Tuesday, March 16, 1982
Daily Nebraskan
Page 7
Unmarried faculty
members join club,
find companionship
By Leslie Bocllstorff
Since January, a new club has allowed unmarried
UNL faculty members to find companionship and
guidance in a "bedroom community" - a campus
dominated by married faculty members.
The Single Faculty Club was organized for single
faculty members to meet people with similar in
terests, said the group's organizers, Tom Morgan,
associate professor of physics; William Carter, pro
fessor of electrical engineering; and Lou Ebrite,
assistant professor in the division of health occu
pations and teacher education.
'There is very little socializing among the facul
ty," Carter said. Most of the faculty activities are
designed for couples, he said.
Students have an easier time meeting people
because there are hundreds of student organizations
available to them, he said.
Ebrite said native Nebraskans as well as those
new to Lincoln have difficulty meeting people with
similar interests.
Nebraska is a great place for raising a family,
but it is difficult for people who aren't currently
raising a ramily to find others similarly situated,
Ebrite said.
Because faculty members often have different
interests than Lincoln's general public, they may
have trouble finding like-minded companionship,
the clubs organizers said.
"There is no support system for the faculty
member without a family, no organization to help
the individual to identify activities and meet
people," Ebrite said. The Single Faculty Club is
intended to help alleviate this problem.
A faculty member rarely meets more than 20
people in his department, she said. Most of those
people are married, and go home to their families
every night. The club would help the single faculty
members on both City and East campus meet each
other.
The club is especially intended to let single
faculty members share cultural experiences,
Morgan said.
'The club is for integration and sharing of ex
periences. After all, that's what education is all
about," he said.
"My reason for going is not to find a mate,"
Connie Ley, assistant professor of education and
family resources, said. It's important to establish
faculty camaraderie, and interesting to meet other
faculty members, she said.
Alma Homze, associate professor of curriculum
and instruction in the teachers college, said her
entire social life changed when she divorced re
cently. Before the divorce, she had no idea it was so
difficult for single faculty members to meet people
in Lincoln, she said.
The club provides a chance for her to make
contact with people other than the couples she had
associated with while married.
At the last club meeting, 21 people attended a
wine education program, where they saw a slide pre
sentation on German wines and sampled the wines
discussed , she said .
Twelve single faculty members carpooled to a
Bagels and Bach concert at the Joslyn Art Museum
in Omaha in February.
About 30 people attended the first three meet
ings of the Single Faculty Club, Ebrite said. About
42 have expressed interest in the club, she said.
Ebrite said the club will elect officers in the fall.
After the club is formally organized, it will pro
bably have meetings once a month and break apart
for two or three small-group, special-interest meet
ings or activities each month.
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Objection to bishop's edict continues
By Loma Nisscn
In opposition to Bishop Glennon Flavin's edict declar
ing that only men may be lectors in the Lincoln diocese,
the Catholics for Active Liturgical Life was formed in
July 1981, said the chairwoman of the organization's
steering committee. Carol McShanc said the group op
poses the bishop's edict that lectors must be male, be at
least 21 years old and have children enrolled in a Catholic
school.
McShanc said no one knew about the edict until an
article appeared in the Catholic National Reporter, a
Catholic newspaper.
Catholic documents in Rome show that both women
and men may read in the churches. McShanc said many
women were allowed to read at masses celebrated by Pope
John Paul II during his 1980 tour in the United States.
McShane called Flavin's edict repulsive, but said it
is his right to make such judgments. She said she didn't
know how he could find it in his mind and heart to
practice such an exclusionist policy.
CALL consists of 300 people, most of whom are
laymen and laywomen, "McShane said. Some of the mem
bers arc university professors and graduate students. A
few Catholic sisters are also members, she said.
Most of its members live in Lincoln, and eight to 10
members live in towns outside Lincoln. CALL is not re
served just for Catholics, but only Catholic members may
vote, McShane said.
McShane said the bishop has not contacted CALL con
cerning the edict and has ignored all of CALL's attempts
to contact him. Flavin's only response was in an article in
a Catholic newspaper and even then it was not signed,
McShanc said.
CALL meets about once a month in the Lincoln Foun
dation Building at 15th and N streets, McShane said, and
members recently passed its bylaws.
At CALL's last meeting, a resolution calling for a boy
cott of the bishop's Diocese Development Program fund
raising program was defeated, McShane said.
A resolution passed that calls for those people who
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have decided not to contribute to the DDP fund to con
tinue to support their parish and other Catholic charities,
McShane said.
McShane said CALL is not urging people to participate
in a boycott but to rechannel contributions to churches
instead of giving money to the DDP fund.
Deciding not to give money to Flavin's fund should not
be an excuse to give no money at all, McShane said.
CALL receives no special funding to operate but is
supported directly by its members, McShane said. The or
ganization is applying for tax-exempt status.
The next meeting of CALL will be April 1, McShane
said.
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