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Fighting words
Sophomore Joe Mandolfo, a business major, argues Christian beliefs with Bob Bossung, a member of the Living
Farth Church in Omaha, at Broyhill Plaza Monday afternoon.
_NEWS BRIEFS_
Reception will honor student leaders
More than 2(X) students and their
guests will attend the first Chan
cellor’s Leadership Recognition
Reception today at 6:30 p.m. in the
Wick Alumni Center.
The reception, “Celebrating
Leadership,” will honor and recog
nize student leaders who have shown
commitment to students and the
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
community during the 1990-91 aca
demic year.
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] UNL freshman
stabbed in fight
outside nightclub
From Staff Reports
A street fight outside a Lincoln nightclub
early Sunday left a University of Nebraska
Lincoln student with stab wounds and another
man injured, a Lincoln police officer said.
Lt. Lee Wagner said UNL freshman Saluhu
Issaka was stabbed by an unidentified assailant
during the fight. Issaka was treated and re
leased by Lincoln General Hospital Sunday
morning.
Lincoln resident Edward Stewart suffered a
cut to the mouth in the incident, Wagner said
He said the fight took place about 3:30 a.m.
outside Connections, a nightclub at 826 P St.
Wagner said about 150 people were in
volved in the altercation, which began with a
fight between two women inside the bar.
“When that fight was broken up, many
people exited the building and fights started
outside,” he said.
Wagner said police don’t know what started
the fight.
The police issued citations to five people.
The citations ranged from disturbing the peace
by fighting, to resisting arrest and failing to
disperse.
Wagner said no one was arrested for stab
bing Issaka, but “there are a lot of names of
people that we arc trying to run down.”
UNL deans satisfied
Accreditation studied
By Michael Hannon
Staff Reporter
National accrediting bodies that
monitor the quality of higher educa
tion programs are facing nationwide
scrutiny of their standards, but UNL
college deans gave their reviewing
boards a passing grade.
James O’Hanlon, Teachers Col
lege dean, said the National Council
for Accreditation of Teacher Educa
tion is considering making its stan
dards more stringent to remove medi
ocre programs.
He said the change has been called
for by some schools that are unhappy
about the accreditation of mediocre
schools.
The Department of Education
National Advisory Committee on
Accreditation and Institutional Eligi
bility, which monitors accrediting
bodies, has discussed new standards,
according to an article in The Chron
icle of Higher Education. The stan
dards deal with the treatment of mi
nority students and faculty members,
and with overall tightening to remove
accreditation from less-worthy schools.
O’Hanlon said the committee re
quirements for teachers colleges in
clude preparing teachers to work with
various cultural groups and to attract
minority faculty members and stu
dents.
“I think the new standards are
excellent,” O’Hanlon said, but there
is a problem with the documentation
required for accreditation — its vol
ume.
O’Hanlon said the University of
Ncbraska-Lincoln Teachers College
currently is submitting a report for
accreditation. The first half of the
report weighed 43 pounds, with the
remainder expected to weigh slightly
less, he said.
Accreditation also weighs heavily
on the minds of engineering school
administrators, the dean of UNL’s
College of Engineering and Technol
ogy said.
The accreditation process is tough,
and UNL’s engineering program is
one of only 40 percent of schools
nationwide that are fully accredited,
acting Associate Dean Dennis Schulte
said.
An accreditation board review in
1987 found that UNL’s engineering
college lacked adequate equipment
in some undergraduate labs. To col
lect enough funds to pay for equip
ment replacement, the college assessed
a one-time tuition surcharge for stu
dents in the program.
Schulte said accreditation forces a
college to look at itself and push for
excellence.
The College of Engineering and
Technology, reviewed by the Accredi
tation Board for Engineering and
Technology, “thinks very highly of
the accreditation process,” Schulte
said.
College of Architecture faculty
members also arc satisfied with its
accreditation board and think it is
fair, said Joseph Luther, assistant dean.
He said the accreditation process
helps produce action from adminis
trators who realize they must con
form to standards or lose accredita
tion.
Luther said the National Architec
tural Accrediting Board that reviews
the College of Architecture encour
ages the recruitment of greater num
bers of women and minorities.
The Accrediting Council on Edu
cation in Journalism and Mass Com
munication, which reviews UNL’s
College of Journalism, also places
heavy emphasis on cultural diversity,
said Will Norton, the college dean.
Norton said the idea is to instill
cultural diversity in the newsroom,
which requires cultural diversity in
schools of journalism.
Wednesday
66th & O' Complimentary ,
TEX MEX WINGS pmllpm
Science, theology
astronomer’s topic
From Staff Reports
A senior astronomer at the Smith
soman Astrophysical Observatory and
professor of astrophysics and the his
tory of science at Harvard University
will speak at UNL Wednesday and
Thursday.
Owen Gingerich will address “Let
There Be Light: Modern Cosmology
and Biblical Creation” in 211 Brace
Laboratory at 8 p.m. Wednesday.
“What Does Science Say to the
Church?” is the subject for an infor
mal forum in the Nebraska Union at 9
a.m. Thursday.
At 11:30 a.m. Thursday, Ginger
ich will join “Theology for Lunch’’ in
the Union.
A physics colloquium will look at
“Circle of the Gods: Copernicus,
Kepler and the Ellipse” at 4 p.m.
Thursday in 211 Brace Lab.
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