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SPORTS Tumbling into regionals The Nebraska women's gymnastics team is hurting as it heads into this weekend's regionals. Page 7 Friday 55/37 Today, morning showers, windy and colder. April 8, 1994 University of Nebraska-Lincoln Vol. 93 No. 137 NU president picks task force members By Kara G. Morrison Senior Reporter hrcc Nebraska businessmen. four university administrators and two faculty senate presi dents have been named to develop a plan for engineering education in the state. NU President Dennis Smith named the nine engineering task force mem bers Thursday afternoon. Smith has said the members will have six months to develop a strategic plan for engi neering education in the stale, includ ing a plan to develop a separate engi neering college at UNO. “We are ready to go to work, find the best solution and put this thing behind us,” said task force member and UNL Academic Senate President Fred Choobineh. Smith decided to create the task force after a consultant’s report, re leased last month, called for the cre ation of a separate engineering col lege at UNO but did not include apian to implement its suggestions. J.B. Millikcn, NU vice president forcxtemal affairs, said the task force’s first challenge would be getting all of its members together. “These are busy people, but I think e^ch recognized the importance of this issue to the university and to the future economic strength of the stale of Nebraska.” Millikcn said. “1 think the chairman. Lee Jones, will now contact each member and arrange for an initial meeting, at which time president Smith will give them their formal charge.” The members will include: • Lee Jones, NU executive vice president and provost. • Del Weber, chancellor. Univer sity of Nebraska at Omaha. • Joan Lcitzcl, senior vice chan cellor for academic affairs. University of Nebraska-Lincoln. • Gene Kocpke, vice chancellor for academic affairs, University of Nebraska at Kearney. • John Chapman, director of re search— irrigation division, Valmonl Industries, Valley. • Lee Kearney, president of K icwit Construction Co., Omaha. • A.F. “Tony” Raimondo, presi dent and chief qxficutivc officer, Behlcn Manufacturing Company, Columbus. • Choobineh, professor of indus trial and management systems engi neering; UNL Academic Senate pres ident. • Dale Krane, professor of public administration; UNO faculty senate president. Raimondo said lime constraints and a lack of familiarity with the engineer ing debate were the biggest challenges he faced as a task force member. “1 really don’t know what the is sues are other than what I’ve read in the paper, that Omaha would like some more engineering capabilities,” Raimondo said. “Hopefully, I can help by being a neutral party.” Raimondo said he hadn't read the first consultant’s report. Milliken said the task force would use that report and the list of quest ions See TASK FORCE on 3 UNO to handle E-mail violations internally By Matthew Waite Senior Reporter OMAHA — Allegations of wrongdoing in connection with UNO administrators opening students’ private E-mail ac counts will be handled by an internal committee, UNO chancellor Del We ber said Thursday. The claims came after a student working in UNO’s computer and data communications department said he witnessed CDC' administrators look ing at students’ E-mail. Weber said the University of Ne braska at Omaha’s Computing Advi sory Committee was looking into the charges. He said he would not launch an investigation into the matter be cause his involvement was not needed at this time. “For me to jump in now would be I ike pull ing a trigger that doesn’t need pulled," he said. “That’s not to sug gest that I am not concerned about the privacy of E-mail. We have a staff body that deals with those matters.” Though no serious problems con cerning the issue have occurred at the University of Ncbraska-Lincoln, a computing resource center operator said officials have the ability to open and read students' E-mail accounts. The operator, who declined to be identified,saidCRC management told staff members not to open accounts unless a technical problem occurred with the account. Guy Jones, CRC manager of busi ness and finance users support, said it was UNL’s policy to leave a student’s E-mail alone. “The only way we would bring i t up is if the UNL Police, the Lincoln Po lice or some other (authority) who had a warrant (asked to see the account),” he said. Jones said, however, CRC often searched the