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i --- ---- - _ • •".. ,' m WEATHER: INDEX Thursday, mostly sunny and a little warmer, News Digest . .2 high m the mid 40s, winds from the SE at 10-15 Editorial .4 mph Thursday night, increasing cloudiness Diversions low around 30 Friday, considerable doudt Sports.15 ness with a 30 peroent chance ot showers high Classifieds ..19 m the mid to upper 40s November 17,1988 _University of Nebraska-Lincoln Vol. 88 No. 58 mmmiii i Miiim Tfff ! Wmr*** iin» mKBBmSKSSSm Ward WMamrDaMy Neb# askar Slate Sens. Jerome Warner and Bill Barrett answer questions with Chancellor Martin Massen gale of a panel discussion Wednesday afternoon. Continuing improvement Panel discusses UNL salaries By Jana Pedersen Staff Reporter Continued improvement in staff and faculty salaries at UNL was the focus of an open forum panel discussion held by the University As sociation for Administrative Development’s Professional Devel opment Committee Wednesday. Participating in the forum at the Nebraska Union were UNL Chancel lor Martin Massengalcand State Sens. Bill Barrett of Lexington and Jerome Warner of Waverly. Regent Nancy Hoch was also scheduled to participle but could not attend because of illness. About 85 people attended the fo rum, which included statements by each of the participants followed by a question/answer period. In his opening remarks, Massen gale named continuation of the current three-year salary improvement pack age for UNL faculty and staff as his main priority for next year. “It’s important that we keep our people competitive,” he said. Last year, Massengale said, UNL was 20 percent behind the national average in salaries for institutions of higher education. Since the first year of the three-year program was ap proved, he said, a 5 to 6 percent in crease was attained. The second year of the program, if approved, woulc mean almost a 12 percent increase, h< said. These increases are important il UNL is to remain competitive witli other institutions, Massengale said. “We are in a competitive ball game,” he said. “If we are not competi live, we won’t make any progress anc we won’t win the ballgame.” Barrett and Warner agreed that UNL faculty salaries will be an im portant issue when the Nebraska Legislature begins its session next January, especially when budget limitations are taken into considera tion. . ______ Petersen calls ASUN revamp By Ryan Sleeves Surtf Reporter A proposal that would lestruc /\ lure three branches of the Asso ^ ^ciauon of Students of the Uni versity of Nebraska was introduced at Wednesday night's ASUN senate meeting. ASUN President Jeff Petersen, who made the proposal, said the changes would reduce student fees and make student government more accountable to students. Under die proposals, ASUN would appoint student coordinators for Stu dent Legal Services and the Student Information Center. The body also would change the positions of director of the informa tion center and live coordinator of the Government Liaison Committee. Currenil>, one staff member holds . both of these positions. The secretary position in the infor mation center would also be elimi . nated. Under the proposals, a new posi tion of GLC/information center sec retary would be created. ASUN would reduce that staff member’s salary. ' If approved by ASUN senators, the changes would take effect July 1, 1989, at the beginning of UNL’s fis cal year. Petersen made the proposals during open forum and did not draft any bylaws to make the changes. He said he plans to introduce specific legislation at the next meeting. Petersen said the changes would reduce the ASUN budget by roughly $14,000 He said that reduction would lower student fees, part of vxhich fund ASUN. Petersen said lowering student fees was a major reason for introduc ing the proposals. “The bottom line is that I want students to pay less,” he said. “I’m sick and tired of all the increases in education and I think somebody needs to take a stand and slop that.” Petersen said he hopes other stu dent-fee users follow ASUN’s ex ample. Sen. Chip Dreesen of the College of Arts and Sciences said ASUN would become a model for groups that use student fees. “I think it’s really going to set a precedent for other student-fee us ers,” he said. Another reason for the proposals, Petersen said, was to make ASUN more representative. Paid staff mem bers who make decisions in ASUN reduce student control, he said. Currently, a paid staff comprises Student Legal Services and the Stu dent Information Center, Petersen said. The proposed student coordina tors would oversee the offices and supervise personnel. Sen. Eric Raasch of the College of Business Administration questioned •he reduced influence of paid staff. He said such members devote much time to ASUN matters and ASUN mem bers can rely on them. Petersen admitted that there is a risk involved because the proposals See ASUN on 6 UNL lags in minority faculty recruitment By Bryan Thomas Staff Reporter The University of Nebraska-Lincoln is nearer to the bottom of the Big Eight than to the lop in the recruitment of minority faculty members, according to Brad Munn, UNL’s affirmative action officer. Munn, along with three other UNL officials, talked about minority faculty recruitment at UNL during a panel discussion Wednesday at the Nebraska Union. UNL risks being labeled as a stagnant and non-minority university if work is not done in this area, Munn said. According to Miguel Carranza, the director of the Institute of Ethnic Studies, minority faculty recruitment needs a lot of work. “I think the picture is not good and : think it can be improved,” Carranza saio. Colin Ramsay, an assistant professor of actuarial science, said if students do not feel they are losing anything by not having minority professors, then meetings of this nature arc a waste of lime. He also said many minority faculty mem bers are hired in order to fill positions stcrc otypically held by minorities. For example, a black professor is usually hired lo teach ethnic studies, Ramsay said. According to Ramsay, this kind of hiring practice must be done away with. Webster Robbins, assistant professor of ethnic studies, said specific problems in re cruiting minority faculty members are difficult to determine if minorities are not being re cruited. Ramsay said a contributing factor in the problem of hiring minorities is an apparent shortage of minority students in graduate pro grams. In order to make up for this shortage of students, Ramsay said, incentives such as graduate school scholarships should be offered to minority students. Faculty salaries, Munn said, also arc a det riment in hiring faculty, minority and other wise. He said salaries should be increased if UNL wants to attract top faculty. In addition to salary, Carranza said, the environment of a school should also be consid ered when recruiting faculty. A minority will be more interested in coming to a university if there arc a number of minorities already there, Carranza said. Ramsay said much attention has been given to minority issues this semester, but next year will show whether or not it produced any results. 1 Anti-snowfight efforts quelled by unexpected, early snowfall I By Victoria Ayotte Senior Reporter A n early snowfall beat the efforts /A of University of Nebraska-Lin **■^coln student leaders and admin istrators to slop the annual snowball fight between residence hall students and members of fraternities and so rorities. Jeff Petersen, president of the Association of Students of the Uni versity of Nebraska, said administra tors and students had a “great plan” to prevent the fight which occurred Tuesday night on 16th Street between Vine and S streets. The plan was a publicity effort that would explain penalties for panici- ( paling in the snowball fight and would enlist students and housing employees to call police if they saw the fight starting up. Association president, said he, Pe tersen, Interfratemity Council Presi dent John Smith, Panhcllenic Asso ciaiion President Lori Nedrow and Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs James Gricscn have been making plans to prevent the fight. “We had pretty much decided that the only thing we could do was let people know if they go out there they’ll probably get arrested,” Koubsky said. Griesen said he also had planned to meet with UNL and Lincoln police to coordinate early prevention action. Koubsky said, “It snowed before we could do anything.” Petersen said, “We got burned ... or I guess we got frozen, as the case may be.” Petersen said he’s been worried about an early snowfall, especially after weather predictions last week. “I’ve been kind of panicked about this for several days/’ he said. “We just couldn’t get everything coordi nated in time. See SNOWBALL on~6 UNL students retreat east across N. 16th Street near Neihart Residence Hall during a snowball fight Tuesday night. •<. i