Marines return to Union
By Wendy Mott
Staff Reporter
Union Board members heard a
plea Tuesday to open the first-floor
Nebraska Union area to a marine
officer recruiting program.
Current board policy states that
government agencies cannot recruit
on the first floor of the union.
Daryl Swanson, director of
Nebraska Unions, said the policy
was enacted in the 1970s when
military recruiting in the union
“precipitated anti-war demonstra
tions.”
1st Lt. Richard Da Silva, a U.S.
Marine Corps Officer Selection
Officer in Omaha, said he is in
charge of a number of colleges in
the Midwest. Da Silva said he wants
to expose students, especially
undergraduates, to Marine officer
commissioning programs.
These programs require noth
ing of students during the school
year, Da Silva said. Students at
tend summer courses one year, and
when they graduate from college,
they are commissioned to second
lieutenant, he said.
Students have no commitment
to the Marine Corps until they have
accepted the commission, he said.
They can choose to leave the corps
even after completing the course,
he said.
Currently, government agencies
are referred to the Career Planning
and Placement Center for their
recruitment activities, but Da Silva
said that most students that use the
center are seniors.
An officer commissioning pro
gram currently contacts seniors and
college graduates, but Da Silva said
he wants to reach undergraduates
as well.
The board moved to establish a
trial run for the program for the
remainder of the school year.
Members will vote on the motion
at the next meeting.
The board also heard from the
associate director of the Environ
mental Resource Center, Jeff Rig
gcrt.
Riggert, a senior biology major,
said that the center was doing well
but that it needed more publicity so
students could learn about its serv
ices.
He said 30 people volunteered
to staff the center even without
publicity, and 50 to 60 people have
already examined environmental
information available at the cen
ter.
The board moved to continue
working on a display of student art
work and photography for the
Gallery Wall in the lobby of the
Nebraska Union.
Phillip Glynn, a senior art ma
jor, said that art students want to
display their work in the union but
that they arc concerned about the
lack of security.
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and a current member of the commis
sion, said that members of the com
mission will present information from
the testimonies at the forum to the NU
Board of Regents at its Oct. 18 meet
ing.
“We hope the Board of Regents
will pressure the administration to set
concrete goals and timetables for the
recruitment and retention of ethnic
minorities and to assist UNL by pro
viding adequate resources,” said
Ramsay, an assistant actuarial sci
ence professor.
Esther Martinez, chairman of the
Chancellor’s Commission on the Status
of Minorities, said help is needed
from the regents to improve recruit
ment and retention of minorities.
“We hope that the Board of Re
gents will deliver a firm mandate to
the administration to improve the
climate for ethnic minorities on this
campus,” she said.
I-POLICE REPORT-1
Beginning midnight Monday,
Sept. 30
12:12 a.m. — Nuisance phone calls,
Pound Residence Hall.
12:55 a.m. — Man causing distur
bance, parking lot at 16th and S
streets.
2:31 a.m. — Nuisance phone calls,
Pound Residence Hall.
8:20 a.m. — Reserved parking sign
vandalized, parking lot at 17th and
Vine streets, S50.
11:06 a.m. — Motorcycle stolen,
loop east of Memorial Stadium,
$160.
12:06 p.m. — Man trespassing in
women’s restroom, Abel Residence
Hall.
1:45 p.m. — Auto door damaged,
parking lot at 14th and W streets,
$100.
2:27 p.m. — Annoyance phone
calls, Ncihardt Residence Hall.
2:54 p.m. — False fire alarm,
Ferguson Hall.
10:10 p.m. — Bicycle stolen,
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there is an institutional policy or
procedure that would require more
consultation with faculty than what
has taken place,” in a case not gov
erned by financial exigency, Wood
said.
The AAUP letter referred to a
section of UNL Bylaws that cited a
1973 UNL Faculty Senate decision in
its argument that faculty must be
involved in the budget-culling proc
ess, even when the process is not
taking place under conditions of fi
nancial exigency.
