Tk T | Dfllly | 73/50
I Imostly To
1 ll %Z L/l Ct^JVCtX 1 gswwH
Official: Cuts
prompt look
at programs
By Adeana Leftin
Senior Reporter
Proposed budget cuts are caus
ing university officials to take
a hard look at programs at the
University of Nebraska-Lincoln, said
the acting dean of the College of
Engineering and Technology.
Morris Schneider said UNL offi
cials were evaluating programs to see
if they are in the best interest of the
slate and if future changes are neces
sary.
“It’s always challenging to take a
look and sec how we cope with the
situation,” Schneider said.
The cuts arc a result of a Nebraska
Legislature mandate last spring that
UNL should trim its budget 2 percent
this year and 1 percent next year.
If cuts are approved, the drafting
and design engineering program would
be eliminated, Schneider said,
fc* 'That program is probably the least
significant to the role and mission of
this college,” he said.
Schneider said most of the stu
dents in the pro
DimrcT gram are Part
D U DG ET time, and few full
time students
would be affected
by the cut.
Another possible
elimination would
be the Center for
Technology Management and Deci
sion Sciences.
Bill Splinter, interim vice chan
cellor for research, said the center has
a unique purpose.
“It will be very difficult for us to
find other avenues to bring our new
technology of business sciences into
the Nebraska community,” he said.
The University Press also may face
a reduction in its funding.
Splinter said that last year, UNL s
University Press was the only univer
sity press in the nation to make more
than a 10 percent profit, and he called
the reductions a “negative incenti ve. ”
“They’ve been very successful, and
we’re going to chip away (at their
funding),” he said.
In an effort to comply with the
proposed budget cuts, the Office of
Business and Finance has recom
mended eliminating several staff
positions.
Paul Carlson, acting associate vice
chancellor for business and finance,
said nine custodial positions will be
cut.
He said low traffic areas will be
cleaned less because of employee cuts.
With less cleaning, furnishings and
equipment will wear out faster and
need replacement sooner, Carlson said.
In the chancellor’s office, the
combination of the public relations
director’s job and the director of uni
versity relations has been proposed.
Cleric presses for single
hostage trade. Page 2.
Huskers butt Rams back to
Colorado. Page 6 &7.
Record crowd witnesses NU
volleyball loss to UCLA Page 8.
Stuart Theater to open under
new mangement. Page 10.
INDEX
Wire 2
Opinion 4
Sports ' 8
A&E 10
Classifieds12
Andy Frederick/DN
After a 20-year absence, Janice Callum has returned to UNL to complete her degree in
marketing and management.
Older, wiser, more serious
Woman returns for college degrees
By Wendy Navratil
Senior Reporter
After being kicked out of col
lege in 1964, Janice Cal
lum is back—a little older,
a little wiser and a little more seri
ous about her education.
Callum, 44, attended college at
Indiana University in the 1960s as
an art student.
“I flunked out. I got kicked out
of school the same day 1 conceived
my son,” she said.
She and her husband, George
Callum, were married the follow
ing summer. And, more than 20
years later, their marriage is still
going strong, Callum said.
Several moves because of her
husband’s ca
reer with
Goodyear Tire
& Rubber Co.
and the birth of
two more chil
dren prevented
her from finish
ing college, she said.
“1 had to go to work to gel my
husband through school,” she said.
“My life got caught up in my hus
band’s and my children’s lives.” .
One of her husband’s transfers
brought them to Lincoln in the
late- 1960s, Callum said. While
pregnant, she attended night classes
at the University of Nebraska-Lin
coln where her interests began to
shift toward advertising.
After moving from Lincoln,
Callum landed a job as a sales
representative with Polaroid Cor
poration in Ohio. When her hus
band was transferred to California,
Polaroid created a new territory for
her there.
See CALLUM on 3
Speech majors solicit football fans’ support
By Jeremy Fitzpatrick
Senior Reporter
A sign hanging from Oldfaiher
Hall reads, “Speech must never
be silenced.”
A short distance away, University
of Nebraska-Lincoln speech commu
nication students collected signatures
Saturday before the football game
between Nebraska and Colorado State.
Michele Ernst, a graduate student
in the speech communication depart
ment who helped organize the effort,
said four students collected about400
signatures for a petition to save the
speech communication department.
The department was targeted in
cuts proposed last week to UNL’s
Budget Reduction Review Commit
tee. The proposed cuts are in response
to a Nebraska
Legislature man
date last spring
thai UNL cut its
budget 2 percent
this year and 1
percent next year.
— Ernst said Bill
Seiler, chairman
of the speech communication depart
ment, and Vincent DiSalvo, a speech
communication associate professor,
supported the idea.
“We figured our best bet would be
*
at the football game,” she said. “We
wanted to get as many signatures as
we could and just get visibility with
the stale of Nebraska.”
Mary Sully, another graduate stu
dent in the departmentwho collected
signatures, agreed.
“More than anything, we wanted
to bring attention to the situation and
give the students and the citizens of
Nebraska a chance to express their
disappointment with what is happen
ing," she said.
Ernst said she thought the effort
was successful.
“I was really happy with the num
ber of signatures we got,” she said.
She said that although most people
were optimistic and supportive, there
had been some negative reaction.
“We had a few negative comments,”
she said. “I’d be lying to you if I said
there weren’t. But well over the ma
jority was positive and encouraging.”
Sully said she had not expected the
degree of support they received.
“I was really overwhelmed with
the positive response we’ve received
this past week,” she said.
Ernst said that signatures collected
Saturday brought the total to 4,400.
She said she thought students would
attempt to get more signatures at next
week’s game.
Average
age not
climbing
atUNL
By Tom Kunz
Staff Reporter
llhough national reports
show that the number of
non-traditional students at
post-secondary institutions is on
the rise, UNL has not paralleled
that increase, an official said.
The National Center for Educa
tion Statistics reports that 43 per
cent of all college students now arc
age 25 or older, up from 39 percent
from 1981. A recent report in The
Chronicle of Higher Education
shows that about 16.6 percent of
students at post-secondary institu
tions arc over 25.
But James Griescn, vice chan
cellor for student affairs, said that
the number of non-traditional stu
dents at the University of Ncbraska
Lincoln has remained constant.
Roughly 12 percent of UNL’s
students arc non-traditional, which
means they arc over the age of 25,
Griescn said. That percentage ex
cludes graduate students.
UNL’s non-traditional enroll
ment may be lower than the na
tional average, Griescn said, be
cause the institution is not openly
competing for non-lradilionals.
Griescn said he has seen in
creasing competition for non-tra
dilional student's in the last few
years, especially from private
schools. These schools have started
tailoring programs specifically
See STUDENT on 3
NON-TRADITION AL
STUDENTS
I IHgur— w toe lull thw undf yAialu,
Scon Maurf/DN
