Support staff growth
follows national trend
By Cindy Wostrel
Staff Reporter _
Following a national trend, the academic
support staff at the University of Nebraska
Lincoln has grown, but not as much as at other
universities.
The number of “other administrators” --
those who aren’t in academic fields -- and
professional staff members rose 21.2 percent
since 1977.
From information filed with the U.S. Equal
Employment Opportunity Commission by about
3,000 institutions, the number of “other pro
fessionals” — comparable to UNL’s “other
administrators” and professional staff mem
bers — rose 61.1 percent to 268,225 between
1975 and 1985, according to the Chronicle of
Higher Education.
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity
Commission defines “other professionals” as
college employees whose jobs require degrees
but for whom teaching or research is not a
primary responsibility. Librarians, accountants,
counselors, athletic coaches, lawyers and phar
macists fall under the definition.
Professional staff members at UNL are defined
in the regents’ bylaws as all salaried personnel
other than faculty members and administra
tors. They include nurses and technical work
ers, who need degrees for their jobs, but are not
administrators.
Kim Phelps, UNL budget director, said most
UNL clerical workers - although statistics are
not available — don’t need degrees, so they are
not considered professional staff.
Phelps offered several possible reasons for
the increase in professional staff members.
One is the increase in the number of re
search assistants, he said.
Another reason is the consolidation and
upgrading of jobs that 10 years ago were done
by clerical staff members, he said.
“1 guess it reflects upon business in gen
eral,” Phelps said. “The types of jobs that are
occurring in business require more technical
and informational background than 10 to 15
years ago.”
Between 1977-78 and 1988-89, the number
of clerical employees decreased by about 180.
Balancing that decrease was an increase of
240 in the professional staff.
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of driving while intoxicated, Heavican said.
Erickson pulled into the Amigos parking
lot, got out, went to the back of the van he was
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He (Erickson) was not
allowing the situation to
be controlled, and he was
in the open.
Curtis
Lincoln Police Chief
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driving and pulled out a .22-caliber rifle, Heav
ican said.
The officer who stopped Erickson retreated
to his car and called for backup, Heavican said.
Erickson paced back and forth in the north
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Students chosen for DN editing positions
By Pat Dinslage
Staff Reporter
Three University of Nebraska-Lincoln stu
dents have been selected by the Publications
Board to guide Daily Nebraskan editorial and
advertising policies for the summer and the
1990-91 school year.
Jana Pedersen, 19, will be editor in chief of
the Summer Daily Nebraskan. Pedersen, of
Brookings, S.D., is a sophomore advertising
major.
She has worked at the Daily Nebraskan for
two years as a reporter, senior reporter and
night new editor.
Pedersen said she plans to expand the fca
tures section of the Daily Nebraskan from last
summer and to use more photographs and graph
ics.
The first Summer Daily Nebraskan comes
out June 11. It will be published weekly from
June 14 to Aug. 16. In addition, the Summer
Daily Nebraskan will publish the New Student
Enrollment and Flatwatcr Festival issues.
Eric Pfanner, 21, has been selected as the
Daily Nebraskan editor in chief for the 1990-91
school year. Pfanner, of Durham, N.H., is a
junior news-editorial major. He began working
at the the Daily Nebraskan in January 1989 and
has served as a reporter, night news editor and
associate news editor.
Pfanner said he docs not plan any major
format or policy changes in the paper next year
but wants to “build on what we’ve got.”
He said the Daily Nebraskan provides the
only news many UNL students get so the paper
needs to continue giving readers a broad over
view of the news and taking strong editorial
positions.
Loren Mcirose, 25, has been selected as
advertising manager for the 1990-91 school
year. Mcirose, of Bloomfield, Neb., has worked
at the Daily Nebraskan continuously for two
years for the advertising department.
Mcirose, a senior advertising major, said he
plans to expand the classified advertising sec
tion of the Daily Nebraskan and make clients
more aware of the classified display capabili
ties of the paper.
parking lot while police and SWAT officers
positioned themselves and closed off Com
husker Highway and surrounding streets.
Curtis said six customers and two employ
ees hid in Amigos with the doors locked during
the standoff.
Erickson repeatedly asked to speak to his
father, James Erickson, a Lincoln firefighter.
Police told Erickson he would not be allowed
to see his father unless he stopped wielding the
gun.
Police called Erickson’s father to find out
why his son might be upset and to gel him to
come to the scene, according to what was said
over a police radio during the incident. A
radioed response to that question said Erickson’s
father thought his son might have been upset
about some bad checks he wrote.
Hcavican said Erickson’s father was with
police at Super Saver, 27th St. and Comhuskcr
Hwy. At one time, police radioed an officer at
Amigos and told her that Erickson’s father was
with them.
The officer told other police that Erickson
was willing to pul down his rifle if he could
hear his father’s voice over the radio.
The officer radioed other police at least
three more times and reiterated her request to
have the father speak over the radio.
Police radioed back, saying they first wanted
to secure the area and replace street officers
with SWAT team members.
Heavican said he is not aware of any reports
that Erickson was willing to pul down his gun.
After many threats to police, the standoff
climaxed about an hour after Erickson was
pulled over. Erickson pointed his gun at S W AT
members and asked if they were going to die or
he was. That’s when the SWAT members fired,
Heavican said.
Erickson was pronounced dead at Lincoln
General Hospital about 2 a.m.
Police arc unsure why Erickson reacted the
way he did after he was pulled over. Heavican
said Erickson kept saying he didn’t want to be
arrested again. *
According to Lancaster County Court rec
ords, Erickson had prior convictions for failure
to appear in court, reckless driving, writing had
checks, theft, second-degree forgery, trespass
ing, unauthorized use of a motor vehicle and
possession of stolen property. He had spent 30
days in jail for theft.
Curtis defended the actions of the police.
“He (Erickson) was not allowing the situ
ation to be controlled, and he was in the open,”
Curtis said.
Police have a hard lime controlling a gun
man when he’s outside because he has more
space to move about, Curtis said.
Erickson was very emotional, Curtis said.
At one time, Erickson threw a chair at the van
he was driving.
Curtis said the situation “went the way it
should have went.”
But the officers involved in the shooting arc
“are not handling it” very well emotionally,
Curtis said.
“It’s nothing more than a tragedy,’ ’ he said.
AlSchabcnand David Kahlcsion contributed to this story.
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students from selling or distributing
such shirts because that kind of a
message could provoke a violent
reaction.
The proposed fighting words pol
icy is included in a new draft of the
UNL Student Code of Conduct and
Disciplinary Procedures. The revi
sion of the code must be approved by
UNL Chancellor Martin Masscngalc
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and the NU Board of Regents.
But Munn said he has “confidence”
in UNL students and isn’t worried
that allowing students to sell the pro
choice T-shirt will lead to more seri
ous problems, such as shirts touting
racism or anti-Semitism.
“Most student groups take a re
sponsible posture,” he said.
Munn said he is satisfied that Stu
dents for Choice members weren’t
attempting to insult anyone with the
shirt.
“They didn’t intentionally try to
hurl the Catholic Church,” he said.
Eric Aspengren, a member of Stu
dents for Choice, said the group proba
bly will begin to sell the T-shirts
again by Monday.
He said he was pleased and sur
prised by the university’s decision
because “they don ’ t ha vc a very good
record on these things.”
“They really didn’t have a leg to
stand on,” Aspengren said, because
it was a “strictly constitutional is
sue.
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