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April 23, 1990__ University of Nebraska-Lincoln Vol. 89 No. 139
Regents vote to resume hunt for president
By Mindy Mozer
Staff Reporter
OMAHA — The search for a
University of Nebraska presi
dent has resumed, after ap
proval Saturday from the NU Board
of Regents.
Regents Chairman Don Blank of
McCook proposed informing the 18
member advisory firm Hcidrick &
Struggles Inc. to resume the search.
The search was interrupted while the
Nebraska Legislature considered
changes in the governance of higher
education.
Blank said it would cost about
$39,(XX), plus additional expenses, for
the firm to perform the search.
“That’s the fee their firm charges,”
he said. ‘ ‘ When you go out and search
for top-notch people, you need all the
help you can get.”
Regent John Payne of Kearney
questioned the amount of money being
spent on the search. In the end, he
estimated, the cost will be around
SI00,(XX) to find a president.
Payne was the only regent to vote
against the proposal.
Blank estimated that the search
will take six months to complete.
“All we can go by is what has
happened at other institutions,” he
said.
The search for a successor to Ronald
Roskens, who was fired Iasi July
without public explanation, was halted
last year after the consulting firm
Widmaycr and Associates recom
mended restructuring the governance
of Nebraska’s higher education.
On April 9, the Nebraska Legisla
ture approved an amended proposal
to keep the regents and the Slate College
Board of Trustees. That proposal, if
voters approve it in November, would
give the Coordinating Commission
for Higher Education more govern
ing authority.
Interim NU President Martin
Massengalc said the legislative ses
sion was historic in terms of higher
education.
“I think we have just witnessed a
milestone education session,” he said.
Massengalc said it is too early to
project what will happen in the future
with education. But he said, “the
groundwork has been laid.”
NUfacuIty salary increase approved
By Mindy Mozer
Staff Reporter
OMAHA -- University of Nc
braska-Lincoln faculty mem
bers will receive salaries be
low the majority of their peer institu
tions next year despite the faculty pay
raise approved by the NU Board of
Regents on Saturday.
The board approved the Nebraska
Legislature’s pay guidelines, which
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call for an 11.5* percent salary in
crease for UNL and a 9 percent in
crease for both the University of
Nebraska at Omaha and the Univer
sity of Nebraska Medical Center.
Faculty Senate President Jim
McShanc told the board UNL still
would be about 1 1/2 percent behind
the mean of its occr institutions, if
those schools receive no raises.
The average salary at UNL is
S42,4(X), McShanc said, so each per
ccntagc point is worth $424.
The pay raise is the same amount
recommended for this year. But
McShanc said UNL did not gel the
full amount of the increase.
Regent Kermit Hansen of Elkorn
proposed a “catch-up” plan for the
1991-93 budget biennial to boost
UNL’s salaries.
The plan calls for a 15.2 percent
increase for UNL, an 11.6 percent
increase for UNMC and a 9.2 percent
increase for UNO. Regents voted to
add the plan to the salary guideline
resolution.
Regents also approved a 4.9 per
cent tuition increase for 1990-91, from
S51 per credit hour to $53.50, for
Nebraska undergraduate residents.
That is the same percentage approved
last year. Tuition will increase 5.1
percent, from $ 138.50 to S145.50, for
non-resident undergraduates.
Board passes
fees increase
for 1990-91
From Staff Reports
OMAHA - The NU Board
of Regents on Saturday
approved the allocation
of $6.4 million in UNL student
fees for next year.
The proposed increases in
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400 attend speech
Philosopher ‘breaks down disciplines’
By Cindy Wostrel —
Staff Reporter
A world-renowned philosopher's visit
to UNL “at least temporarily, broke
down the walls between disciplines
w hich ... sometimes seem too thick,” said
Stephen Hilliard, associate dean of the College
of Arts & Sciences.
Jacques Derrida, who teaches at a French
school of social sc iences, visited the Uni
versity of Nebraska-Lincoln at the invita
tion of such diverse groups as the architec
ture, arts and sciences, law and graduate
colleges.
