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September 2, 1987 _ University of Nebraska-Lincoln Vol. 87 No. 9
UNL plans to link with Ivy League, Texas universities
By Dorothy Pritchard
Senior Reporter
A strong chance exists that a link
between the University of Nebraska
Lincoln, Dartmouth College and Prairie
View A&M University in Texas will be
created in the near future, a UNL offi
cial said.
John Yost, vice chancellor for re
search and dean of graduate studies,
said negotiations are continuing for a
partnership among the three schools,
whether or not U S West decides to
build a research center in Nebraska.
A partnership among the three
schools was part of a plan to attract U S
West to Nebraska. However, Yost said,
the plan was so beneficial to all the
schools that they are seriously consid
ering proceeding regardless of U S
West’s actions.
“We both (Dartmouth and UNL) feel
each of our institutions have strengths
that appeal to each other to make the
exchanges successful,” Yost said.
Funds for a research link between
the three schools were offered by Gov.
Kay Orr when the link was part of the U S
West incentive proposal. Bob Ferguson,
vice chancellor for academic affairs,
said that money, $4 million a year for
five years, still will be used for the link.
Ferguson said it wasn’t certain that the
$10 million in private donations and a
$7.5 million grant from the Peter Kiewit
Foundation still could be applied to
the partnership if U S West doesn’t join.
“It’s not an absolute certainty,” Fer
guson said, "but we think it’s some
thing they’d view very positively.”
The link between the schools falls in
two areas: technology and cultural or
social.
An information science/research
center would combine the faculty and
research of the mathematics, electrical
engineering and computer science
departments at the three schools.
Other exchanges:
• sharing advanced measurements
technologies in the engineering col
leges;
• integrated communication sys
tems for speech, images and data;
• sharing UNL’s CORPNET to con
duct classes with business and industry;
• expanding UNL’s MIDNET, a
regional computer network for the
National Science Foundation, to a
national computer network;
• introducing cooperative programs
between the three schools, allowing
students with a bachelor’s degree at
one of the schools to pursue graduate
studies at another,
• sharing applied and professional
ethics classes;
• and sharing overseas and inter
national programs. Between UNL and
Dartmouth, the schools would have
relationships with 40 states and 38 for
eign countries.
“This could spread us impressively
throughout not only the United States,
but throughout the world,” Yost said.
Information on education for minor
ities and women also would be shared.
Yost said Prairie View had been invited
to the partnership to help UNL and
Dartmouth expand in these areas.
Prairie View, a predominately black
college, has graduated more women
and minorities in engineering fields
than any other college in the nation,
said Prairie View’s vice president for
university relations, Donald Hense.
Yost said he was excited about the
example UNL can set.
"It presents an exciting model of a
land-grant university working with an
Ivy League school and a predominantly
black college,’’ Yost said.
Yost said he hopes some of the pro
grams can be operational in the next
couple of years.
“We’re committed to moving ahead,”
he said.
Andrea Hoy/Dally Nebraskan
Spray and wash
Max Blalystock of university maintenance hoses off the Broyhill Fountain lights Tuesday.
He said the fountain must be cleaned before the first football game so the Cornhusker fans
don’t have to see green water.
FarmAid charges media
By Tammy Marshall
Staff Reporter
Several Nebraska television and
newspaper news editors said they were
surprised at the $25 media pass fee
being charged by FarmAid III, but still
plan to cover the concert.
The editors said they never had to
pay for press credentials to cover a
concert before.
The media can make either a dona
tion or be billed for using FarmAid
media facilities. The money will be
used to pay for $10,000 to $12,000 worth
of media facilities in the press box on
the west side of Memorial Stadium. The
spokesperson said 800 to 1,200 media
persons will be paying for the $25 press
passes.
Pat Waters, managing editor of the
Fremont Tribune, said that charging
the media for credentials is wrong
because it could set a precedent for
charging at other events.
Despite the complaint, Waters said
the Fremont Tribune will cover the
event for the Gannett News Service.
Steve Stueck, assignment editor for
KOLN/KGIN, channel 10/11 in Lincoln
and Grand Island, said the station was
surprised at first, but decided to pur
chase five media passes.
The FarmAid concert is unlike other
concerts because the profits will go to
charity, Stueck said.
The FarmAid concert is a good cause,
Stueck said, so the station will not
complain.
John Clark, assistant news director
for the TV station WOWT in Omaha,
said they will cover FarmAid III, but
are not paying the fee.
