! l y 11 I he n m V "i t it - B A 11 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). Barb BrandaThe Nebraskan i ies star amily travels in time...Page8 Blanford hurdling to stardom...Page 10 - .. . V (o , . -J jj i ' v ' ft i. O . : : f Ceremora' POWMI. 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." "An accounting (cf the Vietnam iotg'i erriii1.'f Kova kAnn Aiit of lvi&l biiUUlvi liuYv llvil Uviiv Ulr the time we d;sen2ed," he said. Gov. Dob Kerrey, himself a Viet nam veteran, urscd Kcbraskans to "restore the loss cf identity some 431 Ncbraskar.s V r -J- ; v JA , s'. ; w f I jf 1 - ' . ;. ?- - , ; " jj - , r ( 1 r ):. , . m-,.,, 'pJ ' $ : ( . . roi ! .reded ticmnv.crid War II, Korea end Vietnam," rCi lite the :iAFO;Vs' rctu.-n. Tha prc-ch- r::3 U-ti 23 :- r.3 tt th3 tzi cf Mark OcvUThe Nebraskan ray ICinney aiu": bis children Randy, u and Michael, read i'ae inscription to the katcd Freedom Tree cn the North side cf the Capitol MondMMMM Above: Gov, Kerrey si,tn3 a proclamation secur lug tlie retiini cniLVFOWs to Nebraska. the U.S. involvement with Vietnam, and are still ur.accour.t2d for. Traver said, "families need to know whether their sons are alive cr not." The ceremonies aha included the rededication of the Harold Kahler tree, cr.to which Kerrey tied a red ribbon. A small pkqus Cve fect north cf the tree cn the State Cr.pitr.rs north !r.vn st-t es: "Ti.3 Freedom Tree, with the izxn cf ur.ivcrsal freedom for zll i. r.lir.i Lt Cel. n::c!i Ka.M:r azi 4 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. Continued on Page 2 i