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September 5,11996 1 ■HSHHHBSUlttUMlU3MiiiiiliStlM«fiiiAMHiiaiaiMalfiiHHIIHHIHHHUiiil f By Sarah Baker Staff Reporter It’s almost like winning a $10 mil f lion lottery three times in a row. But instead of taking a risk, the £ university accepted a gift — its larg f est ever — for $29,917,419. The almost $30 million check came ' from the W.E. Barkley trust and was presented to the university Wednesday morning by the University of Nebraska Foundation. The gift was given to carry out the wishes of the late William E. and Edna 1 M. Barkley and was announced dur ing a ceremony at the Barkley Memo rial Center on East Campus. Before their deaths, the Barkleys, originally from Lincoln, asked that their trust be used to fund the teaching and development of programs to as sist persons who have speech and hear ing disorders. NU President Dennis Smith said the gift would play an important part * in continuing programs in the Uni ver r sity of Nebraska Foundation, t“The university’s goal is to achieve excellence in academic programs,” Smith said. “With this gift, the univer sity will be able to move to the fore front in the areas of research, teaching and public service.” The main goal of the Barkley Cen ter is to provide services to students who have special needs. Programs in the Department of Special Educa tion and Communications Disorders teach students how to provide educa tional and clinical services to people with disabilities. The speech/language and hearing clinic offers assessment and treatment for adults and children with a variety of disorders. The Barkley Center also offers ex tensive research facilities where stu dents work on projects that add to the advancement of knowledge in the ar eas of speech, special education, lan guage and hearing. Chancellor James Moeser said the center had a head start in developing the kind of academic excellence he hoped to achieve for UNL. “We want to make these programs nothing less than number one,” Moeser said. Through the support of private funding Moeser said, he hoped to have top-notch resources. He also said he hoped the impact of this gift would be to create otter centers of excellence throughout the university. “Tins is an example of what can occur when we have private funding,” Moeser said, “an example of what we can accomplish.” New prosecutor called for Washington trial By Chad Lorenz Senior Reporter The Lancaster County Attorney’s office will not prosecute Riley Wash ington in an attempted second-degree murder trial, a district court judge ruled Tuesday. Washington was accused of shoot ing at Jermaine Cole at a Lincoln Kwik Shop on Aug. 2,1995. The decision delayed the former Nebraska football player’s trial date to Oct. 28. Judge Bernard McGinn ruled that Deputy County Attorney David Stempson was a material witness in the case because of telephone calls he had with Cole, who moved to Texas. The defense will call Stempson as a witness, which makes his role as prosecuting attorney a conflict of in terest, court records state. McGinn appointed Lincoln attor ney Ron Lahners as the special pros ecutor in the case. Lahners is a former county attorney and U.S. attorney for Nebraska. Washington’s trial will continue on Sept. 28, when McGinn will hear the defense’s motion to prohibit any out of-court statements made by Cole from being used as evidence. Ryan Soderlin/DN ANNE SHOEMAKER holds her daughter Kimberly, while her daughter Brooke and friend Austin Robertus count the geese at Pioneers Park. Geese nestle into Lincoln parks ‘Canadas’ often fly through Nebraska during their seasonal migration. By Angela Smith Staff Reporter You think you have overprotec tive parents? Well, nothing can compare to the attack of a parental Canada goose. Several groups of Canada geese have made permanent homes at Lincoln parks and water sites. At Pioneers Park in southwest Lincoln, more than 50 Canada geese live at the park’s bird garden. Park employee Peggy Hunt said the black and white geese, nick named “Canadas,” are “very loud birds.” She said the parents were very protective of their offspring, or goslings. “When park visitors walk near the nests, the adults hiss and chase the people,” she said. Park employees said there has never been a report of a goose bit ing. They assure visitors the geese are only putting on a “hissing show” to defend their young. After the gos lings hatch in the spring, the Canadas are more openly aggres sive. Hunt