Massengale still reviewing candidates
By Wendy Navratil
Senior Reporter
Though the search for a new chan
cellor of the University of Nebraska
Lincoln is winding down, NU Presi
dent Martin Massengale will not make
the long-awaited announcement of
his choice this week.
“(Massengale) would have liked
to announce his decision by the Sept.
6 (NU Board of Regents) meeting,”
said J.B. Milliken, executive assis
tant to the chancellor. “That is a dead
line that may or may not be met.”
Massengale will appoint the chan
cellor, with final approval from the
regents.
Milliken said Massengale is ac
tively reviewing comments that have
come from the campus community
regarding the final four candidates,
each of whoitfvisited the UNL cam
pus earlier this summer.
Massengale was “quite pleased wit!
the on-campus interviews,” Milliker
said. “There was a high level of inter
est displayed by faculty, students and
staff. It is certainly useful to have thal
valuable input.”
The final candidates, who were
recommended by a search commit
tee, are: Graham Spanier, provost al
Oregon State University; Herman
Lujan, vice provost at the University
of Washington; James Coffman, pro
vost at Kansas State University; and
Albert Kamig, provost at the Univer
sity of Wyoming.
A fifth candidate, Judith L. Kui
pers, who was vice president for aca
demic affairs at California State Uni
versity at Fresno, withdrew from the
NU search after accepting the chan
cellorship at the University of Wis
consin, La Crosse.
“(Massengale) has been quite
pleased with the work of the search
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Administrative candidate search put on hold
From Staff Reports
Three senior administrative
positions at the University of
Nebraska will remain vacant until
a new chancellor settles into of
fice. '
The three open positions in
clude: assistant to the chancellor
' director erf university relations, vice
chancellor for academic affairs,
and vice chancellor for research
and dean oi graduate studies.
The search for qualified candi
dates for those three positions has
been pul on hold by Interim Chan
cellor Jack Goebel, pending the
appointment of a new chancellor
by NU President Martin Massen
gale.
“As soon as the new chancel
lor is in place, we expect that he
will act on that (search for candi
dates),” J.B. Milliken, executive
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ll chael w. Mulnix will serve as
interim assistant to the chancel
kw-dutctorof university relations.
Stanley Liberty will serve as in
terim vice chancellor for academic
: affairs and William Splinter will
serve as interim vice chancellor
for research and dean of graduate
studies.
committee in coming up with a list ol
five highly qualified individuals,”
Milliken said.
In evaluating the candidates,
Massengale and the search commit
tee members have paid particular
attention to the candidates’ positions
on minority and gender equality.
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in that regard, according to the chan
cellor’s commissions on the status of
women and minorities.
Milliken said all four candidates
are still under consideration. If the
list is narrowed, he said, one or two of
the candidates might be invited back
toUNL.
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(Massengale) will need to meet with
the candidate ... to make sure the
person is still interested, prior to making
the final recommendation to the Board
(of Regents),” Milliken said.
Millikcn said that may happen
“sometime later in September.”
Apollo 9 trade temporarily grounded
By Steve Pearson
Staff Reporter
Despite talk of a possible trade
with aKansas institution, the deterio
rating Apollo 9 space capsule on the
UNL campus may not be blasting off
any time soon.
During the summer, officials at
the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
have been considering a proposed swap
with the Kansas Cosmosphere and
Space Center. The space center would
give UNL a collection of space arti
facts in exchange for the capsule.
Although a final decision has not
been reached on the deal, UNL offi
cials say they would prefer to keep
the capsule here.
Bill Splinter, interim vice chan
cellor for research and dean of gradu
ate studies, said that Interim Chancel
lor Jack Goebel’s “interest is to keep
it here if we can find the dollars, but
we have a liule problem of money.
“At the same time, we recognize
that it is deteriorating very badly and
we need to do something,’’ he said.
UNL has been criticized for dis
playing the capsule outside Morrill
Hall, allowing it to deteriorate. The
Smithsonian Institute displays its space
capsules indoors in a climate con
trolled environment under Plexiglas.
Earlier this summer, Max Ary,
executive director of the Kansas
Cosmosphere and Space Center,
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expressed hope that UNL would agree
to the trade.
“We would hope that it would be a
' win-win situation where we could
restore the capsule and give the uni
versity something that would be more
useful to them educationally,” he said.
UNL “didn’t really have the knowl
edge or the capability to restore and
display the spacecraft,” he said. “It is
the mission of the Kansas Cosmosphere
to preserve our historic treasures of
the space program.”
Ary estimated that $400,000 is
needed to“fully and properly restore”
the capsule.
In early August, questions were
raised as to whether the capsule has
been used as intended by NASA.
Chuck Biggs, chief of the public
services branch at NASA, was in
volved in the negotiations that brought
the Apollo from NASA to UNL in
1973. He said UNL got the capsule
for two reasons: For display and for
research purposes with UNL’s engi
neering department.
“We were pleased that the vehicle
was being used in the engineering
department,” Biggs said. “That proba
bly made the difference in sending it
to UNL rather than someplace else.
We provided several missing compo
nents as they became available with
the intent that they would be rein
stalled in the command module.”
Despite the two-fold purpose of
the gift, officials in the engineering
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college said they haven t used the
Apollo for laboratory work.
“To the best of my knowledge,
we’ve never done anything with it,”
said Morris Schneider, acting dean of
the College of Engineering and Tech
nology . “I wouldn ’ t want to be quoted
as being absolutely certain, because
as far as replacing components, that
would include the electrical and
mechanical departments.”
Stan Liberty, interim vice chan
cellor for academic affairs and dean
of the College of Engineering and
Technology, and Scott Schaub, a
research assistant professor for the
Center for Electro-Optics, also said
they were unaware of the Apollo 9
being used by engineering students.
Biggs said he is disappointed with
the current condition of the Apollo 9.
“Any time a significant article from
the space program is abused, we hale
to see that. That’s why our agreement
with the Smithsonian (to give them
artifacts) is so important,” he said.
“At the time of the gift, the Smith
sonian felt the condition of the (Apollo)
command module did not warrant
restoring it to display shape. It under
went some destructive testing and the
hull was damaged. Because it was
unmanned, they felt it was not signifi
cant enough to restore.
“That was when it secmccHikc
there would be an unlimited supply of
space modules. Now there will never
beany more, manned or unmanned.”
New telephone
drop/add system
gets busy signal
From Staff Reports ’
Little progress has been made to
install a telephone drop and add sys
tem at the University of Nebraska
Lincoln, an official said.
Robert Reid, interim director of
registration and records at UNL, said
a touch-tone drop and add system
lacks the funding needed for installa
tion.
Reid said he is not certain when
funds would be available for a com
puter system necessary to install the
touch-tone system.
After meeting with their advisor to
work out their schedule, students at
campuses which have the phone sys
tem can dial a code and gain access lo
registration and financial aid records,
he said. The system would enable
students lo register at their conven
ience 24 hours a day without travel
ing to campus.
Students can call and update rec
ords every summer at UNL, Reid
said, but until a touch-tone system is
financed, students will have to regis
ter for classes in person.
Drop and add times are Aug. 27
through Aug. 30 from 8 a.m. to4 p.m.
The last day to add a ctass Is Sept. 4
from 8 a.m. tO’5 p.m.