Spanier
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tling the senior position in research
administration to vice chancellor
of research.
A separate position for dean of
graduate studies under the senior
vice chancellor for academic af
fairs needs to be created also, Spanier
said.
Spanier said he already has begun
to fill two of the new vice chancel
lor positions.
Spanier said he will delegate
more to the vice chancellors, who
he said should be given more budg
etary responsibility.
Also, Spanier said he plans to
appoint the president of the Aca
demic Senate and the president of
the Association of Students of the
University of Nebraska to affiliate
status on the chancellor’s cabinet.
Spanier said he would be at
tending student government meet
ings and meeting with student lead
ers to be more in touch with student
needs.
To improve student services,
Spanier said he is “strongly com
mitted” to installing modem stu
dent information systems.
“Standing in line is a lot of fun
if the person next to you is a poten
tial date for Saturday night, but
other than that, I can’t find any
good reason why we would want to
have students standing in line,”
Spanier said.
George Tuck, president of the
Academic Senate, said that stu
dents “need to feel really very,
very good about having a student
orientated chancellor.”
Tuck said Spanier did a good
job of addressing issues of under
represented group and said Spanier
has some good long-range plans
for the university.
Spanier’s positive approach and
approachability also will be help
ful, Tuck said.
^ An electronic mail address es
tablished by Spanier will allow
anyone in the university commu
nity to contact him directly.
Spanier also encouraged another
approach that Tuck said was usu
ally “unheard of’ for a chancellor.
“Help me out by grabbing me in
the hall, on the sidewalk, or in the
grocery store and introducing your
self,” Spanier said.
Other issues Spanier said he in
tends to give priority status include
rewarding excellent teaching, in
ternationalizing the university by
providing more study abroad and
travel opportunities for faculty and
students and improving UNL’s
student retention.
Spanier, a family sociologist,
demographer and marriage and
family therapist, is UNL’s 17th
chancellor. His appointment marks
the end of a two-year period of
transitional leadership at UNL.
Spanier was the fust in his family
to receive a college education. This,
he said, is one reason that higher
education is important to him.
“For me,” Spanier said, “educa
tion is society’s mechanism for
turning despair into hope, for rais
ing the social consciousness of the
community, for altering the course
of families, for turning poverty into
wealth and for improving the qual
ity of life.”
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Gift pledged for new theater
By Eric Snyder
Staff Reporter__
A recent monetary pledge to the
Sheldon Art Gallery will provide
funding for the construction of a 450
seat film theater, a UNL official said.
George Neubert, director of the
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, said
the gift came from Mary Ross, a long
time contributor to the Mary Riepma
Ross Film Theater.
The theater is to be constructed
north of the gallery, under the current
parking lot, he said.
Neubert said Ross ’pledge brought
about the third architectural study of
the gallery in 11 years.
Because of a lack of exhibition
and storage space, there have been
several efforts to expand the gallery,
Neubert said.
“In 1980, the (NU Board of) Re
gents acknowledged the crisis, and
gave money for the first architectural
program study,” he said.
A second study was cbnducled in
1984-85, Neubert said, but efforts to
expand Sheldon were put on the back
burner during the construction of the
Lied Center for Performing Arts. The
commitment from Ross has helped to
initiate expansion plans, Neubert said.
“The new gift of Ross has obvi
ously brought to the fore the original
need for expansion,” he said.
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The new gift of Ross
has obviously brought
to the fore the original
need for expansion.
Neubert
director of Sheldon Art Gallery
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In the first two expansion studies,
plans were drawn up for an under
ground addition west of the gallery.
The original expansion would have
provided exhibition space for travel
ing collections, as well as a research
library and storage space.
The third architectural plans will
incorporate the film theater as well.
One benefit of expanding the gal
lery would be to show more of Shel
don’s $100 million collection. Cur
rently, almost halt ot the available
space in Sheldon is reserved for trav
eling shows.
“With the west expansion desig
nated for traveling shows, the origi
nal gallery could be used to show
more of the original (Sheldon) collec
tion,” Neubert said.
The estimated cost of the expan
sion is from $6 to $8 million. If the
construction plans are approved by
the regents, the University of Ne
braska Foundation, the Nebraska Art
Association and UNL will begin rais
ing funds for the project, he said.
