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Number 7
University off Nebraska-Lincoln
July 17, 1980
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Reagan favors Bush, as ramning mate
Editor's Note: Kathy Chenault, a
UNL senior journalism and political
science major, of York, is in Detroit
this week to cover the Republican
National Convention.
DETROIT Republicans here are
riding the crest of presidential nominee
Ronald Reagan's campaign wave a
wave they hope will break on the shores
of the Potomac River, carrying the
former California governor and his rec
ommended running-mate George Bush
into office.
In typical Hollywood plot-writing
fashion, Reagan made a cameo appear
ance on the stage Wednesday night sur
prising media hordes and delegates by
recommending former U.N Ambassador,
and CIA Director George Bush for the
vice presidency.
A long session of banner-waving hat
tossing and music-blaring of patriotic
tunes like "California here we come," and
"The Eyes of Texas are Upon You"
preceded the appearance of the beaming
presidential hopeful and his wife Nancy.
The selection of Bush came as a sur
prise because throughout the evening re
ports were circulated that former Presi
dent Gerald Ford had not only been off
ered the nomination, but had accepted it.
Republican moderates have urged
Reagan to select Bush to capitalize on
the Easterners political clout and foreign
affairs expertise, one area considered a
Reagan weakness.
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Reagan has maintained that he does
not like the idea of picking a running
mate whose political ideology is different
from his own just to attract votes.
Party officials had said that Reagan
did not like Bush because of early cam
paign wounds suffered in primary bat
tles. Reagan indicated by his late night
convention selection that he no longer is
Roskens seeks new chancellor
NU President Ronald Roskens
said he plans to recommend his can
didate for the position of UNL in
terim chancellor to the Board of Re
gents at its July 26 meeting.
UNL Chancellor Roy Young re
signed Tuesday after fpur years as
chancellor. Young, 59, has been
named managing director of the
Boyce Thompson Institue for Plant
Research, a non-profit organization
affiliated with Cornell University in
Ithaca, N.Y. He will assume is post
Sept. 1.
NU Board of Regents' bylaws
stipulate that the NU president con
sult with the five vice chancellors,
the faculty senate and student body
presidents and other faculty mem
bers. In addition to recommending an
interim chancellor, Roskens will lead
the search for Young's replacement.
Roskens will appoint a search com
mittee of about 15 persons to recom
mend candidates for the chancellor's
position to the regents.
Larry Andrews, assistant vice
chancellor for academic affairs, said
that the search committee formed
four years ago included students, fac
ulty, alumnae, secretarial staff and
recommendations from campus ad
ministration. The position will be advertised
nationally. The search committee
will review applications and nomina
tions and narrow the list of appli
cants. The committee then will re
port to Roskens and he will make his
recommendation to the regents.
Andrews said the selection of the
new chancellor probably will take 10
or 12 months.
UNL teaching program
won't be moved regent
Kim Wilt .
The UNL undergraduate teaching
program will not be moved to UNO as
recommended by the regents planning
subcommittee, Lincoln regent Ed
Schwartzkopf said Tuesday.
The planning committee, chaired by
Omaha Regent Kermit Hansen, had rec
ommended a statewide teacher education
study at the April regents' meeting, when
it also had recommended that the UNL
program be closed and moved to UNO.
The study will be sponsored by the
Postsecondary Coordinating Commis
sion, of which Hansen is a member, and
will examine questions of whether the
UNL program should be continued, and
whether the four state colleges' teacher
education programs should be merged
with the university.
'Program won't move'
Schwartzkopf said he thinks the UNL
undergraduate teacher education pro
gram will not be moved to UNO.
"I can't see that happening," he said.
"Lincoln is the best place for it. '
It would be impossible.to move the
program, he said, because no buildings
are available at UNO and there are no
residence halls for students.
"I can't see any big building projects
in the near future."
Robert Egbert, dean of Teacher's Col-
lege, had no comment on the recom
mended move, except to say that he said
he was pleased with the quality of the
undergraduate teaching program at
UNL.
