Homecoming to feature recycling
Val Wetzel, adviser to the Home
coming Committee, said the triad with
the most amount of points will re
ceive a certificate.
Many of the activities planned for
Homecoming will be held at the
Devaney Sports Center. Flanagan said
the triad groups will sponsor booths
at the center that correlate with a
carnival theme.
“We are changing things this year,”
Flanagan said. “We are trying to get
everyone involved and include, not
only students, but everyone in the
community. We don’t want to limit
the activities.”
She said proceeds from the alumi
num-can drive and the carnival will
be donated to the University of Ne
braska Environmental Resource
Center.
“We feel that it is a cause that
deserves everyone’s attention and we
are happy to assist the center,” she
said.
David Regan, the director of
UNERC, said donations will go to
ward buying books, periodicals and
other necessary materials.
Regan said the center is “depend
ent completely on donations at this
point.”
“We’ve sent out a mailing of over
1,000 requests for materials and other
contributions,” he said, “One-fourth
of what we take in is put aside for a
fund to buy a camcorder, on which
environmental documentaries can be
taped.”
Regan said the purpose of the vol
unteer, student-run organization is to
“facilitate research and serve as an
advising center for new environmental
studies majors.”
He said he thinks Homecoming in
volvement in the environmental cause
will help increase awareness of the
environment.
Other activities during Homecom
ing week include the kickoff celebra
tion today from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. at
Broyhill Plaza, a talent show at 7 p.m.
Tuesday in the Nebraska Union and
royalty elections on Wednesday.
Screenings of the movie “House
Party II” at the Lincoln Theatre, 1145
P St., will begin at 5, 7 and 9 p.m. on
Thursday. Free passes for the screen
ing may be obtained at at the kickoff
celebration or at information booths
in the Nebraska and East unions.
Hearing
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Women faculty at UNL are three
times more likely to be affected by
budget cuts, Laughlin said, adding
that she thinks UNL officials believe
women can teach, but men are better
suited for research activities.
“That’s blatant sexism,” she said.
Home economics is the most pro
ductive part of the university, she
said, and is a large part of women’s
history.
“Centrality to mission is over
looked,” she said. “It’s a matter of
separating the ‘superior’ sciences
(male-dominated) from the ‘inferior’
sciences.”
Instead of judging home econom
ics on sexist criteria, she said, offi
cials making the budget cuts should
consider the quality of faculty teach
ing, peer acceptance of accredited
graduate programs and peer accep
tance of research findings.
Karen Craig, dean of the home
economics college, said she received
evaluations from accrediting organi
sations say ing the college was of high
quality. Craig said the college was
also cost-effective, with lower instruc
tional costs than other colleges.
I
And, she said, the college enhances
the lives of Nebraskans and rural
America.
“How can the officials say (the
home economics college) doesn’t meet
the criterion of quality?” she said.
The director of the Counseling
Center, Vernon Williams, argued
against its proposed elimination. Under
the proposed budgctcuts, thecenter’s
duties would be absorbed into the
mental health division at the Univer
sity Health Center.
Williams said that dissolving the
center and reassigning the minority
employees to the University Health
Center would hurl minority students
who use the services.
“If the BRRC decides to cut the
Counseling Center, a program that
helps students stay in school and get
maximum education will be gone,”
he said.
Williams said African-American
students feel alienated and rejected
at the mental health center at the
University Health Center. If the
Counseling Center was transferred to
the University Health Center, minor
ity students would forego getting help,
he said.
The effectiveness of minority staff
members at the Counseling Center
cannot be transferred to the health
center, Williams said. The staff
members make the counseling envi
ronment the way it is to help people in
diverse categories, he said.
Some students have problems but
aren’t willing to go to the health center
for fear of being called mentally ill,
Williams said. The Counseling Cen
ter serves as an informal welcoming
center for them, he said.
Onesimo Sandoval, a senior busi
ness administration major and spokes
man for the Mexican American Stu
dent Association, said UNL attracts
minority students, but fails to do
anything to keep them.
Low-income minority students may
be unable to afford fees that may
result if the Counseling Center be
comes part of the health center, San
doval said. The Counseling Center
currently is free to students.
Barbara DiBernard, associate pro
fessor of English and women’s stud
ies, said eliminating the Counseling
Center also would hurt the gay and
lesbian communities.
The Counseling Center is the only
safe, supportive place that gays and
lesbians can go, she said.
“The health center treats them for
physicalandmcmalillness,”shcsaid,
‘instead of giving them information
and support.”
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Nelson
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Sometimes, he said, tough choices
must be made.
“If you don’t have enough (fund
ing) to go around,” he said, “you are
only kidding yourself if you make
everything a priority.
“The university is having to go
through that same sort of process right
now, and there’s a lot of agony and a
lot of acrimony associated with it. It’s
not fun.”
And a significant increase in UNL’s
budget is not likely anytime soon, he
said.
“I think we arc going to have to get
through it as it is for a while.”
He said he will keep trying, how
ever.
“I would hope that at some point
along the line there is going to be
something more we can do,” he said.
Budget
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“They can respond in any way,
from offering extensive additional
material or indicating they’ve already
responded via the hearing process,”
Zorn said.
If preliminary recommendations
to eliminate programs or departments
are made, those departments will be
given another hearing, in accordance
with NU general counsel Richard
Wood’s interpretation of UNL bylaw
requirements, Zorn said.
Paul Olson, professor of English,
said the recent developments in the
budget-cutting process offer faculty
members some reassurance.
“I hope we’re back on track,” Olson
said. “It does mean that there’s some
consensus developing as to the way
that things should be done.”
“It complicates things in some
respects,” Zorn said, “but I think that’s
an indication of how difficult such a
process is and how much more diffi
cult it is to do vertical cuts rather than
across-the-board cuts.”
James McShane, former president
of the Academic Senate, said UNL’s
attempts to make vertical cuts ex
plain, in part, why the process has
been more tedious than the budget
cutting process at NU’s three other
institutions.
“The other schools arc currently
taking horizontal cuts. We took our
horizontal cuts — we arc as far along
as they arc,” McShane said. “What
we arc doing now is saying that you
can’t run a university forever on hori
zontal cuts. We’re taking vertical cuts
to restore some of the damage from
horizontal cuts.” H
“We have some extremely diffi
cult decisions to make,” Zorn said.
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Homecoming 1991
Royalty Candidates
Front Row (left to right):
Stacie Yost, Tami Lindau, Kelly Spencer, Dave Gale, Eliza
beth Jurgens, Jacqueline Gines.
Second Row (left to right):
Duane Bemt, Teg Hughes, Donn Raymond, Leigh Ann
Eickhoff, Brian Wilcox, Eric Marsh.
Third Row (left to right): Jim Bazata, EricThurber, Susan
Brown, Kyle Hauberg, Shawn Burnham, Todd Weber.
Sponsored by: UPC Homecoming Committee
By Lori Huff
Staff Reporter
Homecoming at UNL this year is
taking a new approach to a serious
subject.
“Having Fun: NU Directions” is
the theme of this year’s Homecoming
festivities, said Courtney Flanagan,
Homecoming Committee chairman.
Flanagan said many activities are
planned to correlate with the theme.
She said different groups, made up
of representatives from fraternities,
sororities and residence halls, will
collect cans for recycling.
“The different triads are asked to
bring their cans to Broyhill Fountain
at noon on Friday, where they will
receive one point for each crushed
can submitted,” Flanagan said.