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December 3,1990 ______ University of Nebraska-Lincoln Vol. 90 No. 66
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Failed ASUN compromise to create
standing Human Rights Committee
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permanent
advisory
commit
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standing Bills can go via standing committees
committees. or take emergency status and go
Human Rights directly to the senate,
is the one being
proposed.
Brian Shellito/Daily Nebraskan
AS UN committee
restructuring planned
By Dionne Searcey
Staff Reporter
and Victoria Ayotte
Senior Editor
After a sit-in protest, ASUN senators and
minority students worked Sunday to
clear away the barriers to giving mi
norities a stronger voice in student govern
ment.
The structure of committees in the Associa
tion ot Students ol the University of Nebraska
seriate is on the chopping block.
ASUN President Phil Gosch said the com
mittee restructuring would make the system
more issue-oriented and would encompass more
appointed students.
Currently, ASUN’s five standing commit
tees — Academic, Communications, Special
Topics, Campus Life and the Committee for
Fees Allocation — are composed only of sena
tors. The system probably will add more com
mittees, Gosch said, which could contain non
senators.
He would not give the specifics of the pro
posal, which now' are being worked out and
probably will not be finished in time for the
senate’s last meeting of the semester Wednes
day night.
But the proposal will make the committees,
and ASUN, more reflective of student needs,
Gosch said.
“We realized that we can find some way to
put together a system that belter represents all
students,” he said. “The structure needs to
change with the times.”
The changing times have included increas
ing racial tension on campus as a result of
ASUN’s rejection of a cultural affairs commit
tee Oct. 17.
See ASUN on 7
JKegents plan luesday vote on Massengale contract
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Staff Reporter
The University of Nebraska presidential
search saga may come to an end Tues
day.
J.B. Milliken, NU Board of Regents corpo
ration secretary, said that the board tentatively
, has planned a teleconference meeting for Tues
day morning.
The board will vote on the approval of a
contract offering the NU presidency to NU
Interim President and UNL Chancellor Martin
Massengale.
contract negotiations began Nov. 20 after
the board voted 5-3 to offer Massengale the
presidency. Massengale has not said if he will
accept the position.
On Friday, Don Blank, board chairman,
announced that contract negotiations with
Massengale had been concluded. Dick Wood,
NU general counsel, was asked to draw up the
legal contract, Blank said.
Wood said Sunday that he had completed
drafting the proposed contract, but declined to
provide any details. A draft of the proposed
contract will be released to the public today, he
said, prior to the Tuesday meeting.
Regents Margaret Robinson of Norfolk,
Rosemary Skrupa of Omaha and Regent-elect
Charles Wilson of Lincoln declined to divulge
any of the contract details, citing confidential
ity.
According to a story that appeared Friday in
The Omaha World-Herald, Payne said Mas
sengale’s salary would be between $148,000
and $160,000 annually. He would not. provide
this information in an interview Sunday.
Massengale now makes $ 124,800 a year as
chancellorand $2,000a month as interim presi
dent.
Blank said that if former NU President Ronald
Roskens still had the position, he probably
would be earning about $140,000 annually.
Roskens was fired in the summer of 1989.
Another reported contention was the length
of the contract — two years vs. three years.
However, Biank denied any controversy.
“We were never even considering going
two years,” he said. The contract negotiations
went smoothly, and “there was no controversy
on any of the details.”
Robinson said that she was in favor of a
three-year, rather than a two-year, contract.
See CONTRACT on 6
Dean: Farm bill to frame policy, but funds may be short
By James P. Webb
Staff Reporter
The 1990 farm bill, signed by
President Bush Wednesday,
presents a pleasing picture to
Darrell Nelson, but he still is con
cerned about future appropriations.
The dean and director of UNL’s
Agricultural Research Division said,
“Overall, we were pleased with the
farm bill. It has some excellent poten
tial to increase funding for the Uni
versity of Nebraska, particularly the
Institute of Agriculture and Natural
Resources.”
University officials are “cautiously
optimistic that we’re going to get
some reasonable increases in funding
both for our formula programs, as
well as our competitive areas, so we
can get in there and compete with our
colleagues and all the other universi
ties around the country,” he said.
But Nelson said the budget crisis,
the recession and the Gulf crisis will
make for conservative appropriations
over the next five years.
The farm bill will serve as a frame
work for agricultural policy for the
next five years, Nelson said. But agri
cultural programs such as UNL’s could
have trouble seeking actual appro
priations given the weakened U.S.
economy, he said.
“The amounts of funds that have
been appropriated to the formula
basis have not kept up with inflation,
and the only way to survive and keep
a prpgram going is to decrease the
number of positions of faculty, re
searchers and scientists,” he said.
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But Nelson said he hopes that
university funding will at least keep
up with the rate of inflation.
“For a 10-year period, we didn’t
even come close to getting inflation
ary increases, and that really hurt,” he
said.
Formula funds are dollars provided
only to land-grant universities on the
basis of the state’s total acreage of
land in production, total farms, value
of products produced and other vari
ables.
For fiscal year 1990, the univer
sity’s IANR programs received $3
million in formula funds, or 10 per
cent of their $31 million in total re
search expenditures. State funding
amounted to $18 million, or 58 per
cent, of their funding, Nelson said.
Other money awarded through
grants and contracts was $5.6 mil
lion, or 20 percent, from the federal
government, and $3 million, or 11
percent, from industry, he said.
Nelson said an alarming trend in
See RESEARCH on 7
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Dean of engineering
interim vice chancellor
From Staff Reports
Stan Liberty, dean of the College
of Engineering and Technol
ogy, was recommended Friday
for appointment as interim vice chan
cellor for academic affairs at UNL.
Liberty’s appointment, made by
University of Nebraska-Lincoln As
sociate Chancellor Jack Goebel and
UNL Chancellor and NU Interim
President Martin Massengale, will go
before the NU Board of Regents at its
December meeting.
Liberty was interim vice chancel
lor effective Saturday.
Goebel said in a statement that
Liberty’s “familiarity with UNL will
be an advantage to the institution as
we move forward during a period of
transition on several levels. I look
forward with pleasure to working with
him.”
Massengale agreed.
“Dean Liberty’s considerable repu
tation in the academic community as
well as the state of Nebraska will
serve him well in this demanding
position,” Massengale said in a state
ment.
Liberty had said he would accept
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the interim vice chancellorship.
“My intention going into this,” he
said Thursday, “is to come back to
my deanship. I have never thought of
the position as one I would want on a
permanent basis.”
Associate Dean Morris Schneider
will be named as acting engineering
college dean, Liberty said, during his
period as interim vice chancellor.
Liberty replaces Robert Furgason,
who left UNL to assume the presi
dency of Corpus Christi State Univer
sity in Texas.
A national search for a permanent
replacement for Furgason will begin
soon, according to the Office of Pub
lic Relations at UNL.
Liberty, 48, is a researcher in sto
chastic control and mathematical
systems theory. He was named Out
standing Young Electrical Engineer
ing Professor in the United States in
1974 by Eta Kappa Nu, the electrical
engineering honorary.
Since 1989, Liberty has been sci
ence and technology adviser to Gov.
Kay Orr. He represents Nebraska as a
member of the National Governors’
Association Science and Technology
Council of the States. L.
Michelle Puulman/Dally Nebraskan
'Tis the season
Brad Hurrell of Lincoln holds the tree he selected at Spiker Tree Farm, 1201 Fletcher Ave.,
while Dean Spiker cuts it.