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Galen Dodge, director of the Nebraska Human Resources Institute, uses his book “Priceless People” to teach
classes on interpersonal relations.
Positive motivator
UNL professor communicates caring, leadership to students
By Heather Heinisch
Staff Reporter
Galen Dodge looks for the positive in
every situation and in every person
he meets.
An associate profes
sor of agricultural edu
cation at UNL and the
director of the Ne
braska Human Re
sources Institute,
Dodge has spent 37
years researching the qualities of leader
ship and passing his findings on to
students.
His class, Agricultural Education 102,
a class on interpersonal skills and commu
nication, draws almost 300 students each
semester at the University of Nebraska
Lincoln.
Dodge greets everyone he sees with a
bright smile and a warm hello. At age 61,
his face is etched with years of caring.
“Love is something you can’t learn
from books — you get it from people,” he
said. “You can’t give away what you
never had.”
Growing up on a farm near Shickley,
the ninth of 10 children, Dodge was a shy
child. He said his brothers and sisters
would often speak for him.
His bash fulness continued as an under
graduate at Kearney State College where
he successfully dodged the speech class
requirement. Dodge set a goal for himself
to complete a public speaking course.
He not only completed this goal, but
set another one for himself — to give a
national address. Within 18 months, he
spoke at a National Federation of the
Blind conference in San Francisco.
Today, he teaches students how to real
ize their own potential and to recognize it
in others.
“I think motivation comes from within.
I think what motivates people is success,”
he said. '
As Dodge speaks, he leans toward his
audience and looks on steadily with
intense, blue eyes.
‘‘1 have a philosophy that people arc
not unhappy because expectations arc too
high, but performance is loo low. The
solution is to help increase performance
and productivity to maintain standards of
excellence.”
When Dodge first started leaching, he
said, his performance was low.
‘‘My psychology students went to
sleep. I thought ‘There’s got to be a better
way.’”
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ASUN bill
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supporting
ROTC passed
By Adeana Leftin
Senior Reporter
The Association of Students of the Uni
versity of Nebraska passed a bill Wednes
day that supports keeping ROTC on
campus.
The bill requests that the
Academic Senate repeal part
of a resolution it passed last
spring. The Academic Sen
ate bill urged the chancel
lor to renegotiate ROTC
contracts if the program does
not change its discrimination policy based on
sexual orientation.
As the Department of Defense policy stands,
gays, lesbians and bisexuals cannot become
commissioned officers.
The bill passed with a voteof 16 to 11 and no
abstentions.
Paul Moore, a senior speech communica
tions major, opposed the bill and said it justi
fied homophobic and hetcroscxist behavior at
UNL.
“It makes me physically ill that this senate
docs not consider basic civil rights important,”
he said.
Speaker of the Senate Steve Thomlison,
though, said it wasn’t fair to choose one form of
discrimination over another.
“We ought not to punish those students
i trying to earn degrees through service to their
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Lecturer says
Satanism rising
By Roger Price
Staff Reporter
he practice of Satanism in America is in
creasing because of a nationwide moral
— decline, a Christian researcher said
Wednesday night.
Jon Rittenhousc, a lecturer on Satanism for
Campus Crusade for Christ, told an audience of
about 400 in the Nebraska Union that the
breakdown of the family and the rise of a Self
indulgent culture has led to an increase in
satanic practices.
“The total erosion and undermining of tradi
tional values in America today has set the stage
philosophically and morally for the practice of
Satanism,” Ritlenhouse said.
A spiritual void in peoples’ lives is one
factor that influences them to consider Satan
ism, he said. This void, he said, can only be
filled by accepting God.
“Trying to fill our need for spirituality with
Satanism,” he said, “is like trying to quench a
thirst with salt water— it will never work.”
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Officials: NCAA changes positive
By Jeremy Fitzpatrick
Senior Reporter
Recommendations aimed at im
proving the NCAA’s investi
gative procedures arc a step in
the right direction, UNL athletic offi
cials said Thursday.
The recommendations were offered
Monday by an National Collegiate
Athletic Association special panel
chaired by former U.S. Solicitor
General Rex Lee.
Among the reforms are a provi
sion aimed at speeding up the NCAA’s
investigative process by allowing
university officials and NCAA inves
tigators to work closer together, and
provisions for open hearings for al
leged infractions and the tape-record
ing of NCAA investigative interviews.
Al Papik, assistant athletic direc
tor for administrative services, said
the reforms were warranted.
“One can see why there was a
cause for concern with past proce
dures that have been used (by the
NCAA),” he said.
In the past, Papik said, the NCAA’s
enforcement department has tended
to presume institutions guilty and
require them to prove their innocence.
He described the NCAA as having
been “the judge and jury all in one” in
past athletic investigations.
The reforms are therefore encour
aging, Papik said.
“It appears to me that it certainly is
a good first step," he said.
One of the committee’s recom
mendations is to establish a spirit of
cooperation among university offi
cials and the NCAA. Papik said lha*.
would be difficult because of the past
history between the two groups.
“But if institutions can be involved
in this process,” he said, “then I think
we have a good chance of operating
in a spirit of cooperation.”
Danny Nee, UNL’s head basket
ball coach, said he thought the re
forms were positive.
“It sounds like it is very solid,” he
said.
Nee said that he thought the re
forms would need refinement, he said,
but that would come with time.
“I think as you make changes you
sometimes overreact and underreact,”
he said. “Then you have an adjust
ment period and you hit the nail on
the head.”
One of the proposed reforms, open
hearings lor alleged inlracuons, woulu
have to be handled delicately, Nee
said.
“I think the public has a right to
know,”he said, “but that is like bring
ing a television camera into a court
room.”
He said the hearings could get out
of hand like the recent the Supreme
Court confirmation of Clarence Tho
mas.
“Once you’re smeared, you can
never gel it off,” he said.
Nee said that although nothing
should be hidden from the public,,
common sense is needed to deter
mine what is appropriate for an open
hearing.
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