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
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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.
"Anytime you offer someone the
element of choice, it seems to bring
positive results.”
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