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April 13, 1987
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Vol. 86 No. 137
Begeiats vote to save the
As students watch,
regents back off
from nursing cuts
By Michael Hooper
Senior Reporter
The Lincoln division of the College
of Nursing escaped elimination by two
split votes from the NU Board of Regents
Saturday.
A motion to cut $518,000 from the
university budget by eliminating the
Lincoln nursing program failed on a 4-4
vote.
A motion to reconsider also failed on
a split vote.
The regents, however, cut the NU
School of Technical Agriculture on a
6-2 vote, which reduces the university
budget by $1.2 million. Of the $3.1 mil
lion the Nebraska Legislature has man
dated the regents to cut, $2.5 million
was cut.
Because the regents must reduce
the university budget by $518,000, NU
President Ronald Roskens recommended
cutting from four areas: the Creighton
Lincoln family-practice residency pro
gram, bio-medical communications, the
College of Nursing and seed grant
money.
Medical Center Chancellor Charles
Andrews told the board he would study
the suggestions and report to the board
next month.
Regents voting to save the Lincoln
cancuL
By Michael Hooper
Senior Reporter
COLUMBUS The U.S. government
must get its fiscal house in order by
controlling spending and enforcing tax
collection, said Michael Dukakis, gov
ernor of Massachusetts, Saturday night.
Dukakis, who recently announced
his candidacy for the Democratic nom
ination for president in 1988, said the
billions of dollars in taxes not being paid
this year must be collected to help
reduce the national deficit.
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Dukakis said the government should
enact laws that would create a better
economic environment. He said the
United States needs good highways,
clean cities and a strong public educa
tional system to prepare children for
the 21st century.
"It's time we stop building Star Wars
"and build star schools," Dukakis said.
It's also time to stop sending aid to
nursing program were Nancy Hoch of
Nebraska City, John Payne of Kearney,
Don Fricke of Lincoln and. Robert
Koefoot of Grand Island.
In a silent protest, about 60 nursing
students, most wearing NU sweatshirts
and buttons that said "save our school,"
packed the regents' meeting room in
Varner Hall. None of them including
Nursing Dean Rosalee Yeaworth, would
respond to reporters' questions.
After the regents' first vote to cut
the nursing program failed, Regent
James Moylan of Omaha moved to
reconsider. That motion failed 4-4.
Moylan said it was unfair to Andrews
because he would have to start over in
deciding where to make specific cuts
at UNMC. He said Roskens' suggestion
to cut the nursing program was fair.
"We've held the hearings ... and
now we want to back off," Moylan said.
He said that while UNSTA was being
eliminated, the College of Nursing was
not.
Hoch said the state would face long
term consequences in health care if
the nursing program was cut. She said
she would not like to see a shortage of
nurses in five years.
Payne said the university may not be
able to fund the Lincoln nursing pro
gram next year.
Koefoot said Roskens' proposal to
close the Lincoln nursing program was
"a terrible recommendation."
"They (the Lincoln nursing program)
have the most applicants," Koefoot
said. "They have exactly what young
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Nicaragua and begin the fight against
poverty in the United States, he said.
The United States should be helping
the poor and unemployed to get jobs
and become independent, he said,
"and end the shame of homelessness
that we see in almost every city in
America today."
He said that when he sees farmers
foreclosed, the quality of life for eve
ryone is not balanced.
"Idealism works," he said. "We can
make the prospect of change work for
us and not against us."
"It's time to stop giving family farmers
the back of our hand and start lending
a hand instead," he said.
In solving the agricultural crisis,
Dukakis said, the United States should
export more aggressively and not import
as much food.
He said that the more than $21 bil
lion in food imported each year should be
produced in the United States. He said
there's plenty of land and farmers' to
grow enough food for the American
people.
Although some say the end of the
industrial age has come, Dukakis said
he strongly disagrees. He said the Uni
ted States can increase economic op
portunity and stop importing so many
goods from other countries.
As "just a tomato farmer," Dukakis
said, he did not know much about farm
ing. But he said he was willing to learn
all that he could about agriculture.
Nevertheless, he said he believes
any successful policy toward agricul
ture should include aid to farmers.
"If we can help Third-World coun
tries with their debt, it seems to me we
can help our farmers out of debt," he
said.
The bulk of farm subsidies should go
toward family farms, he said.
At the dinner, several Nebraska offi
cials, including Democratic Sen. JJ.
Exon, said former Gov. Bob Kerrey
should run for the Senate in 1988.
Kerrey did not say whether he would
run.
ladies want to do in nursing."
