Volgyes
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‘‘I found that a small school wasn ’t
for me,” he said. “I was tired of the
‘Sorority Sally, Fraternity Fred’ im
age.
Volgyes said no pursuit of happi
ness was better than education.
“I don’t just want to teach the
study of or perspective on Eastern
Europe,” he said, ‘‘I want to deal with
the individual. Teaching is not just a
classroom lecture, it’s a one-on-one
individual experience.”
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Spanier said he planned to work to
increase accountability and sensitiv
ity regarding sexual discrimination at
UNL.
The affirmative action office at
UNL received 16 sexual harassment
complaints in 1991, up from 10 in
1990 and seven in 1989, he said. The
office received four to five times more
informal complaints than formal ones,
and Spanier said he believed that many
ntore cases went unreported.
Beginning next year, he said, all"
new UNL employees will be required
to attend a training program, which
will include issues such as sex and
gender. The program will be given by
die Affirmative Action/Equal Oppor
Research
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program, Withem said, but would
provide some type of oversight of the
existing program.
“The thought is that what was origi
nally intended is not being met,” he
• said.
Withem said the program origi
nally was created to give grants to
different individual research projects.
Instead, he said, large shares of money
are being used to institutionalize
ongoing programs.
But William Splinter, the acting
vice chancellor for research at the
University of Nebraska-Lincoln, said
the program is doing well, if not bet
ter than expected.
The program, funded through five
research centers in Lincoln, is a series
of individual projects sponsored by
UNL faculty, he said.
The money in the fund is used to
match federal funding with state grants
and for start-up funds for research, he
said. That helps multiply the amount
of money the state has put into re
search.
“We can demonstrate that those
funds are being used very effectively,”
Splinter said.
The overall research figures that
Splinter’s office received showed that
money allocated for research has
increased by S10 million, from S77
million in 1990 to $87 million in
1991, he said.
“I think this shows the success the
program has been showing,” he said.
Withem said he was not sure if the
program was necessarily good or bad,
but wanted to introduce the idea of
having some oversight of how the
money is being spent.
“At this point I’m just interested in
seeing the reaction ... of the Educa
) tion Committee and the Legislature
to this proposal,” said Withem, chair
man of the committee.
And, he said, that may not be until
its hearing midway through the ses
sion.
Resolution for King holiday passed
By Kara Morrison
Staff Reporter
Emergency resolutions urging the
NU Board of Regents to declare Martin
Luther King Jr.’s birthday an official
holiday and op
posing a proposed
increase in park
ing fines were
passed by AS UN r --^Tr
Wednesday night. 1 *ffU:
General Stud- Iff!
ies Sen. Andrew Loudon, a co-spon
sor of the King resolution, said its
passage would help emphasize King’s
ideals of racial equality.
Although declaring the day a stu
dent holiday might mean getting a
day off, Charles McClendon, a fresh
men finance major, said the reason
for the holiday should not be forgot
ten, and functions should be planned
for students.
AS UN president Andy Massey
agreed.
“The day should constructively
work on improving campus,” he said.
“It should not just be a day off.”
The resolution, which passed with
unanimous consent, will be brought
before the Regent Minority Concerns
Committee, said Massey, a member
of the committee.
The parking resolution, co-spon
sored by Teachers College Sen. Steve
Thom li son and Law College Sen. Gene
Collins, stated that “ASUN strongly
opposes any raise in parking fines and
formally calls on the chancellor for
student parking to be a priority issue
for the administration.”
Thomlison said the resolution
needed to be passed immediately so
that ASUN members would be able to
take a stand against the parking advi
sory committee’s proposal to raise
fines for students by up to 50 percent.
The parking advisory committee
will meet at 2:30 p.m. today in the
East Union.
tunity/Compliance Office, he said. Department of Agriculture livestock
Rockey said that sexual harass- inspector at a western Nebraska slaugh
mentoccurs not only in private indus- terhouse.
try, but also in state government. Another woman, Diane, said she
While working as a legislative aide had been fired from a management
several years ago, Rockey said, she position for a large wholesale com
was sexually harassed by a state sena- pany after refusing to sleep with a
tor. She declined to provide details of company client,
the situation, and said she chose not Larry Myers, director of the Ne
to pursue it in official channels be- braska Equal Employment Opportu
cause the harassment did not involve nity Commission, said his staff of 17
her boss, and she never felt that her investigators, responsible for handling
job was in danger. the state’s discrimination and harass
* Eight women recounted their ex- ment complaints, accepted 1,400 cases
periences with sexual harassment in last year and has a backlog of one
the workplace. They identified them- year. '
selves by first name only and de- Gwendolyn Combs, director of the
dined to say where they had been state Department of Personnel, said
employed when harassed. her office had received 42 sexual
One woman, Donna, told of being harassment complaints in the last two
threatened by knife- wielding work- years from the 26 state agencies over
ers while she was a United States which it has jurisdiction.
Workload
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Withem said he thought the pro
posed teaching requirement would
not overburden professors, even in
light of their research obligations.
“I can’t imagine how spending six
hours a week out of 40, even if you
add to that the prep time for your
classes, can hurt research.”
Still, Withem said he would be
willing to work with university offi
cials on the proposal.
“This may or may not be the best
approach to dealing with this, but it is
a start,” he said.
LB 1044 also states that all stu
dents are entitled to instruction by
faculty who are fluent in the English
language, but does not state any spe
cific actions to be taken toward that
goal.
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