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Chancellor search committee formed
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Senior Reporter
A radio statidh manager, a car dealer, a
secretary, seven faculty members and
two students will search for a new chan
cellor for the University of Nebraska-Lincoln,
NU President Martin Massengalc announced
Thursday.
Committee member James McShane, an
associate professor of English and president of
the Academic Senate at UNL, said that with the
backgrounds and vast experience of the com
mittee members, he was looking forward to a
positive search.
“We have people (on the committee) with
experience all over the curricula and public,”
he said.
The other committee members are: Eric
Brown, general manager of KRVN Farm Radio
in Lexington; Dorothy Callahan, a cooperative
extension agent in Omaha; Miguel Carranza,
an associate professor of sociology; James
Kinder, a professor of animal science; Gates
ivnnnicK, president oi uuieau cnevrolet in
Lincoln; Harvey Perlman, dean of the College
of Law; Sheila Perry, secretary to the dean of
the College of Journalism; Michael Riley, a
professor of engineering; Andrew Sigerson, a
undergraduate student; William Stott, a gradu
ate student in architecture; and Lani Zimmer
man, an associate professor of nursing at the
University of Nebraska Medical Center, Lin
coln division.
Joe Rowson, director of public relations for
NU, said he hopes the committee will complete
the search quickly and have a new chancellor
on campus by this fall.
According to the bylaws of the NU Board of
Regents, the committee will create a job de
scription, solicitapplications, interview people
and make nominations to the university presi
dent. The president will make a recommenda
tion to the regents, who will vote on whether to
hire the candidate.
Sigerson said he hoped the search won’t get
tangled up in the politics that plagued the
presidential search.
As I hope to see it done, most of the politics
will be removed from it,” said Sigerson, a
general studies senator in the Association of
Students of the University of Nebraska.
Sigerson said applications should be taken
from all over. He said he hopes to see a lot of
strong applications from women and minori
ties.
Perlman, search committee chairman, also
said it will be important to consider many
people with different backgrounds.
Sigerson said it should be up to the commit
tee to decide the finalists for the position.
The search should be somewhat confiden
tial, he said, so committee members don’t feel
as if they’re being coerced to nominate some
one.
“I don’t want to be pressured by outside
sources,” Sigerson said.
Riley said he anticipates that the search will
be difficult, but it’s important that the commit
tee not focus on the controversial search for the
NU president.
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Kinder said he, loo, thought everyone should
just “let bygones be bygones.”
“If there were things to be learned from the
presidential search, let’s learn them and let’s
get on with it (the chancellor search),” Kinder
said.
But Perlman said the controversy of the
presidential search can’t be forgotten.
“We can’t be oblivious” to the problems of
the presidential search, he said. “I don’t think
those problems arc inherent in searches of this
kind.”
Kinder added that he didn’t think the con
troversy surrounding the presidential search
had anything to do with the chancellor search
process.
It’s important that the chancellor search be
carried out correctly, he said.
McShanc said he wanted to ensure that the
chancellor eventually selected will have strong
backing and be widely respected.
“A very good search lends credibility to the
chancellor who lakes over after it.”
Killer secret
Gay student must cope with
fears of rejection, suicide
Editor's note: This story was written for a
University of Nebraska-Lincoln depth re
porting class.
By Paul Domeier
Senior Editor
Simon didn’t go to the Halloween party.
The costume he was going to wear
couldn’t replace his everyday disguise
I — that of a closet homosexual at the Univer
| sity of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Simon drops his disguise every time he
attends a Gay/Lesbian Student Association
function, like this Halloween party. But
Simon had heard this party was one people
from outside the organization would attend.
Later, the partygoers might recognize him
on campus without the false moustache of
the 18th century sleazy lawyer costume.
Being recognized as someone from a GLSA
party would have exposed his secret too
soon.
After years alone, Simon finally linked
himself to UNL’s gay community by
attending GLSA meetings in the fall. And, he
is slowly letting the rest of the world know.
