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October 27, 1986
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Andrea HoyDaily Nebraskan
And down they come
Excited Colorado fans tear down the Folsom Field goal
posts to celebrate their victory over the Huskers, 20-10.
The game ended 1 6 seconds early because of the overflow
of fans onto the field.
Ag fields are fertile
dean tells conference
By Andy Jacobitz
Staff Reporter
Despite the sad stories some
people can tell about farming, agri
culture is a high-technology indus
try that is moving ahead, said Dekri
T.E. Hartung of the College of
Agriculture.
Hartung challenged students to
build their futures in agriculture.
Some say there is no future in agri
culture but, Hartung said, oppor
tunities are there
"We need the brightest and best
people in agriculture and we need
more of them," he said. Agriculture
colleges around the country, includ
ing UNL, have experienced a con
siderable decline in enrollment in
recent years. Hartung stressed the
need for people to enter the industry.
"We hope that you will create a
positive image for agriculture,"
Hartung said. He challenge students
to project that image for agricul
ture, despite the negative speeches
of others.
Hartung spoke at the annual
Alpha Zeta Grainbelt Regional Con
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clave at the East Union Saturday.
Delegates to the conclave included
representatives from national agri
culture fraternity chapters in North
Dakota, South Dakota, Colorado
State, Iowa State and Nebraska
universities. ; ; i I'l'" K
The sponsoring organization, Alpha
Zeta, is a national undergraduate
professional service and honorary
agricultural fraternity with more
than 60 chapters nationwide. Its
members are selected from students
who have demonstrated superior
scholarship, leadership and dedi
cated service to agriculture.
James Geis, chancellor of the
Nebraska Alpha Zeta Chapter, said
that one of the purposes of Alpha
Zeta is to Promote agriculture and
the College of Agriculture. Alpha
Zeta-sponsored events include Ag
Forum, Ag Careers Day and Ag
Ambassadors.
Alpha Zeta has accepted a re
sponsibility to advance the agricul
tural interests of the world, Geis
said. It is working for the better
ment of all of agriculture.
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University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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Low pay triggers morale loss
UNL ffacinilty president says
By Kip Fry
Staff Reporter
Low pay has triggered the lowest
faculty morale in several years, accord
ing to the UNL Faculty Senate president.
"We've experienced more difficulty
than we have for several years," said
president Allen Blezek. "It hurts me to
say that we've got a morale problem,
but it's a fact."
Cash salaries of faculty members at
UNL are 1 4.88 percent behind the aver
age cash salary of professors at other
peer institutions in the Association of
American Universities, according to a
recent report compiled by the Chancel
lor's Faculty Salary Study Committee.
UNL figures were compared to fig
ures from Illinois, Iowa State, Michigan
State, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio State
Purdue, Wisconsin, Penn State and
Maryland universities.
The report also said that salaries for
female faculty members and faculty
members over age 61 were lower than
salaries of their peers at UNL.
Full professors at UNL earn an aver
age of $38,561 per year, while associate
professors earn an average of $29,091.
Assistant professors are paid an aver
age of $24,243, while instructors get
$17,987 per year on the average,
Daily Nebraskan attracts criticism over
By Michael Hooper
Staff Reporter
After Daily Nebraskan advertising
manager Bryan Peterson found out
Thursday that the editorial board would
not support his decision to run an anti
Semitic advertisement, he decided not
to run the ad.
In the ad, from Columbus business
man William Curry, a debate was pro
posed over whether six million Jews
were exterminated by the Germans in
World War II. The debate would take
place during a two-day conference on
recent responses to the Holocaust on
Nov. 3 and 4.
The editorial board did .ngtsupport
Bryan's Sifgmal dedsibn t&the ad
because the subjecHsot -debatable
and the ad "would not dignify the DN,"
editor Jeff Korbelik said.
Running the ad would make it appear
that the DN supported Curry's belief,
Korbelik said.
The conference, which begins next
Monday with a lecture by David Wyman,
author of "The Abandonment of the
Jews," could not be changed to include
the debate proposed by Curry because
it already had been organized three
months ago and because Curry's topic
of debate is not the same as the confer
ence's, said Larry Doerr, campus minis
ter with United Ministries in Higher
Education, the co-sponsors of the con
ference. The UNL history department is
the other sponsor of the debate.
The conference is about the implica
tions of the Holocaust on American
society, education and the Christian
community, Doerr said. It's not about
whether the Holocaust happened, which
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according to the study.
