Preparing to Compete
Andy Wellensiek, a
mechanized systems management major, uses
a cutting torch to remove
a drive-shaft bearing mount from the
quarter-scale tractor he is
helping build May 1 at the Tractor
Test Lab on East Campus. A team
of biological engineering students
is building the quarter-scale
tractor to compete in the American
Society of Agriculture Engineers
quarter-scale tractor design
competition May 31 to June 1 in East
Moline, Ill.
UNL employees to get 1.5% or $600
raise
By Kim Hachiya, University Communications
Every UNL employee with a satisfactory performance record
will
receive a minimum salary increase of $600 or 1.5 percent,
whichever
is higher, according to Chancellor Harvey Perlman.
The
chancellor outlined the salary adjustment guidelines at
the
Academic Senate meeting April 30.
"Intellectually, I'm
committed to percentage increases
rather than flat dollar
increases," he told the senate.
However, this year, because of
budget and other considerations,
the guideline will be $600 or 1.5
percent, he said.
With the increasing costs of parking and
health insurance,
UNL is becoming less competitive in recruiting
employees, particularly
at the lowest salary grades, Perlman said.
At those lowest levels,
1.5 percent raises will not help increase
competitiveness, he
said.
Raises above the minimum
will be determined according to merit
and superior performance, he
said.
Each classification pool will be able to accommodate
the increases,
he said.
For faculty/tenure track
salaries, departments, deans and
the vice chancellors will have
pools from which to draw raises.
Departmental pools will be 3
percent. Deans will receive 1 percent
and the vice chancellors 0.56
percent.
Raises for faculty and staff should average 4.56
percent.
Before the recent rounds of budget cuts, salaries were
targeted
to rise 6.3 percent for faculty and 5 percent for staff.
By shaving
raises, university officials were able to reach the
reduced budget
target.
Perlman also said some
benchmarks for salary increases that
were controversial last year
have been removed. He said officials
inserted into the guidelines a
clause stating that there must
be an "understandable
relationship" between annual
reviews and salary increases.
Also at the April 30 meeting, George Wolf, professor of English,
received the James A. Lake Academic Freedom Award in recognition
of
his years of work and scholarship on behalf of the gay, lesbian,
transgendered and bisexual community.
Catching up on Some Reading
Sam Huber, 3, reads
about Clifford the Big Red Dog as his
mother, Rebecca, a master's
of business administration student,
does some research May 1 in
Love Library.
Scarlet summer schedule
This is the final Scarlet of
the academic year. The Scarlet
publishes monthly in the summer, on
June 6 and July 11. Weekly
publication resumes Aug. 22.
Please submit items for publication to scarlet@unl.edu,
by mail to
321 Canfield Administration Building, 0424, or call
472-8518. Items
must be received by the Scarlet at least one
week before the issue
in which you wish the item to be published.
E-news process for e-mail to all
E-News is a weekly compilation of notices distributed to all
faculty and staff and replaces the "e-mail to all"
system. The deadline for submission is 5 p.m. Monday; E-News
is
distributed Tuesday evenings. Submitted items must be sponsored
by
a UNL department, program or organization. No commercial or
personal announcements are allowed. Announcements must have news
rather than opinion content. Submit items to: http://www.unl.edu/e-news.
To view a sample submission, see: http://www.unl.edu/e-news/sa
mple.html.
Previously announced URL links are still
active but the above
are updated links.
Sorensen Forum Scheduled for May 22
The University of Nebraska Public Policy Center and the UNL
College of Arts and Sciences will sponsor the Thomas C. Sorensen
Forum for Political Leadership from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. May 22 at
the
Wick Alumni Center.
The forum is an effort to address the
difficulties in finding
able men and women who will enter public
life. The seminar will
identify hurdles to seeking public office,
familiarize participants
with difficulties facing public servants
and discuss the skills
to be an effective political leader.
Irv Omtvedt, vice president emeritus for Agriculture and Natural
Resources, vice chancellor emeritus for the Institute of Agriculture
and Natural Resources and UNL professor emeritus of animal science,
will facilitate the session, joined by three presenters: Stephen
Buhler, UNL associate professor of English; Scott Moore, director
of Government Affairs, Union Pacific Corp. (formerly a state
senator and secretary of state); and Kim Robak, vice president
for
external affairs and corporation secretary, University of
Nebraska
Board of Regents (former lieutenant governor).
