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Nursing bill surpasses
2nd vote in Legislature
Amendment addresses programs, credit
By Amy Edwards
Senior Reporter
The Nebraska Legislature gave the
select file approval Tuesday night to
a bill that would grant community
col leges associate degree programs in
nursing.
Sen. Arlene Nelson of Grand Is
land, who has made LB890 her prior
ity bill, offered an amendment with
Sen. Ron Withem of Papillion that
would address concerns of coordinat
ing programs and transferring credit.
Withem said colleges would be
reviewed by an advisory board that
would identify the needs for nursing
programs, coordination of programs
and credit transfer.
The amendment docs not mandate
that course credit be transferable at
this lime, Nelson said.
The colleges would then docu
ment their plans for programs to the
post-secondary education commis
sion and the commission would ad
vise the colleges on their programs,
Withem said.
Withem said the colleges would
not be required to follow the advice of
the commission.
Withem said the amendment also
expands the joint advisory board to
include private colleges and the
Nebraska Department of Health.
Sen. Jacklyn Smith of Hastings,
who co-signed LB890, said the re
quest for planning between colleges
came from community college au
thorities.
Wilhcm said colleges need to dis
cuss programs before new programs
are implemented to ensure they start
where they arc most needed.
Nelson said reviewing the pro
grams would ensure that no programs
are duplicated. Nelson said that if
nursing educators find that a program
is not justified, they would not begin
an unnecessary program.
The amendment passed with a 25
8 vote.
The bill would amend sections of
the Reissue Revised Statutes of Ne
braska, 1943, to relieve the Univer
sity of Nebraska from sole responsi
bility for associate degree programs
in nursing.
In 1984, the NU Board of Regents
voted to begin phasing out the
university’s associate degree pro
gram in nursing. The program ended
in 1986, leaving no public programs
for nursing associate degrees in Ne
braska.
The university can continue to
offer advanced certificates in nurs
ing, Nelson said.
Nelson said the bill was introduced
to alleviate a shortage of nurses in
both rural and urban areas of the state.
Extension service to air
first video conference
By Anne Mohri
Senior Reporter
The University of Nebraska Coop
erative Extension Service will move
into the space age with its first video
conference via satellite Thursday.
The video conference will be
broadcast from 1 to 3 p.m., said Gary
Vacin, director of the UNL depart
ment of agricultural communica
tions.
Vacin said Barry Flinchbaugh, a
Kansas State University agricultural
policy specialist, and Dick rlark, a
UNL extension farm management
specialist who is stationed in North
Platte, will discuss the present condi
tion of the 1985 Food Security Act
and propose changes.
In the first hour and a half, Clark
and Flinchbaugh will discuss their
opinions on the Farm Bill and use
video clips to support their argu
ments, Vacin said. In the last half
hour, viewers will be able to call in
with questions.
Vacin said the conference will air
from the Lancaster County Extension
Office in Lincoln and will be shown
throughout the United States and
Canada.
Nebraskans and extension agents
will watch the video conference from
23 Nebraska counties, he said.
Vacin said anyone with a satellite
will be able to pick up the video
conference on Westar IV, channel 23
or Transponder 12D. He said it will
alsoairon UNL Campus Cable, chan
nel 9.
The video conference “is a signifi
cant first step,” Vacin said. He said
the agricultural communications
department would like to use satellite
video conferences for educational
purposes in the future. The depart
ment is committed to buying 16 satel
lite dishes that will be placed in se
lected counties. He said the satellites
that will be used for Thursday’s pro
gram arc borrowed or rented.
Mark Davis/Daily Nebraskan
Rene* Farritor meditates in the convent chapel with other nuns of the Lincoln convent.
Some classroom views differ
from nuns’ traditional habits
By James M. Lillis
Staff Reporter
While age is generally used in
determining non-traditional stu
dentsatthe University of Nebraska
Lincoln, some students stand out
because of their traditional habits.
Sister Mary Kansier, 28, of the
Marian Sisters of Waverly said
some people are too shy to talk to
her. Students are not sure what to
say, or think they have to be serious
and well-behaved around her.
Sister Mary James of the School
Sisters of Christ the King, 4141 S.
