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December 12, 1989___University of Nebraska-Lincoln Vol. 89 No. 7'^>
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State senators say plan
would help all campuses
By Emily Rosenbaum
Senior Reporter
The plan for sweeping changes in Ne
braska’s higher education governance,
recommended by an independent con
sulting firm, would benefit post-secondary
education by better representing all campuses,
according to some state senators.
The proposed creation of seven lay boards
of trustees to oversee each state campus would
allow the “day-to-day decisions’’ to be made
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for each college and then would provide a new
board of regents to “sort the issues,’ ’ said State
Sen. Ron Withem of Papillion.
The Higher Education Committee will hear
testimony Wednesday from the advisory com
mittee, which includes NU Regents Nancy
Hoch of Nebraska City, Donald Fricke of Lin
coln and Margaret Robinson of Norfolk.
Often there is a “turf battle’’ between
campuses, said Withem, co chairman of the
Higher Education Committee created to over
see a study of post-secondary education in
Nebraska.
The University of Nebraska at Omaha, for
example, may receive a program and Univer
sity of Ncbraska-Lincoln officials later may
say they need it also, Withem said. The new
plan for governance would allow cohesive
decisions to be made by the board of regents, he
said.
“You’ll have a lot more coordination from
the various campuses,” he said.
The proposed changes would create the lay
boards to oversee the three NU campuses and
the four state colleges. Under the recommen
dations, a board of regents would be elected to
supervise the boards of trustees.
Currently, the Nebraska State Board of
Trustees oversees the four state colleges, while
the NU Board of Regents oversees the three
NU campuses.
State Sen. Scott Moore of Stromsburg said
the proposed board of regents could “prioritize
the considerations” of the boards of trustees
and better represent the interests of all schools.
Moore said the proposed coordinating
council, which would coordinate Nebraska’s
higher education goals, would be an important
source of public opinion for the board of re
gents, allowing them to work with the private
sector.
Slate Sen. Jerome Warner of Waverly, co
chairman of the Higher Education Committee,
said, “Conceptually, I think it (the report)
responded to concerns that have been voiced
over the years.”
But the precise role of the proposed boards
of trustees and the board of regents must be
determined, he said.
“There’s nothing in the report 1 feel is
insurmountable,” Warner said.
S*atc Sen. John Lindsay of Omaha, a mem
ber of the Higher Education Committee, said
he agrees with the overall plan for changes in
the post-secondary system, but said he wants
some details addressed before the committee
files its final report.
Lindsay said he could not specify what
those details are until the committee has a
chance to * ‘read and digest” the recommenda
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Dick Cavett checks the teleprompter between takes at the Lied Center for
Performing Arts Monday. Cavett, a Nebraska native, was Hi Lincoln to /
film a promotional spot for the center. /
Plans for list century
Teachers college to evolve
By C J. Schepers
Staff Reporter
Educational reform in the
1990s ultimately will dic
tate high expectations for
students enrolled at the UNL
Teachers College, according to the
college’s dean.
“Teachers in the future have
got to be prepared to teach differ
ently than they have in the past,”
James O’Hanlon said Monday.
By the end of the 21st century,
these reforms will help the Teach
ers College evolve from a teacher
training institution into a profes
sional college, he said.
O’Hanlon said several major
changes are planned for the col
lege: higher standards for accept
ing students into the college, a
stronger emphasis on scholarly
research, a promotion of cultural
appreciation, more collaborative
research between the university
and secondary education, and a
stronger computer training cur
riculum.
In the next few years, such re
forms will create stricter criteria
for students who apply for admis
sion to the teaching program, he
said.
“We are becoming much more
selective in our program,”
O’Hanlon said.
Part of this selective process
includes a “personal qualities”
lest in which students’ personal
strengths and weaknesses as teach
ers are measured, O’Hanlon said.
' If a student tests poorly in per
sonal trails required of a good
teacher, for example, that student
may be required to have more
1 practicum experience to build
those skills.
Students who apply to the pro
gram in their sophomore years
would be required to take the test,
he said.
The college currently is using
the test on a trial basis, and in fact,
could officially begin testing by
fall of 1990.
Teachers of the future also will
need to have a better understand
ing of their students’ culture, home
and language backgrounds.
“All schools - even in small
communities — are becoming
more heterogeneous,” be said.
O’Hanlon said a growing num
ber of students speak first lan
guages other than English. In fact,
at Lincoln High School, 26 native
tongues other than English are
spoken.
O’Hanlon said he is concerned
that some teachers do not under
stand the effect that culture and
home life have on a student’s edu
cation. Appreciation of different
cultures is something that must be
addressed to be an effective
teacher, he said.
