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November 17,1988 _University of Nebraska-Lincoln Vol. 88 No. 58
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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. .
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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.
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