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October 30,1987 University of Nebraska-Lincoln Vol. 87 No. 47
Faculty asked to give money for lobbyist
By Mary Nell Westbrook
Staff Reporter
If the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Fac
ulty Senate raises $10,000 to hire a registered
lobbyist, senate president Jim Lewis said he
will be “ecstatic.”
Earlier this week Lewis sent 1,500 letters
asking faculty members to contribute $1 for
every $ 1,000 of their annual salary to lobby for
salary increases. The donations would go to a
fund called Friends of the Faculty Senate,
which would hire a lobbyist for the Faculty
Senate.
Conceivably, the group could raise $50,000,
Lewis said, but he would be “ecstatic” with a
one-in-five response, which would raise about
$10,000.
“To expect $50,000 would be the height of
foolishness,” he said.
Most faculty members are not very political,
Lewis said. Faculty members have never done
anything like this before. Most faculty are
uncomfortable with discussing money, he said.
The senate is sympathetic to students and is
asking faculty members for funds before stu
dents are asked through tuition increases,
Lewis said.
State aid should be the First resource of funds
for the university, Lewis said. That’s why the
need for a lobbyist is so great.
Lewis said he would be disappointed if the
Faculty Senate only received about $1,500.
The American Association of University Pro
fessors launched a similar drive for funds last
year and received $1,400. The A AUP has a goal
of at least $3,500 this year, Lewis said.
Since both the Faculty Senate and the A AUP
are making similar appeals to the faculty,
Lewis said they would work together and pos
sibly hire the same lobbyist.
Lewis said faculty members extend
throughout the state. Extension agents are
considered faculty and also have been sent
letters. They can also help by speaking to state
senators in western Nebraska, Lewis said.
“The walls of UNL extend beyond just
Lincoln,” Lewis said. “We need their support
as much as those here at the university.”
In order to convince the Legislature to make
the faculty salary issue a top priority, Lewis
also has asked the faculty to participate in a new
“Adopt a Senator” program.
Lewis said he would like to have three to five
faculty members assigned to each state senator.
The volunteers would tell the senator about the
university and give the senator a favorable view
of UNL.
“We want this issue to go beyond just
money,” Lewis said. “We want this to be
something personal to state senators.”
'George B. Cook'
considered name
for rec center
By Brandon Loomis
Staff Reporter
The Central Planning Committee
recommended Thursday that the new
recreation center and indoor football
practice field be named after George
B. Cook, a former president of the
board of the University of Nebraska
Foundation.
Terry L. Fairfield, current NU
Foundation president, addressed the
committee Thursday and suggested
the name because the largest single
contribution to this “Phase I of the
Campus Recrealion/Athletic Facil
ity” was made by Cook, former chair
man and president of Bankers Life
Nebraska, and his family.
Fairfield said Cook also served as a
member of the Foundation’s Board of
Directors for 16 years, the longest
tenure of any individual volunteer.
Fairfield suggested that the recrea
tion center be named the “Cook Pavil
ion,” and the practice field the
“George B. Cook Field.”
John Benson, interim director of
Institutional Research and Planning,
said the committee approved the
name and will now submit it to Chan
cellor Massengale for approval.
“Our recommendation has been
formulated,” Benson said, “and we
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Before class, UNL English professor George Wolf puts
out cookies for his Modern Canadian Fiction students.
English professor Wolf
overcomes student apathy
By Loren Berthelsen
Staff Reporter
It’s a little after 12:30 on a
Thursday afternoon in Andrews
102. Class hasn’t started, but most
of the students are already there.
They’re working, preparing
their though ts for class as the music
of Randall Thompson’s “Testa
ment of Freedom” stimulates
them. This song of liberty is ren
dered by a men’s chorus, deep
rumbling basses interwoven with
soaring tenors.
The teacher, George Woit. an
associate professor of English at
the University of Nebraska-Lin
coln, said the music is more than
entertainment.
“I really see the music and the
handouts before class as an anal
ogy to push-ups,” he explained.
The class is a 300-lcvcl section
on early American literature.
Pretty dry stuff, according to some
students, and Wolf agreed.
“I am working against a history
of experience with literature in our
schools, much of which isn’t posi
tive,” Wolf said. “There are certain
connections that I am looking for
— my connection with the students
and their connection with litera
ture. The music and the group work
are attempts to diminish the dis
tance between students and the
material — to make it alive.”
In class, Wolf constantly moves
around the room, peering over his
half-glasses, eyes wide open. He
incessantly probes with point and
counterpoint. He pauses, tapping
one gray tennis shoe, then slyly
coming back as the devil’s advo
cate.
Wolf said he doesn’t sit still in
class because he wants the educa- 1
tion process to work.
