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September 12,1990 University of Nebraska-Lincoln Vol. 90 No. 12
Ron Corny, assistant director of the Midwest Center for Mass Soectrometry at UNL,
introduces a sample into the mass spectrometer. UNL’s chemistry department recently
acquired the spectrometer, which Is the first in the country, and will use it in cancer
research. See story on page 3.
.....:
UNL receives most money
Campuses’ construction gap closing
By Pat Dinslage
Staff Reporter
Cllhough the University of Ne
braska-Lincoln again received
the most attention for capital
construction priorities this year, UNO
and UNMC have edged a little closer
over the past 23 years, an official
said.
Regent Kermit Hansen of Elkhom,
chairman of the NU Board of Re
gents’ Planning and Governance
Committee, said, however, that one
or two major projects on a certain
campus significantly affect that mar
gin.
For the biennium , projects for the
UNL campuses accounted for 43.6
percent of the total capital construc
tion priority funds, he said.
Priority projects at the University
of Nebraska at Omaha totalled 13.9
percent. University of Nebraska
Medical Center projects totalled 30.3
percent and Kearney State College
projects totalled 12.1 percent, Hansen
said. This is the first year KSC proj
ects were included, since it joins the
university system at the beginning of
the 1991 budget year.
Over the 23 years he has been on
the board, Hansen said, the margins
have grown a little closer. In that
period, UNL-based projects received
56.5 percent of the financing, UNO
about 25 percent and UNMC about
18 percent.
Hansen told the board at its meet
ing Friday that there were “curves,
peaks and periods” of emphasis on
certain campuses.
For instance, the proposed Basic
Science Research facility at UNMC,
atacost of $23.5 million, “throws the
percentage (for UNMC) 10 times over
the average,” he said.
The Animal Science building on
UNL’sEast Campus, which cost $18
million, and the Lied Center for Per
forming Arts, which cost$22 million,
are other examples of when the per
centage was thrown off, he said.
“There’s no denying the fact that
in any two-year period, we face a
matter of priority by campus,” Hansen
said Monday.
The 13 projects on the proposed
capital construction priority list for
1991-93, approved by the Board of
Regents Friday, totalled $86.2 mil
lion. The list goes before the Ne
braska Legislature to make state aid
decisions.
Regent Don Blank of McCook, the
board’s chairman, said that capital
construction priority trends shouldn’t
influence the board’s future actions.
“We hope to keep the percentages
as information only. We base deci
sions (for priority projects) on the fact
that this is one university, not by
campus,” he said.
Hansen agreed.
“We can’t look at the (project) list
and say everybody gets a percent
age,” Hansen said. “We have to factor
in the number of students served by
each campus; we have got to weigh
the priorities and the cost of educa
tion.
“We are one university,” he said,
‘ ‘and trying to tie something together,
like Campus A always gets so much
and Campus B gets another amount,
is not right. Let’s not have a fixed or
rigid percentage with which we want
to equate academic needs on each
campus. Thai’s the measure we use,
not the dollars or die facilities.”
The people involved in develop
ing the list “try to do dieir best to
keep the process analytical and ob
jective, rather than subjective,” he
said.
That process has made strides
toward meeting the objectivity goal
over the last several years, Hansen
said.
Gosch’s admission
gets mixed reactions
from campus leaders
By Jennifer O’Ciika
Senior Reporter
Former student leaders, mem
bers of student government
and an administrator had mixed
reactions Tuesday to an election deal
made by the student body president.
Phil Gosch, president of the Asso
ciation of Students of the University
of Nebraska, admitted Monday that
he agreed to fire ASUN’s director of
development before he was elected in
March. He later reneged on the deal
to fire Marlene Beyke.
Gosch made the agreement with
the STAND party’s presidential can
didate, Joe Bowman.
James Griescn, vice chancellor for
student affairs, said Gosch made a
mistake, but did the “honorable” thing
by admitting his actions.
Griescn said he would rather sec a
student leader admit his mistakes than
hide them. Griesen said he did not see
the revelation as devastating to ASUN.
"In my view, Phil has been a good
student president, student regent” and
the deal is a "blemish” he will have
to deal with, Griescn said.
Griescn called the accusation?
against Beyke "silly.”
"I’ve worked a great deal will
Marlene Beyke and I think Marlcn<
hendsnver backwards to he In withou
imposing her will,” Griesen said.
Beyke does noi speak at meeting?
unless asked, Griesen said. She pro
vides information, “but I’ve nevei
seen her to be at all forceful in getting
her opinions acted out in the Senate.
Griesen also said accusations thai
administrators deal with Beyke rathei
than student leaders were false.
He said he meets with the ASUN
president at least once a week and
calls Beyke only if he is trying ic
reach ASUN executives.
