Web site lets users surf radio
waves from around the world
By Lori Robison
Staff Reporter
Displaced Husker fans no longer
have to worry about how to find a ra
dio station that carries Nebraska foot
ball games. At least not if they have
access to the Internet.
AudioNet, the largest audio site on
the World Wide Web, captures broad
cast signals from designated radio sta
tions. The signals are then converted
into “real audio” sound for computers.
The result is a service that offers a
world of live sports and concert cov
erage, as well as a variety of audio
books and music.
But according to company presi
dent Mark Cuban, AudioNet’s big
draw is college sports. The service pro
vides local radio coverage of sports
events to Internet users everywhere,
allowing alumni all over the world to
tap into live coverage of their alma
maters’ games.
“Until AudioNet came along,” Cu
ban said in a press release, “alumni and
fans who live outside the broadcast sig
nal area were out of luck when it came
to listening to games because they were
unable to pick up the radio or TV
broadcasts”
David Light, entertainment market
ing coordinator for AudioNet, said that
because universities are having a
harder time keeping track of alumni,
this form of broadcasting really “tar
gets the dislocated fan.”
“It’s really a win-win situation,” he
said, “helping to reconnect people with
school spirit.”
But AudioNet’s services aren’t lim
ited to providing a sports fix to alumni
far from their alma maters. Broadcast
programs from more than 80 radio sta
tions in the United States and Canada
now are offered through the site.
In addition, AudioNet users can
continue surfing the Internet while lis
tening to their favorite live radio broad
casts.
AudioNet is the first Internet site
to provide live coverage of sports
events, including college and profes
sional football, basketball and baseball.
Since its inception, the site has cov-'
ered more than 1,000 live sporting
events and concerts, including Porno
for Pyros, Dishwalla and Styx.
But sports and concerts are not the
only food AudioNet provides for the
ears — the site also provided live
broadcasts of this year’s national po
litical party convention and debates, hi
addition audiobooks covering such
topics as children’s literature, cooking,
history, horror, science fiction and ro
mance also can be accessed.
In addition, the site’s CD Jukebox
offers listeners an opportunity to
choose from among 500 full-length
musical and comedy compact discs.
And aside from standard fees paid
by Internet users, AudioNet’s services
are free of charge and has an infrastruc
ture and bandwidth specifically de
signed to support a large number of
simultaneous listeners.
AudioNet’s web site can be found
at http://www.AudioNet.com/. Inter
ested surfers can ride the audio waves
simply by downloading the
“RealAudio” software at the web site.
Vigil remembers slam environmentalist
By Stacey Range
StaffReporter
Falling snow and cold temperatures
couldn’t keep members of UNL Am
nesty International and Ecology Now
from marking the first anniversary of
the execution of a Nigerian environ
mentalist with a candlelight vigil at
Broyhill Plaza Sunday night.
Ken Saro-Wiwa was charged Nov.
2,1995, with the murders of four Ni
rian government eight days later. Saro
Wiwa’s supporters say the charges
were unjustified and that he was killed
because of his environmental protests.
Saro-Wiwa, a recipient of the Goldman
Environmental Prize and a Nobel
Peace Prize nominee, worked to stop
the pollution of Nigeria by Royal
Dutch- Shell, a multinational oil cor
poration.
About 25 members and supporters
clenched their candles in hopes of ab
sorbing the candle’s heat, while they
listened to Sock tell Saro-Wiwa’s story.
Oyekan Owomoyela, a UNL En
glish professor, said he attended the
gathering because he was Nigerian.
“I have an understanding (of the
situation in Nigeria) both as a Nige
rian and as someone who cares about
the environment,” Owomoyela said.
Marcus Craig, president of UNL
Ecology Now, said Nigeria’s oil sup
ply was being stolen by oil companies
such as Royal Dutch-Shell, which owns
80 to 90 percent of the country’s oil
supply. Saro-Wiwa worked to end the
pollution of Nigeria by the oil compa
nies, Craig said, and in the end, Saro
Wiwa’s life was cut short because of
his protests against one of the Nige
rian government’s biggest corporate
backers.
Lisa Sock, coordinator of UNL
Amnesty International, urged the au
dience to speak out against unjust acts
like this.
“It’s important'that we put pen to
paper or ear to telephone and let out
U.S. government and Shell Oil know
that we disapprove.”
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New Law School tenure
passed at Minnesota U.
