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___=_================= October 31, 1995
UNK chancellor seeks Oregon post J
Johnston among
three finalists in
president search
By Paula Lavigne
Senior Reporter
An NU chancellor may soon be packing
for the Oregon Trail.
University of Nebraska at Kearney Chan
cellor Gladys Styles Johnston will know
Thursday if she is Oregon State University’s
new president.
John Byrne will step down as president in
December after 11 years at Oregon State,
and Johnston is one of three candidates up
for the position.
The others are Rita Colwell, president of
the University of Maryland Biotechnology
Institute, and Paul Risser, president and pro
fessor of botany at Miami University in Ox
ford, Ohio.
Johnston was traveling Monday and could
not be reached for comment.
Oregon State, which is in Corvallis, Ore.,
has never had a woman president. It is one of
Oregon’s eight public colleges and universi
ties.
Bob Bruce, interim chief of institutional
advancement, said Byme, 66, will not seek
another presidency position but will start on
four education assignments for the state.
The NU system has a tie with Oregon
State. Former University of Nebraska-Lin
coln Chancellor Graham Spanier was pro
vost at the west coast university before com
ing to UNL in 1991.
Bruce said the president search commit
tee recommended Johnston because she was
“one of the most highly qualified individu
als.”
Johnston became UNK chancellor in
1993. Previously, she was provost and ex
ecutive vice president at DePaul University
in Chicago and education dean at Arizona
State University.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Trick or treat
Travis Heying/DN
Four-year-old Grant Peterson makes his way down a hallway in the Alpha Omicron Pi Sorority Monday night collecting
candy. The sorority, along with members of Farmhouse Fraternity, opened their doors to youngsters for trick-or- treating
and a haunted house.
Vote for unity relieves Canadian students
By Ted Taylor
Staff Reporter
Fifty percent of the voters in Quebec said no
to secession Monday, and 100 percent of the
UNL students watching the returns in Andrews
Hall agreed.
Five Canadian students and one professor
nervously watched the Canadian Broadcasting
Corporation’s live coverage of the polls from
room 102.
Sam Pawley, a graduate student in English
from Ontario, called what the Parti Quebecois
was trying to do
“horrible” and said she was relieved her home
would remain unified.
Ninety-two percent of the 5 million regis
tered voters in the mostly French-speaking prov
ince came out to vote. A similar referendum
vote in 1980 drew only 85 percent.
Pawley said the news she had been hearing
over the last two weeks made her believe the
vote would come in for secession, but as the
night wore on, she wasn’t so sure.
“I wasn’t really worried before,” she said.
“But now it could go either way,” she said,
chewing her nails during the telecast.
“I am hoping for the best but expecting the
“/ worry about the economy and the nation as a whole. ”
HEIDI JACOBS
Graduate student from Alberta
worst,” she said.
The numbers hovered near half and half all
night. At one point, after 68 percent of the
precincts had reported, the count was split with
1.5 million votes for secession and 1.5 million
votes for a unified Canada.
The viewers in Andrews 102 watched the
CBC broadcast as if it were a basketball game,
the score swaying back and forth.
They nodded as CBC anchor Peter
Mansbridge analyzed the situation.
“It would be such a small victory one way or
another that it would lead to some very, very
difficult decisions ahead,” he told millions of
viewers.
Gerri Henderson, a graduate student in En
glish and summer professor at Queens Univer
sity in Kingston, Ontario, said she had a little
more riding on the decision made by the voters.
“I could lose my job,” she said, stopping
midsentence to listen to the television.
“I am really afraid it might be a yes,” she
said. “That’s the feeling I have received from
the Quebeckers when I’ve been there.”
Henderson left the room before the final
results were announced.
Heidi Jacobs, a graduate student from
Edmonton, Alberta, said she was worried about
seeing a different Canada when she returned.
“I am worried about what Canada will look
like when I get back,” she said before the vote.
“I worry about the economy and the nation as a
whole.”
Jacobs said she sensed apathy on the part of
some western Canadians who were fed up with
dealing with the Quebeckers for so many years.
“There is a lot of frustration in other parts of
Canada,” she said. “People may start saying
‘whatever’ just to get it over with.”
NU deficit
spending
suggested
By Paula Lavigne
Senior Reporter
The Coordinating Commission for
Postsecondary Education recommended Mon
day to the Legislature about half the $7.5 mil
lion in deficit budget requests made by Ne
braska universities and colleges.
The commission held an emergency tele
phone conference because the Legislature’s
deadline is Wednesday.
It recommended $3 million of requests by
the University of Nebraska, but it did not rec
ommend any of the requests by state colleges.
The commission is required to make recom
mendations on budget requests, but the decision
does not directly affect budget cuts. The Legis
lature will decide the fate of the requests in
January.
The University of Nebraska submitted the
bulk of the deficit budget requests with $7
million.
The requests that were recommended in
clude a continuation of $3 million for salary
increases, which the legislature approved last
year, overriding the governor’s veto.
Gov. Ben Nelson proposed a 3 percent sal
ary increase, but the Legislature secured a 4
percent increase.
The university’s second request, which was
not recommended, would grant another salary
increase for next year. The 3.5 percent increase
would total $4 million.
Patsy Martin, communications coordinator,
said the commission decided the Legislature’s
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Public access’
fate remains
under debate
By Angie Schendt
Staff Reporter
The Lincoln City Council discussed the fu
ture of the public access channel at a pre
council meeting Monday morning.
But the only conclusion reached was that the
debate will be prolonged at
least another month.
Lincoln Mayor Mike
Johanns recommended a pro
posal regarding public ac
cess that included:
• Encouraging CableV isi cm
to run a community access
channel.
• Eliminating the public
access channel.
•Transferring the equip
ment that was previously used by the public
access channel to the education access channel.
The public access channel has been the focus
of media attention and public scrutiny for sev
eral weeks. At the center of debate is the “Cos
mic Comedy Show.”
The controversial program has included clips
from adult movies and one segment where the
host, wearing clown makeup, was shown mas
turbating.
CableV ision announced Friday it would cre
ate a new community access channel, with the
addition of sponsors.
The new channel will be more diverse than
public access, said Rick Kiolbasa, CableVision
director of government and public relations. It
could include coverage of NASA events, such
as shuttle liftoffs, as well as CableVision pro
ductions.
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