Results of audit
remain undisclosed
By Curt Wagner
Senior Editor
University of Texas officials re
fused to comment Wednesday on the
results of an audit of University of
Nebraska-Lincoln director of busi
ness services James Main.
Main, a former employee at UT’s
physical plant, came under investiga
tion last week by UT’s internal audit
ing department for allegedly accept
ing paychecks he was ineligible for.
UT vice president for business
affairs G. Charles Franklin would not
comment to the Daily Nebraskan and
told the Daily Texan, UT’s student
newspaper, it would have to make an
open records request for results of the
audit, Daily Texan reporter Greg
Perliski said.
Franklin said July 19 the audit was
to have been completed earlier this
week.
Main started at UNL Jan. 11, but
did not resign from UT until Feb. 2.
He received UT paychecks from Jan.
11 to Feb. 4, according to a story in the
July 18 Daily Texan.
During that time, he was appar
ently paid for accrued sick leave,
against University of Texas policy,
Franklin said.
“I don’t believe it is unusual for a
person to beon (vacation) leave in one
place and working and getting paid in
another,” Franklin said. ‘‘But the
problem here was he took sick leave
he was not entitled to.”
Franklin said the ‘‘time report
people” at UT apparently thought
Main was entitled to the pay because
the checks were signed and sent.
John DeCamp, director of UT’s
physical plant, said last week that in
his opinion, no wrong-doing had
occurred on Main’s part.
‘‘We’ve contacted him and he has
agreed to repay all the funds,” De
Camp said.
DeCamp and Franklin would not
disclose the amount Main agreed to
repay.
Main is out of town until Monday
and could not be reached for com
ment.
UNL Vice Chancellor for Busi
ness Affairs Jack Goebel said
Wednesday he was “only aware of an
inquiry involving the office Jim
Main worked at before moving to
UNL.”
Shrine Bowl protest planned
By Larry Peirce
Staff Reporter
Demonstrators will carry picket
signs outside the Shrine Bowl Satur
day to protest advertising by Shrine
Bowl of Nebraska, Inc. officials, a
protest organizer said Wednesday.
Jay Miller, chairman of the protest
for the League of Christian Human
Dignity, said the game’s profits don’t
go to Shriner’s crippled children’s
hospitals as advertised.
Miller said about 500 league
members will protest west of Memo
rial Stadium. The league hopes to
make people aware that Shrine Bowl
advertising is not true, he said.
Glenn Wagner, executive director
of Shrine Bowl of Nebraska, Inc., said
the claims made by the league against
the Shrine Bowl are false.
Wagner said all profits “clearly go
to the children’s hospitals.” He said
Shrine Bowl of Nebraska, Inc., is
audited yearly and has financial state
ments that snow where the money
goes.
Miller said Shrine Bowl officials
wouldn’t provide information on
where the money went.
Last spring, the league learned that
no money from last year’s Shrine
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to detect the amount of weeds to
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the researched system: a color
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on the ground and determine
where weeds are present
“This video camera captures
information just like at someone's
birthday party,” Mcrtensen said.
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light now* Mortensen said, he
envisions having a small camera
unit attached to s tractor. Wt]
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in UNL's agriculture engineering
department, and Kenneth Von
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mer with Mortensen.
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Expo unveils agriculture improvement
By Victoria Ayotte
Staff Reporter
About 1,000people filled the Insti
tute of Agriculture and Natural Re
sources Expo near Mead Wednesday
to learn about significant new re
search in their areas, said Loyd
Young, co-chairman of the Expo.
“Itrs an opportunity to give clien
tele (fanners and agribusiness ex
perts) a chance to see research that’s
being conducted here,” said Young,
director of the Southeast Research
and Extension Center at the Univer
sity of Nebraska-Lincoln.
“To have communication from the
science world to the user is a prob
lem,” he said. “This is one way to keep
up.”
Sixty commercial and educational
exhibits were displayed at the Expo,
Young said, and these can be very
important to the visiting farmers and
agribusiness experts in planning for
the future.
“Research takes time to gear up to
give results,” he said. “But when we
look at a long period of time, the
research we conduct is very signifi
cant.”
The Expo can be a good way for
anyone in the state to see what the
institute does, since the institute
doesn’t normally keep a high profile,
Young said.
“It's a chance for the public to see
how their tax dollars are being used,”
he said.
The major focus of the almost
annual Expo was “Crop Management
and Future Alternatives.” Crop pro
duction was a major area for research
in the past year, Young said.
Most of the exhibits were tailored
to fit the crop production focus, such
as weed management, alternative
crops and pesticides’ effects on
groundwater.
There were also commercial ex
hibits at the Expo, primarily from
previous agribusiness exhibitors for
“promotional purposes,” Young said.
Although tne major focus was crop
production, a panel discussion of
experts on the drought was added,
since “Nebraska is still in a drought
situation,” Young said.
The Expo also featured safety
exhibits, such as a grain elevator
explosion simulation.
Sanford Goshom, a deputy state
fire marshal, said the simulated eleva
tor explosions arc shown around the
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