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Proposed cuts prompt different reactions
IANR official says
proposals made
to protect students
By Adeana Left in
Senior Reporter
The vice chancellor for the Institute of
Agriculture and Natural Resources said
he will be surprised if students protest
against cuts made within the institute.
Irv Omtvedt said cuts were made to protect
students.
“We have done everything possible to mini
mize the effect on teaching programs,” he said.
Andy Massey, a senior
environmental studies
major, agreed.
“A lot of what they’re
cutting is not directly re
lated to students on an
everyday basis,” he said.
The program cuts, which are mostly faculty
positions, are in response to a Nebraska Legis
lature mandate last spring that UNL cut its
budget 2 percent this year and 1 percent next
year.
In 1973, the Legislature passed a bill creat
ing IANR as a separately budgeted entity within
the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Because of this, Omtvedt said IANR would
have to cut the entire 3 percent from its budget
instead of the smaller portion that would be
Institute of Agriculture
and Natural Resources
budget reductions
Administrative consolidations
and reductions: $548,400
Eliminate five crop production
members: $263,900
Eliminate one poultry nutrition
program faculty member and
five support staff members:
$225,800
•Eliminate six Extension Agent
and Extension Assistant
positions: $178,000
•Eliminate four faculty positions:
$146,500
TOTAL: $1,362,600
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necessary if it were part of UNL.
“We bit the bullet,” he said.
As a result, 27 faculty and staff positions
will be eliminated.
But, Omtvedt said, no faculty will be fired.
In some cases, positions are open and will not
be filled. In other cases, faculty are planning to
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Teachers College
officials say cuts
won’t save money
By Jeremy Fitzpatrick
Senior Reporter
Teachers College officials said Wednes
day that proposed cuts to the school’s
budget don’t add up.
Stan Liberty, interim vice chancellor for
academic affairs, recommended Monday that
$228,800 be cut from the Teachers College
budget.
The majority of the recommended cuts will
come from the School of
BUDGET Health, Physical Educa
—^ tion, and Recreation.
Under the the vice chan
cellor’s proposal,
$218,900 will be cut from
HPER.
JamesO’Hanlon.dean
of the Teachers College, said the cuts would
not save the university any money.
“The savings are really an illusion,” he said.
The coaching endorsement program, the
Center for Healthy Lifestyles and the adminis
trative office management program, which are
programs slated to be cut, all take in more
tuition revenue than it costs to run them, he
said.
“So how does cutting them save money?” he
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asked.
HPER chairman Charles Ansorge also said
he questioned how money would be saved by
cutting the programs.
“I thought the reason the programs were cut
was to save money,” he said. ‘‘As they used to
say a couple of years ago, where’s the beef?
Where are the savings?”
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CBA studies
eliminating
basic class
in computers
By Wendy Navratil
Senior Reporter
basic computer science course
may be eliminated as a re
quirement in the UNL Col
* lege of Business Administration as
administrators re-evaluate computer
science needs for business students.
The course, Computer Science 237,
may no longer be a requirement for
business students as early as fall of
1993, said Ronald Hampton, associ
ate dean of the College of Business
Administration.
“The class (237) is primarily a
skills course. We don’t want to be in
the business of teaching skills, like
typing. That’s the way we look at it,’’
Hampton said.
The four-credit-hour class, which
is taught by the computer science
department using CBA equipment and
classrooms, currently focuses on word
processing, spread sheets, data base
management and IBM and Apple
operating systems.
Hampton said he would prefer to
offer business students more advanced
training in computer information and
decision-support systems. Specific
funding must be obtained before CBA
could offer such classes, he said.
He has requested $92,(XX) to hire
one full-time faculty member and four
graduate assistants and $61,(XX) for
computer equipment. He said he
expects to be notified next summer as
to whether the funding has been
granted.
If those requests arc granted, CBA
would consider making basic com
puter literacy a prerequisite for ad
mission to the college.
Computer Science 237 then would
be replaced by a more advanced
computer course that would include
information and decision support
systems training.
“We’re looking for a class that
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Outage causes tense moments
By Tom Mainelli
Staff Reporter
When Richard Shoemaker
entered the nuclear magnetic
resonance lab Saturday
morning, he was worried.
“It didn’t look good,” said Shoe
maker, director of the lab at the Uni
versity of Nebraska-Lincoln.
“I knew I had a lot of work on my
hands. I thought we were in deep,” he
said.
A power outage early that morn
ing had shut down all the NMR in
struments. The 45-minute outage
occurred when Jamie Howell, an 18
year-old Iowan, climbed UNL’s elec
trical substation and touched two in
sulators.
By Monday, only one of five nu
clear magnetic resonance instruments
in the Hamilton Hall Chemistry
Department was working properly.
But by Wednesday afternoon, four
out of five were back on line, and the
staff, faculty, and students who use
the instruments for research were
breathing easier.
One of the biggest problems Shoe
maker said he faced was a fused
component in one of the $600,000
NMR instruments. He said he would
have had to replace the part at a cost
of $28,500.
General Electric, the NMR manu
facturer, has since replaced the part
for free.
“We certainly appreciate what they
are doing,” he said.
After spending several days on
repairs, it appears that the major cost
will be lost time on the instruments,
Shoemaker said.
The seventy ot damage to instru
ments in ^he Midwest Center for Mass
Spectrometry is still unknown, said
Ron Cemy, the assistant director of
the center.
Since Monday, Cemy said he and
others have been cleaning and decon
taminating two mass spectrometry
instruments that were affected. One
of the two appears to be working, he
said, but the status of the other re
mains unknown.
Cemy said lime lost on the instru
ments was probably the most costly
factor, affecting local researchers and
those from around the country who
have items submitted for analysis.
“I’m confident we can gel it fixed
up,” Cemy said. “But with current
budget situations, it’s not a good time
for this to happen. And lost lime can’t
be recovered.”
Official says
Lied employees
pulling together
By Michael Hannon
Staff Reporter
he recent rash of resignations
at the Lied Center for Perform
ing Arts has been a loss but has
prompted the remaining staff to pull
together, the Lied’s interim director
of development and public relations
said.
“I’m sorry to see them go,’’ Norah
George said of the four who had re
cently resigned from the Lied Center.
Earlier this summer, Bruce Leslie,
director of operations; Cheryl Clark,
director of marketing; and Shelia
Griffin, associate director for pro
gram and audience development,
resigned, George said.
Mark Johnson, the facilities man
ager, is the most recent staff member
to quit. His resignation is effective
Friday.
Johnson cited “a total frustration”
with the way the Lied Center was
being operated and with his inability
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Correction: In Wednesday's editorial,
the name ot Valdis Lemieks, chairman of
the Department of Classics, was mis
spelled
Thomas promises open mind.
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UNL to help foreign econo
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Good, cheap food. Page 7.
Thater’s growth helps out.
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Sandy Cavanaugh, left, and Andy Roob, both graduate students in the speech commu
nication department, encouraae students in the Nebraska Union on Wednesday, to sign
a petition urging UNL administration to keep their program. The students said they hope
to gather 20,000 signatures.