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1 work with, including high schools and
parents,” she said.
Finnell brings a full resume to the
job vacated by Peg Blake in 1998. In
her job as associate director of die hon
ors program at Texas A&M, Finnell
worked to recruit honors students,
minorities and students with special tal
ents.
She started an office that advised
students enrolled in pre-professional
programs, including pre-medicine stu
dents. Five years after Finnell started
the program, Texas A&M became the
top school in Texas for medical school
acceptance.
But one of the biggest assets Finnell
said she could bring to the Office of
Admissions is her academic back
ground.
After teaching subjects such as for
eign language, women’s studies and lit
erature, Finnell admits she has an affin
ity for the world of academia - a rare
quality for a director of admissions,
j But her rare perspective will help
her understand the college from the
inside out and convince prospective
students of UNL’s academic competi
tiveness.
“We need to change the way the
university is perceived and make sure
people understand that this is an acade
mically rigorous institution,” Finnell
said. “My academic way of thinking
may help that.”
James Griesen, vice chancellor for
student affairs, agreed that Finnell’s
academic background would be a ben
efit to the office.
“Dr. Finnell has an excellent acade
mic background that helps her relate to
Press to move for admissions expansion
By Kimberly Sweet
Staff writer
Plans to enlarge the space ofUNEs
Office of Admissions are sending the
University ofNebraska Press packing.
The two tenants that share the
Alexander Building on 14th and Q
streets will soon be reduced to one, as
the University of Nebraska Press
moves to a destination university offi
cials hope to determine sometime
within the next couple of days.
The decision came after it was
deemed that the Office of Admissions
needed more space to carry out its day
to-day functions, said Susanna
Finnell, director of the Office of
Admissions.
By alleviating the cramped condi
tions of the building, Office of
Admissions workers will be able to
work more smoothly and under less
stressful conditions, Finnell said.
“The space thing is very difficult,”
Finnell said. “Working in a small
place, things tend to look messy.”
The University of Nebraska Press
is considering two locations for its
future home, said Marsha Torr, vice
chancellor for research. The press
operates under the authority of the
vice chancellor of research.
Torr said that one of the locations
being considered would require exten
sive renovation, though the other
wouldn’t
Once the decision is made, the
press will begin packing up. Office
personnel hope to be out by spring,
said Deb Turner, assistant director and
production manager for the press.
While members of the University
of Nebraska Press aren’t looking for
ward to the actual process of moving,
they are looking forward to the bigger
space they will be afforded with the
move.
“None of us our thrilled about
packing up our offices,” Turner said.
“But the move will be positive on the
whole.”
The Office of Admissions has
occupied the other half of the
Alexander Building for the past three
and a half years. Before that, the office
was housed in the Canfield
Administration Building, where the
Student Affairs office sits currently
sits.
The two sites being considered for
the new location are off campus, Torr
said. 1
Moving off campus would not
affect the functions of the press, Ton
said.
It is more important that the office
is able to be close to its warehouses,
one of which sits across Ninth Street in
the Haymarket, Torr said.
Other requirements for the new
building are that it contains a lot of
space and good lighting under which
artwork can be viewed and work can
be done, Torr said.
Finnell said she is looking forward
to the improvements that will be made
in the office once it moves.
“The space will help a lot,” Finnell
said. “We’re excited about it”
prospective students,” he said.
Her skills recruiting students at
Texas A&M will be seen in her new
job, Griesen said.
“She brings a very deep under
standing of the student-recruitment
process,” he said.
Finnell’s background includes
recruiting honors students, but she said
it is important to make a strong effort to
recruit all students who are qualified to
attend UNL.
One of her goals is to continue to
increase freshman enrollment num
bers, which are on the upswing after
two years of decreased numbers.
Recruiting more efficiently earlier
in students’ high school careers is one
of the keys to achieving this goal,
Finnell said.
During her tenure as director,
.Finnell said she looked forward to
improving on the things the office
already does well.
Creative recruitment techniques
and high-quality publications are two
of the positive points that the office
already has going for it, she said.
And as the office begins to expand
physically into the area currently occu
pied by the University of Nebraska
Press, Finnell said the process would
begin to run more smoothly.
