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New chancellor
unveils strategy
By Wendy Navratil
Senior Reporter
Graham Spanier gave a glimpse
of his approach to dealing with
University of Nebraska-Lin
coln issues Monday, even though he
won’t officially begin his U^iL chan
cellorship until Nov. 1.
“I don’t want to be a chancellor
who is here to
manage for today
so much as a
chancellor who
leads the univer
sity into the fu
ture,” Spanier
said after a press
conference Mon
day morning at
the Nebraska
Union.
Spanier Spanw,?ri,,s
^ ing UNL this
week following his appointment as
UNL chancellor and NU vice presi
dent Friday.
For Spanier, leading UNL into the
future means addressing current is
sues and problems, such as the budget
cutting process and the vacant admin
istrative posts, as well as more long
term issues, such as gender equity
and minority recruitment and reten
tion. ______
Because the budget-cutting proc
ess is already underway, Spanier said
he would not be able to “get fully
immersed in the process.” Instead, he
said he will have to rely heavily on
Jack Goebel, interim UNL chancel
lor, who has been active in the proc
ess since it began.
“I’ve been briefed on the ap
proaches, and a lot of it makes sense
.... (but) one cannot become an
expert on the affairs of UNL that
quickly,” he said.
The UNL budget cuts were
prompted by a Nebraska Legislature
decision to reduce UNL’s slate-aided
funding by 3 percent for the 1991-92
academic year. Goebel responded by
asking all UNL departments to sub
mit plans for a 5 percent reduction to
allow for flexibility in making the
actual cuts.
Deans and unit directors submit
ted their plans to comply with Goe
bel’s request, and they were notified
Sept. 5 about the programs in their
departments that would be affected.
The public was informed yesterday.
Spanier said he plans to become
more involved in the process as he
gets “a better handle” on the situ
ation. He said he expects he will
make the final decision on campus
recommendations because those are
scheduled to be made after he as
sumes his position.
His experience as provost and vice
president for academic affairs at
Oregon State will help him make
some of those decisions, he said. A
similar budget-cutting process took
place at Oregon State last year.
“I bring (to UNL), unfortunately, a
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UNMC reduces staff
to meet 5 percent cut
By Kara Morrison
Staff Reporter
The University of Nebraska
Medical Center has cut 60
positions from its payroll to
comply with budget cuts mandated
by the Nebraska Legislature last ses
sion, said Tom O’Connor, UNMC
media coordinator.
Stephen Leeper, dean of the Col
lege of Dentistry
at the UNL cam
pus, said the
Legislature man
dated a 2 percent
cut of NU’s pro
posed budgets
this year and an
additional 1 per
cent cut next year.
A pay raise also was ordered, but
no money was given for the raise,
Leeper said. Another 2 percent of the
budget had to be reallocated, he said.
UNMC is the first entity of the
university system to make the bulk of
the S percent cuts.
“There was substantial agreement
between deans and directors to take
the cut and the trauma associated
with budget cuts, get it over with, and
move on,” said Donald Leucnberger,
vice chancellor of business and fi
nance of UNMC.
O’Connor said that because 80
percent of UNMC’s budget goes toward
salaries and benefits, “that’s where
the cuts had to be made.”
Forty of the cut positions were
unfilled, but 20 people were laid off,
O’Connor said.
UNMC’s cuts have been fell on
the Lincoln campus by the College of
Dentistry and the College of Nursing,
the only two UNMC-run colleges at
UNL.
The College of Dentistry elimi
nated one full-time faculty position
and eight full-time staff positions,
Leeper said.
The college also had tb reduce its
part-time faculty budget by 50 per
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Viive Pujo, a graduate student from Estonia, said she is pleased with its recent
independence.
‘My country is free ’
Estonian student welcomes nation’s independence
By Heather Heinisch
Staff Reporter
fter 40 years of Soviet rule,
the Baltic states are inde
pendent once more, but
Estonian Viive Pujo said she didn’t
know when the final victory party
should begin.
A graduate student at the Uni
versity of Nebraska-Lincoln, Pujo
said each step toward democracy
was a celebration in her country.
The first major gain was in
March, when Estonians voted for
independence. Pujo said more re
joicing followed when Iceland
became the first country to recog
nize the Baltic states. Forty other
nations followed suit, including the
United States and the Soviet Un
ion, both of which granted recog
nition last week.
Pujo, 26, said
she is pleased
with the recent
events but her
happiness is
“with reserva
tion.”
“I still don’t
know if it’s the right time to re
joice ” she said.
The problems in her country arc
great, and many citizens are skep
tical of changes occurring so quickly,
Fujo said. Estonians haven’t for
gotten the hardships under Soviet
rule, she said.
Even though she has never known
any other type of government than
communism, she said that her de
sire for democracy was no less than
that of the older generation who
actually had experienced it.
“Everybody knows what’s free
dom,” she said.
Pujo’s delicate features clouded
and her quick smile disappeared
when she talked about how her
family suffered under her “enemy,”
the Soviet Union.
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Two departments may lose big
in fight over budget reductions
By Adeana Leftin
Senior Reporter
The Department of Speech Com
munications and the Depart
ment of Classics could be
phased out of the College of Arts and
Sciences if budget cuts proposed
Monday are approved.
But Jack Goebel, interim chancel
lor of the University of Nebraska
Lincoln, said that none of the propos
als presented at the first meeting of
the ad hoc Budget Reduction Review
Committee were absolute.
The proposed budget cuts were
prompted by a mandate for 3-percent
cuts made last spring by the Nebraska
Legislature. Goebel responded by
asking all UNL
departments to
submit plans for a
5-percent reduc
tion to allow for
flexibility in
making the actual
cuts.
Deans of col
leges and directors of programs re
ported to their vice-chancellors where
See BUDGET on 6
Correction: In a story Monday,
the name of Peg Blake was incor
rectly spelled. Blake was appointed
to the position of assistant vice
chancellor for student affairs.
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New Age store. Page 10
INDEX
Wire 2
Opinion 4
Sports 7
A&E 9
Classifieds 11