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bers admit that they would be lost
without us,” Pajnigar said, referring
to services performed by managerial
and office personnel.
She also said students depend on
these services to handle financial aid
and administrative processes.
Sandy Lineberry, president of the
University of Nebraska Office Per
sonnel Association, agreed and said
cuts made in the office/service de
partments would force faculty to
perform additional jobs.
‘‘It is not an effective utilization of
these personnel to ask of them that
they handle administrative tasks in
addition to their main and most im
portant task — that of teaching,”
Lineberry said.
The groups said all positions, in
cluding tenured faculty, should be
evaluated in the budget cutting proc
ess.
Pajnigar said attempts to avoid
cutting tenured faculty placed the brunt
of budget cuts on managerial/
professional and office/service em
ployees.
“Tenure is to protect academic
freedom of speech,” Pajnigar said.
“Tenure, in my opinion, is not a guar
antee for lifetime employment.”
Focusing the cuts on office and
managerial positions will further
enhance the questions of gender eq
uity at UNL, she said. The majority of
these positions are held by women.
She said an imbalance already
existed in hiring women educators.
“If budget cuts are completed as
proposed, it appears that a higher
percentage of women will be affected
by cuts than men,” Lineberry said.
Exon touts Kerrey in show
By Adeana Leftin
Senior Reporter ___
U.S. Senator Jim Exon said Thurs
day that he would not let Bob Kerrey
down in his run for president of the
United States because Kerrey has never
let him down.
“Nebraska and I think he has done
perfectly well for Nebraska,” Exon
said via satellite from Washington,
D.C., during a taping of “At Issue” for
Nebraska Educational Television.
Exon said he believes Kerrey had
a good chance in the election.
“He has a charisma, a quality and
a demonstrated ability,” Exon said.
“(Kerrey has) met every challenge in
his life and he has met that challenge
successfully.”
Kcrmit Brashear, former state
Republican party chairman, agreed
that Kerrey was “a genuine American
hero,” but said Kerrey s charm and
good looks might be carried too far
and detract from the issues.
One issue Brashear raised was
Kerrey’s brief time of public service
and his foreign relations inexpen
cnee.
Jerry Sellentin, executive director
of the Nebraskan Republican Party,
agreed that Kerrey’s international
experience “is very lacking.
Exon said Kerrey has spent about
the same time in public office as had
John F. Kennedy when he was elected
president.
Kennedy also had no international
experience, he said, but he handled
the Cuban missile crisis his first year
in office. He said Kerrey would “grow
into” the responsibility.
While comparing Kerrey to Ken
nedy, Exon said he thought Kerrey
had an advantage. As a small busi
nessman, Exon said, Kerrey has had
to earn his living and has acquired
good managing skills.
Don Nelson, former Kerrey chief
of staff, said Kerrey took personal
responsibility for his efforts, could
delegate well to people he trusted and
could get the most out of those people.
Brashear disagreed.
J don t think he’s a manager at
all,” he said. “He doesn’t show the
follow-through and consistency I think
is required.”
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Nebraska docs.”
Variations of climate weren’t the
only differences Wilson has noticed
about living in Nebraska.
“Our foods are more natural,”
Wilson said. “We cat fresh meat
with no preservatives, and we also
don’t have to worry about the shelf
life of our products because we
usually cal fresh foods.”
Despite Nebraska’s being “loo
flat”, Wilson said he feels the slate
is a nice place to live. Nebraskans
arc generally friendly, he said, but
not as outgoing as New Zealanders.
“I’ve noticed that people here
stay in their family cell,” Wilson
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said. “In New Zealand, we work
with different kinds of people and
socialize more.”
Wilson said his travels have
made him appreciate New Zealand,
which is where he will make his
permanent home.
Before returning to New Zealand
in late December, Wilson said he
plans to show a slide presentation of
New Zealand.
“The show is a ‘tiki tour,’ or
brief overview of New Zealand,”
Wilson said. “Anyone who is
interested in New Zealand is
welcome to come.”
Wilson plans to return to UNL
from New Zealand in May.
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time it takes for the student to receive
the loan check will be reduced from
about .six weeks to two days. The
proposal also would eliminate the 30
day waiting period for first-lime bor
rowers.
The biggest benefit to students,
Beacon said, is that it gives them
more “real” money. The simplifica
tion of the loan process also is a major
asset, he said.
“I can't help but think it’s going to
save some money,” Beacon said.
But Beacon said the S20 process
ing fee paid to the college may not be
enough to cover costs of processing
the loans.
Another problem is that the servic
ing of loans has not been discussed
within the proposal. The current law
for due diligence says the student
must be contacted 22 times in the first
180 days after the student leaves school.
This would put a large burden on the
colleges that may not have the staff
for such an undertaking.
Students who have problems with
their loans will have to deal with the
federal government rather than with a
nearby bank, Beacon said.
And the higher dollar amount of
the loans means a higher potential for
default, Beacon said.
He said he thinks the program will
be run similar to the Perkins Loan
Program, a direct loan that has a low
default rate among UNL students.
“I philosophically favor the direct
lending-program if it puts more dol
lars in the students’ hands and is simpler
and faster,” Beacon said. “It may be
worth looking at the current system
and correcting some of the problems.
“If I can’t administer it, if I have
handcuffs on, then I don’t favor it.”
Banks are powerful lobbyists,
Beacon said, and arc working to make
sure the program stays the way it is.
However, he said that since the pro
gram is proposed to begin in 500
institutions in the 1994-95 academic
year and increase to 1,000 the follow
ing year, banks being phased out will
have no incentive to offer loans to
students at institutions not yet part of
the program. This, Beacon said, may
cause the government to administer
the program all at once.
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Increases in tuition have not been
matched by increases in state funding
to help cover the gap, he said.
Heidi Putcnsen, senator from the
College of Business Administration,
said it is ironic that some professors
were willing to eliminate other fac
ulty in the name of salary increases.
The group said it was opposed to
the elimination of the speech com
munication and classics departments
the movement of the Counseling Center
to the University Health Center and
the decision not to hire an additional
UNL police officer.
George Tuck, president of the
Academic Senate, said members of
the senate’s executive committee were
not present to make recommenda
tions on the proposed eliminations.
Instead, he offered the committee
advice before it made further deci
sions.
Tuck reminded the group that re
cent information on state-aided pro
grams would help the committee
determine the impact of proposed cuts.
If the budget data on a particular item
is not available, he said, the program
should not be cut.
“The timeline is not carved into
stone,” he said. “If your committee
cannot find enough items to produce
a 2-percent cut, then it can ask for
more information.”
The committee has several diffi
cult decisions to face, Tuck said.
“No one is going to come up and
volunteer their program to be cut,” he
said. “You’re not going to find some
thing that is going to satisfy every
one.”
Esther Martinez, an assistant pro
fessor of modem languages, ended
the first round of hearings on behalf
of the Chancellor’s Commission on
the Status of Minorities.
Cuts in the College of Home Eco
nomics, Teachers College and speech
programs go against the university’s
desire to promote gender equity, she
said, and are a “step backward in this
campus’ efforts to recruit racial mi
norities.”
Martinez said 12 of the 25 tenured
or tenure-leading positions threatened
by the proposals are held by women.
“However, rather than throw out
the baby, the bath water and the ba
sin, we need to add fresh water and
institute a serious recruitment and
retention policy for women, for racial
minorities and for women of color,”
she said.
Martinez said some of the pro
grams slated for elimination are vital
to the university.
“No university that does not offer
a sound and thorough grounding in
the classics is worthy of the name,”
she said. “It is merely community
college masquerading as a univer
sity.^