Cost to
attend the seminar is $25, which includes the full-day
seminar,
lunch and seminar materials. On-site registration is
an additional
$10. Space is limited. Registration or more information
is
available online at http://ppc.unl.edu/s
eminarseries/pss01-02.htm,
or by calling 472-5678.
Save Money with
Your Computer
You can help conserve energy at UNL by
turning on the power
management options for your computer. Visit
Shared Computing
Services Web site for more information and
instructions at http://busfin.
unl.edu/scs/FYIdocs/EnergySavings.htm.
Purchasing Fiscal Year End Deadlines 2001/02
For Bids, Quotes
Don't wait until the last few days of
Fiscal Year 2001/2002
to spend year-end dollars. Administrators are
encouraged to review
projected year-end balances so that
expenditures can be processed
early and in the best interest of the
university.
Departments should communicate their need for
major purchases
requiring formal sealed bidding (over $40,000) as
soon as possible.
Keep in mind that formal sealed bidding
procedures require a
minimum of 3-4 weeks lead-time. The deadline
for sealed bidding
requests is May 27.
The deadline
for purchases requiring vendor quotations ($5,000-$39,999)
is June
10.
Specific year-end deadlines can be found on the
Purchasing
Web site: http://busfin.un
l.edu/purchase/announcements.html.
If you have
any questions, please call the Purchasing Department
at
472-2126.
Tips for Entering Canada
There have been numerous
reports of travelers having difficulty
entering Canada. According
to the Canadian Embassy in Washington,
D.C., U.S. citizens may
enter Canada with one of two documents:
a U.S. passport or a U.S.
Birth Certificate (original or certified
copy).
The
Canadian Border Patrol does not consider a driver's license
and
U.S. voter's registration card proof of citizenship. If you
are
flying into Canada, airlines may require additional documents
as
they face stiff fines for embarking passengers into Canada
without
correct documentation. If you are a U.S. citizen and
are flying
into Canada from a third country, a U.S. passport
is required. It
is recommended that all travelers going to Canada
(as well as to
Mexico) have a valid passport. If you have any
questions, or need
additional information, contact UNL Travel
Services at 486-4111 or
(800) 228-4395.
Americorps
Programs Seek Members
The Nebraska Consortium for Service
Learning in Higher Education
is recruiting new participants for its
two AmeriCorps programs:
Nebraska Teacher Corps and Serving Others
Who Serve, or SOS.
Applications for TeacherCorps members will be
accepted through
June 1 and for SOS through mid-summer.
Nebraska Teacher Corps members are K-12 teachers who teach
in
rural or Title I schools or in Omaha's Federal Enterprise
Zone and
who earn less than $30,000 as a base salary. In exchange
for 1,700
hours of service implementing service-learning in their
classrooms,
members earn $4,725, which can be used to repay existing
student
loans or toward future college classes.
SOS places
undergraduate and graduate students in Consortium-member
schools
across Nebraska to strengthen and expand service-learning
infrastructure within the community. This means SOS members develop
resources for service-learning educators, assist with campus
coordination and establish partnerships with organizations such
as
public libraries. SOS members serve 300-900 hours over a three-to-nine
month period in exchange for an education award of $1,000 to
$2,362.50.
For information, call Rachael Robinson-Keilig at
Student Involvement,
472-4098, or e-mail teachercorps@hotmail.com.
Bike Rodeo June
13
The Lincoln area credit unions are sponsoring a Kiddie
Bike
Rodeo from 6:30 to 8 p.m. June 13 at the Lincoln Goodyear
Employees
Federal Credit Union, 4638 W St.
Children
can learn about bike safety, get behind the wheel
of a police
cruiser, see a fire truck up close and receive a
child
identification card.
At the rodeo, kids learn how to gain
control of their bicycles
by practicing maneuvering, steering and
balancing through an
obstacle course. In addition to the safety
course, youngsters
will have a great time with fire trucks, 75-foot
ladders, police
officers, Happy the Clown, refreshments and
more.
