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Post-tenure review proposed TENURE from page 1 members can achieve tenure in their sixth year of continuous employment atUNL. This post-tenure review, Jacobson said, will provide an added assurance that faculty are accountable for their performance. “This can only help the university, and the faculty member,” Jacobson said. Ford said it also would provide an extra level of security to students and their parents. “If a teacher is evaluated unsatis factorily,” he said, “then that’s the trig ger, and that calls for an intensive review of that professor’s work.” Once the review process is trig gered, a peer panel will review the work of the faculty member in ques tion and make a recommendation to the dean of the professor’s college, Ford said. After the post-tenure evaluation is complete, the dean can create a plan to help professors accomplish certain goals, assign certain sanctions against him, lower his salary or begin the process to revoke his tenure. Regent Nancy O’Brien of Waterloo said she was generally sup portive of the proposal, but for it to work, annual reviews already in place must be extensive. “Post-tenure review, and the process as it’s described, makes it absolutely essential that good, solid annual reviews are done on all of our faculty,” O’Brien said. The regents’ action on post-tenure could end more than a year of the Academic Senate’s work to perfect the proposal. Association of Students of the University of Nebraska First Vice President Amy Rager said the review process would help assure students the people standing in front of them in the classroom were competent. “At times, there are a few - not very many - professors who have been tenured and shouldn’t be in the u This can only help the university; and the faculty member” Evelyn Jacobson vice chancellor of academic affairs classroom anymore,” Rager said. To meet the standards of UNL’s touted plans of increased academic rigor, the few professors who don’t have the best teaching skills should be evaluated, Rager, who represented ASUN during the Academic Senate’s discussions on the review, said. Post-tenure review, which O’Brien said had most regents’ sup port, was an accountability issue. “It’s a matter of being accountable to our public - the taxpayers, the stu dents (our customers), to say we have faculty who are doing a good job.” 1-800-USA-NAVY. World Wide Web: http://www.navyjobs.com Ski Free* when you stay at Keystone Resort Come stay at Keystone, Colorado and ski free! Stay a minimum of 3 nights and get 2 days of free skiing. The longer you stay the more free skiing you get. Free lift tickets are given to each member of your party* Remember, our lift ticket lets you ski Keystone as well as Breckenridge, Vail and Beaver Creek. 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Daye told about 15 University of Nebraska-Lincoln students, staff and faculty members Thursday in the Nebraska East Union they could help those they know who suffer from anorexia or bulimia. Audience members said Daye’s presentation gave them new hope for helping friends defeat the disorders. People who suffer from eat ing disorders have shifted hor mones in their brains and have altered daily thought processes, she said. As a result, they often suffer from a distorted body image and think they weigh more than they do. With each day, eating disor der victims become more set in their ways and become obsessed with food and eating habits, Daye said. Victims get used to meticulously counting calories or throwing up after meals. “The peculiar habits become a way of life,” she said. “They start not being able to remember when they ate normally.” Over time, the body accom modates the changes, she said, and the victims must increase the severity of their disorder to keep losing weight. Daye said she had worked with women who had lived with eating disorders for decades. She also has seen girls who took 60 to 80 laxatives each day, she said. All of these women told Nebraskan Questions? Comments? Ask for the appropriate section editor at (402) 472-2588 or e-mail dn@unllnfo.unl.edu. 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Readers are encouraged to submit story ideas and comments to Its My Nebraskan by ctflng (402)472-2588. Subscriptions an $55 tor one year. Postmaster Send adekess changes# to Daly Nebraskan, Nebraska Union 34/1400 R St, ' Lincoln NE 685880448. Periodtoal postage paid at Lincoln, NE. ALL MATERIAL COPYRIGHT 1998 THE D/ULY NEBRASKAN themselves they didn’t have an eating problem. Denial was prevalent, Daye said, and included hiding symp toms of hunger and weight loss. Although eating disorders create such symptoms, they, too, can be symptoms of greater psy chological stresses. “The eating disorder is always in lieu of something else, and that something else is what needs to be dealt with,” Daye said. For instance, one 6-year-old girl suffered from anorexia because she heard her father call her often-pregnant mother “fat.” The girl, who was the oldest of five children, didn’t under stand her mother looked over weight because she was preg nant, not because of what she ate. The jokes had a profound impact on the girl, Daye said, and the girl refused food. But helping an eating disor der victim can be more difficult than simply recognizing the problem. Norma Cox, a mental health practitioner for Counseling and Psychological Services, said many people will defend their eating disorders if others ques tion their low weight. “We all have things we do to cope,” Cox said. “If someone tells us we can’t do that anymore, we’re going to defend our coping mechanism with everything we’ve got.” Because helping people with anorexia or bulimia can be diffi cult, their friends shouldn’t con front them Without a plan. Friends of victims should remember “where (they) begin and that other person ends,” Daye said. Without such a boundary, the helper may become a partner in the manipulative disorder. During the actual confronta tion, a person should be direct yet empathetic, and be prepared to offer the names of professionals who could help the person with his or her disorder. “There’s help out there.”
