Faculty Senate aims at pay
By Mary Nell Westbrook
Staff Reporter
Increasing faculty salaries at the
University of Nebraska-Lincoln is the
Faculty Senate’s top priority this year,
according to organization President
Jim Lewis.
Lewis said salaries must be the main
priority because the university cannot
have a good faculty unless the faculty
has an adequate salary.
UNL Chancellor Martin Massengale
told the Faculty Senate Tuesday that
public awareness of low faculty salar
ies is increasing.
Faculty members need to “keep the
momentum going” in the months ahead
just as they did at the end of last year,
Massengale said.
"Faculty salaries should be able to
increase significantly as to what we’ve
been able to do in the past,” he said.
Massengale told the group that Sen.
David Landis of Lincoln is sponsoring
Legislative Resolution 211, a study of
faculty salaries that may lead to an
increase for the next two-year budget.
University regents, state school offi
cials, senators and governor’s repre
sentatives will meet Sept. 21 to further
discuss the resolution.
In other business, the senate ap
proved a fund to support, possible news
letters, luncheons with regents ana
state legislators, a faculty reception for
the Legislature or hiring a lobbyist. The
faculty is urged to give $1 for every
$1,000 of annual salary for the fund.
The senate approved the appoint
ment of four new executive committee
members over the summer. They are: R.
McLaren Sawyer of the Teachers Col
lege; Robert Raymond, College of Busi
ness Administration; Allen Edison,
Engineering College; and Lee Wright,
naval science.
The senate’s commencement com
mittee confirmed Thursday, Dec. 22,
1987 as the day of this fall’s graduation
ceremonies.
Career choice steps debated
By Terri Hahn
Staff Reporter
When college students think of
choosing a career, they often think of
where they want to end up rather than
the steps it will take to get them there,
said a visiting psychologist at the Uni
versity of Nebraska-Lincoln.
This mode of thinking causes frus
tration when students just starting a
career realize all the steps it takes to
get to the top, said Linda Little, direc
tor of the Northern Virginia Graduate
Center, Marriage and Family Therapy
Program.
Little, a participant in the College of
Home Economics Visiting Scholars
Program, was in Lincoln this week to
present a series of seminars to stu
dents and faculty. Little’s seminar top
ics included “Developing Your Career,”
“Deregulation Aftermath: Job Related
Stress Among Airline Pilots and Their
Families,” “Creating a Center for Fam
ily Services" and “An Ecological
Approach to Family Intervention When
the Child is Presented as the Problem."
Little said students involved in
choosing a career should concentrate
on what skills they have rather than a
job title. She said students should
think about those skills and how they
will apply in other settings.
"The best predictor of what you want
to do in the fliture is what you’re doing
now,” Little said.
Career decisions are an evolutionary
process, she said, not a one-time deci
sion.
"Stop to take a look at the bigger
picture," she said.
Little listed several questions that
students should stop to ask themselves
when making career choices. How much
time are they willing to spend in train
ing? Would they rather work with peo
ple or with things? Would they prefer a
set schedule or flexible hours? Do they
prefer to be told what to do or are they
creative thinkers?
Once these questions are answered,
she said, students can make informed
career choices.
Students need to realize that ajob is
accomplishing what they are paid to
do, she said, adding that business is
not a personal matter.
“People think they will find a job
that will meet their emotional needs,”
Little said. “A job is doing business,
producing a product or performing a
service that you are paid to do.”
Little also added that people, no
matter what their occupation, will stay
at lower levels of the career ladder
unless they can do research and write.
Unless these skills are learned, there is
a limit to how far anyone can go in a
field.
Little is also the founder and project
director of the Pilot Information Edu
cation Resources and Referral Service,
a program developed to assist airline
pilots and their families with job
related stress in the aftermath of air
line deregulation.
Medical teams on hand for FarmAid
By Lisa Twiestmeyer
Staff Reporter
About 150 volunteers are expected
to provide medical emergency services
during the FarmAid concert on Sept.
19, according to emergency care coord
inators.
Volunteers from the American Red
Cross, Campus Red Cross, Bryan Mem
orial Heart Team, Eastern Ambulance
Service, UNL’s College of Nursing and
the Lincoln Detoxification Center, along
with doctors, nurses, firemen emer
gency medical technicians and campus
health aides, will be on hand to provide
medical assistance, said Del Weed,
coordinator of emergency services for
FarmAid.
Dr. Gerald Fleischli, coordinator of
medical doctors for the event, said the
emergency services are based on those
at home football games, but with more
staff, serving more people over a longer
time period.
“When you have 70,000 people en
closed in an area for 10 to 12 hours,
many things can happen,” Fleischli
said.
Weed said he expects mostly minor
medical problems.
“At FarmAid I,” Weed said, “the
three largest requests at first-aid sta
tions were aspirin, Band-Aids and
Tampax.”
Fleischli said the first-aid stations
in the southeast and northwest corners
of Memorial Stadium will be staffed
with doctors, nurses, Red Cross volun
teers, members of the heart team and
the ambulance service. The southeast
station also will have alcohol detoxifi
cation volunteers.
In addition, Fleischli said, about
eight responder areas with three to five
staff members will be set up in and
around the stadium. These areas will
provide basic firstaid for less serious
cases, he said. Emergency cases requir
ing advanced treatment will be trans
ferred to Lincoln General Hospital, he
said.
Medical teams also will wander
through the stadium, scanning for emer
gencies, Fleischli said. All members of
the medical staff will wear red T-shrits
with “Medical” printed on the front for
easy recognition, he said.
Chuck Elsom, director of safety ser
vices at the American Red Cross, also
expects few mqjor difficulties.
'i’ll be shocked if we have a lot of
problems,” Elsom said. “But the heat
will play an important role in that.”
Weather will be a mjyor concern at
the concert, Fleischli said. The weather
service predicts a high of 87 degrees for
Sept. 19, he said. With temperatures
about 10 degrees hotter on the stadium
floor, a high of 97 degrees is possible,
he said.
“Combine this with standing up and
consuming alcohol,” Fleischli said, “and
people will start dropping. Heat
exhaustion could be a big problem.”
Fleischli said the symptoms of heat
exhaustion include nausea, weakness,
headache, mental confusion and fatigue.
If not treated, he said, heat stroke
could occur.
Elsom said the noise level could also
be a problem. He said music at a high
decibel level could be stressful and
damage the ears.
Fleischli said there are steps that
concert-goers can follow to prevent
ir\jury:
• Do not use alcohol or drugs at
the concert.
• Wear layered clothing to acUust
to changes in temperature.
• Bring cups for water or non
alcoholic liquids.
• Bring any medications you might
need.
• Wear a medical alert tag or have
medical information available if you
have health problems.
• Bring hearing protection for high
decibel levels.
• Use sunscreen to avoid sunburn.
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