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NU, president
protected by
evaluation deal
By Tabitha Hiner
Senior Reporter
NU President Martin Massengale’s evalu
ation package is as good a protection for
the president and university as depar
ture clauses that other presidents have in their
contracts, according to some NU regents.
NU Board of Regents Chairman Don Blank
of McCook said the University of Nebraska
president has a three-year contract with yearly
evaluations and the possibility of one-year
extensions after the contract is finished.
Other universities have included such things
as severance arrangements and awards of ten
ure status in their hiring contracts for presi
dents, according to an April 10 article in The
Chronicle of Higher Education.
But because Massengale has tenure, he would
be protected if he were to quit or be fired, Blank
said.
NU is protected by Massengale’s short-term
contract and yearly extensions, Blank said.
“The annual evaluations, if done properly, I
think are going to be able to pick up any
potential problems,” he said.
The yearly evaluations, which the regents
will perform, will look at past behavior as well
as future expectations, Blank said.
Omaha Regent Nancy O’Brien, who is in
charge of the committee creating the evalu
ations, said the committee has yet to decide
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We had an informal. . .
evaluation system that was
handled only by a minority of
the board. I think we’ve recti
fled that. Blank
. Chairman NU Regents
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‘ Sen. Bob Wickersham and Sen. Jbyce Hillman look over a photo copy of the Daily Nebraskan’s joke issue and a letter
sent to each senator bv the Dailv Nebraskan durina Thursday’s session of the Nebraska Legislature. *
Senator to push for distribution of DN
By Dionne Searcey
Staff Reporter __
The Daily Nebraskan will regain distribu
tion rights at the State Capitol if one
senator has his way.
Sen. Rex Haberman of Imperial said he
plans to introduce a resolution on Wednesday
that will allow distribution of the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln student newspaper at the
State Capitol.
On Wednesday, Larry Primeau, director of
the Department of Administrative Services,
halted distribution of the Daily Nebraskan and
the University of Nebraska at Omaha’s paper,
The Gateway, at Capitol information stands.
Although Primeau said Monday’s joke sup
plement in the Daily Nebraskan prompted him
to consider the publications offered at informa
tion stands, he said the decision to limit distri
bution was not made because of the joke issue.
Instead, he said he wanted to limit the number
of publications at the stands to keep them for
their informational purpose.
Haberman said he disagrees with halting
distribution of the paper. Primeau does not
have “the authority to do what he did,” Haber
man said.
“I don’t especially care for the Daily Ne
braskan joke supplement and/or the language
used within it,” he said. “But I disagree very
strongly with the banning of distribution of it in
the State Capitol.” i
Haberman said he plans to give copies of the
joke issue to every senator to draw to the
attention of other senators the language used in
this publication.” He said he wants senators to
be familiar with the issue before they act on a
resolution.
Haberman said he thinks senators will pass
the resolution.
“*’ve been here,long enough and I can
usually tell which resolutions will pass,” he
said.
Haberman requested that issues of the Daily
Nebraskan be brought to him so senators have
access to them until the resolution is consid
ered.
“1*11 personally see that they’re put in every
senator’s mailbox.”
what will be evaluated, how the evaluations
will occur and what time of the year they will
be done. \\
The creation process probably will begin in
June or July, she said. x
Blank said formal presidential evaluations
have not been done in the past.
“We had an informal... evaluation system
that was handled only by a minority of the
board,” he said. “I think we’ve rectified that.”
O’Brien and Norfolk Regent Margaret
Robinson agreed that NU’s method of evalu
ation is as good as formal clauses.,
“I am very comfortable with the contract we
have with Mr. Massengale and I feel that it is a
good way of doing things,” Robinson said.
While departure clauses could be placed in
the University of Nebraska-Lincoln chancel
lor’s contract, Richard Wood, NU vice-presi
dent and general counsel, said that decision
will be made after a candidate is selected.
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The Husker
women’s soft
ball team be
gins Big Eight
tournament
Page 6.
A chemical plant explosion in
Louisiana kills eight people, in
jures 120. Page 2.
UNL follows a good neighbor
policy. Page 3.
Part of Bush’s ‘‘new’’ plan for
education is 50 years old, a UNL
professor says. Page 5.
The Blues Brothers rack up
another success in Lincoln. Page
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Classifieds
Professor
trades music
ifor Spanish
By Wendy Navratil
Staff Reporter
Horacio Xaubet never envisioned
himself as an assistant profes
sor of Spanish at the Univer
sity of Nebraska-Lincoln as he ar
rived in San Francisco in September
of 1967, a teen-aged, lower-middle
class Uruguayan immigrant.
And teaching Spanish was not the
only thing he didn’t anticipate.
“The high school I went to was on
the comer of Haight-Ashbury. I was
in the midst of it all — the whole
hippie scene. But I was lucky enough
not to participate in the drug part.
What saved me was music.”
Xaubet, with dreams of becoming
a conductor, was admitted to the San
See XAUBET on 3
Xaubet Robin Trimarchi/Dalty Nebraskan
