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correction: Monday's editorial should have said regents Kerrhit Hansen, Don Blank ana ~nnm-»fc rjnii_L1[i: imrtg -j* Robert Allen voted against offering Martin Massengale a contract for NU president. Regent John Payne voted for the contract. The Daily Nebraskan regrets the error. PBl I H m WEATHER INDEX §3 fff Today, mostly sunny and cooler, northwest wind News Digest 2 p am tor BBT ^S| Wf ' 1| h Si Jlr II Eg Wm 10-20 miles per hour, high near 40. Tonight, Editorial 4 mt Wm aO! ■sWEEgjjfe,. gS&BGk iiiirnHia IS BflR mostly clear, low near 20. Friday, mostly sunny, Diversions .7 m m mm m m mT m m H high in the mid 4os sports.15 X ^ Iw^JL a. I_~ 181 December 6,1990 University of Nebraska-Lincoin Vol. 90 No. 69 Minority affairs committees OK’d By Jennifer O’Cilka Senior Repot ter npplause and cheers broke out in the Nebraska Union Wednesday night after student leaders passed bylaws changes creat ing a racial affairs committee and a gay/lesbian/biscxual committee. Tension and emotions have been rising since the Association of Stu dents of the University of Nebraska defeated a proposal to create a racial minority committee Oct. 17. In addition to senators appointed to serve, the racial affairs committee as passed will include “one Native American, one Latino American, one African American, one Asian Ameri can, one Caucasian American and one international student” serving as students-at-large. The racial affairs committee passed unanimously alter about 2 hours of debate over technical and other prob lems with the legislation. College of Arts and Sciences Sen. Pam Kohlmeicr, one of the sponsors of the bylaws change, said the change was one that the racial minorities agreed on and something that had been worked on for months. “We have spent hours upon hours meeting with minority students,” Kohlmeicr said. “I strongly feel they need a stronger voice on AS UN.” General Studies Sen. Andy Sigcr son said that creating all the appointed student-at-large positions gives too much power to the Appointments Board. The speaker of the senate, second vice president and one student-at-!arge member sit on that board. Their ap See ASUN on 6 Michelle Paulman/Daily Nebraskan Genera! Studies Sen. Andy Sigerson reacts to comments from the gallery at the Association of Students of the University of Nebraska meeting Wednesday nignt. Tribe could get I more artifacts under new law By Dionne Searcey Staff Reporter The Pawnee Tribe of Oklahoma could re quest more artifacts from the Nebraska State Historical Society under a new federal law, an attorney for the tribe said. The law, signed by President Bush on Nov. 16, requires the return of American Indian skeletal remains and funeral objects that could not be obtained under Nebraska’s law. Bob Peregoy said. The Pawnee received 435 coffins contain ing remains and burial artifacts from the his torical society in September in compliance with state law. And, under the federal Native American Grave Protection and Reparation Act, Peregoy said, the tribe could ask for additional burial items and Spanish peace medals. The Nebraska law states that burial goods should be returned to tribes upon request if they can be traced “with a reasonable degree of certainty” to the human skeletal remains with which they were buried. The federal law states that American Indian remains and other funeral objects that are “determined by a reasonable belief’ to be af filiated with that tribe shall be returned upon request. The federal law goes beyond Nebraska’s Unmarked Human Burial Sites and Skeletal Remains Protection Act by requiring the return of burial goods that can’t be linked through documentation to exact skeletal remains, Pere - goy said. Both laws require museums to inventory artifacts and notify American Indian tribes of affiliated objects. Tribes then can request the return of the artifacts. Peregoy said that the Nebraska law, passed in 1989, served as a model for the federal law. “Nebraska should be commended for set ting a model for the federal bill,” he said. The Pawnee probably will request the return of these items after tribe members discuss the issue in a tribal government session, Peregoy said. The historical cocicty has not returned some artifacts that the Pawnee requested it to return with the other items in September, he said. “The historical society was charged by the state law to return to the Pawnee ail skeletal remains. ... They didn’t,” Peregoy said. The Pawnee filed a grievance against the historical society in September for the return of the items. James Hanson, director of the historical society, declined U> comment on the issue because the grievance is pending. ‘Smarter than hell 's performance larks at UNL By Ptt Dfnsiage Staff Reporter Martin MassengaJe's strengths and performance as UNL chancellor earned him straight A’s, according to some top administrators who have worked with him. And they expxt his performance as University of Nebraska president to earn him the same high marks. During his chancellorship from 1981 to 1991, MassengaJe’s strengths included commitment to ail averts of the campus, said Neale Coppte, I NL interim director of university relations Mfldjl foiTRCSr COUp^KJ “Be Mi UNLcoufc! not only -■ ..aA. » IMP know ! * he _la —»-■.... Ottilia*school<**in I the Malwes* was a good university ” Oppie said, “rod he helped establish UNLas a nationally known research f institution.** Heib Howe, associate to the UMl, chanoellor, said Ma$aea^pde*s strength was Us concern for the studgSfc ‘When comptsims cant in from siudcnts,w Howe said, ke took them seriously. He looked bm them hjmself or bads staff person do k." Coppie said de®»s wore uw that R K r a m Inti narairt ar nr an Stm wi» v&gpsy Wincw oJf any mtomnnulqf of undergraduate programs and by working to establish a general educa tion requirement for the entire campus, Copple said. James Griesen, vice chancellor for student affairs, said Massengale initiated new programs for students despite difficult economic times for U«L during the 1980s. He initiated j the University Foundations and the Honors Programs, Griesen said. “He was very much a driver in getting it (the Honors Programs) i started," Griesen said. “He got the resources for iL" Another strength Massengale displayed during his tenure and one for which he is well-known is his ability to work long hours and still he productive, Griesen said. “You could count on him to be attentive and take his job seriously,’' 0mm ssiA. “He has no peers when It corses to work effort. I work 7© to 80 hours a week, and be outdoes me." Hemeaa^^qr stamina that man has is mcasdbie. adding uiat MhsssjaiSpde often wcMikl work about 15 or lb hoars a day during the nine years ia office. Mippie said Ife&scB^rlc s strength and commitment that allowed ham to wotk such tong hours is the sontceof “People say he had uoubfie detetoamg.” Copple said. “But I drink that his coauniimeat to UNL was so that commitment . He warns you to measure up to that coMmitment" Massengale will transfer that 4oop commknaeat to dw four-campus Research assistant liftfot Amui Technical adviser to classified project UiilYgratY of Arisana Assistant agronomist and assistant professor I Associate agronomist Department head Associate dean. College of Agriculture, and associate director, agricultural experiment g|g: Ujfr*Cm$9m*T and natural resources