described the behavior of a goose that was entangled in fish ing wire. She and other park em ployees saved th£ goose, which could not walk and was choking because of the line around its neck. “It hissed the whole time,” she said, “even after it was free, it just kept sticking its tongue out and hissing.” Hunt said park employees feed the geese corn and grains from troughs near the lakes. Few geese stay year round, but the population of the boisterous birds reaches into the thousands during migration. The geese that migrate through Lincoln are known as the Tall Grass Prairie population. The birds leave their nests near the Hudson Bay in Manitoba when the weather turns eold. By early October, most of the geese have traveled through Ne braska. Many continue south to the Gulf of Mexico. But hundreds re main in Lincoln to stay the winter. A three-year migration study of the geese in Nebraska left many of the birds with identification tags. Joe Gabig, a waterfowlbiologist with the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission, said more than 4,800 Canada geese have been captured since 1991. Of those, more than 3,100 have been fitted with leg bands; more than 900 have neck collars. Most of the birds were found between Schuyler and the Interstate 80 bridge at the Platte River near Mahoney State Park. Gabig said the study produced an up-to-date map of the migration patterns, and a detailed list of be haviors. The information is pub lished and available from the Ne braska Game and Park Commis sion. a | MU president skirts search; appoints UNMC chancellor Position is filled less than one week after resignation. By Erin Schulte Senior Reporter University administrators didn’t have to look far or long to find a new chancellor for the Upiversity of Nebraska Medical Center. Skirting around theffanths of waiting for a search committee de cision, NU President Dennis Smith appointed UNMC’s vice chancel lor for academic affairs to the post Tuesday, less than a week after Chancellor Carol Aschenbrener re signed. Wiliam Berndt said he got a call from Smith on Tuesday asking him to take the chancellor position. The call did not come as a total shock. ‘T won’t say that I had planned on this, but I guess I was one of die obvious choices,” Berndt said Wednesday night Berndt, who lives in Fort Calhoun, has been with UNMC • since 1982 and served as interim chancellor from 1991-92, when then-NU President Marlin Massengale hired Aschenbrener. When Aschenbrener, 51, re .' Please see UNMC on 6 U.b. strikes kill Iraqi attack Missiles targeted at defense sites leave Saddam ‘strategically worse off.’ By Susanne M. Schafer Associated Press WASHINGTON — Iraqi forces tested the patrols in a newly-expanded American “no-fly” zone over South ern Iraq Wednesday but Were either destroyed or deterred by U.S. forces. President Clinton said the U.S. military strikes against Iraq have left Saddam Hussein “strategically worse off” The twin U.S. cruise missile strikes against Iraqi air defense sites this week were a success, Clinton said. They had been sparked by Saddam’s attacks on the Kurds in the north. “I’m satisfied this mission has achieved the objectives we set out for it,” Clinton said in his first assessment of the U.S. moves, which included enlarging the so-called no-fly zone in Southern Iraq. Saddam now “knows there is a price to be paid for stepping over the line,” the president said. Even so, Iraqi forces confronted U.S. flyers twice as they began their patrols Wednesday over the expanded “no-fly” zone that Washington unilat erally declared Tuesday. V; An Iraqi air defense radar site illu minated an Air Force F-16 with its sig nal, a potential precursor to firing a surface-to-air missile. The “Fighting Falcon” responded by unleashing an anti-radar missile and the site went si lent, Defense Secretary William Perry said. Two Iraqi MiGs also apparently tried to “lock on” to U.S. jets conduct ing a routine patrol, but turned away as they neared the 33rd parallel, the northern border of the expanded no fly zone, defense officials said. Clinton vowed to stand tough against such Iraqi threats. “We will do whatever we have to do in the future to protect our pilots,” he said. To reinforce the buffer zone be tween Iraq and its neighbors, Clinton announced Tuesday that the no-fly zone would be expanded about 60 miles further north, to the 33rd paral lel. , That would take it to the suburbs of Baghdad, where a defiant Saddam V ■ Please see IRAQ on 2
