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December 16, 1990 University of Nebraska-Lincolri Vol. 90 No. 71
Griesen: Peer group criticism unfounded
Editor’s Note: This is the first in a
series of articles examining UNL’s
peer group. Future articles will ana
lyze UNL’s position among its peers
in faculty salaries, research and
undergraduate teaching.
By Michael Ho
Staff Reporter
The University of Nebraska-Lin
coln doesn’t compare well on
paper with its peer institutions,
but one administrator said the group
is “quite defen
sible.”
James Grie
sen, vice chan
cellor for student
affairs, said the
peer group —
used for bench- _
mark compari
sons of different university areas—is
valid because of UNL’s traditional
identity with the institutions it con
siders its peers.
UNL ranks in the bottom half of its
peer group in nearly every category,
from admissions standards and en
rollment to research grants.
ButGriesen said, “Frankly, I don’t
think it’s a bad list because those are
the people we compete with for fac
ulty.”
Universities choose peer groups to
compare their status to other schools
that presumably are similar.
Different schools use their peer
groups for different comparisons,
Griesen said. UNL uses its group
primarily to compare faculty salary
information, while other schools, like
the University of Nebraska Medical
Center, use other means to compare
salaries.
UNL’s peer group, chosen in 1983
84, comprises all of the land-grant
schools that are members of the Asso
ciation of American Universities.
The schools in this group are: Illi
nois, Iowa State, Maryland, Michi
gan State, Minnesota, Missouri,
Nebraska, Ohio State, Penn State,
Purdue and Wisconsin.
Fifty-eight universities are mem
bers of the AAU. Of those, four —
Colorado, Iowa State, Nebraska and
Missouri — are in the NCAA Big
Eight conference. Six of the seven
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UNL ranks in bottom half of 11-school 'peer group'
UNL uses its "peer group," or group of similar schools, primarily to compare faculty salaries. But compared
to the other schools, UNL ranks in the bottom half in nearly every category, from admission standards and
enrollment to research grants.
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(©Iowa State University in Ames
(©University of Missouri in Columbia
(© University of Wisconsin in Madison
(©University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign
(©Michigan State University in East Lansing
(©Purdue University in West Lafayette
(©Ohio State University in Columbus
Q0)Pennsylvania State University
(Jl) University of Maryland in College Park
^ ^ Source: James Griesen, UNL vice chancellor for student affairs
Amie DeFrain/Daily Nebraskan
Marching band finds funding to go to bowl game
By Kara Wells
Staff Reporter
After initial fear of lack of funds, the
marching band at the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln wil! accompany the
football team to the Citrus Bowl this year.
An allocation from the University of Ne
braska Foundation will allow the band to travel
to Orlando, Fla., for the Jan. 1 game, said Kerry
Grant, director of the School of Music.
An increase in the cost of airfare and a
decrease in revenue from the Citrus Bowl had
put additional strain on the band’s budget,
Grant said.
“The vast increase in charter flights nailed
us this year,” he said.
But a grant of about $48,000 from the foun
dation’s athletic department fund will help
cover the cost increases this year, said Terry
Fairfield, foundation president.
Fairfield said Grant approached his office
last week requesting money for the band’s trip.
The foundation has helped to finance band trips
to bowl games for the past 10 years, he said.
“The members put a lot of work in during
the year with little credit. We’re pleased to
support them,” he said.
Grant said, “From our point of view, it’s
good news that they found resources for us to
go to the bowl.”
Trips to bowl games usually are financed by
revenue from the bowl games and the founda
lion, Grant said. The School of Music also will
provide about $ 13,000 for the trip as it has done
in past years, he said.
Financing the band’s trip to bow\ games
every year is a complicated process, Grant
said.
“It’s an annual problem that creates a stress
on the operating funds,” he said.
The marching band currently is financed by
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300 protest American involvement in gulf
Michelle Paulman/Daily Nebraskan
Protesters march along Centennial Mall to show opposition to U.S. military intervention in the
Middle East. Approximately 300 people turned out for the rally Friday.
By Tabitha Hiner
Staff Reporter
Protesters chanted “1, 2, 3, 4,
We don’t want no bloody war;
2, 3, 4, 5, Bring the troops
home alive” Friday outside the Fed
eral Building to protest the sending of
troops to Saudi Arabia.
About 300 people carried signs
with messages such as “No blood for
gasoline” from the Broyhill Fountain
to the Federal Building at 15th and O
streets and listened to speakers warn
against further U.S. involvement in
the gulf.
State Sen. Ernie Chambers of
Omaha said having troops in the gulf
is dangerous because American forces
would be far from their sources of
supply if war broke out.
Other countries, such as Israel,
commit human rights violations, yet
they arc not the focus of U.S. military
action, he said.
Ernie Pulos, an organizer of the
rally and a graduate of the University
of Ncbraska-Lincoln, agreed that the
United States is sending mixed mes
sages by doing nothing about Israeli
human rights violations while pun
ishing Iraq for the same thing.
Chambers said that President Bush's
strong position in the gulf is a re
sponse to his being labeled a wimp.
“What we have here, in my opin
ion, is a president with a serious psy
chological problem,” he said.
Marj Manglitz, president of the
Nebraska division of the United Na
tions Association, agreed that Bush’s
ego could be dangerous.
“I believe that is a danger when a
man gets that much power,” she said.
“Right now, he is trying to take more
power than he really has.”
Manglitz urged the United States
lo allow other countries to give their
support.
“Other troops will go if we give
them more time,” she said. “But we
arc an impatient society.”
She urged leaders to stop name
calling and fighting and to start nego
tiating.
Pulos also said negotiating is the
key to resolving the situation.
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Other troops will go if
we give them more
time. But we are an
impatient society.
Manglitz
president of Nebraska division
of the United Nations
Association
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Robert Hitchcock, a visiting pro
fessor of anthropology at the Univer
sity of Nebraska-Lmcoln, said there
would be economic, environmental
and human ramifications to a war in
the gulf.
In economic costs, Hitchcock said,
the increase of terrorism would re
duce tourism, and the price of oil
would rise.
Biological warfare and damage to
the desert would be environmental
costs of a war, Hitchcock said.
The human price also would be
high, he said.
“Tens of thousands of lives would
be lost in less than a few days,” Hitch
cock said. “This would be far worse
than what happened in the Tet Offen
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