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Accident Continued from Page 1 a one-way street with castbound traffic, when the suspect’s pickup hit an NU Postal Service van. The van was travel ing south on 11 th Street. The collision caused the van to tip onto its side and to hit a third vehicle that also was travel ing south on 11 th Street. After the accident. Beers bailed out of the truck and fled on foot. An off-duty police officer who wit nessed the accident chased Beers to a parking lot at 11 th and P streets. When the officer confronted the sus pect in the parking lot, Beers threatened him with a screwdriver and then ran down an ally. The officer apprehended Beers on the second floor of the old Miller and Paine building at 13 th and O streets. A construction worker helped the officer comer the suspect. Beers later was taken to Lincoln General Hospital, where he was treated and released into custody, Bruce said. When police arrested him, Beers had a fresh gunshot wound in his right ankle. No one was injured in the accident. Bruce said Beers gave police several aliases, but he later was identified as the man who escaped on Aug. 30 from a county jail in Fort Smith, Ark. He was scheduled to be moved to the Arkansas penitentiary to serve 14 to 20 years for kidnapping and using a weap on to commit a felony. Beers is wanted in connection with at least one robbery charge in Lawrence, Bruce said. Authorities in Kansas con sider Beers to be an escape risk and extremely dangerous, Bruce said. Andrew Stebbing, a detective with the Lancaster County Sheriffs Depart ment, said Beers was being held in the Lancaster County Jail on charges of attempted armed robbery, possession of stolen property, felony flight to avoid arrest and being a fugitive from justice. The federal U.S. Marshal’s Office will return Beers to Arkansas later this week, Stebbing said. New board critiques UNL By Brian Sharp Senior iReporter Chancellor Graham Spanier is hold ing court. The jury, called the Board of Visi tors, is made up of people from across the state. In the coming years, they will help Spanier make some lough deci sions that will shape the University o( Nebraska-Lincoln. Michael Mulnix, executive director of university relations, said the 40-mem ber committee met this summer behind closed doors and talked about every thing UNL was doing right—as well as everything it was doing wrong. “We made a decision from the very beginning that we weren't just going to parade things in front of them,’’ Mulnix said. “We don’t want this just to be a group that rubber-stamps the decisions." Spanier proposed creating the group earlier this year. The group is similar to a chancellor’s advisory council that existed about five years ago, Mulnix said. That group disbanded when then Chanccllor Martin Massengalc left UNL to become the University of Nebraska president. Spanicrdccidcd to resurrect the com mittee under a new name, Mulnix said. “We’re going to present the issues r that are controversial so we get some honest feedback,” he said. “We want to know what we’re doing wrong as well Members were chosen from a list that was hundreds of names long, Mulnix said. The members represent all parts of the state, he said, and only half are UNL graduates. Recommendations for board candi dates came from deans, vice chancel lors, the University Foundation and other areas, he said. At its first meeting this summer, the board discussed topics such as the new adm issioas standards, the image ofUNL, research, athletics—including the new ticket policy — and the budget. “We also talked about the engineer ing issue,” Mulnix said, “and clearly there were somcdifTeringopinionsfrom folks in Omaha than there were from people in other parts of the state.” Mulnix said members of the board had some negative respoases and ques tioned different UNL policies, but that wasexpected. The overall feedback was positive, he said. Mulnix said he thought the board was optimistic about the direction UNL was taking, largely because of the recent selection of Dennis Smith as NU pres ident. But Mulnix said he couldn’t reveal much of what the group discasscd. 1 Now open in Lincoln Authentic Italian Dining Omaha Lunch • Dinner Lincoln 1818 N. 144th 808 P Street 498-3889 435-3889 An evening with Maya Anaelou Pershing Auditorium October 13 7:30 pm 1KKFT3 AT: 77QCgf^dS7BW MCUJOMO YOUNKEHS. PICKLES. NEBRASKA UNION I PEf)SHMG AUDITORIUM CHARGE-BY-PHONE (402)475-1212 On Sale Monday Jeff Haller/DN Chad Roof, left, and Rick Cuba, both of the Lincoln Fire Department, work on the scene of an accident Wednesday morning in Lincoln that involved a University of Nebraska vehicle and a stolen City of Lawrence, Kansas truck 1 ^■ Health Care Problems: Causes and Cures. A Symposium in Scries I HealthCare Reform And Technological Change fi5ro ° presented by: fitton A. Weisbrod of the Center for rs & Policy Research Western University ;ptember 13,1994 Kimball Hall, UNL R Streets, Lincoln Admission Fund for Excellence in Economics The UNL Center for Insurance and Risk ed by Americas, and The E. J. Faulkner f Nebraska Foundation. Upcoming Lectures: • October 6,1994, 3:30 P.M. at Sheldon Art Gallery Auditorium, 12th and R Streets, Lincoln. Dr. Charles J. 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