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SPORTS Double take The Nebraska softball team swept a doublehead er from Wichita State Monday at the NU Softball Complex. PAGE 7 kit ’Round hear The Daily Nebraskan’s “In Appreciation Of” series ends today with an installment covering blues and rock bands that call Lincoln home. BACK PAGE TUESDAY April 28, 1998 -1 I Rain, Rani, Go Cloudy, chance of rain, high 5^ tonight, low 45. VOL. 97 COVERING THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA-LINCOLN SINCE 1901 NO. 149 Students question dean’s commitment By Jessica Fargen Assignment Reporter The counseling psychology depart ment in the University of Nebraska Lincoln Teacher’s College has lost four tenured faculty mentors in the last three years, leading some students to question the dean’s commitment to the program and its future. Out of the five programs in the edu cational psychology department, coun seling psychology is the only one where visiting professors outnumber tenured and is the only program that has lost a significant number of faculty mentors in the last three years. Dean of the Teachers College James O’Hanlon said some positions may have been cut from the counseling psy chology program because resources were directed to school psychology, which was targeted by a university enhancement policy enacted two years ago. O’Hanlon said he does not want to close down or consolidate the program, but several said he was sending mixed messages. “I think a lot of people feel like they are messing with our careers,” said Tricia Besett, a third-year doctoral stu dent. David Moshman, educational psy chology professor in developmental psychology, said he did not know how the program would function next fall. “With five it’s hard. With three it’s hard to imagine how they could man age. With less it is an impossible situa tion,” Moshman said. Since spring 1996, three tenured professors have left, and one is leaving in June. One tenured professor remains, leaving two open spots for tenured fac ulty members. The program now has three visiting professors. A search committee was set up last fall and extended one offer this spring, which was declined; another offer has been made. Besett said she did not understand what was happening to the program. “It’s kind of like a slow death, like a stab wound, and we are slowly dying,” Besett said, “rather than shooting you and getting over with it.” O’Hanlon said he does not want to close down or merge the program now, but next fall he may consider options such as combining die program or nar rowing it down to just a doctoral or mas ters program. If a senior faculty member is not hired by fall, Lincoln or Omaha coun seling psychologists may be used to temporarily fill the positions, O’Hanlon said. O’Hanlon said one student has been admitted for this fall and no more would be added to the 70 masters and doctoral students until next year. He said he wants to save resources for the current students and could let twice as many students in next year. Besett said the decreasing size of the program would make it a first choice if a cut had to be made. Please see DEAN on page 6 66 Its kind of like a slow death, like a stab wound, and we are slowly dying, rather than shooting you and getting over with it” Tricia Besett third-year doctoral student Victims may have killed one another By Josh Funk Senior Reporter Preliminary autopsy results released Monday show that the victims of Thursday’s double homicide may have killed each other, according to the Lancaster County Attorney’s office. Family members found husband and wife, Han Nguyen, 33, and Thaosuong Bui, 28, in the basement of their north Lincoln home around 7:30 a.m. Thursday. Family members called the police, who found that both had suf fered several stab wounds, Lincoln Police Capt. Gary Engel said. The wife, Bui, was dead when police arrived. Her husband, Nguyen, was rushed to Lincoln General Hospital, where he died a few hours later. Lancaster County Attorney Gary Lacey said it appeared Bui and Nguyen killed each other in a fight. But Lacey said the doctor who performed the autopsies needs to read the police investigation before signing the death certificates and releasing his findings. Bui lived in the family home on the 3500 block of North Fourth Street Court and ran a small beauty salon in north-central Lincoln. Nguyen had just moved to Lincoln from Vietnam a few weeks ago. Two days before the stabbings, police were called to the house for a domestic dispute between Bui and Nguyen. Four other family members were in the house during the early morning hours when police believe the fight occurred. Students waiting for issues before choosing ■ Voters say they want candidates to talk about real issues rather than creating others to divert attention. By Todd Anderson Assignment Reporter Less than two weeks before statewide primary election day, sev eral University of Nebraska Lincoln students have yet to decide which candidate will receive their vote for party nomination. And most students said they have to sort out the real issues from high-profile political jargon pushed in television and radio advertise ments to make those tough deci sions. Alex Kim, a chemistry graduate student and a registered indepen dent voter, said he wishes candi dates from both camps would announce what they truly believe instead of consulting the polls to decide what to say. “It seems that most of (the can didates) look at Nebraska and pick stereotypes and decide what (voters would) like to hear,” he said. Student voters said candidates themselves had determined the Please see VOTE on page 6 ——iiil i i 1 iM Nikki Fox/DN Karen Kune, UNL associate professor of art, recently won the University of Nebraska Outstanding Research and Creative Activity Award. Kune, who has been at UNL for 13 years, specializes in color wood prints. Kune carves own niche By Robyn Thompson StaffReporter In her youth, Karen Kune chose crayons over any other game she was offered. “I think I always knew 1 was going to be an artist, even before kindergarten,” said the associate professor of art Today, Kune continues to choose art first and dedicates her life to creating colorful wood-block prints and other artwork shown in galleries worldwide. These contributions recently earned Kune the 1998 University of Nebraska Outstanding Research and Creative Activity Award. u Although she has taught for 13 years at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and dabbled in many artistic endeavors, Kune said her primary artistic work is color wood prints. She carves the colorful prints into birch plywood and stamps them with oil base printer’s ink. Her designs are abstractions inspired by nature. Others describe her style as bold, Kune said. “And I’ve also heard people use ’lyrical/ because there’s a sense of beauty to things, but kind of a strange beauty,” she said. Even though she receives such ample praise of her work, the art veteran said she gets ner vous before she starts each new piece. So nervous, in fact, Kune said the “creation of each new piece could probably be mapped like a roller coaster ride.” She starts her projects low, she said, and full of fear and Uncertain ty Then, she rises as she sinks deeper into the piece. “Pretty soon, the art piece takes over me,” Kune said, and the art starts telling her what needs to hap pen next. “TTiat’s a wonderful stage to be in.” Kune said the university has given her the artistic freedom and Please see KUNC on page 3 Read the Daily Nebraskan on the Worldwide Web at http:// www.unl.edu/DailyNeb ; \ , »" •' v if '• - 1 \ " - • • • . . • ' * • $ ■ j