"Consistently, UNL salaries have been
low in such comparisons and 1985-86 is
no exception," the study said.
Further deterioration
"UNL's comparative salary level
improved slightly in 1984-85, but
dropped sharply in 1985-86. All indica
tions are for significant further deteri
oration for 1986-87," the study said.
Blezek said there are several other
reasons for the low faculty 'morale
besides the relatively low pay.
"There is hot much hope in light of
future appropriations," Blezek said,
while faculty members are also con
cerned about the compression of dollars.
A random survey of professors across
the UNL campus has shown this to be a
prevalent feeling.
"I feel I'm terribly underpaid," said
an assistant professor who wished to
remain anonymous. "I am not satisfied."
"It is not enough for my wife and
child to live on, but I keep hoping jthat
things will get better." '"
The one thing that keeps him at UNL
is that he likes the academic atmos
phere, he said.
Not Satisfied
John Cullen, associate professor of
marketing, believes that the adminis
tration can't pay professors as much as
is what Curry wanted debated, he said.
"He (Curry) is looking for anti
Semitism to be given some legitimacy
by putting it in a campus program,"
Doerr said.
Curry sent to the DN a $5,000 check
for running the ad. A $1,000 check was
sent to cover the actual expense of
running the ad. Two UNL history pro
fessors also were offered $1,000 each to
debate historian Mark Weber during
the Holocaust conference.
Sara Boatman, director of Campus
Activities and Programs, said Curry's
$5,000 check was sent back to him.
Peterson said Curry's $1,000 check to
cover the cost of the ad also was sent
back,
'The editorial board met Thursday
with members of the Anti-defamation
League who said they were against the
advertisement.
Weber, a historian who lives in
Atkinson, and Curry both said they
were disappointed to hear the DN
would not run Curry's advertisement.
"I think the Daily Nebraskan bowed
to the people who were well-organized,"
said Curry, referring to the groups who
spoke to the editorial board before it
made its decision not to approve pub
lishing the ad.
The story of the Holocaust "is a
hoax," Curry said in a telephone
interview.
"Israel uses the Holocaust to make
Americans feel guilty," Curry said. By
doing that, Israel gains more sympathy
and support from Americans, he said.
Weber said the advertisement would
not make it appear as though the DN
supports what it says, because it was
not an editorial.
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they would like to, but he is not satis
fied when some of his own doctoral
students end up making more money
than.he does.
"It makes you feel inequitable,"
Cullen said. The low pay "makes you
aware what's going in the market
place," he said.
"We will gradually see the better
people attracted away," Cullen said.
"Enough is enough." Cullen said morale
is down among his colleagues in the
College of Business Administration '
Edward Schmidt, professor of as
tronomy, agreed that the low pay hurts
and eventually will force more mobile
people to move on.
Deserve more
"I think I deserve something more,"
Schmidt said, although he is able to
support his family. "My family is not
starving," he said.
Schmidt said that he has thought
about leaving UNL, but not only
because of the low pay.
"I don't worry about it," he said,
"but some worry more than others."
"Low pay generally lowers morale,"
said John Flowers, professor of psy
chology. "It makes them less enthusi
astic, and that enthusiasm transfers to
the way they present their-classes."
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Holocaust debate
Weber said people should realize
that in Europe it is often debated
whether the Holocaust actually hap
pened. The European press covers the
debates, Weber said.
Weber said revisionist historians
believe that "no where near six million
Jews" were exterminated and that
Germany had no policy to exterminate
the Jews. Revisionists, however, do not
dispute that Germany in 1933-45, had
an anti-Jewish program.
To not bring out the revisionist view
during the Holocaust conference, Weber
said, is to make it "one-sided."
Weber also called the decision not to
run Curry's advertisement "informal
censorship." :
Oliver Von Birkenwaldaa-Leadabrand
president of Hillel, a UNL Jewish stu
dent group, said the press "failed"
when it did not run Curry's ad.
"The role of the media is to insure
freedom of the press," Birkenwaldau
Leadabrand said.
The press should give people like
Curry the opportunity to voice their
views, he said.
"What's being suggested in the ad is
terrible," he said, "but you don't remove
or eliminate these views by repressing
them. You do it by educating."
Running the ad would have provoked
discussion among the students, he
said, and that would have been good.
Dan Shattil, DN general manager,
said the DN has the right to refuse ads
it deems in poor taste, based on a
recent ruling by Judge Warren Urbom,
that said that the same rights that
apply to a commercial press in reject
ing advertisements apply to the Daily
Nebraskan.