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~ Vol. 90 No. 6
Administrators propose college
to attract attention to fine arts
By Sara Bauder Schott
and Jennifer O’Cilka
Senior Reporters
The sounds of music, the finer
ies of art and the pageantry of
theater no longer may come
from the College of Arts and Sci
ences, possibly as soon as next fall.
That’s if a proposal to create a
College of Fine and Performing Arts
at the University of Nebraska-Lin
coln is approved at the many levels of
consideration it faces.
In a speech Saturday, UNL Chan
cellor and NU Interim President Martin
Masscngalc said administrators want
to establish such a college.
Larry Lusk, associate dean of the
College of Arts and Sciences, said he
serves on a committee of about 23
people w'ho have drafted a mission
statement for the college and are now
working on a final proposal. Vice
Chancellor for Academic Affairs
Robert Furgason is the chairman of
the committee, which includes repre
sentatives of the campus and commu
nity.
Furgason said the fine arts college
would bring more attention and,
hopefully, support for the fine arts
program at UNL.
It would “put a focus on our fine
arts activities at UNL.” That would
help the program achieve national
stature, he said, as the College of
Journalism did when it was moved
from being a department within the
College of Arts and Sciences.
Although no estimates have been
made, setting up the college would
not be a “real costly venture,’’ Fur
gason said -- mostly selling up the
administrative structure by hiring a
dean and office staff.
Furgason said the committee should
have a proposal to submit to the NU
Board of Regents by the end of this
semester. Some aspects, such as chang
ing stale statutes to add a college,
would require approval from the
Nebraska Legislature in the spring,
he said.
Herb Howe, associate to the chan
cellor, said the proposal would have
to be rev ie wed by the Academ ic Plan
ning Committee and the departments
affected.
Lusk said he was not sure how
long the whole process would take,
but he said he thought administrators
“would like to try to have (the pro
posal) pass through all channels by
the end of this academic year.”
Lusk also said he thought the new
college would have a sharper focus,
be more visible and have the ability to
get more private funding for the arts.
“Arts arc a very unique kind of
thing," he said. “They do a lot of
traveling and have a lot of varied
programs. Arts have unique manage
ment demands. A dean of the college
of arts would be able to devote more
time to that.”
See ART on 7
New requirement gets complaints
By Anita Parker
Staff Reporter
he first semester under a re
quirement for a culturally di
verse student teaching experi
ence has generated few complaints,
but next year may be a different story,
a Teachers College official said.
The plan requires University of
Nebraska-Lincoln students to obtain
their field experience in school with
at least 10-perccnt minority enroll
ment and was implemented to pro
vide a more diverse experience in
teaching,said Bert Alfrcy, director of
UNL’s Teachers College Student
Services Center.
Four junior high schools and 11
elementary schools in Lincoln meet
this requirement, Alfrey said. How
ever, Lincoln High School is the only
high school that fulfills the require
ment, he said.
This semester, there were no prob
lems placing the students in the loca
tions they requested even though the
number of schools that qualify has
dwindled, Alfrey said. But problems
may arise in the Lincoln area, he said.
With Lincoln’s small number of
possible teaching locations. Alfrey
said, some students may have to be
relocated. The Teachers College now
has no policy to decide who will be
sent away and who will be allowed to
stay, he said.
Alfrey said he saw no impending
problems in the Omaha area because
of the large number of qualifying
schools.
In the past, students have been
able to teach in whatever school they
desired, Alfrey said. Now, students
may be assigned in the general area
they request, but they may not be able
to teach in the school they wish if it
docs not meet the minority enroll
ment requirement, he said.
For example, Alfrey said, last
semester the students who went to
Omaha were distributed between the
six districts in that area, ir.vjuding
Millard, Papillion, District 66
(Westside), Ralston, Omaha and
Bellevue.
See TEACHER on 7
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Al Schaben/Daiiy Nebraskan
UNL employees load a 1,000-pound stuffed grizzly bear and
a stuffed polar bear Into a pickup truck. The Morrill Hall bears
will be displayed at the Nebraska State Fair.
Much time, money is spent
keeping campuses beautiful
By Rose Riccetti
Staff Reporter
Trash is big business at UNL.
It costs the University of Ne
5raska-Lincoln Landscaping
Services Department just under a cent
to pick up each piece of garbage on
City and East campuses, said Wilbur
Dasenbrock, the department’s direc
lor.
“Students can save us a penny
each time they throw their trash into
the proper container,” Dascnbrock
said.
The annual cost of keeping UNL
beautiful is $35,000 to $45,000 in
cluding time and labor and an $8 gale
See TRASH on 5
Midwest fascinates painter
Childhood airplane rides led to Plains obsession
By Mindy Wilson
Staff Reporter
Kcilh Jacobshagcn grew up looking
down on the Midwest.
Jacobshagcn has been painting in
this part of the country for 25 years. And the
Midwest continues to fascinate the UNL art
professor, who is from
Wichita, Kan.
Much of his child
hood was spent with
his father, who gave
flying lessons. This led
to his “obsession” with
the west central plains
in his paintings.
“I loved being in
the air and being out in the country,” he
said.“Asa kid, I was sort of immersed in the
space around me, not just my backyard. I
was part of a much larger space.”
This space shows up in many of his paint
ings where the sky is a dominant fac tor. The
sky is prominent because the agrarian soci
ety of the plains depends on what the sky
does, he said.
And the skies in Jacobshagcn’s paintings
are the first thing to grab a person’s atten
tion. Clouds are scattered throughout. Omi
nous and dark or white and feathery, they
give an indication of the weather. His colors
arc realistic, but bold, giving the sky a
larger-than-life effect.
The land itself is painted in detail. Shapes
of houses dot the background. Telephone
poles stretch out over the ground. Small
clusters of trees are scattered about.
Jacobshagen brings out the beauty of the
plains. He also conveys a feeling of unpre
dictability — that things could change in an
instant.
Jacobshagen believes his exhibitions in
the last five or six years that have won
national recognition have helped him to win
the most prestigious research award given
by the University of Nebraska.
Recently, Jacobshagen received the
Outstanding Research and Creativity Award.
The recipients of this award arc nominated
by their peers and reviewed by a committee
of faculty members from the three NU
campuses.
His office is a reflection of his work.
Many of his sketches and paintings cover
the walls. Classical music plays in the back
ground. Jacobshagcn, a white-haired be
spectacled man with shrewd eyes, sits
comfortably in an easy chair. It feels more
like a studio than an office.
For eight years, Jacobshagcn painted
everything outdoors, usually doing it all in
one silling. Sometimes the sittings would
last all day. If the painting wasn’t finished in
that time, he said, he never went back and
finished it.
Now-, he prefers to do his painting in his
studio, which he said gave him more control
over his work. The constantly changing
lighting and landscape that limit him out
side are not a hindrance in the studio.
“I’m freer to invent,” he said.
Teaching, he said, gives him great pleas
ure. He enjoys being around students and
watching their ideas develop. He tries to
pass on to them the idea of paying attention
to the things going on around them. He said
that in today’s world of television and
computers, this is a special kind of ability.
He also tries to teach his students pa
tience and quietness. He said he w ants them
to think things out.
These also arc the things he expects from
his students. The most exciting students, he
said, and the ones he learns the most from,
arc those who do pay attention and show
patience.
Jacobshagcn has no ultimate goals for his
painting career. To him, the acts of painting
and working as an artist have to do with
changing. For the time being, he said, he just
wants to make paintings that have presence
and strength.
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As a kid, I was sort of immersed in the space around me, not
Just my backyard. I was part of a much larger space.
Jacobshagen
UNL art professor \
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