Perlman addresses prioritization
BY LINDSEY BAKER
Questions concerning the recently
released list of University priorities were met
with answers from Interim Chancellor
Harvey Perlman at Tuesday’s Academic
Senate meeting.
Perlman addressed issues including dis
content over 108 University of Nebraska
Lincoln programs designated by faculty as
areas that need special attention and fund
ing.
“Some may need to be more refined or
broadened,” Perlman said. “It's not an event,
it’s a process.”
The list, along with prioritized program
lists from every school in the University of
Nebraska system, will be revised and sent to
NU President Dennis Smith. The lists will
then be submitted to the Nebraska Board of
Regents for approval at its May meeting.
Perlman said that not every program on
the list will receive money immediately.
“It’s not likely that in June every one of
these programs will receive a check,” he said.
He said he hoped faculty would not feel
threatened by their program’s possible
absence from the list, and though the Senate
posed few questions at the meeting, he wel
comed staff opinions.
Perlman encouraged faculty members to
share ideas for university improvement
instead of doing nothing.
“This sets the stage for all of us to work as
hard as we can to make the university bet
ter,” he said.
Senate President-elect Miles Bryant said
he thought the list was appropriate.
“I think we’re about where we probably
expected to be,” he said. “I wasn’t surprised
that there wasn’t a lot of talk about (the list)
at the meeting.”
Bryant said he expected more debate at
forums scheduled on Thursday and Friday,
and even more discussion when a budget for
the list is released.
“We'll see what happens Thursday and
Friday,” he said. “Often, none of us are really
activated until there’s a price to pay.”
Thursday’s forum will be held in the
Nebraska Union at 11:30 a.m., and Friday’s
forum is scheduled at 8:45 a.m. in the
Clifford Hardin Nebraska Center for
Continuing Education on East Campus.
In other Academic Senate news, Perlman
stated his hope that state tobacco settlement
money would go to NU biomedical research.
“It’s an important bill for people engaged
in biomedical research on this campus,” he
said.
Murderer Bao
gets life in jail
BY JILL CONNER
A district judge gave Linh Bao,
a convicted murderer, a life in
prison sentence Tuesday for the
shooting of a Lincoln man.
Bao also received a two to six
year prison sentence for using a
weapon to commit a felony.
Bao, 30, was convicted in
October of first-degree murder for
shooting Vu Hoang La, 37, last
February.
La was found dead in the dri
ver’s seat of his car near Bao’s trail
er in the Cornhusker Highway
trailer park.
During the trial, Lancaster
Deputy County Attorney Andy
Jacobsen said it was not an acci
dental shooting.
He said Bao had a history of
threatening his life and the life of
his wife.
*1116 appropriate sentence is
life, and beyond life, to make sure
Mr. Bao doesn’t get out and this
doesn't happen again,” he said.
Public Defender Tim Sopinski
asked the judge to think about
leniency when considering Bao’s
second count of using a weapon
to commit a felony.
Sopinski said Bao’s only fear
was for his family.
The only way Bao could get
out of prison is if the parole board
commutes his sentence, Jacobsen
said.
“I think the trial went as best
as I would have imagined,”
Jacobsen said. “I would have done
nothing differently”
Jacobson said Bao’s family
7 think the trial went
as best as / would
have imagined. I
would have done
nothing differently.”
Andy Jacobsen
Lancaster Deputy County
Attorney
said it, too, were satisfied with the
outcome of the sentencing.
Sopinski would not comment
about the sentencing on Tuesday.
In February, Bao went to a
Vietnamese New Year's party
where he got into a fight with La
and two other men.
Bao was asked to leave, but
spotted La’s car following him.
Bao got out of his vehicle and
started a second fight with La and
two other men.
Bao then went into his trailer
and brought out his .380-caliber
handgun, although it was
unloaded.
Bao, La and two other men
struggled over the gun. Bao went
back inside the trailer to load the
gun.
La began walking toward his
car, and witnesses said Bao fired
five shots. Police also found five
shell casings by die car
After a juror who broke her
arm was sequestered in her hospi
tal room, the jury reconvened and
deliberated for three and a half
hours before finding Bao guilty of
die two counts.
