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December 1, 1989 University of Nebraska-Lincoln Vol. 89 No Q
I Committee agrees with changes
[ recommended by consulting firm
uy jana reciersen
and Emily Rosenbaum
Senior Reporters
Members of the Higher Edu
cation Committee created to
oversee a study of post-sec
ondary education in Nebraska de
clared Thursday that they are in gen
eral agreement with the recommen
dations made by an independent
consulting firm.
The committee’s response came a
day after Widmayer and Associates,
a Chicago-based consulting firm,
recommended changes in the govern
ance and coordination of Nebraska
higher education.
Although committee members
generally concurred with the report’s
findings,theydeeided tohave further
discussion on details before present
ing any proposed changes to the
Nebraska Legislature. The commit
tee will meet Dec. 13 to hear further
testimony.
In a preliminary statement drafted
by committee member Eric Seacrest
of North Platte, the committee indi
cated a need to allow enough time for
careful consideration of die recom
mendations.
The statement also suggested that
the details of the changes should be
made later.
The changes recommended by the
firm would eliminate the current NU
ooaru oi Kegents, tne btate College
Board of Trustees and the Postsecon
dary Education Coordinating Com
mission.
The consultants’ plan would pro
vide for local governance of Wayne,
Peru, Chadron and Kearney state
colleges and the three branches of the
NU system by establishing a lay
board of trustees for each institution.
Coordinating duties for the seven
institutions would be handled at the
state level by a new board of regents.
State leaders in education and
government would be responsible for
further coordination of all post-sec
ondary institutions as members of the
nation’s first ever Council on Coordi
nation.
According to poll results pre
sented by James Hale of the Gallup
Association Market Research Group,
64 percent of Nebraskans surveyed
said they would support an idea simi
lar to the one proposed.
“Nearly two of three Nebraskans
would support the establishment of a
single statewide coordinating board
combined with local boards for each
public college and university in the
state,” Hale said.
But he said the same poll indi
cated that “nearly two of three Ne
braskans would support leaving the
state colleges and University of Ne
braska system under separate boards
as they are todav.”
Hale said the contradictory re
sponses to the two separate questions
could be attributed to a general lack
of information about slate higher
education among Nebraskans.
Other contradictory responses
indicated that Nebraskans are unsure
of the role and mission of post-secon
dary institutions, especially state col
leges, he said.
He said one notion expressed by
many of those polled was that state
colleges arc a place for undergradu
ates to spend the first one or two years
of a higher degree program.
That notion doesn ’ t reflect the true
role and mission of state colleges, he
said.
“That’s exactly what I think is
really weird, and I think that’s just
confusion,” Hale said.
He said the two biggest problems
with post-secondary education as
perceived by polled Nebraskans arc
high tuition and long travel distance.
“The public perceives that they
are receiving a moderately good
quality education at a somewhat in
flated price in a location that is some
what inconvenient,” he said.
The committee also heard testi
mony from members of a separate
advisory body composed of experts
on higher education.
Among those who testified was
See REPORT on 2
Joseph pleads not guilty to D WI charge
* By Pat Dinslage
Ffc. Staff Reporter
Robert “Mickey” Joseph, the
backup quarterback for the
Nebraska Comhuskers facing
a charge of driving while under the
? influence of alcohol, entered a formal
plea of not guilty at an arraignment in
Lancaster County Court Thursday.
Appearing before Judge Donald
Grant, Joseph’s attorney, Hal W.
Anderson, asked for an extended trial
dale to be set for mid-January, rather
than in late December.
Anderson explained that he would
not be available for a December date,
and that Joseph, a sophomore at the
University of Nebraska-Lincoln,
would be on Christmas break.
Grant agreed to set a January 18,
1990, trial date on the DWI charges.
Nebraska head football coach
Tom Osborne said Joseph will travel
to Tempe, Ariz., for the Jan. 1 Fiesta
Bowl.
Osborne said the coaching staff
dealt with the charges long ago by
suspending Joseph from the Utah
game Sept. 16.
“We’re not trying to play games
with the court by delaying the trial,”
Osborne said. “That’s between him
(Joseph) and his lawyer.”
Conviction of first-offense DW1
carries a mandatory minimum seven
day prison sentence, a S200 fine and
a six-month license revocation.