From The Minnesota Daily
(U-WIRE) MINNEAPOLIS,
Minn.—Despite a last-minute ap
peal to hold off on tenure reform,
the Board of Regents at the Univer
sity of Minnesota passed a new Law
School tenure code Thursday.
“I’m concerned about what such
action might say about how we as a
collective board conduct our busi
ness,” said Regent Jean Keffeler,
who was silent and visibly shaken
as the other regents voted unani
mously in favor of the new plan.
By changing the tenure code for
Law School faculty members, re
gents took their largest step toward
resolving the drawn-out tenure im
passe.
For some faculty members the
move represented a much-desired
reprieve because the new code gives
administrators no extended layoff
authority. But other faculty mem
bers said the code’s passage will add
to an ever-increasing distrust of the
regents.
The new code includes exten
sive post-tenure peer review, more
temporary teaching assignments,
the possibility fa- longer pre-tenure
probation and across-the-board pay
reductions in times of financial cri
sis.
Law professor Fred Morrison
said he thought the proposal pro
vides adequate faculty protection.
“As a member of the university
community, I would recommend
this document to other faculty be
cause it protects academic freedom,
provides due process and deals will
programmatic change in the same
fashion that the Faculty Senate rec
ommended,” he said.
The regents were unsure if they
could act on the tenure code, as
originally scheduled for Friday. But
Wednesday the state’s Bureau of
Mediation Services invalidated the
Law School’s attempt to freeze la
bor conditions, sparking the re
gents' agenda change. The bureau
determined the school needed one
more union card to uphold a labor
freeze order.
This month’s regents meetings
are Keffeler’s last. Last week she
announced her resignation citing a
conflict between her views and the
direction of the board as the impe
tus for her decision. Gov. Arne
Carlson has yet to name a replace
ment.
To pass the new code, the re
gents took advantage of a special
clause in their bylaws and a Minne
sota statute that allowed them to call
for a special meeting without giv
ing 24 hours notice.
University Faculty Alliance co
coordinator Tom Walsh speculated
that the regents feared a law faculty
member would deliver a union card
to reinstate die state order if the re
gents didn’t act as quickly as pos
sible. Reagan and Regent Patricia
Spence said this was not the case.
Josh Tilsen, a mediation services
representative, said he simply didn’t
know if the Law School could have
handed in an additional card and if
that card could have led to a rein
statement of the labor freeze order.
The Law School had an origi
nal Nov. 1, deadline to file for a la
bor freeze, although Tilsen said it
«
This is the most
momentous thing
they’ve done and
they did it in 30
minutes.”
Tom Walsh
University of Minnesota
Faculty Alliance co-coordinator
Keffeler said adopting tenure re
visions for the law professors in
such a state of haste would send the
wrong message to faculty. She said
faculty members, throughout the
tenure reform process, feared that
the board “may take action faculty
oppose through some clever tech
nicality.”“Will voting on a tenure
code today confirm that fear?”
Keffeler asked the regents. “Will it
add to the atmosphere of distrust?”
Several faculty members in the
audience shouted “yes!”
Following the meeting, Walsh
agreed with many of Keffeler’s
statements.
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thing they’ve done and they did it
. in 30 minutes,” Walsh said. “The
only discussion was about their
emotions, and they didn’t talk about
the substance of the issue.”
Reagan would not say whether
the proposal passed for the Law
School would be applicable to other
faculty members if regents were al
lowed to act on the tenure code of
other units.
Walsh said he suspects the
changes for the Law School are
meant only for that unit.
Pending the union vote for the
rest of the faculty, the regents could
have another potential opportunity
to change tenure. If the union vote
— which could happen as early as
December — is unsuccessful, the
faculty would have to wait one year
before attempting another election.
Technically, this would allow the
regents about six months to change
tenure before the new administra
tion takes power on July 1 when the
one-year moratorium goes into ef
fect.
But given the troubles this ten
ure debate has already caused,
Reagan said it would be unlikely
that the regents would enact un
popular changes before July should
the election fail.
While calling the new code a
sincere attempt at reform, Keffeler
added that it lacked many of the
policy objectives regents had set out
to address. She said the compromise
is inadequate.
Faculty Consultative Committee
Chairwoman Virginia Gray said it
was time for the regents to make a
decision. “The faculty has given its
input, and I’m glad we can move
forward and talk about some other
issues,” she said. Gray said she
thought many faculty members
would support the proposal.
While he did not rule out taking
legal action against the regents,
Walsh said he will seek input of the
group’s members before anything is
is unclear whether a freeze could be
introduced after that date.
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UNL Department of Anthropology
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