POLICE REPORT-i
Beginning midnight Friday,
March 8
2:17 a.m. — Two tires slashed,
$400, Theta Xi fraternity, 1535 R
St.
10:53 a.m. — Hit-and-run acci
dent, 17th and Court streets, $200.
12:02 p.m. — Hit-and-run acci
dent, 14th and W streets, $100.
12:54 p.m. — Water balloon
tfrnnyn, 715 N. 16th St.
4:19 p.m. — Stereo stolen from
auto, 19th and R streets, $30 dam
age, $240 loss.
4:33 p.m. — Hit-and-run accident,
Harper-Schramm-Smith complex
lot, $100.
n.—Woman injured back,
Bob Devaney Sports Center, trans
ported to Lincoln General Hospi
tal, 2300 S. 16th St.
8:06 p.m. — Fire in window well,
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10:39 p.m. — Purse stolen from
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10:56 p.m. — Purses stolen from
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11:58 p.m. — Tires slashed, Theta
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Beginning midnight Saturday,
March 9
4:29 a.m. — Customer failed to
pay, Denny’s Restaurant, 900 R St.
12:33 p.m. — Hit-and-run acci
dent, Harper-Schramm-Smith
complex parking lot, $250.
3:22 p.m. — Rear window louvers
stolen, Theta Xi fraternity, 1535 R
St., $115 loss, $70 damage.
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Program stresses family farming
By Wendy Mott
Staff Reporter
Keeping family farms in the fam
ily is the goal of the UNL Department
of Agricultural Economics’ “Return
ing to the Farm” program, the coordi
nator said.
Deb Rood said the program’s main
purpose is to help students who plan
to return to their family farms after
graduation by teaching them more
than just agricultural aspects of farm
ing.
The yearly program brings stu
dents and parents together to teach
them to cooperate and respect each
others’ ideas, Rood said. It concen
trates on the importance and strengths
of personalities and goals, she said.
“Lots of things can make farms
not work,” she said. “The program
helps them run smoother.”
Massengale
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college associate dean and associate
director jf the Agricultural Experi
ment Station.
In 1976, he joined the University
of Nebraska-Lincoln as vice
chancellor for the Institute of
Agriculture and Natural Resources,
then went on to become UNL chan
cellor in 1981. He served as interim
NU president from 1989 until he
accepted his present position in
1990.
Massengale says he has gained a
“broader perspective” with each
position. *Tve always kept my
options open. There’s no end to it if'
one’s willing to work.
“I enjoy working with people.
(In administration), you have a
greater influence through others,
rather than through yourself,” he
says. “You can have a positive
effect on a larger number of
people.”
He misses the contact and
interaction with students he had
while teaching agronomy and crop
physiology, but he does not plan to
return to the classroom.
“As you get into administration,
you can have a positive influence
(and) provide more leadership and
role models,” he says.
“This job here is a step in my
career. I’m happy in this position
and hope to have a long tenure.”
His personal goal is to improve
NU, he says.
As he begins to talk about the
university, Massengale’s intensity
and enthusiasm show in his fea
tures. He leans forward in the
padded blue chair of the press
conference room, eyes and attention
focused. His features show emotion
and his voice strengthens as he talks
about NU and its future.
“I think we’re a better university
than we, as Nebraskans, give
ourselves credit for,” he says.
Nebraskans lend to be modest and
underestimate themselves.
But in the next 10 to 20 years, he
sees several areas in which the
university needs to grow, he says.
“We need to make sure we’re
John Oehler’iing, a program par
ticipant, said the course taught him
ways to keep personality clashes from
hurting the farm and that different
personalities can benefit farms.
Oehlerking, a senior general agri
culture major, said he also learned
about goal setting and the importance
of discussing goals.
Telling other family members about
individual goals is important, he said,
because a lack of awareness of what
others want can cause problems.
Once ideas are out in the open, he
said, the family can work out com
promises so common goals can be
met.
Oehlerking participated in the two
weekend course in December and
January'. He said the program was
helpful because it encouraged his
family to talk about its plans and start
the organization process.
giving a quality education for all
students,” he says. “Our students
are the future leaders,” and the
university needs to continue to
provide them with the education
they need.
