Leitzel
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her accomplishments in two catego
ries: visible and invisible.
Her most important invisible ac
complishment is building a team of
academic leadership. She said a strong
university needed a common agenda
among faculty and administrators.
Her most visible accomplishment,
Leitzel said, was preparing the gen
eral-education curriculum.
Four years ago, the university did a
study on general education require
ments. By the time she arrived, Leitzel
said, UNL had not acted on a number
of recommendations.
One of the first items on Leitzel’s
agenda was getting to work on that
issue.
“It was clear to me the faculty were
ready to make a commitment to make
a new program,” she said.
The program, the first part of which
will be implemented this fall, will af
fect 25 percent of the undergraduate
curriculum when finished.
Leitzel appointed the campus-wide
general-education committee, which
will disband in May. No committee
member has quit, Leitzel said, and
none has asked for the committee to
slow down.
“There’s a high level of commit
ment to this,” she said. “I think they
want to speed up.”
Leitzel said her experiences with
the faculty had been gratifying. The
UNL faculty have always given her a
high level of commitment, she said.
“I just never get a no,” she said.
In return, Leitzel said, she tries to
provide the faculty as many teaching
opportunities as possible.
Leitzel said faculty requests for
teaching technology have resulted in
multimedia classrooms and the new
media center in Mabel Lee Hall.
“We can’t provide what they need
fast enough,” she said.
Leitzel’s schedule could only get
busier. As interim chancellor, Leitzel
said she will put the UNL budget in
place and start planning. She said UNL
would begin to review the strategic
plan for academics in the fall.
On Friday, as she headed to a meet
ing on how to deal with the media,
Leitzel said the nonstop meetings and
appointments didn’t bother her.
“Each one of these things is going
to make a difference in how we are as
a university,” she said, as she scanned
a typed schedule of events given to her
every morning. “This group of people
is very talented, so I like working with
them.”
Not all parts of her day are fun,
Leitzel said. From time to time, prob
lems arise that don’t have easy solu
tions.
“On average, it’s a pretty exciting
place,” she said.
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Pope sends Easter message
to victims of hatred, violence
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Em
bracing the victims of unrest, Pope
John Paul II sent a message of peace
Easter Sunday to people seeking
“recognition of their deepest aspi
rations,” including the Palestinians
and Kurds.
In Jerusalem, thousands of tour
ists and Palestinian Christians
thronged the Old City as drums and
church bells reverberated.
But Palestinians said Israeli re
strictions kept many West Bank
believers away — a reminder that
despite ongoing Israel-PLO talks,
peaceful coexistence is*not yet at
hand.
Elsewhere on the day Christians
celebrate their belief in Jesus
Christ’s resurrection, armored per
sonnel carriers and troops guarded
worshippers in the Philippines amid
rising tensions between Christians
and Muslims. A Muslim group is
suspected of raidinga mostly Chris
tian town there two weeks ago, kill
ing 53 people.
Police also deployed around
doomsday churches in South Ko
rea. Some sects had predicted the
world’s destruction before dawn on
Easter and dozens of the faithful
prayed in anticipation of the end.
When a predicted doomsday didn’t
pan out in 1992, sect members ri
oted.
In his traditional address from
the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica,
the pope directed his message to
the people of Algeria, Bosnia
Herzegovina, Burundi and south
ern Sudan.
“To families tom apart by war,
to the victims of hatred and vio
lence ... the Church does not hesi
tate to renew the Paschal message
of peace, reminding everyone of
our common origin in the one God,”
he said.
More than 50,000 people filled
St. Peter’s Square under an icy
drizzle. An ocean ofumbrellascov
ered the square, brightened by
splashes of color from azaleas, tu
lips and rhododendron.
The miserable weather forced
John Paul to celebrate Easter Mass
inside the basilica this year.
The 74-year-old pope looked
tired after Saturday night’s Easter
vigil in the basilica, but his voice
was strong.
In his address, John Paul spoke
to “those who await, in suffering,
the recognition of their deepest as
pirations, such as the Palestinians,
the Kurds, or, among others, the
native peoples of Latin America.
“The Church proposes dialogue as
the only path able to promote just
and fair solutions, for a coexistence
marked with respect and mutual
acceptance.” While the pontiff fre
quently has expressed support for
Palestinian rights, it was a rare
mention of the Kurds.
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legal counsel.
Dawson, a juvenile court judge,
presided over Harris’ case. While the
jury was deliberating, Dawson spoke
to the students about their chosen pro
fession.
“This is how you get to the point of
saying: ‘Yes, I want to be a trial law
yer,’ or: ‘No, I want to go into corpo
rate law,”’ Dawson said with a laugh.
r
“It will get better.”
The jury was forced to return after
nearly a half-hour of deliberations.
The vote was 6-1, a hung jury.
Students argued the case for al
most five hours, and the decision,
though it would not influence their
grade, met with disappointment and
silence.
Meanwhile, in a deserted court
room down the hall, Jeff Meyer sat
preparing his case. His trial would
start in an hour.
In the case of Potter vs. Schrackle,
he would represent Potter. His star
witness, whom he spent a week pre
paring, canceled the night before.
Meyer took the morning to brief a new
witness and repair his case. The morn
ing was hectic, he said, and maybe too
real.
Meyer said he was unsure if he
wanted to be a trial lawyer. But he was
about to find out.
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