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APG vote saves
tenured faculty
positions from ax
By Roger Price
Staff Reporter
Following budget hearings
Thursday, the Academic Plan
ning Committee voted that it
would not recommend the elimina
tion of any tenured faculty positions
in its budget reduction recommenda
tions.
The APC motion, offered by
also stated that a
‘ high priority will
be given to gen
der equality in
evaluating programs.
Proposed budget cuts, prompted
by a mandated 3 percent cut to the
University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s
budget over the next two years, are
currently being reviewed by the Budget
Reduction Review Committee. It will
present its recommendations on cuts
to the APC in November.
Under the proposed cuts, the clas
sics and speech communication de
partments are slated for elimination.
APC chairman Thomas Zorn said
the resolution does not mean the
committee was rejecting vertical cuts.
“The committee was just indicat
ing its commitment to these two goals,”
he said. “My understanding is that
should a department or program be
cut, the tenured faculty and gender
equality will somehow have to be
addressed in specific recommenda
tions.
“Certainly the committee intends
to look very heavily at any cuts where
tenured faculty or gender equality is
at stake.
“This should be some comfort to
some faculty,” Zorn said.
Stan Liberty, interim vice chan
cellor for academic affairs, who pro
posed the cuts, said the motion has “a
lot of ramifications on academic af
fairs.”
“That constrainton decision-mak
ing was not there when I was making
my recommendations. If that was there,
I might have made totally different
recommendations,” he said.
Liberty said the decision by APC
completely changes the budget fig
ures involved in the recommended
cuts.
“The whole playing field is tilted,”
he said.
Both Liberty and Zorn emphasized
that while the criteria for evaluation
has changed, the BRRC hearings will
go on as scheduled.
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Winter break study-tour
program deadline nears
By Wendy Mott
Staff Reporter
International study tours over
semester break are well worth
the expense, tour leaders said.
Christa Joy, program coordinator
for International Affairs at the Uni
versity of Nebraska-Lincoln, said six
study-tour programs arc offered for
the 1991 semester break.
The tours leave Dec. 26 and return
Jan. 12. The costs of the tours vary,
averaging around $2,000. Students
receiving the available credit hours
must pay additional tuition costs.
The $2,000 includes air fare, inter
continental travel, hotel accommo
dations and some meals, Joy said.
Additional incidental expenses aver
age $500, she said, but depend on the
frugality of the student.
Joy said she realizes the price ranges
of the tours might inhibit some stu
dents, but added that the groups work
to keep costs as low as possible through
group rates and by staying in student
dormitories when available.
Study tours available include the
traditional language and culture tours
to Germany and Mexico, as well as
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Correction: A letter by Michael DiMuzio in Thursday's DN was edited to give an
incorrect cost for the B-2 bomber. The cost should have been $750 million.
benate prepares tor Clarence
Thomas hearings. Page 2.
Chemistry professor improves
anti-cancer drug. Page 3.
Cornhuskers travel to Okla
homa State. Page 7.
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NU President Martin Massengale speaks to members of the Lincoln Chamber of
Congress about the UNL budget-cutting process during a luncheon Wednesday at the
University Club.
Massengale backs process
Budget-cutting method valid, NU president says
By Wendy Navratil
Senior Reporter
"W" n the wake of widespread con
■ troversy over the UNL budget
cutting process, NU President
Martin Massengale expressed faith
in its propriety.
At a luncheon Thursday with
. the Lincoln Chamber of Commerce,
* Massengale said NU general coun
' sel Richard Wood issued an opin
ion supporting the validity of the
UNL budget-cutting procedures, and
that those procedures should be
followed.
“The process is in place. We
need to follow it,” Masscngalc said. •
Procedures for reducing the UNL
budget were established following
a mandate by the Nebraska Legis
lature that UNL cut its budget by 2
percent this year and 1 percent next
year. The other three NU cam
puses also have faced budget cuts.
Both the proposed cuts and the
procedures guiding the UNL budget
reduction process have been met
with protests from faculty and stu
dents.
“Obviously, any time there’s a
reduction budget, something’s got
logo, Massengalcsaid. “AtUNL,
it’s a more elaborate process in
some ways — UNL is the only one
(of the four NU campuses) propos
ing to eliminate departments.’’
Proposed cuts at UNL include
the elimination of the classics and
speech communication depart
ments. Accompanying those de
partment cuts would be the termi
nation of faculty, some of whom
have tenure.
“It’s never easy. It’s important
to have good dialogue between
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ASUN president says name won t change
By Adeana Leftin
Senior Reporter
Despite pressure from the Uni
versity of Nebraska at Omaha
student senate to change the
name of the Association of Students
of the University of Nebraska, ASUN
President Andy Massey said he has
other things to be concerned about.
Massey said he had no plans to
address the name-change situation.
“Not in the near future,” he said,
“until someone changes my mind about
the whole thing.”
UNO’s student senate unanimously
voted Oct. 3 to give Mark Vanevcn
hoven, director of UNO’s Council for
Community and Legislative Relations,
the authority to demand that AS UN
either allow UNO to join or change its
name.
Vancvcnhoven said AS UN’s name
connotes that UNL’s student govern
ment represents the students of all
bodies of the NU system. The UNO
senate resolution recommended chang
ing ASUN’s name to the Association
of Students of the University of Ne
braska at Lincoln.
“If you guys (ASUN) are going to
represent Lincoln students, then that’s
what the name should be,” he said.
Massey said he didn’t sec a prob
lem with the name.
“Noonc in our organization makes
a statement that we represent all of
the university system,” he said. “I
don’t sec* a problem as long as we
understand we represent Lincoln, and
we do. We make no efforts to repre
sent Omaha.”
Vancvenhoven said he would like
some representation from AS UN. He
said he would prefer to be a part of the
organization instead of ASUN chang
ing its name.
Because of UNL’s location, Va
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nevenhoven said, AS UN has an ad
vantage in lobbying the Nebraska
Legislature. If UNO’s Council for
Community and Legislative Relations
became a part of ASUN, UNO opin
ions could have the same opportuni
ties, he said.
“We want legislative representa
tion,” Vanevenhoven said, “and the
more we can gel, the better.”
He said the student senate at the
University of Nebraska at Kearney
also supported membership or a name
change.
Massey said he thinks CCLR’s
demands arc related to controversy
about whether UNO should be called
the University of Nebraska at Omaha,
as now, or the University of Ncbraska
Omaha.
“If you say U NO or UN at O or UN
(hyphen) O, Massey said, “every
body pretty much knows what you’re
talking about.”
Vancvenhoven said that if he
doesn’t hear from Massey by CCLR’s
Oct. 17 meeting, the UNO senate will
direct him further. The first step would
be to request ASUN to change its
name.
If that fails, Vancvenhoven said he
would contact legal counsel.