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October 31, 1985
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Professor calls it a 'disgrace '
Eep)irt says faculty leave
program is smb-standard.
By Karen Shoemaker
Staff Reporter
UNL's faculty leave program falls far
below acceptable levels, a report shows.
The 1984-85 annual report of the
Executive Graduate Council shows there
is only one leave per faculty member
roughly every 35 years. Original accep
table guidelines show that one leave
should be awarded each year for every
15 eligible faculty members.
The council's report indicated UNL's
research and library programs also are
inadequate.
The Faculty Development Leave
Program began in 1977 because the
university didn't have a sabbatical pro
gram for its faculty, said Professor
Linda Pratt, a member of the council's
executive committee. .
The leave program was started to
allow faculty members the opportunity
to woik on research and expand their
expertise in their fields while relieving
them of their teaching duties, Pratt
said.
"It is one of the disgraces of this
university that it has such an inade
quate answer to a real sabbatical pro
To coordinate activities of 14 schools
Student Affairs official quits,
takes job in Pennsylvania
By Jody Beem
Staff Reporter
Suzanne Brown, UNL assistant to the
Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs,
resigned Wednesday to accept a posi
tion with the Pennsylvania System for
Higher Education.
Brown said her new position as
Assistant Vice Chancellor of Student
Affairs will begin Jan. 2. She will coor
dinate activities for all 14 universities
in Pennsylvania.
Brown applied for the position of
UNL Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs
in the spring of 1 985. She said she was a
finalist, but the job was given to Rudy
Lewis.
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By Todd von Kampen
Senior Reporter
Gov. Bob Kerrey said Wednesday
that state senators pushing for tax
increases to balance the state budget
"haven't made the tough decisions" in
favor cf budget cuts they will have to
make.
Kerrey said at his weekly press con
ference that Lincoln Sen. Bill Harris'
R.E.PH.'s Berry
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gram," she said.
No money is available through the
leave program to replace faculty mem
bers on leave, so other instructors
within the department have to share
responsibilities during that time.
Because of this, faculty members in
small departments or departments with
heavy enrollment are less able to take
advantage of the leave program.
The committee's report shows that
leaves are not equally available because
the funds for leaves depend on the
department's ability to squeeze money
from another source, she said.
Henry Holtzclaw, former dean of the
Graduate College, agreed that the leave
program doesn't provide an adequate
number of leaves for faculty members.
But Holtzclaw said the number of
leaves granted before the program was
started was substantially less than it
has been in recent years.
Only five or six faculty members
were granted leaves before the program
started, he said. Now the number of
leaves granted at UNL ranges from 20 to
36 faculty members each year accord
Brown is the third
administrator to
resign from Student
Affairs this fall.
Dave DeCoster,
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Dean of Students,
resigned to accept
a position as Vice
President of Stu-r
dent Affairs at ,
Indiana University Ji
in Pennsylvania,
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Brown said. Luann Krager, Assistant
Dean of Students, resigned her posi
tion but is still in Lincoln working on
her doctorate.
Brown said she has been looking for
a new job for more than a year.
"I've been here too long," Brown
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attempts to pass an income tax increase
take the pressure off the Legislature to
pass budget cuts. Harris is circulating
a petition among senators that calls for
another special session to consider a
tax hike.
'The easy thing to do now is talk
about income tax," Kerrey said. "But
they haven't dealt with the budget yet.
What point is there in talking about the
revenue side until we've dealt with
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ing to the report. However, the program
could be improved, he said.
"I'm sure no one in administration
disagrees that our faculty would be
better served by a fully-funded faculty
development program," Pratt said.
"I think support for this university
in this state is less generous than in
many states," she said.
UNL's research programs also are
inadequate, the study shows.
The lack of funding from the state
has meant that university-provided
research support has decreased, the
report said. The budget reductions for
UNL's Research Council and UNO's
Committee on Research the agen
cies responsible for administering
research funds on each campus have
raised questions about the administra
tion's commitment to research, the
report states.
"The problem is that there is this
pool of money and allocating it depends
on the priorities of the administra
tion," said John Braeman, a history pro
fessor and a member of the executive
committee.
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said. "I've grown and learned as much
as I can."
The new position is a tremendous
career opportunity, Brown said. She
will move from student affairs to aca
demic affairs, she said, which interests
her more.
"This is a quantum leap for me,"
Brown said.
She said that the new position offers
her a large salary increase, but she
would not specify what her salary will
be. Brown now earns $31,850 a year at
UNL.
"I suspect that there will be some
reorganization within the student
affairs office by Vice Chancellor Lewis
once I leave," Brown said. 'They may
not even keep my position open when
they get done."
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budget reduction?"
The Legislature is deadlocked over
budget cuts because senators disagree
with Kerrey on the depth of cuts neces
sary to solve the problem. Kerrey said
his staff members and Waverly Sen.
Jerome Warner's staff members are
meeting so they
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Beware of the boos!
By Jane Campbell
Staff Reporter
Tonight they will all be out:
ghosts, witches, black cats and
werewolves. As the sun sets, a full
moon rises and fog roles in, the
creatures found only in yourwildest
nightmares will gather. They have
one night to work a year's worth of
terror, and this is it. Halloween.
Halloween brings memories of
scary tales, costume parades, trick-or-treating
and the banana-flavored
taffy found only this time of year.
Peanut butter sticks, popcorn balls
and caramel apples also filled the
trick-or-treat bag. And you hoped for
a warm evening so Mom wouldn't
make you wear a jacket over your
pirate costume.
At UNL, many students are too
tall to fit in with the trick-or-treaters
on the streets today. Or are
they?
"I was all set to go trick-or-
Amendment to lessen
budget cuts
By Karen Shoemaker
Staff Reporter
State Sen. Glenn Goodrich of Omaha
has proposed an amendment to reduce
NU budget cuts from 3 percent to 1.5
percent.
The amendment to the Appropria
tions Committee's budget reduction
package would change the amount cut
from the university's budget from nearly
$5 million to about $2.5 million.
"We have a better than average
chance of it being successful," Good
rich said.
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treating costume and all," said
junior Linda Shipp. "If someone
would go with me I would."
But now Shipp plans to study on
Halloween. "I have two tests on Fri
day," she said.
Other students plan to modify
the trick-or-treat tradition.
"We might go trick-or-drinking,"
one student said.
Trick-or-drinking entails dressing
in costume, knocking on doors and,
instead of receiving candy or sticks
of gum, sampling various alcoholic
drinks.
Costume parties probably are the
most popular way for students to
celebrate Halloween. Also, many
students will parade to the bars,
hoping to win a costume contest.
Senior Ann Thomas said she's
going to the Jaycee's haunted ouse
with the little sisters of Triangle
fraternity.
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Goodrich said he has discussed the
amendment with many senators and
they seem agreeable to it.
The amendment will not be debated
in the Legislature until Monday and
Tuesday, he said.
The Appropriations Committee's
amendment, which calls for $4.9 mil
lion to be cut from the NU budget, was
up for first-round debate Wednesday
afternoon.
Goodrich's amendment also includes
a change in budget cuts from 3 to 1.5
percent for the state colleges, he said.
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