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Spanier announces
athletic director
search committee
National scope
not necessary,
Devaney says
By Erik Unger
Staff Reporter
he nationwide search for a new
full-time athletic director at
UNL will begin Wednesday,
Chancellor Graham Spanicr said at a
press conference Monday.
Spanier said he expected the search
to cost between S5,()00 and SI0,000
— the bulk of which would be used
for advertising and travel costs.
The funding will come from some
where within the university and is
consistent with other administrative
position searches, Spanicr said.
James O’Hanlon, dean of the Uni
versity of Ncbraska-Lincoln Teach
ers College and faculty representa
tive for athletics, is the chairman of
the 10-mcmber search committee.
O’Hanlon said the committee was
looking for someone with an athletic
administration background, prefera
bly at a large Division I university.
The salary will be negotiable, but
will be competitive with other ath
letic directors of universities nation
wide and in the Big Eight. He said the
salary would fall between $60,000
and $100,000.
The search would be an affirma
tive-action search, Spanier said.
“1 would be delighted if we were to
end up with an athletic director that
was a woman ora member of a minor
ity group,” he said.
Retiring Athletic Director Bob
Devaney said it was not his choice to
step down and restated that the com
mittee needed to look no further than
UNL’s athletic department for a re
placement.
A nationwide search is “not some
thing that 1 am in favor of, but from
what I have gathered, it is something
that can’t very well be avoided,”
Devaney said.
Other members of the committee
include: Angela Beck, women’s bas
ketball coach; Tony Samuels, assis
tant football coach; Don Bryant, as
sistant director of athletics and sports
information director, Janet Kruse, UNL
student-athlete; Don Bcnning, assis
tant superintendent of the Omaha
Public Schools; Anne Campbell, for
mer Nebraska slate superintendent of
education; Richard Dicntsbicr, pro
fessor of psychology and chairman of
the UNL intercollegiate athletic
committee; and Keith Parker, an as
sistant sociology professor.
Admissions criteria
upgrading proposed
By Sean Green
Senior Reporter
Now that an advisory commit
tee has recommended UNL’s
admissions standards be raised,
those with an interest will be able to
provide input, a professor said Mon
day.
“The committee recommendations
arc far from being set in stone,” said
Stephen Hilliard, chairman of UNL’s
English department and a member of
the committee.
“Everyone with an interest will
have the opportunity to give input
into the changes,” he said.
After reviewing current admissions
standards at UNL, the committee
released a report March 20 recom
mending the university’s standards
be raised and more core courses be
required, especially in foreign lan
guage and mathematics.
James Griescn, vice chancellor for
student affairs, is chairman of the
committee.
In its report, the committee rec
ommended the University of Nebraska
Lincoln adopt a more demanding set
of core-course requirements, higher
class standings and require an Ameri
can College Test score of 20 for all
students who apply.
After receiving input, the commit
tee will finish and submit the report to
UNL Chancellor Graham Spanier,
Hilliard said. Spanier will, in turn,
submit the report, along with reports
from other campuses, to the NU Board
of Regents.
Current UNL admissions standards
require that applicants:
• Be graduates of accredited high
schools.
• Have ACT scores of at least 20.
• Have certificates of high school
equivalency training (GED).
• Or be admitted, without meeting
the requirements, if they show prom
ise of success in university work.
The committee proposed chang
ing those requirements so that in 1996
97, applicants would:
• Be assured admission if they
completed all core high school courses,
including requirements of 2 years of
foreign language instruction and four
years of math including: algebra I and
n, geometry and one other math course,
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Ben Rader, a UNL history professor, recently wrote a book on the history of baseball.
Rader is holding a bat from 1962, courtesy of the Baseball Card Co.
Swinging scholar
Professor records baseball’s greatest hits
By Jennifer McClure
Staff Reporter
Baaaallcr up! It’s the bottom
of the ninth, and the bases
arc loaded. The score is tied,
and a hush falls over the crowd.
The pitcher’s eyes arc cold and
calculating as he winds up and
throws the
pitch.
Benjamin
Rader may not
be able to tell
exactly what
would happen
next, but his
prediction probably would come
eerily close.
Rader, chairman of the history
department at the University of
Nebraska Lincoln, recently com
pleted a book on the history of
baseball.
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Republican Pat Buchanan calls Con
gress, “a swamp that must be drained."
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The Gulf War inspires woman to write
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Wire 2
Opinion 4
Sports 7
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Classifieds 12
Museum replicates UNL’s balucmthere
WyoBraska Museum
to keep copy after
original destroyed
By Tom Mainelli
Staff Reporter
Morrill Hall’s biggest attraction, the 18
foot-tall baluchithere, is no longer a
one of a kind.
Nebraska now has two baluchitheres — at
least for now. The second, a recently com
pleted replica, resides in the WyoBraska Mu
seum in Gering, a museum official said.
Don Steen, director of the WyoBraska
Museum, said the replica would become the
lone “critter” after the Morrill Hall model,
which is laden with asbestos, was destroyed,
probably in April.
Steen said WyoBraska’s in-house artist Ron
Kcphart and Tim Pace, an artist from Wiscon
sin, had worked on the replica since Septem
ber.
Because the replica was so large, finding a
big enough work space was lough, Steen said.
No warehouse in Gering was large enough, he
said.
Consequently, the replica was made in a
warehouse in the town of Morrill, about 20
miles west of Gering.
Once the replica was finished, moving it
proved to be interesting, too, Steen said.
He said the warehouse’s 14-foot-tall door
wasn’t adequate, so it was enlarged so the
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