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November 6, 1987
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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Vol. 87 No. 52
Orr praises
AS UN bill
By Amy Edwards
Senior Reporter
Gov. Kay Orr praised the student
government at the University of Nc
braska-Lincoln in a press conference
Thursday for taking a stand on raising
faculty salaries.
AS UN passed a bill Wednesday
night supporting a tuition hike to help
raise faculty salaries.
“I certainly applaud the students
for taking up that important issue,”
Orr said.
Orr said a concern exists about
what part of salary raises is a “fair
share” for student tuition to handle.
She said she wasn’t ready to comment
on the precedent a tuition hike would
set.
Orr said political pressure didn’t
affect her decision to seek $1.75 mil
lion from the Legislature to maintain
the Nebraska College of Technical
Agriculture in Curtis during the next
two years. Her amendment would
appropriate $350,000 for the college’s
current fiscal year and $ 1.4 million for
the following year.
When the task force deliberated
what the Curtis school should be used
for, Orr said they considered many
things, including a base for the Ne
braska National Guard. Orr said the
task force kept referring to a need for
a strong agricultural community and a
college that supported that focus.
Orr said most community colleges
teach non-tradilional students and arc
not targeted to attract young students
whoare interested in studying agricul
lure in a campus environment.
Curtis was cut from the university
in 1987 when the university budget
was cut by S3.1 million. Orr said the
school did not fit the role of mission
for the university at that time.
NU President Ronald Roskens said
Wednesday that Curtis was not elimi
nated because of its curriculum, but
because the Legislature mandated
reductions in the university budgeL
Orr stressed that the Curtis school
will be separately funded from the
university and that as' long as she is
governor, she will make sure the
Legislature appropriates funds to
Curtis.
However, Orr said the school will
be “a new Curtis” with a new curricu
lum developed by university educa
tors.
The governor has developed a list
of 12 new technology programs that
should be implemented into the cur
riculum but said she did not want to
limit the curriculum to that list.
Orr’s list includes programs such
as livestock technology, ag communi
cations technology, chemical tech
nology, environment technology and
management and training of horses.
In other business, Orr said that
while the slate is “morally obligated”
to Commonwealth depositors, it is not
legally obligated to them.
“The only avenue open to Com
monwealth depositors is our court
system,” Orr said.
The Commonwealth depositors
should never be forgotten and the state
of Nebraska should learn from what
happened to them, Orr said.
Block grant money use
debated at Malone Center
By Michael Hooper
Senior Editor
Several Lincolnitcs said Thursday
night that Lincoln should use a portion
of its S1.4 million block grant for
rehabilitating homes.
Rehabilitating homes in Lincoln
neighborhoods build a sense of com
munity, improve its appearance and
create jobs, said several people who
attended the Lincoln Community
Development Block Grant hearing at
the Malone Community Center, 2032
USt.
About 50 people attended the hear
ing where suggestions were heard on
how to use block grant money to
develop neighborhoods in Lincoln.
The comments will be forwarded to
the City Council and the mayor.
The Community Development
Task Force has been working on goals
and objectives for the money for sev
eral months,and will continue todoso
until Sept. 1, 1987 when the $1.4
million will be used to develop Lin
coln neighborhoods.
Ruth Johnson of the Hartley Neigh
borhood Association, near 33rd and
Vine streets, said Lincoln needs more
low-rcnthousing for families with low
incomes. People who graduate from
high school and then enter the work
force are especially in need of low
rent housing, she said, because they
make minimum wage and spend so
much of their income on rent.
Johnson said some homes arc on
the verge of turning into slums.
CAUTION: Pastry may be
| hot when heated. Allow to
cool briefly. Remove care
fully from toaster.
John Bruce/Daily Nebraskan
Heated pastries may be hot
and other useful box-top advice
By Bob Nelson
Staff Reporter
Harold has just bought an Auto
S hade to keep hiscar scats and dash
from boiling in the summer sun.
Harold follows the instruction on
the shade, stretching it the length of
the car’s dash to block out hot rays.
He starts the car. As he drives
away, Harold becomes confused
when he can’t see the road.
Along with the instructions was
a warning:
“Warning: do not drive with
Auto-Shade in place. Remove
from windshield before starting
ignition.”
While this solution seems
simple, Robert Stone, senior vice
president of Auto-Shade in Van
Nuys, Calif., said it is a problem for
some consumers.
