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January 27,1989 ___ University of NebraskaLincoln Vol. 88 No.
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A member of Students for Choice pickets an anti-abortion march
Saturday morning in the rain outside of the Nebraska Union.
Nebraska Walk for Life marchers
see renewed hope in their fight
From Staff and Wire Reports
About 2.100 protesters walked in a
chilling rain from the state Capitol to
the Federal Building wearing green
armbands to symbolize hope in their fight
against abortion. The Nebraska Walk for
iTfe held Saturday protested the 16-year
old U.S. Supreme Court decision legalizing
abortion.
“Maybe our next walk will be a victory
parade, master of ceremonies Shirley
Lang said before the march. *
Changes in the Supreme Court and the
election of George Bush as president gives
hope that abortion will be outlawed again,
Lang said.
“This is the most hope we’ve had in
years,” said Gloria Dolan of Lincoln, who
has participated in the walk each of the last
15 years.
Although former President Ronald Re
agan opposed abortion, he didn’t have
enough time to reach his goal of making it
illegal, Dolan said.
Dottie Spicha of Lincoln said she draws
hope from a growing number of women who
have had abortions and are speaking out
about the psychological problems abortions
have caused them.
Former Nebraska Sen. Dave Karnes
borrowed a phrase from Bush’s inaugmral
speech to say that ‘‘a new breeze is blowing
info the Supreme Court.”
• Sam Schmidt, a University of Nebraska
Ltncoin football player, called on the group
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Library assistant claims
fumes lowered job output
By Brandon Loomis
Senior Reporter
A University of Nebraska-Lincoln library
assistant said paint fumes in Love Li
brary have given her asthmatic symp
toms and decreased her job performance dur
ing the past year, putting her job in jeopardy.
Susan Deal, an assistant in serials catalog
ing, said the fumes gave her breathing prob
lems and dizzy spells for periods as long as
three months between August 1987 and Octo
ber 1988.
“The smell is just nauseating,” she said.
Jerry Delhay, manager of maintenance at
the UNL Physical Plant, said he has not taken
any extra ventilation precautions in the library
because he is not aware of any complaints.
Delhay said there are always some people in
the building who are more susceptible than
others to paint fumes. He said the Alkyd
Enamel paint the crews use is generally safe.
“Our people work with the product all the
time, and have never had problems,” he said.
Painters were working throughout the li
brary.
Larry Kahle, associate dean of libraries,
said other employees have complained to him
about smelling the paint fumes, but not about
any resulting health problems.
Deal said she was put on the university’s
counseling form after excessive absenteeism
and low work performance.
After supervisors report grievances, they
can proceed to meet with the employee and try
to improve work performance through the
counseling form.
Deal said she was told she had a 20 percent
error rate in the catalog cards she makes,
compared to the maximum error rate of 5
• percent
“Yes, my job performance is- down . . .
because of the paint fumes,” Deal said.
Deal said one of her doctors advised her to
quit her job because something in the library
had a toxic effect on her.
“I decided not to do that, because toxic or
not, I needed a job,” she said.
In October 1988, Deal said she wrote a letter
to her supervisor, associate professor of librar
ies Katherine Walter, outlining her complaints
about the paint fumes. Walter would not com
ment on the situation.
Deal said Walter contacted the personnel
office concerning the complaint, which initi
ated an investigation by the UNL Department
of Environmental Health in November 1988.
The report found that 75 percent to 80
percent of the library’s air is recirculated dur
ing winter, and up to 100 percent is recirculated
during summer. The report said there is no
evidence the air or environment in the library
would contribute to illness.
Kahle said he is satisfied with the result of
the report and does not plan to investigate
further.
Dr. Gerald Fleischli said he saw the report
and was impressed by its thoroughness. He said
he agrees that the library has no real problems
with its ventilation system.
“Generally, the university cares that em
ployees are working in a safe environment,”
he said.
Although individual susceptibility to a
chemical is always a possibility, Fleischli said,
he doesn’t think there is any cause for alarm.
“I’m not really sure that there is a prob
lem.” .
Survey exposes want for option
By Amie DeFrain
Staff Reporter
recent survey of College of Business
Administration students showed that if
urrent CBA policy were changed to
allow them to declare minors, they would do
so.
