Friday, July 5, 1935
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Lack of funds add' to
By Kip Fry
Staff Reporter
UNL's College of Engineering and
Technology has a "problem," said Dean
Stanley Liberty. Recently, three people
applied for a permanent teaching posi
tion, but none were qualified enough to
be hired and the position remained
open. The college eventually hired
someone to fill the position temporarily.
"We have a supply and demand prob
lem," Liberty said. "We have many
faculty positions open, but there is just
a low productivity of PhD's."
While the engineering college is
struggling to fill faculty positions, other
UNL colleges are finding that they
don't have enough money to attract
qualified faculty, according to Law
School Dean Harvey Perlman.
"We have one person leaving this
year for a visiting position because he
was offered $9,000 more at another uni
versity," Perlman said.
Part of the engineering school's
problem is that approximately half of
the doctorates awarded to students go
to foreign nationals, Liberty said. While
some of these graduates stay in this
country to teach, many return to their
native country.
Grant provides legal services
By Deb Pederson
Senior Reporter
The UNL College of Law received a
two-year grant totaling $99,000 from
the Legal Services Corporation to pro
vide legal services for low income
elderly persons.
The grant is part of the Corporation's
Elderlaw Project and will be adminis
tered by UNL law professor Peter Hoff
man as part of the Civil Clinical Law
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By Michael Hooper
Staff Reporter
A device meant to help motorists
calculate how much they can drink
without becoming drunk has received
mix reactions from Cornhusker Motor
Club officials and state highway and
safety officials.
The device, called a drink-drive cal
culator, allows a "false security" for
motorists who drink and drive, Bare
Wade of the Cornhusker Motor Club
said.
Dale Nissen, a project manager with
the Nebraska State Highway Safety
Department, said Wednesday the device
helps motorists know what their
"approximate" level of Blood Alcohol
Count (BAG) is and said "we like to let
people know what alcohol does to
them."
The drink-drive calculators, Nissen
said, are similar to the blood alcohol
content cards his department distrib
utes, and show the blood-alcohol level
resulting from a certain number of
drinks per hour for a person of a given
weight.
Four UNL College of Agriculture
animal science students have been
awarded Moorman Manufacturing
Scholarships of $1,000 each. The recip
ients are Michael Euber, a sopho
more, incoming freshman Mark
Fhlsscn, junior Sccit Kurz, and
senior Janes SIvik.
The $1,000 Cornelius J. Claasen
Scholarship has been awarded for the
second time to UNL student Matt
Spilker, a senior agricultural eco
nomics major.
Seventeen UNL College of Agricul
ture students have been awarded
Samuel and Martha McKelvie scholar
ships. Ten of the scholarships are for
$1,000 each. Recipients are sophomore
animal science major Sally Ilircock;
sophomore agriculture general major
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"They help alleviate the shortage,
but there is not enough of them," Lib
erty said.
Liberty cites popular social atti
tudes and the high age of the present
faculty as a few of the main problems.
"Salaries went up for those people
with just bachelor's degrees in the pri
vate sector," he said. "They want to
make money now and not make any
contribution to society by going to grad
school.
"The challenge is to find good qual
ity personnel, he said. "It's both fun
and scary."
Liberty said finding replacements
for facutly is a long process which
takes a full year of advertising and
recruiting to fill an open positioa At
present, there are six or seven open
ings, he said.
"It's not a budget problem," he said.
"It's a human resource problem."
Money is an obstacle, however, for
the law college, according to Perlman,
differentiating it from the engineering
college. While the faculty is not at full
strength right now, he said it could
develop into a serious problem later.
"Faculty for our on-hand clinical
experience is our most glaring shor
tage," Perlman said.
Program.
Senior law students will get actual
work experience through the program,
which is authorized by the Nebraska
Supreme Court, Hoffman said.
Hoffman said students will perform
nearly all of the duties of a practicing
attorney while under his supervision,
such as handling a caseload of clients,
working with the clients, filing suits
and appearing in court.
"The grant allows us both to improve
the quality of our educational program
The drink-drive devices have been
distributed recently in Omaha, Wade
said.
Wade said the devices ignore indi
vidual differences such as "emotional
or physical" conditions, which also
effect the motorists ability to drive, he
said.
"Just to rely on a calculator could
mislead someone," in his or her driv
ing, he said.
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Courtesy
Russell Ilennerberg; senior animal
science major Sandra Ilctovy; sopho
more ag honorsfood science major
ELdae Berry, sophomore agriculture
economics major Linda Leavitt; jun
ior agricultural honors mor J tines
Friesen; sophomore animal science
major William Eieckcn; sophomore
agricultural honors major Kevin
Meyer; junior animal science major
Marvin Westerns-; senior agricul
tural honors major with emphasis in
animal science and agricultural eco
nomics major Todd Ibc,
UNL Police Cicer Joe Scctt grad
uated with the 85th Basic Law Enforce
ment Class last month at the Nebraska
Law Enforcement Training Center in
Grand Island. Scott received the Out
standing Student Award for Achieve
The College of Agriculture has
many faculty nearing retirement age,
and will have to be replaced within the
next five years, Associate Dean Earl
Ellington said. Many of these were
educated through the help of the GI
bill at the end of World War II. The
college also does not have enough
prospective young people to fill these
openings.
