VOL. 99 COVERING THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA-LINCOLN SINCE 1901 NO. 65
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Great Escape
Nebraska’s football team watched a 27-3 lead
disappear against Colorado before surviving
with a 33-30 overtime win. PAGE 9
I am
Unsolved
Mystery combines with history in Julie
IKaewert’s “Untitled,” the fourth and newest in
her mystery series. PAGE 13
MON AST
November 2 1999
Partly cloudy, low 29.
■ Broadening of research
category puts university in
less prestigious group.
By Michelle Starr
Stbff writer
The prestige of UNL’s Research I
Institution ranking may decrease
under an interim revision, which may
lead to UNL finding other fating
methods to attract researchers.
Interim revisions for 2000 to the
Classification of Institutions of
Higher Education by the Carnegie
Foundation for the Advancement of
Teaching - a method used by univer
sities to show their research abilities -
will include the Research I Institution
title.
The University of Nebraska
Lincoln is one of 89 institutions clas
sified as Research I Institutions, a
prestigious ranking among research
facilities.
However, the changes will take
away some of the title’s importance
and could leave UNL to find a differ
ent way to measure its program, said
Marsha Torr, vice chancellor for
research.
UNL is not going to risk losing
qualified researchers because of the
Carnegie Foundation’s interim classi
fication system changes and will look
to other methods of rating to insure
maintaining a top-notch research pro
gram, Torr said.
UNL might look to the funding
numbers provided by the National
Science Foundation, information
from the Association of American
Universities or reviews of graduate
research by the National Research
Council to evaluate UNL’s research
program, Torr said.
The options for review and classi
fication are still open for further
investigation, Torr said.
a
For better or worse, the Carnegie
classification has become a status and
quality order. Thats not what were about.”
Alex McCormick
senior scholar of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
The divisions of the caliber of
research will be less noticeable
because the foundation is taking away
the importance of funding and mak
ing each research category broader,
Torr said.
“It will become such a large camp
that it loses its prestige as a PR tool,”
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NU using
aborted
fetus cells
m research
■ The Med Center’s practice
raises medical ethics issues, NU
professors say.
From staff reports and The Associated Press
The University of Nebraska is exploring
new, controversial boundaries within the med
ical field, which could lead some taxpayers to
wonder how their money is being used.
The Omaha World-Herald reported in its
Sunday editions that the brain cells of aborted
fetuses are being used in the study of
Alzheimer’s disease by researchers at the
University of Nebraska Medical Center.
The federally funded studies are the
Medical Center’s first to use fetal tissue.
The studies are supported by giants of more
than $ 1 million per year from the National
Institutes of Health.
In 1993, the federal government lifted its
ban on research using fetal tissue.
The research uses questionable medical
ethics, said Richard Duncan, an NU law profes
sor.
Nebraska is traditionally anti-abortion, so
the University of Nebraska’s use of taxpayers’
money to fund this research is inconsiderate,
Duncan said.
Even though the use of the fetus’ tissue
could benefit others medically, it is unwise for
any medical school to conduct this research,
especially when it is federally funded, Duncan
said.
Robert Audi, a University of Nebraska
Lincoln professor of philosophy, said federal
funds for research on fetuses shouldn’t be ruled
out just because abortion was involved. He
added that he wasn’t taking a stand for or
against abortion.
“I would say even if abortion is deeply con
troversial, that is not automatically a sufficient
reason to rule out public funds for fetal remains
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NEBRASKA GOALKEEPER Karina LeBlanc dives to block a Notre Dame penalty kick in overtime. The ball would hit the post and bounce
out, but NO would lose the shootout 4-3.
Irish best Huskers, head to semifinals
By Brandon Schulte
Staff writer
AS fans got their moneyfc worth Sunday at
the NU women’s soccer game except the local
travel agents hoping to book a flight for the lean
this weekend to San Jose, Calif.
A school-record crowd of 3,702 watched
Notre Dame (20-3-1) end Nebraska’s chance to
advance to the Womens College Cup. The Irish
outlasted the Cornhuskers 4-3 in penalty kicks of
a 1-1 chaw.
The kicks resulted from four scoreless 15
minute overtime periods after 90 minutes of reg
ulation play.
The 150 minutes of play tied for the longest
soccer match in NCAA history.
Nebraska (22-1-2) was done in by one of its
own as Omaha native Kelly Lindsey notched the
deciding kick for Notre Dame as she beat NU
goalkeeper Karina LeBlanc in the lower right
comer of the goal during sudden-death kicks.
Lindsey^ goal during sudden death came
after the shootout ended in a 3-3 tie.
A subsequent attempt by NU senior mid
f [elder Amy Walsh to tie the match was saved by
ND goalkeeper LaKeysia Beene. The win sent
the Irish to fee national semifinals to face top
ranked Santa Clara on Friday.
Nebraska Coach John Walker said theijuar
terfmal match-up was as good as advertised.
“It was a great game between two high-level
teams,” he said “Sometimes when you get that
kind of match-up in the NCAA Tournament, fee
games don’t live up to what they’re billed as, but
feat certainty wasn’t the case today. Both teams
gave a tremendous effort.”
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