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State closer to improving salaries at UNL
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J.P. Caruso/Daily Nebraskan
Sen. Scott Moore proposes an amendment to LB1041 Thursday.
By Amy Edwards
Senior Reporter
Nebraska legislators passed an
Appropriations Committee amend
ment to LB 1041 Tuesday that would
give $9,301,167 to improve faculty
and non-faculty salaries at the Uni
versity of Nebraska.
In January, Gov. Kay Orr pro
posed $9.09 million in general funds
for fiscal year 1988-89 to improve
faculty salaries.
The committee amendment,
which passed 25-0, increases that
amount by $211,167.
Sen. Scott Moore of Stromsburg
proposed an amendment to the com
mittee amendment that would have
appropriated only $7.9 million for
salary increases.
Moore said he does not think
Nebraska taxpayers can afford to
give more than $9 million for salary
increases and support the Nebraska
College of Technical Agriculture at
Curtis.
Last week, legislators advanced
LB 1042 to the floor of the legislature
to finance Curtis with $350,000 for
the 1987-88 fiscal year and SI.4
million for 1988-89.
Moore said the money for Curtis
should come out of the $13.3 million
total proposed for NU salary in
creases and research.
NUis22percentbchind peer insti
tutions in faculty salaries, but is 27
percent behind peer institutions in
tuition, Moore said. If tuition were
raised at NU, Nebraska could pay
higher faculty salaries, Moore said.
Moore’s amendment failed 25-8.
Sen. Brad Ashford of Omaha
proposed and later withdrew an
amendment stating that the NU
Board of Regents should consider the
work of employees within the univer
sity when establishing wages.
Sen. Gary Hannibal of Omaha
opposed Ashford’s amendment. He
said the Legislature can’t dictate
what the regents do w ith the money.
Hannibal said the regents arecncour
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Chambers: feelings exist against blacks
By Dan Dwinell
Staff Reporter
Sen. Ernie Chambers of Omaha
told University of Nebraska-Lincoln
students and faculty a feeling exists
here that blacks don’t belong on
campus.
“There is an attitude on this cam
pus of superiority,” he said C ha m -
bers spoke at an Afrikan Peoples
Union forum Monday. The panel
discussion addressed the recruitment
of minority students and faculty.
Other members of the panel in
cluded vice chancellor for student
affairs James Griescn, vice chancel
lor for academic affairs Robert Fur
gason, Gricsen’s special assistant
Paul Miles, UNL student Angie
McPhearson and the University
Health Center director Kunlc
Ojikutu.
Furgason said he was perplexed
with the uncomfortable feeling mi
nority students have.
“I hear that UNL is not a friendly
place for minorities,” he said. “I
suppose being white I just don’t see
that.”
‘We can’t assume
that everybody is
prepared to
handle these
things. I think that
minorites should
be well-repre
sented on the
staff.’
—Griesen
Miles, a former UNL student, said
he wasn’t aware of the opportunities
at UNL available to black students.
“It took me my second year before
I found out what APU was,” he said.
Members of the audience ex
pressed concern about the treatment
of minorities by UNL staff and fac
ulty members.
“We can’t assume that everybody
is prepared to handle these things,”
Griesen said. “I think that minorities
should be well-represented on the
staff.”
Furgason added that the univer
sity has a difficult time recruiting
black faculty members. A number of
black faculty candidates don’t look
to Nebraska for their career, he said.
A member of the audience
brought up the resignations of three
black faculty members after this
school term.
One of those planning to resign,
assistant professor of actuarial sci
ence Colin Ramsay, stood and said he
wasn’t comfortable at UNL.
“The atmosphere as a black in
structor makes me uncomfortable,”
he said.
Chambers asked what would
Preliminary consensus reached
Plan to split UNL, Malone area
By Victoria Ayotte
Staff Reporter _
Members of the Malone Redevel
opment Study Committee reached a
preliminary consensus Tuesday on a
report outlining plans for a park to
separate the University of Ncbraska
Lincoln and the Malone neighbor
hood.
Committee members will meet
Monday to review an exhibit and
finalize the proposal before sending
it for approval to the Lincoln City
Council, University of Nebraska
Board of Regents, Malone Commu
nity Center Board and Malone
Neighborhood Association.
Tophcr Hansen, a representative
of the Malone neighborhood, said the
proposed plan is broad enough that
changes could be made in it.
