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Mutual agreement ends Roskens’ tenure
By Mira Bauder
Staff Reporter
The twelve-year era of University of Ne
braska President Ronald Roskens came
to an end Monday night when the Board
of Regents, offering no explanation, relieved
him of his duties and appointed University of
Nebraska-Lincoin Chancellor Martin Massen
gale interim president
After a closed meeting that lasted more than
four hours, the regents voted 7-1 to remove
Roskens and replace him temporarily with
Massengale.
John Payne of Kearney was the only regent
to vote against the removing Roskens.
Bryan Hill, student legem from the Univer
sity of Nebraska-Lincoin, cast his unofficial
vote in favor of ousting Roskens. Paula Effle,
student regent from the University of Nebraska
at Omaha, voted against the proposal. Student
regent Jim Anderson, from the University of
Nebraska Medical Cento’, was not at the meet
ing.
Regents approved a mutual agreement with
Roskens that grants Roskens the title of Presi
dent Emeritus and pays his current salary
through June 30,1991.
Roskens will receive $112,000 a year and
the full benefits of employment, including re
tirement, social security and vacation leave.
The regents also appointed Roskens as pro
fessor of higher education with tenure until
June 30,1991.
Massengale will continue to serve as the
chancellor of UNL while taking on the addi
tional responsibilities of president of the uni
versity system.
Roskens said he was not angry or bitter
about the Board’s actions.
*‘I have no regrets and no negative views,”
he said.
Roskens said his departure as president
would not make a vast difference in the univer
sity.
Regents Chairman Nancy Hoch of Ne
braska City thanked Roskens for his contribu
tions to the University of Nebraska and for his
attendance at the meeting.
She said she believed the Board’s actions
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curred with Warner, saying the tumors
he has heard that explain why Roskens
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Staff Reporter
Decreased interest in math and
science by American graduate stu
dents has created a need for a new
program at the University of Ne
braska-Lincoln.
The second International Teach
ing Institute will help prepare 40
international graduate students for
teaching positions at UNL, institute
coordinator Lavon Gappa said.
Gappa said the program was de
veloped to respond to the growing
number of graduate students who are
not American.
The international graduate stu
dents are gaining a more important
role in classroom teaching at UNL
because there are fewer American
teaching assistants, she said.
“With the increasing number of
(international) graduate students
coming in and the global perspective
of higher education, (the institute)
became just a response to that,” she
said.
Language is the most obvious dif
ficulty for foreign teachers, Gappa
said, but cultural differences and dif
ferent teaching styles can be equally
important.
Undergraduate students typically
complain about language difficulties
when they have an international
teacning assistant, sne saia.
But many times the teaching assis
tant speaks English very well and the
real problem is a different teaching
style which results from cultural dif
ferences, she said.
To make international graduate
students more aware of cultural dif
ferences, institute participants “re
ceive a lot of information on Ameri
can culture and especially Nebraska
and the UNL environment,” Gappa
said.
Learning appropriate UNL class
room behaviors “can make all the
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National group unites Chinese students
By Sara Bauder
Staff Reporter
In spite of their fear of an infor
mant for the Chinese embassy,
Chinese students at the Univer
sity of Nebraska-Lincoln are stand
ing up for their vision of democracy.
Ding Liu, president of the UNL
Chinese Student and Scholars Asso
ciation, was one of three UNL stu
dents who attended a national meet
ing of Chinese students at the Univer
sity of Illinois in Chicago July 28
through 30.
At this meeting, 600 students rep
resenting 190 schools formed the
Autonomous Solidarity Union of
Chinese Students. The creation of
this group marks the first time that
Chinese students have formed a stu
dent union independent of the Chi
nese government
Several leaders of the Chinese
democratic movement who managed
to escape China spoke at the meeting.
Ding said.
Bo Gao, a UNL graduate student
of physics who also attended the
meeting, said he thought the gather
ing was very important
‘‘It gives me hope,” he said. “I
have been worried about Chinese
people being united, but this shows
we can unite. And it shows that we
can eventually prevail.”
Bo said even if the Chinese gov
ernment is upset with the formation
of an independent student union, it is
still a good idea.
”1 think we are better off to have
an organization of our own,” he said.
Bo said that if a student was ar
rested before the organization was
tormed, it was an individual matter
involving just that student. But now a
student arrest will be meaningful to
other students because they will all
belong to the same group.
UNL ’ s Chinese student organ iza
tion also has broken its ties with the
Chinese embassy, Ding said.
“We don’t accept doctrines from
them,’’ Ding said. “This is (he first
year this has happened. We used to be
very close to the embassy.”
Ding said he was surprised that the
embassy had not taken any action
against pro-democracy Chinese stu
dents.
“The embassy has not done any
thing yet,” he said. “Weare wonder
ing wny.
“We think they are dealing with
the students inside China, then they
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Bug-eyed!
Annie Wallman, 5, of Lincoln receives a Madagascar
“hissing” cockroach Tuesday at the Morrill Hall En
counter Center.