Rudd Continued from Page 1 Graduate students as well as un dergraduate students are a part of Rudd’s research team. He said that working in a lab as an undergraduate provides valuable assistance for the professor as well as experience for the student. Outside of the lab, Rudd enjoys collectingoldclassics in science books I like Faraday, Maxwell, Newlon and LaVoisier. Rudd has travelled to several coun tries around the world, including Rus sia, Japan and various western Euro pean nations. Once when he and a Polish col league were attending a conference in Rome, the colleague mentioned that he had had the Pope as a Sunday school teacher. The colleague made an attempt to arrange a visit with the Pope, but his l schedule was booked. Rudd said he also has an enthusi asm for classical church music, and -1( You use physics to look at the world Rudd UNL physics professor -ff - has enjoyed singing in the Lincoln Lutheran Choir for several years. Leaving the lab, Rudd spotted two of his three graduate students camped out on the floor, laboring over a siz able mechanical apparatus. The two students relayed the cur rent malfunction. Rudd grinned, ex plaining that the machine was only a dchumidificr, not any of the actual physics equipment used for experi ments, but that of course the dchu midificr was important too. Around the Vend s«*mck*dn Jim Elworth of Lincoln takes a few laps around the Ed Weir track Tuesday afternoon. Elworth said he tries to run four miles a day to work on a knee injury he sustained from playing football. Duties of commission may overlap regents OMAHA (AP)—The prcsidentof the University of Nebraska system says Nebraska’s new Coordinating Commissioner Postsecondary Edu cation needs to remember the differ ence between coordinating and gov erning. Martin Massengalc said that while the commission’s 11 members are hard-working and dedicated to im proving higher education in the stale, they need a keener understanding of commission duties and how they dif fer from those of the NU Board of Regents. The volume of detailed informa tion 13 public universitiesand col leges in Nebraska arc being asked to provide to the commission’s staff re flects an involvement more appropri ate for a university governing board than a stale coordinating agency, Massengalc said. Masscngale ’ s com men ts addressed a question that arose when the state first considered forming the commis sion: How can that agency avoid en croaching on management responsi bilities that belong to college and universityboards 01 directors? A coordinating commission with little authority had existed before in Nebraska. The Legislature and Ne braska voters, convinced the state needed a more powerful agency to reduce duplication of programs and make higher education more efficient, approved formation of a stronger commissionin 1990. The former agency, with a staff of three and a budget of$182,134, be came a regulatory body with 11 staff members anda budget of $872,333 in 1992-93. The staff is full-time em ployees who provide the 11 commis sioners with legal and technical ex pertise and help in public relations. The commission by law can veto proposed academic programs, elimi nate existing ones, disapprove con struction projects and modify college budget requests to state government. “1 think both Martin (Massengalc) and I agree that the commission does not want to be involved in gover nance,” said Bruce Stahl, executive director of the coordinating commis sion. Carrol Krause, executive director of the State College Board of Trust ees, said of the commission, “So far, I’m certainly optimistic that we can make things work.” He said he was puzzled why state law gives the commission authority to review construction promts Financed by revenue bonds when no state money is used to pay for those projects. “We’ve got to ask detailed ques tions so we have more than a cursory understanding of what they’re pro posing,’’Stahl said. “We’re not trying to create a bureaucratic nightmare.’’ Stahl said he and his staff have been open to suggestions while creat ing rules and procedures over the past five months. In the past month, he said, he had 14 meetings with repre sentatives of the colleges and univer sities. ■ 17th ft ‘N’ St. I No Appointments Necessary |476-9466 ! Off I Full Service Oil Change ! M, <®> @ NowFor$4