<4 NEWS Earth Week UNL celebrates annual environmental holiday. Page 6 Tuesday 72/47 Today will be mostly sunny. April 19, 1994 University of Nebraska-Lincoln Vol. 93 No. 144 Nelson: Personal acts impact environment By Matthew Waite Senior Reporter he focus of environmental activism has shifted from the individual to the collective, Gov. Ben Nelson said Mon day outside the Nebraska Union. Nelson addressed Nebraska environmental issues at the the Earth Day Fair at the University ofNcbraska-Lincoln. He said it still was impor tant, while remembering the many people who have made a positive impact on the environ ment, that the focus remained on the individual. See Related Story on Page 6. “We must remind ourselves how important individual responsibility is,” Nelson said. “The truth of the matter is when you add up all the personal acts ....they have a giant impact.” Nelson told the audience of more than 200 that there was often conflict between environ mental issues and economic development. He said, however, recycling and buying recycled products created jobs. “There doesd’t have to be a conflict between economic development and ... the environ ment,” he said. “We’ve got to keep a balance in mind.” Critics who say environmental concerns damage job growth are wrong. Nelson said. “Isay to (the critics), you just haven’t thought that far down the road,” he said. Nelson said many jobs that future UNL students would seek would be environmentally focused. Those with conflicting views concerning environmental issues need to come together, the Governor said. “When everyone comes to the table ready to work for the environment, everybody benefits,” he said. “Every piece of the puzzle is impor tant.” Nelson said if past generations were more like present ones, things would have been dif ferent. “If my generation had your generation’s commitment and understanding ... the prob lcmswcdeal with today would bcmuch smaller,” he said. See NELSON on 3 UNL gets grant to resume project in Eastern Europe By Brian Sharp Staff Reporter It’s a story of political and economic cri sis. Two countries, isolated from thje rest of the world and existing in ruin — until recently. The University of Nebraska-Lincoln has been working in Albania and Macedonia for the past two years. UNL officials arc working with government, business and faculty leaders in the depressed countries, setting up the foundation for a market economy. Rep. Doug Bercuter announced Friday that UNL would receive almost $935,000 to con tinue the project for another year. Bercuter is part of a task force appointed to address the issue of democracy and market economy in Eastern Europe. The money comes from the U.S. Agency for International Devel opment (U.S. A.I.D.). Sang Lee, chairman of the UNL manage ment department, is director of the U.S. A.I.D. project. The yearly budget for UNL’s involvement is around $ 1.3 million, Lee said. A recently published report by Lee and Fred Luthans, a UNL management professor, stated that $10 billion was needed to rebuild the infrastructure of Albania, but the country had received only $20 million in foreign aid. In 1991-’92, industrial output in Albania fell by more than 60 percent, the report found. And in March 1992, inflation stood at 40 per cent per month. Lee said that Macedonia’s plight was just as serious but in a different light. Macedonia already operates on a market system, Lee said, but this system is causing the country to go bankrupt. When Macedonia sepa rated from Yugoslavia, later supporting U.N. sanctions against the Serbs, the country lost 50 percent of its market. Transportation costs to trade through Bul garia arc eating up all the nation’s profits, Lee — 44--— It’s really a matter of changing perspective as well as technology. —Luthans UNL management professor -tf - said. UNL is working to get Macedonia to work through Albania. “The problem is that those two people have such historical mistrust,” Lee said. “They are still having trouble working together.” Luthans said UNL was selected over other universities across the country because of its experience and expertise in marketing and eco nomics. “It’s mostly a training and education mis sion,” Luthans said. “It’s really a matter of changing perspective as well as technology.” Luthans said the idea ofa market system was completely foreign to these Eastern European countries. Conditions in Albania have been dctcriorat i ng for the past 40 years, according to the report. But last year the nation, reportedly the poorest in Europe, recorded an 8 percent economic growth rate. “The people there (in Albania) arc loving people and very grateful people, but they’ve been under such oppressive conditions,” Luthans said. “It’s something that we just can’t even comprehend in this country. “They were able to turn things around be cause they wanted to turn things around, and they’re small enough that they can