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Sports, page 9
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October 29, 1984
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Vol. 85 No. 46
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opposes
salary cuiti
By Joseph Dejka
Staff Reporter
NU President Ronald Roskens said in a state
ment released Monday that he opposes "any
proposed response to additional budget reduc
tions that would cut faculty or staff salaries."
"Clearly any such reductions would consti
tute a severe blow to an excellent faculty and
staff whose salaries already are well below those
of their academic and professional peers,"
Roskens said.
Roskens was responding to the suggestion
made at Friday's NU Board of Regents meeting to
cut salaries to meet the 3 percent mid-year
budget cut proposed by Gov. Bob Kerrey.
NU Regent Robert Koefoot of Grand Island
said Friday that a 1 percent decrease in salaries
would generate more than $1.8 million.
Joseph Rowson, NU public affairs director,
said Monday that because UNL competes in "the
national marketplace" for competent and quali
fied faculty members, such a salary cut could
hinder competition.
UNL's standing already is low, Rowson said.
Such salary cuts would only hurt faculty
morale, induce staff members to look for posi
tions elsewhere and restrict faculty recruitment,
he said.
NU Executive Vice President and Provost Lee
Jones said faculty salaries have been a major
priority at UNL but salaries still are not competi
tive with peer institutions.
Any university must try to create an environ
ment for faculty members to grow and develop in
their particular field, Jones said. .
Faculty members are the most important fac
tor in building a quality university, but a salary
cut symbolically reduces their importance, he
said.
A faculty salary cut now is especially bad
timing because in the early to mid-1990s UNL
will need more faculty members, Jones said.
Many faculty members will retire in the 1990s, he
said.
Student enrollment is expected to increase,
he said, and industry will become a more attrac
tive option to qualified faculty members.
Roskens gave a tentative list of possible
budget cuts to the Legislature Appropriations
Committee. Cuts include hiring freezes of full
time faculty members, spending reductions for
part-time faculty members and firing some staff
members who are not tenured faculty members,
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Committee plans Lied Center use
By Molly Adams
Staff Reporter
When the Lied Center for Performing Arts is
built, it will supplement academics at the uni
versity, said the chairman of the committee in
charge of planning and programming for the
center.
"The center should be an integral part of
academics, and as a committee, we've approached
different departments and asked 'How can we
help?' and 'What are your needs?' " said Larry
Lusk.
Lusk said the committee will encourage peo
ple and student organizations interested in
using the center. However, for events that draw
only about 200 people, Lusk said the committee
might have the group use Kimball Hall or the
Sheldon Art Gallery instead.
Lusk said the center will accomodate about
2,500 people, with access for the physically han
dicapped. The dance department's faculty offi
ces also will be in the center,
Lusk said students will be offered the same
ticket discounts they get now at Kimball, Shel
don and Howell Theater.
"The university owes students an education,
and it is important for that education to include
exposure to the arts," he said.
Lusk said the committee is examining six
aspects that will affect programming and the
general operation of the center.
They include:
O policy of costs
O priority of use
scheduling
administrative staff and committee set-up
of the center
O special relationships between the UNL
music department and the center
special relationships between the UNL
dance department and the center.
Sara Boatman, director of Campus Activities
and Programs and a committee member, said it
has been the committee's job to consider how
the center can best serve the community, state
and region. The committee was created by UNL
Chancellor Martin Massengale.
The committee consists of 1 2 faculty members.
Twelve students soon will be added to the
committee.
The center will be funded with a $10 million
gift from former Omaha businessman Ernst Lied.
The money was given with the intention that it
would be used specifically to build a performing
arts center. The Legislature appropriated $5 mil
lion for the project.
Students protest minority professor cut
By Linda Hartmann
Staff Reporter
Members of the UNL Afrikan People's Union
and other students said they want to see more
attempts to keep a minority professor's position
from being eliminated.
Zelma Mosley's temporary teaching position
in the political science and ethnic studies
departments recently drew attention because
funds to continue the position next fall have not
been authorized. Mosley's course, "Blacks in the
American Political System," will not be offered
next semester.
Members of the Afrikan People's Union and
former students in the course met with UNL Vice
Chancellor for Academic Affairs Robert Furgason.
At the meeting, Furgason told students he was
concerned about retention and recruitment of
minority professors at UNL, but budget cuts
work against him.
Furgason said he must look at each position
individually and with respect to the needs of all
departments when deciding whether to autho
rize funds to keep a position open. With recent
1.5 percent budget cuts and possible 3 percent
cuts pending in the Legislature, Furgason said a
prudent decision was made.
Reshell Moore, president of the Afrikan Peo
ple's Union, said the meeting did not accomplish
much. She said the students were "left hang
ing," being told nothing more cart be done.
Moore said this shows a lack of commitment
on the part of some administrators to get and
keep more minority faculty members at UNL.
Furgason said considerable efforts were made
to keep Mosley in the position. Temporary funds
were authorized for the position during the 1984
85 school year, but funds had to be taken from
another political science position to keep Mos
ley's position open during the 1985-86 year.
Moore and Furgason agreed that the univer
sity should have more minority professors in
each department so that a single position
wouldn't become the focal point of discussion.
Furgason said some people believe Mosley's
position can be held only by a black professor.
David Rapkin, political science chairperson,
said although the course could be taught by a
professor of any race, it is desirable to have a
black instructor teach it.
Moore said black students need more minor
ity professors as role models and counselors. She
said black students have little leadership on
campus because there are so few full-time
minority professors.
She said the class Mosley teaches is impor
tant because it brings the black perspective into
studies about American politics.
Please see MINORITY on 3
Surveys slwiv Nebraskans more satisfied with life than most
By Mike Weibel
Staff Reporter
Editor's Note: This is the
second story in a flve-purt
series about research at UNL.
"Vcikir-2 for the future"
; examines Just a . few : of ; the
: many research prefects atihej
university.
NctKskans fire generally mere
satisfied with the quality of life in
their state than other people across
the country, accordng to a national
comparison of surveys.
Working for
Alan Cooth, co-directcr cf UNL's
Bureau cf Sociolcjicd research,
said "the good life" noticn fits well
with Nebraskans.." '-'fy--
Since 1977, the bureau has con
ducted The Nebraska Annual Social
Indicators Survey to determine the
quality of life in Nebraska.
Every year, the views and opin
ions of 1,800 Nebraskans are gather
ed through telephone interviews.
The survey includes questions about
the environment, housing, health,
recreation, oceujT.:icn, eaacation,
family: life and 0
reflect the respc
life.
ide
r natters tnat
r.ts' quality of
"Each interview is approximately
40 minutes long," Booth said. "Once
you get them talking for five to ten
minutes, they get interested in the
survey. They don't mind talking for
that long."
Booth said telephone numbers
are selected by a computer. People
with unlisted numbers have an equal
probability of being included in the
survey, he said.
According to the NASIS Prospec
tus 198G, the survey is designed to
serve two functions; to provide con
temporary data on single years and
to provide a picture of changes in
quality of life in the state.
To fuilfill the second purpose,
Booth said, the same people are
called every other year to see how
their views have changed over a
period of time. He said some people
look forward to their calls every two
years.
: Please see RESEARCH on 5