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By Jerry Guenther
Senior Reporter_
After years of listening to, watch
ing and reading about Comhusker
football, Nebraska fans finally can
put all the trivia they’ve acquired to
use in a new game.
Big Red Football Trivia, which
can be played from any touch-tone
phone, quizzes Husker fans on their
knowledge of Nebraska football and
is operated by Wessan Telemarket
ing. .. f
Karen Westerfield, president of
the Omaha-based firm, said callers
can win Big Red Trivia T-shirts by
correctly answering four randomly
selected questions.
Westerfield said callers are
charged 95 cents per minute, and
proceeds from the game will be do
nated to the University of Nebraska
Athletic Department
Once the call is made, Westerfield
said, a recorded message, complete
with the Big Red fight song in the
background, welcomes fans and ex
plains the rules.
The callers then are asked to an
swer multiple choice trivia questions
by pressing the digit on their phone
which they think corresponds with
the correct answer to the questions,
she said.
The trivia questions become pro
gressively more difficult, Wester
field said, and as long as the caller
correctly answers the questions, the
game continues.
If a calIc. should become
“sacked” by incorrectly answering
one of the questions, Westerfield
said, he or she can either hang up or
continue by pressing another digit on
the phone.
One of every 100 T-shirt winners
will be awarded a ticket to Ne
braska’s bowl game this year, she
said.
Westerfield said a Wessan Tele
marketing employee came up with
the idea for the game in August after
reading about revenue losses that
Nebraska athletics would suffer be
cause of the probation of three Big
Eight Conference schools.
State officials and the athletic
department have approved the game.
Westerfield said response to the
game, which began Sept. 7, has been
good.
“It was hard to estimate how
many (people would play the
game),” she said. “Wc just hope it
continues to grow.”
The game will continue through
out the football season, she said.
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Westerfield said Wessan Tele
marketing is a new company and
decided to operate the game to gain
experience in the trivia field of tele
marketing. They will not make a
profit from the game.
The amount of money donated to
the athletic department depends on
how many people call and the num
ber of prizes that are awarded, she
said.
Gary Fouraker, assistant athletic
director for business affairs, said he
played the game when the company
approached him with the idea. He
said he correctly answered all four
questions.
Though radio stations have spon
sored Husker trivia contests in the
past, this is the first time UNL has
received royalties from it, Fouraker
said.
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Of the 1,132 tenure and tenure
track faculty members at UNL during
the 1988-89 academic year, 180 were
female, he said. For the 1989-90
academic year, 23 women faculty
members and 62 male faculty mem
bers were hired, McShanc said.
The 1989-90 figures do not reflect
hirings after Aug. 15 and do not in
clude the College of Agriculture, he
said.
McShanc said the future for
women doctoral graduates is good.
For the last 10 years, the college
level teaching profession has been
“closed up light,” he said.
* ‘We had a loss of students, but no
loss of faculty,” he said.
That is changing as the projected
number of college students is increas
ing, McShane said. Not enough stu
dents are enrolled in doctoral pro
grams to meet the demand, he said.
According lo McShane, Vice
Chancellor for Academic Affairs
Robert Furgason is putting a “great
deal of stress” on hiring women and
minorities.
Alice Jones, faculty senate secre
tary and liaison to the Chancellor’s
Commission on the Status of
Women, said the main priority in
hiring faculty members at UNL is
obtaining qualified, quality people.
With that priority in mind, the Fac
ulty Senate and UNL Chancellor
Martin Masscngalc arc ” 1(X) percent
behind” the hiring of women and
minorities, Jones said.
The recent faculty salary increases
have helped UNL be competitive in
recruitment of faculty members, she
said. Qualified women arc recruited
heavily by many institutions, and
UNL has not been very competitive
in the past
RHA from Page 1
Former RHA senate members
Russ Johnson and Bill Bade testified
that the 1987 constitution was to re
place the 1986 bylaws, not the 1978
constitution.
Noble said the distinction between
the 1978 and 1987 constitutions is a
big one. The 1978 constitution makes
RHA a body representing residence
halls to the university and gives the
local hall governments jurisdiction in
their halls. The 1987 constitution
gives the RHA senate power over the
local hall governments.
‘ ‘The halls were directly put under
RHA jurisdiction without any of the
halls knowing about it,” Noble said.
If the process of ratification by a vote
of all hall residents were followed, he
said, the halls would have known
about the changes.
‘They’re (RHA members) not
answerable to anybody other than
themselves,” Noble said. “It makes
it hard fora small hall such as mine to
voice its opinion. We believe we
should have a voice in our govern
ment. The 1987 constitution put us at
the mercy of the larger halls.”
Noble said, however, that he s not
sure if he legally was right in his
claim that the 1981 bylaws did not
override the 1978 constitution. H
said RHA senators ‘‘believed’ they
were following the correct procc
dure.
“It just bothers me that because an
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lost their voice.” . •
Wickless said he thinks the deci
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the students.” ,,,
Noble can appeal the case to u»
Association of Students of the uni
versity of Nebraska Student Cou ,
but said he probably will not.
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