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Regents Continued from Page 1 for services rendered from the uni versity. In other business from the meet ing: • UNL Chancellor Graham Spanier reported on the status of engineering services for the analy sis of Memorial Stadium. He said the collapsed section of the stadium would be replaced temporarily with bleachers, but won’t be repaired permanently until after football season is over. • Regents approved a bid from the Piedmont Construction Com pany of Lincoln for a contract amount of $337,848 for the partial demolition and reconstruction of the 501 Building. • A proposal to move UNL’s Czech language program from the department of Modem Languages to the Division of Continuing Stud ies was also approved by the re gents. The proposal served as a means to keep Czech language courses at UNL in spite of low enrollment figures without using state funds. 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Special hours: Mon-Thur:11:30-8:30pm Frl-Sat: 11:30-9:00pm or later Czech program move approved By Shane Tucker guarantee that the classes would be in Czech language courses at UNL staff Reporter offered. feared the move would diminish what_ Supporters of UNL’s Czech lan guage program refused to let the ac tions of the NU Board of Regents last Saturday go unchecked. The regents passed a proposal to relegate the University of Nebraska Lincoln ’ s Czech language program to the Division of Continuing Studies despite concerns of-students and com munity members the move would be detrimental to the future of the pro gram. The compromise would allow Czech programming to remain at UNL without the use of state funds. Vice Chancellor forAcademic Affairs Joan Leitzel said. At a regent Academic Affairs sub committee meeting lastFriday, Leitzel said the NU Foundation would subsi dize the tuition difference between the number of students enrolled in Czech classes with the 15-sludent minimum imposed on all continuing studies programming, which would The proposal would provide Czech language classes for the next three years in an effort to increase their enrollment, at which point they would be re-evaluated and possibly returned to regularprogramming, Leitzel said. UNL Chancellor Graham Spanier said the move would allow more op portunity for part-time students and members of the community to take the Czech courses. “Our plan is to give these courses every opportunity to increase their enrollment,” Spanier said. Low enrollment numbers in Czech language courses are what prompted university officials to re-evaluate the need for the courses in regular pro gramming. According to the Depart ment of Modem Languages, only 21 students were enrolled in Czech lan guage courses in the 1992 fall semes ter, and that figure dropped to 12 students in the following spring se mester. However, several students involved they consider to oe an exceueni pro gram. Chris Sempek, a former UNL Rus sian major, voiced concern that the move to continuing studies would be a “slow death” for UNL’s Czech pro gramming. “We have a quality program al ready in place,” Sempek said. “We’re on par with Georgetown, Harvard and Oxford.” UNL student sonja ivapoun sam she was concerned the move might affect the quality of the program. “We have a good program — why should we try to destroy it?” Kapoun said. Robert Simerly, Dean of Continu ing Studies, said academic credit for the Czech language courses would remain the same. Simerly also said the quality of the classes within con tinuing studies would be no less than those in regular programming, and that instructors would be chosen and supervised by the Department of Modem Languages. NU president search now underway By Lisa Vernon The search committee has had one “The university is looking for the Staff Reporter meeting this month with all of its 18 best candidate,” O’Brien said. “They The search is on for the University of Nebraska’s new president, and the university’s search committee has selected a firm lo help with the project. Korn/Ferry International, a Dallas search firm, will be the consultants for the uni versity’s search for depart ing NU President Martin Massengale. NU Regent and committee co chairman Nancy O’Brien of Water loo, and committee secretary J.B. Milliken said the firm would help coordinate the search by generating interest in the position, recruiting can didates to the pool, making contacts with applicants, screening files, orga nizing the interviewing process and conducting ex tensive reference check ing. “One of the firm’s jobs that I think is the most important is working to keep the candidates in the race,” Milliken said. members, and their next meeting to check the progress of the search is scheduled for July 13. O'Brien said the initial meeting was used to review the ground rules for the search. “The consultants were introduced to the committee," O'Briensaid. “We talked about how we would use the search firm." A limited ad has been placed in the Wall Street Journal to keep the field of candidates open between business people and academia, O'Brien said. “There was just some discussion because Wall Street Journal ads are very expensive," she said. “We chose to place a very small ad as opposed to the Chronicle of Higher Education. O'Brien said during the applica tion process, it did not matter to the committee if the candidates were from the academic or business worlds. must nave at least an unaerstanaing and a familiarity with higher educa tion.” Milliken said the goal of the com mittee was to present four to eight candidates to the regents in Novem ber. The regents will then conduct interviews withlhefinalistsandeven tually make their selection. “Our goal is to have the selection be made by the end of the year,” Milliken said. To help get the process underway, O’Brien, Milliken and co-chairman Rob Raun recently took a trip to Wash ington D.C. to meet with officials. “We met with four different presi dents to talk about UNL and the search ” Milliken said. “We talked about the commitment by the regents to select the best candidates and to get suggestions from them for the search, and to invite them to talk to people they think would make good candi dates.” Memorial Stadium repair timetable extended By usa vernon Staff Reporter Memorial Stadium’siace-lift will lake a bit longer than expected, Uni versity of Nebraska-Lincoln Chan cellor Graham Spanier said. The stadium’s section 14, which collapsed last month, was initially believed to be repaired in time foi Nebraksa s home opener on Sept. 4. But Spanier said Saturday at the NU Board of Regents meeting that temporary bleachers will be built and used during the football season in stead of rebuilding the section with a new design. “Reconstruction of the southeast stands would interfere with football practices and the Shrine high school all-star game in August, bpaniersaia. Permanent replacement of the col lapsed stands will take place at the conclusion of the football season. It is estimated it will take about two months to rebuild the section. Walt Broer Construction Co. and Dickey & Burnham Inc., both oTLin coln, have been asked by the univer sity to begin work as soon as it is feasible. Editor Jeff Singer, 472-1768 Features Editor Jeremy Fitzpatrick ' Copy Desk Editor Jeff Zeleny *i Photo Chief Demon Lee _ 4 UailV -a Cartoonist David Seddere Graphics Artist Scott Monro* i\|Pnf3SK3H Gefw*1 Man*oer °*n8hM,M Production Manager Katherine Pollcky Advertising Manager Jay Cruse Senior Acct. Exec. 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ALL MATERIAL COPYRIGHT 1993 DAILY NEBRASKAN "There is no rush to complete the studies and replacement, because UNL wants lo make sure that the work is thorough and the stadium is totally sound, said Jack Goebel, UNL vice chancellor for business affairs. Chicago consulting firm Wiss, Janney, Elslner and Associates is now finishing up its two week inspection of the stadium. Director of Facilities Management Rich McDermott,said theconsultants were finishing the field phase of the inspection. A lab and analysis phase will follow, and a final report is ex pected in August, he said.