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Julia Lauer-Cheenne, an artist and UNL French professor, is reflected in her colage called “Paris.” Lauer-Cheenne
said a homonym of Paris, “pari,” means “I wager” in French.
Life through a lens
Photography alters French professor’s outlook
By Kristine Long
Staff Reporter
Foreign language and photography
have nothing in common for most
people, but for Julia Laucr-Chccnnc,
they go hand in hand.
A professor of French at the University
of Ncbraska-Lincoln, Laucr-Chccnnc also
is a photographer. She recently had her
photo collages displayed at the Governor’s
Mansion.
Landscapes, color portraits, architecture
and events arc among i
the subjects Laucr
Chccnnc photographs
and fashions into col
lages. Her collages re
semble poster art and arc
mounted between sev
eral layers of glass to —-—-.
achieve a three-dimensional effect.
Born and raised in the Midwest, Laucr
Chccnnc said her background was similar to
that of many UNL students. But knowing a
second language has turned her life into an
unpredictable adventure, she said.
“Foreign language has been responsible
for the adventure in my life,” she said.
Laucr-Chccnc graduated from the Uni
versity of Iowa in 1974 with a bachelor’s
degree in French.
“1 never had a plan,” she said. “I just
didn’t want an 8-10-5 job.”
Laucr-Chccnnc contemplated law school,
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practical solution to her dilemma. She filled
out an application, and by pure luck, she
said, she was accepted into the Peace Corps.
She was sent to the Ivory Coast to teach
English at a school where die predominant
language was French.
Because she was a white, single woman
in Africa, Laucr-Checnnc said she was the
object of many stares.
Ivory Coast natives also live in tribes
with extended families, she said, and didn’t
understand why a person would live alone.
But living in Africa made her understand
how to live with the basics of life, she said,
and gave her a real sense of life in the United
States. Alter living in Africa, she said, “I
could not believe the wealth we have here.”
After two years in ihe Peace Corps, Laucr
Checnnc traveled to Normandy, France.
There, she found a job at a resort w here she
cooked for about 30 people each day.
She met her future husband, Dominique
Chccnnc, at the resort.
She married Dominique in December
1977, and they lived in Normandy for two
years while she taught English at a local
school.
Laucr-Checnnc said she loved living in
France because she hated visiting places as
a tourist.
“I like to experience the life as a native,”
she said.
Laucr-Checnnc and her husband moved
back to Lincoln in 1977, where he attended
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Laucr-Chccnnc had several secretarial
jobs. She earned a paralegal degree from
Lincoln School of Commerce, and in 1984,
she decided to join her husband and return to
school.
But her desire for adventure and travel
took her back to France.
She went on a foreign exchange program
to France through UNL, and it was there that
she discovered photography.
She borrowed a camera and look pictures
of architecture, historical monuments, ca
thedrals, castles, landscapes and people.
“1 was using all of my salary on pic
tures,” she said.
When Laucr-Chccnnc returned to the
United States, she bought her own camera
and continued taking pictures.
She found that Nebraska ‘‘is quite photo
genic in its own way,” she said.
“Traveling puls you in a better position
to look at your surroundings as you’ve seen
them for the first time,” she said.
Laucr-Chccnnc received her master’s
degree of French from UNL in 1986, and in
December 1991, she received her doctorate.
She has been teaching French at UNL
since 1985, and has since decided to com
bine her love of photography with teaching.
Laucr-Chccnnc said she planned to teach
photography as well as French. She recently
enrolled in a program called “Artists in
School/Communiiy Program” through the
Nebraska Arts Council, where she hopes to
leach photography in area schools.
Salaries for
professors
vary widely
Official says average
salary figure misleads
Editor's note: On Jan. 28, a consulting team
visited UNL to analyze and recommend
whether the university's faculty salary peer
group is viable. This series will examine the
various aspects of UNL's peer group and
how it is determined.
By Cindy Kimbrough
Senior Reporter ____
The average salary of University of Nc
braska-Lincoln professors can be mis
leading.
The figure that UNL uses to compare itself
to other schools in its peer group, S58,100, docs
not reflect the wide range of faculty salaries
found at UNL.
While many professors in departments such
as political science, modern languages and
philosophy earn salaries of S58,100 or less,
professors in programs such as the marketing
department and the colleges of engineering and
law make much more.
While the chairman of the geography de
partment makes S57,(XX), the chairman of the
marketing department makes S135,(XX), ac
cording to UNL’s 1991-92 Personnel Roster.
Although it may seem unfair, this salary dis
crepancy is not without reason, a UNL official
See SALARY on 6
Disabilities Act
poses problems
in transportation
By Jill O’Brien
Staff Reporter
he Americans with Disabilities Act may
require some disabled UNL students to
switch from using the Handi-Van to
regular public transportation, a university offi
cial said.
The ADA, a federal law that went intocffccl
Jan. 26, orders the removal of physical barriers
impeding disabled Americans from attending
public places or using public services.
Christy Horn, coordinator of UNL’s Serv
ices for Students with Disabilities, said live or
six University of Ncbraska-Lincoln students
depended on StarTran’s Handi-Van for trans
portation to and from school.
With the enforcement of the new ADA
laws, she said, some students will be ruled
ineligible to ride the Handi-Van.
Factors used to determine eligibility in
cluded a rider’s degree of disability, the dis
tance he or she traveled and how weather
affected a rider.
New identification cards for Handi-Van riders
See ADA on 6
Director candidate list narrowed i
By Tom Mainelli
Staff Reporter
hrcc of 35 candidates remain
in the running for director of
the Nebraska State Historical
Socicly, the society’s scareh commit
tcc chairman said.
Fredrick Lucbkc said the three
candidates were William Holmes of
Colorado Springs, Colo.; Lawrence
Sommer of Helena, Mont.; and Pat
rick Nolan of Wilmington, Del.
All three candidates had training
and experience that “made them stand
out,” Lucbkc said.
Lucbkc said all three candidates
had worked with budgets and staffs
similar in si/.c to those of the Ne
braska State Historical Society.
“They all have experience in work
they will have to do here,” he said.
Lucbkc said Holmes spent four
years as deputy director of New
Mexico’s state museums, where he
worked with a budget and staff simi
lar to Nebraska’s museums.
Holmes is now the director of
museums in Colorado Springs.
Sommer is director of the Mon
tana State Historical Society in He
lena — a job similar to the one here,
<.
Lucbkc said.
“His present job is real close to
ours, except we arc bigger,” he said.
Nolan’s experience includes being
the former director of the Center (or
the Study of Early Flight at Wright
Slate University in Dayton, Ohio, and
a one-year appointment to the Na
tional Endowment for the Humani
ties.
Lucbkc said that before the deci
sion is made, more candidate inter
views will take place.
The final decision might be made
by the next executive board meeting
on March 20, he said.
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Daily Nebraskan incorrectly listed
the times for "Ren & Stimpy." The
cartoon airs at 10 a.m. Sundays
on Nickelodeon and at 7:30 p.m.
Saturdays through March on MTV:
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demonstrators, some shouting
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rallied Sunday and clashed with
police. Page 2
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The Nebraska men’s basketball
team puts two wins together as they
snap Iowa State’s home win streak
at 15 games. Page 7
The music press doesn’t al
ways give music fans the whole
picture. Page 9