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APC advances ag institute proposals
Vice chancellor
says cuts eased
by advance plans
By Wendy Navratil
Senior Reporter
The Academic Planning Com
mittee on Thursday tentatively
approved the Institute for
Agriculture and Natural Resources’
budget reduction proposals, sending
them on to UNL
Chancellor Gra
ham Spanicr for re
view.
Although the
APC won’t offi
cially recommend
chancellor until the IANR program
heads have one last chance to defend
their programs against the cuts, IANR
Vice Chancellor Irv Omtvedt said he
doubts many will appear to protest
them.
“They were joint proposals from
the deans, department heads and di
rectors, so there was a lot of team
work,” Omtvedt said. “I don’t antici
pate very many that would appear.”
Thomas Zorn, chairman of die APC
and the Budget Reduction Review
Committee, said that the program heads
have until Dec. 5 to present opposi
tion to the cuts.
The institute's cuts amount to about
$1.3 million, or 3 percent of its total
$46,284,133 state-funded budget for
1990-91.
Among the cuts that must be ap
proved by the NU Board of Regents
are the combining of the water center
and the environmental program into
one new cento for a savings of $98,000,
and the merger of the agricultural
education and the agricultural com
munications programs for a savings
of $94,400.
These consolidations, combined
with the eliminations of some admin
istrative positions, will save the insti
tute about $548,000.
center ($98,000)*, merging ag education and ag communications into one
department ($94,400)*, and eliminating many administrative positions.
2. Eliminate five crop production faculty; $263,900
3. Eliminate poultry nutrition program in Animal Science; $225,800
(includes one faculty member and five support staff members).
4. Eliminate six countv extension agents; $178,000
5. Adjust faculty workload at College of Agricultural Sciences $146,500
and Natural Resources: (includes cutting two faculty positions and
converting two 12-month appointments into 9-month ones).
{3 p*rc*nt ol $46,2*4,133
Source: Irv Omtvedt, vice chancellor tor IANR *t«t« budget for n»oei)
Amie Def rairVON
The APC also approved the elimi
nation of five crop production faculty
for a savings of $263,900 and the
elimination of the poultry nutrition
program in Animal Sciences for a
savings of $225,800. Six county ex
tension agent positions will be elimi
nated for a savings of about S178,000,
and some faculty workload adjust
ments in the College of Agricultural
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Kathleen Keeler stands surrounded by big bluestem grass. Keeler said the grass used to cover the prairie as far
as the Rocky Mountains.
Professor at home on the range
By Lori Huff
Staff Reporter _
While other biologists and ecolo
gists are pondering the question
of how to save the rain forests,
Kathleen Keeler is keeping a close eye on
the disappearing prairie of Nebraska.
Keeler, a UNL biology professor and
the new director of the Cedar Point
Biological Station near Ogallala at Lake
Keystone, said she will use her position to
shape the direction of biological research.
The station is affiliated with University
of Nebraska-Lincoln
and accommodates
about 60 students a
session during the
summer. Keeler said
that during the three
summer sessions,
about 140-160
students attend the sessions. The students
take biology classes and acquire field ex
perience while living at the site of their
research.
“I have been working at the station on
and off for about 16 years,” Keeler said.
“Nebraska is an ideal location for ecologi
cal research.”
Keeler said some of her students ask
her why she is in Nebraska, instead of
studying the rain forests.
“When my students ask me about the
rain forests and why I’m not studying
them, I simply make them aware of the
fact that there is less prairie land left than
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Attempted robbery in union interrupted
From Staff Reports
Campus police broke up the attempted rob
bery of computer equipment from the Ne
braska Union on Friday, a UNL official said.
LL Mylo Bushing said the UNL Police
Department was alerted by a custodian at about
4 a.m. Friday that a man was in the computer
laboratory of the union.
An officer was dispatched to the scene and
observed the man loading computer equipment
into the trunk of a car.
A computer mouse, computer paper, power
cable and printer cable had been loaded into the
car. Bushing said it appeared the man was
attempting to steal the entire computer system.
The man, a Lincoln resident, was issuct
citations for theft and criminal mischief on th<
scene and was released. The criminal mischie
citation stemmed from damage done to th<
computer in attempting to steal it, Bushinj
said.
The man will be arraigned in Lancaste
District County Court on Dec. 9.
ROTC cuts
mean more
competition,
fewer cadets
UNL commander predicts
I program will adapt again
By Sean Green
Staff Reporter _
he face of the UNL Army ROTC has
changed over the years.
Until 1964, the University of Ne
braska required all male students to enroll in
the Army ROTC program during their first two
years of school.
ARMY
After 1964, male students were given the
option of taking a physical education class
instead. From that point,
enrollment in Army ROTC
decreased to the point
where there were 83 stu
dents enrolled in 1972.
That’s when Stephen_
Goodrich enrolled in the
program as a freshman. L- '
Today, Goodrich, a lieutenant colonel and
professor of military science at UNL, is the
commander of the same Army ROTC unit fre.n
which he graduated.
This year seventy-five cadets are enrolled in
the program, 10 of whom arc women.
The UNL Army ROTC unit now faces an
otherchange as the U.S. Army prepares for one
of the largest across-the-board cutbacks in its
history.
But Goodrich said the UNL Army ROTC
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