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- : mr ^ar- ^_ ^_Uaiiv — NebraskaN_ -,---—------ « Michael Welxei/Daiiy NaDrasxan Search nears end Officials await naming of chancellor By Dionne Searcey Senior Editor NU officials are anxious for a UNL chancellor to be named, but the time table is up to President Martin Mas scngalc, liic Board of Regents chair man said. Regent Don B lank of McCook said he would be surprised if a new chan cellor wasn’t named by September, but the timing depends on Masscn gale. Joe Row son, University of Nebraska director of public affairs, said a chan cellor probably will be named at the start of the fall semester. Masscngalc is in charge of ap pointing the chancellor, but the selec tion must be approved by the NU Board of Regents. Blank said the candidates also are probably anxious to find out who will be designated as chancellor. “The candidates don’t like to be hanging out either,” he said. Five candidates’ names have been forwarded to Masscngalc, Blank said, and he needs to “move as quickly as possible” to appoint a chancellor. “You always want it done yester day,” Blank said. “But it’s a very important position,” and the selec tion should be made carefully, he said. Blank said a chancellor needs to be named soon because the searches for some administrators, such as di rector of university relations and vice chancellor for academic affairs, have been put on hold until a chancellor is appointed. “The whole campus is in an in terim mind-set,” he said. Blank said that once the candi dates have been named, the process will go quickly as they visit the UNL campus and arc interviewed. Rowson said Massengale may not invite all five of the candidates to visit the University of Ncbraska-Lin coln campus. Massengale is expected to name the finalists in two to three weeks. Devaney unsatisfied with regents’ decision for 1993 retirement By Dionne Searcey Senior Editor Bob Devancy has had many great moments in his 24 years as Nebraska athletic director, but he said his worst moment came Satur day when the NU Board of Regents announced his 1993 retirement. Even disappointing football losses such as the 1984 Orange Bowl, when NU was beaten by Miami, only come close to Devancy’s worst experience as athletic director. “I guess as bad of a moment as any is when the regents made this deci sion,” he said. The NU regents will begin a search for a new athletic director in April 1992. Dcvancy said NU football coach Tom Osborne would be a good choice to replace him, but that Osborne wants to continue coaching. Osborne was unavailable for comment. Devancy said “things have gone good” in athletics since he’s been at Nebraska. When he arrived at UNL to coach football in 1962, Devancy’s goal was to “gel the NU team back into con ten lion in the Big Eight.” Dcvancy said UNL athletic pro grams except for football were poor when he became athletic director. “I tried to gel the programs going to be good,” he said. Currently, Dcvancy said, UNL has the best athletic facility in the Big Eight, and the football stadium has doubled in size since he became di r . iWiin.iii I Devaney rector in 1967. Dcvancy also is proud of helping UNL gain cigarette lax money from the state to build the $12 million Bob Dcvancy Sports Center. But his best moments as athletic director came in 1970 and 1971 when the Big Red football team won two national championships, he said. Dcvancy'said he was disappointed when the regents announced his re tirement. He said he could stay on at UNLasa lund-raiscr, but that doesn’t compare to being athletic director. “I’m not satisfied.... I told them I wanted to work a couple more years. ... I’m not happy. . . . It’s not very fair.” Rhino may be saved from museum extinction By Steve Pearson Staff Reporter Only five weeks ago, Morrill Hall’s model of an 18-foot-tall, prehistoric rhinoceros was facing extinction. Now University of Nebraska-Lincoln officials may have worked out an emergency breeding plan, of sorts. University officials are negotiating with seven other museums to make fiberglass reproduc tions of the model, according to Bill Splinter, interim vice chancellor for research and dean of graduate studies. The model was placed on the surplus prop erty list five weeks ago because its skin is 65 70 percent asbestos and some consider it incon sistent with the theme of Elephant Hall. Three weeks later, all action on the model was placed on hold. Splinter stressed that discussions on reproducing the baluchithere are still in the -44 It (the rhino story) got into the national press somehow. Since then, people have been calling from all over creation. —Splinter interim vice chancellor for research preliminary stages. “Everything is purely tentative," he said. “We’re still contacting several companies to sec how much it will cost. No one has agreed to anything yet.” The plan under discussion is for the inter ested museums to help finance a mold of the model in exchange for a fiberglass copy of the baluchilhere. Morrill Hall would keep one of the fiberglass models. Splinter said. The interested museums include the Frank H. McClung Museum at the University of Tennessee, the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, the Natural History Museum in Los Angeles, the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, the National Zoo logical Park in Washington, the Wyo-Braska Museum of Natural History in Gcring and the Olympic Cultural Center in Seoul, South Ko rea. Splinter said university officials contacted some museums, but some of the museums contacted the university. “It (the rhino story) got into the national press somehow,” he said. “Since then, people have been calling from all over creation.” Bertrand Schultz, former Morrill Hall direc tor and current director of the Nebraska Acad emy of Sciences, said the model can be saved without the duplication process. “We should just keep it,” Schultz said. “It just needs to be impregnated with some mate rial, and it can last forever. The asbestos prob lem is a farce.” Schultz is pushing Morrill Hall to keep the rhino and move forward with a Hall of Giants concept. According to Schultz, Morrill Hall has the world’s tallest giraffe, the world’s larg est rhino, the world’s largest mammoth and the world’s largest boar. Splinter has said the Hall of Giants proposal is being looked at, but that there isn’t any funding at this time.
