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Tuesday, July 16, 1985
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Vol. 84 No. 167
Weather: Continued sunny, breezy and warm today with a
high of 94 (34C). Fair tonight with a low of 67 (1 9C). Warmer
on Wednesday and Thursday with highs in the mid 90s (35C).
The extended forecast calls for slightly cooler temperatures
throughout the remainder of the week with highs in the upper
80s (31 C) and lows in the upper 60s (20C).
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By Michael Hooper
StalT Reporter
There was hope Monday for Amer
ican soldiers who have not yet been
accounted for.
POWMIA Recognition Week
began Monday with the warmth of
the sun upon an estimated crowd of
300 assembled on the north side of
the State Capitol at the week's
opening ceremonies honoring the
401 Nebraska POWs and MIAs who
have not yet returned home.
Ceremonies included music by
the 43rd Army band, Huey helicop
tors flying overhead, speeches in
honor of Nebraska Veterans and for
those Americans still not home 10
years after the U.S. involvement in
Vietnam. The POWMIA flag was
raised and the band played the
"National Anthem" as veterans
saluted. Vietnam veteran Dave
Traver stood firm, saluting the
American flag as tears ran from his
eyes.
Traver, a member of V.F.W. post
10617, said he felt public awareness
is getting better for MIAs and POWs
sii'l in Vietnam.
"People are more aware than
they were last year," he said, refer
ring to the crowd at the ceremonies,
which, he said, doubled from last
year.
Jasrie Obrecht, a Vietnam vete
ran and commander of V.FAV. post
1C317, said that the POWMIA
events are 'many years overdue, but
better late than never."
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By Deb Pederson
Senior Reporter
The University of Nebraska Medical
Center's Faculty Senate approved a
proposal at a special meeting of the
senate Friday that would reduce faculty
pay raises by 50 percent in an effort to
save the College of Pharmacy and the
UNL nursing program from elimination.
The proposal, which would cut a
Regents-approved pay raise from 2.87
percent to 1.43 percent, would raise
$305,000 if all of the roughly 600 faculty
members volunteered.
A special seven-member committee
wrote the proposal in response to
UNMC Chancellor Charles Andrews'
proposal to phase out over four years
the two programs in order to deal with
a $2.1 million deficit at UNMC for the
current fiscal year and projections of
small state appropriations in the future.
UNMC Faculty Senate president
Michael Moriarty said the proposal
alone is not enough to save the two
programs. The programs would be saved
through the proposal in conjunction
with Andrews' other proposals, which
are reallocating other funds, short
term borrowing from self-supporting
departments and paying less for com
puter services from NU's central admin
istration. The salary proposal received mixed
support, barely getting the two-thirds
majority vote needed for adoption with
a 14-6 vote.
Faculty senator Marian Newton from
the College of Nursing said the vote
was close to expectations.
"We wanted the two-thirds majority
and we got it," Newton said. "I think
the Regents will look at the vote as
another piece of data in addition to the
letters and postcards they've been get
ting, The vote shows the programs are
important enough to the faculty to take
a reduction in pay."
Assistant Professor of Nursing Ruth
Wiese said the vote didn't surprise her.
"I think the faculty believes in the
integrity of academic programs," Wiese
said. The College of Pharmacy and the
UNL nursing program play an impor
tant role in the integrity of the Medical
Center, she said.
But not all of the faculty support the
proposal because faculty pay is already
below the average at peer institutions,
Moriarty said.
According to the Lincoln, Star, Dr.
Ron Pfeiffer, an assistant professor in
the College of Medicine, said cutting
the salary raise in half would mean a
permanently lower base salary.
It would be unfair "to offer to take
away salaries" of faculty members,
Pfeiffer said.
Newton also said pay cuts cannot
continue at UNMC because it would
drive away the current faculty and
hamper recruitment of others.
Newton said the Chancellor and the
faculty should be given more time to
study the budget issues and alterna
tives. Under the current system, the
Chancellor has about two weeks to
devise the budget.
Moriarty said he didn't know what
impact the vote will have but some
thing must be done about the budget in
the future. Pay cuts in the future are
unreasonable and across-the-board re
ductions would drive the programs into
mediocrity, he said.
"This is simply a band-aid on a
serious problem," Moriarty said.
Budget problems
force program cuts
By Deb Pederson
Senior Reporter
Severe budgetary problems will force
UNL to phase out and reduce academic
and support programs, trim operations
and terminate jobs during the coming
year, UNL Chancellor Martin A. Mas
sengale said Saturday.
"We're facing a $2.2 million budget
problem at UNL," Massengale said.
"The problem is caused by a $1.8 mil
lion shortfall in state appropriations,
plus $441,000 that UNL has been
assessed as its contribution to the cen
tral computing network. The magni
tude of that problem requires imme
diate action.
"In our budget for 1985-1986, we only
received an increase of four-tenths of
one percent in state appropriated funds,
but we had to extend an average salary
increase of three percent to employees,"
Massengale explained.
"There is simply not enough approp
riated money to cover these obliga
tions. The shortfall for the Lincoln city
campus amounts to $1.18 million; in
the Institute for Agriculture and Natu
ral Resources, it totals $643,000.
Massengale said vertical cuts will be
needed to solve UNL's budget problems.
"Some selected, well-established
academic programs at UNL are now
jeopardized," he said.
The Associate to the Chancellor,
John K. Yost, said course sections for
this fall will still be offered but lack of
funding may eliminate course sections
in the spring and in the future. Most of
the sections that would be affected are
introductory sections on. the 100 and
200 levels, he said.
"We're not going to be able to cover
all the bases," Yost said. "Right now we
haven't reached the point where we've
determined what programs may be cut
or reduced."
Massengale said the current prob
lem comes on top of four years of
budget reductions and reallocations in
which UNL has eliminated 41 faculty
positions and has trimmed $5.2 million
from its operations.
UNL has already taken the first step
to reduce budgets for the current year
by cutting funds for intercollegiate
athletics, the state museum, the Shel
don Art Gallery, the UNL research
council, the Teaching Learning Center
and UNL teaching council, the Univerr
sity Press, the Agricultural Research
Division, the Cooperative Extension
Service, the Nebraska Forest Service,
the Conservation and Survey Division,
planning for the Regional Veterinary
College Program, the School of Techni
cal Agriculture at Curtis and instruc
tional programs in the colleges of the
Lincoln campus.
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