UNSTAs $1.2 million budget was
cut, and if the Legislature does not
pass LB656 as amended and its funding
bill, the university would not be held
responsible for the two-year technical
school after July 1, 1988, according to
Dick Wood, NU attorney. If the Legisla
ture approves LB656, the university
would be required to operate UNSTA
for two years, after which the school
would separate from the NU system and
be governed by its own board.
Wood said the university will keep
the school open for another year so
first-year students can finish their
degrees.
Regents Hoch and Don Blank of
McCook opposed the Curtis budget
cut.
As a land-grant university, Blank
said, NU should keep programs that
promote agriculture. He said more than
20 other universities have two-year
technical programs like UNSTA and NU
has other two-year technical programs,
such as the manufacturing engineering
technology program.
He said UNSTA's veterinary-technology
program is one of the best in the
nation and the only one in the state. If
the school closes, many students inter
ested in the program will have nowhere
to go for their education, he said.
Payne said he thinks five of six pro
grams at UNSTA can be handled by
other technical colleges in the state.
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Beprt reeommeiiie changes
Course set-up should suit levels of intelligence, experience
By Kip Fry
Staff Reporter
Changes in the way courses are set
up at UNL may take shape if recom
mendations made by the Chancellor's
Commission on General Liberal Educa
tion are heeded.
For example, future freshmen might
take their classes only with other fresh
men and upperclassmen with other
upperclassmen. With such a plan, the
classes could be geared specifically for
their particular year in school.
"Courses should be taught to suit
the levels of intellectual, social and
learning development of the students
and recognize their existing know
Building contract
for rec center to
Lincoln company
By Dorothy Pritchard
Staff Reporter
The NU Board of Regents Saturday
awarded a $2.7 million contract for the
design and construction of an indoor
practive field at UNL's recreation
facility.
Builders Inc. of Lincoln submitted
the lowest bid to win the contract, des
pite a suggestion by Regent James Moy
lan of Omaha to reject the Builders Inc.
bid and a second bid by the Gilbert
Corporation of Delaware. Moyland and
Regent Margaret Robinson of Norfolk
expressed concern about two devia
tions from the university's specifica
tions that Builders made in the design
of the practice field.
"We have two bids," Robinson said.
"One bid the specs, and the other did
not."
Dick Wood, legal counsel for the
university, said the two deviations in
the lighting system and the structure
of the end walls were not "substan
tial" and recommended that the board
accept the low bid from Builders Inc. or
open the bidding process again.
The regents awarded a contract to
install 79,000 square feet of artificial
turf for the practice field to the Cam
Turf Corporation of Dallas. Cam-Turf
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Park. There were over 75 entrants ranging from young children to
place in seven categories like kite height and kite design.
ledge and conceptual vocabulary," said
the report which was released last
week.
Freshman level courses should at
tempt to deal with familiar topics
rather than introduce new concepts
without relating them to what students
already know. Upperclass courses, how-
ever, should assume a command of the
basic knowledge taught in the lower
courses, the report said.
The report defines general educa-
tion as that which promotes the under-
standing of broad areas of knowledge,
whereas liberal education develops at-
titudes and thought processes that
would be expected from an educated
person.
had a low bid of $306,700. Olson Asso
ciates of Lincoln had the low bid for all
architectural and engineering services
for the recreation facility, except for
the indoor practice field.
The regents also approved an agree
ment with Cormack Enterprises to put
a Burger King restaurant in the Nebraska
Union to replace Union Square. Interim
Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs
James Griesen said Union Square's
gross sales expectations "had never
been realized."
"We feel the potential for increasing
volume in that facility is very limited by
the generic product that we now have,"
he said. "Students are very much drawn
to national trends in that area, and
they have strongly urged us to consider
franchising in that facility much as
other university unions have through
out the country. It's a clear trend
nationally."
Griesen said that besides Burger
King's prediction of doubling sales
volume, the contract provides for more
than $40,000 in rental space, allows the
union to reduce some of its operating
costs, gives the university experience
in franchise relations while benefiting
UNL's franchise-study programs. Griesen
said this could be a "first step towards
extensive franchising" in the union.
Other bids for the union space were
accepted from Hardee's, Runza and
Taco del Sol. Burger King is expected
to open by the beginning of the 1987-88
school year.
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General education should emphas
ize "the structure and problems of con
temporary society." Study in a profes
sional program will keep "students
aware of the social contexts in which
the specialized knowledge is applied,"
the report said.
The report also recommends that
general education should enhance stu-
dents' understanding of concepts,
"All courses, including introductory
ones, ought to include material that is
intrinsically important and interesting
and be taught in a way that actively
involves the student in learning," the
report said.
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