September
Keeping track
Ryan Soderun/DN
TAMI BRAY, junior business administration major, enjoys the late summer weather
with a walk around Ed Weir track Monday. Weather for the rest of this week is
expected to turn wet with cooler temperatures following the passing of a cold front.
Scattered thunderstorms and showers are expected,today along with highs in the
70s. Lows tonight should be in the 40s. *
Perot picks economist
as his running mate
DALLAS (AP) — Snubbed by several es
tablished political figures in his search for a run
ning mafe, Ross Perot picked economist Pat
Choate on Tuesday to share his Reform Party
presidential ticket, calling him “a person of in
tellect, courage, integrity and grit.”
Choate is a protectionist and was a strong
Perot ally in opposing the North American Free
Trade Agreement. He was Perot’s coach for a
televised NAFTA debate the Texas businessman
had with Vice President A1 Gore.
“He knows the system as few do,” Perot said,
announcing his choice in a 30-minute
infomercial on CBS. “He knows what’s wrong
with it. We agree what’s wrong with it. His views
are your views out there across America.”
For his part, the campaign novice Choate
said he joined Perot’s third-party ticket because
government can’t be reformed “from the in
side.”
“It cannot be changed by either of the two
major political parties,” the bearded candidate
said. “...Too many people profit too much at
public expense.”
Choate co-wrote a book with Perot after
Perot’s unsuccessful 1992 presidential run and
recently has traveled the country promoting the
Texas billionaire as the best alternative to the
two major party candidates. He lives in the Dis
trict of Columbia and is little known outside of
Please see PEROT on 3
Golden Key wins award,
scholarship at convention
By Kelly McNally
Staff Reporter'
For the second year in a row, the UNL chap
ter of the Golden Key National Honor Society
earned the society’s Key Chapter Award for
community involvement.
The Nebraska chapter returned from an in
ternational convention in Scottsdale^ Ariz., on
Aug. 9, with the chapter award and a $10,000
scholarship for one of its members.
Golden Key has 244 chapters in the United
States, Puerto Rico and Australia. All chapters
were eligible for the award, but only the top 20
point earners received the Key Chapter Award.
Points are awarded to chapters based on their
level of involvement in communities. This is
the second consecutive year that the University
of Nebraska-Lincoln chapter, which has about
500 members, has received the Key Chapter
Award.
This is an unusual feat, but not a surprise to
Kali Kirkham Boatright, national, director of
public affairs. <
“Nebraska is consistently one of the best
chapters,” she said.
The award recognizes the UNL chapter as
being active and contributing to the community,
said George Sturgeon, local chapter adviser and
associate chemistry professor.
Sturgeon highlighted activities that Golden
Key participated in last year that led up to re
ceiving the award.
The chapter worked with Lincoln Public
Schools and the Athletic Department to put on
the annual “School is Cool Jam” in the Bob
Devaney Sports Center.
The society also held honors dinners for
members who had maintained a 4.0 GPA. The
students were invited to eat with deans and ad
ministrators.
Members also gave presentations at national
and regional convocations.
The Golden Key Scholar award was pre
sented to UNL graduate Stephanie Brauner. She
was one of five members internationally who
received a $10,000 scholarship for graduate
study. Brauner is now a freshman law student
at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.
UNL professors bring knowledge of capitalism to Albania
By Josh Funk
Staff Reporter
i is edging its way into
ope with the help of eight
i»uit£Sors who had to overturn
decades of communist ideology.
Albania is a small country north of
Greece and southeast of Yugoslavia.
It became the focus for the professors’
work after civil war prevented them
from working in Yugoslavia, as they
had planned.
Sang Lee, a University of
braska-Lincoln management profe
led the team to teach Albanian go\
ment officials and tra
dies with a
f for Inter
professors
first-ever master’s
program in business adminis
last spring.
hrnieh the nrnfessors nlanned to
a
We can bring back to the classroom what
worked and what didn't in the real
world. We are able to teach reality, not
textbooks"
Steve Sommer
UNL business professor
work in Yugoslavia, much of their re
search also applied to nearby Albania,
a former communist state with about
3.5 million people that also claims to
be the world’s first atheist country.
“Albania had just opened its bor
ders, so with our knowledge of die re
gion we just stepped in,” said Steve
Sommer, management professor.
The transition to a market economy
is neither quick nor easy because the
professors had to teach die Albanians
a different way of thinking.
They used seminars as well as con
centrated classes to teach capitalism
and started business programs in some
Albanian universities. Albanian fac
ulty is already studying capitalism-re
lated courses at UNL.
“We tried to introduce things that
will endure and help them make the
Please see ALBANIA on 3
Breakthrough
A team of eight UNL professors established
Albania's first ever MBA program to help the
former communist country adjust to a free
market economy.
Aaron Steckelberg/DN
