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November 19,1990___University ot Nebraska-Lincoln \7ol~ 90 No. 59
Michelle Paulman/Daily Nebraskan
A Sunday run
Chris Cook, a sophomore psychology major, runs laps on the indoor track at the Lee and He
lene Sapp Recreation Facility on Sunday.
UNL personnel search is on
By Pat Dinslage
Staff Reporter
As the selection saga for Uni
versity of Nebraska president
unfolds, other searches to fill
top positions arc taking place in rela
tive obscurity.
On the University of Ncbraska
Lincoln campus, search committees
currently arc evaluating applications
for director of university relations
and vice chancellor for research, said
Herb Howe, associate to the chancel
lor atUNL.
And, with Robert Furgason’s de
parture for Corpus Chrisli, Texas,
scheduled for Dec. 1, the UNL vice
chancellor for academic affairs posi
tion also becomes vacant.
Howe said that an interim vice
chancellor will be appointed io fill
Furgason’s position while a search
for a permanent replacement is con
ducted.
However, a person to serve in the
interim has not been named yet by
NU Interim President and UNLChan
cellor Marlin Massengale, he said.
The most logical person to fill the
spot would be a college dean or senior
faculty member with administrative
experience, Howe said. He said he
hopes an interim appointment will be
made before Furgason leaves.
The search committee for the di
rector of university relations position
has narrowed the almost 100 applica
tions received to about 20, Howe said.
“Many people thought that uni
versity relations was public relations,”
Howe said, so many applications were
eliminated in the preliminary screen
ing process. The director of public
relations serves as assistant to the
chancellor.
Howe said that he expects a person
to be selected for that position by
semester’s end.
The search for the vice chancellor
of research and dean of graduate stud
ies is not moving as quickly, Howe
said.
The search comm»uec received
about 50 applications for the posi
tion, he said, and most of them were
consistent with the qualifications
needed.
“The committee is currently rat
ing the folders” of the applicants for
the vice chancellor position, Howe
said, but a selection probably will not
be made until after Jan. 1.
“A lot will be determined by when
we can schedule interviews” and how
quickly candidates respond to the
committee’s requests for information,
he said.
Some UNL faculty
upset with search
By Pat Dinstage
Staff Reporter
Some University of Nebraska fac
ulty members have begun call
ing the university’s search fora
new president the “Hootcrville af
fair,” referring to the inept town coun
cil of the television show “Green
Acres,” an official said.
“The whole situation is so messy
and looks so bad, I’ve had faculty tell
me they’re embarrassed and in pain,”
said John Shrodcr, UNO Faculty Senate
president. “My university’s being
dragged through the mud once again.”
The public expects a university to
operate at a high intellectual level
and to do business in the best possible
way, Shrodcr said. Instead, there have
been closed meetings from which
committee members have leaked in
formation.
i ncy sianca lauang oul or school,
he said. “That’s cheating.
“The board (NU Board of Regents)
set up the ballgamc to play and broke
the rules . . . The regents arc wran
gling at each other. The issue is clouded
now,” Shrodcr said, referring to
“politicking at the regent level.”
Shrodcr referred to statements made
to the media last week by regents and
search committee members concern
ing NU Interim President and UNL
Chancellor Martin Masscngalc’s
candidacy and the search commit
tee’s decision to forward only the
names of external candidates to the
board.
“!’vc been told... (by search com
mittee members) the committee made
a deal because there was no majority
vote for Masscngalc,” Shrodcr said.
“There was a fifth call (for a vote),
which was that the board could con
sider any internal candidate it chose,
pointedly leaving out Masscngalc.”
Allison Brown-Corson, search
committee member representing NU
students, said the committee’s mixed
reactions about the candidates was
the reason for the decision not to
exclude, or include, any internal
candidates.
Shrodcr said this search was “po
liticized” from the start and if the
regents select Masscngalc at their
meeting Tuesday evening, they will
be doing what “they wanted to do six
months to a year ago. So, it’s a done
deal.”
On Nov. 9, the search committee
chose Robert Dickeson, University of
Northern Colorado at Greeley presi
dent; Gene Budig, University of Kansas
chancellor; Robert Hemenway, Uni
versity of Kentucky-Lexington chan
cellor; and Martin Jischke, Univer
sity of Missouri at Roila chancellor,
as final candidates for the NU presi
dent’s spot.
Less than one week later, all four
candidates had withdrawn their names.
