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Barb BrandaDally Nebraskan
September 20, 1985
By Ad Hudler
Senior Editor
The National Endowment for the
Arts announced Thursday that UNL will
receive a $250,000 challenge grant for
the proposed $20 million Lied Center
for the Performing Arts.
UNL Chancellor Martin Massengale
will announce the grant today at 8:30
a.m.
Jeanne Hodges, director of the
endowment's challenge program, said
UNL must pay $3 for every $l in the
Correspondence class
interest drops at UNL
By Ann Harrell
Senior Reporter
Interest in UNL correspondence
courses for credit is declining, largely
because of expanded offerings from
Nebraska state colleges, said UNL's
interim dean of the Division of Contin
uing Studies.
State colleges are cheaper per credit
hour and closer to home for many stu
dents said Interim Dean Ward Sybouts.
"People in a local area can get a
course (at a state college) for about
half the cost," Sybouts said.
An undergraduate-level UNL corres
pondence course costs $46.60 a credit
hour. A graduate-level correspondence
course costs $65 a credit hour.
Those figures compare with a $29
per-credit-hour charge for Nebraska
residents at state colleges and $48.50
for non-residents. These prices apply to
undergraduate and graduate programs
offered at Kearney, Chadron, Peru and
Wayne state colleges.
Sybouts also blamed an aging clien
tele in the state for decreased enrol
lments in credit correspondence
courses. Yet, the same demographic
changes are responsible for growth in
non-credit continuing studies programs,
he said.
Since many non-credit programs are
aimed at adults who are interested in
imitk Hall
gains A81M support
By Jen Deselms
Staff Reporter
The ASUN Senate unanimously voted
to support the UNL Residence Hall
Association, in its protest of the
construction of a women's athletic
study area in Smith Hall.
The Harper-Schramm-Smith Complex
Senate and RHA approved a resolution
that "criticized the decision to place
the study area in Smith.
The resolution also urges the Office
of University Housing "to consult with
the hall residents directly involved and
with the applicable hall governments
before taking any similar action regard
ing the use of residence hall space in
the future."
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challenge grant, which means UNL
must raise $750,000. If the university
fails to raise that amount, the endow
ment will reduce the grant propor
tionately. Hodges said this is the first time an
NEA challenge grant has been awarded
to Nebraska. It is one of 50 grants total
ling $21.85 million being awarded to
organizations in 17 states, she said.
ASUN President Gerard Keating is in
Washington to accept the grant.
Ceremonies are scheduled to begin at
9:30 am. EST today.
expanding their education without
taking a credit course, an older popula
tion provides a larger clientele for non
credit seminar and workshop-style
programs.
.. "People are in need of more informa
tion" to update their education, Sybouts
said.
Rapid technological advances in many
areas also increase the demand for
more specialized training for profes
sionals, Sybouts said.
"Our role is to work with professors
from academic areas to facilitate the
delivery of their academic programs
around the state," he said.
This trend is important for the Div
ision of Continuing Studies and may
affect the future of the continuing stu
dies program, he said.
"It's up to us to keep our finger on
the pulse and change to serve the
changing demands of the state," he
said. "If the needs point to non-credit,
that's where we'll go."
"We're not trying to push or elbow
them," he said. "We're looking to com
plement and supplement them."
Kathy Livingston, director of man
agement information systems for Kear
ney State College, said Kearney isn't
competing with UNL correspondence
courses. In fact, she said, Kearney
State officials occasionally refer stu
dents to specific UNL correspondence
courses.
resolution
ASUN senators approved the resolu
tion at their Wednesday night meeting
in the Nebraska Union.
Sydney Warner, president of Smith
Hall, and Dave Edwards, RHA member,
asked ASUN to support them in op
posing the Smith Hail location.
Warner collected 232 signatures from
Smith Hall residents criticizing the
decision to locate the study area in a
residence hall.
0 Heard a report from the Academic
Committee, which is working on a
university-wide grading scale and a
program to better inform high school
counselors about university require
ments. The committee is studying the
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Hodges said UNL was one of 148 uni
versities that applied for the grants.
Criteria for grant selection included
readiness of the university to meet the
grant and artistic quality and excel
lence of the university's artistic
programs.
The challenge grant program is the
"stiffest competition in the endow
ment," Hodges said.
Only money received after Sept. 1
can be counted toward the challenge
grant, Hodges said.
The eight-story Lied Center will be
Blacksmith closes shop
By Joseph Dejka
Staff Reporter
Dressed in baggy, faded overalls,
the man sat on a wooden plank out
side his shop. At his feet, grass
forced its way through the crum
bling cement.
Behind him, rusty steel siding
covered the wooden walls where
Kenneth Hornung, 73, has worked
as a blacksmith for the last 27 years.
Because of poor health, Hornung
will end seven generations of
blacksmithing Oct. 6, when his
property, equipment and antiques
will be auctioned.
Hornung, who was born in the
northern Lancaster County town of
Davey, learned blacksmithing as a
boy, pumping the forge for his father
and grandfather.
The profession was passed from
father to son, countryman to coun
tryman, he said. Although Hornung
has two sons, he said, they show no
interest in blacksmithing.
At age 13, Hornung said, his
father taught him to weld. And after
five years of work at Burg Manufac
turing in Waverly, he was ready to
"get away from the time clock" and
strike out on his own, he said.
In 1958 Hornung bought the Davey
Smith-Weld shop. He and his wife
live in the Nazareth Lutheran Church
basement a few blocks from tne
shop.
The shop, built in 1903, now
houses a collection of bits and pie
ces of history collected by Hornung.
Inside the shop he weaved among
the iron tools, car parts, metal
scraps and machinery scattered on
the dirty plank floor. An 1876 foot
pumped jig saw, Model-T parts, truck
horns and a ton of unburned black
smith coal lay among the treasures
inside.
Six steel rings fastened to a wall
are the only reminder of the horses
once tied there for shoeing. A 1911
Omaha iron store catalog lies inside
a dusty white refrigerator.
During his 27-year career, Hor
nung repaired cars, trucks, farm
tools and tractors. He painted,
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built on the southwest corner of 12th
and R Streets, on the site of the present
Nebraska Bookstore.
Construction is expected to begin in
spring 1986 and is to be completed in
fall 1988, said Beth Griffin, secretary to
D.B. Varner, chairman of the NU
Foundation.
The center is financed by a $10 mil
lion gift from the Lied Foundation
Trust of Las Vegas, Nev., $5 million
from state appropriations and another
$5 million from donations through the
NU Foundation.
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repaired plumbing and built his
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"I even delivered a baby," he
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Griffin said the foundation has raised
$5 million, but needs to raise another
$5 million for a trust fund that would
pay for operating costs after the center
is built.
The late Ernst Lied was a car dealer
in Omaha and businessman in Las
Vegas.
The foundation recently began a
campaign for the center to raise $10
million on the national and local levels.
The NU Board of Regents recently
authorized the preparation of a bond
issue for construction of the center.
David FahlesonDally Nebraskan
said. "The old blacksmith was the
backbone of the country," he said.
Hornung said he gave beers to
thirsty fanners who couldn't wait
for the tavern to open at 11 am.
"I couldn't sell them," he said,
because that was illegal.
Hornung said he offered to sell
the business and a one-year intern
ship to a young man 17 years ago.
But no one took the offer. Young
people today want to specialize, he
said.
A man outside the shop asked if
he was ready for the sale.
Hornung said, "yes and no."
The no seemed a bit stronger.