network for software that was inappropriate and removed it. He said this action would not involve E mail. See E-MAIL on 3 William Lauer/DN Vice President Al Gore high-fives the son of Rep. Peter Hoagland after landing at Eppley Airport in Omaha Thursday evening. Gore was in Omaha to support Hoagland’s re-election bid. Gore gives Hoagland boost Vice president touts record in Omaha visit By Matthew Waite Senior Reporter OMAHA — Rep. Peter Hoagland is a valuable ally in moving the president’s agenda through Congress, Vice President Al Gore said Thursday night in Omaha. Gore, speaking at a rally for Hoagland, said even when Hoagland was not doing what the White House asked him to, he was asking the right questions to fur ther the debate. Hoagland thinks of his constitu ents first when considering issues like fighting crime, health-care re form and the economy. Gore said. The crime bill pending in Con gress now would not be there if it wasn’t for Hoagland, Gore said. Hoagland sits on the House of Rep resentatives Ways and Means Com mittee. In recent years,Gore said, things have changed drastically concern ing the issue of crime. “We’ve got a completely new situation that’s come up on crime.” Gore said. Gore told an audience of about 300 that the decay of the family, guns and the rise of domestic abuse were major causes for the increase in crime. He said now was the best time for a comprehensive crime bill. Concerning the economy. Gore joked with the audience of Hoagland supporters about his tie-breaking vote last August on the Senate’s version of President Bill Clinton’s budget bill. He said he wasdisappointed with the media for missing a pattern surrounding his voting record. “Every time I vote, we win,” he said. Gore said criticisms of the pres ident’s health-care reform plan were misguided. “They say there’s no crisis. Come on, you know there is a crisis,” he said. “We need comprehensive and sensible health-care reform.” Hoagland said American fami lies were being challenged by is suessuch as health-care reform and crime. “I know we are not alone,” he said. In the past, Hoagland said, the problems in Washington had piled up because of gridlock. He said the See GORE on 6 Chumbley proud of accomplishments at Lied Center By Brian Sharp Staff Reporter_ When Robert Chumblcy was hired as Lied Ccntcrdirec tor almost five years ago, he faced a project of immense chal lenges and uncertainty. When Chumblcy officially resigns June I, he will leave a center with endless opportunities. “A lot of people, including me, had a lot of doubts in the beginning.” Chumblcy said. “This is a mature organization now. Whoever comes in my place will benefit from the fruitsof our labor.” Chumblcy has accepted a position as executive director of the Fine Arts Center and tenured associate profes sor at the State University of New York (SUNY) in Buffalo. Chumbley also will become artistic director of the North American New Music Fes tival. The SUNY-Buffalo Fine Arts Cen ter, a $60 million, 380,000-square foot facility, is more than twice the si/e of the Lied Center, Chumblcy said. The Lied Center is a $20 million. 150,000-square foot structure. “This (the Fine Arts Center) is a huge building,” he said. “It’s hard for me to explain how big this thing is." The center has been built and sit ting empty for two years, waiting for money to finish the interior and open. That money came last year, about the time Chumblcy was contacted for ad vice. Kerry Grant, dean of the Col lege of Arts and Letter at SUNY-BufTalo, which oversees the center, called Chumblcy asking for help. Grant is the former director of the UN L School of Music. Chumbley has been con sulting for the Fine Arts Center for about a year, changing some construc tion and helping set up the program ming, mission and administration of the facility. The center is set to open in November. SUNY-Buffaloconductedanation wide search for an executive director for the center, but found no one. In mid-February, Chumbley was offered the position. “I actually knew the place quite intimately at that time," Chumbley said. "But I hadn't thought about lcav ing.” Herbert Howe, assoc iate to the chan cellor, said he had known about the possibility of Chumblcy leaving for about a month. The university had not received Chumblcy’s resignation as of late Thursday. “We responded to almost all the challenges Buffalo made,” Howe said, “except the geography.” Howe said he hoped to assemble a search committee to name Chumblcy’s See CHUMBLEY on 3
