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Vol. 93 No. 42
Equity possible without football cuts, coach says
‘University’s king’
raises most funds
Editor’s note: This story is the third in a
weeklong series that will explore how Ne
braska athletics has been — and will be —
affected by the NCAA’s implementation of
gender equity. Tomorrow: A look at the
disparity between the number of female and
male athletes on scholarship in Nebraska’s
“combined” sports — men’s and women’s
track and field, gymnastics and swimming
and diving.
By Jeff Griesch
Smwor Reporter
Despite Nebraska football coach Tom
Osborne’s fears of the effects on college
football if scholarship cuts continue,
women’s basketball coach Angela Beck said
gender equity could be achieved without de
stroying football.
Osborne has said
some people fighting for
gender equity want to see
the number of football
scholarships cut from 88
to 60.
didn’t think the cuts to
football would be that
But bcck said sne
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EQUITY “Personally, I don’t
ball scholarships cut to 60,” Beck said. “1 would
hate to see it go down to 60 because that could
really hurt men’s football ”
Although football has been a big factor in
working for gendcrequity in cortege athletics^
Beck said, reformers realize the economic im
portance of having a strong football program.
Football is the Nebraska athletic depart
ment’s leading moneymaker, generating more
than S13 million in revenue each year.
“We’re not stupid,” Beck said. “We realize
that football is king at the University of Nebras
ka, and we would be stupid to take steps that
would lead to the downfall of the program that
drives our whole athletic department.”
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wanted to sec more opportunities given to
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lege, play a sport and get an education.”
Beck said she was pleased with the progress
being made at Nebraska in trying to comply
with the guidelines established by the gender
equity task force this year.
This year, the NCAA task force defined
gender equity as “equitable distribution ofover
all athletics opportunities, benefits and resourc
es."
“I think UNL has taken very good action on
this issue, internally where we are trying to
comply on our own without pressure from the
■NCAA,” Bedrsaid. “I think the action we have
taken at Nebraska has been very timely, and I
consider UNL to be a frontrunner on the issue
of gender equity.”
Female athletes at Nebraska are fortunate to
have administrators who have decided to take
action in achieving gender equity, Beck said.
“Chancellor (Graham) Spanier and (Athlet
ic Director) Bill Byrne have really encouraged
it and have embraced it as a key issue facing the
school,” Beck said. “And I think their positive
action will only help to increase the opportuni
ties for women in the future at Nebraska.
“In terms of coaching and academic services
offered to female athletes at UNL, women
receive exactly the same benefits as men.”**.
Although the opportunities for female ath
letes have been increased, Beck said, opportu
nities for women coaches and administrators
have declined.
In 1972, whu. Title IX was adopted by the
NCAA, Beck said more than 90 percent of
female college teams were coached by women.
Today, only 48 percent of women’s teams are
coached by females, she said.
Along with a decrease in the number of
women coaches. Beck said, the percentage of
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Small-town
jurors’ ties
don’t shock
attorneys
From The Associated Press
SIDNEY — Lawyers in the
Roger Bjorklund trial weren’t
suipriscd Tuesday that many
potential jurors in the western Ne
braska community of about 6,000
knew one another.
Prosecution and defense lawyers
questioned potential jurors in groups
for a second day. They will trim the
original group of 83 potential jurors to
36. From that pool, 12 jurors and four
alternates will be selected Thursday
to hear the trial.
Each of the 32 Cheyenne County
residents in the First group, which was
questioned Monday, knew at least
four or five others in the jury pool.
One man answered questions while
his son waited for a turn in the jury box
as did a woman who also had a daugh
ter in the jury pool.
“I realize this could get complicat
ed in a community this size,” Lancaster
County Attorney Gary Lacey said as
he asked potential jurors if they knew
anyone else in the jury pool.
Many of the potential jurors work
for Cabela’s, an outdoors retailer and
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Military cuts hinder ROTC recruitment
By Matthew Waite
Staff Reporter
US. military budgets cuts
have reached the Univer
• sityofNebraska-Lincoln,
but money is not the issue.
With Congress cutting back the
military, ROTC recruiters on cam
pus are having a tougher time get
ting students to sign on.
r‘PeopIe don’t think there is a
career in the military,” said Lt. Col.
Stephen Goodrich, professor of
military science. “And that’s fur
thest from the truth — there is still
plenty of opportunity.”
Commander Britt Watwood,
associate professor of naval sci
cnce, said cutbacks affected re
cruiting, but the Navy still needed
new recruits to fill positions opened
by retirement.
“We’re still actively recruiting
for next year," Watwood said.
Opportunity is what brought
Cadet Pvt. Adam Lincicum to UNL
from his hometown of Mason City,
Iowa.
“I’ve always been somewhat
interested in tte military, but I also
wanted a col lege degree,” Lincicum
said. “An ROtC scholarship was a
good compromise.”
The ROTC scholarship,
Lincicum said, is a four-year, full
tuition scholarship. Cadets receive
a stipend for books and expenses,
plus a monthly allowance forliving
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People don’t think
there Is a career In the
military.
— Goodrich
professor of military
science
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expenses.
In return, the recipient is re
quired to serve eight years in the
military on any combination of
active and reserve duty. After grad
uation, the cadets get to choose the
branch of service they want, de
pending on their grade point aver
age and their success a4 Advance
Camp, which tests cadets for offic
er abilities.
Goodrich said ROTC opportu
nities were going to waste.
„ “We’ve got lots of scholarship
money that’s going to waste be
cause people don’t come over and
find out about it,” Goodrich said.
Commander Watwood said the
Navy ROTC program at UNL could
expand because of a naval trend to
encourage cadets to attend less ex
pensive, public schools.
As to whether cadets think of the .
military as a career opportunity,
Goodrich said he was certain they
did.
“Virtually all of them want to go
on active duty,” he said. “I’ve been
able to satisfy 80 percent of them.”
Education college won’t copy 5-year plan
By Keri Brabec
Staff Reporter
The national trend of mandato
ry five-year programs for ed
ucation majors probably won ’ t
find a home at the University of Ne:
braska-Lincoln, an official said.
Some U.S. universities, such as the
University of Oklahoma in Norman,
recently have implemented mandato
ry five-year education programs.
Mike Angclotti, associate dean of
the College of Education at the Uni
versity of Oklahoma, said the five
year program for prospective teach
ers became effective two years ago.
The program is designed so that
classroom experience begins during
the student’s sophomore year with the
fifth year reserved for internships,
Angclotti said.
The fifth year also is a graduate
school year, during which students
can earn credit toward a master’s de
gree, he said.
Angelotti said the five-year plan
wasdeveloped to produce better teach
ers with a deeper understanding of
their subject matter.
“We were responding to public
outcry for more professional teach
ers,’’ he said.
But Joan Leitzel, senior vice chan
cellor for academic affairs, said it was
unlikely that UN L would adopt a sim
ilar plan.
UNL does not define its programs
in terms of time span, she said. In
stead, the programs are considered in
terms of course content and credit
hours, she said.
Leitzel said about 10 years ago the
engineering programs were set up as
five-year programs, but that changed
when the program was reduced to four
years nationwide.
“Because of the high cost of educa
tion, the motion is in the other direc
tion,” she said.
Angelotti said although some edu
cation majors were concerned with
the time and expense it would take to
graduate, most students were satis
fied with the education they were
getting.
“Not many students argue about
the fact that they will be better teach
ers and better educated,” Angelotti
said.
Margaret Sievers, director of
UNL’s Teachers College Services
Center, said a five-year program was
not required at the Teachers College,
but in many cases it was difficult for
students to finish in four years.
It usually takes elementary educa
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