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Endowment increases
Osborne’s earnings
Head football coach
expects disapproval
over $25,000 raise
By Todd Cooper
Senior Reporter
A gift that will increase Nebraska football
coach Tom Osborne’s salary from
$118,560 to $143,560 will be viewed as
unjustified by some, Osborne said Tuesday.
Osborne said he thought the gift, which is
expected to be approved by the NU Board of
Regents Friday, would draw negative responses.
“I will get questions," Osborne said. “There’ll
be people madder than heck about it.”
An endowed chair was established by Gail
and Dan W. Cook III of Dallas in August of
1990 for the head football coach at the Univer
sity of Nebraska-Lincoln. The endowment,
retroactive to July 1991, will increase Osborne’s
salary by 21 percent.
When the gift was established, Cook said it
was a salute to Osborne and the type of head
coach that “directly builds the character of the
young people he works with."
With his salary, the endowment and other
sources of income, Osborne said he will earn
about $230,000 a year. NU President Martin
Masscngalc cams $158,460 a year and also is
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given a $22,000 expense account and the use of
a house and a car.
“If you’re the CEO of a university and the
football coach or basketball coach is making
five limes what you’re making, that makes you
a little uneasy,” Osborne said. “It’s just human
nature not to like (the salai7 comparison).”
While comparing his job to “more valu
able” ones, Osborne said he doesn’t deny being
overpaid.
“There arc a lot of people who perform more
valuable functions than 1 do, who work just as
hard and get paid one-fourth or one-tenth the
amount of what I do,” Osborne said. “In that
sense, I’m overpaid.”
But when compared to other successful
college football coaches, Osborne said he’s at
the low end of the scale.
David Plati, assistant athletic director at the
University of Colorado in Boulder, said Osborne
earns substantially less than Colorado coach
Bill McCartney. Plati said McCartney earns
$130,000 base salary a year, but his “whole
package is worth somewhere around $400,000.”
Plati said McCartney’s income includes
deferred compensation, bonus packages and
television and radio shows.
Osborne, the natron’s w inn ingest active coach,
said he receives proceeds from radio, televi
sion shows, clinics, speeches and other sources
of income. But, Osborne said, he receives no
bonuses or deferred compensation from the
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athletic department.
Regents Chairman Don Blank of McCook
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Congress eyes
bill to finance
international
programs
Legislation would increase —
scholarships, fellowships
By Jeremy Fitzpatrick
Senior Reporter
In an attempt to extend students’ educa
tion beyond the borders of the United
States, federal lawmakers are consider
ing legislation that would finance international
studies.
me {National Security Education Act of
1991, part of Senate Reso
lution 1539, a bill to author
ize appropriations for intel
ligence activities, would
authorize $35 million in
spending in 1992 for inter
national studies scholarships,
fellowships and grants.
The proposed bill states that “American
undergraduate and graduate students are inade
quately prepared to meet the challenges posed
by increasing global interaction among na
tions. .
Peter Levitov, associate dean of interna
tional affairs, said the proposed legislation
would help support the international mission of
the University of Ncbraska-Lincoln.
That mission was emphasized by Chancel- ^
lor Graham Spanier in his opening speech at
UNL on Nov. 1, Levitov said.
“Of course this measure would go a long
way toward promoting that,” he said.
The bill states that colleges and universities
must place new emphasis on improving the
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and international studies to help meet such
challenges.
Three categories of financial assistance would
be granted to improve international studies:
scholarships for undergraduates to study abroad
for at least one semester, fellowships for gradu
ate students in international studies, area stud
ies or foreign languages and grants to universi
ties to operate and improve international stud
ies programs.
Undergraduate students participating in the
program would not incur an obligation from
their scholarships, but graduate students would
be required to work for the federal government
or in the field of education for at least as many
years as they received federal assistance.
A National Security Education Board would
be formed by the proposed law to oversee
dispersal of the scholarships.
The board would consist of the secretaries
of defense, education, state and commerce, the
directors of the Central Intelligence Agency
and the United States Information Agency and
four individuals appointed by the president.
Qualifications for students and institutions
of higher education desiring scholarships, fel
lowships or grants would be determined by the
board, as well as what disciplines and countries
would be studied.
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Sexual
harassment
dangerous,
panelists say
By Kim Spurlock
Staff Reporter
reating sexual harassment in the work
place or the classroom as trivial or
humorous is negligent and poten
tially dangerous to the victim, panelists said
Tuesday.
Jane Conoley, a psychology professor at
the University of Ncbraska-Lincoln, said
hostile situations, in a school or job environ
ment, can have psychological and physical
implications.
Speaking at a panel discussion in the
Wick Alumni Center on sexual harassment,
Conoley cited an instance when a professor
was explaining to his students the difficulty
of his class. The professor called upon one
of two female students in the class to come
to the front of the room, she said.
The professor told the student to turn
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Helen Moore (right), a professor of sociology, fielded questions concerning
sexual harassment Tuesdav evening as part of a panel discussion. Others on
the panel included Anna shavers, an assistant law professor (left), Jane
Conoley, a psychology professor (middle), and Lt. Gov. Maxine Moul (not
pictured).
Official: Insurance requirement needed
By Jean Lass
Staff Reporter
The University of Nebraska-Lin
coln should require students
to show proof of health insur
ance before they can enroll, a health
insurance representative said.
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do.
Jim Mitchell, an associate director
of student health at the University of
Requirement seen as growing trend
Virginia, said that although figures
on the number of universities that
require proof of insurance were un
available, the requirement is a grow
ing trend for larger universities.
“Larger universities tend to pro
vide more student services than smaller
ones,” he said. “Schools that see they
have a responsibility to assure stu
dents access to health care require
students to have health insurance.”
According to an article in the Nov.
6 issue of llie Chronicle of Higher
Education, the American College
Health Association estimates that about
3 million college students, or 24 per
cent of those enrolled, have no health
insurance.
The association also states that about
24 percent of students who do have
health insurance have inadequate
coverage, according to the article.
Because UNL docs not require
students to show proof of insurance,
there is no way to tell how many
students arc insured or uninsured,
Augstums said.
However, Augstums said she
thought a rule requiring students to
show proof of insurance before en
rollment would be beneficial.
“Then you know, ‘Yes, you’re
insured,’ or. ’No, you’re not,’ before
an emergency, and you can do some
thing about it,” she said.
Many students don t worry about
health insurance, she said, because
they arc on their parents’ insurance
plan or can receive health care at the
University Health Center.
Students should make sure they
arc covered on their parents’ plan,
Augstums said, because some insur
ance companies, such as Blue Cross
Blue Shield, require families to re
move their children from their health
insurance plans when they turn 19.
Students then must find policies of
their own or go without, she said.
But lacking proper coverage can
be a problem in the case of a major
accident or illness, Augstums said.
“Health insurance doesn’t pay all
expenses, but it certainly does help,”
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