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February 7, 1986
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Vol. 85 No. 97
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King of the crane
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Mark DavisDaily Nebraskan
Francis Seberger of D.E.B. Construction Company in
Perry, Iowa, takes a couple of minutes off before refilling the
gas tank on the crane. Seberger is in charge of demolishing
the former University Publishing building.
"She's a tough one," Seberger said of the building, which
has taken almost two weeks to bring down. The company
originally had planned to spend a week demolishing the
building, Seberger said.
Seberger said he enjoys the job. "I never go home mad," he
said.
ASUW approves
budoet committee
By Kent Endacott
Senior Reporter
ASUN senators Wednesday approved
a proposal to form an evaluation com
mittee to review budget cuts for
1986-87.
On a unanimous voice vote, ASUN
approved an Academic Planning Com
mittee proposal to form an ad hoc
budget review committee to hear
faculty and student responses on
budget cuts within specific areas.
ASUN president Gerard Keating said
the committee will involve student- in
the budgetary process.
"It will give students a chance to
give their opinions on cuts," he said.
"It's open."
The proposed committee would be
composed of APC members and repre
sentatives from the UNL Office of Busi
ness Affairs and Student Affairs. It also
would include two undergraduate and
two graduate students.
Faculty Senate president Desmond
Wheeler, who negotiated for three
hours with the APC on the wording of
the document Wednesday, said the
document has been amended to the
point of acceptibility. Wheeler wrote a
letter to the committee criticizing the
proposal because it did not provide
faculty members the opportunity to
UML t m $25,0 fund
to atirao'S SYaisnoGlty faculty
By Todd von Kampen
Senior Reporter
A special fund to attract minority
faculty members to UNL should help
counter the university's image as a
"really lily-white" institution, UNL's
affirmative action director said Thurs
day. Martin Bradley Munn said the
$25,000 fund, if spent properly, could
allow UNL to bring in several candi
dates for each faculty vacancy and take
a closer look at qualified minority
candidates.
Robert Furgason, vice chancellor for
Academic Affiars, set up the fund as
part of a drive to encourage search
committees to look at more minorities.
Furgason said the money was set
aside when UNL administrators were
deciding on permanent budget cuts for
1986-87. Despite the $1 million reduc
tion Furgason said, the minority fund
needed to be established.
"We don't think that overnight we'll
have 40 Chicanos, blacks or Native
Americans on this faculty," Munn said.
"But if we can get five or seven or eight
or 10, that will be a tremendous in
crease for this university."
Furgason outlined his plans for re
cruiting more minority faculty members
in a Jan. 31 memorandum to UNL's
Academic Deans Council. He said UNL
needs to try harder to recruit minori
ties to improve the high ratio of white
faculty members to minorities. The
testify on proposed cuts within their
programs.
In response, the APC amended the
document to say: "Every attempt will
be made to provide oral testimony from
those directly affected by the proposed
budget reduction with the time availa
ble to the committee."
Wheeler said he is pleased with the
proposal and that it is likely to pass at
Tuesday's Faculty Senate meeting.
But, he said, the time schedule
doesn't give UNL Chancellor Martin
Massengale enough time to evaluate
the cuts before advancing them to the
NU Board of Regents.
After deliberating on the ad hoc
committee's report, the APC will report
to the Massengale on March 31.
The APC also amended the proposal
in response to Wheeler's charge that
faculty members wouldn't have ade
quate access to materials on proposed
budget cuts.
Under the original proposal, copies
of proposed cuts would be placed on
file in the Office of Institutional
Research and Planning. The amend
ment calls for the budget reduction
proposals to be filed at a second loca
tion open for public access.
AH deans and department chairmen
whose programs are involved in budget
reductions will be notified by Monday.
Daily Nebraskan reported Oct. 10 that
1,062 members of UNL's faculty were
white and 70 were black, Hispanic,
Native American and Asian.
Several factors contribute to the
lack of minority faculty members at
UNL, Furgason said. They include:
Lincoln's small minority pop
ulation. O Competition from other institu
tions who want "minorities of good
quality" on their faculties.
O Few vacancies in fields such as
teacher education and social sciences,
which have a large supply of minority
candidates.
O Competition from the private
sector. Minorities with doctorates in
engineering and computer science,
Furgason said, often are more inter
ested in getting a job than they are in
teaching.
