submitted his letter of
resignation to the press last week. In that
letter, he said his resignation, which is
effective at the end of this semester, was
prompted by the following: low faculty
salaries; the importance of athletics in
comparison to academics; a self-interested
governor and legislators; an unsupportive
university president; and a board of regents
selected by poor methods.
NU Regent Ed Schwartzkopf of Lincoln
said Friedrich's contentions and his
method of pointing out his allegations were
wrong.
"I've heard some good things, that he is
really providing leadership in the speech
communication department," Schwartz
kopf said. "But if he's really a professional
educator and he's really concerned about
his students and colleagues, he shouldn't
have just written a letter.
"You have to meet the change-makers
and say 'this is what we have to do.' I don't
think you make things better by blasting
them and then taking off," Schwartzkopt
said.
Schwartzkopf added that if Friedrich
was really concerned about faculty salary
increases he should have been out front
pushing for those changes. Schwartzkopf
said he has seen no evidence that Friedrich
was doing such work.
However, Friedrich said he has been
fighting for salary increases at multiple
levels since he assumed the chairmanship of
the Speech Communication Department in
1977.
In his letter, Friedrich contended that
electing members of the NU Board of
Regents, instead of appointing them, re
stricts their concerns to matters other than
education. Schwartzkopf said that charge
was "almost ridiculous."
"In states where the boards are appoint
ed, the governor appoints people who have
supported him and expressed a desire to
hold such a position," Schwartzkopf said.
"They (regents) usually support the philo
sophy of the person who put them in."
Schwartzkopf said Friedrich's content
ion about athletics being emphasized over
education does not seem reasonable.
"Well, geez, going to an Oklahoma foot
ball game certainly isn't in the interest of
de-emphasizing education," Schwartzkopf
said.
Regent John Payne of Kearney, said
there are many universities with a lower
faculty pay scale than UNL. In fact, he said
UNL is above average in faculty salaries
nationwide, pointing to what he termed a
substantial number of professors earning
over $40,000 a year.
However, Payne did say that some
faculty members within the university
might be receiving lower salaries than their
counterparts across the country
Noting Friedrich's new position, Payne
said the University of Oklahoma can afford
to pay their faculty members more because
of the oil boom in that state, compared to
Nebraska's agricultural picture, which he
said is not good. Friedrich has accepted a
position in Oklahoma similar to his present
one.
Salaries of UNL faculty members in
1980-81 were below average when compar
ed to other land-grant institutions similar
to UNL, said Harry Allen, UNL director of
institutional research and planning.
Allen said no faculty salary rankings are
kept of the nine land-grant institutions in
the Association of American Universities
rankings to which UNL salaries are compar
ed. The AAU members include Illinois,
Iowa State, Michigan State, Minnesota,
Missouri-Columbia, Ohio State, Penn State,
Purdue and Wisconsin-Madison.
Continued on Page 3
ers thrust in the way of the university's
achieving academic respect."
Friedrich specifically cited "low faculty
salaries, high student fees, an NU Board of
Regents whose method of selection re
stricts their concerns to matters other than
education, a state which values athletics at
the expense of academic achievement,
(and) a governor and state legislature who
willingly sacrifice the welfare of Nebraska
to self-interest."
He also wrote of "a university president
who accomplishes his prediction that 'con
tinued and pervasive erosion of quality is
probably inevitable,' by reducing the
faculty 2 percent in the face of significant
ly increased responsibilities."
In an interview, Friedrich said the state
equates the success of the football team
with the success of the university.
"I have nothing against athletics, I go to
the games," Friedrich said, "but the state
of Nebraska thinks that if the football
team is doing beautifully, the university is
doing beautifully.
"They equate the success of the football
team with the success of the university, de
spite the fact that the library is hurting,
professors are doing their own typing be
cause of a lack of secretaries which takes
away research time and computer budgets
are running out before the year's over,
hurting research," Friedrich said.
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No to Norden Dam: Water conservation
groups plans to go door to door to ex
press opposition to dam project . Page 7
Pershing Promo: Pershing Auditorium
hopes to spur business with a new adver
tising push Page 10
Husker Hoops: Complete coverage of last
night's Nebraska-South Dakota State
basketball game Page 12
