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Thursday, October 28. 1982
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Vol. 82, No. 50
Proposed budget cuts
worry faculty members
By Laurie Moses
Three more members of the university
community expressed concern Wednes
day about potential cuts in the university
budget that could be made during the
special session of the Nebraska Legislature.
Members of the School of Life Sciences
and the College of Arts and Sciences
previously voiced disapproval of the
cuts.
"We have been suffering inadequate
funding at the university for a while.
We had a budget cut last year and it
affected the university greatly. We had
cuts and low morale in teachers," Wal
lace Peterson, UNL economics professor,
said.
"There is no place to cut (into the
budget)," Jack Siegman, chairman and
professor of sociology department, said.
"The only place we can cut is people."
The Legislature will, begin a special
session Nov. 5 to cut the state budget.
"The university is not like a factory,"
Peterson said. "They can't shut down
and start up again. There is a slow erosion
of the university. The. state is timid to
keep the university alive,"
"I'd hate to see them (NU Board of
Regents) raise the cost for students (in
tuition). This might be a way of dramatiz
ing our problem," he said.
Some options open to the administra
tion at this time, according to Siegman,
are stopping operations in the depart
ment, stopping all paper work and closing
classes.
"My point of view is this is most ridicul
ous. What we would be doing is telling
the students and the citizens of the state
that we are expendable," he said.
"It concerns me that any cuts that will
be made will be without students, faculty
and staff input," Siegman said. "The
only way the Legislature will respond is
with response from the university."
"They will be cutting back after we
are into our fiscal year, that began in
July. This will effect us greatly into the
whole year," Peterson said.
"The faculty and students and staff
ought to be angry at the timid political
leadership. This will damage it further,"
he said.
"I think it's a real serious situation.
At this point there is a possibility for
anything. We are looking at all of the
information from all of the colleges. All
of the colleges are trying very hard at this
time," R. Neale Copple, vice chancellor
of Academic Affairs, said.
"The cuts haven't been made yet,"
Stan Liberty, dean of the College of
Engineering and Technology, said. "My
general attitude is I'm not worried about
it right now. If something ever materiali
zes, then we will deal with it."
"If there were a 5. percent cut, it would
amount to about a quarter of a million
dollars. This can't come out of our operat
ing budget, so it would come out of the
staff. There would be a reduction in staff
instructors. One jhpusand Jo J,$pQ,rstu-
dents could have to delay their gradua
tion," he said. ; '- o
"We need the faculty, staff and stu
dents both inside and outside the uni
versity to say something about this. If
the parents and staff are willing to take
it, so be it," Siegman said,
"People need to speak out and. tell
how they feel. It's difficult to say what
else we can do," Peterson said.
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His moped lying in the grass, David G. Krogh, a sophomore business major, speaks
with a Lincoln police officer after being involved in a collision with a car driven
by Rheinhold J. Zimbelman of 257 Alexander Road. Neither person, was injured
in the accident, which occurred at 16th and R streets.
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By Eric Peterson
Ellen Goodman, a Boston Globe syndicated columnist
who won the Pulitzer Prize last year for her commentary
on the social and political choices of women, said she isn't
pretentious.
She was in Lincoln Wednesday to speak at the Lincoln
YWCA's Tribute to Women award luncheon.
At a press conference Wednesday, she played down the
exaggerated impression she said many political columnists
have of themselves. -
"I think we tend to have a grandiose notion of what
our own role is, at times," she said. "All I think we did
was to reclassify ketchup." Many political columnists
pointed out the absurdity of the Reagan administration's
inclusion of ketchup as a vegetable in the federal nutri
tion requirements of school lunches last year.
Goodman's columns have been praised for looking at
the personal consequences of government social policy.
Any other approach is psychologically inappropriate, she
said.
"I think it is bizarre not to find the connections be
tween our own lives and politics," she said. "I don't be
lieve in keeping it at arm's length."
Her columns regularly appear in the Daily Nebraskan
and thr Lincoln Star.
Sexual discrimination
Goodman said she has seen sexual discrimination in
her work, discrimination that she pointed out continues
in an economy where women earn 59 cents for every dol
lar men make. Goodman said the hiring of journalists was
discriminatory when she first started work at Newsweek
around 1960.
"literally, all the women were researchers and all the
men were reporters," she said. She left that job to report
for Michigan newspaper and finally the Boston Globe.
The miracle wis that women didn't make a fuss
about it (job discrimlniiion) sooner," she said. "I left
Newsweek instead of suing iL
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Ellen Goodman
This situation continues in America's newsrooms, she
said.
"The people who still make the decisions about what
is news are still overwhelmingly men."
Information on family issues tends to be labeled "soft"
news as opposed to "hard news in areas like macroecon
omics, she said.
"Even the discussion (terminology) has certain sexual
overtones," she said.
Women have begun to emerge as a separate political
force, she said. The nuclear freeze and disarmament move
ments are examples.
"Certainly the peace movementhas been t women's
movement up to this time," she said. Suffragettes early in
this century also worked in their time for disarmament.
Gap widens
She pointed out (hat an increasing political opinion
gap exists between men and women on the Reagan ad
ministration. "I think most women's groups feel the worst thing
that's happened to women is Reagan, she said. "This ad
ministration is clearly anxiou$to push women back."
This has caused some feminists to favor liberal male
candidates rather than conservative female political can
didates, she said.
Part of the reason for the political separation of opin
ion between men and women is female participation in
the workplace, she said. Women tended to vote with their
husbands before they started working, she said. "Women
always had a different view, but they didn't trust them
selves," she said.
Goodman said she believes the 1980s will be a re
grouping period for women. Activist women divided
themselves into two groups about 10 years ago when the
women's movement first hit society-radical liberationists
who depreciated marriage and family and traditionalists
who disapproved of any change in sexual roles.
Most women-"the new middle," she said-are trying
to "change conservatively." Their psychology is con
servative, not their politics. In effect, the -new middle
wants both professional achievement and personal and
family fulfillment.
The insistence on both career and family has brought
great pressure to bear on many women, she said.
"In my generation, we have gone from the myth of Su
permom to Superwoman," she said. "The Superwoman is
the woman who has changed without upsetting the men
in her life."
But men have not taken on any previously female
roles, she said. "We are operating under a heavy burden."
Looking at the conflicting demands for the perfect ca
reer and the perlect tamily, Goodman asked the question
that was the title of her speech, "Can we have it all?"
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