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Full classes
problem sent
to colleges
Department officials
to suggest solutions
By Cindy Kimbrough
Senior Reporter __
he growing problem of closed classes
and how to increase students’ access to
classes has been turned over to UNL
deans and department chairmen, an official
said.
Stan Liberty, interim vice chancellor for
academic affairs, said two solutions UNL offi
cials were considering were increasing the
number of students in classes and lengthening
student and faculty schedules.
Earlier this year, Liberty said, University of
Nebraska-Lincoln Chancellor Graham Spanicr
made better class accessibility a priority and
directed the academic administration to look
into possible solutions.
Deans and department chairmen were asked
what they could do within their colleges to
improve student accessibility to classes for
next semester, he said.
Regent Charles Wilson of Lincoln intro
duced the issue of closed classes within the
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Erik Unger/DN
Holy fiber-optic cables Batman!
Virgil Ohlson, 43, works on a fiber-optic loop for Lincoln Telephone and Telegraph. The loop, which will serve the
downtown area, combines telephone and cable services.
UNMC chancellor
to start in August
Aschenbrener
to make NU-high
$179,800 salary
By Virginia Newton
Staff Reporter _
he approval of Carol Ann Kemp
Aschcnbrcncr as chancellor of
UNMC made her the highcsl
paid employee in the University of
Nebraska system, with a salary of
SI 79,800.
Aschcnbrcncr was approved as
chancellor of the University of Ne
braska Medical Center by the NU
Board of Regents Friday.
She will begin her appointment as
chancellor of UNMC in Omaha on
August 1. She will be the sixth person
to serve as the head of UNMC since it
became a part of the NU system in
1902.
- v Roger Bulger, president of the ,
Association of Academic Health
Centers in Washington, D.C., said
Aschcnbrcncr was believed to be the
first woman at a public or private
academic health center to have gov
ernance overall three components of
the health center.
Aschcnbrcncr is the executive
associate dean of the University of
Iowa College of Medicine in Iowa
City — a position she has held since
1990.
“There is no question that it will be
very difficult and sad to leave (the
University of Iowa),” she said. “It has
been a wonderful place and very special
to me.
“At the lime that (NU President
Marlin) Massengale offered me the
position, I was very excited about
taking on the responsibility.”
Aschcnbrcncr said she would make
several trips to the medical center to
familiarize herself with the staff and
the general operation of UNMC be
fore assuming her new post.
“The mission and the priorities arc
priorities I am used to in Iowa, and I
was very impressed with the students
Aschenbrener
and faculty that I met,”she said. “I’m
very interested in exploring the col
laborations of the medical center and
the other campuses as well.”
Aschenbrener will live in Omaha,
where she has friends, she said, and
already knows of the various cultural
opportunities the city offers.
“I’m looking forward to living in a
larger metropolitan area and living in
a city that has a zoo,” she said.
UNL loses ‘alt’
computer files
By Mike Lewis
Staff Reporter
Many UNL computer-users got
hot under their collars a few
weeks ago, but it wasn’t be
cause of radiation from their moni
tors.
They were angry because the
Computing Resource Center at the
University of Nebraska-Lincoln had
stopped feeding an entire set of “bul
letin board” news groups, called al
ternative or all groups, into UNLINFO,
a machine that provides information
via computers to the UNL commu
nity.
Paul Kenyon, a UNL graduate
student in computer science, said he
was angry that the all groups were
eliminated from UNLINFO.
“I would like to find a legitimate
way U) regain access to the all groups,”
he said.
The all groups disappeared from
UNLINFO without any warning from
the Computing Resource Center,
Kenyon said.
“We found out about it after the
fact,” he said.
Kenyon said the all groups made
up one category of news groups avail
able on USENET, a worldwide com
puter “bulletin board” on which users
can post information for the general
public. Kenyon called USENET a
“forum for discussion.”
The USENET service is available
on about 2(X),(KX) computers world
wide, he said, and about 1 million
people use the service for research,
entertainment and other reasons.
USENET holds a “big, big volume
of data,” Kenyon said, and UNLIN FO
stores only a small fraction of all the
USENET groups.
Most USENET news group calc- v
gorics deal witn spocillc subjects, such
as science, computers or recreation,
he said. The groups in these catego
ries often have moderators or editors
who decide what information will be
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Democrat Paul Tsongas says
he’s the “only alternative" to Bill
Clinton. Page 2.
ELECTIONS
Basketball, beer and big
screens translate into big fun for
Big Eight fans. Page 7.
Another lame-brained MTV con
cert deal is on tap. “Northern Ex
posure” releases a sound track
and “Wayne’s World" resurrects a
Queen classic. Page 9.
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Wire 2
Opinion 4
Sports 7
A & E 9
Classifieds 10
Class puts elections in perspective
By Jeremy Fitzpatrick
Senior Reporter
Only two things — death and
taxes—arc reputed to be pre
dictable in life, but Robert
Siltig's Political Science 398 class is
trying to make presidential elections
a third.
Sittig said students in Political
Science 398 — 1992 Presidential
Elections — learned how presiden
tial contests depended as much on
traditional patterns and factors as on
the candidates. Students study past
elections and use that information to
predict the current presidential race.
“The class gives students an ap
preciation for political tradition, which
changes all the time, but rarely devi
Students use political patterns
to predict presidential races
• V
ales sharply from the rcccnl past,”
Siltig said.
‘They become aware of how vot
in'' choice is as much tradition and
habit as it is response to what is taking
place in the short term.”
The class is offered both in the
spring and fall semesters of presiden
tial election years. In the past, the
spring-semester class dealt with pri
maries as well as the general election,
but this year the class is dealing mostly
with the general election because the
date of many primaries has been moved
up, Siltig said.
t, ,
“Now that there’s such a crowd at
the front end of the schedule, it doesn’t
lend itself to (studying primaries),”
he said.
Instead, students arc working on
predicting the 1992 general election.
Each student is assigned a stale —
preferably a contest predicted to be
close.
Sillig predicted that Arkansas Gov.
Bill Clinton would win the Demo
cratic nomination, and said his stu
dents were basing their reports on a
Clinton and Bush matchup in the fall.
To make their predictions, the
students examine statewide elections
in the recent past and use those results
to help predict how the state will vote
in 1992. Students then write a report
in which they choose a winner and the
specific number he will win by.
An example of studying past elec
tion results to help predict current
elections is Nebraska, which consis
tently has voted Republican in presi
dential elections since 1944, Siltig
said.
“You’d be surprised how repeti
tive the patterns arc,” he said.
Siltig said his students had done
well in the past in predicting the out
come of their states.
“Some of them — it’s kind of
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