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UNL’s peer group feasible, official says
Increases in faculty salaries
could close gap between peers
Editor’s note: On Jan. 28, a con
sulting team visited UNL to analyze
and recommend whether the uni
versity’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
Despite controversy about
UNL’s current peer group,
some figures show the univer
sity’s peer group still may be feasible,
an official said.
John Benson, director of Institu
tional Research and Planning al UNL,
said the decision whether to change
the university’s peer group might not
be so cut and dried.
The issue is complicated by com
paring faculty salary averages with in
UNL departments to peer group aver
ages and by considering a 4.25 per
cent increase this year in UNL faculty
wages, Benson said.
The University of Nebraska-Lin
coln ranks tenth out of 11 schools in
its current peer group. In the past
year, university administrators, fac
ulty and state senators have ques
tioned the peer group’s adequacy.
Some officials claim the peer group
is unacceptable because UNL no longer
is comparable in terms of research
spending, student enrollment, faculty
size and state population.
Other officials argue the peer group
is viable because the colleges and
universities in the peer group are the
schools that UNL professors arc both
lost to and gained from.
Concern about UNL’s peer group
began last year when the National
Center for Higher Education Man
agement Systems recommended that
the university compare itself to an
other peer group to establish faculty
salaries.
The center recommended that UNL
compare itself to Auburn, Colorado
State, Iowa State, Kansas State,
Massachusetts at Amherst, Oklahoma
See PEER on 2
. UNL AAU % Of
Aaay college •ssz? saa
*52,426 IANR *53,774 97.5
53,684 Architecture 56,485 95.0
56,129 Arts & Sciences 59,999 93.5
80,360 Business Admin. 76,974 105.8
69,759 Engineering * Tech. 73,087 95.4
53,273 Homs Economics 55,617 95.8
57,387 Journalism 56,793 101.0
88,152 Law 85,232 101.1
56,863 Teachers 56,053 101.4
—41,442__ Library33,934 122.1
$57,901 4 94.8%
~ SooR Maurer/DN
Erik Unger/DN
Clarice Orr, coordinator of the Retirees of the University of Nebraska, also does
extensive work with educating grandparents about better communication.
Run with it
Program gives former employees new aims
By Rainbow Rowell
Staff Reporter
Few people when writing a
term paper — even an es
pecially good term paper
— work as hard as Clarice Orr.
While working on her gerontol
ogy paper almost 10 years ago, Orr
developed the idea for the Retirees
of the University of Nebraska vol
unteer program.
Today she heads RUN out of the
Wick Alumni Center’s basement.
Orr, who has been an employee
at the University of Ncbraska-Lin
coin for 24 years, began as a clerk
in the Department of Human De
velopment and the Family. Encour
aged to return to school, she began
taking classes at the university using
an employee scholarship.
At one time, Orr was enrolled at
UNL at the same time as her three
daughters, her son and his wife. In
1973, she graduated with a bache
lor’s degree from the human devel
opment and the family department
of the College of Home Econom
ics.
“I graduated with my oldest
daughter,” Orr said. “We walked
down the graduation aisle together.
She was also in human develop
ment.”
With lew opportunities in the
field at die unie, Orr said, she decided
to take another job at the university
as a receptionist in the College of
■Engineering and Technology.
“My family was still very de
manding on my time. ... So 1
didn’t have any plan to really ex
pand my career,” she said. “I just
wanted a job.”
The receptionist’s job at the time,
See ORR on 6
Committee reiterates
university prohibition
of sexual harassment
By Jeremy Fitzpatrick
Senior Reporter
The Academic Senate's Human
Rights Committee wants fac
ulty members to know that
sexual discrimination in the class
room is a v iolalion of U N L pol icy and
is impermissible, its chairman said.
Richard Gilbert, professor of chemi
cal engineering, said the committee
was formulating a resolution on sex
ual harassment to present to the sen
ate in April.
The University of Ncbraska-Lin
coln already has a professional code
of conduct that prohibits discrimina
tion, Gilbert said, but the committee
wants to make sure prolessors are
aware of the policy.
“We want to publicize the fact that
there is a code of conduct at the uni
versity,” he said. “Sexual or any other
type of harassment is a violation of
the axle and is subject to sanctions.”
Gilbert said the code of conduct
applied to all faculty members, re
gardless of tenure. He said faculty
were mistaken if they thought they
were exempt from the standards of
the university while in class.
“I think there is some idea among
the faculty that in the classroom, the
faculty member can do what he or she
wants in the name of academic free
dom,” he said.
Faculty members should know they
are not free to discriminate in their
classes, he said.
Gilbert said the committee was
See HARASSMENT on 6
Professor designs center
for Omaha tribe’s culture
By Melissa Dunne
Staff Reporter
AUNL professor has incorpo
rated nature and a sense of
“what it is to be an Omaha
Indian” into his design of a center to
preserve the Omaha tribe’s culture
and heritage.
Mark Hoistad, an assistant profes
sor of architecture, is the principal
designer of the interpretive center,
which was made possible through a
grant from the Nebraska Arts Coun
cil.
The interpretive center, which will
be located three miles outside Macy
on the Omaha Indian Reservation,
will overlook the Missouri River.
The center will house historic and
living exhibits, educational facilities,
a library, restaurant, archives and a
structure to display the recently re
lumed Sacred Pole, Hoistad said.
Hoistad said the return of the Sac red
Pole, which the Omaha Indians call
the Old Omaha, was equivalent to the
return of the Holy Grail in the Chris
tian faith.
“The project’s mission is to estab
lish a place for the Old Omaha to
reside among its people once again
and provide the related facilities to
help the Omahas and those outside
See MUSEUM on 6
Correction: In Monday’s edition of
the Daily Nebraskan, a faculty sal
ary story incorrectly reported the
marketing department chairman’s
salary as $135,000. The chairman
of the management department
makes $135,000. The Daily Ne
braskan regrets the error.
INDEX
Wire 2
Opinion 4
Sports 7
A&E 9
Classifieds 11
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The Nebraska baseball team
won’t have a shortage of quality
competition this season. Page 7.
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Tom Hanks, “Radio Flyer" turns
out to be a delightful success.
Page 9.