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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.
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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.