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HHVMway WEATHER: INDEX Monday, mostly sunny, breezy and becoming M _ cooler, high in the mid-60s, northwest winds from News Ul9esl.2 15 to 25 miles per hour Monday night, cool and Editorial.4 cloudy, low in the mid- to upper-20s Tuesday, Sports.5 partly sunny and breezy, high in the mid- to A ts & Entertainment.9 upper- 50s. Classifieds.11 Vol. 89 No. fRegents recommend firm to aid in search * By Lisa Twiestmeyer , • Staff Reporter lip [embers of the NU Board of Regents decided Friday to Jjf "recommend a consultant ‘ ^firm to aid in the search for a new NU . president. At an internal governance sub I ‘'committee meeting of four regents «gand two student regents, the regents ■ voted 4-2 to recommend Heidrick ■I and Struggles Inc. as their choice for a presidential search consultant firm. Regent Don Blank of McCook, * subcommittee chairman, said fee I negotiations with the Chicago (irm probably will begin this morning. Once a fee has been established, he said, he will set up a telephone con ference call for the full board to ap prove the firm and the fee. During a presentation at the Nov. 10 regents meeting, William Bowen UJNL student hurt after 18-foot fall By Cindy Wostrel Staff Reporter A University of Ncbraska-Lin coln student was in fair condi tion after falling 18 feet in an elevator shaft atCather Hall Sunday. Freshman Varner Hike, known as fell from an elevator in ^ Cathcr residence hall Sunday mom y ing. He received lacerations to his leg and a compression fracture to his lower back, according to Sandra Kccfovcr, Lincoln General Hospital head nurse. Hike is a Cathcr Hall resident. Cathcr Residence Director Steve Grajewski said he heard Hike yelling at about 7 a.m. He went to the base ment and found Hike in the shaft. In house maintenance man Mike Lc upold pulled Hike out. Grajewski called an ambulance that took Hike to ilhc hospital. Grajewski said the elevator breaks down periodically, but that this was the first incident of someone falling down the shaft that he knew of. Kccfovcr said Hike would be re leased when he felt comfortable enough. The UNL Police Department would not release any further infor mation about how Hike fell. Board plans to negotiate flat fee with Chicago company oi me lirm s Chicago office and R. William Funk of the firm’s Dallas office said Hcidrick and Struggles normally charges one-third of the new president’s salary plus expenses. The two also said they would be will ing to negotiate a flat fee. Blank said Friday that the fee will be somewhere around $40,OCX). If the fee were based on one-third of the salary of former NU President Ronald Roskens, he said, the figure would be around S36-S38, XX). But, Blank said, Roskens’ former salary shouldn’t be the figure the fee is based on, and he would rather negotiate a flat fee with the firm. “We won’t need a great deal of negotiation,” Blank said. ‘‘I don’t think more than probably (a differ ence of) a couple thousand dollars is all we’re talking about.” Blank said he feels strongly that a consultant is needed to help provide regents with names of cand idates and to help “with the hundreds of details of a search.” Regent Kermit Hansen of Elkhom said he previously was against hiring a consultant, but changed his opinion “180 degrees” after listening to presentations at the last two board meetings. There could be “an aura of doubt” among presidential candi dates as to what they might face as NU president, Hansen said. A con sultant firm could help clear up that doubt, he said, and could bring in candidates the board other wise might have missed. Hansen said he had a slight prefer ence for Kom/Ferry International, a firm based in Washington, D.C., that ---^ also gave a presentation at the No vember board meeting. Blank said he preferred Hcidrick and Struggles because the firm's education office is in Chicago, and it may be more “Midwest oriented” than Kom/Ferry. Before voting on a firm, the re gents had narrowed the selection down to Hcidrick and Struggles and Kom/Ferry. J.B. Milliken, executive assistant to the NU president, said that out of the six fii.ns that came before the board, Hcidrick and Struggles and Kom/Ferry were the two which gen erally represent large stale universi ties. In other business, Blank an nounced the selection of the final two members of the presidential search committee. Irv Omtvedt, vice chan • -r cellor for the Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources, will serve as administrative officer to the commit tee. Edith Stcans, affirmative action officer at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, is the committee’s affirmative action adviser. Blank said the search committee will meet before the December re gents meeting. The regents also discussed the job description of the NU president. Blank said the board needs to put together its own description outlining what is expected of the new N U presi dent. The current job description is an executive memorandum that gives no restrictions to the president, Blank said. The regents must draw up their awn description that tells what they expect of the president and the direc See REGENTS on 3 --—T. . Al fir I rihnn/nflllv Nehraalrnn f ^ y v ff # ^ ®® ® * Y ^^® * * Post-game celebration UNL students lead the celebration after Nebraska's win over Oklahoma Saturday. 