When that improvement is made,
Finnell said she would look for ways to
improve the way UNL attracts students.
“It’s difficult to figure out how to do
things better, but not impossible,” she
said.
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Man charged with stealing car
Police said a man may have tried to
pull the wool over local church mem
bers’ eyes.
Claude McCormick, 22, of North
Myrtle Beach, S.C., approached
members of the Eastridge
Presbyterian Church, 1135 Eastridge
Drive, complaining that he was down
on his luck and didn’t have anywhere
to sleep, Lincoln Police Sgt. Todd
Beam said.
The church members invited him
to stay in the church but were suspi
cious of his story when they saw him
at his 1999 blue Toyota Corolla.
A church member saw
McCormick replace one of the license
plates on the car with another one and
called police.
The call came in at about 12:46
a.m. Saturday, and police determined
that the car had been stolen in
Charleston, S.C.
Police said McCormick told police
he had been given permission from the
owner of the vehicle, but the owner
told police a different story.
Police arrested McCormick for
possession of stolen property.
Computer stolen from school
Police got more than they bar
gained for while responding to a loud
party call at 2:44 a.m. Sunday.
While investigating the party on
Cottonwood Drive, a 17-year-old boy
walked around die residence and said:
“Shit, it’s a cop,” and set a computer he
was carrying on the ground Beam
said.
When police inspected the com
puter that the boy was carrying, not
only was it still warm, it had a Lincoln
Public School sticker on it, Beam said.
Police investigated Pyrtle
Elementary School, which is located
within a block of the party, and found
that someone had climbed into the
building through a window on the east
side of the building, and a computer
was gone, Beam said.
The boy was arrested for burglary.
Burglaries lead to man’s arrest
Two burglaries in the same area
Monday pointed to two men as sus
pects who were in a vehicle nearby.
After officers investigated a 2:18
a.m. break-in at Jiffy Lube, 1520
Pioneers Blvd., in which burglars
threw a rock through a glass window
and took money from the cash register,
officers noticed a vehicle with only
one license plate on it, Beam said.
The officers checked the plate and
discovered it was not valid and that
one of the two occupants in the car had
a warrant out for his arrest.
Derek Scott Breazeale, 21,1534 E
St., was arrested for the warrant, but
the other passenger was let go.
About the same time a call came in
regarding an alarm at Rent-A-Van,
1530 Pioneers Blvd.
The Rent-A-Van was broken into
through a window, and money was
taken from the cash register.
Police suspected that the two bur
glaries were connected and that the
men in the vehicle were responsible,
Beam said.
Officers already had one man in
custody for the warrant and knew the
name of the other man, but he had not
yet been found.
Compiled by staff writer
Michelle Starr.
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Globes see
decline in
viewership
NEW YORK (AP) - Faced
with some stiff competition, the
Golden Globe awards on NBC
Sunday night saw a 9 percent drop
in viewership from last year.
The awards ceremony was a
triumph for HBO, which won
eight of the 11 television trophies,
with four of the awards going to
“The Sopranos,” honored as the
best television drama.
As it turned out, “The
Sopranos” may have been one of
the reasons Golden Globe ratings
sank.
The second episode of its sec
ond season aired Sunday night in
direct competition with the
Golden Globes.
More likely, the awards show
suffered because of “Who Wants
to Be a Millionaire,” ABC’s con
tinuing sensation. The game show
drew 29 million viewers on
Sunday night, according to
Nielsen Media Research.
The three-hour Golden Globes
telecast drew an average audience
of 22.1 million viewers, down
from 24.2 million in 1999, Nielsen
said.
Viewing peaked during the
tribute to Barbra Streisand after 10
p.m. EST (9 p.m. CDT), when
there was less formidable compe
tition. The highest ratings were in
the entertainment capitals of New
York and Los Angeles, where the
Golden Globes had their best
showing ever.
The suburban satire
“American Beauty” won for best
film drama, best director and best
screenplay. DreamWorks SKG
said on Monday that the movie
will re-open on about 750 screens
nationwide on Feb. 18.
Filmed profiles of boxer
Rubin “Hurricane” Carter and the
late comedian Andy Kaufman also
won major awards.
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