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Candidates impress NU officials By Steve Smith Senior Reporter__ The remaining 16 candidates for the soon-to-be-vacant NU presiden tial post are among the nation’s elite, search leaders said. “No one’s blowing anything out of proportion here,” Nancy O’ Brien, co chairwoman of the Presidential Search Committee, said in a telephone inter view Wednesday. “This is a very, very good group of people remain »ng. , NU Corporation Secretary J.B. Milliken said the 18-member search committee, which is composed of of ficials from the four University of Nebraska campuses, local business leaders and one student, narrowed the number of prospective candidates to 16 at its Sept. 9 meeting. NU received nearly 200 applica tions for the position since advertis ing the vacancy in selected national publications last spring. O’ Brien said she agreed with search adviser Bill Funk of Korn-Ferry Inter national, who recently said the field of finalists was the strongest he'd ever seen. “I really do feel that way "O’Brien said. “We’ve got some really power ful people that are looking at this job and that we’re looking at in turn.” Committee Co-chairman Rob Raun of Minden, who was on the NU Board of Regents in 1969 when D.B. “Woody” Varner was selected as pres ident, also was impressed by the can didates. “I’d say the current pool of candi dates is a very, very strong one,” Raun said. Raun and O’Brien said they both expected “clear sailing” in the com mittee’s next two months of work to trim the list to fewer than 10 candi dates. The committee must present four to eight finalists to the NU Bo^rd of Regents in November. Raun said that goal was attainable. “There aren’t any foreseeable snags,” he said. “I don’t see any rea son why we shouldn’t be right on schedule.” The regents are expected to an nounce current NU President Martin M&ssengale’s successor in Decem ber. Raun said nearby institutions — most noticeably Oklahoma State Uni versity in Stillwater, the University of Colorado in Boulder, and Texas A&M in College Station — recently had entered the hunt for new presidents. But O’Brien said she wasn’t wor ried about losing candidates to those searches. “The number of people that we have left are left because they’ve ex pressed an exclusive interest in (the NU system),” she said. “They’re in this to stay.” The candidate pool remained strong because NU began its search when there were few institutions in need of new presidents, O’Brien said. “We’ve kind of got the jump on those schools,” she said. “As every one knows, it takes months to get the process going, so we’re at least that much ahead (of the other schools).” Raun agreed NU was in a good position. “It’s certainly not an impediment when you don’t have the competition of other schools searching for presi dents,” he said. „ , Milliken said most committee members currently were calling can didate references, following Funk’s suggestion at the last committee meet ing. Record Continued from Page 1 just to see what’s new or cool. “It’s something to do, kind of like people who grocery shop all the time,” Nan os said. When they can’t find what they’re looking for in the present, members of Generation X look to the past for musical inspiration. Gilson said this might be because music 20 years ago was not yet per verted by record company control. “Back then, they made music be cause they had to,” Gilson said. “They had to get it out of their souls.” The music and musicians of the 1960s, she said, seem more real to her generation than some of the bands she grew up with in the late 1970s and 1980s. “There were all these beautiful, skinny, unnatural people wearing ex pensive clothes,” sne said. “How could anyone identify with that?” The popularity of the gnmge move ment is a return to the eanhiness of the 1960s, she said. Real people can look or dress like a grunge musician, she said, so people can identify with them. However, like the rest of their gen eration, these record store employees do not share an identity. They cannot be lumped together or generalized. “I’ve seen employees quit the drugs. I’ve seen other employees drink at Enrollment Continued from Page 1 in the College of Human Resources and the increased enrollment in the College of Architecture, the report stated. Also beginning this fall, students in music, art and art history, and the atre arts and dance were counted in the new College of Fine and Perform ing Arts instead of in the colleges of Arts and Sciences or Education. Ac cording to the report, this accounts for part of the decreased enrollment in the those colleges. The College of Nursing changed its curriculum from a six-semester program to a five-semester program. The report said some students would begin the program in the spring se mester rather than in the fall. That change explains the 2 percent decline in enrollment at the Universi ty of Nebraska Medical Center, ac cording to the report. The report also shows a drop in total enrollment at the University of Nebraska at Omaha — its first in a decade. The 2 percent decrease oc curred at both undergraduate and grad uate levels. Total enrollment at the University of Nebraska at Kearney dropped 3.9 percent from fall 1992. Botn under graduate and graduate