The survey, conducted by Kevin Lytle, a
senator of the Association of Students of the
University of Nebraska, was distributed to 120
students representing all colleges early in
December. He said 101 students responded.
Lytle said 65 percent of the 40 CBA stu
dents who took part in the survey said they
would declare a minor if they could. Ninety
percent wanted their minors to be recorded on
both their transcript and diploma, he said.
Lytle, a senior finance major, said he
thought of conducting the survey after he had
tried to declare a history minor, and was told
that he couldn’t.
4‘I just assumed I could because this was a
state-funded university, and if you wanted a
minor, that was your business,” Lytle said.
He said that students who are willing to
‘‘take an extra step” in other areas should be
recognized for their efforts.
D’vee Buss, director of undergraduate ad
vising at CBA, said that the college has not
recognized minors because of the lack of
“strong support.”
Buss said CBA students are encouraged to
take courses from the other colleges and de
partments, but are not offered minors*They are
allowed, however, to pursue an international
business emphasis.
The emphasis, Buss said, may be consid
ered similar to a minor because students must
complete 18 credit hours of non-business inter
national courses. Non-business courses in
clude, agricultural economics, anthropology,
sociology and modern languages, among oth
ers.
CBA, Buss said, just decided to call it an
emphasis instead of a minor.
Economics professor Jerry Petr said he
encouraged Lytle to conduct a survey even
though ne felt that minors or any “second
areas” are not necessary.
“The designation of a minor or calling it a
minor is rather inconsequential,” Petr said.
“It’s the substance - the knowledge that a
student learns - that’s more important.”
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Discrepancies appear between two proposed increases
By Natalie Weinstein
Stiff Reporter
A Ithough the University ofNe
/m braska budget will most likely
AJl^get a boost over the next two
years, it may not measure up to the
double-digit increases proposed by
the NU Board of Regents.
The regents and Gov. Kay On
have submitted separate budget pro
posals for NU. The governor’s re
quest is smaller than that of the re
gents.
NU President Ronald Roskens
said he has mixed feelings about the
differences between the budgets.
“On one hand, I’m very pleased
the governor remains clearly com
mitted to quality education, in par
ticular at the university,” he said.
“On the other hand, I regret that iu
docs not seem at the moment that
sufficient funds are there to accom
plish all that we hoped for.”
According to the Slate of Ne
braska Executive Budget released
this month, Orr is recommending that
NU receive $220.6 million in fiscal
year 1989-90 and $240.3 million for
fiscal year 1990-91. The slate fiscal
year begins July 1.
NU, on the other hand, has re
quested $230.1 million in state aid for
the first year and $266.2 million for
the second.
NU received $198.1 million in its
current budget. The governor's pro
posal budget boasts an 11.4 percent
increase in current state aid tor the
first year and a 9 percent increase for
the second. NU’s proposal requests a
16 percent increase for the first year
and a 15.4 percent increase for the
following year.
In line with her five-year research
initiative, Orr has included a total of
$20 million over the two years in her
budget proposal - money that NU did
not include in its request
In the first year, her budget in
cludes $8 million for research. In the
second year, it includes $12 million.
Therefore, a total of $20 million
ever two years is not going toward
projects NU requested in its budget.
Roskens said NU did not include
the research money in its proposal
because the initiative is the gover
nor’s special project.
Both proposed budgets include a
5 percent tuition increase. The cur
rent tuition rate at the University of
Ncbraska-Lincoln is $48.50 per
credit hour. This figure is projected to
increase to $51 per credit hour in the
first year and to $53.50 per credit
hour in the second year, according to
the regents’ budget proposal.
In mid-March, NU officials will
defend the regents’ proposal in front
of the Nebraska Legislature’s Appro
priations Committee.
But these two competing budgets
do not start their battle on equal foot
ing. Orr’s budget carries more weight
in the Legislature, Roskens said.
The two budgets differ in alloca
tions for salary increases, library
acquisitions, construction and pro
gram enhancement.
NU proposed salary increases of
11.2 percent for faculty in each of the
next two years and 12 percent for
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