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Former peers recall collegiate Kerrey
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By Jeremy Fitzpatrick
Senior Reporter
Ray Lambert says it is difficult
to remember the details of 25
years ago.
“We were very young,” he says.
“We were all very young.”
Lambert was a classmate of pos
sible presidential hopeful Sen. Bob
Kerrey, D-Neb., at the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln between 1962 and
1966. Kerrey is scheduled to announce
his presidential intentions today at 10
a.m. on Centennial V|all between P
and Q streets.
Lambert now works as a pharma
cist in Fort Collins, Colo., and re
members Kerrey as friendly and in
telligent.
“Bob was an outgoing, personable
guy,” he says. “He had everything
going for him. He was positive, per
sonable and sociable.”
Kerrey was also driven and goal
oriented, he says.
“He wasn’t afraid of anybody. He
was going to conquer the world.”
He remembers Kerrey’s confidence.
“If he had a goal,” he says, “he
made up his mind and did it.
“He didn’t let anything slop him.”
Desmond Gibson was dean of
UNL’s college of pharmacy between
1961 and 1972. He is now retired and
lives in Lincoln.
He says Kerrey was “a very intel
ligent young man.”
“School seemed easy for him,” he
says. “He wasn’t really someone who
had to study.”
Kerrey has a great deal of natural
ability, he says.
“Bob was the kind of kid that just
about any thing he did he was success
ful at,” Gibson said. “Inherently, he
had a drive that was somewhat un
characteristic for someone his age.”
Gibson remembers Kerrey most
for an event that happened after he
had graduated.
“After Vietnam, he came into my
office one day,” he says. “We visited
for about two hours.
“I remember our discussions were
somewhat philosophical — not po
litical. We talked about life and the
experience he had had — how he had
grown up in a sense. The experience
(in Vietnam) broadened him quite a
bit.”
Gibson says he was impressed with
Kerrey before he became a governor
or senator.
“He was just a nice young man,”
he says.
Rick Harley was another pharmacy
classmate of Kerrey’s. Now a doctor
living in Lincoln, Harley says he and
Kerrey were friends as well.
“Bob was always what 1 would
characterize as active in a wide vari
ety of things,” he says. “He was a
leader even then.”
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Letter highlights
possible cuts
to women staff
By Adeana Leftin
Senior Reporter
Members of the UNL Faculty Women’s
Caucus don’t want to see any faculty
lose their jobs because of budget cuts,
but they are particularly concerned for the 12
women who would be fired, they wrote in a
letter to university officials.
Ellen Baird, associate professor of art his
tory and co-chairwoman of
the Faculty Women’s Cau
cus, said the main focus of
the caucus is to assure that
. the Budget Reduction Re
view Committee considers
gender equity impact when
deciding where cuts should be made.
The BRRC was formed in response to last
spring’s Nebraska Legislature mandate that
requires the University of Ncbraska-Lincoln to
cut 2 percent from this year’s budget and 1
percent from next year’s budget.
The Chanccllor’sCommission on the Status
of Women reported that in 1990, only 16 per
cent of UNL faculty were women. At UNL’s
peer institutions the average was 18 percent. At
Michigan State University 27 percent of the
faculty arc women, and 26 percent of the fac
ulty arc women at the University of Wisconsin.
It the proposed budgeicuts arc approved, 25
currently filled faculty positions would be elimi
nated, and 48 percent of those positions arc
held by women.
Baird said the number of women faculty at
UNL was disproportionate to the number of
men, and elimination of 12 women would
make the gap even larger.
But, she said, “We certainly are not against
men in any case.”
The cuts have come at a lime when the NU
Board of Regents has gone on record as saying
they want more women faculty at the univer
sity, Baird said.
In the letter, members of the caucus said
they applauded the efforts of the regents but
they feared the cuts would have a negative
impact by reducing the number of women
faculty.
“All students need role models of both sexes
and all races,” she said, “because that’s who
they’ll be working with in the real world. It’s an
important aspcci of the learning process.”
Huskers battle penalties, heat and
itself for win Saturday. Page 10.
On the 36th reunion of his death,
James Dean still legend and icon. Page
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Opinion ‘ 4
Sports 10
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Marine Capt. Alex Ford stands near his AV-8B Harrier II. Ford, a UNL graduate in business administration,
participated in the 45th Nebraska Air National Guard air show this weekend.
Oil we go ...
UNL graduate takes to wild blue yonder for air show
By Alan Phelps
Senior Editor
A fighter jet screamed low overhead.
Marine Capt. Alex Ford covered
his ears as it flew past and then
resumed his inspection of the runway.
“In a hover, loose material could gel
kicked up into the intake,” Ford said. In
about an hour, he would be piloting an
AV-8B Harrier fighter plane over the area
to practice for the air show at the Ne
braska Air National Guard base in
Lincoln.
Guard members drove Ford out to the
runway in a pickup so he could look for
cracks in the surface and loose chunks of
asphalt. After examining a few thousand
feet of the relatively new concrete of the
main runway, Ford was satisfied.
“All right,” he said. ‘Tve seen
enough.”
Ford graduated from the University of
Ncbraska-Lincoln in 1983 with a business
administration degree. While at UNL, the
graduate of St. Paul High School was a
member of Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity
and the yell squad.
Because he was also enrolled in ihc
Marine Corps platoon leaders program,
upon graduation from the university he
received a second lieutenant commission
and went to Pensacola, Fla., to learn how
to fly the Harrier.
“There’s nothing like it anywhere. It’s
a phenomenal airplane,’’ he said.
Ford said the Harrier has one large en
gine that spits out exhaust through four
rotating nozzles. These nozzles allow the
airflow from the engine to be pointed in any
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More artifacts in contention
Itskari Indian remains finally laid to rest
By Wendy Mott
Staff Reporter
Prehistoric skeletal remains of the Itskari
Indians finally were given a traditional
Pawnee burial Friday, an American
Indian spokesman said.
Bob Peregoy, staff attorney for the Native
American Rights Fund, said 40 boxes contain
ing Itskari bones and burial goods were re
turned to the tribe Thursday after a lengthy
ownership dispute between the tribe and the
Nebraska State Historical Society.
The Ilskari were a prehistoricplains Indian
tribe. Peregoy said the Pawnee tribe of Okla
homa asked the society for the remains in
March 1988 but the society was unwilling to
return them.
“They forced us to go to legislative action,”
Peregoy said, referring to the 1989 Unmarked
Burial Sites and Skeletal Remains Protection
Act, or LB340, that he said requires state
agencies to return any reasonably identifiable
skeletal remains and burial goods to descen
dant tribes for reburial.
Peregoy said the liskari remains dispute was
“the main motivating factor behind the enact
ing of LB340.’’
Lynne Ireland, director of the society’s
Museum of Nebraska History, said the dispute
arose in part because the Pawnee have no
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