Tuesday, February 21, 1934
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Union priorities wrong
Many students are aware of the organizing drive
aimed at making the local chapter of the AAUP the
collective bargaining agent for UNL faculty. Their
concerns are not without real merit: Anyone who
pays even a little attention to the nuances of how
business is handled with regard to faculty members
rr.d faculty ideas knows that in the minds of far too
many administrators, faculty members are employ
ees in very nearly the same sense as file clerks with
regard to decisions or policies of any importance.
However, I do not believe that the problem of
being regarded as employed objects by administra
tive manipulators is going to be solved by unioniza
tion. The experience of the UNO effort indicates that
while token attention is given to matters of univer
sity governance, quality of instruction and student
welfare, the overwhelming attention is focused on
three other issues: salaries, monetary renumeration
and faculty fiscal compensation not so narrowly
trained in on grubby bucks. However, an informa
tional flyer has reached my mailbox today indicat-.
ing that the feeling of the AAUP groups is that the
three key indicators of interest are indeed salaries,
monetyary renumeration and faculty fiscal com
pensation. I fear that we are in that respect not
different from UNO.
The problems of governance who is in charge
are indeed serious at this university and a great
deal of education of administrators is in order
before they will diminish. However, unionization with
bucks first, second and third in priority is not the
way to do it.
Richard K. Boohar
associate professor
life sciences
Statements erroneous
The Feb. 16 edition of the Daily Nebraskan fea
tured an article on the Nebraska Library for the
Blind and Physically Handicapped. While I appre
ciate the coverage afforded by your newspaper, I
also feel compelled to comment on some statements
contained within the article itself.
What I question primarily is the use of strange
quotes attributed to me which contain erroneous
information. Moreover, these quotes may tend to
portray the library in a negative manner. For
instance, I was quoted as being critical of the
library's small staff size, when actually the size of our
staff approximates the number indicated in nation
al standards for libraries of our type. Also, I was
quoted as saying that volunteers do most of our
work when it would be more accurate to say that
volunteers are used to supplement the work of our
staff.
Rather than questioning the library's effective
ness, I take pride in showing that our library's circu
lation figures per patron are nearly twice that of
similar libraries of our size. Our success in automat
ing library procedures and in promoting the service
are other indicators of effectiveness.
The article contains several factual errors as well;
for instance, neither Mr. Terry nor myself were given
correct job titles. -
I arn sympathetic with the difficulties involved in
reporting on a statewide library program after only
a 30-minute interview. I am also grateful that an
alternative means exist whereby I may take excep
tion to what I believe to be misunderstandings and
misinformation. '
Dave Oertli, Director
Nebraska Library for the
Blind and Physically Handicapped
'Are we hostages?'
Are we all hostage to the banker? Does the banker
own us via our car, home, farm, appliance, etc.? Do
we exist at the pleasure of our friendly neighbor
hood bank? Are all the banks really responsible for
the failure of one bank and therefore the logical
candidates to help out their own? Is Common
wealth alone in its gretd or are all banks part of the
same fabric? Should the state of Nebraska bail out
Commonwealth and therefore have the taxpayer
pay for thi; restoration of trust with eventual higher
tax in some form, or should the banks of Lincoln
stand together and do the right thing and protect
their own?
Each bank president knows the answer to this
basic question and there must be a few, or at least
one, with enough courage to admit complicity with
the goof we all know as Commonwealth. In their
silence, are not they, too, hostage?
Donald A. Bercey
Lincoln
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