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scope of the statewide political
debate, but few relevant issues had
been brought out so far in this
year’s campaign.
Amanda Baeder, a sophomore
biology major, said she is close' to
making a decision based on who
has the most liberal stance relative
to the other candidates.
She said some candidates made
same sex marriage one of this
year’s big issues, even though the
issue does not stand out as one of
the most important.
“That was a total turnoff for
me,” she said.
Kim also said campaign-year
rhetoric clouds the candidates’
stances on important issues like
taxes and spending and might dis
courage people from voting.
“Every candidate is making
promises, saying they’re going to
cut taxes,” he said. “What no one
looks at is how to raise enough rev
enue to run an efficient govern
ment.”
Jeff Bowdino, a senior advertis
ing major, said students are keen in
spotting negative campaign adver
tising, which also can discourage
people from voting.
He said candidates often high
light issues seemingly unimportant
to Nebraskans to detract attention
from the real issues.
Bowdino said his party affilia
tion will not be the deciding factor
when he votes for governor in
November.
Kim and Baeder said they like
to wait until late in the campaign so
they can make informed decisions.
As an advertising major,
Bowdino said he pays more atten
tion to the campaign tactics used in
political advertising.
While voter apathy is a problem
in Nebraska, Bowdino said he
trusts in the system and voters’
ability to choose the best candidate.
“I think the people of Nebraska
are pretty well-educated and they
know what they like,” he said.
To attract more people to the
polls, Bowdino said, young people
should understand that their vote
has an impact and is important.
“Without their vote, (people)"
have no say and no ability to
change.”
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Commitment of
dean questioned
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“We are kind of crippled, and if we
need to cut a program we are a prime
target,” Besett said.
Mark Majors, a third-year doctoral
student, said it was die dean’s choice to
do what he wanted with the program,
but it needed to be done with the
“human factor” in mind.
“If the dean wishes to merge pro
grams with school psychology, or
rebuild counseling psychology, it is
important that it be done directly so that
goals and futures of people in program
have security,” he said.
Majors said the search committee
was not what he hoped it would be.
“I would have thought there would
have been an aggressive campaign to
hire two new fhll-time professors,” he
said. “That did not happen, I do not
believe.”
Lisa Larson, an associate professor
of educational psychology who is leav
ing the program in June, said something
needs to be done.
“I feel like I’m trying,” Larson said.
“My sense is that the administration
needs to make a decision about replac
ing people or put in a plan to dissemble
the program.”
O’Hanlon has started meeting with
students weekly, and keeping them
informed through e-mail on the
progress of the search.
David Webster, first-year doctoral
student, said the dean was trying to
improve the program. Webster said
money was being squeezed from the
college, which went beyond the dean’s
authority.
“The significant thing is the dean is
doing his part to hire faculty, so that
looks like it will be an appropriate mes
sage sent to the (American Psychology
Association).”
He said O’Hanlon cared about the
program, but it may just be in a transi
tion period.
O’Hanlon said the lack of perma
nent faculty members has
left students with few
advisers, which is the
biggest problem. Besett
said she has had three
advisers and her disserta
tion committee has
changed this year.
Webster said he was
not concerned with the
transition of faculty mem
bers when he was admitted,
because he was told the
program was “proactively
dealing with vacancies.”
Webster said he was
drawn to tne program
because of the “collegial atmosphere”
between students and professors, its
focus on cultural diversity, highly
regarded faculty and accreditation.
And several students said those very
things that attracted students were being
lost. In an e-mail sent to the Daily
Nebraskan on April 3, Lisa Frey
Richardson, Besett, Kimo Alameda and
Amy Tiongson Corey, all third-year
doctoral candidates, pointed to several
ironies in O’Hanlon’s practices.
The students said the dean “appears
to be forcing the only two faculty mem
bers within the counseling psychology
program to resign. Both of these faculty
members are senior faculty women, and
(me is a minority woman. Disturbingly,
the dean is sending a mixed message.”
The students said, “perhaps the real
issue is an underlying agenda that the
dean is unwilling to reveal.”
“By forcing out these two faculty
members, the program is at great risk.
Perhaps this is the dean’s underlying
agenda.”
But O’Hanlon said he has no inten
tion to force the remaining faculty
members out. Professors may be leav
' ing for better salaries or more presti
gious career opportunities, he said.
Besett said she felt like O’Hanlon
wanted students to write grants and pro
posals in order to gain more resources
for the program. She said it is the job of
professors, which are lacking right now.
“The way the dean makes it sound is
that we have to fight for our program,”
Besett said. “Students have no control in
actuality of keeping or not keeping a
program.”
O’Hanlon said that process requires
a commitment from both parties.
“It is the job of professors, but stu
dents enter in,” O’Hanlon said.
With three fewer professors, stu
dents don’t have a lot of options, Besett
said. Several feel like little is being done
by the college to retain and recruit cur
rent professors.
Larson is leaving in June for Iowa
State University.
‘Tor me it certainly is a good posi
tion (in Iowa),” she said. “I felt like the
support-of the program was in ques
tion.”
Moshman said he also recognizes a
lack of support for the remaining coun
seling psychology professors.
“The remaining two faculty were
both excellent faculty, who have not
been personally supported to the degree
they should be,” Moshman said.
The remaining professor in the pro
gram said she is doing everything she
could to fit the mission of the college,
which is an emphasis on kindergarten
through 12th graders.
Gargi Roysircar Sodowsky, associ
ate professor, said she has sponsored
several school programs at Color
Middle School, an ethnically diverse
school.
She requires 14 students each
semester to provide education services
for an English as a second language
class. It was the first program in the
nation to offer practicums in a school
instead of at the college.
Majors said, “To say you want to
focus on schools, children and families,
I could not think you could focus more.”
O’Hanlon said he was pleased with
Sodowsky and Larson’s work in the
schools, which fit well with the col
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The significant thing is
the dean is doing his part
to hire faculty; so that looks
like it will be an appwpiate
message sent to the (APA)T
David Webster
first-year doctoral student
lege’s mission.
For whatever reason tenured profes
sors are leaving, with their absence
comes the slim possibility of revocation
of accreditation from the APA.
Accreditation is based on things
such as the number of tenured or long
term faculty members, quality and cur
riculum. Every five years APA repre
sentatives visit accredited programs and
decide whether to maintain their
accreditation. Programs must submit an
annual report to the APA. Counseling
psychology is accredited until 2000 and
has been since 1959.
O’Hanlon said he was committed to
maintaining accreditation, although
revocation was unlikely.
“Our very minimal goal is every
student graduate here with APA accred
itation,” O’Hanlon said.
When APA representatives came
two years ago, they gave an excellent
report, he said If they came today, he
said they probably would tell him to hire
more faculty members.
Besett said the program she came to
two years ago was becoming a program
that was hard to recognize.
“I came into this institution and the
institution has made a commitment,”
Besett said. “We came as a separate pro
gram and want to go oyt as a separate
program.”