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April 19, 1983
Vol.82, Mo. 144
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Editor's note: This is the final article in
a two-part series on the Central
Administration.
On Dec. 1 1 , 1979, (he UNL Faculty
Senate unanimously passed a resolution
asking the NU Board of Regents to re
examine the NU Central Administration.
Two offices pinpointed in the proposal
were the vice president for academic affairs
and vice president for the administration.
In a letter to Regent Robert Kocfoot of
Grand Island, then chairman of the board,
former faculty senate President William
B. Campbell said, "I believe it would be
a mistake to dismiss the UNL faculty
actions as merely acts of frustration over
the present financial squeeze. . .1 perceive
a much deeper feeling that the present
structure of the university is not working
well and ought to be carefully studied."
Opinions on the past and present working
relationship between the faculty and the
central administration vary among faculty
members and administrators.
"I think there is a group of very
intelligent individuals on the Lincoln
campus, and I would presume on the other
two campuses, that really believe they
would be better off if they dealt directly
with the board," James Raglin, director of
public affairs, said. "That is, independent
of each other. . .Lincoln independent of
UNO, etc., and that generally their campus
would be enhanced by that direct approach
rather than filtering through a central
administration.
"I don't think there's any dispute that
there are good-willed people who believe
that. There arc faculty who believe that
their salaries would be a hell of a lot better
if they got what they probably consider a
direct opportunity to appeal to the regents
without going through the central admini
stration," Raglin said.
"That came mainly from the Arts and
Sciences College. I think they felt they
weren't receiving maybe as much attention
and as much concern and didn't get the
right support.
"Now some of that could have been
indirectly an attack on their own campus
administrators who in turn have an
obligations to represent them in front of
the central administration. But I think if
that is true, they at least chose not to make
that the visible cause of their discontent.
They made the central administration the
cause of their discontent."
Campbell, who co-sponsored he
December 1979 resolution, said the idea
that the bill was an indirect attack on
campus administrators "was wrong."
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Survey finds most UNL students drink
By Jim Rasmussen
Eighty-four percent of 180 UNL students polled in a
telephone survey taken March 28 through April 1 drink
alcohol, according to a telephone survey conducted by a
beginning reporting class at the School of Journalism.
Student names for the survey, taken Mar. 28 through
April 1 , were chosen at random from the UNL Buzz
Book.
An average student drinker spends an average of
$10.70 per week on alcohol, the survey showed. That
figure indicates that UNL students must spend an average
of about $6.5 million on alcohol each 9-month school
year.
David DeCoster, dean of students'at UNL, said he
isn't surprised by the 84 percent figure.
"That pretty much falls in line with most college
drinking surveys done in the last 20 years," DeCoster
said.
National and university surveys done since 195Q set
the percentage of college drinkers anywhere from 75
percent to 95 percent. A 1979 survey of UNL students
tied for the high, showing that 95 percent of the students
drink alcohol.
DeCoster expressed concern that although the percent
age of college drinkers probably hasn't increased, the per
centage of heavy drinkers on the nation's campuses is
on the rise. A 1982 national survey showed that 17.2
percent of college students are heavy drinkers, compared
with 1 1 .6 percent in 1974.
According to the survey, UNL students do most of
their drinking at parties and at bars, with each receiving
36 percent of the response. Twenty-three percent said
they drink mostly at home.
Seventy-two percent of the drinkers said they go to
bars to drink. Among non-bar goers, 77 percent cited being
underage as the main reason they don't go. However, 37
percent of the underage drinkers surveyed said they do
go to bars. Two-thirds of those bar-going minors said they
use false identification to get into bars.
Being underage doesn't seem to stop many minors
from drinking. Eight-four percent of the minors surveyed
said they drink, the same percentage as that of the total
student population. About one-fourth of the underage
drinkers have used false IDs to buy alcohol, the survey
showed. Ninety percent of those who have used a false ID
said the false ID "works every time" or "usually works."
Among bar-going students of any age, 37 percent cited
bar atmosphere as the main quality they look for in a bar.
The type of people who frequent the bar was next with
32 percent, followed by entertainment with 17 percent
and prices with 8 percent.
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Copy centers argue
over prices, eligibility
By Laurie Hopple
"We don't have any objections to the university having
a copy center for students, but as competitors and
taxpayers, if the university does this, it should be fair,"
Richard Smith, owner of Kinko's Copies, said during an
interview at his home. Smith spoke of the recently opened
University Quick Copy centers in the East and City
unions.
Smith wrote a letter to John Goebcl, Vice Chancellor
of Business and Finance, in February 1983. Smith
requested that the university's eligibility policies for use
of Ouick Copy be reviewed.
Goebcl could not be reached for comment on the
letter or his responses. However, in a previous phone
interview, Goebel said that the service is restricted to
UNL students, faculty, and staff. Smith said that this
policy is not enforced and said the university should
review the enforcement rules.
"We have a pretty good backlog of documentation
on this," he said. "I've had employees from the shop go
down there with obviously commercial stuff, had them
tell them (the copy operators) that they're not students,
ask them if there would be any problems and they went
ahead and copied it all."
In his reply, addressed incorrectly to Mr. Ed Smith,
Goebel said that no attempt is made to identify patrons
of Quick Copy. His reasons: Quick Copy and most other
copying sites are "virtually inaccesssible to others" and
students would react negatively to the hassle of presenting
identification for service.
Goebel wrote that if abuses became consistent,
accessibility would be limited immediately.
Smith also requested that Goeble review the
university's blanket three-cent per copy price for Quick
Copy services.
Kinko's and other Lincoln copying services currently
charge four to four-and-a-half cents per copy, Smith said.
Smith said that the university is exploiting its
advantages.
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UNL sex assault suspect
arrested, arraigned
A joint investigation between the UNL and Lincoln
police departments has led to the arrest of a 28-year-old
Lincoln man charged with 10 crimes that include a
sexual assault in Nebraska Hall last March 28.
Bob Fey of the UNL police said the man was taken
into custody Friday at about 9 p.m.
Fey said UNL police were involved with three cases
involving the suspect.
The defendant was arraigned at 2 p.m. Monday and
formally charged with three counts of first degree sexual
assault, three counts of robbery, three counts of using a
weapon to commit a felony and one count of kidnapping.
Tom Jaudzemis, an attorney with the county
attorney's office, said $200,000 bond was posted for the
defendant.
He still is being held pending payment of 10 percent
of that amount.
John Colborn, the attorney involved with the arraign
ment, said some of the charges stemmed from the sexual
assault and robbery occuring in Nebraska Hall last March
28.
