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■Four candidates will visit
over two weeks in November to
vie fbrtheFine Arts position.
BY VERONICA DAEHN
UNL's theater and music
majors should be without a
leader no longer come late
November.
Four candidates for dean of
the Hixson-Lied College of Fine
and Performing Arts will have
interviews at the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln starting Oct.
29.
UNL has been seeking a
replacement for former dean
Richard Durst, who left to
become dean of the College of
Arts and Architecture at
Pennsylvania State University in
University Park.
Giacomo Oliva, prolessor
and director of the School of
Music at the University of
Florida in Gainesville, will be at
UNL Oct. 29-31.
Oliva has been director of the
School of Music in Florida since
1992 and has helped implement
programs that should boost the
school’s image in Florida and the
southeastern U.S.
He taught in New Jersey high
schools for 13 years and was
head the music department at
Mississippi State University in
Starkville before moving to
Florida.
David On Belcher has been
dean of the College of Arts and
Letters at Southwest Missouri
State University in Springfield
since 1994.
He will be at UNL Nov. 1-3.
Belcher has been at
Southwest Missouri State since
1988, serving as a professor
before becoming dean.
He has performed all over
the United States, Canada,
Austria and Switzerland. This
month, Belcher is scheduled to
play in a recital at the Chopin
Academy of Music in Warsaw,
Poland.
Kathleen Rountree, associ
ate dean of the College of Music
and Dramatic Arts at Louisiana
State University in Baton Rouge,
will interview at UNL Nov. 5-7.
Rountree has been at
Louisiana State since 1989 and
has been associate dean of the
College of Music and Dramatic
Arts since 1995.
bne has edited a compact
disc recording and is the author
of several articles.
Rountree, a pianist, has also
performed across the United
States and overseas, including
performances for the U.S.
ambassador to Hong Kong and
at the Shanghai Conservatory of
Music in 1987.
Raymond lymas-Jones has
been dean of the College of Fine
and Performing Arts at Ohio
University in Athens since1998.
lymas-Jones will be at UNL
Nov. 8-10.
He has taught at several U.S. v
institutions including
Washington University in St.
Louis, Buffalo State College (now
the State University of New York
at Buffalo) and the University of
Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls.
Tymas-Jones also has per
formed as a featured soloist with
the Buffalo Philharmonic
Orchestra and others.
Evelyn Jacobson, associate
vice chancellor for academic
affairs, said this interview and
selection process would mirror
the one used for the dean candi
dates for the College of Arts and
Sciences.
Once the interviews are
complete, the senior vice chan
cellor for academic affairs, David
Brinkerhoff, will look at the
input received from everyone
who has met with the candidates
and make the final decision.
The new dean will be chosen
about two weeks from the final
interview, Jacobson said.
McCain: Race key to Senate control
■ The Arizona senator visited
Nebraska in support of
candidate Don Stenberg.
BY BRIAN CARLSON
Arizona Sen. John McCain
said Friday that Nebraska’s Senate
race between Democrat Ben
Nelson and Republican Don
Stenberg could determine control
of the Senate.
“The people of Nebraska
could be determining which party
is in the majority in the Senate,” he
said at a news conference in
Lincoln.
Republicans hold a 54-46
majority in the Senate.
With the death of Missouri
Gov. Mel Carnahan, though,
McCain’s point could be moot
According to many political
observers, the GOP became more
likely to maintain control of the
Senate with Carnahan’s death in a
plane crash Monday night.
Carnahan, a Democrat, was in a
tight race with incumbent
Republican Sen. John Ashcroft
McCain, who unsuccessfully
challenged Texas Gov. George W.
Bush for the GOP presidential
nomination, came to Nebraska at
the invitation of Sen. ChuckHagel,
a close friend.
“I’m here on Don Stenberg’s
behalf because he is a man of con
servative principles who is dedi
cated to the agricultural economy
and the rebuilding of the military,”
McCain said.
Hagel said McCain’s bid for the
presidency excited and ignited the
country like no politician since
Bobby Kennedy.
