Letters ask for input on CB A
Vice chancellor
hopes feedback
is broad, honest
By Angie Brunkow
Senior Reporter
Letters describing the work en
vironment in the College of Busi
ness Administration are returning
to the Office for Academic Affairs,
Joan Lcitzel said Tuesday.
Leitzel, senior vice chancellor
for academic affairs at the Univer
sity ofNebraska-Lincoln, sent about
125 letters to male and female CBA
faculty and staff members early last
week requesting their input about
1 the college work environment.
CBA was criticized last month
by the UNL chapter of the Ameri
can Association ofUniversity Pro
fessors for having a working cli
mate “chilly” to women. The Com
mittee W report also criticized the
college’s procedures for evaluating
faculty, deciding salaries and mak
ing appointments to graduate or
tenure positions.
Leitzel said she thought person
al correspondence between indi
vidual faculty members and herself
was the best way to get an accurate
description of working conditions
in CBA.
“This is a practical and effective
way of getting input,” she said.
Other methods, such as personal
interviews, would be toodifTicult to
complete, she said.
Leitzel asked faculty and staff to
respond to her letter by March 18.
Although some faculty and staff
already have responded, Lcitzcl said
she would not read their responses
until after the March 18 deadline.
“I’m not going to review it until
I have them all,” she said.
Leitzel said that because she
would be the only one to read the
letters, she expected broad and hon
est feedback about the college’s
environment.
“It will be informative for jne,”
she said.
Lcitzel said she would use the
letters to advise “people who can
make a difference in the work envi
ronment at CBA.”
Leitzcl decl ined to release a copy
of the letter she sent to the college’s
faculty.
“It was a personal letter to the
people in the college,” she said. “It
wasn’t written for the press.”
CFA approves Lied budget increase
t-rom man Heports
The Committee for Fees Alloca
tion voted unanimously Tuesday to
approve a budget increase totaling
$83,130 for the Lied Center for Per
forming Arts.
CFA agreed to the 2 percent budget
increase earlier this semester. Howev
er, the Lied Center’s budget increase
was denied by AbUN as part of the
University Program Council budget,
CFA Advisor Marlene Beyke said.
ASUN President Keith Bcnes ve
toed ASUN’s refusal to grant the
Licd’s increase, and the Lied’s budget
went back to CFA.
“We wanted to reinstate what we
already appro ved,”CFA member Paul
Cain said.
Cain said U PC gave a portion of its
funding to the Lied Center so students
could receive 50 percent discounts.
Tim Bartholow, Lied Center gen
eral manager, expressed his thanks to
the CFA.
Until now, Lied Center costs have
been on the rise and fee support has
been decreasing, Bartholow said.
Engineering
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couldn’t provide much information in
the report.
But. the consultants were able to
file a competent report, Langenberg
said.
“I think we were able to get a pretty
good handle on the situation as it
exists,” he said.
Charles James, dean of the college
of engineering at the University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukec and a member
of the consultant committee, said the
consultants had no political motives
and no opinions on the issue before
they started.
“It was a pretty objective group of
consultants,” he said.
James said consultants were over
whelmed by the number of people who
told them Omaha needed an engineer
ing program separate from Lincoln’s.
“The problem put betore us by ev
ery single group and every person ...
was the issue of an independent pro
gram in Omaha," he said. “(Some of
the issues) we were not in a position to
address.”
John Christian, vice president of
Stone and Webster Engineering Cor
poration and a member of the commit
tee, said the consultants also had small
er details to consider.
“There is a long history of animos
ity between (UNO and UNL),” he
said.
Christian said, with that history, it
was difficult to satisfy the needs of
both.
James Halligan, president of New
Mexico State University and the fourth
consultant, could not be reached for
comment Tuesday.
Bjorklund
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for the incident and said there were no
other problems with Bjorklund in the
remaining 2 1/2 years that Bjorklund
sold books.
Bames also said Bjorklund shared
memories of childhood abuse with
him.
Christine Taylor, Bjorklund’s
former girlfriend, said Bjorklund
talked to her at length about his adop
tion and his dropping out of high
school.
Despite his personal problems, Tay
lor said Bjorklund was the type of
person who “would do anything for
you.”
William Roundey. a private inves
tigator, said he interviewed 35 or 40of
Bjorklund’s acquaintances to compile
a history of Bjorklund’s “formative
years” for the defense.
Roundey said a former neighbor of
Bjorklund’s in the Shelton area
claimed Bjorklund was not well-dis
ciplined as a child.
Lacey said Roundey'scompiled his
tory of Bjorklund ignored a lot of
conflicting information.
On cross-examination Roundey
said parts of the report suggested
Bjorklund tended to lie.
Roundey also said interviews with
Bjorklund’s mother made him dis
count her son’s charges that her nus
band physically abused her.
Chief Deputy Public Defender Scott
Helvie then submitted as evidence
more than 20 trial transcripts from
several Nebraska counties.
The defense is arguing Bjorklund
should not be sentenced to death when
his accomplice is expected to receive
life imprisonment. As part of a plea
bargain with prosecutors, Scott Barney
pleaded guilty to murdering Harms
earlier this month.
Helvie said he would resubmit the
transcripts at the end of his case to
argue that the death penalty was un
constitutional. Helvie said the cases
showed the death penalty was applied
inconsistently.
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