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Departments fight proposed budget cuts
Editor’s note: This is the first in a
series of stories examining the ef
fects of proposed budget cuts on
individual colleges and departments.
By Jeremy Fitzpatrick
Senior Reporter
Vincent DiSal vo, a professor of
speech communication, has
taught at the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln for 20 years.
Now, faced with the elimination
of the Department of Speech Com
i
munication because of UNL’s pro
posed budget cuts, he might have to
start all over.
“The personal
feeling that I have
inside is that it (the
proposed elimina
tion) is a slap in
the face,” he said.
“I’m flabber
gasted and bitter.”
DiSalvo is not the only person at
UNL whose future is uncertain.
Monday, Jack Goebel, interim
chancellor at UNL, submitted pro
posals to the Academic Senate’s
Budget Reduction Review Commit
tee to slash $2.5 million from UNL’s
budget this year.
The proposed cuts would elimi
nate the speech communication and
classics departments as well as the
planned College of Fine and Perform
ing Arts. The proposals also would
i
make significant cuts in the Teachers
College and the College of Home
Economics.
Students and professors in the
departments of speech communica
tion and classics are not taking the
proposed elimination of their depart
ments lying down.
Speech communication students
are organizing a petition drive aimed
at saving their department.
They will collect signatures in the
Nebraska Unions and through vari
ous student organizations, said Andy
Roob, a doctoral student who is help
ing to organize the drive.
Professors from both departments
also are fighting the proposed cuts.
Valdis Leinicks, chairman of the
classics department, said he is writ
ing letters to the new chancellor and
to the BRRC protesting the proposal.
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Academic Senate angry
over cuts, officials say
By Tom Kunz
Staff Reporter
11 takes a lot to gel the Academic
Senate angry, but proposed
budget cuts have done just that.
During a meeting of the Academic
Senate on Tuesday, many faculty
members said
they thought they
were “left out”of
recent decisions
on proposed
budget cuts.
•There arc CCMATC
profound misgiv- wCIlM I C.
ings about the
budget cuts,” said Jim McShanc, as
sociate professor of English.
Last spring, the Nebraska Lcgisla
n .-lure catted for the University of Ne
braska-Lincoln to make 3 percent
budget cuts over a two-year period.
On Monday, vice chancellors pre
sented their proposed cuts to the Budget
Reduction Review Committee.
At Tuesday’s meeting, George
Tuck, Academic Senate president, said
he has gotten several phone calls from
faculty members about the cuts.
Professor Bill Seiler, chairman of
the Department of Speech Communi
cation, voiced his anger at the pro
posed elimination of his department.
“The decision was made by people
I’ve never met,” he said.
Tuck said what most angers fac
ulty is the lack of direct faculty con
sultation about the cuts; he urged
those in the budget-cutting process to
directly involve UNL faculty.
Although faculty members were
asked to give their written opinions to
their respective college deans last
spring, Tuck said more involvement
was needed.
Decisions bn budget cuts were being
made during the summer, which was
another disadvantage to direct fac
ulty input.
“During the summer, faculty
members are on vacation, doing re
search work (at) a variety of places,”
Tuck said. “They arc difficult to
contact.”
Graham Spanier, the newly ap
pointed chancellor, fielded questions
about the budget from members of
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Budget review committee
structure to be proposed
By Adeana Leftin
Senior Reporter
A proposal for the structure of
the Budget Reduction Review
Committee will be presented
for consideration by AS UN tonight.
The BRRC was formed in response
to a Nebraska
Legislature man
date that the
University of
Nebraska-Lin
coln cut 2 per
cent from this
year's budget and
1 percent from next year’s budget.
The committee, whose structure
must be approved by ASUN, Aca
demic Senate, the UNL administra
tion and the Academic Programs
Council, will make recommendations
to thechancellor on whcreculs should
be made.
Andy Massey, Association of Stu
dents of the University of Nebraska
president, said the APC approved the
BRRC proposed structure Monday.
Two weeks ago, ASUN approved
a proposed committee structure, but
APC vetoed it to avoid a roll-call
vote.
APC consented to allowing a BRRC
member to call for a division of the
house when preparing to vote.
According to Robert’s Rules of
Order, when a division of the house is
called, a roll-call vote must be taken.
“We’ll just have the student repre
sentative (to BRRC) call it every lime,”
Massey said.
The roll-call vote will let students
know how the committee members
voted, Massey said.
“I think that we need some sort of
accountability,” he said.
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Rack em.
Kent Hemmerling, a freshman architecture major, practices his pool game in the
Nebraska Union game room on Tuesday.
Correction: In a student profile Tues
day, the name of Estonian student Viive
Paju was misspelled
Supreme Court nominee Clar
ence Thomas' confirmation
hearing opens. Page 2.
All eyes are on McCant. Page
7.
Take 6 comes to the Lied.
Page 9.
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Wire 2
Opinion 4
Sports 7
A&E 9
Classifieds10_
I Programs, positions slashed
despite UNO tuition increase
By Kara Morrison
Staff Reporter
A 9 percent increase in student
tuition at the University of
Nebraska at Omaha was not
enough to make up for mandated
budget cuts for
1991-92.
Eighteen full
time positions, in
cluding more than t
six faculty posi
tions, have been
cut. Two aca
demic sequences and many student
services also have been eliminated,
according to a UNO news release.
The $600,000 generated by the
tuition increase had to finance a
mandated 6.5 percent faculty increase
and up to 4 percent staff salary in
crease. At the same time, UNO had to
reduce its budget by 2 percent
($677,748) because of cuts mandated
by the Nebraska Legislature.
The business education sequence
in the College of Education and the
broadcast production sequence in the
Department of Communication have
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