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December 1, 1994
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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,”
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■ "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
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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
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