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Tuesday, September 13, 1983
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University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Vol. 83 No. 11
By Mary Louise Knapp
UNL faculty members are being asked to consider
forming a collective bargaining unit by UNL's
chapter of the American Association of University
Professors.
Linda Pratt, graduate chairman of the English
department and chairman of the AAUP's strategies
committee, said faculty members are being polled
this week on the issue. If the results are favorable,
she said, the chapter may try to get enough
signatures to authorize an election to decide
whether the association will represent the faculty
for collective bargaining purposes.
A letter mailed last week to faculty members by
the UNL chapter asked:
"Is your income improving relative to the cost of
living and relative to your experience,
responsibilities and performance? Do you have a
larger participation in important governance issues
at the University? Are your fringe benefits
increasing as rapidly as their costs rise? Is your
work environment improving? Are your
professional satisfactions growing? Are you able to
do a better job of meeting your professional
obligations to students and to scholarship?"
The letter also asked if faculty members are
confident that existing grievance procedures at
UNL protect their interests as the NU Board of
Regents decide what to cut in their plan to
reallocate 2 percent of the 1983-84 budget
The letter stated that faculty at the University of
Nebraska-Omaha obtained a 6.6 percent salary
increase for 1982-83 from the State Commission of
Industrial Relations. The regents gave other NU
faculty members raises of about 2.5 percent. The
UNO faculty is renegotiating a contract for 1 983-84.
Faculty salaries at UNL are currently about 16
percent below salaries of a peer group of land-grant
universities, the letter said.
Reactions were positive
"We've been very pleased with the response (to the
letter)," Pratt said. The only reactions I've gotten
were positive. Several people who called said they
wanted to join AAUP or work for collective
bargaining."
Pratt said she views the regents' approval of an
11.1 percent faculty salary increase for 1984-85 at
their Friday meeting as "more of the same stuff we
were told last year; that pay raises are a top
priority."
Until the regents can translate their words into
action, Pratt said she sees no reason for faculty
members to be more confident that their interests
are being considered.
Cuts not expected
Pratt said the regents' decision Friday to cut 21
faculty positions and 63 classes from UNO was not
expected by the UNL AAUP. She said the UNO AAUP
had presented two pages of plans which would
allow for budget cuts without harming academic
programs. The regents "never even considered" the
AAUP list, Pratt said. The UNO administration also
presented plans for program and staff cuts at the
meeting.
The cuts, which eliminated $554, 114 from the
UNL budget, were made to meet UNO faculty pay
raises ordered by the Commission of Industrial
Relations.
Pratt said the AAUP had expected the board to
receive the plans, consider them, perhaps hold
public hearings on them and make a decision in
October.
"Their refusal to allow public discussion and their
refusal to consider the AAUP's list indicates that
they are looking for a punitive way to enforce the
court (CIR) order, and that they don't consider
program cuts to be the public's business," she said.
Pratt said she has been asked if the regents'
decision will scare UNL faculty members away from
collective bargaining.
"It's possible it will intimidate some people," she
said. "It also might scare them into realizing that
they need a contract. There's no reason to assume
that the regents will treat us (UNL faculty)
differently," she said.
Hearings set
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Preliminary hearings were set
in Lancaster County Court
Monday for two Lincoln men
charged with drug related
offenses.
UNL student Kurt Eberhardt,
28, of 500 W. Harvest Drive was
charged with three felony counts
of delivery of cocaine. His
preliminary hearing is set for
Sept. 22.
Juan Vargas-Manchego, 6140
N.W. Ninth St., was charged with
one count of possession of
cocaine with intent to deliver. His
preliminary hearing is slated for
Sept. 29.
UNL student Rodney Rozanek,
20, 672 W. Lakeshore Drive, had
his case continued until Oct 17.
Rozanek is charged with three
counts of delivery of cocaine.
Safety program, bikeways suggested
absolutions to UNL bilgprgtde
Tuesday
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Index
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Classified 14
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Sports 12
By Laixri Hopple
UNL Police Chief Gail Gade said
Monday he will suggest to administra
tors that an ad-hoc committee be formed
to discuss the needs and costs of
implementing a bicycling safety pro
gram at UNL
Gade was responding to the letter
"Bikers threat to health" (Daily Nebras
kan, Sept. 2) written by Hal Gilders
leeve, associate professor of UNL lib
raries. Gildersleeve called for a program to
ensure the safety of pedestrians on
UNL sidewalks after he had "been
cursed at and driven into the gutter by
a human projectile" on a bicycle. He
said he is pleased with Gada's suggestion.
"A little education, that's what we
need," Gildersleeve said. "An over
whelming number of kids need to be
reminded of caution."
OfT-liiait bikeways proposed
Gade said one possibility that should
be discussed is painting lines on cam
pus sidewalks to divide the bikers from
the pedestrians. These "bikeways" would
be off-limits to pedestrians to help
ensure their safety.
"IVe seen it work in Central Michi
gan University and it does very well,"
Gade said. "It definitely needs looking
into because we've never had any type
of safety program here besides bicycle
registration, locks and reporting of
thefts."
ASUN President Matt Wallace said
some senators have been looking into;
the problem but creating bike lanes
probably will not be put on the senate
agenda for about a month. Wallace
said that .ASUN Sen. John Valdrighi
brought the bicycle issue up at the last
senate meeting. Valdrighi could not be
reached for comment
"If students perceive it as something
we need to take some action with, we
will," Wallace said.
CocZdct tzr tzfzty practices
- Gade sid he would also like to have
of biking safety practices and rules of
the road, or sidewalk, as the case may
be.
According to the Lincoln Municipal
Codebook, bicyclers and moped riders
must obey all traffic laws that apply to
motor vehicles on Lincoln streets. This
includes stopping at traffic lights and
stop signs, Bob Fey, UNL police crime
prevention officer, said. Tickets have
been issued in the past by police for
violations of this ordinance, he said.
On the sidewalks of UNL and on
other Lincoln sidewalks not restricted
for bikers, pedestrians have the right
of way in all cases. Ordinance 10.64. 110,
section three, reads; "Any person oper
ating a bicycle upon a sidewalk or
within any sidewalk space shall do so
at his own risk and shall yield the right
of way to any and all pedestrians."
Fey said mopeds are illegal on UNL
sidewalks or other city sidewalks if
their motors are running. Once their
motors are shut off and the moped is
run manually, mopeds are allowed on
sidewalks.
It is illegal to ride bicycles on side
walks in the following areas: from the
south line of N Street to the north line
of P Street; from the west line of 10th
Street to the east line of 16th Street;
48th Street from the south line of
Baldwin Avenue to the north line of
Madison Avenue, the west side of 48th
Street from Prescott Street to Cooper
Street; Prescott Street from 47th
Street to 48th Street; and the west side
of 66th Street from Holdrege Street to
Fairfax Street.
Fey said there are restrictions for
parking bikes in university buildings,
and chaining bikes to trees or entrance
ranps for disabled people. Illegally parked
bicycles will be removed by the UNL
police, he said.
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