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February 10, 1987
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Vol. 86 No. 99
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Outstanding feenalt
By Laura Smith
Staff Reporter
NU's highest honor for a faculty
member, the "Outstanding Research
and Creativity Award," has been
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By Lee Rood
Staff Reporter
An audience of about 1,200 is
expected to attend the keynote address
of the Rev. Jesse Jackson Wednesday at
the opening of the 20th Annual Nebraska
Model United Nations.
Jackson will speak on "The Power of
;he Individual," at 8 p.m. in the Cen
tennial Room of the Nebraska Union.
Sponsors of Jackson's speech include
the Nebraska Mdel United Nations,
the American Minorities Council and
UPC Talks and Topics.
Jackson's speech is one of many
events scheduled for delegates during
the conference, which will continue
through Feb. 14. Other events include a
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checks over the machine he designed to experiment with x-rays
received by UNL professors Robert
M. Beadell and James A.R. Samson.
A faculty committee chaired by
Dr. Samuel Cohen of the NU Medical
Center, recommended them to NU
Provost Lee B. Jones for his appro-
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of his compositions.
speak at conference
reception for Jackson and a dance to
celebrate the conference's 20th birth
day. Delegates in the conference will be
debating and voting on various interna
tional social and political problems as
the United Nations in New York does.
The object of Nebraska's Model Uni
ted Nations, according to Shari Lewis,
the conference services director, is to
help students understand how the real
United Nations works. Delegates also
will learn formal and informal negotiat
ing skills and learn about international
issues from a non-U.S. point of view.
The Model UN, a University Program
Council organization, also helps stu-
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val. The selection was based on out
standing research and creative
achievements.
Beadell, 61, professor of composi
tion and music theory, has been at
UNL since 1954. He has composed
more than 70 works. Beadell said
that at UNL he can hear his music
performed immediately after it is
written.
"Because the university is a patron
of the arts," Beadell said, "I don't
have to compromise like people in
the commercial fields do. You don't
have to hit the Top 40 every week."
Samson, 58, said UNL has an
excellent climate for research. He
said he enjoys the freedom of inves
tigation found here.
Samson, a physics professor, stu
dies the structure of atoms and
molecules. In the lab, he uses ultra
violet and x-rays to observe how
atoms and molecules break up.
In his lab, Samson duplicates the
effect of the sun's rays that bom
bard the ionosphere, separating
atoms.
Samson, who has been at UNL
since 1970, said that he enjoys work
ing with the graduate students who
come here from all over the world.
Samson said he is glad the uni
versity has programs such as the
Outstanding Research and Creativ
ity Awards because "we don't work
just an eight-hour day."
Jackson
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Students at the University of
Colorado paid their tuition in
quarters to protest a near
doubling of school costs in six
years. In France, students
marched in the streets to protest
new government regulations. One
ended up dead.
Here in Nebraska, professors
and students have been quieter
about their injuries. Since 1982,
NU has absorbed $11.2 million
in permanent midyear budget
reductions and now faces another
$3.1 million cut.
As UNL leaders continue to
plan for present and future cuts,
Daily Nebraskan reporters have
been visiting the offices of deans
and professors and talking to
students in each of the 12 colleges
to determine the health of the
university to identify its
strengtfis and assess the dam
ages in human terms.
The results of their work will
appear twice a week for the next
six weeks in a series titled, "State
of the College Reports. "
STMB OF
THE
COLLEGE
By Dorothy Pritchard
Staff Reporter
The College of Arts and Sciences is
plagued with an "exceptionally" high
faculty turnover and an inability to
offer and maintain competitive salar
ies, the dean of Arts and Sciences, said.
Gerry Meisels said 36 to 40 positions
among a faculty of 450 in Arts and
Sciences are vacant.
"Unfortunately, there are a lot of
very good people leaving," he said.
Meisels said the only departments
that do not have vacancies are psychol
ogy, political science and classics.
Outside offers
Meisels said that in the last six
weeks he has negotiated with six "top
people" at UNL who were considering
outside offers. Four decided to leave
UNL, one is staying and one is unde
cided. Meisels said that although he
has some room in the college's $23
million budget to negotiate the profes
sors' salaries, there was no way he
could compete with some of the out
side offers. One university offered a 50"
percent increase in salary. One profes
sor earning $63,000 at UNL had an offer
of $100,000. Another professor earning
$30,000 at UNL had an offer of $50,000.
In one instance, the professor's UNL
salary was comparable to the outside
offer, but the other college's personal
research support was not.
Although state employees are sche
duled to receive a 3 percent increase in
salaries next year, Meisels said, UNL
competes on a national level with uni
versities that are receiving a 5 to 7
percent increase.
"And so, we fall further and further
behind," he said.
Research labs
Jim Carr, coordinator of general
chemistry, said it is expensive to replace
some faculty members w ho leave because
in addition to paying competitive salar
ies to new professors it is expensive to
set up research labs for them. A lab can
cost $100,000, Carr said.
Tice Miller, professor of theater arts
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and dance, said more than money is
involved when tenured faculty leave.
"These people are what you've built
your whole program around," he said.
"You can't replace them with an
assistant professor."
Fund-raising
Since it is often difficult to get the
funds for new laboratories and other
expenses needed to maintain a de
partment, the faculty are being en
couraged to do outside fund raising,
Carr said.
Meisels said the College of Arts and
Sciences receives $5 million to $6 mil
lion a year from the federal government
and private sources. The chemistry
department alone receives $2 million,
Carr said.
But Miller said fund raising shouldn't
turn into another chore for the faculty.
Job expectations
"It focuses the faculty on things
they're not trained to do," he said.
Meisels said certain types of fund
raising is and should be required of the
faculty.
"In the sciences, outside funding is
essential and a job expectation," he
said. "In other areas it varies, and the
type of fund raising may be different.
It's very different to write a grant
application to the National Science
Foundation, which in many ways also
serves as academically necessary re
search planning, than to try to obtain
private support from individuals in the
community such as alumni, which is
very time-consuming."
Miller said one strength in the Col
lege of Arts and Sciences is its
"forward-thinking" faculty, but he
thinks they are asked to do too much.
Research pressure
Assistant Dean Stephen Hilliard
agreed.
"We're really being pressured to the
limits in the things we ask the faculty
and staff to do. That is a continual
concern, like a bad toothache," he
said.
Besides increasing professors' work
loads by putting more students in their
classes, there is "significant research
pressure' and an obligation to fulfill
the university's service role, Hilliard
said.
"It is encouraging, how successful
faculty and staff are at finding the
energy to perform well at all the things
they're asked to do," he said.
Courses eliminated
Hilliard said the elimination of
courses is one of the effects of budget
cuts in Arts and Sciences. Scandina
vian languages were eliminated from
the modern languages department and
whole programs in comparative litera
ture, linquistics and urban studies
have been cut.
Miller said in additon to not having a
full time secretary in the theatre
department, its production budget has
been cut in half compared to 10 years
ago.
Quality
"So we're unable to produce at the
same quality as we did a decade ago,"
he said. Rex McGraw, chairman of the
department of theater arts and dance
said the department is not forgotten.
McGraw said the department will receive
an increase this year the first in 10
years.
Dan Leger, associate professor of
psychology, said although the budget
has remained the same in the psychol
ogy department, the number of psy
chology majors has increased. In fall
1985 there were 431 on campus, and
this semester there are more than 500.
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