Alumni return for Masters Week
By Margaret Behm
Staff writer
UNL alumni will be on hand for
Masters Week the next few days inter
acting with students and hoping to
inspire and show them their education
can take them anywhere.
The annual Masters Week, which
kids off today and goes until Friday, is
a program that brings successful alum
ni back to die Univarsity ofNebraska
Lincoin campus.
In January, UNL Chancellor
James Moeser invited faculty to sub
mit nominations. A selection board
chose the alumni.
Moeser appointed the board, com
prised of students and faculty.
Allison Hamiel, chairwoman for
the Student Alumni Association and a
student on the board, said she chose
alumni she felt students would be
interested in.
She wanted the chosen alumni to
inspire students to realize how much
their education cpuld help their
careers. ~
“The Masters we chose are people
that we thought could best represent
'The university as a whole*” said
Hamiel, a sophomore biology and art
major. “Wfe tried to get a well-rounded
set of Masters.” .
The five masters chosen this year
are Rep. Doug Bereuter, Maj. General
Claude Bolton Jr., Norma Cantu,
Jeanette Hasse and Abbas Mohaddes. '
Bereuter graduated from UNL in
1961, whoi he received his bachelor’s
of arts degree.
Bohcm, a 1969 graduate, received
a bachelor’s degree in electrical engi
neering. He was honored as a distin
guished graduate. He is die Program
Executive Officer for fighter and
bomber programs for the Office of the
Assistant Secretary of the Air Force
for Acquisitions in Washington, D.C.
Cantu, who received a doctorate in
English in 1982, is a professor of
English at Texas A&M International
University.
Hasse, who graduated in 1983
with a bachelor s ot science degree,
graduated with high distinction. She is
a transplant nutrition specialist at
Baylor University Medical Cento in
Texas.
Mohaddes received a bachelor’s
degree in 1979 and a master’s degree
in 1982 in civil engineering. He is now
the president and CEO of Meyer,
Mohaddes Associates, Inc.
The Masters will be involved this
week in many activities such as class
room visits, campus tours and attend
ing various meetings of organizations.
Charles Greene, UNL student
ombudsman and a 1967 graduate, was
a Master in 1995. He nominated
Bolton to the selection board this year.
“I was extremely pleased when
this institution gave me the chance to
be a Master and give back to the uni
versity,” Greene said. “I really felt like
I was a part of this university.”
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I was extremely
pleased when this
institution gave me the
chance to ... give back
to the university
Charles Greene
UNL student ombudsman
Gordon Scholz, a professor of
community and regional planning,
nominated Bereuter to the board.
Scholz said he felt this program was
important for students and faculty.
“I think it’s inspiring for students
and faculty to see people who went to
school here and have achieved goals
that are important to all of us,” Scholz
said “And Doug Bereuter is one of
those persons.”
The sponsors of Masters Week are
the chancellor’s office, the Student
Alumni Association, the Innocents
Society and the Black Masque
Chapter of Mortar Board.
Greene said it is important for stu
dents to see in person some of the suc
cessful UNL graduates.
“There are some outstanding
Nebraskans out there,” Greene said,
“and students would not know that
unless we had this program.”
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Meeting examines
budget, diversity
By Sara Gardner
Staff writer
The university’s budget, committee
reports and diversity were topics dis
cussed at the University of Nebraska
Lincoln Academic Senate meeting on
Tuesday.
The meeting opened with the sen
ate^ resolution to donate to a memorial
for Durward B. “Woody” Varner, for
mer University of Nebraska president.
Gail Latta, Academic Senate presi
dent, then handed the floor to David
Brinkerhoff, associate vice chancellor
for academic affairs.
Brinkerhoff, who spoke at the meet
ing because Senior Vice Chancellor for
Academic Affairs Richard Edwards
was ill, named the budget priorities for
2001-2003.
Brinkerhoff said revising faculty
and staff salaries topped the budget and
included two sections. One would be an
increase in participation for the retire
ment plan. The other would seek more
competitive stipends for graduate
teaching assistants.
The university is also discussing
ways to increase services for
Nebraskans, which would include
spending more on extended education
and addressing the community and its
families.
The senate also discussed a spend
ing increase to open education access.
This would include making scholar
ships more available to need-based stu
dents and merit-based students. The
university would target more by offer
ing scholarships to students with ACT
scores of26-30.
This list of priorities was great for
dialogue and discussion, Latta said
“This list of priorities represents the
faculty well,” Latta said “We’re glad to
see administration collaborate with the
faculty in this way”
Diversity was another issue dis
cussed at the meeting. The Chancellor’s
Commission on die Status of People of
Color and the Chancellor’s
Commission on the Status of Women
both examined this topic.
Currently, CCSPC is putting togeth
er a draft about last month’s Diversity
Summit to give to the participants-and
Chancellor James Moeser. The draft
will stress the benefits of promoting a
diverse staff, faculty and student body.
Janet Prochaska-Cue, professor of
family and consumer sciences, felt that
the commission’s reports were the most
important topic of the meeting.
“They really narrowed their priori
ties,” said Prochaska-Cue. “They are
now focusing on issues that affect
everyone, including both the faculty
and students.”
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sobbed, screamed and fainted Tuesday
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George Arian, of Jersey City, N. J., who
has been helping victims’ families at a
Newport hotel.
A positive sign emerged for investi
gators trying to determine what caused
the crash, as officials said signals from
both of the plane’s “black boxes” were
detected by a sonar-equipped Navy
ship.
Most search vessels were ordered
back to shore Tuesday evening as a
storm arrived, though one Coast Guard
ship was expected to try to tide out the
storm at the crash site. When good
weather returns, perhaps not until
Thursday, the Navy’s top priority will
be to retrieve the cockpit voice recorder
and flight data recorder, which could
help explain the cause of the crash.
All 217 people aboard the Cairo
bound flight were killed when the
Boeing 767 plummeted mysteriously
into the sea a half-hour after leaving
New York early Sunday morning.