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Peer group list not an issue, official says
By Chuck Green
Senior Reporter_
The exclusion of University of Nebraska
campuses from a recent peer group list
for state col leges and universities doesn’t
signal a lack of cooperation among NU officials
and the selection commission, a state official
said.
Rather, he said, it’s a sign of “an agreement
to disagree.”
Bruce Stahl, executive director of Nebraska’s
Coordinating Commission for Postsecondary
Education, said no animosity existed among
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It’s not like we sit across from each other at a table with our
arms crossed, just staring at each other.
A. — Stahl
executive director of Nebraska ’s Coordinating Commission for Postsecondary
________Education
NU officials and members of the commission,
as had previously been reported.
“This has been a classic case of making a
mountain out of a molehill,” Stahl said. “There
have been lots of incorrect reports on the mat
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ter, and I’m very seriously concerned about
that. We arc not at each other’s throats, and we
never have been.
“As far as I’m concerned, it’s not even an
issue.”
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The list, released Friday, includes peer group
schools for Chadron and Wayne slate colleges,
as well as Southeast Community College.
Peer groups arc used to recommend schools
with which other schools should be compared
for budget and program-planning purposes.
The peer groups are determ ined by enrollment,
budget and academic programs.
Stahl said the four NU campuses — the
University of Nebraska-Lincoln, the Univer
sity of Nebraska at Omaha, the University of
Nebraska at Kearney and the University of
Nebraska Medical Center — were excluded
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Julia Mikolajcik/DN
Hoover Harlan of Walthill prepares to dance In the Native American Pow Wow Sunday on
East Campus. Harlan, a member of the Omaha tribe, dressed in the men’s traditional
costume.
Pow Wow
Dance celebrates Native American culture
By Heather Sinor
Staff Reporter_ __
The rhythmic beat of drums,
dancing and colorful
costumes filled the East
Campus Activities Building
Saturday and Sunday for the 3rd
Annual UNL Pow Wow.
As a grand finale to Native
American month, which was
observed in November to
recognize and honor Native
Americans, this weekend’s event
focused on promoting cultural
awareness, said Helen Long
Soldier, a counselor in the Office
of Multi-Cultural Affairs at the
University of Ncbraska-Lincoln.
The exposition attracted about
100 dancers and drum groups
from the Winnebago, Sioux,
Kickapoo, Iowa and Omaha
Indian tribes.
Lavonnc Holdcner, a Native
American student at UNL and a
; sponsor of the event, said most of
the pow wow’s participants came
from Omaha, Lincoln, Macy and
the Haskell Indian Junior College
in Lawrence, Kan., to celebrate a
coming together of families.
Dancers wore elaborate
headdresses and costumes made
of bells, feathers and animal
skins.
Some of the dancers look part
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Unidentified body found,
believed to be Harms
Armed robbery
suspect leads
police to remains
By Chuck Green
Senior Reporter
A body discovered southeast of
Lincoln Sunday morning may
be that of missing UNL stu
dent Candice “Candi” Harms, her
mother said Sunday night.
Pal Harms said that authorities had
not yet made a positive identification
of the body, but had determined that
the remains were human.
“We’re just wailing to hear right
now,” she said. “They’re still in the
process of gathering evidence at the
site, and some of the investigators
seem to feel the body is Candi’s.”
The search ol the cornfield by Lin
coln police and Lancaster County
deputies began early Sunday morn
ing, after one of two suspects arrested
for armed robbery told police that he
and a friend had abducted and kid
napped Harms the night of her disap
pearance, Pat Harms said.
She said the suspect then led inves
tigators to the site where the body was
found.
Candi Harms, 18, was Iasi seen
Sepi. 22 leaving her boyfriend’s apart -
mentat 332 N. 22nd St. shortly before
midnight. She was on her way home
to 61st and Vine streets but never
arrived. She was reported missing the
next day.
Hours after she was reported miss
ing, Harms’ car was found in a milo
field at North 27th and Bluff Road,
about two miles north of Lincoln.
Law enforcement authorities had
turned up few leads since her disap
pearance . Prev ious searches for Harm s
have been targeted primarily in the
area where her car was discovered.
Pal Harms said the armed robbery
suspects were not being questioned
about the disappearance when one of
them told authorities about the body.
“It was just information (he) vol
unteered,” she said.
A press conference has been sched
uled for 10:30 this morning at the
Lincoln Police Department.
Lancaster County Attorney Gary
Lacey said details would be given
about the search at the press confer
ence.
Lacey would not confirm or deny
any information about the search Sun
day night.
len rreshmen surveyed
split on admissions policy
Students debate
effects of changes
on small schools
By Susie Arth
Senior Reporter ' _
A random survey of 10 fresh
men at the University of Nc
braska-Lincoln reveals they
are divided on the proposed changes
in admissions standards.
Six of the freshmen surveyed said
they were against the stricter admis
sion standards, while four students
said they believed the proposed
changes would benefit UNL.
The proposed standards, which arc
being discussed at q scries of public
hearings throughout the state, will go
lothcNU Board of RcgcnLs for review
Saturday.
The new admission standards
would require all highschool students
to complete four years of English,
three years of math, science, and so
cial science, two years of foreign lan
guage and one additional course.
Students also would be required to
graduate in the top half of their high
school class, or receive a score of 20
on the ACT or 850 on the SAT.
Shannon Fletcher, a freshman bi
ology major from Wayne, said she
was against the proposed standards.
“The university should be open to
everyone,” she said. “I really don’t
think they should make the changes;
it’s not a private college.”
Four students said they were against
the proposed standards because they
believed it would hinder students at
smaller high schools from attending
UNL.
Melissa Purdy, a freshman interior
design major from Aurora, said better
resources were available to students
from larger high schools to help them
meet the requirements.
“Bigger schools have belter teach
ers, more technology and more com
petition,” she said.
Scott Pettit, a freshman psychol
ogy major from Fremont, also said he
believed the standards would place
students from smaller high schools at
a disadvantage.
Smaller high schools, he said, may
not offer all the courses students need
to be admitted to UNL.
“That*s a big diffcrcncc from what
it used to be," he said. “(UNL) won’t
gel some students from smaller towns,
and it will probably miss out on some
good students.”
But Troy Rost, a freshman biology
major from Rising City, said he be
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