For more information, call the University of Nebraska
Federal
Credit Union at 472-2087.
Gish Retirement Reception May 29
The university
community is invited to a retirement reception
for Marcy Gish from
12:30-2 p.m. May 29 at the University of
Nebraska Press offices,
233 N. 8th St. Gish is the press's customer
service office
supervisor. She began working at the university
in 1985 as a
clerical assistant.
Don't
forget to take Gallup survey
All faculty, staff and
employees of UNL are invited to participate
in the Gallup Q12 - UNL
Campus Climate 2002 survey, offered by
The Gallup Organization.
This survey is aimed to create a better
place to work for all by
identifying and measuring key issues.
All employees
are urged to take 10 minutes to complete this
survey about their
primary or home departments via the Internet.
Employees can also
take the survey by phone; the number to call
is provided below.
All employees have been assigned an access code to start the
survey. This access code allows Gallup to ensure that data is
properly tabulated for each person's home department.
All
data received by Gallup is completely confidential, and
no data at
the individual level will be provided to UNL.
The Web site
for the survey: http://websurveys.gallup.
com/unlq12.html.
For phone access, call (866) 288-8917. This is
a toll-free call.
The survey will be available through May 18.
If you have general questions about the survey or have not
received an access code for the survey, call 472-0088. If you
have
a specific question about your survey, call Gallup at (800)
788-9987 or send an e-mail to survey_help@gallup.com.
College of Law offers hard-hat
tours
The NU College of Law will offer "hard
hat" tours
of its new construction on the university's East
Campus from
noon to 3 p.m. May 10 at McCollum Hall. Light
refreshments will
be offered.
Improvements at the Law
College include a new reading room
with 20-foot-high ceilings and a
view over the open fields to
the east, three new seminar rooms, a
renovated and technologically
up-to-date library, a new suite of
legal writing offices and
an enclosed courtyard.
Construction of the $8.2 million addition and renovation is
about half done and should be completed Jan. 1, 2003. Participations
in the tours will be provided with hard hats and taken behind
the
construction walls to see the current state of the improvements.
The tours will be led by the architects and others knowledgeable
about the project. Each tour should take about 15-20 minutes.
Keep tillage to minimum this dry
spring
IANR News and Publishing
Recent rains
brought some relief from dry conditions in parts
of Nebraska, but
drought worries aren't over. Minimizing tillage
is one way to
conserve precious soil moisture.
No-till and other
conservation practices will minimize the
risk of soil erosion,
conserve soil moisture and keep dust storms
at bay, said Paul Jasa,
a UNL Cooperative Extension engineer.
"Every tillage
trip across the field depletes about an
inch of soil
moisture," Jasa said. Most soils hold 2 inches
of available
water per foot on average. If a farmer tills 6 inches
deep, about
an inch of moisture is lost.
Crops grown without tillage
will use topsoil and subsoil moisture
more efficiently, Jasa said.
Minimizing tillage also increases
soil's water-holding capacity,
decreases evaporation and reduces
soil erosion.
Some
relief might be in store as the long-term forecast for
May through
July indicates a slightly better chance of seeing
above normal
precipitation, said Mark Svoboda, climatologist
at the National
Drought Mitigation Center based at UNL. These
conditions are more
likely in south central and southeastern
Nebraska, but the entire
state is included in this tendency.
Temperatures have equal chances
of being above normal, normal
or below normal, he said.
2002-2003 Thompson Forum lectures
set
UNL and the Cooper Foundation have announced the
lectures
for the 2002-2003 E.N. Thompson Forum on World Issues. All
lectures
will be in the Lied Center for Performing Arts at 12th and
R
streets.
Lectures are free and open to the public.
Except for Thomas
Friedman, all lectures will begin at 3:30 p.m.
Thomas Friedman, 8 p.m. Sept. 23. This lecture is a
2002 Governor's Lecture on the Humanities, a collaboration of
the
Thompson Forum, the Nebraska Humanities Council, the University
of
Nebraska and UNL. Friedman is a foreign affairs columnist
at The
New York Times and the author of two bestsellers, The
Lexus and the
Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization and From
Beirut to
Jerusalem. Three times a recipient of the Pulitzer
Prize, Friedman
is known for his knowledge of international affairs
but also his
humor and clarity.
