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Vol. 90 No. 4
Revised document reaffirms UNL’s role
By Christine Pillard
Staff Reporter
The revised role and mission
statement of the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln reaffirms
what it means for UNL to be Ne
braska’s land-grant college, Academic
Senate President James McShane said.
The statement declares that as the
flagship campus, UNL must reach
out to serve the state’s needs and in
crease the slate’s “human capital.”
John Peters, dean of the College of
Arts and Sciences, said part of serv
ing the state’s needs is providing lead
ership to public schools.
McShane said the university has
become “less of an ivory lower than
it once was.” The university should
never become an ivory lower, he said.
In a public hearing Tuesday,
McShanc said the revised document
made stronger statements concerning
cooperation between campuses, the
diversity of the university’s mission
and the statewide outreach programs.
The hearing was held to give faculty
members another opportunity to
comment on the statement, MeShane
said.
The NU Board of Regents asked
the Academic Senate to review the
role and mission statement in April,
and the document has gone through
many revisions since then, McShanc
said.
Some faculty members had been
concerned in the drafting process that
UNL was called the “primary”
postsecondary institution, but the word
was left in the final draft. Faculty
contributions to the drafts arc reflected
in the complexity of the final state
ment, McShanc said.
The Academic Senate will seek
adoption of the revised statement at
the Sept. 7 meeting of the NU Board
of Regents.
The statement was last revised in
1977 and probably will be revised
again at the turn of the century, he
said.
The document outlines UNL’s three
primary missions of leaching, research
and service. In the area of leaching,
the mission sialesihalUNL is distinc
tive in that it offers a wide range of
undergraduate degrees. Legislative
statutes mandate that departments
engage in basic and applied research.
McShanc said the revised statement
more clearly outlined how UNL’s
education and research functions were
integrated.
UNL also must serve the entire
slate through its outreach programs
through departments such as the
Division of Continuing Studies and
the Cooperative Extension Division,
the statement said. Karen Craig, dean
of the College of Home Economics,
said the revised statement gives greater
sensitivity to this role.
McShanc said that through the
drafting of the statement, a better
sense of the research and outreach
focus had been achieved.
The statement coincides with the
preparation of the report by Widmayer
and Associates of Chicago to study
what the role and mission of Ne
braska’s postsecondary institutions
should be, as mandated by the Legis
lature in LB247.
McShanc said the revised mission
statement provides a base for discus
sions with the consultants if their
findings arc different than what the
university supports.
Burke: Campus parking
'better now than last year
By Sara Bauder Schott
Senior Reporter
The parking situation at the Uni
versity of Ncbraska-Lincoln
is “in much better shape than
last year,” said Lt. John Burke, UNL
parking administrator.
Last year, the commuter lots were
oversold by 50 percent, Burke said.
This year, the commuter lots have
only been oversold by 22 percent, he
said.
About 4,500 commuter permits
have been sold, Burke said. The
commuter permits had sold out by
about 1 p.m. Monday afternoon.
The number of parking permits
sold has dropped by 2,500 since last
year. Last year at this time, more than
14,000 permits had been sold. By
Tuesday, Burke said, Ihc parking office
had sold 11,500 permits.
Burke said that when he looked
around at the lots, he thought more
cars were on campus than last year.
But according to the number of per
mits sold, fewer cars actually were
parked on campus, he said.
Most students already have pur
chased their parking permits, he said.
Many cars in the parking lots do
not have permits, but Burke said he
believed students would be taking
those cars home over the Labor Day
weekend.
In past years, many students seemed
to use their ears for moving to Lin
coln and then to have taken them
home after a week or two, Burke said.
Nearly 3,500 permits were sold to
students in residence halls, and 3,554
permits were sold to faculty and staff.
Although the residence hall permits
were sold out, Burke said, only 85
percent of the available faculty and
staff permits were sold.
Burke said the UNL Police De
partment might consider switching
the designation on some faculty and
staff lots if the space remained avail
able.
About 200 remote parking permits
have been sold, Burke said. These
permits arc like commuting permits,
but arc for lots farther away from
campus. A free shuttle service then
picks students up and takes them to
class. A remote permit costs S10,
while a regular commuting permit is
$50.
Burke said remote permits still are
available.
