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NU Alumni president
sours talk on college
By Chad Lorwiz
Staff Reporter
Raising awareness was the aim of
a letter asking alumni to express their
views on the creation of a second NU
engineering college at Omaha.
Bryan Van Deun, alumni associa
tion president, sent a two-page letter
to members of the Alumni Associa
tion. The letter posed questions about
the proposed college at the Univer
sity of Nebraska at Omaha.
A task force is making a plan to
create the separate college. But the
University of Nebraska Board of Re
gents must first decide whether one
is needed.
Van Deun, who said he had no
opinion yet on the issue, said the let
ter would encourage needed discus
sion on the issue. The associations'
role is to involve alumni in univer
sity issues.
J.B. Milliken, NU vice president
for external affairs, and Joe Rowson,
NU director of public affairs, had no
comments about the letter.
The task force should present its
report in mid-November, Rowson
said. Based on the report and his own
judgement, NU President Dennis
Smith will make a recommendation
to the Board of Regents by Decem
ber.
The Regents will decide, possibly
by year’s end, whether to implement
the college.
Van Deun raised the following
questions in his letter:
• “How can we consider establish
ment of a new multimillion-dollar
college which duplicates an existing
college?”
The state is facing an $80-100
million budget shortfall, the univer
sity is facing budget cuts, and tax
payers arc facing a tax increase, he
wrote.
Van Deun compared the engineer
ing issue to an earlier decision made
about a separate veterinary college.
The state rejected a proposal to
create a College of Veterinary Medi
cine for rural Nebraska and reached
an agreement with another institution
150 miles away based on
affordability, he wrote.
• “Is it reasonable to have enhanced
programs managed within the same
university at a distance of 50 miles?”
In the letter. Van Deun asked
whether the college would grow once
implemented or stay limited in scope.
He asked what economic impact
the money for the school would have
if used in other programs.
• “Do we want a political solution
to an academic question?"
Board of Regent members, state
senators, and Smith must hear the
opinions and questions of the Alumni
Association, he wrote.
“Do not wait for one to act before
contacting the others,” Van Deun
wrote.
Since sending the letter. Van Deun
said alumni association members had
given him positive letters and phone
calls
Architecture students
to rebuild main streets
By Andrew Luc—
Staff Reporter
A new program will give archi
tecture students and faculty hands-on
experience while improving down
town areas in rural Nebraska com
munities, the program’s director said.
John Gaber, an architecture pro
fessor, said the Lied Foundation Trust
donated $350,000 this month to start
the Nebraska Lied Main Street Pro
gram.
The gift was the result of a formal
proposal put before the foundation
last year by the Nebraska Department
of Economic Development, the Ne
braska State Historical Society, the
University of Ncbraska-Lincoln Col
lege of Architecture and the Nebraska
Department of Roads.
Communities interested in im
proving their main streets will go
through an application process that
will include a statewide workshop.
Gaber said.
Projects will include rebuilding
building fronts, landscaping and
working with signs, traffic patterns
and parking.
The program also will work to
help improve community pride, ad
vertising and the downtown renova
tions. he said.
Four communities will be chosen
this year for assistance through the
program, and four more will be cho
sen each year after that. State and
local participants in the project will
provide $1.30 for every dollar the
Lied trust contributes.
“This is part of the college's com
mitment to the long-term community
involvement,” Gaber said.
The University Foundation will
handle the funds, said Terry Fairfield,
Gaber said students would nave
the opportunity to work with person
nel in local and state agencies. Each
community will present the Main
Street Program with a renovation
plan, he said. The students will work
on technical problems and other
problems in those plans
Each community will appoint an
individual from its community to
work with students and to direct its
renovation plans, he said.
Renteria
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Healey and Wieland law firm of Lin
coln since 1990, has served as spe
cial prosecutor in grand jury investi
gations in 1990 and 1992. Both cases
involved people who died in police
custody. Bartie said Endacott called
him Wednesday morning Endacott
told him he had talked with four other
judges and decided to appoint him,
he said.
Bartie accepted a few hours later.
Lancaster County Attorney Gary
Lacey turned over the files of the
Renteria ease Wednesday afternoon,
Bartlc said Lacey had requested a
special prosecutor Tuesday morning.
Bartlc said he viewed his role as a
“special investigator" who gathers all
necessary information for the grand
jury. Only if the grand jury decides
to indict will he become special pros
ecutor, Bartle said.
Bartle said he had followed the
case closely and had made no deci
sion about what information to re
lease. Lacey, when he was prosecut
ing the case, had said he would not
release autopsy results.
The Associated Press contrib
uted to this report.
Finance
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the largest contributor to her cam
paign, giving about $16,000.
Candidates in the 5th District race
were the smallest spenders, accord
ing to the report.
Incumbent Robert Allen of
Hastings has spent about $5,900 dur
ing the campaign, raising $6,500
from individual contributors. Allen
was the largest contributor to his cam
paign, giving $5,000.
Allen paid Andrew Sigerson,
former president of the Association
of Students of the University of Ne
braska, about $500 to develop a po
litical plan for his campaign, the re
port showed.
Allen’s opponent, Robert Prokop
of Wilbur, was the smallest spender
of all the candidates, spending only
about $5,800. Prokop was the sole
contributor to his campaign, the re
port showed. He contributed $9,500.