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n ' "3 mn a .... l 71 j 7 - oiaroversiai.BJbbfi roie boom &b aeobibv Ey Patty Piycr Disagreement concerning the role of the Neb raska State Student Association surfaced during a debate among ASUN presidential candidates Thurs day. The event was sponsored by UPCs Talks and Top ics Committee and featured panel members from ' the Pi?i!y Nebraska, Mortar Board and the Inno cents Society. Much of the dispute centered on the NSSA's rela tionship to UNL, which is only one of five member campuses in the as sociation. Other member schools include UNO, Peru State College, Chadron State Col lege and Wayne State College. AIM presidential candidate Mark Scudder said the NSSA should work more specifically for issues affecting UNL, since this campus pays the most funding into the association. In later questioning, however, Unite vice presi dential candidate Heidi Burklund clarified that stu dents on every member campus pay the same 50 cents fee to the NSSA, making UNL's total con tribution larger because of its larger student body. Because it is a statewide organization, it is not intended to lobby strictly on behalf of UNL issues, she said. Further disagreement arose when US presiden tial candidate Kevin Goldstein criticized NSSA's budget, saying it needs to be more itemized and accountable to the Committee for Fees Allocation. In response, Deb Chapelle, NSSA executive direc tor, asked Goldstein if he had ever seen an audit of the association's budget, and offered him a copy when he said he hadn't. Other dominant themes throughout the debate included student representation and services. - Goldstein said the US Party stresses student ser vices as its primary goaL Rather than playing "pseudo-politics," Goldstein said ASUN could be more accountable to students by providing such services as typewriters in the library and expanded legal counsel. Tim Burke, Fasin presidential candidate, said his party plans to represent students more effectively. "It's your ASUN," Burke said. "Well do what you want us to do." Unite presidential candidate Mike Gciger, in out lining his current and past campus activities, said his party comprises the most diverse and expe rienced candidates. The two remaining candidates, John Hazuka of the Roo Party and John Manchester of the Don Ho party, provided minor distractions but evoked little audience response. t 7 n Dan-Jiy ri J J t c a j i. -' 1 j c Friday, Msrch 2, 1934 ,7V MM H.V orm t By Pain Alvard Faculty salaries at UNO, negotiated by the Ameri can Association of University Professors, were com pared with UNL's non-AAUP salaries during Thurs day's AAUPUNL chapter meeting at Commonplace, 333 N. 14th St The buying power of the average faculty member has declined 7 percent since the 1967-63 academic year, said Norma Sue Griffin, the president-elect of the UNLAAUP chapter Griffin is an associate pro fessor of health, physical education and recreation " at UNL. 1' " This represents a decline from the average 1967 68 salary of $12,227 to $11,478 today in terms of comparable purchasing powers, said Jerry Petr, AAUP member and UNL associate professor of eco nomics. Over this same period, the GNP in real terms has risen 40 percent, and the state real personal income has risen 25 percent, he said. "The economy is doing better, but for the faculty on thi3 campus it's deteriorating," he said. ... The average salary is higher in six of 17 depart ments at UNO compared with UNL, said AAUP member and UNL economies professor John Richard Felton. The UNO faculty's higher salaries seem to be due 'to their AAUP membership, Griffin said. UNL is expected to maintain- a national reputa tion and provide a competitive educa tion, Petr said, which does not explain why UNL faculty members are paid less than UNO facu lt y in many departments. UNL needs higher salaries to attract quality faculty at undergraduate and graduate levels, Fel ton said. UNL is one of the few colleges in the state without collective bargaining, Petr said. "We have relied on second or third parties for too long to represent our interests," Petr said. Fringe benefits also would improve with the AAUP, Griffin said. "With our current medical benefit package, we no longer have competent medical coverage for catas trophicIaess, she said. The AAUP has received the legal minimum per centage of faculty reply cards needed to hold an election in the fall to decide whether the faculty wants the AAUP to be their collective bargaining unit, GriHin said. University of Nebraska-Lincoln Vol. 83 No. 112 i. v l H ' 0 1 ' : rnr" " ' r 1 f v )r- : Members cf the AAUP (from left to right) Jerry Petr, Sylvia TTlegssd, Norma See GriTTln and Dick Feltcn discuss their positions cn pay for the university faculty Thursday morning at Commonplace. Nebraska efforts 'intense1 Schools vary in AAUP support By Jonathan Taylor UNL efforts to adopt the American Association of. University Professors as a collective bargaining agent in salary contract negotiations at UNL are the most intense in the Big Eight, according to Big Eight AAUP presidents. Though faculty salaries at the University of Okla homa were cut 2.3 percent last year, faculty mem bers did not pressure for a collective bargaining agent, said Barton Turkington, AAUP executive committee member.for the Oklahoma chapter. "I guess the provost has a really good relationship with the faculty," said Turkington, a professor of aerospace, mechanical, and nuclear engineering. Turkington said a study was presented to staff members several years ago, but there didn't seem to be a campus interest (in collective bargaining)." With the Oklahoma AAUP chapter being rela tively inactive, Turkington said, it would take a campus crista such as a discrepancy over tenure to spark any AAUP action. The faculty relationship with the OU administra tion has been good enough to reduce the number of people who think collective bargaining would help, he said. A more "activist" Board of Regents at the Univer sity of Kansas has led to increased discussion of a possible collective bargaining unit, said Grant Good man, AAUP Kansas chapter president. Historically, Goodman said, policy implementa tion has been left to the administrations on the individual Kansas campuses. ' ; m n Conference to engineer interaction Olson said. Six other speakers are scheduled to speak or lead workshops, she said. Olson said the annual conference is a chance for industrial engineering students to interact. Also, she said, students essays and projects will be judged. ' Universities participating in the two day event include the University of Missouri at Rolla, the Uni versity of Missouri at Columbia, Iowa State Univer sity, the University of Wisconsin at Madison, the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, North Dakota State University, the University of Wisconsin at Platteville and Purdue University. . The conference will take placd at the Nebraska Center for Continuing Education on 33rd andllol drege Streets. The awards banquet will be Friday at 7 p.m. at the Lincoln Hilton. About 200 college students from around the Midwest will be in Lincoln today and Saturday for an Institution of Industrial Engineering (HE) region al conference, said the co-chairperson for the event. Pamela Olson said the conference features work shops on integrated manufacturingintegrated computer-aided engineering, inventory management, human factors engineering of data and numerous ether tor Featured keynote speaker is Gordon Mead, .the vice president and director of Technical Manage ment Resources in Columbus, Ohio. He will give his keynote speech today at 8 a.m. in the Nebraska Center for Continuing Education. Mead, also the director of the university chapters cf HE, will speak cn the mission concept of company team building, - : ! ' : Inside President Reagan's 1C35 budget cuts may result in more financial aid cuts ....... P3 2 The owners of Lancaster House Printing and Publishing Co. respond to the proposal to build a performing srts center .... Pca 4 The Husker baseball team opens its sea son against Wayne State Pc2 0 Index Arts and Entertainment... 13 Classified .. 10 Crossword . .11 Editorial 4 Off The Wire .. 2 Sports G I