Bike thieves strike UNL
Four motorcycles
reported stolen
By Joel Strauch
Staff Reporter
The bike thieves on UNL cam
pus have moved up from Trek and
Pioneer to Yamaha and Kawasaki.
Last Thursday, four motorcy
cles were stolen at the University
of Nebraska-Lincoln. Three of the
thefts occurred on East Campus,
and one was on City Campus.
Three of the four motorcycles
were recovered, UNL Police Sgt.
Mylo Bushing said.
Of the recovered motorcycles,
two had damaged ignitions, “as if
someone had attempted to hot-wire
them,” Bushing said.
A 1989 Kawasaki stolen from
the Alpha Gamma Sigma Fraterni
ty house has not been recovered,
Bushing said.
“But we’ ve put the 1 iccnse plate
numbers in the National Crime
Information Center computer,” he
said. “If someone is stopped on
that motorcycle, running the plates
will show that it’s stolen.”
Two Yamaha motorcycles were
stolen from the Burr Residence
Hall area, but both were found
nearby with damaged ignitions.
Police attributed the motorcy
cle declared stolen from Harper
Schramm-Smith Residence Hall to
cramped parking conditions.
“The bike was parked in a reg
ular stall and was found over in the
grass,” Bushing said. “We figure
that somebody just wanted to park
there and moved the bike out of the
way.”
Police have made no arrests for
the thefts. Bushing said there was
a good chance that the thefts could
be related. All three thefts on East
Campus occurred within an hour,
he said.
“We have reason to believe the
bike thefts on East Campus might
be connected, but the City Campus
incident was probably just coinci
dence,” he said.
Bushing said motorcycle own
ers could protect their bikes from
theft by locking the front forks.
But that doesn’t guarantee the
bike’s safety, he said.
“That doesn’t prevent anyone
from loading it up and taking it
away.”
Resolution favors parking
By Becky Becher
Staff Reporter
The Association of Students of the
University of Nebraska want Chan
cellor Spanicr to know they think
parking is more important than green
space.
Last night,
ASUN passed a
resolution oppos
ing Spanier’s pro
posal to replace
the faculty park
ing lot north of the
Nebraska Union
with a green
space.
“If Spanier goes through with this
1 think he is really out of touch with
what the majority of students want,”
JefTGaertig, Arts and Sciences sena
tor, said.
Gaertig said the majority of stu
dents favored parking over green
space, but some did favor Spanier’s
proposal.
One of the students who supported
the creation of a green space, Mark
Petersen, told ASUN that the benefits
of having a green space would out
weigh some of the “small inconve
niences.”
Petersen said students worried
in the empty Beadle Center lot near
19th and S St., but Arts and Sciences
Sen. Deb Silhacek was concerned the
Beadle Center lot would become fac
ulty parking when the center opened.
Senators generally were not op
posed to having a green space but they
were opposed to moving student park
ing farther from campus.
Jeff Krohn, Engineering senator,
said, “1 would love to have a place to
frolic, but I need to have a place to
park.”
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has allowed Spanier and other chan
cellors ample opportunity to make
changes in hiring.
What could be the most important
vacancy has yet to be filled.
Martin Massengale announced last
spring that he would not renew his
contract as president of the NU sys
tem. . -1
In November
1990,Massengale
was chosen to be
president from a
pool of candidates
outside the uni
versity. He had
been UNL chan
cellor for 10 years.
A presidential
searcn committee Johnston
is compiling a list
of candidates to present to the NU
Board of Regents. Spanier is a mem
ber of the search committee.
The future president will join a
new generation of university admin
istrators who are breaking the white,
middle-aged, male mold of hires from
the past.
Gladys Styles Johnston is the most
recent appointee to upper-level ad
ministration in the university system.
She spent her first day in office Sept.
7 as chancellor of the University of
Nebraska at Kearney.
Johnston, a former executive vice
president at DePaul University in
Chicago and African American, is the
first minority to serve as an NU chan
cellor.
Johnston said she did not think co
workers would judge her by her race
or gender.
“People are going to judge me on
my performance or my credentials,”
Johnston said. “That’s what’s really
going to count.”
Other recent hires are:
• Priscilla Grew. She was hired
Sept. 1 as UNL vice chancellor for
research. Grew came to UNL from the
University of Minnesota.
• Eric Jolly. Jolly, aNative Amer
ican, was hired last Scpteihber as
director of the Affirmative Action
and Diversity Office. He is a member
of the Cherokee tribe.
• David Temple. He was offered
the position of UNL ombudsman in
July 1992, Temple is 31 years old and
uses a wheelchair. ^»
• Joan Leitzel. She was appointed
in August 1992 to senior vice chan
cellor for academic affairs. Leitzel
came from Ohio State University.
