monday, September 15, 1980
daily nebraskan
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Regent Robert Prokop of Wilber said
the regents' action was "no effort to
muzzle the freedom of the press or any
member of the Daily Nebraskan."
pssex's opening of the letter can be
supported, Regent Ed Schwartzkopf of
Lincoln said, but what he did after that
was "irresponsible.
Essex, in an interview Sunday, said he
neither opened the letter nor made it
public, nor had knowledge of either act.
Essex said the letter was opened by a
receptionist or the assistant business
manager.
"The credibility of the Daily Nebraskan
and my ability to do my job has been hurt
because I gave the letter to a Publications
Board member, one of my bosses," Essex
said. Coe wrote many letters to the Daily
Nebraskan, Essex said, that were used as
press releases or letters ito the editor. The
letter in question was addressed in the
same way as these other letters were, Essex
said.
"Maybe Coe's intention in writing this
letter was different than the other letters,"
Essex said. "I did not think so."
Action critizized
The action of the Publications Board
also was criticized by the regents.
Schwartzkopf said there are "holes in
the Publication Board's evidence" and that
there "needs to be action taken that fits
the wrong-doing of the act."
The Publications Board has not solved
the problem, Regent Robert Koefoot said.
Prokop said the action taken by the
Publications Board in this case and in the
instance where Strunk was fired for plag
arism are inconsistent.
Regent Kermit Wagner of Schuyler said
the Publications Board "did not act in
good faith."
"If there is no immediate action by the
Publications Board, we should demand
resignations," Wagner said.
But Simmons said the Publication
Board's action should be supported.
Authority delegated
"Authority has been delegated to the
Publications Board and that authority
should not be taken away just because the
board has a different finding than ours,"
Simmons said.
But the regents are acting with maturity
by passing the resolution, Regent Kermit
Hansen of Omaha said.
"We are expressing a concern," Hansen
said. "This is a sensible, serious
resolution."
For the regents to condone the action in
this case "would be a disservice to the stu
dents" Schwartzkopf said.
The regents' threatened action against
the Publications Board constitutes a threat
to the First Amendment rights of the Daily
Nebraskan, Brown said Sunday.
Brown said the Publications Board
investigation was thorough and that a new
investigation will not reveal anything addi
tional. The regents are using the Coe matter as
an excuse to try to re-establish control of
the Daily Nebraskan, Brown said.
"It's a totalitarian move in the first
degree," Brown said, "and everyone, in
cluding the regents, are going to suffer for
it."
The regents' action was "entirely
inappropriate," Essex said.
"The regents have delegated to the
Publications Board responsibility for Daily
Nebraskan matters and it has acted in good
faith in fulfilling the regents' requests," he
said.
Publications Board Chairman Mark
Bowen said Sunday that the regents'
resolution "sounds like it is calling for
us to take more action."
The Publications Board had considered
the matter closed, Bowen said. But he said
the board will have a meeting Tuesday to
consider the regents' request.
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Regents ask that radial
be built outside campus
The NU Board of Re
gents Friday unanimously
reaffirmed its opinion that
the proposed Northeast
Radial be built outside the
UNL campus boundaries.
The Northeast Radial is a
proposed four-lane diagonal
road designed to run from
the downtown business dis
trict to 27th Street.
The Lincoln City Council
is considering several
options concerning the
radial. Those options
include not building the
radial, building it on a 19th
Street corridor or building
it on a 22nd Street corridor.
Regent Ed Schwartzkopf
said the 19th Street corridor
would take away valuable
recreation land from the
UNL campus. He added that
22nd Street would form a
nice boundary for the cam
pus. Schwartzkopf and'
Regent Robert Prokop said
the regents have stated their
support of the 22nd Street
corridor many times.
"I get tired of reading
someone's opinion on where
the univeristy would like
the radial to be, when that
opinion isn't what the
regents support," Prokop
said.
"If university employees
can't support the regents'
position on the radial, they
should keep silent or seek
employment elsewhere,"
Schwartzkopf said.
Florence Bridges, a resi
dent of the Clinton neigh
borhood, told the board she
is against the building of the
radial at 22nd Street. She
said it would ruin the
Malone and Clinton neigh
borhoods. "No one here has men
tioned the human and
ecological impact of the
road," she said, adding that
she favors a Holdrege Street
bypass.
The regents' resolution
also said the university
favors limiting traffic on
16th and 17th streets.
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NU official resigns;
will move to UTEP
William Erskine, NU executive vice-president for
administration, announced his resignation Friday.
Erskine will leave the university in November to be
come the vice president of business and finance at the
University of Texas-El Paso .
Erskine has worked at NU in his present position for
6H years. His duties at the university involve business and
finance and an operation ot the centralized computer
network.
In accepting the position at UTEP, Erskine said, he
will be moving to a part of the country he has wanted to
live in. He said his new position also will allow him to
have more contact with faculty and students than he did
atNU.
Erskine's NU salary is $55,000. He would not say what
hissaluyat UTEP will be.
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