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y | Dciily -| BnHH I Today, cloudy, with a chance ■ M m ^B^ r^m B "1 B r^B ^Br^B of Tonight, a 30 per I B^B B B _^«B _^B B B chance of rain. Satur 1 ^ICL/lCl JlVdl I. I Sigsa^J Targeted programs open final appeals Department heads urge clarification By Wendy Navratil Senior Reporter The UNL speech communica tion department and the Coun seling Center added another layer of clarification to budget reduc tion proposals Thursday in their final testimonies before the BRRC. The two programs were the first Di »rw^i--T- oncs by BUDGET budget cuts that Committee. The BRRC offered tar geted programs^ chance to testify again after University of Ncbraska Lincoln vice chancellors provided clarifying information about the budget reductions they proposed earlier this semester. Bill Seiler, chairman of speech communications, said that the clarifi cation report presented by vice chan cellor for academic affairs, Stan Lib erty, was filled with inaccuracies — 22 in alt. The issue of whai constitutes I “regular” faculty wa¢ral to some ' of those inaccuracies, he said. The clarification report stated that ■29 percent of the department’s gradu ate courses from 1986 to 1990 were taught by non-regular faculty, and 52 percent of undergraduate degree hours were taught by non-regular faculty. “The facts are that no graduate courses were taught by any one other / than tenure or tenure-leading faculty,” Seiler said, “and only 18 percent of \ our undergraduate degree hours were ^ taught by non-regular faculty.” The discrepancy in the figures is based on a misunderstanding of what constitutes a non-regular faculty member in the college and the nega tive connotations the classification has, college officials said. John Peters, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, said that in the college, faculty are classified as non regular if they arc hired on special appointments. Such appointments are awarded to faculty who are in the process of completing their doctoral dissertations. Those faculty retain special ap pointment status until their disserta tions arc complete, at which time they may be awarded continuous appointments. “It just so happened that we had four or five people who were on spe cial appointment” at the lime the in formation was obtained from the university’s data base, Peters said. He added that those faculty have since completed their doctoral de grees or have left UNL. John Benson, director of Institu tional Research and Planning, said ^ that as the university data base lx;- ' comes more sophisticated, departments will have to provide more detailed data about the way they classify fac ulty. “As the ability to access informa See BUDGET on 3 Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Shipler speaks to an audience at the Lied Center for Performing Arts Thursday. Altered images Speaker says problem lies in stereotypes By Jeremy Fitzpatrick Senior Reporter Jews and Arabs must break through stereotypical views of each other if they arc to be reconciled, a Pulitzer Prize-win ning author said Thursday. David Shipler, author of “Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land," told an audience of about 1,100 at the Lied Center for Performing Arts that he fo cused on the human aspect of the Arab-Isracli conflict. The problem with Arabs and Jews, he said, is that each side prefers to view the other in stere otypical images rather than as people. ‘*Bolh sides see each other as violent, bloodthirsty and cowardly at the same lime,” he said. Shiplcr compared ihis stereotyp ing to the United States’ experi ence in Vietnam, where he said some Americans categorized the Vietnamese, believing they didn’t value life as much as Americans do. Similar categorizations arc prevalent between Arabs and Jews, he said. Jews tend to regard Arabs as primitive people who cannot tell reality from fantasy and who under stand only the language of force, while Arabs tend to view Jews as uncaring, unhospilablc aliens who do not belong in the Middle East. Both Jew and Arab cultures support the stereotypes with phrases suen as “don’t act like an Jew,” or “don’t — blank — like an Arab,” he said. Bui there is some hope for bel ter relations, Shiplcr said, through exchange programs that bring Arabs and Jews together. One example, he said, is a work shop he visited for Jewish and Arab students. The students were not allowed to discuss political issues for the first three days of the conference, Shiplcr said. Instead, they partici pated in activities such as painting pictures together without talking. When the students left the work - shop, he said, they showed a mix of sorrow and joy—joy that they had made contact with each other and sorrow that they were moving back to the prejudices of their cultures. Shiplcr said he believed the See SHIPLER on 3 Interim administrators to relinquish 3 spots By Adeana Leftin Senior Reporter Three members of the Univer sity of Ncbraska-Lincoln administration will relinquish their interim grip on the reins of power Friday when the NU Board of Re gents returns them to their original positions. Jack Goebel, interim UNL chan cellor, and Kim Phelps and Paul ; Carlson, interim associate vice chancellors of business and fi nance, will return to their respective duties as vice chancellor for business and finance, director of operational analysis and director of the budget. Goebel, who was appointed in terim chancellor by the NU Board of Regents in January, credited success during his lour of duly as interim chancellor to the faculty and staff. “The leadership of the faculty and staff during the interim period made it possible for the university to move forward,” he said. Interim staff members accom plished what they set out to do, Goe bel said, and most importantly, pre pared the campus for a new chancel- 1 lor. “I had a marvelous lime as interim chancellor and I would recommend it to anyone," he said. Carlson said he would be bringing a new perspective back to his office. “It was a good experience," he said. “You want to do all that you can for the university.” Carlson said he gained a better understanding of why some decisions See REGENTS on 3 Official: Reburial to retard research By Roger Price Staff Reporter □ decision by the Nebraska Slate His torical Society to return all Ameri can Indian bones and burial goods from its collections to an appropriate Indian agency could have devastating results on research at UNL, an official said. Thomas Myers, curator of anthropology at the University of Nebraska State Mu seum, said that even if all the bones were studied before reburial, research would still suffer because research methods are im proving continually. “We can learn so much more from a collection today than 10 years ago,” he said. Indian bones returned “1 think the amount wc arc going to be able to learn from remains is going to increase exponentially in the next decade.” Jim Hanson, director of the historical society, declined to talk to the Daily Ne braskan, but the Lincoln Star reported that the society voted to return the approxi mately 300 partial Indian skeletons to an appropriate Indian agency. In September, the society returned 40 boxes of bones and burial goods to the Pawnee tribe of Oklahoma. The tribe also had requested additional bones, but the society refused, claiming the bones could not be linked to any specific tribe. The slate ombudsman agreed with the society, but the tribe planned to appeal. Bob Peregoy, a staff attorney for the Native American Rights Fund who is han dling the Pawnee’s claim, said he did not want to comment on the decision until he received an official notice from the society. Myers said that while returning the bones might end the controversy surrounding them, researchers will be forced to pay. Although the bones may not have been , .* on display in a museum, he said, they were not abandoned. As new research methods develop, he said, scientists arc able to learn more from each set of remains. See BONES on 3 — Huskers look for quick start. Page 7 Buzzcocks to bring power pop’ to Omaha tonight. Page 9 INDEX Wire 2 Opinion 4 Sports 7 A&E 9 Classifieds 11