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Daily Nebraskan Page 5 UNL Custodian of tike Year Iioitoi .ecu receives tiianks for a tliankle ss job Monday, February 23, 1987 By Jane Hirt Staff Reporter Pushing a broom around and picking up trash after hundreds of careless people may seem like a thankless job. But recently many thanks were given to Darnell Bickham as he was honored as UNL's Custodian of the Year. Bickham, a four-year university em ployee, said that the best part of his job is the satisfaction of being recognized. "It feels good to have the faculty come up to you and tell you that you've done a good job," he said. "It makes you feel like you're not working for nothing." The annual award, based on points received in area inspections, is diffi cult to receive and the winners are hard to select, said John Dzerk, opera tional manager of the custodial div ision of the Physical Plant. The winner was chosen from 24 employees of the month and their runners-up. "Darnell is an excellent and dedi cated worker who exceeds expecta tions," Dzerk said. An employee of the month receives a 5-percent raise and the employee of the year also receives a week of adminis trative leave. "It's our merit system," Dzerk said. Bickham said he is unsure where he will spend his week's leave. "I'd like to go home to Louisiana," he said. Harley Schrader, director of physical plant, said studies have shown that cleanliness of the classroom and build ings help students receive a better education. Bickham said that because Morrill Hall is an older building and a high traffic area, his job is more difficult. "I try to keep up with it because if I let it go, it looks really bad," he said. "Custodial work is something that some people don't think is very impor- ; - ' "k. ; ! A'-".' Bickman tant, but it is, especially for Morrill Hall," Bickham said. "I'd just like to thank everybody." Letters LETTERS from Page 4 to make sure its members have enough work. In this context Koefoot's turning over routine post-operative care to non members is a heinous crime. But for Nebraskans, and particularly rural Ne braskans, this may be the only way to receive affordable quality care. As to the remainder of the column, it is the first time I have seen a news paper advocate censorship. In the future the DN should publish a list of accep-. table ideas and when the regents can raise them. Then ideas the DN didn't like could be assigned convenient times when no one was listening. George M. McCabe professor finance Too much hoopla over Condom Week What's the deal with the so-called condom issue? Sure, safe sex is a little-talked-about topic, and sure, the Gay Lesbian Student Association may be considered a controversial organiza tion, but I don't get what all the hoopla is about. I mean, four camera crews, 20 reporters, and all those on lookers were a bit much. Not that I'm trying to take away from the GLSA, I'm glad it stirred up some dust. I just don't see how so much dust got stirred. I wonder what would happen if another organization gave out another health aid. Let's say, lor instance, the football team decided to pass out free tubes of toothpaste. The situations wouldn't be veiy different. It would simply be a specific group of people giving away an item to promote general health. The reaction, on the other hand, would be completely different. Instead of cold shoulders and nervous partakers shoving pamphlets quickly into their back pockets, the toothpaste would be received with open arms, probably by hoards of people trying to save money on their monthly hygiene bill. So why all of the huffing and puffing about condoms? Would people rather have genital warts than a few cavities? I would rather walk into a dentist's office and have him say, "You eat too many Snickers bars," than walk into the doctor's office and have him say, "Sure, you're not a homosexual." Sean Strough freshman journalism No extra burdens for grad students For the past several days, the Daily Nebraskan's editorials have suggested ways to relieve the financial woes affecting NU. It seems, however, that the DN has somehow come up with the idea t hat the state professional schools should shoulder the brunt of this situa tion. On Feb. 18, the DN said there was no reason to subsidize post-graduate students attending the College of Den tistry, College of Law and NU Medical Center. In reading your editorial "Sur gical Options," I got the impression that your solution to NU's financial problems was the development of some type of tuition scale based on the indi vidual student's future career earnings. Obviously, the installment of such a scale would have to include not only the professional students (i.e. dental, law and medical students), but also all of those students that would "reap the benefits of their investment over and over again in the years to come." Why then wouldn't you raise the tuition of programs in engineering, architecture, graduate studies and those other careers that have a high earning potential as well? You couldn't! I always thought the cost of tuition was directly related to the cost of edu cating students in whatever careers they may choose. Marvin Zerr second-year dental student UNMC Democrats aching to win battle RUSHER from Page 4 This swift return of liberalism, less than three months after Democratic fortunes revived, is proof that the call by Gary Hart and others for "new ideas" never really appealed to most Democrats. Their 1980 defeat by Ronald Reagan and his fellow conservative Republicans was hard to bear, and his landslide victory in 1984 over that true-blue liberal Walter Mondale was almost unendurable. But neither experience has sufficed to detach the Democrats from their 55-year allegiance to the belief that big government can be a beneficent father figure to the American people, fulfilling their "needs" with money taxed from . . . er . . . corpor ations? The rich? Somebody. The ironv is that conservatives are probably a..nost as happy as Jim High tower to see liberalism coming back. As long as the Democrats were out there casting about for "new ideas," there was always at least a theoretical possibility that they might stumble across a few thus putting conser vatives to the trouble of analyzing and debunking a whole new batch of slogans. But if it is liberalism that the con servatives (and the Republican Party) will be facing in 1988, they are confident that the American people aren't ready to fall for that old hustle again. The disasters inflicted by the welfare system are too visible and too painful; the memory of the economic consequences of liberalism in terms of inflation and interest rates is too recent; the reputation of liberals for neglecting the nation's defenses while swelling the domestic budget is too widespread. Or so conservatives believe. Intoxicated by the 100-proof fumes will find the conservatives ready and waiting. '1987, NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE of "Irangate," the Democrats suspect A,QM ' max iooo io uieu yeu, aim uiey auiic tu win another battle after a long Rusher is the publisher of the National losing streak for liberalism. They Review 1 1 t4Sjt4 , I was tired of being told I y i ' 7 " naaasreat personality "I warned to lose weight-fast-and once and foralLThere is a way. Its called: Diet Center." , : liose up to 10 pounds your first two 'eks! waicn tne inches disappear without drugs, stress, fatigue or hunger! 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