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Monday, May 1,1995
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Goodbye Graham
Chancellor brought ivind of change
At this time of the year UNL is saying goodbye to many of those
who have shaped the university.
Usually that means graduating seniors who have spent four, five,
six or more years here.
But this year, we’re also saying goodbye to a chancellor. A chan
cellor who has made a difference in the university experience of
many students who have come and gone.
When Graham Spanier was installed three years ago as the 17th
chancellor of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, the community
welcomed a new breed of chancellor for a new generation.
Since that time, we’ve seen this 46-year-old higher education
star shine brightly.
Spanier also has had his share of cloudy, controversial moments,
but for the most part he has been the needed spark to launch UNL
into the next century.
Spanier was aggressive.
He wasn’t afraid to butt heads with anyone if he thought he was
right.
He promoted diversity and openness in a state where many have
found that type of change a slow process.
Spanier has recruited quali^ifaculty and pushed for the hiring of
more women and minorities. .
Two senior positions in Spanier’s cabinet have been filled by
women. Recruiting Joan Leitzel, senior vice chancellor for academic
affairs, and Priscilla Grew, vice (jhancellor for research, to the uni
versity could well be one of Spanier’s biggest accomplishments.
But with that aggression came criticism.
His push to replace a parking lot with grass met with consider
able protest from students and university employees.
Controversy surrounded issuing pink triangle stickers. The stick
ers were designed to inform homosexuals of faculty and staff open
to them. Spanier came away from the situation with national pub
licity on his new ‘social agenda.’
And nothing Spanier did escaped the roving eye of Regent Rob
ert Allen of Hastings. Allen helped point out that everyone, includ
ing Graham Spanier, needs a reality check.
Spanier was accessible.
Not a man of backroom bargaining, Spanier put a refreshingly
visible face on a position that had been treated by some predeces
sors as an exclusive office job.
His face was familiar to students. He was in touch with students.
Spanier implemented a freshman leadership class and was a men
tor on an honor student residence hall floor. He has his own cafete
ria card and has been known to frequently visit with members of the
greek community.
Spanier supported NRoll and the subsequent end of drop/add
lines.
Spanier was academic.
UNL’s general education curriculum has been revised. Relations
have been improved with the National Science Foundation. And
UNL has been designated a Carnegie I Research University.
Don’t be fooled, Spanier is not perfect.
But Spanier brought a refreshing air of change into university
administration. The chancellor of a ‘different generation’ has pushed
us into the next generation.
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Other Huskers
I am the president of the Campus
Recreation Advisory Council and
would like to express my extreme
disappointment with the lack of
coverage received by the UNL
Women’s Bowling Club. Not many
students know that this team is the
national champion (the men’s team
finished third in the nation.) Of
course they would know it if they
read the Lincoln or Omaha papers
or watched ABC Sports-last
weekend, but they surely wouldn’t
know it from reading the Daily
Nebraskan. I know for a fact that
the DN was contacted about this
accomplishment. The Office of
Campus Recreation called the DN
on April 21, and the club sent a
press release from the tournament in
Knoxville, Tenn. It is a sad state of
affairs when an accomplishment of
this magnitude goes completely
unrecognized by our student “news”
paper.
Campus Recreation has continu
ally sent information to the DN
about its programs, including
intramural sports and sport clubs,
like women’s bowling, yet rarely
does any of it find its way into the
DN. We’re still reading stories
about the football team’s national
championship (not that they don’t
deserve it) but don’t these women
deserve some recognition for their
accomplishment too? Especially on
their own campus!
Kristi Routh
Campus Recreation Advisory
Council President
junior
advertising
Sensible Story
I want to thank reporter Paula
Lavigne for her sensitive and
sensible article about Cindy
Roubal’s work as a dancer (“Part
time job puts student in limelight,
Apr. 21”)
When so much that is written
about exposure of the human body
is dogmatic, hypocritical or just
plain silly, it is refreshing to get a
matter-of-fact, straightforward
account, like this story.
Ellis G. Knox
Lincoln
Two Bones To Pick
I have been waiting for a week to
see some comments from feminist
groups on Cindy Roubal, an
honored student who “helped break
the stereotype of big-breasted,
blonde-bimbo dancers.” Until today
I have seen only one comment,
made by Teresa Austin, a pre-med
student (Apr. 26.) I wonder where
those strip-pool opponents are.
I also want to tell Heather
Tunender (Foreign languages, Apr.
25) that American students do not
need to learn foreign languages. The
tragedy of Francisco Renteria’s
death is not going to happen to
them. If it does happen, let’s say in
Mexico, the U.S. government will
severely punish the Mexican
government for brutally murdering
her kid. So, why should Michael
Justice worry about learning a
foreign language?
Double standards. That’s what is
now going on in this country,
promoted by the government, and its
citizens.
Kwee Tew
senior
fisheries and wildlife
In God Wo Trust’
So Robb Goff is dictating to us
on our thoughts and values (Right,
wrong still our choice, Apr. 18.)
Isn’t that so thoughtful of him?
The fact is, our country IS falling
apart, and lack of general morality
is, in fact, a cause. Get out of your
cave and take a look around. The
rapes, murders and thefts you speak
of are simply the end result of lesser
wrong-doing over the course of
time. Ever read “Lord of the Flies”?
Prime case of what can happen
when individuals are left without
any supervision.
Robb says murder, theft and rape
are all universally disliked. If this
were true, these things wouldn’t be
so common. Since everyone has
different opinions on what is moral
—few instance, I think abortion is
graver than theft—Robb simply
cannot draw the line between what
he feels is universally disliked and
what an individual feels is OK. It
goes against his own argument—an
argument Ted Bundy would have
opposed.
And who is this “new group” of
people that is moralizing the world
and trying to stifle individual
freedom? Could it be the right-wing
Republicans? Robb certainly can’t
mean the liberal Democrats who
want to decide for us how to spend
our paychecks and have control of
every aspect of health care.
For all of you out there who lived
in the dark ages, not to fear. Not all
of us Generation Xers are “about to
change the way people lode at
things as a whole.” There are still
some of us who defend the rights of
the unborn, long for a safer society,
and believe in the United States’
universal motto: In God We Trust.
Terri Tvrdy
staff
Department of Economics
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