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VOL. 99 COVERING THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA-LINCOLN SINCE 1901 NO. 7
Regents focus
on prioritizing
Commission will be named to help
university decide what stays, goes
By Kimberly Sweet
Senior staff writer
Tuition is rising and so is state
funding.
But despite this increased rev
enue, the University of Nebraska had
to face a more than $9 million dollar
reallocation this year that resulted in
the elimination of nearly 135 posi
tions.
And the financial picture doesn’t
seem to be getting any brighter.
“I don’t see, going downstream
into the future, that we are going to
have a huge infusion of new funds,”
said NU President Dennis Smith.
With that realization, Smith and
the NU Board of Regents took the
first step Saturday to begin a process
of identifying academic priorities for
the University of Nebraska.
Smith will start the process this
week by naming a 12- to 18-member
criteria-setting commission. The
commission will look into standards
the university should set that will
guide it when examining academic
programs.
Smith said the commission that
determines the criteria will be made
up of the faculty senate presidents,
representatives from the NU Board of
Regents, members of the public and
students.
Once the criteria are set, the uni
versity can examine programs and
determine how they fit into the acad
emic scheme NU creates.
Faculty senate presidents from
each of the NU system’s four campus
es spoke in support of creating acade
mic priorities.
Please see REGENTS on 2
Council takes in
city’s bar scene
By Kimberly Sweet
Senior staff writer
Some unfamiliar faces took in the
downtown Lincoln bar scene Friday
night along with students.
Lincoln Mayor Don Wesely,
University of Nebraska-Lincoln Vice
Chancellor for Student Affairs James
Griesen, Police Chief Tom Casady
and other notables were escorted into
the bars, which were filled with col
lege students Friday night.
But instead of lining up to try their
favorite brew, city and university offi
cials had a different agenda for the
evening.
As members of the
Lincoln/Lancaster County
Responsible Hospitality Council, the
officials, along with members of NU
Directions’ Campus and Community
Coalition went into the bars to see
what takes place on a typical Friday
night
The council, which is also made
up of bar owners and operators, helps
to make policy and is concerned with
keeping the bar industry responsible,
said Chris Linder, administrative
assistant for the Responsible
Hospitality Council.
The council also provides training
on how to spot visible intoxication,
when to stop serving someone who
has had too much to drink and when
u
We saw some very
responsible bar
owners. They didn’t
push fire codes, and
they didn’t overdo
decibel levels ”
Tom Workman
UNL doctorate student
someone shouldn’t be allowed to
drive, said Linder, a UNL student.
Friday night’s observations yield
ed a positive impression of what many
of the local bar owners were doing,
said Tom Workman, a UNL doctorate
student who went on the tour.
“We saw some very responsible
bar owners,” Workman said. “They
didn’t push fire codes, and they didn’t
overdo decibel levels.”
While many of the impressions
were positive, Workman said the
council also observed some highly
intoxicated customers, one of whom
was required to go to a detoxification
center.
Please see COUNCIL on 6
MAYOR DON WESELY laughs as the
First Plymouth Congregational
Church’s hell tells during his
speech at the Adopt-a-Landmiae
Kick-Off Rally.
DN Photos by Heather Glenbosh
ABOVE: MAIDA KAPETANOVIG, a Bosnian refugee living in
Lincoln, and Sara Stephenson, a U.N. associate, fix a mousetrap
for the mock minefield exhibit at a rally to raise money to de
mine minefields in Bosnia.
Lincoln rally targets
land-mine removal
By Kelu Lacey
Staff writer
For many Bosnians, the next
step they take could be the one
that ends their lives. Buried with
in the earth lies a fatal weapon
designed to kill or maim the
unlucky person who unknowing
ly triggers it
That’s die reality for many
Bosnians who daily walkthrough
fields, streets and sidewalks that
are laced with land mines. About
26,000 people worldwide die
each year from land mines - one
third of those children - and thou
sands more are severely disabled.
But a Lincoln group is work
ing to save die lives and limbs of
Bosnians through a campaign to
raise $30,000 to de-mine an area
of Bosnia and increase awareness
Please see MINES on 3
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