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TUESDAY WEATHER: Today - Mostly cloudy & breezy. Northwest wind 15 to 25 mph. Tonight - Partly cloudy. Low around 30. COVERING THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA SINCE 1901 VOL. 95 NO. 61 -—--- . -- _===__==_============;_==;= _November 14, 1995_ Campus officials react to list By Paula Lavigne Senior Reporter Although some NU administrators were shocked when Interim Chancel lor Joan Leitzel was not named a chan cellor finalist, they agreed to support whomever is selected. Leitzel has declined to comment on the list. And members of the search committee would not say if she was ever a candidate. Regent Drew Miller of Papillion said he sent a note to Leitzel saying he was disappointed she was not on the finalist list, which came out Friday afternoon. The list includes three candidates: Thomas George, provost and aca demic vice president at Washington Ex-prisoner to discuss Singapore By Heidi White Staff Reporter Former political prisoner Francis Seow will recount his experiences of life in Singapore Wednesday at the second E.N. Thompson Forum on World Issues. Seow, former solicitor general of Singapore will give his address, . “Singapore—the Good, the Bad and the Ugly,” at 3:30 p.m. in the Lied Center for Performing Arts. He will speak of his 1988 arrest under the personal orders of Singapore’s prime minister Lee Kuan Yew, now senior minister of the coun try under Goh Chok Tong. I-1 Inside: ■ See related story on page 3. Seow said in a letter to the Daily Nebraskan that Yew erroneously be lieved he was a U.S. agent who was paid to enter elective opposition poli tics. Conditions for political opposition in Singapore are extremely difficult, he said. “The government is authoritarian and virtually controls every aspect of a Singaporean’s life. Singapore has been described by several disparate writers as a city of fear,” Seow said. Seow also will discuss his book, “To Catch a Tartar: A Dissident in Lee Kuan Yew’s Prison,” at the lecture. It describes his experiences as a politi cal prisoner in Singapore and the meth ods Yew used to silence political op ponents. “A prison experience is always unpleasant, and one I would not wish on my worst enemy,” Seow stated, “Lee Kuan Yew included.” His lecture will focus mainly on Singapore’s political system, the country’s socioeconomic achieve ments and the human lives lost to achieve the country’s status in South east Asia. Seow came to the United States in late 1988 by the invitation of Human Rights Watch of New York to attend its 1 Oth anniversary celebration. He then became the first Orville Schell Fellow and later a visiting fel low of Yale Law School. Seow cur rently is a visiting fellow of the Hu man Rights Program in the East Asia Legal Studies of Harvard Law School. “This search has been conducted with exceptionally good confidentiality. I might as well be reading tea leaves. ” HERB HOWE Associate to the chancellor State University; John Kozak, pro vost at Iowa State University; and James Moeser, provost and vice presi dent for academic affairs at the Uni versity of South Carolina. “I think a lot of us expected Joan Lcitzel would be a leading contender,” Miller said. “I’ve never heard any thing but praise for her work.” Doug Jose, Academic Senate presi dent, said he was surprised Leitzel did not make the list but was confident the committee chose three qualified can didates. “I’m not going to second guess the search committee. I’m sure they did a very thorough job,” he said, “and since Dr. Leitzel wasn’t on the list, that See LEITZEL on 3 ZZ Z40 Who's the man! fWill the next UNL chancellor be Thomas George of Washington State University, John Kozak of Iowa State University or James Moeser of South Carolina University? fin Wednesday's Daily Nebraskan, find out where the three chancellor finalists stand on issues such as diversity, the budget and admissions. f Later this week, get personal with the three provosts and find out what they do when they take off their administrative hats. Travis Heying/DN A fan examines the collapsed section of stands that fell during Monday night’s game at Pius X High School. Bleachers collapse during playoff By Paula Lavigne Senior Reporter Three Omaha Gross High School students were injured Monday night when the front section ofthe bleachers at Lincoln Pius X collapsed and sent several students toppl ing to the ground. Tim Riha, 17, was the only student who sustained serious injuries. Wit nesses said he had a broken, bloodied nose and was unconscious. The other injured students were April Handzlick and Teri Janovich, both sophomores at Gross. Gross was playing at Pius for the state football playoff. A group of teary-eyed Gross cheer leaders consoled each other on the sidelines. “It fell. It fell on topof