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Inside Thursday Sports ■ Frazier may compete for starting Job, Page 7 Arts & Entertainment ■ Card game a magical success, Page 10 PAGE 2: Pilots resist flying in icy weather December 1, 1994 . , 1 .. ' j; \ “.'V Engineering question nears resolution Task force report to be unveiled today By Brian Sharp Senior Reporter The NU Board of Regents today will receive copies of the long-awaited Engineering Task Force report, the Daily Nebraskan learned Wednesday. Regent Chairman Charles Wilson of Lin coln and UNL Student Regent Andrew Loudon received copies of the 40-page document late Wednesday. The report was mailed to regents outside of Lincoln. The report apparently outlines a short-term and long-term plan for addressing the state’s engineering needs and provides a cost analy sis for implementing a separate college in Omaha. Last spring, NU President Dennis Smith created the task force and charged the nine member body to develop a plan for meeting state engineering needs and a cost analysis for implementing a separate college in Omaha. No alternative was to be considered. The report is scheduled to be released pub licly this afternoon. Loudon declined to dis cuss the report Wednesday. See REPORT on 6 Creighton professor studies expansion cost By Anglo Brunkow Senior Editor Bob Allen is influencing the debate about creating a separate engineering college in Omaha, but this Bob Allen isn’t a regent. J Robert F. Allen, chairman of Creighton University’s economics and finance depart ment, sent a report this week to NU President Dennis Smith. The report, obtained Wednes day by the Daily Nebraskan, studied the cost effectiveness of creating the separate college. The report, titled “Expanding Engineering Education in Nebraska: A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis,” found that the state could justify spending only $4.5 million to expand engineer ing education. Allen presented the report at the 27th An nual Fall Conference of the Nebraska Econom ics and Business Association. Smith forwarded the report Wednesday to members of the NU Board of Regents. < Allen wrote that a new college in Omaha would be cost-effective if: • Education expenditures were kept below $4.5 million. See ENGINEERING on 6 Lied employee denies alleged harassment By Matthew Waite senior reporter University administrators and the Lied Center’s general manager denied allegations Wednesday made by a woman who said her sexual harassment complaint was ignored by the university. Tim Bartholow, general manager of the Lied Center for Performing Arts, denied allegations that he stalked and harassed Sheila Brunkhorst, stage manager at Kimball Recital Hall. “In my opinion, her allegations had no merit,” Bartholow said in a written statement, “and Ms. Brunkhorst and I are attempting to utilize University channels to work out her problems.” Phyllis Larsen, University ofNebraska-Lin coln spokeswoman, said the Office for Affir mative Action and Diversity conducted an in vestigation, taking “appropriate action” re sponding to Brunkhorst’s harassment com plaints. Larsen declined to comment on what spe cific action was taken. In a court document, Brunkhorst said she had a letter from admin istrators stating Bartholow was to stay away from her at work and at home. “We take these kinds of complaints very seriously,” Larsen said. “We will continue to follow up on the issue.” Larsen said investigation began immedi ately after Brunkhorst’s April 6, 1994, com plaint to the university. But Larsen said she did not know how long the investigation took. Bartholow said in a written statement that his health and happiness had suffered because of Brunkhorst’s actions during the last eight months. He also wrote that his relationships with co-workers and colleagues had been dam aged. “If the university’s procedures do not help Ms. Brunkhorst to solve her problems, I will have no recourse but to pursue independent legal action against Ms. Brunkhorst,” See HARASSMENT on 3 i-—-——, Viewpoint ■ "Because of her actions over the past eight months, my health and happiness have suffered; my relationship with my family, with my co-workers at the university, and with my professional colleagues throughout the world have been damaged; and my career has suffered. If the university’s proce dures do not help Ms. Brunkhorst to solve her problems, I will have no recourse buMo pursue independent legal action against Ms. Brunkhorst." —Tim Bartholow General Manger, Lied Center for Performing Arts Jay CaMaron/DN Bill Kuehner, left, a Junior pre-modi cl no major, and Joel Reddish, an agricultural economics nugor, fill out PowerhalI tickets for a chance to win $95 million. “This Is Just too much money to not take a chance at," Powerball jackpot lures ticket buyers By Dwra Jam—n Senior Reporter David “Deacon” M. Jones of Lincoln walked out of Q4Quik on Wednesday hop ing he held $95 million in his hand. Jones bought five Poweiball tickets on Tuesday — one ticket a week for the next five weeks. “There’s $95 million to win,” Jones said. “It’s worth a try. Somebody’s going to win After all, he had one chance in 55 mil lion. Those are the odds of winning the Poweiball jackpot, which reached $95 mil lion this week. The drawing for the jackpot was held on Wednesday at 9:59 p.m. The willing num bers were: 29-24-13-05-31-Powerball:40. Jones said he didn’t play the game every week, but he played it often. “I’m not religious about it,” he said. “God, $95 million — that’s incredible.” Scott Agena of Lincoln also said he bought one ticket on Tuesday because the jackpot was so big. He said the ticket was the second he had bought since the game started in Nebraska this summer. Agena said that if he would have won, the money would have financed his trip to the Orange Bowl. Brian Rockey, spokesman for Nebraska Lotteiy, said the high jackpot swayed many Nebraskans to buy Powerball tickets. “There are quite a few people who don’t buy until the jackpot gets up to an astro nomical point,” Rockey said. “Then it brings in people who generally don’t play.” Regular Powerball players who usually buy one ticket each week bought two to three tickets this week, he said. Nebraska players bought about 420,000 Poweiball tickets on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, Rockey said. He said he expected players bought about 400,000 tickets on Wednesday. Rockey said Powerball sales this week were three to four times higher than aver age weeks, when the jackpot was about $10 million. v POWERBALL The winning numbers in Wednesday’s drawing, with a jackpot estimated at $100 million DN graphic “When it’s like this, eveiy day’s pace is several times its norm,” he said. “Something like this happens maybe once a year.” The $95 million jackpot is the second largest in the histoiy of the multistate lot tery Powerball game. The highest jackpot, $111 million, was claimed in Wisconsin in 1993. To win, players must match five num See POWERBALL on 6
