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y y lOsiMy . Y y f f y j ( ' f o j M a vi v.. . ( n f v- l M M r I J L--t - V S C ji 4, a i 1 Tuesday, April 10, KZ University of Nebraska-Lincoln Vol. 83 No. 134 I - , i - - -- 1 ., - - ' T . - -" V :. 1 v v. , , ' - : I Part of raise already received Cover-Up It's net exactly a penthouse suite but Fan Meyer end Jin Voss cover up end make the best of it. Couples will sit etc? the 20-foot pole until Friday at 3 p.m. during the 1C3 hour sitting marathon. UNL faculty to get pay increase By Steele Thomas The UNL faculty will get a long-awaited salary increase because the Legislature reinstated Gov. Bob Kerrey's $2.5 million cut to the University of Nebraska's budget. The process of deciding how much the raise will be and how the money will be distributed is compli cated, however, and the faculty does not completely understand it, said Norma Sue Griffin, president elect of the UNL Chapter of the American Associa tion of University Professors. "The faculty I have talked to have nothing but questions," Griffin said. "We really don't know any more about our salary status than we did before." UNL Chancellor Martin Massengale said he real izes the faculty has questions. "Most of the faculty do not understand the intric acies of what we've done," Massengale said. The NU Board of Regents requested an 11.1 per cent raise for the UNL faculty members based on their pay scale determined last July. Massengale said the salary increase should be close to, U not equal to, the budget request. "The faculty may have a hard time realizing that we've already received part of that 11.1 percent," Massengale said, referring to the 3 percent salary increase which the faculty received March 1, 1984. Massengale said if the salary increase is 1 1.1 per cent, the increase beginning this summer actually would be 8.1 percent because the faculty already received the first 3 percent. Faculty employed on a full-year status will receive the raise July 1, 1983. Those employed on an academic year basis will receive the raise in late summer. The UNL Faculty Senate recommended that the funds available for salary increases be distributed 60 percent across-the-board and 40 percent for meritorious performance. Massengale said he recom mends that regents follow that recommendation for both faculty and staff. UNL Vice Chancellor John Goebel said he is pleased by the outcome of the budget allocations oecause it shows tnat tne legislature considered faculty salaries a high-priority issue. "When Vice Chancellor John Yost said, The effort we have mounted is one that we will continue." Massengale said that for the first time the UNL salary increase will differ from the UNO campus. Massengale said the reason for the difference is that the two campuses have separate roles and missions, so they should be compared to institutions that have similar roles and missions. The UNL adminis tration's goal is to bring UNL faculty salaries up to the average of the salary levels of its peer institu tions. Because of the difference, the budget request for the UNO faculty salary increase was 8.1 percent of their base salary. Janet West, president of the UNO AAUP, said she tinks 8.1 percent is discriminatory because the comparison schools, used to determine the 8.1 per cent, were not an appropriate list of schools. West said the schools UNO was compared to were of lower quality than UNO, and the schools UNL was compared to were of a quality UNL would like to be. West said she would have preferred that UNO be compared to a list of urban universities. West said the UNO AAUP is working toward getting a new list to be used for determining budget requests for 1 934-85. UNL on the road to bicycle safety With winter's dormant bicyclists out in force during the coming spring weather, the number of bicycle pedestrian accidents and complaints will increase, said UNL Police Chief Gail Gade. Although the UNL police received only a few pedestrian complaints in the fall and none in the winter Gade said, that does not mean problems were solved. To deal better with bicycle-pedestrian problems, Gade said UNL is considering a Campus Safety Commission proposal that recommends that UNL either adopt the city's bicycle regulations or create its own rules, he said. Earl Brown, secretary of the commission, said UNL's bicycle rules currently regulate only parking. The commission thinks regulations should deal with bicycle operation and right-of-way, he said. "The proposal is more of a preventive measure than a measure to try to do away with bicycles," he said. The complaints registered in the fall and in Daily Nebraskan articles prompted the commission to examine the bicycle-pedestrian problem, Brown said. ASUN helped the commission with the recom mendations, he said. "We can come out with all the rubs and regula tions we want," he said. "But they are much better accepted when peers have had some input." The complaints and Daily Nebraskan articles orig inally initiated a bikeway proposal. But Bob Myers, administrative coordinator of the UNL police, said the proposal is not financially feasible. Because of the cost of bikeways, Myers said he thinks UNL will adopt regulations and form a bicy cle safety program. Both the commission and UNL police support a bicycle education program. Gade said UNL needs to decide where the problem lies, and then establish rules governing right-of-way and parts of the cam pus where bicyclists are prohibited. Once UNL has developed the regulations, he said, an education program should be designed to inform people of the rules. Week set aside to recognize America's POWs, MIAs By Donna Sisson issue. Secondly, Ballard said, is the issue of The issue of American prisoners of increasing the governments bond with .... ? Tnirifti c :u war and men missing in action is an unfinished chapter in U.S. history, and the U.S. government has given the issue highest national priority, an assis tant for U.S. military casualty and mortuary matters said Monday. Lt. Col. Robert Ballard, spoke for Nebraska's POWMIA veek in the Neb raska Union Monday. Angel Flight, a nationwide nonmilitary service group, and its associate, UNL's Arnold Air Society, are sponsors of the event. Ballard outlined three areas of con cern first addressed by William Clark when he was the presidential advisor to the Security Council. The first concern, Ballard said, is the pxnnrtation of refugees. Since the 1975 collage of Saigon, South Vietnam, the POWMIA families. The third concern is increasing pub lic awareness, he said. Public aware ness shows other countries that the United States will not relent on this issue, he said. Other speakers scheduled for POW -MIA week include: Tuesday, April 10 1 p.m. Ted Gillham and Bob Wicht, U.S. Army Vietnam combat vet erans and executive directors of the Vietnam Veteran's MIA Task Force. 7 p.m. Glen Bally and Steve Durbin, Marine Corps Vietnam combat veterans and officers in the Vietnam Veterans MIA Task Force. Wednesday, April 11 1 n m. and 7 D.m. Kav Bosil- V t t X v v 4, V: vyiAVij w--w JT v U.S. government has received more jevac, a representative ior tne League than 2,500 reports on the POWMIA of Families and the wife of a POWMIA. Lt. Col. Eobert Ballard, en assistant for U.S. military casualty ar.d mortu ary oxtters, spoke Monday during Nebraska's week cfrenenbrsr.ee fcr American prisoners cf war end men missing in ectian. 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