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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
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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
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schedule was booked.
Rudd said he also has an enthusi
asm for classical church music, and
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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.
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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.
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Nelson calls lawmakers to special session
LINCOLN (AP) — Gov. Ben
Nelson said he’ll call the Leg
islature into a special session on taxes
beginning Aug. S.
The announcement ended weeks
of speculation after voters approved a
constitutional amendment to allow
the Legislature to change the way it
taxes personal property .
“I’m going to call this my belt and
suspenders special session lo come
down on the side of practicality and
make sure there are no legal chal
lenges to the passage of the tax bill
and amendment” Nelson said.
Attorney General Don Slcnbcrg
strongly urged Nelson to call a special
session so lawmakers could re-enact
the tax law (LB 1063) they passed
before the constitutional amendment
was approved.
The amendment gave lawmakers
the constitutional authority to make
the changes they had already made in
the tax bill. The attorney general and
others had warned that there was no
guarantee a court would agree that
the amendment the votersapproved in
May made the new tax law passed in
March legal.
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