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Nebraskan
THURSDAY
JULY 22. 1993
VOL. 92
NO. 131
UNIVERSITY OF
NEBRASKA
LINCOLN
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UNL students freed from Bosnian prison
By Jeff Zeleny
Senior Editor
Two University ofNebraska-Lin
coln students working as relief
volunteers in Croatia were re
leased Monday after being held in a
Bosnian detention center for about 18
days.
Abbas Ali, a senior engineering
major, and Suleman Ahmer a gradu
ate student, left the U.S. in November
to aid in Bosnian relief efforts, said
Zahid Nazir, Ali’s roommate.
“They are collecting things that
are needed in Bosnia,” he said. “Some
times they need medicine, sometimes
they need food."
The two students from Pakistan
were distributing supplies from a re
lief office in divided Croatia when
captured. Constant uprisings in the
area made the situation extremely
dangerous, Nazir said.
“Anything could have happened
with the war going on there,” he said.
“Their parents were really worried.
“Bad things have been going
through my mind since they were
missing,” Nazir said. “They’re back
UNL heads psychology research
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The top 10 universities in the field of psychology:
1. U. of Nebraska - Unc<
2. Louisiana State U.
3. Texas A&M
4. U. of Texas - Austin
5. Memphis State U.
6. U. of Wisconsin
7. U. of Georgia
8. U. of South Carolina
9. U. of Minnesota
10. Lehigh U.
17. U. Of Kansas
25. U. of Missouri
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in they’re office safely (now), but 1
haven’t been able to talk to them.”
Arshad Syed, information systems
manager for the College of Business
Administration, went to Croatia July
6 to help negotiate the students’ re
lease, Syed’s wife, Lucretia, said
Wednesday.
Syed convinced the American
Embassy in Croatia to assist in the
rescue effort after much persuading,
his wife said.
“He was thinking about exchang
ing himself for his two friends in
order for them to do something about
it,” she said.
The U.S. military was reluctant to
get involved, she said, because the
students were from Pakistan and not
American citizens. Through Syed’s
efforts, the two students were released
safely.
" Ali and Ahmer were working for
Al-Nasr International Oiganization of
Lincoln. The organization, certified
by the state in January, was founded
by Syed to provide world-wide hu
manitarian relief.
“This is their first place,” Lucretia
Syed said.
Psychology research ranks No. 1
By Shane Tucker
Staff Reporter
If the Nebraska football team
brought home a national champi
onship in football, it would be the
talk of campus.
But the University of Nebraska
Lincoln currently does have a na
tional championship that few students
know about.
Faculty in the UNL Department of
Educational Psychology brought to
the university a No. 1 ranking in
research productivity in the field of
school psychology, according to a
recent study published in Psychology
in the Schools.
The honor was nothing new to the
nationally-renown Teachers College
department. A similar study conducted
in 1984, spanning the seven-year pe
riod from 1974-1980, ranked the de
partment third in the nation.
“We’re really delighted,” said Jane
Conoley, chair of the UNL Depart
ment of Educational Psychology.
“This is the second time the survey’s
been done, we’ve been in the top
three for the last decade."
The current study spanned the pe
riod from 1985-1991. It examined
the institutional affiliations of vari
ous authors who published in five
major journals dealing with school
psychology.
The study used the size ot the
department’s faculty and the number
of times they published to determine
a national index with which they
ranked the nation’s institutions.
The study, which considered 596
different institutions, used research
productivity to determine the quality
of the programs.
However, because the survey con
sidered only a few journals and didn’t
consider books or chapters published
by faculty, the productivity of some
institutions may have been underesti
mated.
“The survey looked at journals,
See PSYCH on 3
Administrative
evaluations
to start in fall
By Brian Sharp
StaffReporter
Starting this fall, the shoe will be
on the other foot for administra
tors at the University of Ne
braska-Lincoln.
A new policy enacted will allow
UNL faculty and staff to evaluate
administrators every five years, UNL
Chancellor Graham Spanier said.
Administrators will be given these
evaluations to determine whether or
not they will be reappointed for the
next five years, Spanier said.
“It sends a message to everyone,”
he said, “that no one owns an admin
istrative position for life.”
Spanier said the new policy, very
similar to what was used while he was
at Oregon State, will include evalua
tions of vice chancellors, college deans
and other too administrators.
to review faculty and staff',” he said,
“but for faculty and staff to review
administrators.”
Fred Choobineh, UNL Academic 4
Senate President-elect, said the policy,
which was first discussed last fall, is
simply good management.
“There are a lot of other schools
that are doing it,” Choobineh said. “In
the surrounding states, we’re not the
leaders in this area.”
The change, however, may not be
much different from what some col
leges are already doing.
Will Norton, dean of the UNL
College of Journalism, said his col
lege tried to go through constant evalu
ation of everyone on a yearly basis.
“I don’t think it will be much dif
ferent from what journalism has been
experiencing,” Norton said.
Currently, the bylaws of the uni
versity require annual evaluations both
'of faculty/staff and administrators,
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