him,” shouted Heather Howell, as she cried on her friend’s shoulder. “The kids were going crazy, and then the whole thing just tumbled. ” BRANDON ANDREWS Spectator Brandon Andrews, who came from Omaha to watch the game, said a tele vision cameraman attracted the stu dents’ attention. They crowded against the rail and were trying to get on television. “The kids were going crazy, and then the whole thingjust tumbled,” he said. “Everybody got real quiet.” The rail was connected to a con crete ledge about 4 feet off the ground that snapped off the front of the bleach ers, police said. A small pool of blood dotted the track by the fallen rail. Mike Machian, a Gross junior, was one of those who fell. “I was in the back,” he said. “I was jabbed in the ribs. Hard.” Megan Sharpe, a Gross senior, also fell. She wasn’t injured, she said, but her deceased grandmother’s antique cowbells were crushed beneath the concrete. Before the ambulances left the field, the band started playing, and the play ers came back on the field and fin ished the game. Federal workers anxious By Melanie Branded Staff Reporter As the debate over the federal bud get continues, the prospect of being sent home from work today looms in the minds of many federal employees. The lack of an agreement between Congress and the Clinton administra tion over the budget made it likely that 800,000 federal employees would leave work today, when most agen cies’ authority to spend money ex pires. More than 300 workers at the Ro man L. Hruska U.S. Meat Animal Research Center near Clay Center could be affected by the possible fed eral government shutdown. Director Dan Laster said the center may be forced to close Wednesday if the government’s ability to borrow money expired. But until the center receives word otherwise from the Agricultural Re search Service in Washington, D.C., it will remain open, he said. “We have not received any guide lines from Washington that it will hap pen at this point,” Laster said. He said he was not confident that Congress and the Clinton administra tion would reach an agreement on the debt ceiling. “You have to assume they would resolve the issue,” Laster said. Frank Johannsen, state executive director for Farm Service Agencies, said the 625 farm service employees in Nebraska would not be sent home from work today, but they might be sent home later this week if a bill to increase the national debt was not passed bv Thursdav. However, “they may try to keep a few critical employees on board,” he said. He said employees have expressed concern over the budget bills. “Everybody is curious as to what will happen,” Johannsen said. “All we can say is that we hope for the best and hope the two factions can negotiate something. That’s about the extent of what you can say at this point.” It remains to be seen what kind of effect the potential government shut down will have on local branches of government agencies. Sharyl Schaepe, public affairs of ficer for the Veterans Administration Medical Center, said many employ ees had been asking about the status of their jobs. She said they were told to report to work today to await further instructions. “It all comes down to what happens in Washington,” Schaepe said. “Hope fully, Congress and the White House will come to a resolution.” She said it was possible some ad ministrative and maintenance work ers could be affected by the shutdown. See SHUTDOWN on 2 Cameras, intercoms upgrade hall secunty By Angie Schendt Staff Reporter Gather Residence Hall will experi ment with new security cameras over Thanksgiving break to make sure no unwanted turkeys get in overnight. Two cameras will be installed to view those who come in to the hall between midnight and 8 a.m. One chest-high camera will view the person’s face and identification card, and the other will view the lobby, said Mike Lcupold, maintenance manager for Cather-Pound-Neihardt. One person at the Neihardt desk will monitor the camera views of all three entrances from a television and will push a button to open the door for people. Once the door is closed, it will latch and lock again. An intercom system also will be installed so the person enteringcan communicate with the desk worker. “This will let one person take the place of three people,” Leupold said. Before, one person would have to monitor each of the three entrances. Sclleck and East Campus residence halls Burr and Fedde have similar camera systems, Leupold said, but the Cather cameras are different. “The latch button feature is a new function,” he said. The cameras will be installed by Facilities Management, but Glenn Shumann, assistant director of hous ing, said he would interview compa ni es next week to determine who would install the electrical equipment for the intercoms. Shumann said he also was looking See CAMERAS on 3 V