Paul Farmer, Oct. 11. Profiled in
The New Yorker as
the "good doctor" and the 1993 winner
of a MacArthur
genius grant, Farmer wears many hats. He is the
co-director of
the Program in Infectious Disease and Social Change
at Harvard
Medical School, an unpaid,chief consultant to the World
Bank,
and the founding Director of Partnership in Health, with
outposts
in Haiti, Mexico, Cambodia, Peru and Massachusetts.
Shifting
operations between Haiti, the United States, Paris, and
Russia,
Farmer's goal is simple: to heal of the world of
preventable,
treatable diseases.
Mary Pipher,
Nov. 13. Pipher, a Nebraska native and
Lincoln resident, is a
clinical psychologist and the author of
two best-selling books.
While Reviving Ophelia looked at teen-age
girls and Another County
addressed aging, Pipher's most recent
book, The Middle of
Everywhere: The World's Refugees Come to
our Town describes the
plight of refugees settling in Lincoln.
Pipher's lecture and other
events will include many opportunities
to hear from new Nebraskans
directly and discuss refugee issues.
Ahmad Chalabi,
March 6. Chalabi, president of the Iraqi
National Congress, may not
be a household name yet, but he may
soon be in the headlines. As
the president of the umbrella organization
trying to overthrow
Saddam Hussein, Chalabi's name is well known
to both Democrats and
Republicans in Washington, D.C. In exile
since 1996, Chalabi and
his supporters have been waging a public
relations war in an
attempt to get Western countries, particularly
the United States,
to support an INC-led insurrection to topple
Hussein.
Peter Gleick, April 30. Co-founder and president of
the
Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment,
and
Security, Gleick is an internationally recognized expert
on global
freshwater resources, including the impacts of climate
change,
sustainable water use and international conflicts over
water
resources. Gleick warned in an interview with the BBC that
"the future we're heading for is a world in which billions
of
people do not have access to basic clean drinking water."
For more information about the Thompson Forum, call Annette
Wetzel at 472-8524 or Patrice McMahon at 472-3235.
Road work near campus
The City
of Lincoln plans to resurface R Street from May 13-18.
During the days of street closure, all UNL buses will drop
off
and pick up passengers at the city bus stop on the northeast
corner
south of the Nebraska Bookstore at 13th and Q streets.
In addition,
all routes except the R Street route will stop at
15th and S
streets on the northeast corner northeast of the Nebraska
Union.
General handicapped and limited visitor parking will
be available
in the visitors' lot south of R Street between 13th
and 14th
streets by entering from 14th Street through the alley
north
of Wendy's.
Service and delivery vehicles can
park in available stalls
on 15th Street west of the Selleck
Residence Hall.
Access to the parking areas around CBA,
Love Library, Canfield
Administration Building and the Nebraska
Union will be restricted
during the time of the street resurfacing
and a short curing
period.
CAPS Offers Online Screenings
Counseling and Psychological Services at the University Health
Center is now able to provide online screenings for depression,
eating disorders and alcohol use to all UNL students. These free
screenings are taken anonymously.
"With the increase
that we've seen of depression, eating
disorders and alcohol
problems among students, these on-line
screenings allow us to reach
out campus-wide with effective prevention
and early intervention
programs," said Bob Portnoy, CAPS
director. "By providing
a year-round opportunity for at-risk
students to learn more about
these serious mental health issues,
we are hoping to make it more
likely that these students get
connected to appropriate services in
CAPS, the University Health
Center or elsewhere."
Students are able to get information that would help them
to
better assess their need for counseling in those areas by
completing an online questionnaire. The online screenings are
provided to determine whether a more in-depth consultation with
one
of the UHC professional staff would be helpful. If a student
chooses to seek a more in-depth assessment at UHC because of
screening results, he or she should bring the results of the
screening to the initial appointment.
Students can take
advantage of this new program by going to
the CAPS Web site at: http://www.unl.edu/health/CAPS
.html.
For more information about the online screenings, call
CAPS at
472-7450.
