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WEATHER: INDEX I Tuesday, partly doudy and oold, high 30 to 35, News Digest.2 northwest winds 10 to 15 miles per hour Tuesday Editorial 4 night, clear and cold, low in the teens. Wednes- sports 6 day, mostly sunny and warmer, high in the mid- Arts * Entertainment"! g Classifieds.11 November 28,1989 University of Nebraska-Lincoln Vol, 89 No. ffg i Burglary changes Keller Plan test policy By Lisa Bolin Reporter tudents enrolled in Keller Plan sections ||Hk of Introductory Psychology 181 will jjfifr have to finish the course differently from the traditional testing policy this semester because of a burglary during Thanksgiving break. John Berman, chairman of the University of JNfebraska-Lincoin Department of Psychology, ssiid more than 600 student files and exams wjere stolen from the testing center in Burnett | The backup grading system also was stolen, he said, making it impossible to determine Official: NU center will be built despite competition for funds By Jerry Guenther MSenior Reporter students’ progress in the course. Students will have the option of taking an incomplete in the course and retaking it next semester or taking a final exam, Berman said. The final exam will be a comprehensive multiple choice test, he said. Students can take the exam up to five times and final grades will be determined by the highest test score, Ber man said. Final exams can be taken at regular Keller Plan testing times from Monday to Dec. 15, he said. Berman said he expects students to be very upset at first because the testing procedure is now different from what they were expecting. “Given the unfortunate situation,’’ he said, “this is about the fairest policy that can be devised.” Lt. Ken Cauble of the UNL Police Depart ment said an investigation of the burglary is under way. The burglar or burglars entered the testing center in rooms 104 and 105 by damaging a screen and breaking a window, Cauble said. The broken window was discovered around 8:30 a.m. Sunday by psychology Professoi Theo Sondereggcr, Berman said. Berman said the break-in occurred between Nov. 21 and Sunday morning. Students did not have the classes Wednes day, but UNL offices were open, he said However, the Keller Plan offices probably were closed because the office deals specifi cally with student testing, Berman said. Students enrolled in Keller Plan take 11 unit exams at their own pace, he said. Students must receive a passing grade on each exam before moving on to the next test, Berman said. The department is trying to determine which students already successfully have completed the 11 exams, he said There probably are no more than six stu dents who have completed the course, he said. Berman said he suspects the burglar to be ‘ ‘a disgruntled student not doing well in psychol ogy with big psychological problems.” The police currently have no suspects, Caublc said. 1 Ecology Now submits ideas to UNL officials By Lisa Donovan Senior Editor Two weeks ago, the University of Ne braska-Lincoln group Ecology Now submitted a suggestion list to the ad ministration asking for its help in improving the environment; according to one group repre sentative, the chancellor and vice chancellors have not contacted the group with their reac tions to the plan. J Burger, projects coordinator for Ecology Now, said the group submitted a recommenda tion list Nov. 15 to Chancellor Martin Massen galc and the five vice chancellors. The list calls for improved environmental protection on campus. The recommendations were taken from lists compiled by two national groups, the Student Environmental Action Coalition and Farm Action Concerns Tomorrow’s Society. Burger said it is important to increase awareness on college campuses, such as UNL, in order to reach the future leaders of America. Burger said, “We want to get other stu dents involved in the issues” and create an atmosphere of general awareness. One issue listed on the recommendations sheet is a campuswidc ban on polystyrene plastics that contain chlorofluorocarbons. Burger explained that the chemicals in chlo rofluorocarbons deplete the ozone. Because the chemicals arc non-biodecradablc. thev [T\ cspitc increased competition by univer | M sitics for federal funding of construe lion projects, a UNL official in charge o! campus planning said he remains optimistic that the Nebraska Center for Advanced Tech nology can be built. John Benson, director of research planning and fiscal analyst, said the federal government already has appropriated $250,(X)() for plan I ning and designing the project, which will serve both UNL and the University of Ne braska Medical Center. Benson said that about three-fourths of the $24 million targeted for the project will go to UNL, including a center for biotechnology, along with biochemistry and chemical engi neering