• Carol Aschenbrener. She be
came chancellor of the Uni versity of
Nebraska Medical Center in August
1992. Aschenbrener was executive
associate dean at the University of
Iowa’s College of Medicine.
• John Harris. Harris, an African
American, was hired as special assis
tant to the vice chancellor for student
affairs in August 1991. Harris was 30
years old when he began his job.
At least one vacancy recently nas
been filled with a hire from within.
James Van Horn was hired in July as
UNL vice president for business and
finance. Van Horn had served previ
ously as associate vice president of
business and finance at UNL.
A search committee for the job
considered candidates from outside
the university.
-M
We’re the new kids on
the block and we’ve
got a lot of Ideas
and a lot of energy.
—Harris
student affairs official
Spanier said UNL had not elimi
nated white, male candidates for jobs,
nor did the university favor minorities
and women.
“We simply have been hiring the
best people,” Spanier said. “The hires
in and of themselves are not because
we ’ ve said we ’re going to hire a wom
an or a minority.”
Instead, Spanier said, UNL offi
cials have made efforts to add minor
ities and women to the job candidate
pool. That action increases the likeli
hood a woman or minority will be
hired.
Grew said women were recruited
as candidates for the job of vice chan
cellor for research.
“A member of the search commit
tee called me up, and she said, ’Do
you know any women who would be
interested in applying for this?”’ Grew
said.
Grew said she examined the status
of women on the UNL campus before
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she told the committee she wanted the
job.
“If there were no other women in
the administration, personally I would
have hesitated to come here,” Grew
said.
Leitzel said being a woman had
very little to do with why she wanted
a job at UNL.
“I’ m not sure that anything attract
ed me particularly as a woman,” she
said.
But as an academic administrator,
Leitzel was impressed by UNL’s com
mitment to excellence, she said.
Leitzel said working within a male
dominated system had not had an
effect on her job since she had been
here.
University employees and those
who hire them should be oblivious to
race and gender, Leitzel said, and
should focus on quality.
“Anytime a university opens itself
up to the strongest talent that is avail
able independent of gender and racial
status and only looks for the quality of
people being hired, then it will im
prove upon its excellence.”
Temple said he agreed a diverse
administration was important. But, he
said, it’s not always easy being differ
CntBecause of his youth, Temple said
he sometimes had to prove himself to
his elder co-workers.
“Older administrators or faculty
will look at me like, ‘Who’s this
kid?,’” Temple said. “Once they talk
with me, they realize I know what’s
going on.”
But Temple said his youth gave
him a fresh outlook on many aspects
of his job.
Harris, 32, also said being young
had benefited both he and Temple in
their jobs.
“We’re the new kids on the block
and we’ve got a lot of ideas and a lot
of energy,” Harris said.
That kind of energy can be added
to ideas flowing from the new leaders
of the university system, Spanier said.
Spanier described UNL as “an in
stitution that is ready for change and
ready to move ahead.”
The effect of change, Spanier said,
would be easier to see in the future
than it is now.
“It will be a long time before we’re
exceptionally diverse,” Spanier said.
“We have an increasing level of di
versity, but we do still have a way to
go”_
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church. He said he did not think his
church was abusive, but said the term
‘abusive’ was subjective.
“What is your definition of abu
sive?” Hicks asked.
“We are Christians trying and striv
ing to live out our lives according to
what the Bible says we should,” Hicks
said.
Hicks said the Lincoln Christian
Church encouraged its members to
make informed decisions based on
the Bible that will be the best for them
and for their conscience.
“We give out advice, but it’s up to
the individual to decide what to do,”
Hicks said.
The Rev. Larry Rouse, preacher
forLincoln’s EastsideChurchofChrist
and adviser to the support group that
sponsored the forum, said their choic
es weren’t really choices.
“What they mean by advice really
is permission,” Rouse said.
Rouse said members were shunned
if they didn’t follow leaders’ orders.
He said leaders try to influence every
decisionofthe members’ lives through
a disciple/discipler relationship.
Gholston, who is now an evange
list with the Denver Metro church,
said this relationship was key to un
derstanding how the Boston Move
ment controlled its members.
He said members are told they
must obey what their discipler tells
them, and that to disobey them is like
disobeying God.
“If they were iust following the
Bible I wouldn’t nave any problem,
but they aren’t,” Gholston said.
Gholston said these and other cult
practices within the Boston Move
ment haven't changed since he left in
1988.
Gholston said ABC’s “20/20” pro
gram would air a feature on the “Bos
ton Movement” on Friday, Sept. 24.
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