. Hurricane
strikes blow
at Mexican
resort city
ACAPULCO, Mexico (AP)
- Hurricane Pauline struck
Mexico’s most famous tourist
resort with devastating fury
Thursday, unleashing deadly
torrents that swept people, cars
and giant boulders toward
storm-ravaged Pacific beaches.
At least 59 people died
along hundreds of miles of
coast pummeled by Pauline’s
100-mph winds - 40 of those
deaths in badly battered
Acapulco, a glittering resort of
2.9 million people that dawned
a disaster zone.
“This is a very sad day,”
said Gov. Angel Aguirre of
Guerrero state, home to
Acapulco, where Pauline sent
torrents, ofrriinwater raging
through streets. Aguirre said at .
least five other people were
killed elsewhere in the state,
adding, “We don’t recall a hur
ricane ever having caused such
damage.”
In neighboring Oaxaca
state, where Pauline first struck
with 115-mph winds a day ear
lier, state government
spokesman Leandrg
Hernandez confirmed 14
deaths, 15 people missing and
thousands of homeless. /
“The figure could still
rise,” said Hernandez, speak
ing with The Associated Press
by telephone from the state*
where powerful Pauline ripped
makeshift homes away and
badly damaged such resorts as
Puerto Angel. j
Fueled by the warm El
Nifip ocean currents, PauUne
powered lowering. wayes.-BO \
feet taH on exposed- that
pounded Acapulco’s pristine
beaches to a maelstrom of trash
and twisted lounge chairs.
Heavy rains turned streets
into roaring fivers of debris.
Water swept boulders the size
of cars down the hills and
flipped vehicles like toys,
catching some with lights still
on, their doors underwater. A
coastal highway skirting the
famed beaches teemed with
raging water, and one man’s
body stuck from the mud, arms
outstretched and mouth agape.
- The U.S. Hurricane Center
in Miami extended a hurricane
*. warning-hundreds of miles up
; ; the cpast,from Acapulco to the • •
s resort city of Puerto Vallarta, as
satellite . images, showed
Pauline moving roughly paral
lel to the shore:
At 4 p.m., Pauline was off
the coast near the port of
Lazaro Cardenas, but its 100
mph winds had weakened to 85
mph - still a big worry because
of threats of more flash floods
! and large waves.
“If Pauline survives, it
| could become a potential threat
to the Gulf of California land
j adjacent areas within the next
day or two,” hurricane center
forecaster Max Mayfield said,
j- President Ernesto Zedillo,
on a state visit to Germany,
ordered army troops into
stricken areas along a long
i; stretch of coast. Troops in
Humvees poured into
Acapulco by the hundreds to
secure areas around homes
i wrecked by raging floods.
TV footage showed bodies
f mired in the mud. Jaime
i Herandez, 40, who lives in the
hills near Acapulco, said police
took away at least seven bodies
after mud and water came rush
ing down before dawn.
REPORT from page 1
accredited status since 1913.
Chancellor James Moeser said he
was “very pleased” by the report,
which contained no surprises for
administrators.
“Every concern that’s mentioned
calls attention to an area that we are
already aware of and already working
on,” Moeser said.
He noted that, after the evaluation
team left last spring, UNL reallocated
funds for information technology and
recruiting women into senior univer
sity positions.
Several women were appointed to
top administrative positions this sum
mer, he said, although more women
are needed as college deans and as
department chairwomen.
He also recently made two admin
istrators accountable for extending
gender-equity goals at the university.
1 But Moeser said the report’s
demand for better evaluation of stu
dent academic achievement was a
; perplexing issue for the university.
“Very few institutions have really
cracked this nut,” he said, and the
team couldn’t suggest an appropriate
model for UNL to follow and
improve its academic assessment.
Moeser said improved social sur
vey research will be the key to a better
evaluation in this area by 2000. UNL
will begin by asking more alumni,
five years after their graduation, how
certain courses and colleges added to
their collegiate education, he said.
Moeser said he was; most pleased
the report notes “the (generally high
morale of faculty” anckfaculty’s sig
nificant role in campus planning.
“I took a great deal of heart from
that, because I think it says a lot about
the spirit of the place,” he said.
Despite high morale, die report
notes faculty salaries at UNL were
5.8 percent lower than those at the
university’s peer institutions. As a
result, “there are some problems in
retaining highly productive senior
faculty,” the report states.
Moeser said UNL’s lack of compe
tition in the area must change if it is to
continue recruiting top-notch faculty
from across the nation and the world.
He plans to make increasing fac
ulty salaries a priority campaign dur
ing the next legislative session, he
said, and hopes the report will per
suade the NU Board of Regents and
state senators to support him.
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morale is high, which Moeser called
“a critical success.”
Although the report noted evalua
tion team members’ conversations
with some women faculty and staff
who said the university isn’t strongly
committed to gender equity, Moeser
said the Report of the Gender Equity
Task Force showed many inequities
were perceived rather than actual.
For instance, the task force report
listed results of a faculty poll show
ing women faculty thought they were
less likely to receive tenure than male
faculty members. But university sta
tistics prove the opposite is true.
In its report, the commission also
said:
■ The university manages its
financial resources well and has con
tributed millions of dollars to
Nebraska’s economy through contin
ued research in agriculture and dis
tance education.
■ The university remains flexible
in developing new cross-disciplinary
programs, which is “uncharacteristic
of some large public universities,”
■ The university maintains a
strong library system, although it suf
fers from a lack of space and funding*..
for acquisitions.
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