Students, administrators praise profs
at first Faculty Appreciation Day
By Brandon Loomis
Staff Reporter
About 100 students and administrators
showed their support for the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln faculty before Saturday’s
football game at UNL’s first Faculty Apprecia
tion Day.
The Association of Students of the Univer
sity of Nebraska and the Residence Hall Asso
ciation sponsored the rally on Union Plaza. The
groups gave away blue balloons, rather than the
traditional red, to show that students are not
only fans of football, but of academics.
Athletic Director Bob Devaney told the
crowd that a good faculty is important for the
working relationship with the athletic depart
ment. The UNL faculty is among the best in the
country, he said, but many teachers arc leaving
because of low’ salaries.
“These people that contribute so much are
the lowest-paid faculty in the Big Eight,” he
said.
Devaney praised ASUN for its recent bill
requesting a tuition increase to increase faculty
salaries, and said it’s now up to the Legislature
to provide additional financing.
“Let’s all get behind this drive to keep them
here,” Devaney said.
Margaret Robinson, chairperson of the NU
Board of Regents, told a story about an early
Chinese philosopher who said that while some
one can make a difference for a year by planting
rice, one must educate in order to affect the
world for 100 years.
“That’s as true today as it was thousands of
years ago,” she said.
Robinson also saluted students for their
willingness to make sacrifices in order to keep
a quality faculty. She said the faculty is impor
tant to the university and the entire state.
“Faculty salaries have to go up this year,”
she said.
Andy Jacobitz, Barbara Meister and Patricia
Sokolik, recipients of the Outstanding Student
Leadership Award, honored individual mem->
bers of the faculty at the rally.
Jacobitz said David McGill, professor of
agronomy, makes going to class fun. McGill
has made the faculty strong through his long
standing support, Jacobitz said.
“I ’ ve had more than onealumnus say that the
reason they stayed here for undergraduate
school was Dr. McGill,” he said.
Meister opposed ASUN’s tuition-raising
bill because many of her friends arc already
unable to pay for school. Increased tuition,
along with increased student fees to finance the
football team’s indoor practice field, will drive
many students into the work force without
degrees, she said.
“I cannot wear Husker red today,” she said,
because people are beginning to stress football
over education.
“Without a quality faculty,” she said, “there
can be no quality university.”
Meister honored Susan Welch, professor of
political science. Welch strives for excellence
and helps to make UNL recognized for aca
demic quality, she said.
Sokolik said Eva Winter, associate profes
sor of construction management, sets an ex
ample as a career woman. As a faculty adviser,
Winter has given guidance and kept students h
from making mistakes, she said. a
Sokolik said Winter has helped her write
letters to several companies. Winter also d
helped start the freshman Foundations courses, “
she said.
“She took the time to care and did make a h
difference,” Sokolik said.
State Sen. Scott Moore of Stromsburg, a “
UNL graduate, said he is grateful to the b
university’s faculty. Moore graduated in a
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Nebraska athletic director Bob Devaney speaks at the convocation cele
brating Faculty Appreciation Day Saturday.
igh-school class of 10 students. He said he was
fraid UNL’s faculty would not have enough
me for his individual needs. But the faculty
id have time for him and helped him make it
trough, he said.
Moore said AS UN’s bill is a good idea and
e hopes the Legislature will follow suit.
“I’m not here to give you promises,” he said.
But 1 ’m here to say that what you’re saying is
sing heard loud and clear.”
Jim Lewis, Faculty Senate president, said
ASUN’s bill shows courage and wisdom
“To be a member of the faculty is to livca life
of gentile poverty,” he said. Lewis said his job
is rewarding because students provide him with
energy and show a thirst for knowledge.
AS UN President Andy Pollock said that
although Saturday was UNL’s first Faculty
Appreciation Day, he hopes students will have
one each November.
“It is importantto recognize the most impor
tant group,” he said.
Regents award firm contract for med center project
By Shawn Hubbell
Staff Reporter
The University of Nebraska Board
of regents awarded the Nebraska
Service and Construction Co. a con
struction bid Friday afternoon for the
renovation of six adult private patient
rooms at the NU Medical Center.
During an emergency session held
by teleconference, the regents unani
mously approved the selection of the
Omaha construction firm, which sub
mitted the low bid of $274,500 and
met all of the conditions of the bidding
process.
William Swanson, NU corporation
secretary, said the emergency session
was needed to approve the low bid as
soon as possible so construe lion on the
project could start immediately.
The next regularly scheduled re
gents meeting is Nov. 20. Swanson
said approving the bid at the emcr
gcncy session would save two weeks
construction time.
The cost of the project is estimated
at $450,(XX) and will be financed
through the operating budget of the
University Hospital’s major capital
renovation account. The bid of
S274,500 is for the construction of the
six additional adult intensive-care
rooms. The remaining $ 175.5(H) will
be used for fixed and movable equip
ment, contingency costs and fees.
The intensive-care unit will be
constructed from existing space in the
hospital and will consist of the six
adult private patient rooms, a nurse’s
station, two utility rooms, a waiting
room, a staff locker room, a confer
ence room and a staff office.
According to a summary of the
project, the need for the intensive-care
unit was brought on by increased
complexity of patients’ ailments and
treatments that require private rooms.
Increased use of the current inten
sive care unit also has been a contrib
uting factor in the addition of the new
unit.
The summary of the project indi
cated that from February to July, use
of the intensive care units has in- I
creased 18 percent and the length of
stays averaged six to eight days, with
a trend toward longer stays.
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