Furgason said he doesn't think racial
discrimination has kept minority fac
ulty members away from UNL. Studies
of the extent of discrimination have
not singled out UNL, he said.
The $25,000 fund, Furgason said,
could be used to provide travel ex
penses for minority candidates to come
to UNL for interviews. He said the
search committees also could announce
and advertise vacancies more widely,
look for candidates at more schools
with high percentages of minority stu-,
dents and offer fellowships for them to
come to UNL and work on advanced
degrees.
Search committees should be care
ful to keep job descriptions from being
so specific that a large number of can
didates would not qualify, Furgason
said.
Furgason said use of quotas to ensure
hiring of minority faculty members was
ruled out by a U.S. Supreme Court rul
ing in 1978 that banned the use of
inflexible quota systems. Munn bristled
at the idea that quotas could be used.
"Quotas are illegal," he said.
"They've been illegal since the begin
ning of time. Some people at this uni
versity don't like me because I don't
allow quotas."
In the past, Munn said, UNL could
afford only to bring in the single most
qualified candidate for an interview.
The fund, he said, will help UNL take
advantage of its central location be
cause it should be able to bring candi
dates to Lincoln for no more than $500.
Munn said increasing the number of
minority faculty members is important
if students are to receive a better pic
ture of life outside UNL.
The Institute of Agriculture and
Natural Resources, which oversees the
UNL College of Agriculture and related
programs, has no similar plan to seek
out minority faculty members. But the
omission was not intentional, said Alan
Moeller, assistant for finance and per
sonnel to institute vice chancellor Roy
Arnold.
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Former South African to address
apartheid at Model United Nations
By Scott Thien
Staff Reporter
South African native Donald
Woods, noted author and lecturer
on apartheid and South African pol
icies, will speak Wednesday at UNL's
Model United Nation Conference.
Woods, a former editor-in-chief of
the Daily Dispatch, a South African
newspaper, is a fifth-generation,
white South African banned from
South Africa because of his ediu.
ial criticisms of the country's govern
mental policies.
About 400 people are expected to
participate in the 19th annual con
ference, which will be Wednesday
through Feb, 1 5, s:id Georgia Patios,
general secretary. Although most of
the participants are UNL students,
Panes said, many other groups, in
eluding several local high schools
and c-ut-cf-state colleges, will pnrtici-
The conference is a mock U.N.
General Assembly session Partici
pants chocca a country, research its
ticr.d policies and then represent
that country in discussions similar
to these cf the actual organization.
ncl pcui- cn ccntGi to drL. tr
ficking and agricultural develop
ment. "It's a great opportunity for peo
ple to learn about the United
Nations," Panos said, "and to take a
viewpoint different than that of the
(United States).
"All countries have something to
say, no matter what the topic or if
the issue cf discussion involves
thera directly or not."
Although interest in the UNL
conference hit a low four years ago,
Panos said support is increasing
again because of the November
Geneva summit between President
Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail
Gorbachev and the rash of terrorist
attacks,
Amor the mere popular coun
tries to be represented at the con
ference this year are the U.N. Secur
ity Council timbers France China,
the Soviet Union, the United King
dom and the United States, and non
merabcrs Mexico, El Salvador, Can
ada, Iran End Irs.
To participate in the conference,
Panos zdi, participants must form
a cz'.'y cf dree to six delegates
befora thsy can request a country.
A:r they apply, participants are
assipjJ their preferred .country
!indi ciCwSSiCn tcpic if evcliIiLIBj
ar.i zn vcrt a har.dbock outlining
conference rules and procedures.
Participants also must pay an
application fee of $28 for UNL stu
dents and $38 for nonstudents,
Panos said.
About half of the $10,000 confer
ence is paid for by University Pro
gram Gouncit funds. The rest is
made up by application fees dona
tions and admission charges, Panos
said. The conference is free to stu
dents with UNL identification cards
and costs $2 for the public.
"Our conference is unique be
cause we involve both college and
high school students," Panos said,
"and also because we're one of the
few conferences that is funded by
student fees."
Panos also said the United Na
tions Association will a,vard $74
and $100 scholarships to hih school
and college delegates for outstand
ing participation in the conference.
The conference is ideal for stu
dents because it provides an oppor
tunity to meet people and promote
campus involvement, Panos said,
and improves speaking skills a
quality employers often lock for
during interviews.
For more information about the
Model United Nations, contact
Georgia Panos in the Nebraska Union
200 or 237, or callNUPC at 472-2454,
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