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Two candidates withdraw
from chancellor’s search
to pursue other interests
By Wendy Navratil
Senior Reporter
Two of the final four candidates for UNL
chancellor have withdrawn themselves
from consideration less than two weeks
before NU President Martin Massengale hopes
to present a recommendation to the NU Board
of Regents.
Albert Kamig, provost at the University of
Wyoming, announced his withdrawal from the
search at the end of last week, said J.B. Mil
liken, executive assistant to NU President Martin
Massengale.
In addition, James Coffman, provost at Kansas
State University, indicated last Friday that he
intended to withdraw from the search, Milliken
said.
After discussions with the candidates last
week, Massengale announced Monday that
Graham Spanier, provost at Oregon State Uni
versity, and Herman Lujan, vice provost at the
University of Washington, had been invited to
Nebraska this week for additional meetings
with NU officials.
^oilman saia nis decision to withdraw was
made “simultaneously” with Masscngale’s
decision to invite Spanier and Lujan back to
Nebraska. He said that with a new school year
beginning and no decision yet made, he thought
he should withdraw and direct his attention to
his responsibilities at KSU.
“We’re back in school now, and I need to
devote myself to Kansas State. I like what I’m
doing,” Coffman said.
Kamig notified Massengale of his decision
to withdraw in a letter dated Aug. 16. He cited
the onset of a new academic year and his
responsibility to address budgetary, planning
and organizational decisions as his reasons for
withdrawing, according to a University of
Wyoming press release.
The two remaining candidates will return to
Nebraska this week to meet individually with
regents, Interim Chancellor Jack Goebel and
officials in each of the candidates’ “home
departments.”
“It’s often the practice for a new chancellor
to receive tenure and an appointment in his or
her home department,” Millikcn said. “I’m
sure they (Spanicr and Lujan) would be inter
ested in that.”
Lujan will visit Wednesday and will meet
with officials in the political science depart
ment. Spanier will visit Friday and will meet
with officials in the sociology and human
development departments.
Both will meet with NU officials and re
gents in Lincoln and in other, currently un
specified, Nebraska cities during their visits.
Millikcn said the candidates probably would
not meet with the public during the visits.
“Principally, the time will be spent meeting
with members of the board,” he said. “It will be
a pretty tight fit to get everything done. There
was an opportunity earlier for the public to
meet the candidates.”
Although all four candidates visited the
UNL campus in late July and early August, the
regents did not meet with them individually.
Massengale appoints the new chancellor,
but the Board of Regents must approve his
choice.
“I see this as an opportunity to get a feel for
who these candidates arc,” said Regent Nancy
O’Brien of Waterloo. “They come highly rec
ommended, but we haven’t met them.”
Regent RQhe£L,AlLen of Hastings said he
wanted to see if the candidates had focused on
students rather than on research, publishing
and the pursuit of grants. Those, he said, were
the three traditional criteria for promotion at
the university level.
“I want to change that around to make
teaching No. 1,” Allen said.
Regent Margaret Robinson of Norfolk noted
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High life
Workers scale the Coliseum roof Monday.
Gulf veteran relates pre-war experience
Newland returns to UNL
with new educational plans
By Lesll Thom
Staff Reporter
Eric Newland’s educational
plans were suddenly put on
hold last August with the
explosion of the crisis in the gulf.
Newland is a
senior psychol
ogy major from
Seward. But he’s
also a flight
medic with the
24th medical
unitof the Army
National Guard.
And last December, he was called to
serve in the Persian Gulf.
The crisis forced Newland to pack
up his entire life in just a few days.
“I had nonstop stuff to do. I got the
call on a Thursday night and leftafew
.days later,” he said.
Before traveling to the gulf, New
land withdrew from the university, as
aid IU» other UNL students who served
in the Persian Gulf. The people he
spoke to at the vice chancellor’s of
fice were “great,” he said.
“I wasn’t the first person they saw
that day, and they met with several
persons from my unit,” he said.
Two of his professors gave him
grades for his courses. Newland said
he will finish his incomplete classes
in the spring.
Before he left, Newland also had
to settle financial aid difficulties.
Students going to the gulf had to
defer their loans or begin paying them
off immediately after withdrawing
from school. Newland had to repay
the financial aid he received from the
Department of Veterans Affairs.
And, four days after he was acti
vated, Newland married his fiancee,
Tammy. They originally planned to
be married in July 1991 but stepped
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Kuwaitis nervous as U.S. military leaves
Kuwait city (ap) — As
the withdrawal of the last
U.S. troops approaches,
Kuwaitis are increasingly nervous
about their nation’s security with
Saddam Hussein still in power in
Iraq.
Disagreements between Persian
Gulf states have blocked efforts to
fashion a domestic and regional
military network. Meanwhile, the
3,700-mcmber 11th Armored
Cavalry Regiment is scheduled to
begin leaving the emirate Sept. 1.
“You have to remember that
Kuwait was traumatized by the Iraqi
invasion," said Khalifaal-Karafi, a
member of the advisory National
Council. “People remain very
worried about Saddam."
After Iraqi troops invaded Kuwait
on Aug. 2,1990, Kuwait’s 20,300
member military crumbled. A bor
der buffer zone is now patrolled by
U.N. units and Kuwaiti police, but
there are reports of Iraqis crossing
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the border to salvage or smuggle
weapons.
Anxiety peaked last week dur
ing the Soviet coup. Banks were
besieged by Kuwaitis Tearful that
Soviet hard-liners backing Saddam
• would replace Mikhail Gorbachev,
who supported the allied forces
that ousted Iraq from Kuwait in
February.
“We couldn't keep up with the
demand for dollars,” said a Kuwait
City money changer, speaking on
condition of anonymity. ‘‘People
thought that with Gorbachev gone,
the hard-liners would cozy up to
Saddam and he would come to Ku
wait again.”
On Thursday — the day after
Gorbachev regained control of the
Kremlin — some members of Ku
wait’s advisory council proposed
negotiating 10-year military base
agreements with the United States
and Great Britain. Both countries
rejected the idea, saying they do
not in lend to maintain ground lorces
in Kuwait.
Western diplomats and military
officials acknowledge that Iraq has
not given up its long-standing claim
to this oil-rich emirate.
But they also believe Kuwait
has not taken all steps available to
protect itself or reassure the public.
As envisioned by the West, Ku
wait is to have a four-tier “security
blanket” — a strong local army, a
backup regional force, U.N. ob
servers on the border and U.S. ships
in the Persian Gulf.
Yet Kuwait’s Defense Ministry
has struggled to decide how to
rebuild the nation’s 16,000-man
army, whose ranks were depleted
with the departure of many non
Kuwaiti soldiers.
And attempts to put together a
regional security force have failed
amid bickering over its size and
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