He said the Midwest no longer
can work under a “Midwestern
white framework,” but must edu
cate and understand students from
a variety of cultural and ethnic
backgrounds.
“It’s not going to be a bunch of
white middle-class Protestants...
he said.
Another area of major concern
is research. O’Hanlon said profes
sors used to talk about their own
experiences as teachers to train
students to teach.
But future methods will entail
more training based on long-term
research results.
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Ex-UNL officer responds to suit
By Jennifer O’Cilka
Staff Reporter
In response to a U.S. District
Court suit filed by a former UNL
library security guard, a former
UNL police officer contends he acted
in “good faith,” not harassment,
during his investigation of the guard.
The response, filed last, week,
denies allegations that former Uni
versity of Nebraska-Lincoln police
officer Edward Mcntzcr and the NU
Board of Regents arc liable to
charges filed by the former guard,
Raymond Mahlbcrg.
Mahlberg filed suit in November
against Mcntzcr and the regents for
attorneys fees, at least $750,000 in
damages and triple damages under
Nebraska Revised Statute 28-926.
The suit states that alleged harass
ment by Mcntzcr cost Mahlbcrg his
job at the library, a later job at the
University of Nebraska Medical
Center and his position on the board
of directors of the Nebraska Associa
tion of Farmworkers.
According to the suit, Mahlberg,
who began working as a Love Library
security guard in January 1987, dis
covered in May a library door that
had been forced open. He then noti
ficd UNL police, the suit states.
The suit alleges that Mentzcr, the
officer dispatched to investigate,
concluded “without probable
cause’ ’ that Mahlbcrg committed the
break-in and look him to UNL police
headquarters for more than two hours
of interrogation.
Mcntzer contacted the Lancaster
County Attorney’s office to begin
criminal proceedings against
Mahlbcrg, the suit states. The county
attorney’s office informed Mcntzer
that no action would be taken, tbc suit
states.
Although the defendant’s re
sponse admits Mcntzer contacted the
county attorney, it docs not address
whether the county attorney’s office
said it would not take action.
According to the original suit,
Ment/er then began an investigation
of his own into Mahlbcrg’s personal
records and background.
Mcntzer allegedly contacted
Mahlbcrg’s friends and professors
during the course of the investiga
tion, the suit states. On July 1, 1987,
the Lancaster County Court issued a
search warrant so Mcntzer could en
ter Mahlbcrg’s apartment to look for
certain computer disks, according to
the suit.
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The suit says Mcnt/cr and another
officer conducted the three-hour
search of Mahlberg’s home, remov
ing computer equipment, textbooks
and personal notebooks. Also, the
officers checked serial numbers on
Mahlberg’s computer, television,
stereo, guns, tools and camera equip
ment, the suit says.
The response states that Ment/.cr
searched Mahlberg’s apartment only
on July 1. It docs not address a war
rantless search, slated in the original
suit, of Mahlbcrg’s office at UNMC.
In his original suit, Mahlberg al
leges that after his apartment was
searched, Ment/cr arrested him, look
him to UNL headquarters and locked
him in a closet. Later, Mcnt/cr took
Mahlberg to the Lincoln Police De
partment where lie was charged with
felony theft by receiving stolen prop
erty, the suit states.
Mahlbcrg’s suit also says Ment/er
informed a supervisor at Mahlberg s
later job at UNMC of the investiga
tion. Mahlbcrg’s suit alleges this ac
tion led to his being fired from the
position.
On Sept. 29, 1987, Mahlbcrg’s
counsel filed a motion to suppress
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Resents approve union pizza rrancnise
By Lisa Twiestmeyer
Staff Reporter
The NU Board of Regents has
approved a lease agreement
for the operation of a pizza
franchise, scheduled to open in the
Nebraska Union by the start of next
semester.
At the board’s monthly meeting
Saturday, regents voted 6-1 to ap
prove a lease agreement with Cor
mack Enterprises Inc. of Lincoln to
operate a Pizza Bakery franchise in
the union.
Pizza Bakery will be located in the
area formerly occupied by the UNL
Dairy Store cast of the information
desk on the first floor.
James Griesen, vice chancellor for
student affairs, told the regents the
Union Board had received and evalu
ated proposals for four piz/.a compa
nies: Pizza Bakery, DaVinci’s,
Plump Tomato and Valentino’s.
Griesen said the Union Board
chose Pizza Bakery based on taste,
quality of food and service at existing
sites, performance and sales at exist
ing sites, total amount of bid, brand
recognition and cleanliness and sani
tation practices.
Pizza Bakery is different from
other pizza vendors, Griescn said,
because it sells custom-baked mini
pizzas, rather than pizza by the slice.
The franchise uses a 90-second
baking process, he said, and all pizzas
are custom ordered, fresh baked, and
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