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October 1, 1987 University of Nebraska-Lincoln Vol. 87 No. 26
Eric Gregory/Dally Nebraskan
What the . . . ?
Christina Wright, a senior sociology major, walks through an “obstacle” across the sidewalk in front of Kimball Hali
Wednesday. Freshmen Robert Mestl and Toni Moench were tabulating the number of men and women who walked
around the obstacle vs. those who walked through It as part of an experiment for their University Foundations class.
Faculty quit for many reasons
Good work records attract other universities, Peters says
By James M. Lillis
Senior Reporter
While eight University of Ne
braska-Lincoln administrators have
taken jobs at other universities since
1982, one UNL official said the turn
over isn’t unusual.
John Peters, associate to the chan
cellor, said Wednesday there are
many administrative openings around
the country. UNL administrators’
good performance records attract
other universities, he said.
Peters said he foresees no problems
filling the positions.
Reasons for leaving UNL range
from professional advancement to
moving closer to family members.
Roy Arnold became the dean of the
College of Agriculture at Oregon
State University in Corvallis, Ore.,
last month. He spent 20 years as
UNL’s vice chancellor for the Insti
tute of Agriculture and Natural Re
sources. He went to Oregon for more
educational and personal growth, he
said.
Arnold said he was frustrated be
cause of his “inability to deal with
salary needs of die faculty and staff
members.”
Donald Swoboda left his post as
associate dean and associate director
of the Nebraska Cooperative Exten
sion Service to become vice provost
for extension at the University of
Missouri-Columbia in August
During his 20 years at UNL,
Swoboda said, he was disappointed at
the “lack of legislative support for a
dedicated, quality staff.”
Swoboda said he left the university
primarily to work in a broader exten
sion program.
Suzanne Brown became the asso
ciate vice chancellor of academic
affairs in the Pennsylvania State Sys
tem of Higher Education in January
1986. She said she left her position as
assistant to vice chancellor of student
affairs at UNL because there was “no
opportunity for advancement.”
“After about nine years at that
position, I thought it was a good time
to move,” Brown said.
She also said she left because she
was not paid as well as other adminis
trators at her level.
Richard Armstrong, former UNL
vice chancellor of student affairs, re
turned to his home state of Georgia in
January 1985 to become the vice
president of business and finance at
Georgia Southern College at
Statesboro, Ga.
Rudy Lewis moved last spring to
the University of Hawaii in Honolulu
to become the vice president of uni
versity relations, the same position he
had at UNL. Lewis’s wife is from
Hawaii.
John Yost will return to his home
state of Washington on Nov. 1. The
UNL vice chancellor of research and
dean of graduate studies will become
vice president for academic affairs at
Western Washington University in
Bellingham.
David Decoster, former dean of
students at UNL, and Jack Miller,
former executive vice president of the
UNL Alumni Association, both left
Nebraska for new environments and
advancement. Decoster, who left in
the winter of 1985, is now the vice
president of student affairs at Indiana
University of Pennsylvania. Miller,
who left in June, is the vice president
of university relations at Ball State
University in Indiana.
Robert Fu'gason, UNL vice chan
cellor for academic affairs, is one of
10 finalists for president of the Uni
versity of West Florida. Furgason said
he doesn’t know if he would take the
job if it were offered.
Chambers: law students must choose paths
By Brandon Loomis
Staff Reporter
Law students need to focus more
on improving society and helping its
members than on making money,
state Sen. Ernie Chambers of Omaha
said in an address to University of
Nebraska-Lincoln Pre-Law Club
Wednesday night.
Chambers told the students that
upon graduation, they will have to
choose whether ethics and justice or
image and money will dominate their
professional lives. He encouraged
them to think about what they believe
in, and to stand by it when the time
comes.
Terri Dondlinger, secretary of the
Pre-Law Club, said the purpose of
such talks is to help law students
explore various careers in law, and to
aid in adjusting to life in law school
and pressure.
Chambers told of an Arizona man
who, in the 1800s, advertised himself
as a lawyer who would do anything to
get a criminal off. Although Chant
ers said he admired the man for being
honest, lawyers should not have that
mentality. He repeatedly emphasized
the importance of justice over money.
“This word ‘ethics’ has only a
meaning in the dictionary,” said
Chambers.
In Nebraska, Chambers said, law
yers arc turning the other way when
farmers come to them with problems,
simply because they know that most
troubled farmers will be unable to pay
legal fees. He told the students that
they should have a mission to help
farmers, not ignore them.
Nebraska’s farmers were also a
target in Chambers’ speech.
“Dumb farmers in Nebraska are
still praising Reagan,’* he said. Farm
ers should not put on their best clothes
and act as if ail is well whenever the
president travels to Nebraska, he said.
The result, Chambers said, is that
Reagan goes home and tells everyone
that the farm crisis is over: the oppo
site of what farmers would like him to
say.
Chambers said the farmers’ lack of
education, in addition to the lawyers’
unwillingness to help him, arc leading
causes of farm foreclosures.
Bankers tell farmers to take large
loans, which cause farmers to go
deeper in debt, he said.
He said it is a necessity for lawyers
to disregard money, and advise des
perate farmers of their options before
they end up selling their souls to
“Mephislopheles.’’
Bookies seek
new options
during strike
Financial problems set in
on UNL’s gambling brigade
By Chuck Green
Senior Editor
Team owners and players
aren’t the only people suffering
financial woes from the Na
tional Football League players’
strike.
Lincoln-area bookmakers
are feeling the pinch, too.
Bob, Jeff and Scott (not their
real names) are bookies at the
University of Nebraska-Lin
coln, and all agreed that the
strike has crippled their busi
ness.
“It’s not the best thing that
could have happened to me,”
Bob said. “I'vebeen in the busi
ness for three years, either run
ning for someone else or taking
action on my own, and this is the
least amount of business I’ve
done yet.”
Scott agreed.
“Business has been better at
other times,” he said. “Since the
(Las) Vegas bookmakers
weren’t sure how they were
going to ride out the strike —
they didn’t know if they were
going to make point spreads or
not — my business has been
hurt Some people who I’ve ]
taken bets (finom) for a couple of |
years have just stopped betting
all together.
It s really reduced my per
sonal cash flow."
Since the strike began, NFL
teams have been forced to hire
free agents and players who had
been cut from the organizations
earlier to complement the exist
ing, undermanned rosters of
players who refused to strike.
Some Las Vegas bookmak
ers will continue to create point
spreads for die games involving
players on the newly formed
rosters. Bob and Scott, how
ever, said they aren’t planning
to accept bets on the games
between teams with “unknown,
unestablished players."
“I wouldn’t know how to
figure those games, and I don’t
think many other people would,
either," Scott said. “I mean, you
could have the New York
Giants — one of the best teams
around — playing one of the
worst, like Tampa Bay cm* Indi
anapolis. But with all these new
players, you’d never know who
would win.”
“I could make a killing, or I
could lose my ass," he said.
Jeff said he would continue
to accept bets on the profes
sional games, which resume
Sunday, to “try to salvage what
I can/
“I’ve already had a rough
year," he said. “I’ve lost about
as much money in two or three
weeks that I can afford to lose
this season. I’ve just got to sit
back and hope and pray that my
luck changes. I’m counting on a
lot of people to not know what
they’re doing . . , kind of like
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me.
All three agreed that college
football betting has increased
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