“I have too much respect foi
Marlene and student government tc
deal with student government thai
way,” Griesen said.
Bryan Hill, last year’s ASUN presi
dent, declined! to comment on Gosch’?
actions, but supported Beyke.
Hill, who was involved in ASUN
four years, said she is an adviser and
support staff member
‘‘She doesn’t make policy deci
sions, period,” Hill said. ‘‘The pol
icy decisions arc up to the Senate.
That is not within her authority and
she does not try to participate.”
Hill pointed to policy changes of *
student government each year as proof
Beyke does not interfere. He said his
administration took the opposite stand
to the one before it on a policy toward
homophobia and discrimination on
the basis of sexual orientation.
”... if Marlene were the driving
force behind ASUN, you wouldn’t
see those changes,” he said.
Hill said the accusations against
Beyke were “almost ironic,” because
she is exactly the opposite of what
they implied. She is unobtrusive, he
said.
Devi Bohling, former ASUN first
vice president, said she was shocked
when she heard about the actions.
“I think students will lose trust in
student government,” she said. ”1
can’t see anything positive coming
out of it whatsoever.”
Bohling said allegations against
Beyke were r totally unsubstantiated.”
Deb Fiddclke, former Government
Liaison Committee chairwoman who
ran with the TODAY parly against
Gosch last year, said she was shocked
and upset by Gosch’s campaign im
proprieties. Beyke should not be a
scapegoat in the campaign process,
‘ she said.
“I think the allegations against
her arc completely unfounded,” Fid
aciKc saia. Anyoneevcr involved in
student government knows how in
valuable she is.”
When he announced his support
for Gosch’s party at a press confer
ence March 16, Bowman said it was
because Fiddelkc had agreed to make
an appointment before the election.
The real reason. Bowman said
Sunday, was the agreement to oust
Bcyke.
Fiddelkc said the legitimacy of
last year’s election could be ques
tioned if Bowman’s allegations against
her were made only as a “smoke
screen.
“That, in my opinion, had a very
significant impact on the outcome of
the election,” Fiddelkc said.
ASUN Senate Speaker Brad Brunz,
a two-year ASUN member, said the
concessions Gosch made during the
election were not made for “scandal
ous or malicious reasons.
“I know that when Phil made that
See ASUN on 6
ACT scores unchanged
By Sara Bauder Schott
Savor Reporter
A national average ACT score
similar to last year’s shows,
despite a decrease in SAT
scores this year, that students enter
ing UNL are about as prepared for
college as they were five years ago.
Admissions Director John Beacon said.
The national ACT report released
Tuesday showed that the national av
erage of ACT scores for 1990 high
school graduates was the same as
1989’s. The American College Test
ing Program reported that average as
20.6.
Beacon said the average score for
UNL students is about 22.4. The high
est possible score on the ACT test is
36.
The average score for minority
students was 18.9, an increase of half
a point in the last five years.
The higher scores for minorities
reflect the fact that more minority
students are taking a core of college
preparatory courses, ACT reported.
A typical core would include four
years of English and three years each
of social studies, natural sciences and
mathematics.
ACT research shows that students
who take a college-preparatory pro
gram in high school perform better in
college. The research shows this
improved performance is true for
students of different abilities and ethnic
backgrounds.
For 1990 graduates who look a
college preparatory core, the average
ACT score was 22.3. For those who
did not take prep courses, the average
score was 19.1.
Last year was the first year stu
dents look the new version of the
ACT test, the Enhanced ACT Assess
ment. The enhanced test gives 12
scores for students instead of the five
scores given on the old test
The new test gives four major scores
in English, malh, reading and sci
ence, seven subscores, and a compos
ite score.
Beacon said ACT changed the test
because there was public concern that
it did not do what academic advisers
needed it to do. Beacon said the test,
along with other information, is used
to make admission decisions and to
help decide academic placement.
The test has changed in a subtle
way, Beacon said. The traditional ACT
emphasized learned skills more, he
said, while the new ACT emphasizes
reasoning skills. The math section of
the test has broadened in scope, with
more basic and more advanced prob
lems than the traditional test, he said.
Scores for the new test arc based
on a higher scale than those for the
traditional test. Beacon said. There
fore, the 1990 average of 20.6 corre
sponds to an 18.6 in 1989. ACT sealed
the scores so they can be compared.
Minority ACT score increases,
1986-1990
The increase of average ACT scores earned by minority
students, 1986-1990.
American
indian/Alaskan
Native
Mexican I Bl7.9
American/
Chicano t 3
Asian
American/
Pacific Islander
Puerto Rican/
Cuban/Other
Hispanic Origin
* is#a scorei are estimated Source: American College Tasting Program.
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