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About The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (April 24, 1992)
■jk T | Dcllly | ' . 55/35 1 I i^B^B ^0^ ■ jmm mostly cloudy I ^B *^^B ■ H breezy with chance of morn BhB ■ M ■ ■ showers.Tonight, mostly ^B ■ W ■ ^r^B ■ ■ cloudy. Saturday, mostly sunny —^ JL IV B^ Candidate screenings scheduled By Sean Green Senior Reporter The committee looking for UNL Athletic Director Bob Dcvancy’s replacement will meet May 11 to begin screening candidates, the committee’s chairman said. Committee members arc in the first of three stages of the search, said James O’Hanlon, chairman of the University of Ncbraska-Lin coln athletic director search committee and dean of the Teachers College. O’Hanlon said the committee was working on a list of criteria to use to narrow down the number of candidates. Committee members then will talk to references and conduct inter views, he said. -'The committee received about 45 nomina tions and about 15 applications for the position, he said. The 10-member committee hopes to have the field narrowed down by May to about 24 candidates for serious consideration, he said. But the committee will not release the names of the candidates this early in the process, O’Hanlon said. “We need to be confidential because most of these people arc in important positions now,” he said. “We plan to keep the list confidential until we gel it narrowed down to a smaller group of candidates.” O’Hanlon said the committee encouraged several women to apply for the position, in cluding all women in senior administrative positions in Division I schools. Michigan Stale at East Lansing and Wash ington University at Seattle arc the only two Division I schools with women athletic direc tors, he said. Dcvancy, 77, will be stepping down in Janu ary after 25 years as UNL’s athletic director. The search committee includes: Don Bryant, assistant athletic director; Angela Beck, Ne braska women’s basketball coach; Tony Samuel, outside linebacker coach; Janet Kruse, student athlete; Richard Dicnslbicr, chairman of the Academic Senate Intercollegiate Athletic Committee; Keith Parker, assistant professor of sociology; Anne Campbell, formerly of the Lincoln Commission of Education in Nebraska; and Don Denning, assistant superintendent of Omaha Public Schools. i Michelle Paulman/DN Sitting the bench Don Larson (left), director of the Nemaha Natural Resources District; John Samson, an agronomist for the Soil Conservation Service; and Paul Rohrbaugh of the Nemaha NRD talk during a lunch break at Hollings Gardens, 16th and R streets. Representatives of NRDs, the Department of Agriculture, the National Association of Conservation Districts, and agriculture and industry groups were meeting at the Wick Alumni Center Thursday to discuss soil conservation and crop residue management. Historical Society names director New leader to settle into position in July By Jeremy Fitzpatrick Senior Reporter___ he Nebraska Stale Historical Society has named Lawrence Sommer as its new director, replacing outgoing director James Hanson. Sommer, a Minnesota native, is director ol the Montana Stale Historical Society. He will start his new job in July. Sommer said he was looking forward to coming to Nebraska. “The Nebraska society is a great organiza tion with a tremendously qualified staff,” he said. Sommer said Montana and Nebraska had similar historical programs. The attraction of coming to the Nebraska society was its larger size and greater resources, he said. “It was an attractive opportunity that came along and the chance to work with an organiza tion that has more resources than we have out here (in Montana),” he said. Sommer’s main area of interest is historic preservation and planning — preserving build ings and sites. He has been involved in the field since 1968, when he received his bachelor’s degree in history from Carlcton College in North field, Minn. He earned a master’s degree in history from the University of Minnesota in 1971. Sommer has been working with museums since 1977, when he became director of the St. Louis County Historical Society in Duluth, Minn. In 1981, he was named director of the Lake Superior Museum of Transportation. He accepted the position as director of the Mon tana society in 1989. As Nebraska’s society director, he said he would work closely with local museums and state historical organizations. “The historical society ought to be serving the entire state,” he said. “We can provide assistance and expertise that the staff of a historical society has that these local groups don’t have.” Linkletter leads crusade for positive thinking Linkletter Speaker gets high on life, not drugs By Jill O’Brien Staff Reporter_ rusading for positive thinking. Art Link letter told a crowd of about 250 Thursday evening at the Nebraska Union that life could be an intimidating adventure. Linkleucr, a television celebrity and author of the best-seller “Kids Say the Darnedest Things,” said it was easy to become a pessimist — a non-thinker for whom depression “becomes a ruling factor.” Americans, he said, have been nurtured on the belief that they arc the strongest and the richest. “We arc optimists whose hopes arc dashed far too easy,” he said. He spiced his speech, “Making Positive Decisions in Life,” with humorous anecdotes from his career as an interviewer. For example, he said, he once asked a small boy what his parents did for fun. “Search me; they lock the door,” the child answered.But Linklctlcr’s humorous tone turned serious when r* • he spoke of his daughter, Diane, and her death 22 years ago when she leaped from her apartment building. Diane was experimenting with the hallu cinogenic drug, LSD, at the lime of her death, he said. Linklcticr said he became a be reaved parent, outraged by his daugh ter’s death. His friend, Norman Vin cent Pcalc, challenged him to go out and talk to kids about drug abuse as a memorial to his daughter, he said. Linklcticr said he decided to talk to young people about drugs without mentioning drugs. Instead, he sold his audiences on positive thinking and sclf-csiccm. “Like a g(X)d salesman, I built up my product,” he said. Linklctier said his goal was to let young people know that they could get high on life without the false sensation created by drugs. “I can gel high on life,” he said, referring to the opiate manufactured by the brain. Good feelings that come from doing a job well and having a career, family and friends manufacture that drug. “Success is not a destination,” he said. “It is a journey as you look back over your life and love what you did.” Mudent says crack down unrair By Shelley Biggs Staff Reporter The UNL Police Department has stepped up ticketing to rein Jorcc parking guidelines, offi cials said. Police have increased ticketing of vehicles parked on campus without permits after 4 p.m., and the increase has spurred some student reaction. Susan Oxley, a member of the parking appeals committee, said a lack of communication existed be tween the parking office and the stu dent body concerning the parking policy. She said there were 111 parking appeals this month alone. Mike Cacak, interim parking administrator and manager of trans portation services for UNL, said stu dents were required to have a permit to park on campus. This policy also holds for night parking, he said. Students who wish to park on campus at night and have not pur chased a regular parking permit must purchase a special S20 night permit that is valid after 4 p.m. Oxley said the parking office’s crackdown on ticketing was unfair because many students did not want to buy night permits this late in the school year. “(The parking office) needs to enforce from day one,” she said. “Why See PARKING on 6 University of Michigan students celebrate the last day of classes by jogging a mile—in the nude. Page 3 The Nebraska men’s gymnas tic team qualifies tor today’s NCAA Championship after a slow start last night. Page 7 E B Da, a mixed genre band, will perform in Lincoln Sunday. Page 9 INDEX Wire 2 Opinion 4 Sports 7 A & E 9 Classifieds 9