"Students are opting away from agri
culture because of incomplete or in
correct information about the college,"
Ellington said. "A lot think you auto
matically go into farming or ranching
with such a degree. Ironically, 40 per
cent of our students come from urban
addresses and the majority don't go to
farms. Because of this bad information,
the pipeline is drying up."
Many graduates want to go into the
private sector and work in pharmaceut
ical companies which offer attractive
salaries, Ellington said.
Dean Hazel Anthony of the College of
Home Economics said that the college
is having to deal with a little of both
predicaments.
"There are not enough people with
PhD's and we don't have enough money
to attract outstanding personnel,"
Anthony said.
and to be of service to older Nebras
kans," said the Dean of the Law Col
lege, Harvey Perlman.
The emphasis of the program is on
consumer, family and housing cases,
Hoffman said. The grant will provide
services to elderly clients in Lancaster,
Butler, Fillmore, Polk, Saline, Saund
ers, Seward and York counties. The Law
College will cooperate with the Lincoln
Information Services for the Elderly in
providing services under the grant.
The UNL College of Law is one of only
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Although Nissen said a drink-driving
device or card is a "ballpark indicator"
of someone's blood count, found by
matching the individual's weight and
drinks per hour, it gives the motorist an
idea of his or her BAC. level, he said.
Wade argued: "They (the drink-driving
devices) provide a broad outlook, a
guideline, to motorists but that's
the dangerous part about it. It could
give them a false security," Wade said.
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of Nebraska Office of Highway Safety
ment at the graduation ceremony.
Eyan Hulbert, a doctoral candi
date in clinical psychology at UNL has
been awarded the Belgian American
Educational Foundation graduate study
fellowship.
The fellowship, established in 1920
to commemorate the relief work of the
Commission for Belief in Belgium dur
ing World War I, is intended to assist
higher education and to promote the
exchange of intellectual ideas between
the U.S. and Belgium. There were eight
fellowships awarded this year.
Hubert will receive $8,000 to help
cover expenses for one year of study at
the University of Leuven, Louvain, Bel
gium. The university is the oldest
Catholic university in the world.
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One way to alleviate the shor
tage is to hire temporary teachers. But
Anthony does not like to have tempor
ary people on the staff for more than
one year. The college does hire some
part-time people, but they are not hired
for a permanent positioa
While the field of home economics
has expanded, an internal realloca
tion has forced the cutback of two and
one-half positions, she said.
The Dental School has many vacan
cies and Dean Henry Cherrick believes
it is because their salaries are lower
than others around the nation. Subse-
quently they have been forced to hire a
number of part time faculty which
Cherrick calls an "excellent part of the
program."
The number of dentistry teachers is
smaller than it was a few years ago,
because the limited enrollment was
lowered from 66 to s56 students per
class.
"It is not a problem, because there
are more jobs available than there are
people to meet the job needs," Cher
rick said.
Both the Teacher's College and
the College of Arts and Sciences have
had trouble hiring teachers for spe
cialty areas. While Teacher's College is
in good shape, according to Dean James
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19 law schools in the country to receive
a grant, he said. Congress earmarked
funds for the grant last year and gave
the funds to the corporation to be allo
cated. Over 100 law schools across the
country applied for the funds, he said.
The purpose of the grant is to give
students some experience while help
ing out the elderly.
"It's a good chance for the students
to put the theory they learned in the
classroom the first two years into prac
tice," Hoffman said.
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occupation education and coaching
education, are especially hard to fill.
"It took two years to find the person
we wanted to teach reading," O'Hanlon
said. "The special education field has
expanded recently, and there will be a
lag there until the demand is met. In
educational administration we just don't
pay enough."
The College has lost nine faculty
since Jan. 1. O'Hanlon noted that the
staff is getting smaller, but the reduc
tion is nothing dramatic. "It was done
by our choice," he said.
In the College of Arts and Scien
ces the high demand for teachers
depends on the popularity of the major,
Associate Dean John G. Peters said.
Modern Languages, English, Speech
Communication and Computer Science
departments have a difficult time staf
fing all the sections.
"We don't list the course if it is not
staffed," Peters said. "UNL is reviewing
the core requirements for liberal arts,
so the faculty may have to be shifted
around."
"There are always rapid changes in
the student demand for certain courses,"
Peter said. "So it's hard to plan with
such uncertainties. We have to be care
ful with expanding."
A question Peters said needs to be
kept in mind is what predictions can
be made about the demand for certain
subjects five to ten years down the
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