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December 13, 1985
Keseardhj classes affected
"by power blacfeomt at UNL
By Diana Johnson
Staff Reporter
A power breakdown Thursday morn
ing cancelled classes, and may have
damaged research in five City Campus
buildings.
Manter Hall, Love South Library,
Ferguson Hall, the College of Business
Administration buidling and the Tem
ple Building were affected by the black
out, which began at 5:05 a.m., said Gary
Thalken, utilities manager of the UNL
Physical Plant.
Power was restored to buildings at
12:15 p.m. by replacing a damaged sec
tion of an underground electric cable.
The damaged cable is one of five main
electrical cables that distributes power
to campus buildings, Thalken said.
Thalken said cause of the damage is
unknown.
Physical plant officials expected the
blackout to run all Thursday, Thalken
said. - -..
ABC Electric Company of Lincoln
helped physical plant maintenance
repair the damaged cable.
Classes cancelled
Some classes in the buildings either
were cancelled or moved to other
rooms, professors said.
Although power was restored as
quickly as possible to buildings, the
NU cuts to increase work
for professors, officials say
By Todd von Kampen
Senior Reporter
Course workloads for UNL professors
already heavier than average for a
comparable university will increase
as NU's recent budget cuts go into
effect, say faculty and administration
officials.
The 2 percent reduction in NU's
state support means UNL will not hire
115 faculty and staff members next
year, said Robert Furgason, vice chan
cellor for academic affairs. Some
courses and course sections will be
dropped and instructors will have to
take more responsibility, he said.
Such a prospect disturbs faculty
members because it makes them less
able to do the jobs they were hired for,
said UNL Faculty Senate President
Aluimni named 'Man of the Year9
From Staff Reports
UNL graduate Lewis W. Lehr has
been named "Man of the Year" by
Kappa Sigma fraternity.
Lehr, chairman of the board and
chief executive officer of 3M Company,
will be honored at a banquet Jan. 21 at
the Cornhusker Hotel. He is an alum
nus of UNL's Kappa Sigma Nebraska
Chapter.
Kody Moffatt, public relations chair
man for Kappa Sigma, said this is the
first time an .alumnus from Nebraska
has received the award. Moffatt said it
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blackout could have damaged experi
mental research being kept in freezers
in Manter Hall.
Russel Ments, a Biological Science
instructor and researcher, said up to
$4,000 to $5,000 in research materials
could be damaged.
Various research projects refriger
ated in sub-zero temperatures could
have been damaged when they were
moved to freezers in Hamilton Hall
after the blackout began, he said.
Tests needed
"If we had known that power was going
to be restored as early as it was, we
would not have moved the materials,"
Ments said.
Ments said he will not know if there
has been monetary loss in the research
projects until they run some tests.
Although physical plant officials
notified the biological sciences director
and building maintenance reporters
about the blackout, professors and
- researchers said they. too, should have
been called at home.
"It's unfortunate there's not a better
back-up system," said Susan Watson,
lab technician. "This may be a tragic
loss."
Time loss
But Ments said the material loss to
the projects is not his greatest concern.
"The time loss is incredible," Ments
said. "I can't even begin to tell how
Desmond Wheeler. Most faculty mem
bers are expected to do research, but
can't because of the time required of
heavier teaching loads.
60- to 70-hour work week
"Everyone, if they're- doing a job,
wants to do it reasonably well,"
Wheeler said. "And it's difficult to do
the job if you don't have the time to do
it as you would like."
Furgason said full-time UNL faculty
members have an average teaching
load of eight credit hours a semester,
slightly higher than the "six or seven"
that the university considers ideal.
Teaching loads take up to two-thirds of
a professor's time, while research and
service to the private sector take up
the other third, he said. '
However, the average doesn't ac
is the fraternity's highest award, pres
ented annually.
Others who have
received the award
include U.S. Sen.
Robert J. Dole of !
Kansas, former Sen.
John Tower of!
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Texas, former gov
ernors David Treen
of Louisiana and
Lee Dreyfus of Wis
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much time and effort may have been
lost because of this."
John Barmbaugh, another biological
sciences professor, said samples of fro
zen cells possibly damaged are valued
at about $600 each. The loss also would
represent about l'fc weeks of work.
A backup generator that heats a
small portion of equipment in Manter
Hall also failed at about 7:20 p.m., said
Royce Ballinger, director of biological
sciences.
The backup generator didn't heat
freezers that held some research pro
jects, Ballinger said.
Since all classes in Ferguson Hall were
cancelled, few people were using com
puters, so complaints were minimal,
said Deb Heckens, staff secretary.
Coincidentally, UNO also had a
power blackout Thursday, said Tim
Fitzgerald, assistant director of Uni
versity Relations at UNO.
Power had not been restored to four
buildings by Thursday evening- A
broken power cable caused the black
out. ,
At 7:30 a.m., a power blackout
occurred at the Field House, the
Health, Physical Education and Re
creations Building, the Arts and Scien
ces Building and the Eppley Building.
Both day and evening classes were
cancelled in those buildings, Fitzge
rald said.
count for the preparation time each
course requires, Furgason said.
UNL professors are judged for pro
motion and other benefits by the qual
ity of their research and committee
work as well as by their teaching,
Wheeler said. The present imbalance
between teaching and research loads
means many faculty members work
between 60 and 70 hours a week, said
Linda Pratt, former president of the
UNL chapter of the American Associa
tion of University Professors.
"You don't have many more hours to
get things done one way or the other,"
she said. "So you get a little less time
in your research because the professors
will attend to the needs of the
students."
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Speakes, deputy press secretary for
President Reagan.
Lehr, who received a bachelor's
degree in chemical engineering in 1947,
began work with 3M that same year. He
worked in many positions within the
company before becoming chief execu
tive officer in 1979 and chairman of the
board in 1980.
An Elgin native, Lehr has received
an honorary doctorate from NU, the
"Alumni Achievement Award" from the
NU Alumni Association and is on the
boards of the NU and University of Min
nesota foundations.
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Wesleyan's curriculum
includes weekend fun
By Todd von Kampen
Senior Reporter
Nebraska Wesleyan students are
more likely to go to the library on
Saturday afternoons than to football
games, according to a New York
Times Book.
Although not entirely true, the
statement in "The Best Buys in Col
lege Education" reflects the atti
tude toward college work that many
cf Wesleyan's 1,237 students take,
said Tom Searcy, a student member
of the university's Board of Gover
nors. "
Students who go to Wesleyan
lenow how to have fun but they save
their entertainment for the week
end, he said.
"People will party on Friday and
Saturday nights as late as they can
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and as hard as they can, but they
study " said Searcy, a junior busi
ness major from Omaha. "They've
decided that if they're spending
$7,000 a year, they're here for a
reason."
The reason: To get a well-rounded
education with the personal touch a
small college offers, Searcy said.
Students are attracted by Wesleyan's
. 13-to-l student-faculty ratio and a
belief in the importance of each
student that extends from the uni
versity's Christian connection, said
President John W. White Jr. Wes
leyan was founded and is supported
by the United Methodist Church.
"Personalized education is noth
ing more than a commitment to the
individual," he said. "And that's a
Christian concept."
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