NUForce faces penalizations
ELECTORAL from page 1
The campaign was sus
pended because of the suspi
cion that Josh Hesse, who rep
resents the No Mo Ho group, is
contradicting his purpose
statement in his campaigning
activities, Conley said.
A purpose statement is nec
essary for students to officially
form a student election group,
he said.
For example, in Hesse's
purpose statement it says that
he would renew the integrity of
the Association of Students of
the University of Nebraska,
Conley said.
But, a flyer posted by No Mo
Ho, may be contradicting the
purpose statement, Conley
said.
“He seems to be bashing
ASUN, and ASUN candidates,
and the election process,” he
said.
Conley said today he will be
taking down any No Mo Ho fly
ers that he sees.
Bill enhances cell 911
BY GWEN T1ETGEN
If cellular phone users dial 911, Nebraska 911 operators don’t
receive the phone number or location of the caller.
A bill to enhance 911 services to detect this information from cel
lular phones was heard Tuesday.
“This information is very valuable in case the caller is a child or
incapacitated, or if connection is lost or the caller isn’t able to speak
clearly,” said Sen. Pat Engel, who labeled the bill his priority bill for
the session.
Currently, if someone dials 911 from a landline phone, the centers
receive a caller’s telephone number and address.
On landline phones, fees for 911 services cost Nebraska callers 50
cents to $1 a month.
LB585 would create a cellular phone surcharge of 50 cents to help
pay for upgraded 911 services in Nebraska.
Under an emergency clause, the surcharge would be put in place
July 1,2001.
Engel introduced a similar bill last year, but it was killed in com
mittee because too many issues needed to be worked out, he said.
“This bill is a part of an overall, nationwide move toward imple
menting enhanced wireless 911,” Engel said.
This move will also be a part of the Federal Communications
Commission this year.
On October 1, the FCC will require cellular phone carriers to be
able to transmit the information about the location of the cellular
phone calling into the center, Engel said.
Mark Conrey, the director of 911 services in Douglas County, said
Nebraska 911 centers need this bill.
In the last six months, the Douglas County 911 services have
received more than 65.000 cellular 911 calls. Conrev said.
“We get a lot of cellular calls and have no idea where the caller is
located,” Conrey said.
“Unfortunately, sometimes the caller doesn’t even know where
they are.”
To help oversee and evaluate the new 911 services, an advisory
board would also be created with the bill.
The advisory board, along with the division of communications
with the Department of Administrative Services, would accept grant
applications from 911 centers and wireless carriers to help provide
for the technology of enhanced 911 services.
But Anne Boyle from the Public Services Commission offered an
amendment to the bill that would make the Public Service
Commission the administrative agency to oversee the implementa
tion of the new 911 services instead of the Department of
Administrative Services.
Currently, 38 other states have implemented similar wireless 911
surcharges including Iowa, South Dakota and Colorado.
Vicitm: Puffy Combs had gun
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK - One of three
people shot during a nightclub
melee that involved Sean “Puffy”
Combs says she saw the rap
impresario fire a gun just before
she was wounded.
But Natania Reuben, 30, tes
tified Monday that she did not
know who shot her. She was the
second witness to say she saw
Combs with a gun in Club New
York on Dec. 27,1999 but the first
to testify he fired a gun.
Prosecutors have said the
victims were shot by Combs'
protegee, rapper Jamal “Shyne”
Barrow, after an argument in
which a club patron threw
money at Combs.
Barrow is charged with three
counts of attempted murder in
the shooting. He is on trial with
Combs, 31, and Combs’ body
guard, Anthony “Wolf” Jones, 34.
Combs and Jones are
charged with gun possession
and bribery.
Combs, who has pleaded
innocent, was arrested after
police said a gun was thrown
from the vehicle he and some of
his entourage used to flee the
club. Another gun was allegedly
found in the vehicle.
Students to see
minus addition
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and the Student Affairs office to
be gradually implemented.
