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Norton, who has been at what he calls “Ole Miss” since 1973, said that at both universities, the faculty wants to sec students improve. “So we care about how they do,” he said. “What we try to do is to help them as people.” When Ole Miss merged its media and television programs into a print program, Neale Copplc, retiring dean of UNL’s College of Journalism, helped. Copplc said he and Norton have known each other for about 10 to 12 years. The selection of Norton is a “great gain” for UNL, Copplc said. Norton understands the college’s approach, r-— its principles and its strengths, he said. “He’s smart enough to let the faculty do what it should do,’’ he said. Norton said he plans to allow the UNL faculty the freedom lhatCopple has allowed. “If it’s not broken, you’re not going to want to fix it,’’ he said. Some other schools allow their faculty freedom, but do so unsuccess fully because the faculty members lack the drive to continually ask them selves if they arc doing their best, he said. “The faculty (at UNL) have this drive to excel in quality,” Norton said. The UNL journalism college’s strong ties to the media also arc im portant to a quality program, he said. Ole Miss, where Norton is the chair man of the journalism department, also has strong tics to the media, but UNL’s ties arc even stronger, he said. Norton said Ole Miss modelled its program after UNL’s, with five classes in journalism skills and three classes in theory. “Our goal has been to be as good as Nebraska,” he said. “We (the journalism faculty ol Ole Miss) gave our heart and soul to this place we’ll (the journalism fac ... " 111 ■■■■" 1 '"“"I ulty of UNL) do the same there,” he said. Norton’s interest in journalism began young. ‘‘When I was a child, one of the things my father talked alxjut was the terrific role that the media plays in affecting people’s life.” His father, who was a minister, said that like medicine, law and the ministry, journalism affected people’s lives. His father’s encouragement led Norton and his two brothers to con sider journalism. But Norton was the oldest and tried it first, he said. One of his brothers later became a doc tor and the other became an economist. Norton worked for three years at the Chicago Tribune as a copy reader and for two years as a managing edi tor of the Christian Life Publications. He was a publisher of The Daily Iowan and sports editor ofthc Wheaton, III., Daily Journal. He is now a part-owner of The South Reporter, Inc., a weekly news paper in Holly Springs, Miss. He said he plans to continue as a partner in the paper after moving to Nebraska, be cause it will allow him to ‘‘feel the ups and downs” of the newspaper business. Norton said the transition from Mississippi to Nebraska will be both easy and difficult for him. Leaving Ox ford. Miss., the home town of novelist William Faulkner, won’t be easy for Norton, or for his wife and seven- and lour-ycar-old children. You rc tearing up roots, he said. But, he said, “it is a lot easier lor me to leave than it is for her (his wile),’ because Oxford is his wife's hometown. Although Norton has spent 16 years there, longer than in any other place, he said it will be easier for him to move because he has moved frequenth in the past. He said he has found in his two visiLs to Lincoln this year that the city has small, “down-home” places and “the feeling that, hey, there’s real people here,” which may ease the transition. And the university itself has “that awesome, Germanic sense of mainte nance.” University buildings arc well maintained, he said, and the pride w ith which it is done is evident. Norton was bom in Africa while his father was a missionary there, he said. He lived there until he was about 1 K years-old, when he moved to South Carolina for one year. Then he moved to Chicago. At Ole Miss, he said “people understand that I’m a Yankee.' Ranking Continued from Page 1 Faculty salaries also must be* brought up to at least the midpoint of Ne braska’s peer institutions, he said. The Legislature has made some steps toward raising teacher salaries but, Warner said, the job hasn’t been accomplished yet. 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