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August 27, 1987 University of Nebraska-Lincoln Vol. 87 No. 5
State teacher supply, demand equal..
By Dotti Krist
Staff Reporter
Education students hoping to find a
job in Nebraska’s metropolitan areas
may experience stiff competition for
the openings, school officials say.
But the supply and demand for
teachers in other areas of the state is
about equal, the officials say.
Teachers College Dean James O’Han
lon said the supply and demand for
teachers in Nebraska appears to be
equal overall. Some spot surpluses and
shortages exist, depending on the re
gion, grade level and subject matter, he
said.
O’Hanlon acknowledged that this
deviates from reports of teacher shor
tages in the sunbelt states and on the
East and West coasts. In fact, gradu
ates may not find their idea of a perfect
job in Nebraska. Because many educa
tion graduates hope to find jobs in
Nebraska’s metropolitan area, Lincoln
and Omaha schools are experiencing a
surplus of applicants, he said.
Carroll Sawin, assistant superin
tendent of personnel for Lincoln Public
Schools, said 1,800 applications for
teachingjobs are on file. Only 143 posi
tions were open for this school year.
The Omaha School District had about
2,040 applicants for approximately 150
teacher openings. Even surrounding
areas have been bombarded by appli
cations. Robert Diekmann, Superin
tendent of District 46, located 20 miles
south of Omaha, reports 200 to 250
people applied for one elementary
school position this year.
O’Hanlon said students who are wil
ling to relocate can find teaching jobs.
Teachers College now places 70 per
cent of its graduates in teaching jobs.
Most of the remaining 30 percent do
not seek teaching jobs or are not wil
ling to relocate. Very few, O’Hanlon
said, can’t find jobs at all. UNL supplies
roughly half of the state’s teachers.
Smaller schools generally experience
a smaller applicant-to-job ratio. James
Brisson, superintendent of Scottsbluff
Public Schools, said 15 openings were
available for this year. More than 360
teachers applied.
Pat Richey, president of the Nebraska
State Education Association, said these
numbers do not indicate a surplus of
teachers. It is not necessarily true, she
said, that teachers in search of jobs
cannot find them. Because applicants
apply for more than one job, the numbers
seem greater than they are, she said.
Bob Crosier, director of teacher edu
cation and certification for the Depart
ment of Education, said teachers of
early elementary grades, social science
and physical education are competing
in greater numbers. And just as schools
are experiencing a surplus of appli
cants in some subject areas, some
schools need speech pathologists,
music, math, science and foreign-lan
guage teachers.
In District 46, in south Sarpy County,
12 to 20 candidates applied for a high
school science position. The problem
with a small number of applicants,
Diekmann said, is that some of them
are less qualified. This gives schools an
even smaller pool to choose from.
Crosier said he does not expect a
shortage of teachers in the future.
UNL is showing an increase in Tea
chers College enrollment. However,
O’Hanlon said, the estimated 8 percent
increase in this year’s enrollment will
not lead to a teacher surplus because
the college is considering issuing a
quota and will require degree candi
dates to pass a skills test before gra
duation. A skills test now is given to
those entering the college.
East Campus
animal complex
nearly finished
By Linda Hartmann
Senior Editor
Faculty and staff members in the
animal science department are
scrambling among clusters of filing
cabinets, construction materials and
equipment as the $19 million animal
science complex that was begun
about two years ago nears comple
tion.
Roger Mandigo, professor of animal
science and department represen
tative for construction, said the pro
ject is 65 to 70 percent done and is
expected to be complete in October.
Yet the 37 faculty members who
will have offices in the building are
at least partially moved in.
“About half of me is here and half
of me is in the old office,” Mandigo
said during a break from moving
furniture and files from temporary
or doubled up offices that faculty
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Now the faculty members and
students are working around piles
of pipes, lab furniture and wire in
the halls and laboratories. But as
spaces in the building take shape,
enthusiasm is high, Mandigo said.
"Students are just bubbling over.
The faculty is just very excited,” he
said.
The animal science complex con
nects to and spreads to the east of
two older, separate animal science
buildings, Marvel Baker Hall and
Leoffel Meat Lab. The older build
ings also are being renovated with
new labs, carpet, paint and stairway
railings.
Mandigo said the two buildings
will retain their old names as part of
the complex.
When completed, the complex
will combine teaching labs and
classrooms for 300 to 400 under
graduate students, space for about
75 graduate students and faculty
members’ offices. The five research
groups in the department —rumi
nant nutrition, monogastric nutri-.
tion, physiology, animal breeding
and genetics, and meats — will
have areas for research, chemistry
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Roy Sterling and Don Colyer, employees of Sterling
Painting Co., break for lunch at the Animal Science Lab.
ians ana animat pens.
Mandigo said in the past most
intensive animal research was done
at the University of Nebraska-Agri
cultural Research and Development
Center at Mead about 35 miles
away.