1riill to ask regents to reconsider Woodruff vote By Lisa Twiestmeyer Suit Reporter B| T NL student regent Bryan Hill |l I said he plans to ask the NU 1^“^ Board of Regents at its De ^lembcr meeting to reconsider its vole to acquire and demolish a building agfvilh possible historic value. Hill said information on the condi tion and historical value of the HVoodruff Building, 10th and Q Hlrects, should have teen given to the Hoard before it voted to acquire the Hmilding. Instead, he said, the infor Hnation was distributed while the Hegcnls were in the process of voting RHpn the issue. At the Nov. 10 board meeting, §»cgcnts unanimously approved ac quiring the Woodruff Building and Converting the property to a 45-stall Hyarking lot. After some discussion of the Bbuilding’s possible historical value at Khc regents’ September meeting, rc Hcnls as^cd that the School of Archi Hecturc review the feasibility of rcl'ur |bishing die building. An information packet with the H results of three architecture profes sors’ evaluations was distributed to the regents at the November meeting. However, Hill said, because the packet wasn’t given out until during the vote, there was no lime for regents to study the information. “By the time we got it, there wasn’t any chance to read it,” Hill said. “It wasn’t utilized by the board. It look me a while to figure out it was supporting my position.” Hill said he opposes demolishing the Woodruff Building. According to the information from architecture professors, he said, the building probably meets the criteria for place ment on the National Register of Historic Places. Hill said he had asked John Goe bel, vice chancellor for business and finance, for the information the week before the November meeting. Goe bel told him he could not give the information to him without giving it to all the regents, Hill said. Goebel could have mailed the packet to all the regents, Hill said. Hill again tried to get the information the day before the meeting, he said, but couldn’t. Hill said the information had been mailed to Goebel on Nov. 2. Goebel said Sunday that he re ceived the information Nov. 3. Be cause there wasn’t enough time to get the materials to all the regents for study before the meeting, he said, he compiled a summary statement of the information to be distributed at the meeting. The summary statement was in cluded in the information packet. Goebel said he distributed the in formation at the lime the agenda item was introduced, which is normal procedure at the regents’ meetings. “It’s just a normal process we do at board meetings,’’ Goebel said. “The board determines how they vote on the issue.” The information packet contains evaluations by three UNL architec ture professors on three aspects of the building. William Borncr evaluated the condition of the internal environ mental systems in the building; Keith See WOODRUFF on 3 volleyball court fate uncertain UNL officials to decide Phase III plans By Jerry Guenther Senior Reporter A decision on whether to pro ceed as planned with Phase 111 of Campus Recreation Center construction will be made during the middle of this week, University of Ncbraska-Lincoln officials said over the weekend. John Goebel, vice chancellor for business and finance, said he and other UNL officials met Friday to examine ways that would allow the Nebraska volleyball team to keep the Coliseum as its home, while possibly increasing the number of seats. Phase III includes raising the vol leyball floor in the Coliseum about 13 feel, adding labs, offices and storage rooms and building men’s and women’s locker rooms. “We’ve gathered enough infor mation,” Goebel said. “Sometime during the middlcof (this) week we’ll decide whether to proceed as planned or in some way alter the plans.” Along with himself, Goebel said, Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs James Gricscn and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Robert Fur gason will decide whether to proceed with construction as planned. The Coliseum currently can scat about 2,500 fans for volleyball matches, according to the Stale Fire Marshal’s established capacity, but increased attendance has caused offi cials to turn away fans at some matches this year. According to Phase III of the con struction plans, raising the present volleyball floor would reduce scaling capacity to 2,400. Barbara Hibner, assistant athletic director in charge of women’s athlet ics, said she doubts whether capacity would even be that high because the pep band, scouts, press and opposing See PHASE III on 3