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Hedging his bet
Carl Langenberg, a landscape assistant with UNL’s department of landscape services prunes the hedges outside of
Kimball Hall Tuesday. Langenberg said they trimmed tne hedges on campus twice a year.
Moul resigns, state administration shifts
By Dionne Searcey
Senior Reporter _
im Robak will become Nebraska’s
1C 35th lieutenant governor as Maxine
Moul steps down to accept a job as
director of economic development, the gover
nor announced Tuesday at a press conference.
“Maxine Moul is a very
tough act to follow, oov.
Nelson told the crowd of
about 50 business and gov
ernment leaders, reporters
and photographers in his
hearing room.
Robak will be replacing a
woman who, through her
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Robak velopment Commission,
has brought more than $1 million in grants to
the state.
Moul, who is from Oakland, will continue to
work with the department in her new job with
the State Department of Economic Develop
ment.
As director, Moul will be in charge of 80
employees and an annual budget of $19 mil
lion. Moul’s job as lieutenant governor pre
pared her to make financial decisions, she said.
“I learned the value of making investments
in the future,” Moul said.
The director’s salary of $81,100 will almost
double Moul’s current pay. But Moul said
money was not a factor in her decision to
change jobs.
The salary of Nebraska’s lieutenant gover
nor is set by law at $47,000 a year. Robak will
take a pay cut from her chief of staff salary,
which is $60,900.
Robak, 37, graduated in 1977 from the Uni
versity of Nebraska-Lincoln. In 1985, she re
ceived her juris doctorate degree^fromUN
Lincoln Public Scto^J
As lieutenant governor, Robak pledged she
would improve health care for the state.
Robak soon will have one of the first respon
sibilities of lieutenant governor shifted upon
her. She must take charge of Nelson’s duties
while he attends a trade conference in China
from Oct. 24 to Nov. 3.
The chief of staff vacancy left by Robak’s
appointment will be filled by Tim Becker.
Becker quit his job as Nelson’s senior aide in
June to work for the Lincoln Housing Author
ity.
Nelson said he anticipated questions £bout
the shifts in his administration, which would be
effective Oct. 4.
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Students should check small print, official warns
‘ Scholarship services
can have shady side
By Matthew Waite
SttJf Report* ---
Students should be wary of companies
offering to find students scholarships
for a fee, a University of Nebraska
Lincoln official said.
Flyers advertising one such service were
stuck on many UNL students’ car windshields
this week. \
The flyer advertised J.P. O’Connor Enter
prises,operating outofTalmage. The company
guarantees to provide students with the names
of six non-govemmental scholarships for which
the applicant would be eligible. Students would
be charged $69.
John Beacon, director of Scholarships and
Financial Aid, said the company was not the
first to offer such services.
“There are lots of companies that provide
this service,” Beacon said. “Some of them
probably legitimate, others perhaps not.”
Through a scholarship database and with
information provided by the applicant,
O’Connor’s company will do a national search
for scholarships the applicant is eligible for.
John O’Connor said he guaranteed at least
six leads. The applicant is responsible for ob
taining applications for those scholarships.
If the applicant does not receive any or those
scholarships, or if the amount received is less
than $100, the database company will give the
applicant a $ 100 savings bond. O’Connor said
the company also would return the $69 fee if it
didn’t find the applicant at least six leads.
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Former member
urges need for
cult awareness
By Andrea Kaser
Senior Editor
good indicator that a church is abusive
is when the church assumes authority
over its members’ lives, a former sec
tor leader of the Boston Church of Christ said
Monday at a forum on cult awareness.
Unfortunately, he said, members of such a
church often don’t realize it is abusive until it’s
too late.
The Rev. Ron Gholston of Denver told a
group of about 75 students and parents at the
Nebraska Union ballroom that cults and abu
sive churches appear very attractive. Members
seem to be caring individuals, living biblically
moral lives with sincere convictions, he said.
Gholston joined the ranks of the Boston
movement—which is not to be confused with
traditional Churches of Christ— in 1985, only
to leave the church three years later upon
questioning its doctrine on authority.
The movement was not a cult when Gholston
joined, he said. It has since been identified by
the Chicago-based Cult Awareness Network as
one of the five most active cults on college
campuses.
He said he was attracted to the church’s
“fired-up” attitude and commitment to the Bi
ble.
But when he questioned the church leaders
orders, he was accused of disobeying God.
“Questioning is strongly discouraged by
churches that are abusive, he said.
One University of Nebraska-Lincoln policy
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an organization.
The UNL Association of Campus Religious
Workers affirms the policy and advises stu
dents to be cautious of groups who don’t join
ACReW because they disagree with the policy.
Lincoln Christian has declined an invitation
to the association. The church also has applied
twice for recognition as a student organization
from the Association of Students of the Univer
sity of Nebraska and has been denied.
Gholston’s questions in his letter to Boston
Church of Christ leaders referred to the church’s
practice of “discipler” relationships. Disciplers
are church members assigned to new members
for the purpose of spiritual guidance and indoc
trination.
Members are required to submit to anything
their disciplers tell them to do, except when it
violates scripture or conscience.
But those exceptions are on the terms of the
leaders, he said. The church teaches that dis
obeying a discipler is equivalent to disobeying
God, he said.
“I didn't used to understand Jim Jones,” he
said. “I used to not understand David Koresh
and Waco, (Texas.) Unfortunately, today I
understand it.”
Most cults, including the Boston movement,
probably do not go to such extremes, he said.
But cults are dangerous because they believe
one person has the right to control another’s
personal affairs and decisions, he said.
“(My leaders) wanted me to make my disci
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University could lose nearly halt ot faculty, officials say
Trend not negative,
positive or unique
By J«ff Singer
Sanfar 6oWor
While some may see the
university’sexpected high
faculty turnover rate as a
groblem, UNL Chancellor Graham
panier prefers to look at it as an
opportunity.
Spanier said that within the next 10
years, the University of Nebraska
Lincoln was planning on losing at
least 40 percent — and possibly as
much as 50 percent — of its current
faculty, primarily because many
planned to retire.
Spanier said UNL needed to take
an optimistic approach to this
situation, which should hit its peak
near the turn of the century.
“I don’t see it as a positive or a
negative—I see it as reality,” Spanier
said.
“It’s an opportunity for every
department on campus to look at its
staff and see how it wants to plan in
the long term,” he said. “A university
is a place where you want some
turnover and for people to come in
with new ideas and approaches.”
John Benson, director of
Institutional Research and Planning
at UNL, said the baby boom generation
was primarily responsible for the
upcoming vacancies.
. “In the 1960s, there was a great
influx of students at universities across
the nation, so many faculty needed to
be hired,” Benson said. “And now
these faculty are near retirement age,
so they will need to be replaced within
the next 10 years.”
But Benson said UNL’s high
turnover rate was not unique.
“It’s not an unusual situation —
this phenomenon is present throughout
the nation,” Benson said.
“It’s like a rabbit going through a
python,” he said.
Benson said UNL was trying to
keep a positive focus about the
possibility of losing almost half of its
faculty, as well as an additional 500
managerial and staff members.
“Just as the chancellor said, this
provides the university witty an
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