Derrida said he likes American universi
ties and students and the openness of their
discussions.
American students are “aggressive and
stimulating,” he said.
Hilliard said Derrida’s visit was success
ful. More than 4(X) people attended his lec
ture Thursday and about 50 to 1 (X) attended
a panel discussion with him Friday.
‘‘I think almost everyone that met him
was very impressed by him,” Hilliard said,
although some might not have agreed with
his philosophy.
Derrida, who also lectures at the Univer
sity of Calif omia-Irvinc every year for a few
weeks and once taught at Yale, helped de
velop a controversial philosophy known as
deconstructionism.or post-structural ism. His
“Book of Grammatology,” published in
1%7, marked the beginning of decon
struction ism, Hilliarcf said.
Dcconslructionists are scholars of phi
losophy, literature, law and other social
sciences, Hilliard said. They believe there is
no fixed meaning to any text.
Derrida was bom in Algeria in 1930, and
moved to France when he was 19 years old,
he said. He studied at the Sorbonne, the
University of Pans, where he later taught,
Hilliard said.
He has been in France for the last 40
years leaching polemics, the art of argument
or controversy.
Both Marxists and conservatives have
opposed Derrida’s philosophy, Hilliard said.
“His system seems to many people to
question such truths that they don’t like to
see questioned,’’ Hilliard said. “It ques
tions almost everything.”
Dcconslruclionism is not a rigorous, struc
tured philosophy, he said. According to
Derrida’s philosophy of deconstructions,
different people dodifferent things, Hilliard
said.
Bill Regier, director of the University of
Nebraska Press, said Derrida’s philosophy
emerges from ihc I rad i lion ol German phi
losophers Immanuel Kani, Georg Wilhelm
Friedrich Hegel, Edmund Husserl and Mar
lin Heidegger.
Deconsiruclionism often is mistaken for
nihilism, Regicr said. But nihilism denies
there is a basis for knowledge or truth.
Deconstruct ion ism has been “one of the
most fertile and productive contributions to
intellectual discourse since the Second World
War,” Regier said.
“It attempts to determine upon what
bases intellectual claims and ideas are
founded,” he said.
David Hanaan/Daily Nabraakan
Jacques Derrida
Haughton backed
by ASUN leader
for senate seat
By Doug Isakson
Staff Reporter
ASUN President Phil Gosch said he will
ask the student court to allow Sandy
Haughton to exercise her elected posi
tion as senator for the Division of Continuing
Studies.
Even though she won a senate scat, Haughton
was informed she could not serve on the Asso
ciation of Students of the University of Ne
braska Senate because she carries only 6 credit
hours rather than the required 12 hours.
Haughton, a junior business major, was not
aware of the credit-hour rule when she decided
to vote in the elections March 14. She won with
one write-in vote - her own.
After the elections Haughton was informed
by Marlene Bcyke, ASUN director of develop
ment, that she was ineligible for the senate scat.
Gosch said the ASUN Constitution’s 12
crcdit-hour requirement originally was intended
to limit senate positions to full-time students.
But Gosch said the requirement should be
changed because it fails to account for the
increase in non-traditional students in the !9K0s.
“The Electoral Commission failed to fore
see the challenges and time conflicts,” of non
tradilional students, Gosch said. “Since then,
society has changed a lot to include night
students.”
As a result, he said, the Division of Continu
ing Studies has grown to 795 students, larger
than the College of Home Economics.
Because many of these students have full
time jobs or young children at home, Gosch
said, it is impossible for them to lake 12 hours.
The average continuing studies student takes 4
hours, Gosch said, while the average tradi
tional student takes 13.
Because the constitution has not kept pace
with the changes in student population, he said,
students in continuing studies now have no
representation even though they must pay stu
dent fees. Gosch said the problem became
evident, and continuing studies was given a
senate scat this year.
Of the 795 continuing studies students at
UNL, only seven, less than 1 percent, are
eligible for a senate position, Gosch said. He
compared that figure to the 75 percent eligibil
ity among the general student population.
Gosch said he expects the court to have a
hearing in a few days to decide whether it has
the power to permanently change the require
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