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1 April 29, 1996
Step in time
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A processional for Chancellor James Moeser’s investiture makes its way through campus Friday afternoon. About 160
people took part in the prosessional that was led by a Dixieland band.
UNL installs Moeser as chancellor
By Julie Sobczyk
Senior Reporter
Administrators, wearing full academic
regalia, paraded with a Dixieland jazz band
through campus Friday to welcome James
Moeser as UNL’s 18th chancellor.
Mocser was officially installed as chan
cellor of the University of Ncbraska-Lincoln
during an investiture ceremony at the Lied
Center for Performing Arts.
- About 160 people, including members of
the chancellor ’s cabinet, regents, deans, Gov.
Ben Nelson and officials from other univer
sities came to greet Moeser.
A series of speakers, including Nelson
and NU President Dennis Smith, praised
Moeser for the qualities he will bring to
UNL. They then turned the podium over to
the new chancellor.
During his speech, Mocser told of his
recent travels throughout Nebraska. Resi
dents speak about UNL with pride, he said.
“People are proud of their university,”
Moeser said. “People are proud to send their
children here.”
The university’s history is rich, he said,
and UNL should use the past to prepare for
the future.
In 1896, when the university was founded
under the Morrill Act, everyone, regardless
of race and gender, was allowed into UNL,
Moeser said.
Now, UNL should accept challenges
rather than fear them, Moeser said.
“The greatest danger of this university is
the tendency to grow complacent,” he said.
“This is not a university in crisis. We arc
headed in the right direction.”
The university’s challenge, he said, is
itself.
“Our greatest enemy is walls that separate
department by department, college by col
lege. We must resist the tendency for col
leges to contain specific segments ol knowl
edge.
“We must find ways to turn walls into
permeable membranes.”
During his speech, Moeser also revealed
his vision statement for the university. While
previous chancellors’ statements had been
pages long, Moeser’s statement was only a
few paragraphs.
, His primary vision, he said, was quality,
affordable education for all Nebraskans.
“I envision the university as a community
whose scholars enjoy learning, whose text
book is the world. We must prepare for the
future.”
For his vision to become a reality, Moeser
said, everyone must pitch in.
“We need assistance from everyone who
loves and cares about the university. It will
take every ounce of energy and strength I
have to do justice, to love and to walk hum
bly with our God.”
Regents say
tuition hike
kept minimal
By Erin Schulte
Senior Reporter
UNL students will likely face a 3 percent
tuition increase next year under a plan proposed
Saturday to the NU Board of Regents.
For an undergraduate student paying in-state
tuition, that would mean paying S75 per credit
hour instead of the current $72.50.
Regent Chairman Don Blank of McCook
said he thought the proposal would pass.
“We did what we had to do to keep the raise
at a reasonable leyel,” Blank said. “We’d like
not to raise it at all, but the dollars had to come
from somewhere.”
UNL Student Regent Eric Marintzcr said the
tuition increase was reasonable because NU
President Dennis Smith had previously consid
ered raising tuition as much as 7 percent.
“Administration has made a heck ofan ellort
to make sure the tuition raise was low,” Marintzer
said. “I commend them for their effort.”
UNL Chancellor James Mocser agreed that
the proposal was fair.
“I see it as a modest increase,” Mocscr said.
“Trends in tuition raises have been at about 4 to
5 percent.”
Under the proposal given by Smith, UNL
faculty will receive a 3 percent pay increase
next year. The tuition increase will help raise
part of the $3.2 million needed for faculty salary
increases. The tuition increase roughly equals
the rate of inflation, Smith said.
“We do not believe it is appropriate this year
to put the burden of making up the shortfall in
salaries on the university’s students,” Smith
said.
He said last year’s tuition increase of 6.5
percent was higher than the national average for
public institutions.
“That is a ranking in which we do not aspire
to be above average,” Smith said.
The university needed funding for faculty
salary raises after Gov. Ben Nelson vetoed $2
million from the university budget, Smith said.
Because taxes and tuition are the only sources
of funds for its day-to-day operations, he said,
it was necessary to raise tuition.
The regents are scheduled to vote on the
proposal at their June 1 meeting.
UNL provides communication, social skills for officer
By Chad Lorenz
Senior Reporter !
Only eight months out of school,
Lincoln Police Officer Robert Branch
has already benefited from his Univer
sity of Nebraska-Lincoln degree.
Of900 applicants, Branch was one
of 15 accepted into Lincoln’s police
academy last year.
Applying to be a police officer is a
long, selective process, Branch said.
Applicants perform in test after test
and are heavily screened.
Those who make the thin cut, like
Branch, usually credit their college
degrees for giving them the skills po
lice departments want.
Branch said his years at UNL gave
him two assets that helped him maneu
ver through the selection process.
Strong written and oral communi
cation skills provide an advantage for
police applicants, Branch said. Chi the
job, officers must document almost
everything they do.
Branch also learned personal rela
tions. In college, students arc sur
rounded by each other, he said, so they
automatically learn to meet and work
with people.
Police officers must be able to deal
with the public, whether they are as
sisting pwple or making an arrest,
Branch said.
Personnel Sgt. Jim Hawkins said he
looked for applicants who were in
volved in a lot of student groups and
activities and have developed those
people-oriented skills.
Branch’s criminal justice degree
helped him in the academy when learn
ing criminal law, but, he said, any
degree is helpful when trying to be
come a police officer.
Hawkins said a majority of LPD’s
college-educated officers have degrees
in criminal justice, but the department
also needed degrees in business, law
and communications.
“A degree helps,” he said, “but one
in criminal justice doesn’t necessarily
make a good officer ” Regardless of
the degree, Hawkins said, general col
lege skills are important from the first
stages of applicant testing.
After applicants meet the basic job
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From citizen to r«
police officer
Applying for the police academy
and officer training is a long
process that takes about a year
and a half.
Clients
must meet five basic
its to be considered for police
employment They must:
be 21 years old,
be a legal U.S. citizen,
have | high school Optonii J
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havo o record free of felony offenses,
have a valid driver's Rcense.
<■■2. Testing
applicants must pass two test
the QB test which weaturet language
Md communicathHi skills
ths Pokes AttRudkud rsdor test, wtticit
measure ms appocanvs anposfuon tot
police work.
(only half of all applicants continue.)
3. Get pliysi
[physical
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. around obstacles in (>4.9 seconds
Face to face
Applicants are scheduled for an interview
aM with the personnel Sgt to discuss their
' education and background
6. Screening
Applicants under#)^ polygraph test,
drug test and psychoanalysis.
(the applicants are rated and a final cut
is made)
Ferceiver interview
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.ijj^ In a phone interview, the applicants
' ■ answer questions based on tneir
perception
7. Police acai
Cadets attend nearly foSrtrtonths of
police training at the Lincoln Police
Department
8. Fteld work
■ ^.Roolcie officers are evaluated on the job
€ by Superiors who rate their performances
after six months. Those wno perform
well are assigned to a team and given
standard pay