“There is a lot that depends on it. I
Not only is education important for I
the student, but it’s crucial to the
life of a democracy. So I hope that
some of what I do in any given
semester is going to get into the
student.”
Kathleen Ncary, a UNL senior
political science major, is one stu
dent whom Wolf has reached
through his teaching.
Neary said Wolf taught her to
enjoy learning when she took
English 403, Short Story, this
summer.
“He’s more than I ever imag
ined a professor could be,” she
said. “He’s exhilarating and re
freshing and sometimes bizarre.
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Recent fraternity parties receive complaints
By James M. Lillis
Senior Reporter
Several businesses in Lincoln’s
Haymarket district have complained
about University of Nebraska-Lin
coln fraternity parties there lecently.
The weekend parties, held above
Buchanan’s restaurant, 808 P St., and
in a garage at Eighth and Q streets,
bring in hundreds of people—includ
ing some who did not respect nearby
properly, merchants said.
Last weekend Lincoln police broke
up a party in the parking garage at 823
Q St. sponsored by Sigma Phi Epsilon
and Delta Upsilon fraternities.
Merchants had complained about
party-goers using merchants’ bath
rooms, carrying open beer cans and
urinating in the alley. Capt. Jim Baird
of the Lincoln Police Department said
policemen broke up the party about
12:30 a.m. Sunday.
Lisa Fricke, dining room supervi
sor at Bleu Moon Restaurant, 808 P
Sl, said party-goers have damaged
more than $200 worth of property in
the restaurant’s hallway.
Four or five brass signs in the hall
way were broken last weekend and a
USA Today newsstand was dragged
into the street three weeks ago, she
said.
Party-goers often take up parking
spaces, too, she said.
“We would have had a good dinner
(crowd) last night but all the parking
spaces were taken," Fricke said last
Sunday.
She said party-goers tried to use
Bleu Moon’s bathrooms and urinated
in the alley even though there’s a
public restroom near the courtyard.
Fricke said the party-goers don’t
seem to bother her customers.
Laura Barry, owner of Barry’s
Tavern, 235 N. Ninth St., said the
party-goers cause problems by using
the restrooms there.
She said she’s worried that minors
are drinking illegally at some of the
parties.
“That bothers me more than any
thing," Barry said. “You just don’t
know.”
Barry said the party-goers who buy
alcohol from her all have idcntifica
lion to certify they are old enough to
buy, but “some of them look awful
young."
Jon Camp, who owns buildings
where the parties have been, said he
has rented out space for dinner dances,
political events, receptions, non
profit events and university and frater
nity functions for “a couple years.”
Camp said the parties hadn’t caused
problems until recently.
“It’s important to follow laws and
not to bother the other businesses,” he
said.
Haymarket district business own
ers complained about restrooms,
fights and property damages because
of the parties in his buildings last
weekend. Camp said.
He said he wants to prevent prob
lems.
“We want to keep good relation
ships,” Camp said. “It’s important for
the sponsors of these parties to think
the functions through to keep them in
control."
Camp said he plans to use portable
bathrooms and security guards in the
garage and only allow private or
closed parlies instead ot open ones it
necessary. He also said that although
it is legal to drink at private functions,
no alcohol can be sold at the parties.
“In the future, party-goers will
have to buy from the Bleu Moon,
Buchanans or Barry’s,” Camp said.
Baird said the Lincoln Police
Department has responded to the
merchants’ complaints. Baird said
Camp assured him that the problems
will be alleviated.
“The parties get to the point where
they’re hard to control,” Baird said.
Camp said he plans to rent the
space out to more student organiza
tions, but won’t allow parties with
more than 200 people.
Brian Furgason, social chairman of
Delta Upsilon fraternity, said 300
people attended last Saturday’s party.
About 10 policemen broke it up after
merchants complained about urine in
the alley, noise and a fight, he said.
Furgason said that if there had been
restrooms in the garage, they wouldn ’ t
have had to use those at other busi
nesses.
Rod Schultz, social chairman for
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sponsored a party in the garage behind
Barry’sTavemonOct. 10. He said the
garage needed bathrooms.
‘‘We had a couple people take a ..
leak in the building itself,” Schultz
said. Others used the bathrooms in
nearby businesses.
More than 200 people from three
Greek houses attended the party,
which was shut down about midnight
when the Lincoln police arrived, he
said.
‘‘A couple of girls walked outside
with beers in their hand,” Schultz said,
‘‘and a policeman saw them.”
He said the party went smoothly,
despite the lack of accommodations
such as bathrooms. But he said the
fraternity will not have parties in the
Haymarkct anymore.
Furgason said Delta Upsilon docs
not plan to rent the garage again for
another party.
“The location is great, but there’s
not adequate facilities like
restrooms, he said. “It’s not quite
suitable for big, huge parties.”