McCain, a former fighter pilot
held captive for more than five
years by the North Vietnamese,
said recent events in the Middle
East-escalating violence between
Israelis and Palestinians and a sus
Former presidential candidate and Arizona Sen. John McCain speaks to the press Friday at the Comhusker Hotel in support of Republican Senate candidate Don Stenberg.
McCain said the race for the Senate majority could come down to Nebraska's seat.
pected terrorist attack on the
U.S.S. Cole in Yemen - showed the
continuing importance of the U.S.
military.
"We still live in a very danger
ous world - one that requires a
partnership between Congress
and the Executive Branch,” he
said.
McCain said politicians
should not try to make political
hay out of the crisis in the Middle
East. But he criticized the
Democratic presidential ticket of
Al Gore and Joe lieberman for dis
missing Bush’s criticism of the
Clinton administration’s handling
of the military.
“In the debates, both Joe
Lieberman and Al Gore said any
discussion of military prepared
ness was somehow unpatriotic,”
he said. “Iliat is disingenuousness
at its worst It would be unpatriot
ic of us notto discuss the readiness
of our military and how we would
improve it”
Stenberg agreed.
“The past week’s events pro
vide a strong reminder that our
national defense must remain the
highest responsibility of the gov
ernment of the United States," he
said.
Last week. Nelson’s campaign
suggested Nelson would be more
like McCain than Stenberg.
But McCain said anyone who
thought he would support Nelson
“was smoking the thing that
President Clinton didn’t inhale.”
Hagel called on voters to con
sider military and foreign policies.
“There are all different kinds of
dangers, and the unpredictability
of the world is like it’s never been
before,” he said. “It does matter
who we send to the White House
and Congress on Nov. 7.”
Bereuter Jacobsen soar over tax, farm ooiicv issues
■Forum allows 1st District
congressional candidates to
discuss environmental issues.
BY BRIAN CARLSON
U.S. Rep. Doug Bereuter and
his Democratic challenger, Alan
Jacobsen, disagreed on farm and
tax policy at a forum on Tuesday
for the 1st District congressional
candidates.
At the forum, held by the
Lincoln Independent Business
Association, Jacobsen criticized
the 1996 Freedom to Farm Act,
which removed supply restric
tions and left planting decisions
to farmers.
"Freedom to Farm did great
damage to farmers,” he said.
“The export markets went to pot,
and now we’re saying ‘We’re
sorry, but here’s some money to
keep you going.’”
Jacobsen said he supported
returning management controls
I
to federal farm policy, as well as
providing crop and revenue
insurance, extending loan peri
ods and promoting ethanol.
But Bereuter, an 11-term
Republican, recalled that the
Freedom to Farm Act passed
with bipartisan support. Any
farm policy would have strug
gled in the past couple of years
because the Asian financial crisis
caused commodity prices to
plummet, he said.
As vice chairman of the
House of International Relations
Committee and a prospective
chairman, Bereuter said he
would continue to push for
expanded overseas markets for
farm products.
“You can’t simply ignore the
fact that soon, only 5 percent of
the world’s population will live in
the United States," he said. “We
have to exploit those markets.”
Bereuter said he also sup
ported crop and revenue insur
ance, longer loan periods and
ethanol promotion.
I
Bereuter said he supported a
reduction in income tax rates, as
well as targeted tax cuts such as
the elimination of the so-called
marriage penalty, which forces
some married couples to pay
more in income taxes them if they
were single.
"The American people are
not undertaxed,” he said.
Jacobsen said the federal
government should use the
budget surplus to address Social
Security, provide prescription
drug benefits, improve military
readiness and provide tax cuts.
He criticized Bereuter for
opposing elimination of the
inheritance tax. The GOP-con
trolled Congress voted to elimi
nate the tax, but President
Clinton vetoed it.
“He was the only Republican
who did not vote to override the
inheritance tax repeal," Jacobsen
said. “He had the chance to do it,
and he didn’t.”
