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November 3, 1986
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Vol. 86 No. 50
Govern?
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deemed
to s snap
By the Associated Press
LINCOLN Two Republicans and
two Democrats who previously held
major public offices acknowledge that
the governor's race will go down to the
wire but each voiced predictable
confidence in his party's candidate.
Polls have shown the race between
Republican Kay Orr and Democrat
Helen Boosalis to be the closest in
years, a virtual tossup when possible
margins of error are taken into account.
Republican Charles Thone and Carl
Curtis say Mrs. Orr will claim the seat.
Democrats Gerald Whelan and John
Cavanaugh says Mrs. Boosalis will be
Nebraska's next chief executive.
Cavanaugh, a former state senator
and two-term congressraanirom Omaha,
says the race will be closer than the
contest four years ago when Democrat
Bob Kerrey unseated Republican Cha
rles Thone.
"Four years ago Bob Kerrey won by
6,500 votes and at this point in the
race, this is closer than that was,"
Cavanaugh say Mrs. Boosalis will be
last week. "My guess is that the race
will be decided inside of 3,000 votes,
one way or the other."
"It probably depends on what happens
in the next several days," Cavanaugh
said Thursday. "I think Helen Boosalis
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Fomnidatioini critical
Report attacks nation's universities
By the Associated Press
Linda StoryDaily Nebraskan
Snow? What Snow?
Despite the 33-degree temperature and the snow,
barechested bravado lives on during the NU Kansas
State game Saturday.
WASHINGTON The Carnegie
Foundation for the Advancement of
Teaching issued a harsh indictment
Saturday of the nation's undergraduate
colleges, saying they are more success
ful at handing out degrees than in edu
cating students.
The prestigious Princeton. N J.-based
foundation issued the statement after
spending three years and $1 million on
a study of the quality of the 2,000 four
year colleges that enroll more than 5
million students.
Its research included surveys of
thousands of faculty members and stu
dents and first-hand inspections of 29
campuses.
The 242-page report written by Car
negie President Ernest L. Boyer echoes
some of the same criticisms that U.S.
Secretary of Education William J. Ben
nett has leveled at the nation's
campuses.
It noted a "disturbing mismatch . . .
between faculty expectations and the
academic preparations of entering stu
dents." "Scrambling for students and driven
by market place demands, many under
graduate colleges have lost their sense
of mission," it said.
It challenges colleges to make major
changes in' the way they run their
affairs, including:
O "Demystify the selection pro
cess" and stop requiring high-school
seniors to take multiple-choice en
trance tests the Scholastic Aptitude
Test and the American College Test
unless the college actually uses the
scores in admission decisions. It also
advises prospective students to "look
beyond brochures ... and the well-kept
lawns" and find out how many faculty
members are assigned to freshman
courses.
O Make all college seniors write a
senior thesis and defend it orally in a
seminar with classmates.
O Scale black athletic programs
that are rife with "shocking abuses"
that undermine academic integrity. It
calls on the major sports powers to cut
their budgets for recruiting and train
ing athletes, and encourages faculty
and students to "organize a day of
protest."
O Restrict the growing use of part
time faculty members, who now com
prise 25 percent of the teachers. It said
part-timers "are often insecure and
unconnected to the college," lacking
the time and office space to help stu
dents. No more than 20 percent of the
faculty should be part-time, it said.
O Bolster general education require
ments and nquire students to study an
integrated core of seven broad areas:
language, art, cultural heritage, the
social web of institutions, nature, work
and self-identity.
Establish at every research uni
versity a rank of "Distinguished Teach
ing Professor," just as many now endow
posts for top researchers. Colleges
should prize good teaching, it said, but
"while not all professors are or should
be publishing researchers, they, non
etheless, should be first-rate scholars"
who stay on top of their field.
O Ask students to evaluate for
mally each of their professors. It also
called for faculty seminars to improve
assessment of students.
Urinal celebration doesn 't go down the drain
By Kevin Freadhoff
Staff Reporter
College of Architecture students,
faculty and alumni toured a restroom
in Architectural Hall Saturday to renew
a celebration that had been lost for
several years.
The Hinsdale party was back in full
color. Blue and white balloons and
plenty of toilet paper adorned the
'Winfield E. Hins
dale, the man who
patented the uri
nals, probably
would have been
proud.'
floors of the new link area between
Architectural Hall and Architectural
Hall West in honor of the famed Hins
dales, a pair of massive urinals pat
ented Nov. 1, 1910.
The urinals, said to be the last work
ing pair of their kind west of the Mis
sissippi River, were saved from des
truction during the college's renovation
and moved to the first-floor men's rest
room in the link after students pro
tested plans to trash them, said Randy
Swanson, a senior and one of the Hins
dale Day organizers. Swanson is presi
dent of the local chapter of the Ameri
can Institute of Architectural Students.
Swanson said the party was a chance
for students and faculty to get together
and converse in an informal way. Years
back, such parties were a tradition,
although the party organizers do not
know when they started or when the
last celebration was held.
There was plenty of food, and for live
entertainment, the Lamp Shades and
the Metacrates played. A group of
Malaysian students performed a dance,
and the Hinsdales got the day off from
duty and were christened with cham
pagne by Joe Luther, assistant dean of
the Architecture College.
A tennis-shoed life-sized statue of a
man that looked like a has-been Greek
god stood guard over the toilet-paper
adorned Hinsdales while students,
faculty and alumni toured the men's
room. .
Swanson said the planning commit
tee was a very dedicated group of peo
p'.c. He said members invested about
$u00 in the party, and he was happy to
see the good turnout.
The Hinsdales u - d to be a normal
bathroom fixture on campus but were
gradually replaced by newer models.
Winfield E. Hinsdale, the man who pat
ented the urinals probably would have
been proud.
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Assistant Dean Joe Luther sprays "nonalcoholic" champagne over the Hinsdale urinals to
christen them into their new home.