Neubert said that, considering the
value and quality of the Sheldon col
lection, the cost of the expansion
construction would be “small pit
tances” in the long run.
Neubert said he is encouraged
because this is the first time since
1980 that the regents have approved
the Sheldon architecture program
study.
“It’s not just something I’m talk
ing about,” Neubert said. “It’s some
thing the university administration is
talking about.”
Museum
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$4,000.
A Lancaster County district judge,
Donald Endacott, ruled in favor of the
tribe Wednesday and awarded it
$54,562.50 in attorney’s fees and
$6,455.29 in litigation costs, clerk
typist Cindy Paul said.
On Sept. 26, the society returned
the skeletal remains to the Pawnees
for reburial because of a legislative
bill passed in 1989,. The bill, LB340,
requires state agencies to return any
reasonably identifiable skeletal re
mains and burial goods to descendant
tribes for reburial.
Society Director James Hanson
declined to comment on whether or
not the society will pay the costs or
appeal. The issue will be discussed at
the society’s executive board meet
ing Nov. 13, he said.
Peregoy said he has yet to meet
with the tribe, the tribal council and
other parties to discuss the court’s
decision.
3 agronomy professors to be honored i
From Staff Reports__
Three professors of agronomy al
the University of Ncbraska-Lincoln
will be honored by the Nebraska Hall
of Agricultural Achievement at a dinner
Nov. 15.
The three are Charles Fenster of
Scottsbluff, who retired from the NU
Panhandle Research and Extension
Center in Scottsbluff, and Virgil
Johnson and John Schmidt, who were
selected lor their team ettorts in wheat
breedings at the university.
Their selection brings to 95 the I
number of persons since 1917 £) be '
honored by the organization fbreon
tributions to the state’s agricultural
industry.
Israel, Arabs
cite progress
in direct talks
MADRID, Spain (AP) — Israelis
and Palestinians on Sunday held “good,
businesslike” direct talks—their first
ever—and pledged to try to move on
to more substantive issues such as
Palestinian autonomy within a few
days.
In another milestone, hard-line Syria
overcame hesitations and opened its
one-on-one meeting with Israel late
Sunday night — the first talks be
tween the arch-foes in 43 years. A
Lebanese delegation also held sepa
rate talks with Israel.
— 44
There have been and,
as I have said, there
will be obstacles. They
have not deterred us
until now and they will
not.
Baker
U. S. Secretary of State
--— tt -
After their nearly five-hour ses
sion, the Israelis and a joint Palestin
lan-Jordanian delegation displayed an
amiable spirit, in contrast to a week of
confrontational speeches and snubs
during last week’s ceremonial open
ing phase of the historic Madrid talks.
Still to be settled is where the
substantive negotiations will be held
In a joint statement, the two sides said
they would consult about when and
where to hold substantive talks, “which
it is hoped will take place soon.”
U.S. Secretary erf State James Baker,
speaking of the site and timing of
future meetings, said: “This is an open
question.” But he told reporters the
peace conference marked a “good
beginning” to ending regional con
flict.
“There have been and, as I have
said, there will be obstacles,” Baker
said. “They have not deterred us until
now and they will not...”
After the Israeli-Palestinian talks,
the participants shook hands for pho
tographers, and the chief Israeli dele
gate, Eliakim Rubinstein, referred to
his Arab counterparts as “my friends
here.” At one point he answered a
question both in Arabic, with the word
“Inshallah,” and in Hebrew, with the
words “Mirtzeh Hashem” — both
meaning “God willing.”
The participants mingled in the
hallways outside the meeting room
during breaks, drinking coffee together
and chatting, Israeli delegates said.
And Palestinian Elias Freij, the mayor
of Bethlehem, said “there were many
light moments,” including a few jokes.
As if to underscore the high stakes,
however, PLO chief Yasser Aralat
said in Tunis: “If the negotiations do
not lead to a positive outcome, we
will continue the jihad,” or holy war.
He added that the intefadch, the Pal
estinian uprising against Israeli rule
in the occupied lands, would “go on,
wave after wave.” ..
However, Bassam Abu Sharil1,
political adviser to Arafat, called the
agreement to hold further talks “good
news” and expressed hope that they
would be in Washington or Moscow.
