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Search nears final stage;
Massengale to narrow field,
invite back top candidates
By Eric Snyder
Staff Reporter
The search for University of Ne
braska-Lincoln chancellor is
nearing an end, with NU Presi
dent Martin Massengale inviting one
or two candidates back to campus as
early as next week, officials said.
Deanna Eversoll, secretary of the
Academic Senate, said the search
process is currently in a “holding
pattern” until Massengale makes an
announcement, but that she expects
him to offer invitations to finalists
soon.
J.B. Milliken, executive assistant
to Massengale, said only one candi
date may be asked to return.
“If he (Massengale) would invite
one candidate, the implication would
be that that candidate would be the
top prospect,” he said.
Massengale will select the chan
cellor, with approval required by the
NU Board of Regents.
Regents Chairman Dcyi Blank of
McCook said the regents have made
no organized attempt to contact the
four final candidates, but that they
have received biographies of each.
Blank said that for many of the
regents, and for Massengale, the pro
cedure of appointing a chancellor is a
first experience.
“There is no road map to help
determine a time line for the proc
ess,” he said. The pace of the decision
will be “whatever Dr. Massengale is
comfortable with.”
Blank described the search proc
ess so far as having been “excellent.”
A major factor throughout the se
lection process has been the stance of
each candidate on the subject of
minority and gender equality.
The finalists who earned the high
est marks from the chancellor’s
commissions on the status of women
and minorities were Graham Spanier,
provost at Oregon State University,
and Herman Lujan, vice provost at
the University of Washington, mem
bers of those commissions said.
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U.S. District Court decision
fails to define tenure rights
From Staff Reports
A recent U.S. District Court de
cision left unresolved the issue
of whether tenured faculty
members have rights beyond perma
nent employment.
“I find it unnecessary to address
the arguments made concerning the
nature of tenure and its relation to
voting rights,” District Court Judge
Warren Urbom wrote in the decision,
which was handed down Friday.
The judge ruled for the university
in the case, against Bruce Erlich, an
associate professor of English and
modem languages. Urbom said the
modem languagesdepartmentdid not
deny Erlich due process when it voted
to deny him voting privileges, leav
ing up in the air the larger issue of
tenure rights.
Erlich has a one-third appointment
in modem languages and a two-thirds
appointment with the English depart
ment. The modem languages faculty
voted in November 1988 to deny voting
privileges to those members with less
than half-time appointments. Erlich
was the only faculty member affected.
The defendants in the case, the NU
Board of Regents, argued that faculty
participation rights within a depart
ment are not part of tenure rights, but
arc governed by the department.
UNL Academic Senate Secretary
Deanna Eversoll said the faculty
organization has taken no official
position on whether tenure includes
more than employment rights.
The Erlich case probably “wouldn’t
have gone to that level (District Court)
unless there was an unclear line to be
defined,” Eversoll said.
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Official says UNL libraries space shortage ‘critical
By Steve Pearson
Staff Reporter
Space shortages in Love Library and the
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery have
reached crisis proportions, officials said.
George Neubert, director of the Sheldon Art
Gallery, said Sheldon has had a space problem
for quite some time.
“In 1980, the university and the Board of
Regents conducted a study that declared a
crisis and a need for expansion at Sheldon,” he
said. “The collections have grown significantly
since then. If it was a crisis in 1980, I don’t
know what you call it in 1991, worse.”
Kent Hendrickson, dean of university li- *
braries, called the situation at Love Library
“fairly critical.”
“We are already short on study space,” he
said. “In another five years, we will have a
problem with shelving space.”
Neubert said the current situation is danger
ous for the collection and for educational op
portunities.
“We are storing in areas that were not de
signed for storage. Most museums store in
areas that arc called non-sprinkling areas. We
are storing in areas with sprinklers and cannot
turn the sprinklers off because of fire codes,”
he said.
“We are storing a substantial portion of the
permanent collection. Because of how crowded
it is, it’s not available for students.”
Hendrickson said educational opportunities
would be lost if Love Library expansion is not
completed within five years.
“If the expansion is not complete by then,
some of the collection will need to go into
storage and more study areas will need to be
converted into shelving,” he said.
Both Ncubcrt and Hendrickson said more
space is the only viable solution to their prob
lems.
The Sheldon expansion currently planned
will address several pressing needs at the gal
lery, Ncubcrt said.
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