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A 193-yard rushing performance by Nebraska I- The high energy moves and funk-fringed sounds
back Ahman Green helped lead the Huskers to a of Chicago-based Boogie Shoes permeate the
56-26 victory over Kansas State. PAGE 8-9 Zoo Bar tonight. PAGE 12
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Check mates_ .
Lane Hickenbottom/DN
TED SCHULER, a member of Scholar’s Keep, a university combat club, djsplays his full body armor while
other club members prepare a game of human battle chess Sunday afternoon. In battle chess, before one
piece (player) can overtake another, he or she must win in battle. Because only Schuler brought body armor,
I flie club battled by playing paper, rock, scissors. Please see story on page 3.
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NU Foundation ups goal
By Ted Taylor .
. Senior Reporter
The University of Nebraska
Foundation announced Friday its
hopes of hitting a $250 million firnd
- raising goal by 2001 haven’t gone
quite as expected.
They’ve gone better, so now
they’re looking for $125 million
more.
“Reaching that goal obviously
encourages us to go to a larger goal,”
said foundation President Terry
Fairfield.
“That does not mean in the last
three years of the campaign that goal
will be easily reached,” he said. “But
we do have momentum.”
The new goal may be harder to
meet, he added, because in a fund
raising campaign like this, the larger
donations come early.
The NU Foundation is a nonprofit
corporation that helps raise money
for all four of NU’s campuses through
gifts from alumni, friends, corpora
tions and other foundations.
It took the foundation 17 months
to reach the $250 million goal. The
fund-raising effort, termed
“Campaign Nebraska,” is scheduled
to end on Dec. 31,2000.
Please see FUND on 2
Senate faults
UNK leader
■ A faculty senate finds
problems with Johnston’s
style of leadership.
By Ted Taylor
Senior Reporter
The UNK Faculty Senate sent a
message Thursday to Chancellor
Gladys Styles Johnston voicing its
displeasure in the way she runs the
Kearney campus.
Stopping just short of a no confi
dence vote, the senators expressed
their unhappiness with budget reallo
cations and the recent appointment of
a new senior vice chancellor, said
UNK Faculty Senate President
Richard Miller.
The message is that the faculty
senate is not satisfied with Chancellor
Johnston’s leadership,” he said Friday.
A 13-11 vote kept the wording no
confidence - a faculty’s deepest
expression of displeasure with an
administrator - out of the resolutions.
The resolutions touched on a num
ber of subjects, including the chancel
lor’s reallocating the budget “in a
problematic manner,” which was
“characteristic of a pattern of decision
making and management by the chan
cellor.”
It also stated that Johnston disre
garded the senate’s rights of shared
governance on matters of campus wide
interest, and that she had “created an
environment that adversely affects
morale” at UNK.
The resolution, which passed 25
6, ended by saying, “Be it resolved
that the University of Nebraska at
Kearney Faculty Senate questions the
administrative leadership of )
Chancellor Gladys Styles Johnston.”
But the faculty senate’s statement
was in stark contrast to the feeling of
Johnston’s boss, NU President Dennis
Smith.
“I have full confidence in the lead
ership of Chancellor Johnston,” he
said Friday afternoon. “What she did -
the 3 percent budget reallocation - is
what I suggested. I fully supported it.”
Speaking from her home on
Sunday, Johnston said she was “very
disappointed in the faculty (senate)
and the action that they took.”
“I found the allegations were
unfounded and unsubstantiated,” she
said.
one aiso saia me senate s state
ment regarding her characteristic pat
tern of making decisions in a problem
atic manner was completely untrue.
“This is my filth year as chancel
lor, and never have I had a disagree
ment with a faculty - not a single inci
dent. Where is an example?
“If there is a pattern and there are
examples, why haven’t they brought
them to my attention?”
Johnston and Smith both said
there was a miscommunication
between the administration and the
senate regarding the budget realloca
tion.
“The senate did not interpret then
roles as advisory, they interpreted
them as decision making - which is
Please see UNK on 2
Standing students
raise few problems
By Brad Davis
and Erin Gibson
v Daily Nebraskan Reporters
Most students have complied with the
Athletic Department’s request to stand off the
bleachers during football games this fall and
most non-student spectators are pleased with
their compliance, the Daily Nebraskan found in
interviews conducted during Saturday’s game.
All non-students interviewed who sit above
sections 13, 14 and 15 said students were
obeying the policy, and they could see the field
while sitting down during die games,
y Only a small portion of non-students sitting
m section 12 said they were inconvenienced by
those standing on the bleachers below them,
and they were forced to stand during the game.
But, in the game’s thud quarter, die first row
of people standing on bleachers in section 12 said
they were visiting the university from Norfolk and
were unaware of the new “stand down” policy.
These non-students, who wouldn’t give
their names in fear of punishment, caused
everyone behind them to also stand on the
bleachers in order to see the game.
This fall, Athletic Director Bill Byfne and
ASUN President Curt Ruwe teamed up to ask
students with seats in South Stadium to stand
in the footwells of their rows rather than on the
bleachers, or “next year... be further removed
from the action.”
Because students standing on bleachers
can obscure the views of non-students seated
above them at games, student seating in sec
tions 14 and 15, rows one through 67, would be
moved to sections 12, 13 and 14, rows 68 and
up. Student seating in east stadium and sec
tions 12 and 13 would not be affected.
Students consistently stood on bleachers in
sections 13 and 14, rows 27 through 40.
Scattered students in section 15 also stood on
Please see STAND on 6
Taking a Stand Memorial Stadium
Most students have been good about following the ‘step
down” policy that ASUN and the Athletic Department
implemented for Memorial Stadium this year. However,
some have continued to stand on the seats, rather than
the footwells as requested, making it difficult for fans in
certain sections to enjoy football games.
Non-students
in section 12
rows 67and 80
were
41 sections 13,
14 and 15 were
also standing.
. Aaron Steckelberg/DN
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