Their action followed Regent John
Payne of Kearney’s statement about
Massengale being the “front-runner”
for the position and Regent Robert
Allen of Hastings’ criticism of Payne.
Phil Gosch, University of Ncbraska
Lincoln student regent, said: “From
the beginning, there was a chance this
would happen. Anytime you have a
strong internal candidate, it dimin
ishes the (resolve) of the external
candidates to stick it out.”
But Payne’s comments probably
did not prompt the candidates to with
draw their names, Gosch said.
“If an external candidate perceives
that Massengale has won, they’ll drop
out” of the process, he said. “In higher
education, there is a perception that
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lose by vote.”
Each of the voting members on the
board now has to consider: “Would I
have voted for Massengale had all
four of the other candidates remained
(in the running)?” Gosch said. “If the
answer is ‘yes, ’ then the board should
move forward and select Massengale.”
But members of the University of
Nebraska at Omaha Faculty Senate
have another opinion. On Thursday,
the senate “unanimously” called for
the board to re-open the presidential
search, Shrodcr said.
The business of electing a presi
dent of a major university like NU,
“should not be by default,” Shroder
said. “We’re going into the 21st cen
tury and we need a better way to do
business.”
Brown-Corson said that the UNO
student senate Thursday night passed
a resolution similar to the one passed
by the UNO Faculty Senate that en
couraged the board to re-open the
search. She said students are not against
Massengale personally, but are against
the presidential slate being reduced
to one candidate.
“It’s lime for the whole university
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Career-threatening injuries insured
Official: Insurance to help more athletes
By Dionne Searcey
Staff Reporter
Anew NCAA insurance program will
help more athletes protect themselves
against career-threatening injuries and
will slop gouging by unscrupulous sports agents,
a UNL official said.
AI Papik, assistant athletic director for
administrative services, said that the program
makes it more affordable for exceptional stu
dent athletes to get disability insurance.
The NCAA gets special rates through Fed
eral Insurance Company in Warren, N.J., and
financing from a Kansas City, Mo., bank is
guaranteed with low interest rales.
Although student athletes could take out
disability insurance before with independent
companies, Papik said, those policies usually
were too expensive.
“Generally, students didn’t have the re
sources,” he said.
Papik said four Nebraska football players
and one basketball player probably would be
eligible for the program.
The NCAA Exceptional Athlete Disability
Insurance Program, started last month, will
help diminish the influence of sports agents,
Hunter said financing tor independent pre
miums was difficult for student athletes to
obtain, but the NCAA plan guarantees it.
McNeely said United Missouri Bank pro
vides loans to pay premiums at below market
rales to student athletes picked in the drafts.
Federal Insurance Company underwrites the
NCAA insurance.
The maximum amount student football
players can be covered is $ 1.8 million, he said.
Basketball players can be covered up to $2.7
million.
McNeely said this is because contracts of
basketball players are usually worth more than
those of football players, and the coverage is
gauged according to market values.
Papik called the program “a fairly selective
policy.”
The offer is selective because it only is
available to first- and second-round NFL draft
choices and to first-round NBA draft choices,
he said.
Hunter said information about past injuries
also will help to determine eligibility for cov
erage.
The insurance company will have the final
say on who qualifies, he said.
Michael McNccly, director of operations
for the NCAA, said agents often overcharge
athletes when negotiating insurance contracts.
The athletes sometimes end up being undcrin ■
sured, he said.
“The program will eliminate one more
opportunity for agents to gel their fool in the
door..McNccly said. “This will hopefully
eliminate some of the potential agent prob
lems.”
The plan allows potentially professional
bound student athletes to participate based on
their draft ranking.
Richard Hunter, executive vice president of
National Sports Underwriters, who assisted the
NCAA in developing the insurance program,
said the plan bases premiums on the amount of
coverage purchased.
The premiums range from SI,(XX) to $25,(XX)
each year, he said. Papik said he did not know
how expensive insurance premiums were be
fore the program. L
RHA pushes
for condom
dispensers
By David Burcheil
Staff Reporter
Residence hall leaders arc spear
heading an effort to get condom
vending machines installed in
UNL’s residence halls.
Review and Recommendation Com
mittee member Stu Bums, a committee
representative from Selleck Hall, said
Sunday that risks of pregnancy and vene
real disease make condom machines
appropriate in the halls.
One of his friends has died of AIDS
and two have had to leave the university
because of pregnancy, Bums said. These
incidents may have been prevented with
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