“It’s not going to happen
right away,” he said.
Vice Chancellor for Student
Affairs James Greisen said if fac
ulty members want to move to a
new grading system, they can.
“I can't say that that’s good or
bad, that’s just what they want,”
he said. “I don’t think it will
make a tremendous impact on
our campus one way or the
other, frankly.”
Association of Students of
the University of Nebraska
President Joel Schafer said he
didn’t think students would eas
ily accept the new system.
“I don’t think students will
be happy with it,” he said.
ASUN defeated a bill to rec
ommend the grading change
when it was proposed in
December.
Schafer said students’
biggest concern at the time was
their ability to maintain scholar
ships, an issue noted in the
committee report.
“I'm happy that we got at
least the main point of concern
(in the report),” Schafer said.
Sophomore chemistry
major Annika Carlson said she
might have a tough time keep
ing her scholarships under the
new system.
Greisen said he didn’t think
the new system would cause
students to lose scholarships or
change the academic climate.
Said freshman nursing
major Laura Tobin: "It’ll push
students to work harder, but an
AisanA.”
Freshman elementary edu
cation major Mary Anderson
and freshman pre-nursing
major Heather Hamilton both
said they agreed that the new
system will give students more
drive to do well academically to
It’ll push students to
work harder, but an A
is an A”
Laura Tobin
freshman nursing major
avoid the minuses.
“It’ll make people work
harder, definitely,” Hamilton
said. “Who wants to have a
minus?”
Anderson said she thought
students would be concerned
about grade point averages,
which would be altered on the
new scale.
Right now, if students have
GPAs below 2.0, they're put on
academic probation. Certain
colleges also require students to
earn Cs in classes within their
major.v
According to the proposed
scale, a C- would be deemed an
unacceptable level of perform
ance with a GPA of 1.67.
Junior finance major David
Lockwood said he thought the
plus-minus system was benefi
ciaL
"I think it’s a good move,” he
said. “It makes us more compa
rable to other universities. I
think UNK and UNO should go
to the same system.”
Ford said he didn’t think stu
dents should be upset.
“I hope the standard for
scholarships will go up,” he said.
“(The system) will make exactly
the same number of GPAs go
down as it will make go up.”
Academic Senate President
Sheila Scheideler said she
hoped students accept the new
system.
“I hope students receive it in
a way such that they see the
upside more than the down
side," she said. “It’s a good step.”
Gore teaches journalism
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK - Former Vice President A1 Gore taught his first dass at
one of the nation's premier journalism schools Tliesday - but only off die
record. *
With security officers keeping the news media at bay, Gore delivered
his first lecture at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism in
a class tided "Covering National Affairs in die Information Age.”
"As I understand it, the normal policy is that the classes are usually off
the record,” Gore said later. “I would have had the option to do it on the
record, but I think the students will get mote out of it if it's as much as pos
sible a normal classroom experience.”
University spokeswoman Suzanne Trimel called the class a learning
experience for students, “not a news event”
The irony was not lost on journalism students outside the building,
where some three dozen members of the working media were locked out
Several students said they were warned not to ask any political ques
tions or queries on behalf of professional journalists. An advance e-mail
also warned them th6 dass was considered “off the record. ”
"It definitely goes against what we're taught, but it’s A1 Gore, and we
have to accommodate him,” student Benjamin Stein said.
“This is not just any professor,” added Michael Amone, 29, a student
in the class. Gore has signed on to teach courses at Columbia, Middle
Tennessee State University and Fisk University.
Craig Wolff, one of the professors of the Columbia class, said it was an
opportunity for “an intimate discussion” with Gore.
Still, Wolff said his initial response to the class being off the record was:
“What? Are you kidding me? But this is a classroom. ”
Before the lecture, a guard at the entrance to the building checked
student identification cards. Inside, another guard was at the entrance to
the floor of the lecture hall checking IDs. Other security workers were sta
tioned at staircases.
Monica Tedeschi, a 28-year-old student, broke the embargo a bit,
telling a reporter that Gore was dynamic.
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