Simon only recently came out of the
closet to himself. He first noticed his
homosexual feelings at about age 14, but
didn’t embrace them.
“I thought it was merely a stage that ev
eryone went through,” he said.
His attraction to the boys in school and his
natural shyness made him introverted.
Because he was introverted, his junior-high
classmates harassed him.
He retreated into books, reading and re
read ing the more than 150 novels he owned.
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Strolling through the trees
A woman enjoys the springlike weather outside Richards Hall Thursday afternoon.
Allies bomb bridges, bunkers I
DHAHRAN, Saudi Arabia (AP)
- In endless hours of air strikes,
U.S. and allied pilots rocked
Baghdad, key bridges and the bun
kers of front-line troops Thursday,
and blew two
more Iraqi “get- --
away jets” out of
the sky.
A second
veteran U.S.
battleship joined
in the bombard- i
ment of Iraqi
held Kuwait.
The pounding was having an im
pact. Returning pilots told of a devas
tated landscape in Kuwait, and jour
nalists near the border found first
hand evidence — four Iraqi soldiers
who turned themselves in muttering
over and over about the “bombing ..
. bombing ... bombing.”
But Desert Storm losses mounted,
too. A U.S. Navy FA-18 Hornet fighter
went down in the northern Persian
Gulf, apparently not from hostile fire,
and an Army helicopter crashed in
Saudi Arabia. The Navy pilot was
missing; one soldier was killed and
four were wounded in the helicopter
accident.
President Bush’s two top war
advisers — Defense Secretary Dick
Cheney and joint chiefs chairman Gen.
Colin Powell — flew to the gulf over
the weekend to confer with local
commanders on the countdown to a
ground offensive, a momentous clash
between a half-million or more men
on each side.
“Our hope is that we can wrap it up
as soon as possible, to minimize the
loss of life on all sides,’’ the defense
secretary said before he left.
Iraq launched one of its largely
ineffective Scud missiles early today
at Riyadh. Like an estimated 17 oth
ers previously fired at the Saudi capi
tal, it was intercepted by a U.S. Pa
triot missile. The wreckage landed in
a parking lot and caused no injuries or
major damage, witnesses said.
The commander of British forces
in Operation Desert Storm, Lt. Gen.
Peter de la Billierc, told reporters he
believes “the land war is inevitable.”'
A U.S. command spokesman disputed
the use of “inevitable.” But up on the
northern desert line, U.S. troops had
little doubt.
“This could get very ugly at any
moment,” one officer told a reporter
visiting the Saudi-Kuwaiti front. That
view found high-level support in
France, where President Francois
Mitterrand told reporters: “The ground
battle promises to take place ... this
month.”
In Tehran, Turkey’s foreign min
ister met with President Hashemi
Rafsanjani to discuss the Iranian
leader’s offer to mediate between Iraqi
President Saddam Hussein and the
international alliance arrayed against
him. A Soviet envoy also was to meet
with Iranian officials.
The Bush administration says there
is nothing to mediate: Saddam must
simply announce a withdrawal from .
Kuwait.
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Ancient archeological sites
in Iran are in peril, UNL profes
sor says. Page 6.
UNL track team is hoping for
a high number of qualifiers at
this weekend’s invitational meet.
Page 7.
Lied Center for Performing
Arts plans to spotlight Mel Torme.
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Wire 2
Opinion 4
Sports '
A&E 9
Classifieds 10
Downtown mall
redevelopment
plans abandoned
By Dionne Searcey
Staff Reporter
Plans to redevelop the Centrum
Shopping Center have been
leveled, Mayor Bill Harris said
Thursday.
In a letter to Steve Watson of
Centrum Partners, Harris said the city
would discontinue plans for redevel
oping the mall, located at 11th and O
streets.
Part of die $1.5 million renovadon
plan included moving back the north
wall of the Centrum to build a 2,500
square-foot, glass-enclosed plaza.
The city would have leased the
plaza for festivals.
The Lincoln Children’s Museum,
now in the Atrium, would have been
moved to the Centrum.
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