Correction: An article in Friday's Daily Nebraskan gave the incorrect date for the ZZ Top concert at
Omaha's Civic Auditorium. The concert will be at 0 p.m. Friday, Oct 26.
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October 22,1990 _University of Nebraska-Lincoln__Vol. 90 No. 39
Powell
queries
tactics
By Jennifer O’Cilka
Senior Reporter
Dick Powell, a candidate for
NU Board of Regents, said he
has asked the Nebraska Ac
countability and Disclosure Com
mittee to investigate campaign prac
tices of his opponent, Chuck Wilson.
A news release from Rick Bell,
Powell’s campaign coordinator, an
nounced Friday that Powell has asked
the committee to launch an investiga
tion into Wilson’s fund raising at
Firethom Golf Club.
Powell said some guests to Fire
thorn may not realize they are con
tributing to Wilson’s campaign.
But, Wilson said, fund raising
through Firethom is a free choice.
Wilson is a supporter and investor in
Firethom.
rowen sam an anonymous source
sent him a copy of a Idler that had
been sent to Firethom members.
The letter slates that the “letter is
being sent to about 40 Firethom
members who have already helped
Chuck, or those who we thought might
be willing to support him. Between
now and the election in November,
the guest fees of those you invite to
play Firethom will be donated to
Chuck’s campaign committee. If you
decide to help, all you need to do is
invite the guests and fill out the at
tached form when you sign in at the
Pro Shop.”
Powell said he has reviewed the
letter with his campaign committee,
including about three attorneys, and
the group advised him to have the
accountability committee look into
it.
“Essentially the advice we've re
ceived is it looks bad, it may be
ethical or unethical and it could be
illegal,” he said.
Now, it’s up to the committee to
decide, he said.
Powell said he has received calls
from supporters who are concerned
about the fund-raising activities at
the club.
“I have people on my campaign,
j very strong supporters of mine, who
\ arc members of Firethom and arc
See REGENTS on 3
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Ai Schafcen Dai!y Nebraskan
Viewers observe 723 panels of the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt in the State Fair Park’s Agriculture Hall. This was
the first time the quilt was displayed in Nebraska.
A/J2S guilt induces tears, soul searching \
By Adeana Leftin
Staff Reporter___
Barefoot volunteers dressed
in white approached the
center of the room.
They stood together for a while,
lingering, crying and hugging as
the public was invited to view the
panels that had just been spread
along the floor.
Nila Danklesen, along with her
daughters Allie, Kari and Jenny,
were among the group ol volun
teers this weekend at the dfcplay of
729 panels from the NAlyBBS Proj
ect AIDS Memorial QuHt.
Danklesen*s panel for her brother
John Lechncr was displayed among
the others, and it officially was
added to the quilt at Sunday’s clos
ing ceremonies.
John died of AIDS Oct. 8,1988.
“Everyone in the family made
squares about something they
remembered about John,” Dan
klescn said. "We put the squares
together and he saw it before he
died.”
Danklcscn said that when she
first walked into Agricultural Hall
on the State Fairgrounds where the
quilt was displayed, she felt over
whelmed.
“It brought back a lot of memo
ries,” she said. If people could see
the quill, I think they’d understand.
The whole thing is important be
cause everyone is going to be af
fected eventually. People need to
be educated, open.
“It could be someone in their
family.”
Other volunteers said they fell
the same.
“I think the people in the Mid
west need to know about its enor
mity,” Marsha Arps, a volunteer,
said of AIDS victimization.
Mike Burger, another volunteer,
agreed.
“It’s (AIDS) happening here,
and I don’t know if people know
it,” he said.
Burger saw the quilt in Denver
2 1/2 years ago. “It was very sober
ing. It made you think about how
mortal everybody is,” he said.
Burger, whose partner has -AIDS,
said he volunteered because he likes
to help and support people.
“If helping pul this together, if
somebody learns something from
it by seeing it, it will be worth it,” /
he said.
