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Nursing tuition hike
will eliminate college
he NU Board of Regents' decision to raise UNL's tui
tion at the College of Nursing supports the elimina
tion program duplication at the state university.
Although the regents voted this summer to keep
the UNL nursing college, tuition for UNL's approxi
mately 240 nursing students was increased 25 percent.
At Saturday's meeting, the regents again raised tuition for
the nursing college to $56.50 per credit hour for undergradu
ates and $59.50 for graduate students.
The nursing students won the battle to keep the Lincoln
program alive, but the regents' latest tuition hike may have
priced nursing students out of the college.
Instead of raising tuition, trying t& divert money from a
doctoral program or trying to generate "outside funds," the
regents should have transferred UNL's nursing students to the
NU Medical Center in Omaha.
Each of the four courses UNL nursing students take in
Lincoln are offered in Omaha. Some graduate courses are
taught only at UNO, and Lincoln nursing students must
transfer to Omaha to complete their graduate studies, said
Ruth Wiese, associate professor and chairwoman of the UNL
nursing college.
If students, equipment and instructors were transferred
from Lincoln to Omaha, the overall strength of the university's
nursing program would be increased because a larger, more
unified department would be created. Students, faculty and
research would be concentrated at one campus, rather than
two.
Rosalee Yeaworth, dean" of UNL's nursing college said
transferring students would not solve the UNMC's budget
problems. But a 45 percent tuition increase in less than a year
certainly won't solve it either. Obviously, money can be saved if
nursing students use facilities at one campus only, instead of
two campuses. Fixed costs would be lower.
Wiese said there would be a lack of clinical space at the
UNO nursing school, which serves about 440 students, if UNL
students were transferred.
But the lack of space could be overcome by scheduling more
class sections at night and early in the morning. Nursing
college administrators also could research the possibility of
transferring Omaha students to Lincoln, if more space was
available at UNL.
The university recently bought the Whittier Junior High
building, yet it remains empty.
Last summer was not the first time the UNL nursing college
has been on the chopping block, and its faculty and students
should be commended for their valor in retaining the program.
UNL nursing students and faculty should realize that their
program is getting phased out. It's still listed in the course
schedule, but as tuition increases, the number of students will
decrease.
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When state cuts funds, weep;
then request project - it works
T
hese are hard times for dear old
NU but not every part of the uni
versity is suffering.
The Legislature and the governor
have tightened the screws classes
are growing in size, professors' salaries
are stagnating and class sections are
closing. But that doesn't mean all of
NlTs clouds are without silver linings.
The NU Board of Regents has just
authorized a $20 million bond issue for
construction for the Lied Center for Per
forming Arts; something even the Legis
lature was willing to blow a few million
on. Lied supporters say the center will
bring quality performers and new pres
tige to the UNL performing arts schools.
They also point out that the center will
be paid for mostly with private dona
tions, so the university won't suffer.
Although some money is being raised
for maintenance of the center, eventu
ally it will be a drain on the univeristy's
resources. There can be no doubt that
state tax dollars as well as some of the
donations would go to other parts of
the university if the Lied Center was
not built. It's also questionable whether
the center will be used sufficiently.
Many national musical and theatrical
events at Kimball Hall don't sell out.
Now Sheldon Director George Neu
bert is getting on the bandwagon with a
proposal for an underground expansion
for more art exhibit space. This pro
posed 28,000-square-foot addition would
cost $5.5 million. The NU Foundation,
which organizes such projects, may
decide to fund this project after the
Lied is finished.
Chris
Welsch
It may seem strange that Neubert
would ask for a new addition after the
Legislature cut 141,000 from his
$225,000 budget. But I think he's on to
something.
If you can't get enough money to run
an art museum, why not ask for funds to
build a whole new one? When the thea
tre, dance and music departments are
grossly underfunded, why not build a
$20 million performing arts complex?
Instead of concentrating on lobbying
for tax money and donations for paying
our professors and funds for research
and educatonal materials, NU and its
supporters are building monuments
that will stand long after the last
Husker blows away in the next dust
bowl.
I think other department heads
should take a crack at getting a new
building, or at least some sort of shrine.
The English Department chairman
should propose a Willa Cather Memor
ial Reading Tower. This highrise would
provide scenic study lounges for those
future Nebraskans who can read. This
would also ensure the economic stabil
ity of the university bookstore.
The College of Dentistry could pro
pose the Tommy Tooth Dental Research
Center and Museum. The effects of a
diet of crow meat on the teeth of aging
administrators could be studied in
about 10 years.
The College of Architecture could
propose The Big 'N' Building, a show
case of the state's architecural pro
wess. If it's left empty, it would be a
valuable symbol of the university. Oh,
yes! The 'N' stands for nowledge.
Hope for 'perpetual summer' prevails
The light has already changed. The
soft airbrushed quality of August
has lifted and everything the
prematurely red branch of the sumac,
the wilting jewelweed, the overipe rose
hips is outlined in September clarity.
Lying on the porch with my prop (the
book that accompanies my nap), I try
to postpone the new year, to fend off
the lists that lurk right outside my
vacation consciousness. I want to sink
for just a few more hours into that state
of timelessness and ease that is as
comfortable and unrestrained as the
rope of the hammock beneath my body.
Like most of those whose biorhythms
were imprinted by the school calendar,
I know that summer doesn't last until
the 22nd. Already this "Dear Parent" is
being urged back into seasonal harness.
Leisure is being urged back into
seasonal harness.
The wonderful luxury of being at rest, do nothing,
The days when you shut down the men
tal machinery that keeps life on track
and let life simply wander. The days
when you stop planning, analyzing,
thinking and just are.
The line that runs through my head
on this stolen day at the cup period of
fall, is one written by Paul Simon: "Did
you ever experience a period of grace
When your brain just took a seat behind
your- face?" Summer is my period of
grace.
ijJ Ellen .
Goodman
Leisure not that American oxy
moron "leisure-time activity" but real
leisure is being replaced by alarm
clocks and time frames and schedules
There is a foreign hand at the metro
nome and as the temperature goes
down, its tempo goes up. By some
unnatural order, we are given more to
do j'ist as the days get shorter.
What do I want to take home from my
summer vacation? I close my eyes and
think. Time. That is what I would like.
I don't know why it is so hard to find
the same piece of time during the rest
of the year. Life is more frenzied, I am
told by friends. They say this philoso
phically, as if "it" were in charge and
we had lost control.
The people I know live within the
confines of their weeks-at-a-glance.
When more is demanded of us, we get
larger datebooks with more elaborate
planners. We fit things in. We schedule
T familv work, friendships. We organ
ize with a fury of split-second timing.
But we almost never pencil in time to
It gets harder every year to figure out
what separates our own lives from
those of the creature frantically work
ing the golden rod beside me against a
deadline of frost. What is the differ
ence? A soul, the theologians say, a
sense of mortality, a sabbath. Maybe it
is the last, a day of rest, that we have
lost first.
One of the advantages of this summer
retreat is that I truly vacate both the
workplace and the marketplace.. But
soon, at home, I will be again subject to
Shopping Sundays, and to Washing
Sundays, Cleaning Refrigerator Sun
days, Driving the Car Sundays. There is
no empty day in my weeks-at-a-glance.
My father, my grandfathers, I don't
know how many generations back,
worked six days and had one off. I don t
at all envy their work life. But most of
us work five days at one job, then thank
God it is Friday and proceed to work
two days at another.
Our mothers and grandmothers, for
their part, labored for their families
full time. Now we hold two jobs, moon
lighting every week, and then c0181
Sunday shopping to be a wonderful
modern convenience, a sure sign oi
progress.
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