56th St., also said stereotypes
sometimes get in the way of com
munication.
“Someone once told me that she
didn’t think nuns were allowed to
laugh,” Sister Mary James said.
“That’s ridiculous.”
Sister Mary James, 28, a gradu
ate student in elementary education
at UNL, said for the most part
people are not threatened by nuns
and talk freely with them.
In fact, she said, since she took
the nun’s vows of poverty, chastity
and obedience, she’s had more
conversations with classmates and
instructors than she did before join
ing the convent. She said this could
be because she and other nuns wear
their habits, which shows their reli
gious convictions.
But sometimes class material,
instructors and classmates conflict
with their convictions, said Sister
Mary Bernadette, 23, also a School
Sister of Christ the King and an
elementary education major.
‘Someone once
told me that she
didn’t think nuns
were allowed to
laugh, that’s ridicu
lous.’
—Sister James
Sister Mary Bernadette said
she’s had modem education and
educational psychology classes
where the class material and the
instructors’ beliefs were at odds
with hers. She said that while she
respected the instructors’ right to
their own beliefs, the “truth cannot
change.”
Sister Mary Kansier, a secon
dary education major in math, said
she had a similar experience.
“We respected each other, and
even though we didn’t see eye to
eye, we still got along,” she said.
When these nuns graduate they
will teach, probably in Lincoln
arca Catholic schools, they said.
Not all nuns go to college, Sister
Mary Kansier said. Others work in
convents and aren’t required to go
to college.
“It’s pretty much up to the indi
vidual whether she attends col
lege,” she said.
Sister Mary Michael, also of
School Sisters of Christ the King
and a graduate elementary educa
tion major, said most nuns do not
participate in extracurricular uni
versity activities because of their
involvement in their prayers and
community activities.
“We do a lot together,” she said.
“We prepare and eat meals to
gether, pray, take care of the con
vent and recreate together like a
family.”
Sister Mary Kansier said she was
too busy with classes and work at
the convent for extracurricular uni
versity activities.
She said she dedicates most of
her time to the 34-woman commu
nity.
UNL prof joins CBS ‘Sunday Morning’
By Lee Rood
Senior Reporter
A former University of Nebraska-Lincoln
instructor will join CBS ’ “Sunday Morning” to
write and host humorous segments about Ne
braska.
Roger Welsch, a columnist for six Nebraska
newspapers, recently resigned his position as a
UNL instructor of folklore in the departments
of English and anthropology after “Sunday
Morning” host Charles Kuralt offered him a
job.
Welsh said he has known Kuralt for more
than 15 years and has appeared several times on
his “On the Road” series.
Welsch said he has filmed four pilots for
“Sunday Morning” and signed a one-year
contract.
Welsch said he enjoyed teaching at UNL,
but the CBS offer was too good to pass up.
“It’s not like I didn’t enjoy talking to 30
students at 8 o’clock in the morning, but this
just seemed to offer just a little bit more,” he
said.
Welsch, from Dannebrog, said segments for
the show will be filmed mostly in Howard
County until he finds topics in other counties.
Most of the segments will be humorous,
Wclsch said, including pieces about bullet
holes in highway signs, how to wear bib over
alls and “what farmers talk about at the big
table.”
Welsch said that in one segment for the
show, he plans to poke fun at New York Mayor
Ed Koch for refusing to answer a letter asking
the city to co-sponsor a World’s Fair with Ne
braska.
“After all, they’ve got the name, but we’ve
got the parking,” he said.
Welsch is co-founder of the National Liars
Hall of Fame at the back of Eric’s Bar in
Uannebrog and is well-known to many Ne
braska newspaper and agricultural publication
readers for his humorous and sometimes cyni
cal look at life in Nebraska.
Wclsch first appeared on “On The Road”
with Kuralt when he ran for the Lancaster
County Weed Control Authority on a prowccd
ticket.
After that first show, Wclsch said, Kuralt
kept coming back to the state because he liked
Nebraska and its people.
Wclsch said he would be very excited to
work for “Sunday Morning” becasue “it’s a
classy show and Kuralt is a classy guy.”