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November 28,1990___ University of Nebraska Lincoln Voi. 90 No. 63
Betty Mundil sports earmuffs, mittens and a heavy coat to ward off freezing
temperatures during her lunch hour Tuesday in downtown Lincoln.
Massengale, NU officials
meet, discuss problems
By Adeana Leftin
Staff Reporter _
Martin Massengale showed Tuesday that
as University of Nebraska president
he would be “obviously willing to go
more than halfway in meeting people,” one
official said.
Dr. William Gust, president of the faculty
senate at the University of Nebraska Medical
Center, said that if Massengale chooses to take
the position of president of NU, discussions
Tuesday were “an excellent first step” to good
relations.
Massengale met with faculty senate presi
dents and chancellors at UNMC and the Uni
versity of Nebraska at Omaha to discuss con
cerns they might have if he accepts the presi
dency.
“These efforts are very positive,” Gust said.
“They were very beneficial and useful discus
sions.”
Massengale, now interim president of NU
and University of Nebraska-Lincoln chancel
lor, was selected by the NU Board of Regents
Nov. 20 to be president.
John Shroder, the faculty senate president at
UNO, also met with Massengale Tuesday.
“He wanted to come up and discuss, if he
does take the job, would there be any problems
with the faculty and staff of UNO,” Shroder
said.
Shroder said he thought he would be able to
work well with Massengale.
“Basically, my point with him is that I have
no problem with him . . . it’s the way it (the
search) was done,” Shroder said.
Previously, Gust and Shroder had called for
a re-opening of the search.
“I thought it was a dramatically flawed
selection process,” Shroder said.
However, he said Tuesday that if Massen
gale accepts the position and can “harmoni
ously” run the university system, he sees no
point in re-opening the search.
“Actually,” Shroder said, “Dr. Massengale
could be beneficial for UNO.”
Gust agreed, and said it was the process, not
Massengale, that had caused him to submit the
search re-opening request to the regents.
Both men said they thought their relation
ship with Massengale would be good.
“We need to start working with him and we
are willing to do so,” Gust said.
Shroder said he would maintain “consider
able communication” with Massengale.
“We will have no problems in the future as
long as we have the vision that the University
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Racial minority committee
controversy nearing end
By Jennifer O’Ciika
Senior Reporter
It has been a tough battle for all in
volved, but some student leaders say
they see light at the end of the tunnel for
a racial minority committee.
But it probably won’t reach the end of the
tunnel for another week.
The Association of Students of the Univer
sity of Nebraska defeated on Oct. 17 a slanding
committee that would have dealt with racial
minority issues on campus.
During the meeting, senators first defeated
amendments that would have stricken the word
“racial” from the proposal and added gay,
lesbian and handicapped students to the com
mittee.
Since then, racial minority leaders and oth
ers have discussed options for the committee.
College of Home Economics Sen. Kaye
Otten said she would work with other senators
Tuesday night on a new racial minority com
mittee bylaw.
Bui, she said, she thought senators should
have lime to look at the legislation, and that it
probably wouldn’t come up at the ASUN meeting
tonight.
“We do want to get it through by the end of
the semester,” she said.
College of Arts and Sciences Sen. Pam
Kohlmeier said the legislative process would
take time.
“Basically we’re trying to find a bill that
will not only satisfy (racial minorities)... and
be in the best interests of campus, but will pass
and won’t be refuted by the judicial board,” she
said.
Kohlmeier said the student court probably
could have dismissed the original proposal
because it violated existing ASUN bylaws.
That is because the committee would give non
elected student members a voice in allocation
of student fees.
The Committee for Fees Allocation, an ASUN
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Students show increased interest
Geographic alliance to push for education, official says
By Dionne Searcey
Staff Reporter__
Nebraska has joined a geographic
alliance to keep up with stu
dents’ increased demands for
geography education, an official said.
Robert Stoddard, chief adviser of
Asian studies and geography at the
University of Ncbraska-Lincoln, said
widespread interest in geography has
prompted a need to push geography
education.
Nebraska’s geographic alliance w ill
propose a plan to further education in
geography to the National Geographic
Society for approval and funding,
Stoddard said.
The alliance is composed of teach
ers, professors and administrators.
The plan will include forming a
network of information to teachers
through newsletters, service units and
S one-day workshops, he said.
It also will encourage secondary
and elementary teachers to teach the
nature of geography and to include
geographical concepts in their curric
ula, Stoddard said.
The alliance will conduct a two
week workshop for teachers next
summer at UNL, he said.
The workshop will train teachers
to spread ideas of how to filter geog
raphy into their curricula, he said.
Charles Gildersleeve, a geogra
phy professor at the University of
Nebraska at Omaha, said, “We can’t
tell schools what they should offer,
but we can encourage them.”
Stoddard said that if the NGS
approves the alliance’s plans, it will
fund the changes. Last year, the NGS
gave a $25,000 planning grant to
Nebraska’s alliance, he said.
But the NGS “can’t be the sugar
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daddy forever,” he said.
It helped the alliance get started,
but funding should be a commitment
of the state, Stoddard said.
Gildersleeve said Gov. Kay Orr
vetoed a matching funds bill last spring.
This year, the alliance is propos
ing a legislative bill that would pro
vide for a three-year alliance grant of
$50,(XX) in matching funds, he said.
Nebraska’s formation of an alli
ance was spurred by increased inter
est in geography, professors said.
Gildersleeve said people are more
interested in geography as they be
come aware of the interdependency
of countries.
We feel discouraged. We see the demand... and
keep debating how we can serve the needs of
students.
Stoddard
UNL chief advisor
Asian studies and geography
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Enrollment for geography courses
offered at universities is “bursting at
the seams,” Gildcrsleeve said.
Stoddard said enrollment in gen
eral geography courses at UNL has
increased 12 percent since 1989.
“The whole campus is emphasiz
ing global awareness,” he said.
Gildcrsleeve said UNO has opened
up two more sections of geography.
Stoddard said that instead of open
ing new sections of geography classes,
the size of classes at UNL has been
increased. A course dealing with the
geography of Asia that normally
accepts about 35 jieople was expanded
to more than 70 students, he said.
UNL doesn’t have the funds to
support additional faculty members
to leach more geography classes, he
said.
“We feel discouraged. We see the
demand . . . and keep debating how
we can serve the needs of students,”
Stoddard said.
He said the only alternative to
helping more students is for profes
sors to “bum the midnight oil.” Stu
dents show increased interest
UNL students in
geography courses
Number of students enrolled
in general geography
courses at UNL.
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Source: Geography department.
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