Committee examines
goals to establish
gender equity at UNL
By Trish Spencer
Staff Reporter
A committee to establish gender
equity on University of Nebraska
campuses, following its recent for
mation by the NU Board of Regents,
is exploring what policies are needed
to fulfill its mission, its chairman
said.
Regent Charles Wilson of Lincoln
said the committee has identified some
tentative goals and now is listing the
policies needed to reach the goals.
Existing policy does address the
gender equity issue, Wilson said, and
some administrates have taken the
policy seriously and followed it.
But the overall record is “spotty,”
he said.
The committee is examining why
the problem even exists, Wilson said,
and what can be done to achieve
proportional representation on all NU
campuses.
To achieve this, Wilson said a series
of “incentives” might help, such as
reviewing administrators annually to
find out what progress they have made
toward achieving gender equity.
The current inequity is an “under
utilization of talents and abilities,” he
said. Looking back over history, Wilson
said, people see what men offered to
society and then wonder what women
had to offer but didn’t because they
were never given the opportunity.
The situation at NU is compa
rable, he said.
The university may be seeing the
benefits of gender equity by 1995,
Wilson said, if a goal set last year by
the Chancellor’s Commission on the
Statusof Women is reached. The goal
was for the number of women and
minorities NU has on the faculty of a
department to match, by 1995, the
number who graduated in that aca
demic area nationally.
The gender equity committee was
formed after the NU Board of Re
gents decided to acquire more infor
mation on the status of women on NU
campuses. The regents’ decision fol
lowed a report by the Chancellor’s
Commission on the Status of Women
outlining inequities between male and
female faculty and staff pay and
promotion.
The board had a hearing in April to
gel input on the situation. After the
hearing, the regents formed the gen
der equity committee, which is com
posed of male and female regents and
faculty members.
Its next meeting will be June 27 ~
from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. in Varner Hall.
The committee will address the
Board of Regents at its Sept. 6 meet
ing.
Chancellor search persists;
candidate pool narrowed
From Staff Reports
The committee searching for a
University of Nebraska-Lincoln chan
cellor began interviewing candidates
Wednesday, its chairman said.
Harvey Perlman, dean of the Col
lege of Law, said the committee proba
bly will finish interviewing the 12
semi-finalists by Monday.
Perlman called the list of candi
dates “very strong.” It includes women
and minorities, he said. He would not
say if there were any candidates from
within the university.
The committee narrowed the
number qf prospective chancellors to
12 last Friday.
Perlman said the committee will
pare the list from six lo eighl finalists,
hopefully by the end of June.
The list then will go to University
of Nebraska President Martin Mas
sengale, who will select the chancel
lor. Massengale’s choice must be
approved by the NU Board of Re
gents.
Massengale has not tried to influ
ence the committee’s search, Perlman
said. Massengale only charged the
committee with “getting the best person
we could find” when the committee
was formed last Febi>iary, Perlman
said.
Perlman said there have been some
“strong arguments and debate” among
committee members about the candi
dates, but refused lo comment on
what the arguments concerned.
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“There arc a lot of people who
think, and correctly so, that it is a very
unique exhibit. It may be the only one
in the world of that animal; and then,
of course, its size makes it unique."
One of the biggest critics of the
baluchithcre is Dorothy Meade, who
thinks it is inconsistent with Morrill
Hall, Splinter said.
Meade is the granddaughter of
Erwin Barbour, who was the director
of Morrill Hall when the museum was
conceived and built.
Splinter said the baluchithcre is
actually part of another person’s dream
for Morrill Hall, a dream that never
cdtihplctcty matfcrlall/cd.
In the 1960s, a Hall of Giants was
envisioned for the museum, Splinter
said. The baluchithere was built in
anticipation of that exhibit.
The funding for the project fell
through, and the Hall of Giants never
came about, Splinter said.
Although Morrill Hall already has
a national reputation, Splinter ex
pressed regret that the exhibit was
never completed.
“That really would have put us on
the map.”
Parting with the baluchithere will
not be easy, he said.
“You cton’t often have an exhibit
that is the only one in the world,”
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