make an impact in a relatively short amount of time.” Lee and Luthans, along with other UNL officials, will leave at the end of spring semes ter, making their fourth trip to Albania and second to Macedonia. The group will spend two weeks i n the area, focusi ng on developing gradu ate business management programs in both countries, Lee said. Mascot mob Gerik Parmele/DN Second-graders at Rousseau Elementary School Lutnp around mascot Lil Red Friday. Lil Red was at the school with UNL cheerleaders to honor Leo Ladely for being the winner of the Name the New Mascot contest. New hours at Health Center By Kara G. Morrison Senior Reporter he Health Center’s overnight closing will make emergency medical services more costly but daily services more convenient, two student leaders said Monday. “I think it’s just a good tradc-off,” ASUN President Andrew Loudon said. “The extended hours from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. will be a better tradc-off than having (the Health Center) open all night.” Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs James Griesen announced last Wednesday that, be ginning May 9, the University Health Center would be closed from 10 p.m. to 7 a.m. on weekdays and from 1 p.m. to 9 a.m. on week ends and holidays. Griesen said an orderly would still staff phones and line up emergency transportation to hospitals for students needing overnight medi cal care. The UHC governing board voted unani mously in March to approve the hours. Dave Hengcn, one of three student members of the board, said he was in favor of the new schedule because too few students used the services to make overnight hours economically feasible. “The cost per student coming in at night was just phenomenal.” Hengen said. “Also, a lot of times students would abuse the Heal th Center at night. Many of the cases could have waited until morning.” The change has left some students with concerns, however. Gricsen said last week he had been “a strong holdout” on closing the center at night because acutely intoxicated students had used the center as a detox facility. Hengen, Loudon and Kunle Ojikutu, direc tor of the Health Center, said they had heard similar concerns from students. “I’m a little disappointed that the center won’t be there (for the acutely intoxicated),” Loudon said. “I personally know a number of students who have needed that service.” Ojikutu said the number of students who used the center as a detox facility was “a very small number,” but he said the Health Center encouraged students to take those acutely in toxicated to a hospital or to the detox facility. See HEALTH CENTER on 3 Firm will be hired to select new Lied Center director By Angie Brunkow Senior Reporter A consultant firm will be hired to find a new director for the Lied Center for Pcrformi ng Arts, associate to t he chan cellor Herb Howe said Monday. The firm. Management Consultant for the Arts, is based in Connecticut and was used about five years ago to recruit Robert Chumbley, who resigned as Lied Center director earlier this month. Chumbley, the executive and artistic direc tor at the Lied Center since 1989, has accepted the executive position of the Fine Arts Center at the State University of New York m Buffalo. Howe said there were only about 100 eligible candidates for the job nationwide, and the firm had access to those candidates. Howe said the university could recruit easily for other university positions, such as faculty and administrative positions that had a large pool of eligible candidates. “If you’re looking for an assistant professor of English, how many are there in Nebraska?” he said. That figure would be much greater than the number of directors for performing arts in the state, he said. Candidates are rare, Howe said, because they need a special ized combination ofbusincss sense, artistic sense and interpersonal skills. In addition, many directors arc employed at prestigious institutions that can pay a higher salary than at the University of Nebraska-Lin coln, Howe said. “I doubt we’ll get the director of the Kennedy Center to come to Lincoln,” Howe said. Howe said firm representatives would come to Lincoln next week to visit with Chancellor Graham Spanier. University officials haven’t given the firm any guidelines for the type of director they’re looking for, he said. The firm probably will create a list of six to eight candidates for the university to consider, Howe said. A university screening committee will reduce that number to three to come to the university for interviews, he said. A new director should be picked and in place by early next fall, he said. Howe said he didn’t know how much hiring the consultant firm would cost because no con tracts between the university and the firm had been made yet. Payment for the firm probably will come from private donations, he said, but university officials “haven’t sorted that through yet.”