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April 6, 1994 ,
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Vol. 93 No. 135
Senate tables
resolution on
UNO college
By Matthew Waite
Senior Reporter _
A resolution spelling out faculty
rights and concerns about the
establishment of an indepen
dent engineering college in Omaha
was tabled Tuesday after a professor
ripped up the bill before the Academic
Senate.
Tom Sires, a University of Ncbras
ka-Lincoln engi
neering profes
sor, said the rcso
lution put words
into people’s
mouths.
“You know it
and I know it,”
he said. “It’s gar
bage.
“You are so far ahead of the horse,
you are ridiculous. You’re making
people choose whether they want to
choose or not.”
The resolution slated that engi
neering professors at the University of
Nebraska at Omaha and UNL must be
given the option to choose with which
administration they wished tobc affil
iated.
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It also stated that the quality of
programs at UNL must not suffer to
provide funding for the new college.
Sires said the problem with the bill
was advocacy. He said no Omaha
faculty members were cal led about the
measure.
The senate should wait for a task
force formed by University of Nebras
ka President Dennis Smith to finish its
study of the possibility of a separate
college in Omaha, Sires said.
The senate tabled the resolution.
Sires said if the senate needed to bring
the resolution back up after the task
force announced its findings, it could.
In an interview. Smith said he had
been unable to contact some people
that he wanted on the task force. He
said he hoped to release the list by the
end of the week.
The internal lobbying involved with
the task force has been heavy. Smith
said. But, he said, it doesn’t matter.
“I guess one advantage to being
here a short period of time is the
lobbying has had little impact ... no
impact. Smith said. “We need to
(select the task force) without any
pressure from either side.”
In earlier remarks to the senate.
Smith said that all loo often adminis
trators lost sight ofwhat the uni versily
was about.
“Administrators turn over. Stu
dents graduate," he said. “I fa univer
sity is to be excellent, then the excel
lence must rely on the faculty.”
Smith said his record as an admin
istrator had drawn some interesting
criticism.
“I have been accused, on occasion,
as thinking like a faculty member," he
said.
The university has an obligation to
I serve the citizens of Nebraska, Smith
said. He said faculty and administra
tors must establish the best university
(possible with budget constraints.
Smith said higher education in the
United States was in trouble. He said
funding issues like welfare reform,
crime prevention and building more
prisons had taken priority over higher
education.
A drive to expand programs, cou
pled with a shrink ing budget, will hurt
the quality of education at the univer
sity, Smith said.
“Wc need lobe poised to undertake
new opportunities... but only if we can
guarantee we will excel,” he said.
Smith said that to be successful, it
was important for all of the campuses
to function as a team.
“If the University of Nebraska is
successful, then each individual cam
pus succeeds.”
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Art proj ects show students j oys of teaching
By Kara G. Morrison
Senior Reporter _
“I
think I’ve got the hang
of it,” 6-year-old Kacli
says, wrapping gobs of
purple yarn around her fingers and
smil ing through hot pink face paint.
As she helps Kacli, senior ele
mentary education major Shelly
WemhofTlooks up to explain, “It’s
called finger weaving.”
Wemhoff, one of about 20 stu
dents in Curriculum and Instruc
tion 306, a UNL elementary art
methods class, was demonstrating
art projects Tuesday at the Chil
dren’s Museum, 13th and O streets.
“We did this last semester,” Jo
Brown said, instructor Jo Brown,
“and people at the museum liked it
so much, they called and asked us to
do it again.” Brown teaches the ath
methods class.
Brown says her students voted
unanimously to continue the project.
The students planned their own art
activities for the event and brought
their own materials. Brown said.
“I know (UNL students) whodid
this last semester and had a blast,”
junior Amy Martin said.
Martin, surrounded by crayons
and paint brushes, was helping sev
eral children with crayon wax-re -
sist pictures, made by using watcr
color paints over crayon drawings.
Some of the future teachers were
getting a lesson themselves.
On tiptoe, showing UNL senior
Scott Zimmerman the art of face
painting, three-year-old Christian
was busy brushing bright red paint
on Zimmerman’s nose.
