IMF predicts world economy to suffer
WASHINGTON (AP) - The world
economy, after suffering through two
years of dismal growth, will fare little
better in 1993 as unexpectedly severe
recessions in Japan and Europe con
tinue to retard growth, the Interna
tional Monetary Fund is predicting.
The IMF’s new economic fore
cast, due to be released officially
Monday, highlights the dangers fac
ing the fragile economic recovery
underway in the United States.
While America is expected to per
form better than any other major eco
nomic power this year, economists
are worried that the subdued U.S.
recovery is at risk from weakness in
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four-year college degrees, weren’t
being used to their advantage. He said
workers’ knowledge should take pre
cedence over their physical strength.
But Olsen said that if the university
hired more workers, the problems still
wouldn’t be solved overnight. The
effects of this type of work are not felt
for quite a while after the problems
are addressed.
“If you hire the people today, to
morrow the problems won’t be
solved,” Olsen said.
“Six months from now, the people
arc going to start feeling comfortable
with where they are,” he said. “And
six months to a year after you hire
(hose individuals, you’re going to start
seeing action.”
Still, Olsen praised the UNL ad
ministration for recognizing the need
for the four people who had been
hired during a time of budget con
cerns.
“The administration, to their credit,
recognized that this is an area . . .
where, if something wasn’t done and
done almost immediately, the univer
sity was going to be in a lot of troubfle,”
he said.
Olsen said the three hazardous
materials specialists were working to
correct several problems. Their work
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LINK department wins award
From Staff Reports
The chemistry department at the
University of Nebraska at Kearney
will receive the first universitywide
Departmental Teaching Award.
The award, which carries a S25,000
grant to the department, is the first
recognition of an academic depart
ment for an outstanding record of
accomplishments in its teaching pro
gram.
The award was proposed as an
effort to emphasize the importance of
quality instruction throughout the
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professional. They probed at a time
they needed to."
Joyce said she still wasn’t happy
with the grade changes, but wasn’t
displeased that the grades weren’t
reversed.
“That would be jerkins the stu
dents around,’’ she said. “My whole
position wasn’t to change grades, but
to examine (the university) itself."
Joyce said she still was dissatisfied
with UNL officials' handling of the
case.
“The NU Board of Regents basi
cally said I had no rights and I was a
lunatic,” she said.
Joyce said the whole issue reverted
back to her being African American.
“Any black professor who doesn’t
conform is knocked to the curb," she
said.
Despite the negative publicity and
controversy that surrounded Joyce’s
resignation, she said she did not feel
hatred toward UNL.
“I don’t feel I should gel bogged
, down in the negative feelings at UNL,”
she said, “but (concentrate on) the
positive things at UNL — the people
— and they were here tonight.”
the world’s two other economic su
perpowers - Japan and Germany.
The sluggish glob;,! economy, ris
ing trade tensions between the eco
nomic superpowers and efforts to tie
up,the loose ends on a $28.4 billion
economic aid package for Russia are
at the top of the agenda as the IMF and
its sister lending agency, the World
Bank, hold their annual spring meet
ing this week in Washington.
A senior IMF official, who briefed
reporters on the upcoming discus
sions on condition dial his name not
be used, characterized the current glo
bal economy as “bad, still bad and it
could be worse.”
- it —.
. The EPA doesn’t
understand or accept
the lack of resources
as an excuse for not
getting something
done.
— Olsen
UNL hazardous materials
specialist
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includes the following:
• identifying unmarked chemicals
in laboratories. Olsen said thousands
of containers of a gallon or less need
to be identified to ensure proper stor
age of disposal of them.
• setting up a policy for handling
the chemicals left in a lab when re
searchers leave the university.
• removing chemicals that afe no
longer needed in laboratories.
• training people. People need to
understand the difference between
what is practically called a hazardous
material and what the EPA regulates
as a hazardous waste, Olsen said.
The Hazardous Materials Program
also is being improved by a new haz
ardous waste facility, Olsen said.
The new facility is expected to
correct some of the violations for
university. The University of Ne
braska Foundation sponsors the award.
The selection committee was made
up of six faculty members represent
ing all four University of Nebraska
campuses. Selection criteria included
quality of leaching, participation in
instruction conferences, faculty re
search and publications and effective
use of instructional technology.
UNK’s Department of Chemistry
consists of 10 members, all of whom
have doctorates in chemistry. Seven
of the members have been with the
department for more than 20 years.
While praising the new Clinton
administration for taking steps to cut
the federal deficit, he said more would
have to be done and suggested that the
administration should intensify its
discussions on a Value Added Tax, a
form of national sales tax.
In a speech last December, IMF
Managing Director Michel
Camdessus said that for the world
economy toescape from the doldrums
the United States would need to attack
its budget deficit, Japan would have
to come forward with a new stimulus
program of spending increases and
tax cuts and Germany would have to
reduce interest rates.
which the university was fined $36,500
by the EPA in January 1990, he said.
One violation that will be cor
rected is the lack of aisle space in the
waste facility, Olsen said.
The EPA requires that adequate
space be provided for emergency per
sonnel and equipment to be moved
through the facility without having to
move drums and other materials, he
said.
The new facility, which will be
located in Warehouse No. 1 on East
Campus, will be three times larger
than the current storage facility, which
is 20 feet by 20 feet.
Although the amount of waste is
increasing each year, the new facility
should be adequate undercurrent regu
lations, Olsen said. UNL produced
40,000 pounds of hazardous waste
last year and 52,000 pounds this year.
The new waste site is also expected
to provide the following items that arc
not in the current facility:
• a telephone in the actual storage
room, rather than in an adjacent room.
• space ior a new reaisiriouuon
program for used chemicals.
• a chemical fume hood to make
working with chemicals safer.
• room to do analysis, which will
help in identifying unmarked chemi
cals.
• office space for the hazardous
materials and radiation safely pro
grams to work near one another.
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