EC
Activities Building Closed
Campus Recreation's EC
Activities Building will be closed
for its annual maintenance
shutdown May 20-27. Members are encouraged
to remove any personal
items from their lockers as no one will
be allowed to enter the
building until the center re-opens May
28. The Campus Recreation
Center will be open with showers, locker
rooms and day-use lockers
available during this shutdown. Additionally,
the Activities
Building will be closed May 11 (graduation). Summer
hours begin May
28. A complete listing of the May and Summer
2002 hours are
available at the Rec Center, Activities Building,
or online http://www.unl.edu/crec.
For more information, call 472-2479.
Campus Rec Center Closed
The Campus Recreation Center will be closed for its annual
maintenance shutdown May 12-19. Members are encouraged to remove
any personal items from their lockers as no one will be allowed
to
enter the building until the center re-opens May 20. During
this
shutdown, the East Campus Activities Building will have
extended
hours with showers, locker rooms and day-use locks &
lockers
available. Mabel Lee Hall Pool and North Gym will have
limited
hours with showers and locker rooms only during this
time.
Additionally, the Campus Recreation Center will have reduced
hours
May 10-11 (graduation weekend) and May 25-27 (Memorial
Day
holiday). A complete listing of the May and Summer 2002 hours
are
available at the Rec Center, Activities Building, or online
at http://www.unl.edu/crec.
For more information, call 472-3467.
Last two days for Massage Therapy's special offer
Enjoy your summer one hour at a time with Massage Therapy
at the
Campus Rec Center. Purchase member and guest gift certificates
at
the member price until May 10. Special prices ranges are good
for
30-, 45-, or 60-minute sessions. For more information, call
472-0738 or visit the Massage Therapy link at:http://www.unl.edu/crec.
University Health Center Summer
Hours
Summer hours will begin at the University Health
Center on
May 13 and run through Aug. 23: 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Monday through
Friday; 10 a.m. to noon Saturday and holidays.
Library
announces reserve policy statement
The UNL libraries offer
a service to place books and other
reading materials onto reserve.
Professors and graduate assistants
may place library books,
personal books, journal articles, video
tapes and other media on
reserve. Reserve items are indexed under
the name and course of
each instructor.
For library books and personal books
Library books handed in for reserve will be processed in the
order in which they are received. They will be filed by book
title
and not by author or the name of a chapter within the book.
Make
sure the title on IRIS matches the title on the syllabus.
Personal
copies will follow the same procedure as library books.
The
libraries are not responsible for personal copies placed
on
reserve. Remind students that a UNL I.D. card is required
to check
out items on reserve.
Paper items
Love
Library is changing its format for paper materials to
be placed on
reserve electronically. Love Library will place
the following
materials onto an electronic format:
- Exams
- Lecture notes
- Student papers (must be approved by
student)
- Government publications
- One article from
a journal issue
- One chapter from a book.
Photocopied materials consisting of two or more articles from
a
journal issue or more than one chapter from a single book must
have
copyright compliance or meet the criteria under the fair
use
guidelines for classroom copying in not-for-profit educational
institutions.
The Electronic Reserve section on IRIS is
located at: http://www.unl.edu/libr
/ereservs/home.html.
Processing time
A
reserve list may take one to four business days for processing.
More time may be necessary for:
- Requests
submitted on the first day of class and during the
first three
weeks of the fall and spring semesters.
- Requests with an
incomplete citation.
- Materials that are currently
unavailable.
- Requests not accompanied by the materials.
Instructors should not expect materials to be processed
and
available at the time of submission. For the summer courses,
lists turned in by May 14 shall have their reserve items processed
by the first day of the pre-session and eight-week session. The
deadline date for the first five-week session is June 4; for
the
second five-week session it is July 7. Reserve requests turned
in
after their session deadline will be processed in the order
they
are received.
Books owned by the UNL libraries may be
placed on reserve
through the new electronic reserve form at http://libr.unl.
edu:2000/cgi-bin/reserves_request.
For a reserve
request form by mail or fax, call Chanty Stovall
at 472-2556 or
e-mail cstovall@unlnotes.unl.edu
to request a form.
If there are any questions please
contact Stovall or Gayleen
Hill, 472-4401.
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