“I thought the kids would all be
shy,”Zimmcnnansaid,“but they've
really been open.”
The childrens’ enthusiasm also
was a lesson to Zimmerman.
“I’d like to involve art in my
classroom,” he said. “It’s another
way ofgctting (children) interested
in learning.”
Other projects children could
choose included making kites and
puppets and stringing necklaces
made of Froot Loops cereal.
Sitting near the Froot Loops, 10
year-old Jackie was starting her
third art project.
“I was bored at home and asked
my mom to bring me,” Jackie said.
Brown said the event was
planned for a day that Lincoln Pub
lic Schools were closed. LPS stu
dents were still on spring vacation
Tuesday.
Most of the the project tables
were surrounded by children and
their parents at 3 p.m., but the
weavers were the busiest bunch of
all.
WemhoIT said she had helped
about 20 children with different
weaving projects in an hour. The
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Elementary education major Scott Zimmerman has his face painted by Christen Irons
Tuesday at the Lincoln Children’s Museum. Zimmerman is participating in a volunteer
activity in conjunction with his elementary art methods class.
pace did not make the project less
fun, she said.
“I wish we could do more of this
kind of thing.’’ Wemhoff says,
“You’re out working with kids,
hearing their thoughts.”
Senior Julie Copley agreed.
“1 love this,” she said. “I think
it’s better than going to schools for
practicums. You have so many dif
ferent ages to work with here.”
Brown, who also is working on
/ thought the kids would all be shy. But
they've really been open.
— Zimmerman
UNL senior
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her doctorate at the university and
has a studio in the Burkholder gal
lery in the Haymarkct, said most
importantly, the project got her own
students excited about teaching.
“If a student gets a kid excited,
then they’ll want to do these things
(in their own classrooms),” she said.
Student’s father happy with anti-hazing law
Jeffrey Knoll will
finish recovery and
return to UNL in fall
By Angie Brunkow
Senior Reporter
Anew anti-hazing law in Ne
braska will help ensure that
accidents,like the one involv
ing Phi Gamma Delta pledge Jeffrey
Knoll, won’t occur again, his father
said Tuesday.
Jim Knoll ofOgallala said the law,
along with increased fraternity mem
ber awareness and administrative su
pervision, would help deter hazing on
campus.
Gov. Ben Nelson signed the law on
Monday, making hazing a crime pun
ishable by a maximum of six months
in prison and a $ 1,000 fine. Organiza
tions can be fined up to $10,000.
The law was proposed by Sen.
Gerald Matzkc of Sidney in response
to a hazing accident on the University
of Nebraska-Lincoln campus. During
the incident, Jeffrey Knoll was forced
to consume alcohol and then fell from
a third-story window of the Fiji house.
Jeffrey is 1 iving at home in Ogallala,
still recovering from the accident. J im
Knoll said his son would return to
school as a full-time student in the
fall.
“We’re delighted he has come as
far as he has,” Jim Knoll said. “We
really won’t know the prognosis until
he gives school a try again.”
Jeffrey, who underwent 13 weeks
ofthcrapy in Lakcvicw,Colo., is work
ing at Valentino's and continuing
speech therapy once or twice a week
with a local pathologist.
Jim Knoll said the anti-hazing law,
along with the media attention given
to Jeffrey’s accident and the increased
supervision of alcohol consumption
on campus, would help prevent haz
ing in the future.
“I’m glad there’s a law finally in
place,” he said. “Things like this will
hopefully never happen again.”
Jim Knoll said he and his lawyer
proposed the idea of an anti-ha/.ing
bill to freshman senator Matzkc dur
ing a constituents’ meeting.
“We thought it would be a real
good way to have some success as a
freshman senator,” he said.
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I'm glad there's a law
finally in place.
Things like this will
hopefully never
happen again.
—Jim Knoll
father of Jeffrey Knoll
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J im Knoll said he was “bewildered”
that an anti-hazing law, which was
passed unanimously by the Nebraska
Legislature last week, did not exist
until now.
“It’s hard to believe a bill like this
has never been introduced before or
passed,” he said.