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October 31,1990 University of Nebraska-Lincoln Vol. 90 No. 46
Ertl-o’-lantern
Architecture professor Ted Ertl poses with an entry in the first annual Tau Sigma Delta pumpkin-decorating contest open
to architecture or planning students, faculty members ami administrators. Architecture student David Quade entered this
creation in the “Caricature of Professor Ertl” category._ ; -
Search for president may quicken
By Pat Dinslage
Staff Reporter__
If the University of Nebraska
Presidential Search Committee
sends a list of names to the NU
Board of Regents Nov. 9, the board
will “move very quickly” to select a
new NU president, a committee co
chairman said.
Don Blank of McCook, who also
is chairman of the NU Board of Re
gents, said the committee may for
ward the names to the board Nov. 9.
The search committee is sched
uled to meet Nov. 9 at 8 a.m. The
Board of Regents will meet at noon
Nov. 9 and go into closed session
until 1:30 p.m.
“When you’re down to seven
(candidates), and that numbei is within
the charge given the committee by
the board, you’ve got to avsume things
arc moving well,’’ Blank said.
“Bui if ihc commitlcc is not com
fortable with all the candidates, they
will not lorward the names.”
The selection by the board of a
candidate to fill the presidential posi
tion will move faster than the search
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Candidates discuss viability ot commission
By Cindy Wostrel
Staff Reporter__
While two regents candidates
supported higher education
coordination Tuesday, one
questioned- whether the cost of a
strengthened coordinating commis
sion is*too high.
Chuck Wilson and Dick Powell
separately discussed the proposed
stronger Coordinating Commission for
Postsecondary Education and 2 per
cent lid constitutional amendments,
which will be voted on Tuesday, before
about 30 students in the Nebraska
Union. The current coordinating
commission serves only as an advi
sory body.
Both candidates said they approved
of coordination of university programs
by the commission.
“Conceptually, it makes sense. .
.,” Powell said. “I’m for coordinat
ing.”
But, because of uncertainty about
the cost and power of the body, Powell
said, he has mixed feelings about it.
Even state senators don’t know the
answers to those questions, he said.
“I’m nervous about that.”
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Mock election yields small turnout
Osborne:
Team won’t
tackle lid
By Paul Domeier
Senior Reporter
□ebraska coach Tom Osbomc
opted to keep his football team
neutral about the proposed 2
percent lid, although Nebraska’s stu
dent government is trying to fight the
next battle against the lid in Memo
rial Stadium.
“We don’t want to politicize the
football team,” Osbomc said Tues
day at his weekly press conference. “I
don’t think that’s appropriate.”
In a resolution passed last Wednes
day, the Association of Students of
the University of Nebraska urged
students to wear blue to Saturday’s
Nebraska-Colorado game to show
opposition to the lid.
“Students ought to do whatever
they think’s right,” Osborne said.
“There’ll be enough red there.”
Osborne did take time to reiterate
his opposition to the lid and defend
his knowledge of the issue.
“I’ve been accused of being duped,
of being uninformed, and really not
knowing what I’m talking about, and
I think that is probably not a very
accurate statement,” he said.
Osborne said his experience from
a three-year period in the mid-1980s
when the athletic department’s budget
increased between 1 percent and 3
percent has shown him what would
happen under the 2 percent lid.
The department did not have enough
money for all salaries and supplies in
all programs, Osbomc said.
“So don’t tell me I don’t have any
experience or don’t know what I’m
talking about,” he said.
The lid, which will go before
Nebraska voters in Tuesday’s elec
tion, would limit state and local gov
ernment spending increases to 2 per
cent each year.
Osbomc has appeared in televi
sion commercials urging Nebraskans
to vote against the initiative. His stand,
he said, has earned him some nega
tive letters, including one he read a
portion of at the press conference.
The letter asked Osbomc to stay
out of the issue because he is a state
employee. The letter writer, who
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Voting students kill 2 percent lid, re-elect vxov. Urr
By Jennifer O’Cilka
Senior Reporter
The proposed 2 percent lid on
state and local government
spending was shot down in a
mock election among University of
Nebraska-Lincoln students^Tucsday.
One hundred sixty-eight students
turned out in the Nebraska Union
between 9:30 a.m. and 2 p.m. lo vote
in the Government Liaison Commit
tee mock election.
One hundred sixty students voted
against Initiative 405, the proposed 2
percent limit on slate and local gov
ernment spending increases each year.
Eight students voted for the constitu
tional amendment.
Shawn Burnham, chairwoman of
the Government Liaison Committee,
said she was pleased that the lid was
defeated.
Not many students had questions
about the lid, she said.
“That means we’ve done a really
good job educating students about
it,” Burnham said.
Burnham said turnout for the elec
tion was not as good as she had hoped.
but that it shows people arc aware that
an election is coming up Tuesday.
GLC’s goal for the mock election was
to increase awareness, she said.
“Hopefully more will gel out and
vote on Tuesday,” she said.
Burnham stressed that the mock
election “may or may not be an
accurate representation of student
opinion on campus" because it was a
voluntary vote and a small percent
age of the about 25,000 UNL students
turned out to vote.
Other results of the election showed
that Republican Gov. Kay Orr and
her running mate, Jack Maddux, beat
Democrat Ben Nelson and Maxine
Moul, 125-36.
Republican Hal Daub defeated
incumbent Democrat Sen. James Exon
for the Nebraska senate seal, 102-63.
Rep. Doug Bcrcutcr, R-Neb., took
the 1st Congressional District seat
over Democratic challenger Larry Hall
with a vote of 124-21. The 2nd Con
gressional District seat went to Re- -
publican Ally Milder by a vote of 86
63 over incumbent Rep. Peter Hoag
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UNL mock election results Source: Government Liaison Committee
Nelson/Moul
■H35
No reply: 6
Daub
HB102
Exon
63
- —_No reply: 1
Milder
Hoagland
63
No reply: 18
Barrett
HHBHB93
Scofield
H33
_No reply : 30
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