levels showed decreases. work,” said Gail Shiba, a Pickles employee for five years. “And others are as straight-laced as you can get.” Some people work at record stores to help pay for school, but many em ployees already have college degrees. Froschheiser worked for an adver tising agency when she first graduat ed from the UNL journalism college, but said she wasn’t happy in the cor porate world. After one of her paychecks from the agency bounced, she quit, worked for a temporary service and eventual ly applied at Twisters. “It’s kind of a joke for us,” Froschheiser said. “I’ll be sitting on the floor cutting out pot leaves for a Cypress Hill display, and I’ll turn to another employee and say ’Wait a minute, did I need a college degree for thisjob?’” Froschheiser said it was hard some times when she realized that other people her age drive nice cars and own a house. “Sometimes I feel bad about it,” she said. “But if I’m happy, what society says shouldn’t make a differ ence/ Nanos, 28, graduated from UNL with a bachelor’s degree in English. He has returned to school three times and even tried law school. “I wanted to be a teacher, but my teachers said 1 wasn ’ t cut out for that,” Nanos said. “I had too liberal of an attitude.” » Nanos has worked at Pickles off and on for five years. “I can’t get ajob anyplace else," he said. “Not many English majors get a job.” After graduating from Lincoln East, Carlos Randall, a Pickles employee, went to Denver for art school. “I did the bum thing for a year. No job,” Randall, 26, said. “I just hung out.” “I’m happy for the time being,” Randall said, “but I don’t want to be here forever.” Shiba, 27, graduated from a nurs ing program at Bryan Memorial Hos pital in December and is looking for a nursing job. - “Everybody here has something going on,” Shiba said. “Their lives don’t revolve around the record store.” Shiba, a Lincoln native, went to college right out of high school, but dropped out three or four times and spent time in California before she decided on nursing. “I had the whole American dream going,” Shiba said. “It wasn’t until I was in my mid-20s that I got a clue and realized everything wouldn’t work out as planned. ” But Shiba said she hoped that Most’ wasn’t an accurate description of ter generation. “I hope that it’s not that we don’t know where we’re going,” she said. “We’re just exploring the options.” Sororities request change to allow earlier initiations By Mike Lewis < Staff Reporter _1 Unless UNL’s Panhellenic As sociation changes its bylaws, worn- | en who joined a UNL sorority this I fall can’t be initiated until next * semester — even if the sorority’s i new-member program lasts only j four weeks. Some sororities want to get rid l of UNL’s policy, which restricts i initiation until second semester. One sorority’s Panhellenic dele gate has written a proposal to do just that. Lisa McMeekin, the Alpha Del ta Pi delegate to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Panhellenic As sociation, has submitted a motion to delete the part of Panhellenic’s bylaws that prevents early initia tion of new sorority members. “We’re doing this so every so rority on this campus can have a choice,” McMeekin said. Four UNL sororities — Alpha Delta Pi, Kappa Alpha Theta, Gam ma Phi Beta and Kappa Delta — have new-member programs that are shorter than the one-semester programs other UNL sorori t ics use. Alpha Delta Pi’s national orga nization strongly recommends new members be initiated immediately after their four-week education pro gram is completed, McMeekin said. Alpha Delta Pi President Kim Arvin said the early initiation would make a woman “more of a hill member early on.” But UNL Panhellenic rules re- - quire undergraduate women to have i r~ — - * completed 12 credit hours with a ninimum grade point average of 1.2 before initiating. McMeekin’s motion would re >lace this bylaw with one stating hat a woman could be initiated ‘whenever she has met the require nents of the fraternity to which she s pledged.” The National Panhellenic Con ference’s model bylaws already use his language, McMeekin said. The motion to change UNL’s bylaws will be introduced to all Panhellenic delegates at their Mon day meeting. Jayne Wade Anderson, director of greek affairs at UNL, said re search should be done to see what effects early initiation might have on the greek system. By history and tradition, she said, “this institution has always expected that students attain a spe cific GPA before being initiated.” The main thing to determine, Anderson said, is whether students will still want to excel academical ly without the initiation goal. Anderson said the possible fi nancial strain placed on students by the early initiation also should be considered. First-year sorority members must pay a fee when they first join, Anderson said, and another when they initiate. Anderson said UNL would be looking at “the total picture.” “Change doesn ’t bother us at all — but not change for change’s sake,” she said. ---1 F^ HARVEST ’ —Community Church— Ik Sunday Service 10:30 AM B 421 So. 9th Street (Near PO Pears) . , 1 ... friendly people * up-lo date music * positive messages ycur Step Shep. v ' ' \ * *. . Jgv ^ ,' yx \ ‘ :. . 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