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Chancellor’s
experiences
diverse
Spanier reflects on road
that brought him to UNL
By Wendy Navratil
Senior Reporter
rn the midst of a trip filled with official
meetings, Graham Spanier took time out
on his 20th wedding anniversary to reflect
on the experiences that preceded his appoint
ment as UNL chancellor.
Spanier, who will take over the position
Nov. 1, was in Lincoln Monday through Wednes
day. He returned to Oregon late Wednesday
just in time to celebrate the tail end of his
anniversary with his wife, Sandra Whipple
Spanier.
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State and the Slate University of New York to
Oregon State, and now to the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln. Through it all, his wife has
been supportive, he said.
“We don’t have a traditional relationship,
though, in that she is a very talented profes
sional in her own right. She is really a brilliant
woman,” Spanier said.
Sandra Spanier is an associate professor of
English at Oregon State and is one of a small
number of women who are Hemingway Schol
ars, Spanier said.
“We’ve been in a mode of supporting each
other’s career,” he said. “Unfortunately, she
probably tends to get the short end of the deal
more often because of the complexities of
hiring people into senior administrative posi
tions.”
Spanier, a professor of sociology and hu
man development and the family, said the
timing of his families’ move to Nebraska is
good for their children.
Their daughter, Hadley, 7, who is named
after Ernest Hemingway’s r‘first and best wife,”
Spanier said, is still young enough to see things
through her parents.
While it will be more difficult for their son,
Brian, 10, to leave his friends, bom he and
Hadley will have enough time left in school to
develop friendships and adjust, he said.
Spanier said he didn’t know if Lincoln
would be the end of the line for his family
because of the volatility in higher education
administration. But Spanier said he valued the
opportunity to “plant some roots.”
Spanier said his interest in higher education
developed early. In fact, Spanier began saving
for college when he was only a child, he said.
“1 knew early on in life that if I wanted logo
to college, I would have to do it on my own. I
was the first person in my family ever to set
foot on a college campus,” he said.
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New UNL Chancellor and Vice President Graham Spanier
Rhino’s days are numbered; replica planned
By Tom Mainelli
Staff Reporter
he University of Nebraska State
Museum’s resident baluchith
ere is about to join its ances
tors in extinction.
The 18-foot-tall giant, a fixture in
Elephant Hall for 21 years, must be
removed and destroyed because it is
70 percent asbestos and beginning to
deteriorate, said Museum Director
Hugh Genoways.
But before it is dismantled, the
life-size model of a prehistoric rhi
noceros will be replicated.
Last week, Bill Splinter, UNL in
terim vice chancellor for research,
signed an agreement with Wyobraska
Museum in Gering allowing them to
replicate the model.
The Wyobraska staff already has
begun work, measuring and videotap
ing the model. They plan to recreate it
in Gering, building a plywood frame
wrapped in Styrofoam and fiberglass.
The original replication plan in
volved making a mold of the original,
but asbestos prevented that.
“They would have had a better
reproduction with the mold,” Splinter
said. “But the asbestos created a whole
sequence of government agencies to
go through.”
Working through all the agencies,
which included the Department of
Environmental Control, would mean
a bureaucratic mess and probably a
long wail, Splinter said.
Wyobraska Museum was chosen
to replicate the model over other inter
ested museums for several reasons,
Genoways said.
“I think they were the most ag
gressive,” he said. “Also, it was an
opportunity to keep it in the state.”
Genoways said Wyobraska also
was willing to meet the museum’s
terms of agreement, one of which
states that the university is able to
have a copy of the replica.
However, there are no plans to
make such a request because of space
limitations, Gcnoways said. If the Hall
of Giants, for which the baluchitherc
was originally created, was ever con
structed, the museum would accept a
replica.
Until then, the days of the balu
chitherc arc numbered at UNL.
Gcnoways said he had mixed emo
tions about the model’s fate.
“It’s a great pioce,” Gcnoways said,
“but I must look at public and staff
safety.”
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Opinion 4
Sports 8
A&E 11
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Home economics, arts college threatened
Students, faculty say
home economics cuts
are ‘disproportionate’
By Jeremy Fitzpatrick
Senior Reporter •
If Julie Johnson loses her job, she will have
to give up her career as a college professor
or leave the city where she has lived for
the past 14 years to try and find a job at another
university.
Johnson, an associate professor of consumer
science and education at the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln, is one of
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uvumu i £|ome Economics whose
jobs would be eliminated in
, UNL’s proposed budget cut
backs. She has taughtat UNL
_ few 11 years.
“It would cut our income
in half if I lost my job,” she said. “It’s really
difficult because my husband has a job here in
the community.”
“I might have to leave and search for an
other position, and we would have a commuter
marriage for a while.” [
The cuts are in response to-a Nebraska
Legislature mandate that UNL cut 2 percent
from its budget this year and 1 percent from its
budget next year. Under the proposed cuts
presented to the Budget Reduction Review
Committee Monday, the college would lose
$417,600 in funding this year.
The home economics education, gerontol
ogy, pre-school assessment and hospitality
management programs would be eliminated.
Karen Craig, dean of the college, said she
was upset about the proposed cuts.
“I was angry about what I perceived to be a
disproportionate cut for home economics,” she
said.
Craig said 17.6 percent of the college’s
budget would be cut by the proposals. The
College of Engineering and Technology would
suffer only a 1.6 percent cut from their budget,
she said.
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Home Economics
reductions
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I Management: $90,000
‘ ' 0H ‘Combine Consumer
hfmUm Science and Human
Development and the
JJH Family: $39,200
* -jj ‘Eliminate Gerontology:
1 $83,400
‘Eliminate Pre-school
* ,• I Assessment: $43,200
‘Eliminate Home
Economics Education:
| ' I $161,800
jSaBI TOTAL: $417,600
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Despite funding cut,
proposed arts college
is alive, official says
By Jeremy Fitzpatrick
Senior Reporter
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s pro
posed College of Fine and Performing
Aits, reported dead after Monday's budget
proposals, is in stable condition, an official
said.
Larry Lusk, assoc ialc dean of the College of
Arts and Sciences, said
Thursday that reports that
the college had been elimi
nated were inaccurate.
Lusk, chairman of the
committee that drafted the
proposed college’s mission
statement, said that the pro
posed college’s funding had beencutin UNL’s
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