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WEATHER INDEX Nows 2 Wednesday, partly sunny, breezy and cool, high ‘' in the mid-40s, north wind 15-25 miles per hour IIona. Wednesday night, mostly clear, low around 25. Sports..6 Thursday, party sunny and warmer, high around Arts & Entertainment.9 60. Classifieds.9 April 11, 1990 _ _ _Vol. 89 No.-dafy*^ Orr: Visit is ‘a proud day for all Nebraskans’ Campaign fund-raiser brings Quayle to state By victoria Ayotte Senior Reporter COLUMBUS - Vice President Dan Quayle said Tuesday at a fund-raising dinner for Gov. Kay Orr that “you’ve got to know which buttons to push.” Although Quayle was referring to the method of making a robot weld, which he saw earlier in an experiment at Central Community College-Platte Campus, he pushed the right buttons with Orr and Republican supporters. “This is a proud day for all Ne braskans,” Orr said. “It’s been won derful to be following in his (Quayle’s) footsteps.” Orr followed Quayle from the Columbus Municipal Airport, where his plane landed, to Lost Creek Ele mentary School for an unscheduled slop to greet children on the play ground, to Central Community Col lege for a robotics experiment and a speech before a crowd of 2,000, to a track and field event, and to a fund raiser at the New World Inn. Quayle said Columbus reminded him of his hometown of Huntington, Indiana. “As I walked in, I knew I was back in the dear old Midwest,” Quayle said as the crowd at the Platte gymna sium applauded. One thing that reminded him of his hometown, Quayle said, was that the rally was on the basketball court. Quayle applauded Columbus resi dents for the turnaround in their city’s economy. Quayle said 1,200 new jobs were created and unemployment has dropped from 11 percent to 2 percent in the last few years. “I am keenly aware of what Co lumbus has done for itself,” he said. Part of that success has come be cause the federal government has given state governments, such as Nebraska’s, the leeway to put together economic development programs such as the Job Training Partnership Act, he said. Orr’s econom ic development plan also has been innovative, Quayle said, in that it is performance-based and businesses must create jobs to receive tax credits. Quayle urged Columbus residents not to think too locally, however, and to be ready for new challenges. The new challenges will come front “every corner of the globe,” he said. “America will have to be ready to compete.” Quayle said Nebraskans have and must continue to come up with the “winning game plan” for the future - as the Nebraska Comhuskers have done. That strategy would combine See QUAYLE on 5 Lb Hr— Al Schaben/Daily Nebraskan Vice President Dan Quayle controls a welding robot at Central Community College in Columbus on Tuesday afternoon. LbA expansion site suggested by board By Roger Price Staff Reporter C chancellor’s advisory board has recom mended that the proposed expansion of the College of Business Administration should be built on the north side of the building on pan of the Cather Garden. After reviewing several site development plans, the Chancellor’s Advisory Board of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Botanical Garden and Arboretum voted to recommend a plan that would utilize parts of the cast-west sidewalk in front of CBA and the garden. John Sinclair, architect for the project, said that if the university built to the north of CBA, the buiiding wouldextcnd to about the junction of the two diagonal sidewalks through the garden. Kim Todd, campus landscape architect for UNL, said the new building won’t make the garden look bad. She said with effective land scaping around the new structure, the garden could be just as attractive as it is today. Todd said, however, that recommending CBA expand into the open spaces on campus sets a bad precedent. Paul Read, board member and chairman of the horticulture department, said, “Philosophi cally I’m opposed to gobbling up our open spaces. “If each time we need to build we look first at the garden spaces, we have no use for (the botanical garden committee.)’’ Todd said the other option, wrapping the expansion around the current CBA building, would close that area of campus to R Street. Student group protests ban of T-shirt sales By Matt Herek Staff Reporter CNL Students for Choice in a press re lease Tuesday said it “strongly pro tests” the decision to ban the group’s sales of T-shirts from a booth in the Nebraska Union. The “Incredible Shrinking Woman’s Right to Choose” shirts contained the statement, “Rated PG, papal guidance suggested.” That was found offensive and reported to the Af firmative Action office by Bruce Gregg, editor of the UNL Christian Journal. See T-SHIRTS on 5 A ccomplishments speak for themsel ves By Jennifer O’Cilka Staff Reporter Time is a hard thing to come by for a University of Nebraska-Lincoln pro fessor who not only excels in re search, but always has lime for her students and family. Books and papers cram her tiny office. Family pictures adorn a file cabinet that is filled to its limits. During the course of a 15-minute interview, the phone rang at least three times and a stu dent wailed in the hall way until she was free. Susan Welch, in her 20th year as a UNL professor of political science, is not teach ing this semester, but will next fall. W'elch was given leave after she agreed to slay at UNL. Now Welch is involved in several re search projects, while continuing to work with UNL graduate students. Rebckah Herrick, graduate student in political science, said she took a research methods class taught by Welch. Herrick said Welch presents things clearly in class, but gives the most help outside the class room. “Outside the classroom she’s really the best,’’ Herrick said. “She’s real willing to work with you one-on-one.” Herrick said Welch, who has written and edited several books and articles, makes an effort to write and publish articles with her graduate students. Even if the student’s article is not in her area of interest, Herrick said, Welch will look at the work and give her opinion of it, including ways to improve it Jay Ovsiovitch, a third-year graduate student, said that although Welch assigns a lot of homework, she always is there to help students. And if students have problems in other classes, he said, they sometimes come to Welch. See WELCH on 5 Butch Ireland/Daily Nebraskan Political Science Professor Susan Welch Sheldon gallery upgrades security system By Jennifer Dods Staff Reporter A security upgrade at Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery to protect the museum’s more than S100 million collection needs one finishing touch, according to P.J. Vaskc, administrative assistant. One camera still is on order for the security system, which includes new video cameras for all the walls ot the galleries and 14-inch color television monitors. The gallery uses the equip ment to protect its collection of 13,000 paint ings, photographs and sculptures from theft, she said. The upgrade also includes motion detectors tha; set off alarms auhc security desk if anyone moves within 24 inches of a wall. That wall immediately is shown on the full screen of the TV monitors. George Neubcrt, director of the gallery, said the monitoring system also allows guards to make videotapes if they sec anything out of the ordinary. Ncubert said that upgrading the Sheldon system is not a reaction to recent art robberies worldwide. In March, a Boston museum was robbed of $200 million worth of art This weekend, Neubcrt said, four smaller art thefts occurred around the world. Security does not become important to the public or administrators unless a rash of publi cized art thefts catches their attention, Neubert said. Security at Sheldon has improved consid erably since 1983 when the gallery had a sonar system, wired windows and doors and no TV monitors, he said. There have been no thefts or attempted thefts at Sheldon, but before the gallery was built in 1963, several paintings and sculptures were taken from Morrill Hall, he said. The equipment was financed by a $20,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. That grant was matched by a private citizen. The monitoring equipment was in stalled in the gallery in December.