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UNL rejects
professors
organization
guidelines
Budget reduction policy
not guilty, official says
By Wendy Navratil
Senior Reporter__
The verdict regarding allegations that the
University of Nebraska-Lincoln budget
cutting process has violated university
bylaws is in — and UNL is not guilty, accord
ing to a letter from NU general counsel Richard
Wood.
Wood, who is out of town until Thursday,
said in the letter that he reviewed university
policy and found no evidence of violations as a
result of the budget reduction process.
Thomas Zorn, chairman
R U DG FT ^ Bud8et Reduction and
D U UU Review Committee, said he
saw this as the signal to
' proceed with scheduled
hearings on budget recom
mendations.
“I believe we’re within
regentand UNL bylaws,” Zorn said. ‘‘We need
to go ahead and cany out our mandate."
Wood’s conclusion that the budget-reduc
tion process has complied with university by
laws was made following claims by the na
tional and the UNL chapter of the American
Association of University Professors dial some *
aspects of the budget-cutting'protess wert^m
violation of bylaws and guidelines of both the
university and the AAUP.
Jerry Petr, president of the UNL chapter of
AAUP, said last week that he believed UNL
bylaws require faculty to be involved in the
initial suggestions for program reductions and
curriculum changes. In terms of proposals to
eliminate the speech and classics departments,
faculty were not adequately involved, he said.
The budget reduction proposals were made
in response to a Nebraska Legislature mandate
that UNL cut its budget by 2 percent this year
and 1 percent next year.
In Wood’s answer to the claims of bylaw
violations, he distinguished between UNL
bylaws, NU Board of Regents bylaws and
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William Lauar/DN
From left, workers Mike Foley, Kent Ryan, Greg Savage and Jason Randall dig to pout the 18-feet-by-4-feet-by
4-feet cement base for “Prismatic Flake” on the east of side of Love Library on Monday morning. Savage said the
base should be finished by the end of the week. \ ~
Sculpture finds homfl_
By Eric Snyder
Staff Reporter ^_•_ -
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln
campus will soon be home to a sculp
ture created by the internationally
renowned artist Michael Heizer.
After its unveiling Nov. 16, “Prismatic
Flake” will be the newest addition to UNL’s
sculpture collection. The piece is to be lo
cated in the Donaldson Garden, east of the
Love Library.
Daphne Deeds, curator and assistant di
rector of Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery,
said the sculpture is “an abstracted shape
based on a Meso-American tool.”
Heizer’s sculpture is constructed of con
crete and makes reference to a scraper-like
instrument used by the Native Americans of
the Midwest, Deeds said. When completed,
it will be 36 feet long and roughly 5 feet tall.
“Prismatic Flake” will weigh approxi
mately 5 tons and will be suspended 4 feet
above the ground.
Work on the project was scheduled to
begin Oct. 4, Deeds said.
“We’re preparing the site. There has to
be quite an elaborate support system,” she
said.
Deeds said the work is significant be
cause the sculpture is “both abstract and
referential.”
“The importance of this work is that it
can be interpreted as an abstract shape float
ing in space or as a reference to an anthropo
logical artifact,” she said. “Ideally, you would
understand both interpretations simultane
ously.”
Deeds also said the sculpture was being
financed entirely through private funds and
donations. However, she declined to com
ment on the cost of the piece.
UNL-to send letter protesting ROTC policy
By Tom Kunz
Staff Reporter
A battle is looming on the hori
zon for the United States mili
tary, but not over territory, oil
or even Saddam Hussein; this battle
will be over homosexuality.
Several universities across the
country, including the University of
Ncbraska-Lincoln, are planning fur
ther steps to protest the military’s
refusal to accept homosexuals as
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Classifieds
Military ban on homosexuals leads to battle
The military responded to the
demands over the summer.
George Tuck, president of the
Academic Senate, said the response
was not what the faculty wanted to
hear.
“The Department of Defense indi
cated they were not going to change
their position,” Tuck said.
Tuck warned that if the military
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commissioned officers.
UNL has taken actions, including
campus protests and faculty censure,
and is planning to send a letter of
complaint to the Pentagon. Hob Howe,
associate to the chancellor, said UNL
probably will send the letter as soon
as new chancellor Graham Spanier
arrives in November.
“Spanier will probably do this upon
his arrival or shortly thereafter,” Howe
said.
Pressure to protest the policy is
developing from several organizations
nationwide, Howe said. But, he said,
he thinks the pressure wouldn’t be the
primary reason for a change in mili
tary policy.
‘‘The military probably won’t do it
on their own,” Howe said. “(Change)
will come at the insistence of Con
gress.”
One body of legislation that al
ready has insisted that the military
change its policy is the UNL Aca
demic Senate. Last spring, the senate
passed a resolution recommending
thaiacadcmic credit be phased out for
ROTC programs if they do not admit
homosexuals by Jan. 1,1993.
College not suffering from cuts, dean says
By Adeana Leftin
Senior Reporter_ ,
Despite a $ 1 million obligation
and $.5 million in budgetcuts,
students in the College of Arts
and Sciences are not suffering, the
dean of the college said Monday.
John Peters, dean of the College of
Arts and Sciences, said he was proud
of his faculty for making cuts that
won't be detrimental to students.
“We have had to meet our obliga
tion plus the 2 percent cut... but very
few students are going to miss out on
classes,” he said. “I’m very proud we
are trying to accommodate students.”
Peters said some classes were
combined or enlarged to ensure the
enrollment of students. He sai<J a lack
of funds has lim
ited photocopy
ing. eliminated
some telephones
and cut back on
operating costs,
such as buying
fewer pencils.
The $1 million obligation was
prompted by university over-budget
ing, Peters said. The money is used
for recruitment, equipment, operat
ing budgets and other “normal costs.”
The $512,234 cut to the budget of
the College of Arts and Sciences is a
result of a Nebraska Legislature
mandate last spring that the Univer
sity of Nebraska-Lincoln cut 2 per
cent from its budget this year and 1
percent from its budget next year.
Peters said the College of Arts and
Sciences has a state-aided budget of
$30 million, and the college provides
more than half of the teaching for the
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university.
“One million and a halt dollars
sounds like a lot,” he said, “and it is,
but you have to consider the size of
the operation.”
The budget problems stem from a
4 percent faculty salary increase for
which the state didn't provide funds
and the university had to cover, he
said.
“The faculty deserved a pay in
crease, but there are consequences,” ^
Peters said. “We have to tighten our
belts for a while.”
