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September 12, 1986
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Vol. 86 No. 14
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Linda StoryOaily Nebraskan
Born to be wild
Tim Chapin parks his Honda Windjammer with dozens of warm-weather
wheels along the R Street cycle parking area. "It's easy to park at this
school," Chapin said.
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UNL hires seven minority instructors
By Geoff Goodwin
Staff Reporter
Campnis campaigns
Democrat, Republican
students go all-out
for their candidates
By Todd von Kampen
Staff Reporter
They are the proxies who fight the battle for
governor on Nebraska's college campuses while
Kay Orr and Helen Boosalis slug it out across the
state.
As in the principal race, the leaders of the
student campaigns are women two women
against one, in this case. But it's not a lonely
battle for Chris Gunderson, state coordinator for
Collegians for Kay Orr, and Patricia Savage and
Becky Boswell, co-coordinators for Students for
Boosalis. They're supported by hundreds of
student volunteers, both men and women, at
UNL and many others at other campuses. ,
Although they're on opposite sides, Gunderson,
Savage and Boswell share a few similar views.
They each feel they have the best organizations
and that their candidate will best serve students
and the state. None of them feel they're in their,
jobs just so that a woman can run a female
gubernatorial candidate's college campaign.
"I think it's wonderful that Helen's running,"
Savage said, "but I think she's a great candidate
whether she's a female or a male. I think people
are making too much of this (two-woman race)."
Gunderson, a senior elementary education
and human development major from Omaha,
runs a campaign with a year's experience behind
it. She said Collegians for Kay Orr started last
November after a phone call from Orr. Gunderson
worked for Orr in the state treasurer's office in
1984 as an intern.
"I'm interested in education, not exactly in
political science," she said. "But I really like Kay
Orr. That's my main motivaton."
Boosalis didn't have a formal student cam
paign until after her primary victory, said Savage,
a senior political science and Spanish major
from Omaha. Boswell, a sophomore news-editorial
major from Lincoln, joined her as co
coordinator after leading former Lincoln Sen.
Chris Beutler's student campaign for governor.
Shawn Boldt, a senior speech communications
major from Hoskins, became UNL campus
coordinator. Before the primary, Boldt worked for
David Domina's campaign.
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Because of a new minority recruitment fund,
UNL has added seven new minority faculty
members to the staff this fall.
The $25,000 fund was established at the direc
tion of Robert Furgason, UNL's vice chancellor
for academic affairs. '
Furgason said the fund was established be
cause he felt it was important for the university
to put more emphasis on recruiting minority
faculty members.
"I felt we needed to develop greater visibility
to our program," he said. "We're trying to built
awareness and a mechanism for building minor
ity recruitment."
Martin Bradley Munn, director of UNL's Office
of Affirmative Action, said the new faculty
members include four blacks, two Asians and
one Hispanic-American.
Furgason would not disclose the names of
those faculty members attracted by the funds.
Munn was enthusiastic about the success of
the fund.
"To increase our black faculty from three to
seven is a t remendous jump for us," Munn said.
Munn said the university generally has a dis
advantage in recruiting faculty members in gen
eral because it is unable to pay the salaries
found at other schools.
"Our biggest problem is dollars," Munn said.
"We're just not competitive with other universi
ties." Munn said other difficulties in recruiting
minorities are Nebraska's location far from a
major metropolitan area and the lack of a
large cultural, ethnic community.
"We don't offer that important identification
group for them," Munn said.
Munn said the lack of minority faculty
members is not a problem unique to Nebraska.
"Everybody assumes that because there are
no minorities at Nebraska there are minorities at
other schools," he said.
Munn said there are few minorities at several
state universities in the Midwest.
"Another problem is availability," he said.
"You can't hire them if they're not there. In some
fields there are practically no minority teachers."
Furgason said he expects the fund to be
renewed for the next fiscal year.
"I see a lot of progress and a lot of good things
coming out of it," he said.
Munn mentioned several colleges that he
would like to see add minority faculty members.
"Teachers college could use some attention,"
he said. "And we could probably do a better job
in the colleges of business administration and
architecture."
Furgason said he expected all colleges to
make efforts to recruit minorities but added that
"there are some areas that have more minority
members than others."
Death shocks students
Student 'quiet didn't get around much
By Jen Deselms and
Michael Hooper-
Senior Reporters
Two days after UNL freshman Bryan Sherlock
was found dead in his seventh-floor Cather Hall
room, some floor residents are shocked and
wondering what happened. Residents say the
floor is quiet and Sherlock's roommate has
moved out.
The seven residents from the floor who were
interviewed, twj of whom asked not to be identi
fied, said they didn't know Sherlock well. Sher
lock, 24, died apparently of asphyxiation due to
hanging.
"I'm sure I saw him but I didn't know him,"
said Tom Beck, a junior civil engineering major.
Beck said he'd heard Sherlock was quiet and
didn't get around much.
The night before he died, Beck said, Sherlock
arrived late at the floor meeting, but didn't talk
to anybody.
"It's kind of scary," he said, "but it is more
weird than anything else," he said. "I didn't even
know what floor he was on until I got up here and
someone said, 'A guy just tried to kill himself.'
Jeez. I didn't know what kind of problems he was
having."
Mark Warnock, a sophomore electrical engi
neering major, said he was surprised when he
found out about Sherlock's death.
Cather Seven resident Steve Spriester said he
and the rest of the floor felt the same. Spriester
said he was watching TV when he heard sirens.
He said he thought there was a fire somewhere.
Spriester said residents were told to stay in their
rooms.
Spriester said he had seen Sherlock Tuesday
at 5:30 p.m. and he didn't notice anything
strange about him.
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These words from Willa Gather's
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awescrr.s vsstness of a prairie so
large, c;;ly a few decades ago, that it
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brated on Nine-Mile Prairie. The
name Nine-Mile Prairie came from
the fact that it lies nine miles from
Lincoln's city square, as was iiitten
in 1928 by a graduate student of the
well-known Dr. John E. Weaver, an
NU plar.t ecolosist The prairie was
used fcr teaching and research from
that tints tLroirh the SZ3:, out, cf
V.':!!i Cither will which cants inten-iienally ri-
of Life" will be celebrated from 1 to
6 p.m. on this preserved sample of
life that is about 10,000 years old.
The sponsor, Wachiska Audubon
Society of Lincoln, has invited
anyone to see Nebraska's heritage.
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using it as a bomb storage area. It
was then used as a Strategic Air
Command base through the ISGOs.
In 1968 it was sold to the Lincoln
Airport Authority for $2S3 per acre.
In 1982 the Lincoln Airport
Authority sold 203 acres cf
prairie, for I COO per sera td th? KU
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