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*39_University of Nebraska-Lincoln Vol. 89 No. 74
I Shuttle runs until Thursday ^<1
Free ride provided for students
studying for finals I
By Roger Price
Staff Reporter
rWlo help students travel |
across campus safely after
studying late at night, the
UNL Police Department will be
operating a nightly shuttle service
between Love Library and the resi
dence halls, Lt. Ken Cauble said.
The shuttle runs from 8:30 p.m.
to 2:30 a.m. The service will end
Thursday of finals week, Cauble
Students can get on the shuttle
at any of the residence halls or at
the turnaround at 15th and S
streets, Cauble said. The shuttle |
will run at about 10-minute inter
vals, he said.
A UNL police officer will drive
the bus, which is a UNL E-Z Ride
bus provided by the parking office,
Cauble said.
UNL police started the shuttle
service because Love Library ex
tended its hours and because more
students use the library during the —
last two weeks of the semester.
“We wanted to get it so people
who arc using these facilities
didn’t have to walk across campus
late at night,’’ he said.
Cauble said the officer driving |
the bus also will be looking for sus- I
picious activity going on in the l—
parking lots and on campus. R
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UNL Police say computer thief
probably had key to Oldfather
By Jerry Guenther
Senior Reporter
University of Ncbraska-Lincoln Police
suspect that the thieves who took about
SI0,000 worth of computer equipment
from Oldfathcr Hall last weekend probably had
a key to the building.
Lt. Ken Cauble said police think the thieves
had a key because there was no sign of forced
entry.
Judging from the items that were stolen,
Cauble said, it appears more than one person
was involved in the theft.
Cauble said the political science depart
ment reported three IBM computers worth
about $7,240 stolen from the fifth floor Satur
day morning.
The thieves probably used a wire cutler to
remove the computers from the cable and
padlock that secured them, Cauble said.
On another floor, Cauble said, the thieves
took a facsimile machine worth about $2,000,
some computer discs and a small amount of
cash from a desk drawer.
Cauble said he wasn’t sure how much
money was taken or the value of the stolen
discs.
The police do not have any suspects yet,
Cauble said, but are contacting people with
keys to the rooms.
The thieves probably stole the items be
tween 10 p.m. Friday and 11:30 a.m. Saturday,
Cauble said. That’s when the items were seen
last and reported missing, he said.
Cauble said he didn’t have enough informa
tion to speculate whether the same person or
persons may have been responsible for another
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Fossils to have
new UNL home
By Sara Bauder
Staff Reporter_
Cbout 150 ions of Great Plains fossils
will have a new home on the University
of Ncbraska-Lincoln campus within
the next six months.
George Comer, collection manager for the
division of vertebrate paleontology at the Uni
versity of Nebraska State Museum, said about
100 tons of fossils currently stored at UNL’s
experimental farm near Mead will be moved to
the second floor of the Reunion, 905 N. 16th St.
He said the other 50 tons of fossils currently
arc stored on the UNL campus, but will be
moved to the Reunion as well. He said many of
those fossils, which include 40-million-year
old mammal fossils, currently arc stored in
Nebraska Hall.
Robert Hunt, curator of the division of ver
tebrate paleontology, said the university must
renovate part of the Reunion before the fossils
can be stored there. He said the floor has to be
sealed, and shelves, adequate lighting and heat
need to be added.
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Hoch expresses concern over
proposed distribution of power
By Pat Dinslage
and Diane Brayton
Staff Reporters
The Legislature’s Higher Education
Committee Wednesday agreed to sup
port sweeping changes in the state’s
post-secondary education governance sug
gested by an independent consulting firm.
The NU Board of Regents and the UNL
Faculty Senate, however, raised questions
about the proposal at the committee’s hearing
Wednesday.
NU Regent Chairman Nancy Hoch said the
regents are concerned about the possible distri
bution of power under the proposed changes.
The proposed changes, recommended by
the independent consulting firm Widmayer
and Associates of Chicago, would establish
eight boards.
Seven lay boards of trqstces would be cre
ated to oversee the three NU campuses and the
four state colleges. A board of regents would be
created to oversee the seven boards and public
higher education in general.
Hoch said regents wonder which of the
proposed boards would be responsible for such
things as budgets and program approvals.
“How would a board with limited power to
coordinate and no power over the purse enforce
its recommendation?’’ Hoch asked. “This has
been a problem with the Coordinating Com
mission (for Post-Secondary Education) for
years.’’
ii me soiuuon is to appoint enougn legis
lators to the Council on Coordination to give it
teeth, arc we not simply ceding governance to
the Unicameral’s Council and the Governor’s
boards, and taking it away from more direct
citizen control?” Hoch asked.
Hoch said her presentation to the committee
was an informal consensus of questions raised
by the regents, not an official position of the
board. It did not have lime to develop a formal
position, she said.
The regents agreed that Nebraska’s system
of post-secondary education should not be
driven solely by narrow regional interests,
Hoch said.
They are concerned whether the establish
ment of local boards of trustees would promote
“parochial competition,” rather than state
wide cooperation, she said.
Hoch questioned whether the appointment
of 49 new trustees and five new regents by the
governor would ensure local control. Six other
regents would be elected, and one student on
each board of trustees would be designated by
the student governmental body of each cam
pus.
Regents feel that these and other questions
should be “fully and deliberately” discussed
before drastic changes arc made, Hoch said.
She said the regents think proposed changes
to Nebraska’s higher education provide ‘ a
provocative starting point for discussion of the
future of higher education in Nebraska.”
Regents are “not opposed to change, as
long as that change is not merely for the sake of
change, but meaningful and clearly in the best
interests of higher education in Nebraska,” she
said.
Sen. Jerome Warner of Waverly, co-chair
man of the Higher Education Committee,
asked Hoch if the board agreed with the prob
lem in Nebraska’s higher education system,
but not the proposed solutions.
Hoch replied that the regents were con
cerned about the division of power recom
mended by the consulting firm’s report.
She asked if the new board of regents would
be a board with the power to govern or if the
power and responsibility for budgets and aca
demic programming would rest with the local
boards of trustees.
Eric Seacrcst, committee member from
North Platte, said the regents seem to be asking
for a strong statewide board of regents, while
the other educational organizations are cau
tioning against weak local boards of trustees.
Hoch suggested a possible advisory role for
the proposed local boards of trustees similar to
a plan used in New York slate.
'How would a board
with limited power to
coordinate and no
power over the purse
enforce its recommen
dation?'
--Hoch
UNL Government Liaison Committee
Chairperson Deb Fiddclkc told the committee
there is support for the proposed changes from
students in Nebraska.
The concept of decentralization would be
more responsive to student needs as would the
recognition of voting student members on the
boards, she said.
UNL Faculty Senate President Jim
McShanc said the central levels should not
have loo much control. Government should be
closest to those governed, he said.
In its afternoon session, the Higher Educa
tion Committee considered additional changes
to the original proposal.
George Miller of Plalismouth suggested
transferring the power of hiring the presidents
of Nebraska’s post-secondary institutions from
the board of trustees to the board of regents.
Under the current proposal, trustees would
appoint presidents.
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The sun cast stronashadowsWednesday but failed to push temperatures higher than the m Id-tee na as two UNL
students walk past “Old Glory" north of the CBA Building___
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