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August 25, 1987 University of Nebraska-Lincoln _Vol. 87 No. 3
Eric Gregory/Daily Nebraskan
Missed a spot
Dave Roseland gives the Sheldon Art Gallery windows their annual wash
ing. Roseland said the Sheldon windows are the tallest he cleans.
Osborne denies that NU
issued agent football pass
By Mike Kluck
Staff Reporter _
Nebraska football coach Tom Osborne denied
allegations Monday that he issued a field pass
for all Nebraska games and practices to Phila
delphia sports agent Art Wilkinson.
Wilkinson, who represents former Nebraska
players Mike Rozier, Tom Rathman and Brian
Davis, told the Daily Nebraskan Monday night
that he received six sideline passes from the
university in a two-year period. He refused to
identify who gave him the passes.
Four of the passes were for home football
games while the other two were for the 1986
Fiesta Bowl and the 1987 Sugar Bowl games.
‘‘I never authorized giving him a sideline
pass,” Osborne said. “If he was given a sideline
pass I don’t know anything about it. Art may have
gotten one from an assistant coach or somebody
without my knowledge.”
Wilkinson and Osborne both said that Wilkin
son discussed business with former Nebraska
I-back Doug DuBose on the Sidelines last fall
during a game — a violation of NCAA rules.
DuBose, now a running back with the San Fran
cisco 49ers with the National Football League,
was irgured last fall and also was ruled ineligible
for violating NCAA rules.
Osborne also denied Wilkinson’s claim that
he was Osborne’s personal agent.
“The only thing he ever did for us is our shoe
deal (with Converse),” Osborne said.
Wilkinson said that he had worked as Osborne’s
personal representative, and “it’s adecison that
Tom has to make” on whether he continues to
represent Osborne.
The Philadelphia Inquirer reported Monday
that:
• Wilkinson’s firm paid two players from the
University of Arizona, Alfred Jenkins and Jon
Horton, while they were still playing in college.
That’s a violation of NCAA rules.
• An employee from Wilkinson’s firmoffered
spending money to a recruit from South Dakota
State during avisit to Philadelphia in November
— another NCAA violation.
• A letter from Wilkinson’s office distrib
uted to college recruits last year contained a
series of facutal errors that exaggerated his
accomplishments.
Wilkinson said that a former employee of his
law firm had paid the Arizona players but that he
personally was not involved.
The South Dakota State player had used up
his eligibility when he was given $20 for his meal
on returning to South Dakota, Wilkinson said.
Wilkinson also said that the letter was removed
after it was found to have one factual error.
“Art Wilkinson didn’t do a damn thing,” he
said. "The entire matter has been blown out of
proportion. I have been incredibly squeaky clean
and careful not to step on toes.”
Harris: University should cooperate
with Lincoln to attract ConAgra plant
By Ana Balka
Staff Reporter_
The University of Nebraska Lincoln should
“pledge to cooperate" with the city in attracting
ConAgra’s proposed $40 million research plant,
Lincoln Mayor Bill Harris said Monday.
There would be widespread economic benef
its to the city should ConAgra locate its planned
research complex in Lincoln, and UNL is an
added attraction to the corporation, Harris said.
The Lincoln Chamber of Commerce recently
offered ConAgra 240 acres of land for the com
pany’s research center. Omaha is also trying to
attract the corporation with other proposals.
John G. Peters, associate to UNL Chancel
lor Martin Massengale, said he knows of no uni
versity involvement with the city in attempting
to attract ConAgra to Lincoln. He said that is the
city’s responsibility.
He said, however, that UNL’s food processing
center on East Campus and its agriculture mar
keting emphasis should be attractive to ConA
gra, a large rood processing corporation oaseu in
Omaha.
Steve Taylor, director of UNL’s food process
ing center, said the center would work with
ConAgra in areas of research and extra training
for employees regardless of where the corpora
tion locates its research center.
He emphasized that the food processing cen
ter is not trying to influence conAgra’s decision.
Duane Vicary, president of the Lincoln
Chamber of Commerce, said bringing ConAgra to
Lincoln would create a “tremendous influx
of. . . employment” and UNL could also benefit
in research. He said the 240 acres of land were
offered to ConAgra, but he couldn’t comment on
the location of the land. ConAgra has reported
it will be making a decision between Lin
coliTand Omaha within 30 days.
Harris said “Lincoln would be a much more
natural" place for a corporation like ConAgra to
locate, with the closeness of UNL and the benef
its both could receive from each other and the
cheaper cost of researching at one university.
Deans fear faculty turnover rate
By Eric Paulak
Staff Reporter
Although faculty turnover rates have
remained constant in recent years,
some college deans and professors are
worried it could become a serious prob
lem if faculty members don't get higher
salaries and more benefits.
• According to the University of
Nebraska Lincoln Faculty Salary Study
Committee, as a whole, UNL pays its
teachers $10 million less than similar
land grant universities in the country.
If salaries don’t increase, UNL could
exprience large-scale retirements and
departures, the report said.
The College of Arts and Sciences is
the hardest hit by faculty turnovers.
Faculty Senate President Jim Lewis
said the college has difficulty filling
positions vacated by faculty who have
gone to higher-paying jobs.
Lewis said it is a fairly long process
to hire a new professor, so while a posi
tion is open, it is either filled by a
part-time instructor or fewer sections
of the course are offered.
Many instructors are leaving because
they are not offered enough services
and benefits, said Teachers College
Dean James O’Hanlon.
He said most other universities offer
more research time and travel oppor
tunities. This has caused some teachers
to go to other institutions that are of
lower quality but offer more benefits
than UNL, he said.
In the past three years, the Teachers
College has lost 14 instructors. Two left
teaching, four left to accept positions
as department chairs. Two others left
because they could get tenure at another
colleges but couldn’t here.
On the average, full professors at
UNL make 17.fi percent less than do
full professors at other land grant uni
versities.
For the 1986-87 academic year, UNL’s
average salary for a professor was
$39,654, $8,487 below the average
salaries of similar land grant universi
ties belonging to the Association of
American Universities. The average
salary for associate professors at UNL
was $29,848 ($5,183 below AAU average
salaries); assistant professors made
$25,484 ($4,219 below average); and
instructors made $18,508 ($2,007 below
average).
Female instructors are paid even
less, according to the committee’s
report. In 1983, male professors made
an average of $570 more than their
female < ounterparts. In 1986, they made
an average of $572 more.
Lewis and College of Engineering
Dean Morris Schneider said retirements
pose a critical faculty retention problem.
The College of Engineering loses
about one person a year to other uni
versities and businesses, Schneider
said, but they lose about five people
each year because of retirements.
Most professors will reach retire
ment age in the early to mid-1990’s,
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Economic Status of UN-L Faculty
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