Kathy England, the coordinator
for Omaha volunteers and activi
ties, has volunteered for die Ne
braska AIDS Project for several
years, she said.
England said she thinks the quilt
is important “an people here begin
to understand that AIDS is people.
It touches all of us.
“I don’t know how people could
walk out ol here and be the same,”
she said.
Joel Gajardo, coordinator of the
Minority AIDS Education Task
Force in Lincoln, said in his open
ing speech Saturday that everyone
had gathered to keep the love alive.
See QUILT on 7
Search committee narrows candidates to seven
By Pat Dinslage
Staff Reporter_
The University of Nebraska Presidential
Search Committee on Friday narrowed
the number of candidates to seven, its
co-chairmen said.
Duane Acklic and Don Blank, who is also
N U Board of Regents c hai rman, said, ho we ver,
that the committee is not ready to take the
candidate list to the board, even though the
number is within the parameters set by the
board of four to eight candidates.
“We’re still checking references on all seven,”
Acklie said.
The consulting firm of Heidnek and Struggles
Inc. of Chicago will check the references given
by the candidates a second time and will de
velop a secondary list of references whose
names were not given by the candidate. The
secondary list also will be checked, Acklie
said.
In addition, the employment records of the
candidates will be checked, Blank said, to
examine their work with women and minori
tics.
“Their records show there have been very
positive efforts in recruitment and working
with minorities and women,” he said.
After the second references check, it is
possible the list will be narrowed further before
the committee forwards the final slate of candi
dates to the regents, Acklic said.
“The committee lakes its mission very seri
ously,” B lank said. “It’s not just a matter of' X'
number of candidates. We want to send for
ward a list of the most qualified candidates to
be the president of the University of Nebraska.
“Not everybody (on the list) is equal in
experience,” Blank said.
Also, Acklicsaid, not all of the seven candi
dates have said they would take the job if
offered. However, all seven have indicated a
“strong interest” in the position, he said.
The committee still is accepting nomina
tions and applications for the position but will
not conduct more interviews “unless an out
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I Council gives suggestions tor coordinating commission
I By Dionne Searcey
Staff Reporter_
r ■ i he Nebraska Council for Pub
B lie Higher Education, walk
ing “the fine line between the
tigers and the sharks,” passed its ver
sion of how a proposed Nebraska
Coordinating Commission for
Postsecondary Education should
operate.
LB1141, the amendment to go
before Nebraska voters Nov. 6, would
give the present Nebraska Coordinat
ing Commission for Postsecondary
Education budget authority and the
power to coordinate programs and
academic activities.
The current coordinating commis
sion serves only as an advisory board.
The council met Friday to give
input to the Nebraska Legislature —
should the amendment pass — on
how the commission should use its
powers.
Nancy O’Brien, chairwoman of
the Metropolitan Board of Nebraska
Technical Community Colleges Board
of Directors, said the Legislature and
the higher education community are
concerned about how the commis
sion would work, making the imple
menting language important.
Higher education officials could
lose their credibility from the Legis
lature, she said, if the proposed lan
guage doesn’t pass.
The different sectors of higher
education have not seen eye to eye in
the past, O’ Bricn said, and if they gel
hung up over the language, the Legis
lature “could use this to say we’re not
cooperating.”
The Nebraska Council for Public
Higher Education’s proposal to im
plcmcnt LB 1141 would give the
coordinating commission responsibil
ity to:
• Employ an executive director
and other employees of the coordi
nating commission.
• Prepare a comprehensive state
wide plan which would identify the
state’s educational goals, objectives
and priorities.
• Review, monitor and enforce
the college and university role and
mission statements and recommend
revisions in role and mission.
• Review, monitor and approve or
disapprove programs in consultation
with each institution’s role and mis
sion.
• Prepare and periodically update
a comprehensive statewide capital fa
cilities plan which would include all
facilities that use tax funds desig
nated by the Legislature.
• Review the budget requests of
each institution submitted to the
Legislature.
• Encourage and assist in the
development of cooperative programs *
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