Dallas McGee,community devel
opment program manager, and other
members of the committee agreed
the park could be a temporary meas
ure.
“Everything we’re doing could be
altered at some point in the future,’’
McGee said.
John Goebel, vice chancellor for
business and finance, said he thinks
the NU Board of Regents will accept
whatever proposal the committee
comes up with.
The proposal consists of land-use
and implementation plans.
The park will contain a minimum
of six acres and will be located adja
cent to and south of the Malone
Community Center, 2032 U St., and
Malone Manor and will extend to at
least T Street between 20th and 22nd
streets, according to the land-use
plan.
The areas between Vine and T and
19th and 20th streets and south of T
Street between 19th and 21st streets
will be used for university expansion
and activities, the plan suggests.
A buffer outside of the park also
will be created to separate UNL and
the Malone neighborhood.
The plan suggests residential re
development be implemented be
tween 22nd and 23rd streets.
An implementation plan was also
developed by the committee for
regular review and monitoring of the
plan. The implementation plan has
three components: the action plan,
the planning mechanism and the
monitoring mechanism.
The action plan recommends poli
cies and programs needed to imple
ment the plan be developed by city
staff members.
A planning mechanism between
the city and the university would also
bccrcatcd tocncourage interaction in
planning.
The monitoring mechanism
would ensure that appropriate action
is taken to implement the plan and
would periodically review plans that
would affect the park. The commit
tee tentatively approved creating a
new committee which would meet at
various times as the monitoring
mechanism.
make him stay, bul Ramsay said it
was too late.
Chambers suggested talking to the
athletic department for suggestions
on recruitment since many black
athletes at UNL are from warm
climates and big cities.
Miles asked the black students to
come together to find out what the
problem is and strive to solve it.
“Don’t close out the people on this
campus that aren’t black that really
want to help,’’ Griesen said.
Chambers said he was concerned
with the burden student athletes were
forced to bare.
“As far as the black athletes go,
tell Tom Osborne I said ‘Let my
people go.”’
Eight election-day complaints
filed, seven dropped by AS UN
By Anne Mohri
Senior Reporter
This year’s Association of Stu
dents of the University of Nebraska
elections had eight election day
complaints, but all but one was
canceled by the ASUN electoral
commission.
Most of the election day viola
tions were nullified by the commis
sion because they ware essentially
equal, said Shawn Boldt, ASUN
first vice president and a member of
the commission.
The only complaint that candi
dates were penalized for was filed
Monday against ACTION. AC
TION candidates were reported to
have a campaign table in Abel
Residence Hall, Boldt said. The
table was placed next to food serv
ice the Tuesday before election day
without proper permission from
residence hall officials.
The election commission de
cided there would not be a fine for
the violati m. However, ACTION’S
newly-elected executives, Jeff Pe
tersen, Nate Geisertand Kim Bea
vers will have to work with resi
dence hall officials to better define
campaign rules within the resi
dence halls, Bold!, said.
The revised campaign rules will
also contain names and phone
numbers of residence hall officials
that can be contacted for permission
to campaign in the residence halls,
Boldt said.
The revised campaign rules will
be available to future ASUN parties
Nov. 1.
Of the remaining March 9 com
plaints two complaints were filed'
against ACTION and five were
filed against VOICE, Boldt said.
Two campaign violations made
by ACTION were fa’lure to remove
campaign material from polling
sites by 5:00 p.m. the day before
election day, Boldt said.
The third violation was made
when an ACTION supporter report
edly tore a VOICE sticker off a
student replacing it with an AC
TION sticker.
VOICE’S five election day vio
lations were: a VOICE supporter
was reported to be campaigning
door-to-door in the residence halls;
fliers were visibly placed in East
Campus garbage cans; a VOICE
sticker was placed on a Daily Ne
braskan distribution box in Ne
braska Union; a VOICE supporter
wore a t-shirt within 50 feet of a
polling site; and failure to remove
campaign materials from a polling
site by 5:00 p.m. the day before the
election.
During the month-long cam
paign $100 was taken off the
VOICE party’s spending limit and
$55 off of ACTION’S limit, Boldt
said.
Since there were only two par
ties on the ballot this year compared
to seven parties last year, Boldt said
he was surprised by the number of
complaints.
“I would say there were as many
complaints filed this year as last
year, in that sense it wasn’t any
cleaner than last year,” lie said.
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