Kearney/UNK issues

For our next assignment, we are supposed to find three issues dealing with Kearney/UNK. As I was reading through some other class blogs, I was actually slightly pleased to find that others were having as much trouble finding three things wrong with our community/school as I was.

I was pretty excited when I found this first article...then I discovered that Callie had already used it. But, I'm going to use it anyway (you know, great minds and all). According to the Kearney Hub, Nebraska lawmakers have recently begun debating a bill which was brought before them to require seat belts in school buses. KPS Transportation Supervisor Jim Catterson believes that restraints in school buses would be more of a hazard than a help and that, despite what may be best, parents are going to push the bill through, and all states will have to have seat belts in school buses before long.

The second issue I came across was another article in the Hub about the solidarity of Nebraska's banks compared to others around the nation. Director of the Nebraska Department of Banking and Finance, John Munn said that he even hired several recent UNK graduates to work on his bank examination staff. Even if the economy is in a downhill slide, Munn encourages future students to start careers in banking and finance, saying that there are plenty of job opportunities in rural Nebraska and community banks.

For my final issue, I found an article on the Hub's website about possible salary cuts for UNK faculty and staff. University of Nebraska President J.B. Milliken said the idea was "premature," especially in mid-February. Since the union contracts which University faculty members are under already preset their salaries, the possibility of reducing staff salaries could become a legal matter.