But providing a college educa
tion means more than just providing
classes, Massengale says.
“There are the social activities,
the interpersonal learning, exploring
other (academic) areas, cultural
activities, gaining maturity and
learning to relate to many different
people,” he says.
NU must provide opportunities
for such learning to the students and
the people of the state, he says.
Education is crucial for the de
velopment of Nebraska and its
people, he says.
Industries now tend to locate
near universities where an educated
labor force is available, he says.
“Nebraska doesn’t have moun
tains or an ocean" to attract indus
tries, Massengale says. For Ne
braska to compete as a state, it
i needs to attract industry by focusing
! on areas in which the state is
i superior.
“In an information-based society,
knowledge is one of the most
important factors,” he says. “We
have a superior labor force, which
we continue to improve.
“We have a good work ethic and
we need to attract industries which
require high-knowledge people
running them, not just labor
intensive industries.”
The level of education offered in
the state plays a major role, he says.
“How the university stacks up as
an institution depends on the quality
of people it has, he says. “If we’re
going to be a quality institution, we
have to compete with other high
quality institutions.”
Massengale says a major state
university such as NU must con
tinue to improve in the areas of
undergraduate and graduate
education, outreach activities and
! research.
Improving and enhancing the
university’s research efforts is
another goal Massengale says he
hopes to achieve as president. But
with the current economy, research
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“It got our farm records on track, if
nothing else,” he said.
Oehlerking said his parents en
joyed the program, met some inter
esting people and learned more about
the economics of fanning.
Rood said that because the pro
gram is just in its second year, there
hasn’t been enough time to test its
effectiveness, but interest in the pro
gram increases each year. This year
26 families participated, she said.
Oehlerking said that if a brother or
sister does plan to return to the farm,
the program can help all members of
the family see how things will be run.
Students who do not plan to return
to their family farms still will find the
program worthwhile, he said.
The course shows how students
who decide not to return can have an
active role on the farm, he said.
enhancement may take longer than
originally planned, he said.
But NU will not enter the for
profit business field with its
research products to increase
research funding, he says.
“We’ll let the specialists do
that,” he says. “We need to spend
time producing new ideas and
thoughts, rather than the production
of those products already in place.
Our business is more education and
creation of... ideas and to provide
assistance to businesses.”
And research to help people of
the state is an area with which
Massengale is familiar. While at
Arizona, he participated in two of
his most significant research
projects.
One project studied the water use
efficiency between different plants
and why some are more efficient
than others. The other project
studied the way alfalfa manufac
tured and translocated carbohy
drates and photosynthates, the food
stuffs used by the plant. The project
was the first time scientists had
looked into the translocation
process, he says.
The research resulted in a
practical solution for Arizona
farmers — how to keep alfalfa
standing during the summer rather
than dying from the heat.
i hum.* aie umy iwu ui many
research projects on which he has
worked. He has worked in such
diverse places as Brazil, Saudi
Arabia and Australia and has
collaborated on or written more
than 70 publications covering many
areas of crop physiology, agron
omy, agriculture and education.
Although his professional career
has focused on agriculture and
education, Massengale says, he has
a “wide range of interests and an
insatiable curiosity.”
He describes himself as a “fair
minded, objective-type person,
willing to work with others and
I (who) enioys diversity.”
He says his strengths are
patience and persistence.
“Some say I’m a workaholic,”
: Massengale says. “I’m willing to
put in the extra effort.”
NEWS BRIEFS
Women’s issues
topic of forum
The Chancellor’s Commis
sion on the Status of Women is
sponsoring open forums Tues
day and Wednesday to discuss
women’s issues at the Univer
sity of Nebraska-Lincoln.
The forums will discuss the
campus climate for women,
gender equity in salary, the small
proportion of women on the
faculty and among administra
tors, day care and the lack of
family leave policies, campus
security and sexual harassment.
The forum Tuesday will be
in the Nebraska Union from 3
p.m. to 5 p.m. On Wednesday,
the forum will be from noon to
2 p m. in the East Union.
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