departments. UNMC plans to build a cancer center with its funds, he said. “It’s at a very nebulous stage,” Benson said. It's kind of exciting but there are no cut and-dried answers at this lime.” Plans for developing a need statement for the center began in January 1989, Benson said, and an architect has been examining potential sites. Officials now are trying to secure additional federal money, which likely would be allo cated in installments rather than in one large sum, Benson said. “I don’t think any of us have a very good idea how long funding will lake,” he said. uvii^jh mivi nc uiiiiivn uiiu leUMJll UIIIVCIM lies have had lo compete harder for federal dollars is recent efforts to balance the federal budget. The federal government has a limited amount of money it can use to fund all the requests it handles, he said. Benson said the center has progressed rap idly considering the project’s size and that federal money is involved. Other possible sources for funding include contacting private sources and industries that would be interested in the center, Benson said. Another official said he thinks UNL’s tim ing was fortunate in getting federal money for the UNL Veterinary Center in Clay Center and the F(x>d Industry Complex at Mitchell and on East Campus. Dale Vandcrholm, associate dean and direc tor of agricultural research, said UNL was See BUILDING on 3 cause global warming, he said. Burger said the group needs to examine what was used prior to chlorofluorocarbons or to find some alternatives. Ecology Now also is calling for a cam puswide ban on tuna fish. Although tuna is an inexpensive and good form of protein, Burger said the means by which the fish are captured endanger dolphins. Because tuna swim beneath dolphins, the dolphins arc killed along with the tuna in nets, he said. Last year alone, 100,000 dolphins were killed, he said. Burger noted that although the aluminum recycling effort on campus is under way, recy cling of paper products and other recyclable materials needs to be recognized on a larger scale. See ECOLOGY on 3 Shaun Sartln/Daily Nebraskan Nebraska men’s tennis coach Kerry McDermott gives lessons to Jonna Kellenburger of Lincoln Monday night in the Devaney Sports Center. Massengale re-elected to Presidents Commission By Roger Price Staff Reporter By virtue of being the only candidate nominated, UNL Chancellor Martin Masscngaic has been re-elected as chairman of the NCAA Presidents Commis sion, an NCAA official said. Ted Tow, associate executive director of the NCAA, said the college and university presi dents and chancellors that make up the com mission were contacted by mail and asked to nominate candidates for the chairmanship. Massengale was the only candidate nominated, he said. The commission, Tow said, is made up of 44 presidents and chancellors of NCAA member institutions, 22 from Division I schools and 11 from Division II and III. Of the 22 representatives from Division I schools, 12 arc from Division IA with nine of these representing the nine conferences, Tow said. Mas scngale is the Big Eight repre sentative, he said. The Presidents Commis sion was created at the 1984 NCAA Convention to in crease the involvement of college and university presi dents in the NCAA, Tow said. “It is the vehicle by which Massengaie presidential views are considered,” he said. Tow said Massengale’s re-election must show the commission members’ satisfaction with his performance. “It seems to me that his re-election as chair shows the commission is satisfied with his role l as chair or they would have elected someone ; else,” he said. I Massengale said his re-election as chairman was probably based on the commission’s de sire for continuity. < “I think we (the commission) want to con- I linue some of the activities that arc currently under way,” Massengale said. r As chairman of the commission, Tow said, \ Massengale will continue to preside over the I commission meetings and serve as the primary 1 public spokesman for the commission. Tow said Masscngale’s most important task t during his next term will be presenting the J recommendations of the Presidents Com- s misssion to the 1990 NCAA Convention. 1 These recommendations include reducing he playing and practice seasons of basketball tnd football teams and requiring schools to publish the graduation rales of student athletes, row said. Massengale said he sees his role on the :ommission as a “responsibility to try and do he best for the student athletes.” Massengale has served as the Big Eight epresentalive on the commission since 1985 vhen he was appointed to complete the term of )uanc Acker, then president of Kansas State Jniversity, Massengale said. In July 1988, Massengale took over the hairmanship of the commission to replace ohn Brooks Slaughter, who left the commis ion to become president at Occidental Col egc, he said.