Egbert said he believes the study is
important, and should look at several
issues, including the idea that the state
has too many teachers.
"This is not true," he said. VSome
teaching areas are oversupplied, and
some are undersupplied."
The study should also consider that
the birth rate, which had dropped from
1958 to 1975, nationally and in Nebraska,
is now rising, he said, and should look at
educational quality in the state.
'High Quality'
Lincoln regent and subcommitee
member Ed Schwartzkopf said he thinks
the quality of education at UNL is'high,
and it is the board's responsibility to in
crease or maintain that quality.
"I would hope the study reveals what
needs to be done to maintain it," he said.
"Teacher's College just got a $25,000 (the
cost of the study) p.r job to tell about its
goals and the job it's doing."
Experts involved in the study should
have the proper credentials, he said, and
should be sought from out of the state.
Hansen was out of town and unavail
able for comment.
scarred by those political fights.
Reagan "aides had indicated that Ford
agreed to accept the second spot on a
condition that the office be one of stat
ure, rather than a ceremonial positon as
it has been in the past.
Some political observers beleived one
consideration in Reagan's decision may
have been a constitutional amendment
which would not allow a Reagan-Ford
team to take 45 California electoral votes
since both men are from that state. In a
close presidential race as next fall's
contest is expected to be it is hypo
thetical possible for the president and
vice president to be elected from differ
ent parties. Therefore, the amendment
may have been a determining factor in
Reagan's decision.
Delegates continue performing in the
national convention circus in a haze of
star-spangled energy and a maze of red,
white and blue electricity. The center
ring attraction of this week's greatest po
litical show on earth has been the flowing
emotional rhetoric of party leaders her
alding Reagan as the man who can revi
talize the nation on domestic and foreign
fronts.
At the same time, those on the
podium eagerly have lambasted Presi
dent Jimmy Carter, blaming his adminis
tration and the Democratic Congress for
the country's ills.
Although the party's presidential
nomination usually the focus of na
tional political conventions lacks sus
pense as it was a mere formality, the
Grand Old Party has had a grand old
time concentrating on closing ranks,
stocking campaign arsenals, and honing
political weaponry.
Party unity has been the major goal
for Republicans in Detroit as Reagan's
policy positions were rubber-stamped
onto the party's platform. Included were
conservative stands against the Equal
Rights Amendment and on the contro
versial abortion issue.
These planks in the party platform
have drawn fire and ire from moderate
Republicans, but were approved Tuesday
night with little opposition. "
Demonstrations by an amalgam of
special interest, and political activist
groups, virtually have gone unnoticed in
side the convention shrines, Joe Louis
Arena, and Cobo Hall.
Sixteen anti-Reagan demonstrators
identifying themselves as Yippies were
arrested Tuesday afternoon for violating
city restrictions by demonstrating too
close to convention sites. They wre being
held in Detroit pending charges.
Otherwise, demonstrations have been
peaceful as police have chosen to let
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Staff photo by Joseph Bernt
Russ Heavrin, 13929 Y Circle, Omaha, discovered Sunday that Folsom Chil
dren's Zoo, 2800 A St, appeals as much to the child in every parent as it does to
the visiting children.
Regents will discuss repaying
money NU counsel Wood
NU general counsel Richard Wood
said he thinks the Board of Regents will
-return the $100,200 that Douglas County
paid to have patients treated at the Ne- '
braska Psychiatric Institute.
"It is my understanding that the
money paid by Douglas County to the
Psychiatric Institute will be returned,"
Wood said Wednesday.
However, he said, "I don't know where
the interest money will come from."
Douglas County District Judge Theo
dore Richling ordered the regents to re
turn the money, with interest, which
could bring the total payment to about
$125,000, said John Powers, deputy
Douglas County district attorney.
The university took control of the in
stitute from the state Department of
Public Institutions in June 1975. The
county sued the regents when they
refused to repay the county for its contri
bution to the treatment of patients.
Wood said the regents will discuss the
question in closed iieesion at their July 23 1
meeting.
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