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Nf.rra^kaN 1 1 Stad McKee/DN Kevin Herding of Lincoln spends his Tuesday after noon putting metal seals around the windows of the Apothecaiy Building, 140 N. 8th St. Harding works for Firestone Sheet Metal and Roofing Company. UNL continues vice chancellor search Hines leaves post after changing mind By DeDra Janssen Staff Reporter The University of Nebraska-Lin coln still docs not have a vice chancellor for research. Anthony Hines formally accepted a position as the new vice chancellor for research last Friday, but about two hours after he accepted the position, he changed his mind. Mike Mulnix, executive director of university relations, said Hines declined the position for personal rea sons. Hines is the dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Mis souri. “There’s a lot of speculation why Hineschangedhis mind,’’Mulnix said. “The chancellor has not had an oppor tunity to talk with him yet. Right now we’re just accepting the fact that he declined the position, and we won’t press the issue. “We regret the fact he didn’t ac cept. He was definitely the top candi date.” Hines was offered a salary of $127,500. Mulnix said that the search com mittee for the new vice chancellor, which has been reviewing approxi mately 100 nominations and appli cants for the position for the past two years, will be reconvening within a few weeks. “They will be talking about the process,” Mulnix said. “They have a variety of options.” The Committee may decide to re open the search or bring back final ists,he said. It will make a recommen dation to Chancel lor Graham Spanier. Herb Howe, a member of the search committee, said he thought it would be most advisable to restart the pro cess. He said the next step would be deciding whether the search commit tee will be the same, or whether a new committee will be chosen. “The old committee has been work ing on this for two years. We can’t impose on their time anymore,” Howe said. “But the old committee is expe rienced and they know what they’re doing, so the chancellor may decide to give them another shot.” The search was stopped once be fore when previous UNL Interim Chancellor Martin Masscngalc, a member of the committee, became president of the university. It was decided that it wouldn’t be a good idea for him to be an interim on the committee. “Hines declining the the position has definitely set us back,” Mulnix said. The administration had hoped to fill the position by August 1, when the new vice chancellor for academic af fairs will be installed. “It would be nice to have the posi tion filled before the beginning of the school year,” Mulnix said. Agricultural education is new and improved System will allow teaching over air By Sam S. Kepfield Staff Reporter Heralded as the beginning of a new era in agricultural educa tion, the Agricultural Satel lite Corporation was formally dedi cated last Friday at the Nebraska Edu cational Television Center. Milton Wise of Clemson Univer sity presided over the dedication cer emony, and said that in three years of operation, AG*SAT has already “ex cceded our dreams and hopes.” AG*SAT, headquartered at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, is a consortium of 23 land-grant universi ties in partnership with the USDA, and is funded by the federal govern ment The primary purpose behind AG*SAT is to broaden the curricu lum available to agriculture students at land-grant universities by teaching courses via satellite. Because of budget cuts at some institutions, certain courses have been dropped; AG*S AT provides an inex pensive means of vastly increasing the courses available to students. It is expected to be extended to all 72 land grant universities. John Patrick Jordan, a USDA ad ministrator who spoke via satellite from Washington D.C., said an at tractive feature of AG*SAT was that its courses were taught by experts in various agricultural fields. “Distance learning can be at least as effective as the traditional class room,” Jordan said. But, Nebraska Sen. Bob Kerrey, also joining via satellite, said perhaps the most importantaspeclof AG*S AT is that it displayed the leadership of land-grant universities in meeting the See AGSAT on 6 UNL pursuing sports equity Nebraska athletics attempting to provide equality for sexes By Mark Harms Staff Reporter Gender equity in sports is a challenge that the University of Nebraska-Lincoln is meeting, an official said. Barbara Hibner, assistant to the athletic director in charge of women’s sports, said the university has done a good job of providing equitable services for women athletes. She said there is equality in sharing of facilities, medical services and coaches. But, Hibner said, inequities do occur in the shortage of women in top administrative posi tions and in a lack of resources for recruiting. Recently, the Chronicle of Higher Educa tion released figures showing that, while 50.3 percent of the county’s college students are women, they only make up 30.9 percent of college athletes. At UNL, 44.6 percent of the students are female and 25.7 percent of the athletes are women. * Officials said football accounts for most of the disparity at UNL and other Division I colleges. The National Collegiate Athletic Associa tion allows 92 scholarships for football, which is more than all of the scholarships allowed for women’s sports. Disparity exists despite federal Title IX legislation that is supposed to ensure equity in athletics and education. Title IX, signed into law in 1972, states that there should be no discrimination on the basis of sex in any education program or activity that receives federal financial assistance. The Federal Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights conducts periodic audits to enforce the law. A1 Papik, assistant athletic director for ad ministrative services, said that traditionally, athletic departments leave football out of the equation when determining compliance. He said the general interrelation is that there should be equity in facilities, opportunity and coaching, but not necessarily equity in raw numbers of participants and scholarships. Hibner said the predominance of football is not a major concern for her. “We as administrators and coaches have got to understand there will be sports afforded more popularity,” Hibner said. “Would we have what aeon waww/un we have without football?” In fact, Hibner said, the football program’s national reputation helps with the recruiting of women athletes. See GENDER on 6
