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Photojournalism professional lecturer Julia Dean sits with a medium-format camera at her studio in her Lincoln
home. Dean said the camera was special to her because she received it in memory of a close friend who died last
year.
Picture of a free spirit
Adventurous photographer develops into UNL instructor
By Wendy Mott
| Senior Editor
Behind Julia Dean’s facade of a mild
mannered university instructor lurks
an adventurer with a streak of bra
vado that leads her headlong into whatever
she docs.
“I have this brave, foolish streak in me,”
MDcan said. “I’m so curi
ous that sometimes I do
things and lake chances
that I shouldn’t”
Dean, a professional
lecturer of photojouma
lism at the University of
i ■■ Nebraska-Lincoln, said
she was not motivated by money or power.
Instead, she is driven by her love of adven
ture and what she called an “uncontrollable
wandcrlusL”
Despite the pervasive yuppie attitudes of
most of the 1980’s generation, Dean said
she preferred moving around to moving up
the corporate ladder.
While her “free spirit” attitude has been
exciting, Dean said, it hasn’t done much for
her financially. That’s a price she said she
was willing to pay.
“I’d rather be less comfy and be right in
the middle of my life than behind a desk and
hating what I’m doing,” she said.
Dean’s career path has been a winding
one, taking her across the country. But from
her first camera in her hometown of Broken
Bow to a position as photo editor for The
Associated Press in New York, she said one
thing has remained constant— the pictures.
She always loved taking pictures, she
said, but never thought about it as a career
until a childhood friend told her about the
photography classes at UNL.
“I decided right then that I was going to
UNL and taking a photography class,” she
said*
From that beginning class, she moved on
to major in photography at the Rochester
Institute of Technology in Rochester, N.Y.
She then worked for a year as an apprentice
to master photographer Berenice Abbott.
Dean said working with someone like
Abbott, a woman with world-renowned ability
and a lifetime of experience, helped shape
the person she was becoming.
After her apprenticeship, Dean worked
as an AP clerk during the 1980 Olympics. It
was there that she made the connections
which eventually helped get her the job as a
photo editor in New York.
But Dean said life in the Big Apple
wasn’t all it was cracked up to be.
“I was very poor, and I figured out that I
was not meant to si t behind a desk the rest of
my life.”
She said she knew she had to gel out, but
wasn’t sure where she wanted to go next.
Fate stepped in — as has happened through
out her life— and Dean found herself back
at UNL, this time as an instructor.
She then discovered a third love — that
of leaching.
She worked as a graduate assistant, teach
ing photojournalism lab and summer courses
for two years. Then she accepted a teaching
position at Metropolitan Technical Com
munity College in Omaha and spent two
years teaching at the Maine Photographic
Workshop.
Dean said she had tried almost every
occupation that allowed her to shoot pic
tures. She has worked for humanitarian re
lief services in Central America and shot
pictures of tourists on the slopes of Breckcn
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Lied looking
to break even
Director plans to reduce
costs, boost ticket sales
By Jeremy Fitzpatrick
Senior Reporter
The Lied Center for Performing Arts could
break even this year for the first time
since it was constructed, said Herb Howe,
associate to the chancellor.
The center lost $425,533 last year, Howe
said.
Current budget estimates predict that the
center could suffer a $26,000 losstjiis year, he
said, but those estimates are ba«»M on conser
vative budgeting by the Lied Center.
“The $26,000 deficit was a worst case sce
nario,” Howe said. “We’re hoping for zero
(deficit).”
Kim Phelps, assistant vice chancellor for
business and finance and director of the budget,
said the Licd’s deficit had accumulated since
construction began.
Start-up costs for the center ran over by
$88,600, Phelps said. The center was opened in
1989-1990 for five months, and it had a $75,900
deficit for that year. During iis first full year in
operation, 1990-1991, Phelps said the center
accumulated a $425,533 deficit.
That figure brought the Lied’s total deficit
to about $590,000 going into this year. Howe
said that as of now, there was not a plan to deal
with the accumulated deficit.
“Dealing with that will take some time,” he
said.
Howe said the chancellor’s office, having
just finished the University of Nebraska-Lin- —
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Devaney says no
reason to retire
given by regents
By Sean Green
Senior Reporter
Bob Devaney said Tuesday that he couldn’t
understand why the N U Board of Re
gents would not renew his contract as
athletic director at the University of Nebraska
Lincoln.
The regents “never gave me a reason,”
Devaney said. “I don’t feel like retiring when
I’m in good health and our program is doing
well.”
The Omaha World-Herald reported Tues
day that Devaney had asked for an extension of
his contract, but the regents denied that request
in a closed meeting last month.
Under his current contract agreement, De
vaney will retire as athletic director Jan. 4,
1993, and serve as an athletic department con
sultant and fund-raiser. According to the con
tract, he would keep his salary of $94,034.
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Professors:
Afrocentrism
misconstrued
By Sean Green
Senior Reporter
While many people wear the
attire of Afrocentrism, they
often neglect to study Africa
and African people to gain knowl
edge about the society and the cul
ture, a UNL professor said Tuesday.
Lcarthcn Dorsey, an assistant pro
fessor of history and ethnic studies,
said that while Afrocentricity could
mean different things to different
people, wearing African clothing
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Correction: A story in Tuesday's Daily
Nebraskan about the Residence Hall
Association escort program should have
indicated that the service is available
Monday through Thursday from 6:30 to
11pm. The Daily Nebraskan regrets the
error
Coup attempt fails in Vene
zuela. Page 2
Nebraska women’s basket
ball team coasts to win over
Iowa State. Page 5
INDEX
Wire 2
Opinion 4
Sports 5
A&E 6
Classifieds 7
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j Art students petition chancellor
Supply expenses,
deficient facilities,
advising addressed
By Chris Hopfensperger
Senior Editor
Alack of communication, finan
cial limitations and poor fa
cilities continue to hurt the
UNL Department of Art and Art His
tory, 25 students told Chancellor
Graham Spanicr in an impromptu
meeting Tuesday afternoon.
Spanier took time out from an
other engagement to meet with the
group that converged on his office.
“We want to address the overall
silualion as well as some specifics,"
senior art major Kjcll Cronn said.
“We’re hurling."
Cronn said the group went to Spanier
because it was discouraged by prior
meetings with administrators.
“We have gone past being con
cerned to being appalled," he said.
“We have been pacified by future
proposals.
“We have found that going from
administrator to dean gels us nowhere.”
Members of the group said com
munication and counseling were es
pecially difficult in the department
because the chairman doubles as stu
dent adviser.
Earning an art major also is com
plicated by finances, the group said.
Junior art major Deb Oden said
lhal because supplies for art classes
were expensive, many students could
not afford the $25 fee to preregister.
When students don’t preregister for a
class, administrators may eliminate
the class before general registration,
when art majors can afford it, she
said.
Cronn said many art students who
were accepted into beginning classes
were unable to register for more ad
vanced classes because they had been
cut.
“We’re having to scramble to get a
degree,” he said.
The situation has forced several
art majors to register for independent
study classes, which some said put an
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