Committee begins search for new president
By Steve Smith
Senior Reporter
Summer vacation gives most people in the
University of Nebraska system an oppor
tunity to kick back and relax.
But for one group, the vacation months will
be spent searching for a new NU president.
NU Regent Nancy O’ Brien of Waterloo, the
NU presidential search committee’s co-chair
person, said Sunday she and the presidential
search committee would spend the summer
pouring over applications for the presidential
post. - -—
“A lot of the summer will be spent looking
at applications,” she said. “We’ll be pretty
busy,”
O’Brien said she expected the committee to
receive more than 100 applications for the
position Martin Masscngalc will vacate.
“I would say we’recxpccling over a hundred
plus,” O’Brien said. “And out of that number,
it is really lough to say who will be qualified for
the job.”
Masscngalc’s contract expires December
31,1993, but he has agreed to continue to serve
as NU’s president until the end of June 1994.
The 17-member search committee is made
up of representatives from the administration,
faculty and student communities from the Uni
versity of Ncbraska-Lincoln, the University of
Nebraska at Kearney, the University of Ne
braska at Omaha and the University of Ne
braska Medical Center. It is co-chaired by
O’Brien and Rob Raun of Minden, a former
regent.
The search committee’s work was sched
uled to begin May 17, but that date had to be
pushed back because of committee members’
schedule conflicts, O’Brien said.
O’Brien said the committee would meet for
the first time on May 28. They will discuss the
recommendation of an outside search firm to
aid in the hunt for qualified applicants. The
search committee’s recommendations will then
go to the NU Board of Regents for final ap
proval.
Even with the use of an outside search firm,
O’Brien said, the committee planned to do
much of the work itself.
“We will most likely use a firm, but only
on a limited basis,’’ she said.
O’Brien said the committee’s goal was to
have the list of qualified applicants narrowed to
four or five people by the end of November.
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On the run
A giant inflated panda at A Street and Capitol Parkway bears a message of encouragement for competitors in the Lincoln
Marathon Sunday. At that point, the runners had about 10 more miles left in the race.
Editor of The Ideal hopes to breed activism
Freshman carves
niche on campus
for conservatism
By Joel Strauch
Staff Reporter
Rush Limbaugh, Margaret
Thatcher and Ronald Rcasan
have more in common than
their conservative political ideolo
gies. They arc all role models for
Boyd Johnsion.
Johnston, a freshman political sci
ence major at the University of Nc
braska-Lincoln, has made a name for
himself with his outspoken criticisms
of “liberal" university policies and h is
commendation of conservativism.
Johnsion formed Students for
America, a new conservative student
group oh campus, to foster students'
interest in politics.
In addition to serving as the group ’ s
president, Johnsion acts as cdiior-in
chief of its newspaper. The Ideal.
Johnston’scommilmcni to politics
has taken a toll on his school work.
“I was a good student,” Johnston
said. “Then I got way too active, and
now my grades just suck.
“But at least I sacrificed them on
die altar of student activism.”
Johnston said his political prefer
ences were not bred at home.
“My dad’s a Republican,” he said,
“but he's not really into politics.
“I come from a very nonlraditional
family — 1 have seven brothers and
my dad’s been married four times.”
Johnstop began forming his poli
tics in high school.
As a senior at Papillion-LaVista
High School, he served as captain of
the debate team and editor of the
school newspaper.
He also went to Washington, D.C.,
as a congressional scholar from the
National Youth Leadership Council.
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Budget cuts
trim theatre,
dance shows
By Jeff Zeleny
Senior Editor
Play productions at UNL will be
limited next semester because
about $7,000 will be cut from
tfte Department of Theatre Arts and
Dance.
The budget cut is part of a $2.9
million university widccul, which rep
' ^ resents 1.5 per
cent of the total
campus budget.
> The cuts stem
44 from the Septem
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live-mandated
budget reduc
tions.
* Tice Miller, di
rector of the Department of Theatre
Arts and Dance, said the number of
shows to be cut would not be deter
mined until the department’s budget
was finalized.
Miller said culling the number of
productions would save money, but
also would limit students’ stage expe
rience.
“I need so many shows so we can
use the talent in the kids that arc here,”
he said. “If we do a show with six
actors as opposed to 15, nine students
won’t gel to act.’’
About 15 to 20 theater productions
and six to nine dance shows arc pre
sented annually by the department.
A possible solution to the cuts is to
cut production costs by performing
cheaper shows and reducing the
amount of scenery in productions.
Miller said.
Part-time positions m ight be cl im i
nated in the theater department, but
that, loo, would not be definite until
the budget was decided, he said.
The graduate department also is
being targeted for possible cuts. Miller
said.
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UNL to gain two new sculptures
Outdoor art to have
labels, autographs
By Mailt Haims
Staff Reporter
When students return next
fall, two sculptures and new
detailed label plates will
have been added to UNL’s outdoor
sculpture collection, George Neubcrt,
director of Sheldon Memorial Art
Gallery, said.
Neubert said the gallery planned
to place one of the sculptures, called
Fragment XO, near the main entrance
of the Lied Center for Performing
Arts.
The piece is a ring-shaped bronze
casting that
stands more
than 6 feet high
and has a defi
nite lean.
“It will hu
manize a rather
bland entryway
at the Lied,” he
said. “The Ican
§£ ing creates a ten
sion that will energize the space.”
The sculpture, Neubert said, is
worth about $150,000 and was ac
quired by the University of Nebraska-.
Lincoln through donations. Many of
the donations came from the
Collector’s Forum, a group of art en
thusiasts who are members of the
Nebraska Art Association.
The artist, Juan Hamilton, gradu
ated from Hastings College and lives
in Santa Fc, N.M.
Another sculpture, called
Odalisque II, will probably be placed
on the west side of the College of
Business Administration building.
Made of grey marble, the piece
resembles a fragmented female torso.
Neubert said the sculpture Hi in
with the classical-style architecture
ofCBA.
“This piece, being figurative and
made of marble, harkens back to Greek
and Roman times," he said.
The sculpture was donated bv the
artist, Manuel Neri, and is worth bc
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Courtesy of Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery
Odalisque II