Bereuter defended his vote,
noting that only 2 percent of
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‘You can’t simply ignore the fact that soon,
only 5 percent of the world’s population will
live in the United States
Doug Bereuter
1st District Congressional incumbent
estates are subject to the inheri
tance tax. Although he supports
raising the inheritance tax
exemption and reducing the
rate, he does not support a full
removal of the tax, he said.
“What I didn’t agree with was
eliminating the inheritance tax
altogether on billionaires,” he
said.
Bereuter also said the inheri
tance tax provides a powerful
incentive for wealthy families to
donate to charities.
In response to a question,
Bereuter called the increase in
corporate mergers a “troubling
trend.”
He criticized the Clinton
administration for not using
antitrust legislation to ensure
competition in some sectors of
the economy.
Jacobsen did not answer the
question about corporate merg
ers.
Jacobsen said it was time for a
fresh face in the 1st District seat
“I believe I can make a differ
ence with my agricultural back
ground and business experi
ence," he said.
But Bereuter said he had
been the most effective con
gressman in the district’s history.
“I think no one has stayed in
closer contact with their con
stituents than I have,” he said.
Courtesy Photo
Luke Miller, a junior mechanical engineering major,
climbs a sandstone ledge in the Ozark Mountains in
Sam's Throne, Ark.The trip was offered through the
Outdoor Adventures section of Campus Recreation over
fall break.
Students climb from wall to reality
BY GEORGE GREEN
Over fall break, a group of UNL stu
dents struggled and scraped their way to a
rewarding adventure excursion in the
Ozark Mountains of Arkansas.
The group, composed of seven stu
dents and two student-instructors, raced
away from Lincoln to rock climb for three
days in Sam’s Throne, Ark.
Jagged rocks, sheer sandstone ledges
up to 65-feet tall and deep cracks greeted
the novice group when they arrived at the
climb sites.
Jeff Sorensen, an undeclared sopho
more and Josh Barker, a senior advertising
major, were both amazed as they stared at
the climb ahead of them.
"Damn,” was the only response
Sorensen could muster.
None of the trip members had ever
climbed outside, and many had only been
climbing at the wall in the Campus
Recreation Center for a short time.
The trip was offered to new climbers
through the Outdoor Adventures section of
Campus Recreation, which sponsors out
door trips across the country.
Jessica Varner, a sophomore architec
ture major, said the massive rocks were
intimidating at first
But the group still courageously
attacked the climbs on their first day after
sleeping for only four and a half hours the
night before because of the 10 hour drive
from Lincoln.
Kyle Hansen, a senior education major,
and Katie Lyon, a junior biology major, led
the trip and eased the problems of die vir
gin climbers.
The leaders demonstrated basic climb
ing techniques, set climbing ropes and
taught basic camping skills.
Despite Hansen’s and Lyon’s advice, the
group still had to suffer through frustrating
falls and stinging cuts from the rocks.
Nick Whitney, a junior math and eco
nomics major, reported his new cuts and
bruises to the group on a daily basis.
Whitney, though, still enjoyed his trip.
“It was a good trip because my knee
and elbow are bruised, my muscles are sore
and I have patches of skin missing from
body,” he said.
Stefanie Gowen, a sophomore criminal
justice major, also had to struggle on the
climbs. But she said the reward of the
reaching the top was worth all of her efforts.
Lyon gave the group its closest look at
rock climbing struggles when she climbed
a very difficult route after falling several
times.
“It was amazing to watch," said Luke
Miller, a junior mechanical engineering
major.
Rampant jokes and friendly sarcasm
between group members, though, helped
bruises heal and encouraged second
attempts at tough routes. When the teams
wasn’t tackling rock faces, they enjoyed the
peace and quiet of life outdoors.
Spectacular autumn colors rippled
across the Ozark forest and dazzled
climbers when they reached overlooks.
The group’s response pleased Hansen.
“It is really rewarding to see a group of
climbers take advantage of all of the climb
ing opportunities in Arkansas,” he said.