Joseph is scheduled to appear in
county court again today to face
charges of failure to prove financial
responsibility and failure to appear at
his arraignment on these charges. L
Erk Gragory/Daily Nabraskan
Melissa Haley, a senior in English, and Heidi Schneider,
a senior in restaurant management, take a break under
“Old Glory” between classes Thursday.
IUNL taskforce
sponsors AIDS
awareness booth
By Lisa Bolin
Staff Reporter
rganizalions around the state are
I 1 hoping to increase the public’s
awareness of AIDS today during
the second annual Worldwide AIDS
Day.
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln
AIDS Education Task Force is sponsor
ing an AIDS awareness booth in the
Nebraska Union, said Dr. Margaret Nel
lis, head of the Community Health De
partment of the University Health Cen
ter.
The booth is co-sponsored by the
Associationof Studentsof the University
of Nebraska, Nellis said.
Barbara Shaw, executive director of
the Nebraska AIDS Project, said cards
containing 10 facts on AIDS, supplied by
the Work! Health Organization, also are
available.
Shaw said Nebraskans arc being
asked to observe a moment of silence at
10:15 a.m. and 2:15 p.m. to remember
those who have died of AIDS and who
currently arc suffering from the disease.
One gallery of the Sheldon Art Gal
lery’s permanent collections will be
darkened to observe the day, said
Daphne Deeds, curator/assistant to the
director.
Shaw said she hopes the day will
cause people to think about AIDS.
Vietnam class scheduled for 2nd semester
By Cindy Wostrel
Stiff Reporter
A decade ago, A.L. Marsteller said he
suggested starting a class on the Viet
nam experience and was ridiculed.
About a year and a half ago he told the idea to
a colleague who said he couldn’t make it into a
sociology class.
But because of a change in attitude toward
the Vietnam War, the sociology graduate stu
dent said, his proposal will become a reality
next semester in a class he will leach called
Sociology of the Vietnam Experience.
Marsleller said he plans to include scientific
journal articles, books, fiction, combat foot
age, interviews with veterans and cultural arti
facts such as music in the class, which already
has reached capacity enrollment.
He also plans to invite one or two guest
lecturers, including U.S. Sen. Bob Kerrey, D
Ncb.
‘‘I think there arc lessons to be learned,”
Marsteller said.
People redefine the past in light of present
attitudes, he said, and that has happened with
the Vietnam War.
“The country has been able to divorce the
person from the soldier,” Marsteller said.
‘‘I’m very much excited about the fact that
students today are interested in the topic (of
Vietnam),” Marsteller said. ‘‘They’re asking
questions like, ‘Well, what were we doing
there?”’
Two events have precipitated a change in
attitude toward the Vietnam War and its veter
ans, Marsteller said. One was the return of the
hostages from Iran, he said. The hostages were
welcomed back as heroes, Marsteller said,
unlike the Vietnam veterans.
The second event was the dedication of the
wall commemorating those who died in service
in Vietnam, he said. That wall, he said, is the
second or third most-visited monument in
Washington, D.C.
Vietnam veterans who were ostracized by
the nation at that lime are almost popular now,
Marsteller said.
Recent movies such as Platoon, Full Metal
Jacket and Casualties of War, and television
shows such as China Beach and Tour of Duty
have reminded Americans of the Vietnam
War, he said.
A “Rambo” mentality also remains from
former President Ronald Reagan’s term of
office, he said.
“He did make us feel good about our
selves,” Marsteller said.
Veterans arc becoming more politicized
now, he said. Thirty members of Congress are
Vietnam or Vietnam-era veterans, he said.
Marsteller is a Vietnam veteran himself.
He spent less than a year in Vietnam as an
avionics mechanic on the basic tour of duty, he
said. He said he did not receive any physical
injuries during the war.
But many people who came back from the
war suffered from depression and fell alienated
even though they may not have received physi
cal injuries, he said.
Marsteller said that between 330 and 370
similar classes arc being taught at colleges and
universities across the nation.
Though enrollment in the UNL class cur
rently is closed, students wishing to take the
class can sign up on a waiting list in 711
Oldfather Hall.
William Lauer/Daily Nebraskan
A.L. Marsteller said he thinks the
Iran-hostage situation and crea
tion of the Vietnam War Memorial
helped change the public's accep
J tance of Vietnam veterans.