"We’ve offered to either make a
donation or have FarmAid bill us for
whatever facilities we use,” Clark said.
“We will not pay for credentials.”
WOWT will cover the concert from
outside if they don’t reach an agree
ment with FarmAid III officials, he
said.
Emil Reutzel, editor of the Norfolk
Daily News, said the paper will use
information from The Associated Press
for its concert coverage. Reutzel said
that he was surprised at the fee.
“I haven’t run into that before,”
Reutzel said.
The fee will be used to pay for con
struction of a camera platform and an
interview area to be used by the media
during the concert, FarmAid officials
said.
There was a $25 charge at the Farm
Aid II concert in Austin, Texas, last
year. The first FarmAid concert in
Champaign, 111., in 1985 did not charge
the media for passes.
FarmAid III tickets were sold to the
public for $20.75.
Test results show personality is related to GPA
By Christine Anderson
Staff Reporter
Agriculture students at the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln are finding out what makes
them tick.
For the past few years, many students have
taken the Myers-Briggs personality test in an
effort to discover their personality type.
The test primarily is used by the College of
Agriculture to improve teaching effectiveness
and increase student learning, said Leveme Bar
rett, associate professor of agricultural education.
Test results indicated that of 71 agriculture
instructor* tested, most tend to be more
“imaginative” than the 413 tested students, who
seemed to be more “realistic and practical,” she
said.
Students are identified by one of each of the
following four categories:
• Extroversion or introversion. Ex
troverts are stimulated by the outer world of
people and things. Introverts are energized by an
inner world of thoughts and contemplation.
• Sensing or intuition. Sensing person
ality types gain information through sight, sound,
touch, taste and smell. Intuitive types prefer to
gain information through sense or hunch.
• Thinking or feeling. Thinkers use a
logical, impersonal approach to decision mak
ing. Feeling types use personal "from-the-heart”
analysis to decide.
• Judging or perceiving. Judging types
prefer an orderly lifestyle, whereas
perceptive types prefer to experience life as it
happens.
According to 1985 statistics, most agriculture
students tend to be introverted, sensing,
thinking and judging types. Their instructors
tend to be introverted, intuitive, thinking, judg
ing types.
Barrett said those statistics closely represent
current personality test results.
The study showed that the agriculture stu
dent population had a much higher proportion of
introverts, sensors and judging types than the
general college student population, and the
faculty members differed from the typical col
lege faculty members.
Students take the test by filling out a questi
onnaire, which is fed into a computer. Through a
combination of all eight personality characteris
tics, there are 16 personality types. Barrett,
agronomy professor Robert Sorensen and Agri
culture College Dean Ted Hartung have given the
test to about 75 percent of all agriculture
students.
In their study they also found that personality
types are related to students' grade point aver
age. "Judging” students, who made up 57 per
cent of those tested, tend to have higher aver
ages. Eleven percent of the "judging” students
tested had averages between 3.6 and 4.0. And 1
percent of the "perceptive” students had com
parable averages.
Introverted students, 64 percent of those
tested, also had higher GPAs than extroverts.
Eleven percent of the introverted students
tested on East Campus had a GPA between 3.6
and 4.0. And six percent of the extroverts had
similar averages.
The study listed several reasons for differen
ces between the introverts and extroverts. One
possibility is that introverted students have the
ability to concentrate with fewer distractions.
Another reason may be that the agriculture
college environment, at least in Nebraska, is
more conducive to introverts who prefer working
alone.
Aside from defining the relationships between
teachers and students, the test also reveals
many other personal characteristics, Barrett
said.
According to the Myers-Briggs manual,
"Introduction to Type,” the test can be used to
analyze career choice, personal relationships
and self-image.
The study said that while similar personali
ties may "communicate easily and share com
mon values, they also have the same blind spots.
And couples with opposite preferences may have
to work at understanding one another, but may
also experience the continued joy and vitality of
those differences.”
The testing manual explains that the test is
designed to show how a person likes to view
situations and how he or she makes decisions in
certain circumstances.
It also helps students understand their per
sonal strengths, what type of work they may
ei\joy and how people with different preferences
can relate to each other.
Undergraduate Students
(IMS Statistic* Closely Represent Current Figure*)
100 % -j
509
0%
O Extrovert* Sensing Thinking Jugging
# Introvert* Intuitive Feeling Perceiving
John Bruce/bally Nebraskan