Some complaints by students about
commuter parking on East Campus
may be justified, Burke said. The
number of commuter parking spaces
is not divided between the two cam
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Cleaning out the cobwebs
Kevin Seevers, a preparator/conservator with the University of Nebraska State Museum,
cleans “1-Lean,” a Jefferson’s Mammoth from the late Pleistocene period. Seevers said
the mammoth had not been cleaned since it was mounted in the 1930s.
KKK offers information
Fliers violate policy, official says
By Jennifer O’Cilka
Senior Reporter
Fliers promoting the Ku Klux Klan should
have been taken down from University
of Nebraska Lincoln bulletin boards
Tuesday because they violated campus policy,
an official said.
James Gricsen, vice chancellor of student
affairs, said the fliers probably were unauthor
ized. University policy requires administrative
approval before any materials arc hung on
bulletin boards.
“Officially, we only allow our own univer
sity offices and agencies to use bulletin boards,”
Gricsen said.
Sometimes students hang advertisements
on the boards, but they arc taken down to save
space, Gricsen said.
The poster in question pictured a hooded
figure and Confederate and American flags.
“While America is being destroyed, silence
is not golden, it’s treason,’’ is the message
printed in bold letters across the lop of the
poster.
A North Carolina address was given for free
information from the Invisible Empire Knights
of the Ku Klux Klan.
Jodi Flynn, 24, a senior psychology and
women’s studies major, brought the poster to
the Affirmative Action Office, the Women’s
Resource Center, the Association of Students
of the University of Nebraska and the Daily
Nebraskan.
She said she found the poster on the infor
mation pillar between the Nebraska Union and
the Administration Building. She said she did
not sec it elsewhere on campus, but heard that
others saw copies posted along O Street.
“It was very upsetting finding the poster,
but I’ve been very pleased with the immediate
cooperation and concern of those organiza
tions,” Flynn said.
Gricscn said the fliers should not cause too
much alarm, and many things posted in the past
may have offended other students.
‘‘This is a free society and we can’t stop
people from having their own personal opin
ions, no matter how dumb we think they are,”
he said.
Joseph Akpan, president of the Nigerian
Student Association and a member of the Afri
can Student Organization, agreed that freedom
of expression is important.
“It allows us to know this exists,” Akpan
said. “It is more dangerous to be unaware.”
Akpan said he thought people with good
sense would dismiss the statements on the
poster.
Phil Gosch, president of the ASUN, said the
fliers possibly were not generated from this
campus because of the out-of-state address.
‘ ‘The fact that it does not make a reference
to a meeting time or an organization on this
campus makes me hope,” Gosch said.
Gosch said he wasn’t concerned about the
poster so much as the fact that some people still
hold racist beliefs.
“I’m more concerned about the growing
trend of racism on campuses rather than this
flier,” he said. “This is just a symptom, it’s not
the problem.”
Akpan said the poster was indicative of
UNL policies.
‘‘Atone end (administrators) say ‘No, those
kinds of attitudes won’t be tolerated here,’”
Akpan said, at the same lime, the NU Founda
tion invests in South Africa.
Gina Malkin, coordinator of the Women’s
Resource Center, said she was shocked and
concerned when a student reported the offen
sive materials.
Malkin said the material could hurt a lot of
students, especially because this is the first
week of school.
She said some new students could sec the
fliers as ‘‘a very unwelcome sign.”
Gricscn said new college students might as
well be exposed to offending ideas here, be
cause they would sec many more offensive
things when they leave school.
Gricscn said he thought such action would
be inappropriate in this case.
But he said he hoped students wouldn’t gel
interested in an organization such as the KKK.
‘‘I certainly hope our students are not the
kind that would be interested m that kind of
organization,” Griesen said.
ASUN plans
to consider
divestment
By Jennifer O'Cilka
Senior Reporter
Student leaders plan to consider
legislation tonight dealing with
South African divestment, handi
capped seating in Memorial Stadium and
bylaw changes.
Phil Gosch, ASUN president, said a
majority of ASUN senators must move
all items to be considered to emergency
status. Because tonight is the first meet
ing, legislation had no chance to go through
committees.
‘‘I hope the senators will take the
special circumstances into consideration”
and move the legislation to the floor,
Gosch said.
One matter Gosch said he especially
wanted senators to deal with concerns
the South African Education Program,
which would provide scholarships for
South African students.
An Association of Students of the
University of Nebraska resolution urges
UNL to participate in thatprogram by the
fall semester of 1991.
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