The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current, May 02, 1988, Page 6, Image 6

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    N U Regents candidates discuss platforms
By Victoria Ayotte
Senior Reporter
The University of Nebraska needs
to concentrate on excel 1 ing in speci fic
programs instead of maintaining all
programs, NU Board of Regents can
didates said.
Eight candidates arc running in
four districts in the regents race.
The Omaha district has three can
didates running in the primary, so one
will be knocked out in Nebraska’s
May lOprimary. All other candidates
will move on to the November race.
James Moylan is the incumbent for
the Omaha seat. Moylan has been on
the Board of Regents for 18 years and
has been an attorney in Omaha for 31
years.
“Right now I think the university
system is in good hands,” Moylan
said.
NU is in good shape
But, Moylan said, NU needs to
“concentrate on teaching what we do
best.”
“We will have to make some
changes,” he said.
Moylan said the biggest problems
facing the university now are declin
ing enrollments and finding adequate
financing.
NU needs to look at the demand
and possibly consolidate courses, he
said, but overall, NU is in good shape.
Moylan said he supports keeping
the Nebraska College of Technical
Agriculture in Curtis open at this
time.
Running against Moylan are
Omahans Rosemary Skrupa and Bob
Schropp.
Skrupa has been an attorney for 25
years and is the president of the
Omaha Public Power District’s Board
of Directors.
More money for UNO
“We have to go to our strong
points,” Skrupa said, referring to
ways to improve the university.
Skrupa said the College of Agricul
ture and the Col lege of Law are strong
points.
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Skrupa said she would generally
like the university system to gain
more programs, but “we can’t be all
things to all people.”
Skrupa also said she would like to
improve the Curtis school.
But Skrupa said the biggest thing
she would like to do in office is get
more money for the University ol
Nebraska at Omaha.
“The UNO campus is getting
short-changed,” Skrupa said.
Schropp agreed with Skrupa that
UNO’s interests are not being repre
sented well enough.
UNL is flagship of system
“The Lincoln campus is the flag
ship of our university system,” he
said, but UNO has a large campus
population so should be better repre
sented.
Schropp has been the owner of an
employee-benefit plan consultant
firm for 22 years. He was also the
district manager for Northwestern
Bell Telephone for 12 years.
Schropp said there needs to be a
“full-blown objective study by
people outside the system” on how to
improve the university.
“Based on the consensus of that
study, we would have a clearer vi
sion,” Schropp said. ‘‘Nobody knows
now where the university should go.
“It’s kind of like a ship floundering
from one port to another hoping
they’re doing something right,” he
said.
Priorities needed
The university could develop a
five- or 10-year plan from the study,
he said.
Schropp said the university needs
to determine its priorities. Three or
four programs need to be identified as
excellent programs and be improved.
Schropp said he has doubts about
whether the Curtis school should
remain open and ‘‘how the school at
Curtis could fit into the long-range
plan.”
Incumbent Nancy Hoch of Ne
braska City and Robert Prokop ol
Wilbur are opponents in the district
four race.
Hoch has been on the Board ol
Regents for six years and has been
president of the River Country Indus
trial Development Corporation since
August.
Hoch said the main thing the uni
versity needs to do is invest more in
people instead of buildings.
The university needs to continue
the commitment to salary increases,
she said.
Hoch said she doesn’t know if
some programs should be cut to bene
fit other programs.
“The main thing is that we need to
support those areas that arc particu
larly strong, but remember that we arc
the university of the state of Ne
braska,” Hoch said.
NU also needs to attract and keep
outstanding students and faculty, she
said.
“We need to concentrate more on
our excellence,” she said. “We re
kind of at a crossroads where we have
to concentrate on our strengths and
build on them.”
Hoch said the role of the Curtis
school has been determined, and the
regents need now to “be sure that it
offers quality education.”
Hoch said the NU administration
is maybe a little smaller than those of
similar universities, so it should not
be cut.
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that point.
If anything at NU should be cut, it
should be administration, he said.
Prokop has been a physician in
Papillion for 21 years and served on
the Board of Regents from 1971 to
1983.
Prokop said he doesn’t think his
position as a regent would enable him
to improve education at the university
because only those who actually
teach can improve education.
“There’s very little one individual
can do to propagate change,” he said.
“The major problem is that in
regard to the delivery is that we have
graduate teaching assislant(s)” teach
ing classes, Prokop said. “The indi
viduals (teaching) should be those
that have a vast amount of experi
ence.”
Prokop said he can’t answer the
question of whether certain programs
should be cut to improve other pro
grams.
If programs have to be cut, he said,
the programs should be ones that
focus on service instead of education,
such as the extension programs.
“Education programs should re
main at the expense of service organi
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