Stone said the company has
received several letters from con
sumers asking how they are sup
posed to drive their car after insert
ing the Auto-Shade.
Stone said the warning on the
shades, which the company began
distributing five years ago, also
helps with insurance liability in
case someone did decide to drive
with the shade in place.
Thomas Landy, vice president
of sales and marketing for World
Dryer Corporation, said “simplic
ity is the name of the game” in
writing instructions.
Landy said the Berkley, III.,
corporation has changed instruc
tions on its hand dryers from words
to pictures in the last two or three
years.
Because hand dryers arc located
in restrooms they are often vandal
ized, Landy said. The company
changed to picture instructions
after finding that vandals would
remove letters on the machine to
create obscenities.
Vandals often add a fourth in
struction to hand dryers: “Wipe
hands on pants.”
But Landy said this was not part
of the reason for the change to
pictures. Even with the picture
instruction vandals could still
write in the fourth instruction, he
said.
Like Landy, Donna Kwirank,
home economist for Kellogg Co.,
said the simplicity on the label is
imperative.
“We have to make labels that
anyone — eight to 80 — will un- t
dersiand,” she said. ' j
Kwirank was responsible for the
Pop Tart box instructions, which
tell consumers to “remove pastry
from pouch”and warn “pastry may
be hot when heated.”
“What may seem funny to you
and me may not be funny to other
people,” Kwirank said. “I’ve had
complaints from people that think
when a recipe says to cook at 350
degrees, that the product itself is
supposed to be 350 degrees.’
She said she learned never to
overestimate what people know
when she taught high-school home
economics.
“You would not believe how
many high-school kids think add
ing an egg means adding the whole
egg,” she said. “They would throw
in the shell and all.”
Report defines aid office needs
By Lee Rood
Senior Reporter
The Office of Scholarships and
Financial Aid needs more space, more
staff, more money and better coopera
tion from other departments, accord
ing to a report presented Wednesday
night.
The AS UN Academic Committee
delivered the report to James Griescn,
University of Ncbraska-Lincoln vice
chancellor for student affairs.
The committee combined input
from more than 1,000 students who
signed a petition asking for improve
mcnis and requests made in an earlier
report by William McFarland, direc
tor of the financial aid office.
Requests for improvement in
cluded: an additional 2,200 to 3,1 (X)
square feel of space; further coopcra
See AID on 5
NU officials vie for South r lorida job
By Victoria Ayotte
Staff Reporter
Two University of Nebraska offi
cials are in the running for the presi
dency of the University of South Flor
ida in Tampa, Fla.
Robert Furgason, University of
Ncbraska-Lincoln vice chancellor for
academic affairs; Lee Jones, NU pro
vost; and Ronald Roskens, NU presi
dent; were named Monday as three of
10 finalists for the position.
Roskens declined consideration
for the position after he was notified
he was a finalist, said Jennifer Tho
mas, spokesperson for the University
of South Florida.
Roskens never applied for the posi
tion, according to Joe Rowson, NU
director of public affairs. Rowson said
Roskens has no desire to leave Ne
braska and withdrew his name from
consideration.
The presidential search commis
sion got candidates’ names from both
applications and nominations. Ill is
could be why Roskens did not know he
was being considered for the position,
Thomas said.
The final selection should be made
by Dec. 31, and the position will be
open in the summer of 1988, Thomas
said.
The selection is made by the
university’s Board of Regents, based
on a list of names compiled by the
search commission, she said.
Candidates will be going toTampa
on Nov. 12, 13 and 16 for interviews
and lours of the campus.
Other candidates for the position
are Mark Auburn, vice president of
planning and management supports at
the University of Arizona; Barbara
Brown, provost of Temple University
in Philadelphia; Samuel A. Kirkpa
trick, dean of the College of Arts and
Sciences at Arizona State University;
William Mobley, executive deputy
chancellor of the Texas agricultural
and technical university system;
Francis Borkowski, provost of the
University of South Carolina; and
Michael Schwartz, president of Kent
Slate University in Ohio.
Ronald Carrier, president of James
Madison University in Virginia, was
also a finalist for the position but
declined consideration.
More than 250 people initially
applied for the position, which pays
$115,165 a year, Thomas said. This
number was narrowed down to 42 in
October.
Selection of finalists was based on
their record of “scholastic achieve
ment and commitment to the univer
sity,” Thomas said.