Now the animals and equipment
needed are in Lincoln.
"That allows you to do things that
you could not do before,” he said.
For example, a reseavcher now can
easily take hourly b'ojd samples
from pigs just steps from his or her
office.
Students will be able to work
with horses, beef cattle, dairy ani
mals, pigs, sheep, turkeys and
chickens without making field trips
to Mead.
“We can tie together all the
aspects of animal science for the
students," Mandigo said. “It’s going
to take a while to get it ail working
right, but clearly it’s all here now."
All but four of the 14 classrooms
and teaching labs are finished and
in use, Mandigo said. Some of the
animals, including cattle and horses,
have not been moved in; and some of
the equipment has not been in
stalled.
Nevertheless, Mandigo said, "It’s
nice to be working in a pleasant
place."
Students ‘Party on Plaza’ Friday
From Staff Reports
ASUN’s "Party on the Plaza" that
was rained out Tuesday has been re
scheduled for Sept. 11, from 7 to 9 p.m.
north of the Nebraska Union.
Marlene Beyuke, ASUN director of
development, said there were no prob
lems with the postponement. The ven
dors knew a decision would be made by
11 a.m. on whether the party would go
on that evening, she said.
ASUN President Andy Pollock said
m
the party has been shortened from
three to two hours since it is now on a
Friday night, when there are usually
more events.
The party is scheduled at the same
time and place as the pep rally for the
Nebraska-UCLA game, he said.
Merck awards vet program
money for graduate classes
By Christine Anderson
Staff Reporter
Plans are underway to upgrade edu
cation and research at the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln’s department of vet
erinary medicine graduate program.
Department head John Schmitz, who
submitted the grant proposal, said the
money will be used to upgrade a multi
viewing microscope. The equipment
was purchased three years ago with a
similar grant provided by the Merck
Foundation. The microscope is primar
ily used to supplement pathology,
parasitology and immunology courses
in the veterinary science program.
The existing microscope has five
viewing heads, or ocular lenses, which
allow five people to view a single slide
simultaneously, he said.
Witlf the new grant, two lenses will
be added to the scope. This will benefit
the program because graduate student
enrollment in veterinary medicine has
increased, and more students will be
able to participate in laboratory’ activ
ities.
Upgrading laboratory equipment also
will cater to the need to attract more
research scientists in the field of vete
rinary medicine, Schmitz said.
“There is a definite need for vet
research scientists,” he said. Most
veterinary students enter private prac
tice rather than research.
Since Jan. 1, the veterinary depart
ment has received $380,000 in grants,
up from the 1983-84 total of $17,000.
Two grants were awarded to the
department by the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture. One $120,000 grant
will be used to research pseudorabies
in swine, and another $96,000 grant
will be used to study a cattle virus.
Financing for these two projects will
begin in October.
Normally, the department receives
federal, state or private grants that can
be used only for research, unlike the
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FarmAid III stickers sold
From Staff Reports
The University Bookstore began sel
ling its bumper crop of FarmAid bumper
stickers Wednesday.
All profits from the 5,000 stickers
will go to FarmAid, said Dick Lewis,
operating manager of the University
Bookstore.
“We received our first out-of-state
requests for the stickers today," Lewis
said Wednesday.
Lewis said the bookstore is the only
place in Nebraska he knows of that
sells the stickers.
The stickers that have been sold
since the first FarmAid concert were
sent to the university by the FarmAid
office in Texas, Lewis said.
“The university wants to be the
place to sell the stickers,” Lewis said.
Originally, the stickers were sent to
anyone who sent a donation more than
$1 to FarmAid, but later the organiza
tion decided to sell the stickers.
If the bookstore sells all 5,000 of the
stickers on stock it can send for more,
Lewis said.
The sold out FarmAid concert will
be at Memorial Stadium on Sept. 19.
The red, white and blue stickers cost
$1 plus tax. Mail orders are $1.50.
The mail order price includes pos
tage, handling and taxes.
500 student IDs missing;
cause of problem unknown
From Staff Reports
More than 500 student identification
cards have not reached students who
pre-registered last spring, said regis
tration and records officials, but the
cause is unknown.
The IDs were mailed about two
weeks before classes began, said An
thony Schkade, assistant director of
registration and records.
The IDs can be forwarded, but not
returned, he said. The return guarantee
was eliminated two years ago because
it cost 27 cents per card.
The university separates the IDs
according to ZIP codes. But no pattern
has been seen with the missing cards,
he said.
"We have no indicat ion of Uncle Sam
having anything to do with it," Schkade
said.
Post office officials said they have no
idea what happened to the cards unless
a specific pattern can be traced.
Students who registered last spring
and have not yet received their pale
blue II) cards should go to Administra
tion Building 117 and fill out a replace
ment form. The cards are made on the
spot.
Students who did not receive their
cards will not be charged the regular $.'>
fee for replacement. Another form of
photograph or signature ID is required
to pick up the cards.