Residence halls give students ‘no breakfast’ option By Lisa Donovan Staff Reporter A new meal plan at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s residence halls will benefit late sleeers, breakfast haters and residents' checking accounts, said Housing Director Doug Zatechka. A 13-meal plan offers residents lunch and dinner Monday through Saturday and lunch on Sundays — and it saves residents $55 a year. “What we have stablished here is a 13-meal-a-week option which is basi cally all lunches and dinners, no break fasts,” Zatechka said. The traditional 20-meal plan remains for students who wish to pay for breakfasts. After conducting surveys, conferring with ASUN and other Big Eight univer Colleges continue to lose teachers TURNOVER from Page f~ Lewis said, and until then, many instructors will not be able to get tenure. Inability to get tenure has been one reason why many teachers leave ‘ the university. Karen Craig, dean of the College of Home Economics, said her college is focusing on other problems. She said there isn’t enough money for research and travel. About half of the teachers. wno leave me college go iu omer col leges, she said, while the others join businesses or leave for personal reasons. Craig is trying to change that by soliciting funds from alumni and cor porations. Most UNL colleges are trying to add extra benefits by eliminating some positions left open by retiring teachers. This will mean more research for pro fessors, but fewer course sections will be offered to students and classes will have more difficult prerequisites, Lewis said. The best chance UNL has of keeping its faculty here is to "carry the message to the state" and lobby the Legislature for increased support, Lewis said. On J une 20, the NU Board of Regents approved a supplemental pay raise of $590,000 to be distributed to the top 50 percent of UNL instructors based on merit. John G. Peters, associate to the chancellor, said this was done to en courage senior professors to stay and to give junior instructors something to work toward. Although the additional money is helpful, Peters said, it is nowhere near enough. He said UNL Chancellor Mar tin Massengale and NU President Ronald Roskens have listed salary increases as this year's highest priority. Corporate Challenge $10,000 competition The Corporate Challenge, a $10,000 competition sponsored by Institutional Shareholder Services, Inc., was an nounced by Robert A. G. Monks, presi dent of ISS. Contestants will prepare an answer of up to 5,000 words to a case study describing a fictional company’s responses to the challenges it faces throughout the 20th century. A $10,000 prize will be awarded to the best entry submitted by a student or group of students. Contestants must be undergraduate or graduate students at accredited U.S. schools. Copies of the case study will be available after Sept. 1, from ISS, 3050 K Street, N.W., Suite 300, Wash ington, D.C. 20007. Entries must be received by Nov. 1, 1987. Committee lobbies for poet stamp OMAHA (AP) — The Niehardt Stamp Committee is renewing its efforts to get the postal service to issue a stamp honoring John G. Niehardt, late Nebraska poet-laureate. Robert Vassell, committee chairman, said prototypes for a Niehardt postage stamp were designed several years ago, but the postal service did not issue a stamp. The committee hopes to have the stamp issued by 1991. New plan saves UNL students $55 a year, gives choice sities, one of the most common com plaints among students was that they were paying for uneaten meals, espe cially breakfast, Zatechka said. "This (paying for missed meals) is not necessarily true,” Zatechka said. "We base our rates on a noverall average.” The studies indicate that UNL stu dents and other university students eat between 1.75 and 1.8 meals per day, Zatechka said. "In order to alleviate some of the complaints, we’re offering residents the element of choice,” Zatechka said. Residents who opted for the 13-meal plan will pay $2,115 for room and board for the academic year. Residents who i chose the 20-meal plan will pay $2,170 ‘In order to alle viate some of the complaints, we’re offering residents the element of choice.’ —Doug Zatechka for room and board this year. Forty percent of residents (about 2,000) signed up for the 13-meal option. Residents may switch meal plans at the end of the semester. The housing department does not foresee any mone tary gain from the meal plans. “We’re offering less food, but in the same regard, we’re offering less room and board,” Zatechka said. The plan had been on the drawing board for a few years, he said. About two years ago the housing department decided not to establish the plan because of inflation, Zatechka said. "Oklahoma State has had the multi ple meal option for a while now,” he said, “and some schools in the Big Eight, like Iowa State and Missouri, are toying with the idea” Residents on the 13-meal plan can still eat breakfast for $2. Prices for lunch and dinner are $3.10 and $4.25. The multiple meal plan adds little to the entire budget, Zatechka said. “We remain one of the lowest (in overall costs) in the Big Eight,” Zatechka said. Occupancy levels in the residence halls are about the same as previous years, he said. By the time classes began, the residence halls were 98 per cent full, he said. "With the addition of the multiple meal plan and the installation of Cablevision, I look for it to be a suc cessful year,” Zatechka said. 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