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CpI. Michael Dorn, left, a junior criminal justice major, helps spec. Todd Biltoft, a senior general agriculture major, strap on
his parachute rigging. Both students belong to the Nebraska National Guard 134th Infantry Detachment, wh;ch jumped 1,250
feet from a C-130 airplane over the Mead training site near Memphis Sunday. The unit jumps four times a year as training.
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Budget
stresses
faculty
By Dionne Searcey
Staff Reporter
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
faculty members are feeling
stressed about legislative pro
posals that would mean little or no
salary raises, officials said.
“There is stress all over the cam
pus (about proposed budget cuts) . .
said Nancy Myers, UNL Employee
Assistance Program director. She said
about six faculty members recently
have sought help from the center to
ease worries about budget cuts.
Those employees came to the center
seeking counsel about other problems,
she said, then mentioned salary wor
ries as a secondary problem.
James McShanc, Academic Sen
ate president, told the senate Tuesday
that he has noticed “a great deal of
stress on campus” because of pro
posed university wide budget cuts.
“If we’re looking at serious pro
jected budgetary and programmatic
cuts ... the amount of stress that
causes is enormous.”
The Appropriations Committee is
calling for a 4 percent across-the
board cut to all state agencies, includ
ing the university. The proposal at the
same time would allow for 4 percent
yearly faculty salary increases. Be
cause of high inflation rates, salary
cuts could result.
Myers told members of the Aca
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Farmhouse takes stand for little sisters
By Adeana Leftin
Staff Reporter
Little sister chapters across the
country are bowing to national
pressures and being knocked
down, but one UNL fraternity re
cently stood up for its chapter.
Some of the members of Farm
house fraternity made a motion April
8 to close their sister chapter.
The motion failed, but Farmhouse
President Eric Snyder said the intent
of the motion was filled.
The motion brought “to attention
that changes will take place” in the
program, he said, although no changes
have been made yet.
Snyder said some fraternities na
tionwide are concerned that sister
chapters can hurt the all-male status
of fraternities.
Jayne Wade Anderson, director of
greek af fairs, agreed, saying fraterni
ties were organized for men.
She said women could join a so
rority or another campus organiza
tion to gel involved.
Snyder said lhai nationally, the
outcome for little sister programs has
been different.
At the University of Missouri, the
administration closed all little sister
chaplets.
Cathy Scroggs, assistant director
of residential and greek life at MU,
said most chapters went along with
the administrative action.
Many of the chapters already were
experiencing pressure from national
organizations to get rid of little sister
programs, she said.
Scroggs said the administration
made the decision to cancel the pro
grams after several cases of date rape
involving little sisters and fraternity
members were reported.
Since the chapters were removed,
she said, the number of reported cases
has decreased.
Christa Pietsch, former president
of Farmhouse little sisters at MU,
said she thought the cliapier was worth
saving, so she worked for several
months to make the group a rccog
nized student organization.
She had to draw up a new
constitution and prove the worth of
the organization to three levels of
administrators who reviewed the
constitution.
The group received recognition as
a student organization, but still holds
its meetings at the Farmhouse frater
nity and participates in activities
together.
A year out of circulation hurt the
group, Pietsch said, but it’s working
to get back on its feet.
T‘It was a strong organization be
fore, and it will be a strong organiza
tion again,” she said.
Denise Johannes, president of the
UNL Farmhouse sister chapter, said
she thought the program at UNL also
was worth saving.
The Farmhouse sister chapter is a
good program, she said, although she
realized that changes will have to be
made.
“We'll work to do something dif
ferent while still belonging,” she said.
Farmhouse fraternity nixes
‘little’ in sister program
From Staff Reports
While some little sister chap
ters are facing sibling ri
valry that will decide their
existence, the UNL Farmhouse
chapter just wants to grow up.
Denise Johannes, president of
the University of Nebraska-Lin
coln Farmhouse sister program, said
members found the “little” in little
sister degrading.
“We should just be the sisters,”
she said.
Johannes said the chapter tried
to change the name last year, but
the idea never was presented to
Farmhouse.
The members of Farmhouse
recognized why their little sisters
wanted to change the name and
supported them this year, Johannes
said.
Changes will have to be made to
the constitution and checking ac
count, she said. Composite pic
tures also will be changed to elimi
nate the “little.”
Farmhouse President Eric Snyder
supported the change.
“Little is kind of a power word,”
he said.
Duke Bradford, little sister chair
man at Sigma Alpha Epsilon, said
SAE little sisters have not ques
tioned “little” as being demeaning,
but he didn’t think there would be
any objection if they did.
“It’s their decision,” Bradford
said.
The Nebraska baseball
team wins two, loses two.
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Longer timetable, lower budget
Recreation center project suffers delay
By Dionne Searcey
Staff Reporter
Completion of the University of Nebraska
Lincoln Campus Recreation Center
project has been held up again, an offi
cial said.
Bob Carpenter, campus architect, said Phase
III of the rcc center project will be completed in
August 1992. This is the third delay for the
project.
The projected completion date originally
was January 1992.
Part A of Phase III, the final stage of the
S14.9 million renovation program, will rede
sign a gym floor and locker rooms in the NU
Coliseum.
Carpenter said plans arc being delayed
because the “redesign processes were more
comprehensive” than expected.
He said contractors have been delayed by
asbestos removal and dividing Phase III into
two plans. One plan will renovate the areas
used for academics, and the other will revamp
the space used for recreation.
Despite the revised plans, contractors had
expected to complete renovations in the spring
of 1992.
James Gricscn, vice chancellor for student
affairs, said another revision in the project is
the cost.
Administrators recently approved a Phase
HI cost of S3.4 million, Gricscn said. The cost
is lower than originally planned, he said. Archi
tects had predicted a cost of about $5 million in
1987 when the project began.
“We couldn’t have all the whistles and bells
we would have liked and still stay within the
budget,” Griesen said about the revised cost.