Wood said the citation is based on
a report by the Ad Hoc Committee on
Reallocation that defined procedural
guidelines for budget reduction to be
observed, especially with regard to
faculty participation.
“Those procedures were accepted
and adopted by the Faculty Senate in
1973. We’re trying to figure out
whether they became institutional
policies or not,” he said.
According to the 1973 guideline,
faculty must authorize discontinuance
of programs or departments, the AAUP
letter said.
Jerry Petr, the president of the UNL
chapter of AAUP, said that according
to the 1973 guideline, faculty mem
bers were not adequately involved.
“In our reading of the guidelines,”
Petr said, “faculty have to be involved
in the initial suggestions for curricu
lum changes and program elimina
tion. In terms of program elimina
tion, as far as we know, they weren’t
involved.”
AAUP policy, in the case of a dis
continuance of a program or depart
ment not governed by financial exi
gency, stales that the decision must
be based “essentially upon educa
tional considerations, as determined
primarily by the faculty as a whole or
an appropriate committee thereof.”
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ligoncc may actually be having a lot
01 common sense,” she said. “But to
say all intelligent people lack
common sense is the same as saying
all jocks arc dumb. It’s just a
stereotype.”
Sheldon said the 114 active
members of the Lincoln Mensa
chapter have a diverse range of
occupations and interests and sug
gested that the diversity might
appeal to UNL students.
“Wc meet every Friday at a bar
or restaurant in town and just have a
good lime,” Sheldon said. “Some
times we’ll go on excursions, such
as a trip to a snake farm, but it’s
whatever interests the members.”
That diversity also presents a
challenge to Mensa members,
Sheldon said.
“Sometimes it’s hard to gel
Mensa members together because
of that diversity,” she said. “I’m
one of the few musicians in the
group, and I go to ballet and opera a
lot. But when I talk to some of them
about music, their eyes sort of gla/.e
over.”
In fact, Sheldon’s decision to
study music may appear unusual,
considering that she could have
chosen a more lucrative career in
medicine or law.
“People look at intelligent types
and say why aren’t you a million
aire?’ But there arc other things that
are more important,” she said.
For example, Sheldon said her
father had wanted her to be a
doctor, and she was interested in
medicine until she saw a film about
open-heart surgery.
“An IQ score is not an accurate
assessment of the whole person,”
she said. “Athletes get recognition
for physical prowess and musicians
for musical talent, but there’s more
to people than just their strengths.”
Sheldon said her intelligence did
not help her pick a career and may
have made the choice harder.
“I am interested in a lot of
things, and it was hard to focus on
,one,” she said. “If I were rich, I’d
slay in school and study English,
biology, zoology, botany and his
tory, to name a few. They all
interest me.”
Sheldon said she comes from a
long line of musicians, and this
musical background has a lot to do
with her career choice.
Sheldon graduated from Kearney
High School and received her
undergraduate degree in music from
what was then Kearney State
College.
Writing music, being involved in
athletics or taking part in some
other activity can help those with
high intelligence relate to others.
However some gifted people, es
pecially children, don’t have those
kinds of activities to fall back on,
and may end up feeling isolated
from their peers.
Sheldon said she did not feel that
way.
“If you got a good grade on a
test, kids would call you a brain, but
I just thought of that as my particu
lar strength,” she said. “Some smart
kids will do poorly so they won’t
gel that reaction, but I never
diought I needed to.”
Sheldon said her interests
include water-skiing, hiking,
traveling and reading.
“I read a lot and I think people
who start reading from a young age
seem to do better in school,” she
said. “I think reading gives us a
head start in grasping concepts and
using our imaginations."
Sheldon said she reads science
fiction, mystery, fantasy and even
romance novels, but she especially
enjoys books written for young
people.
i How much television she
watches depends on how busy she is
and what’s going on in town,
Sheldon said.
“Daytime television is out, but I
do watch ‘Jeopardy,’” she laughed.
“I’d do all right if I went on the
show, but I’d never win. I’m not an
avid fan, though, and my life
doesn’t come to a halt if I miss a
show,” , L
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