UNL priorities include
better graduate education
PRIORITIES from page 1
is the International Quilt Study Center at Home
Economics on East Campus.
If the priorities list is approved, the university
would offer a masters program in textile
studies/quilt studies, said Carolyn Ducey, curator
of the Quilt Study Center.
“The program is unusual, because we’re the
only university in the state and maybe in the
world, where you can study quilting,” she said.
The masters program would be a distance edu
cation program, so anyone could take it, she said.
The quilt center was founded in 1997, and
Ducey said it has an “incredible” number of visi
tors each year.
The center already receives federal funding,
but could receive more if a masters program is
established.
Another priority on the list is Integrated
Communications Program, which includes UNL’s
College of Journalism and Mass Communications.
Within this category is Sports
Communications, a graduate interdisciplinary
program.
The program combines sports marketing,
sports information and sports videography and is
a graduate-level course, said Nancy Mitchell, asso
ciate professor of advertising.
The program, which was approved in January,
is the only sports communications program in the
Midwest, Mitchell said.
Although the journalism college hasn’t adver
tised it widely, there’s still been a lot of interest in
the program, Mitchell said.
Under the priorities list, money would be set
aside so the sports communications can be
offered as a distance education course.
With increased funding, Mitchell said they
could hire more faculty members.
Other programs listed with an instructional
emphasis include Spanish, Post colonial litera
tures in English, museum studies and philosophy
and moral sciences.
Programs with a research emphasis are also
split between the sciences and the humanities.
Some programs identified have several faculty
members and students, such as algebra and dis
crete mathematics or communications.
But others, like film studies, have just begun at
UNL.
The program, which is in its second year and
has about 50 students, has two primary faculty
members.
Department Chairman Wheeler Winston
Dixon said being included on the priorities list can
offer several opportunities to the program.
“We’re very excited,” Dixon said.
The number of majors is growing, and Dixon
said UNL’s program is one of the few available in
the Midwest.
Of the 11 peer institutions identified by the NU
Board of Regents, only one offers a film studies
program comparable with UNL’s.
Unlike other priorities, Dixon said the film
studies program probably couldn’t get federal
funding.
But it does have the potential to become
nationally known, he said.
With the program included in the priorities,
Dixon said the department would be able to
research more on film theory, history and criti
cism.
“The main thing we have to do is capitalize on
this,” Dixon said.
Other research priorities include medieval and
Renaissance studies, French language and litera
ture and high energy physics.
The priorities list is a tentative draft, and pub
lic input is encouraged, Brinkerhoff said.
An open forum is scheduled for 1:30 p.m.
Thursday at the Hardin Nebraska Center for
Continuing Education.
A similar forum held last Thursday drew about
20 people.
The Web site that lists the priorities has
received more than 2,000 hits, but Brinkerhoff said
he hasn’t received many e-mail responses.
“Things are going smoothly," he said.
By the end of next week, Brinkerhoff said the
university will begin work on a report of the prior
ities that will be sent to the Academic Planning
Committee for review.
By May 1, the committee must submit its rec
ommendations to the chancellor and by May 15,
Perlman will submit a final copy to NU President
Dennis Smith and the regents for approval and
implementation.
Allocations
to student
services up
FUNDS from page 1
CFA proposed only to give
only $54,549 of the $67,549
requested.
ASUN representative Emily
Bannick said she could not see
an immediate need for an
increase.
Director of Campus
Recreation Stan Campbell
argued that it was usually sug
gested for a building to retain 2
percent of its value for repair
and maintenance costs.
Campbell said 2 percent of
the recreation facilities was
around $1,000,000, but
Campus Recreation was
requesting only $440,385 for
facility improvement
Stanfield agreed proposing
an amendment to approve the
$67,549 increase for replace
ment costs of equipment
The motion to pass the
amendment and a motion to
reward Campus Recreation its
total budget request of
$4,132,055 passed unanimous
ly*
Campbell said he was
pleased with the approval of his
total budget request.
"The major emphasis was
trying to get ourselves closer to
industry standard for repair
and improvement,” Campbell
said.
Candidates thrown
out ofstudent race
ASUN from page 1
Conley said the commission
became more strict concerning
rules as election day looms clos
er.
"It is later in the game," he
said. "As you move later in the
game, allowances are made less
and less.”
Clements said that the ruling
won’t keep Gathuma from help
ing the NUForce campaign.
“It won't really affect any
thing,” Clements said
In other news, the commis
sion also dispersed fines to two
parties.
NUForce was sanctioned a
$13 fine for not including the date
of the election on a displayed
banner and sign on two different
occasions.
The Score! party was fined
$1.50 for a party announcement
postcard that was posted in the
Nebraska Union without the
election date on it
Military exercise results
in crash, leaving six dead
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
HONOLULU — Two Army
Black Hawk helicopters crashed
during a nighttime exercise in a
remote military preserve of the
Hawaiian islands, killing six sol
diers and injuring 11.
The crash happened
Monday night on Oahu, across
the island from Honolulu. The
military said there was a light
rain at the time and the pilots
were wearing night-vision gog
gles
The aircraft "somehow came
in contact” with each other, but
it was unclear whether they col
lided in air, Navy Rear Adm.
Craig Quigley said Tuesday at a
Pentagon briefing.
Quigley said it appeared the
aircraft were not both in the air
at the time, but did not elabo
rate.
All of the dead were aboard
one helicopter, he said.
Four soldiers were listed in
stable condition at Tripler Army
Medical Center and seven were
treated for minor injuries and
released.
Honolulu Fire Capt. Stephen
Johnson said the helicopters
crashed to the ground about 100
yards apart. Rescuers described
conditions as wet, muddy and
dark.
The Black Hawk is the
Army’s primary helicopter for
air assault, air cavalry and
aeromedical evacuations units.
Each helicopter can transport
an 11-man squad.
The two UH60 helicopters
went down while participating
in an exercise over Kahuku on
the island of Oahu, said Maj.
Nancy Makowski, a spokes
woman for the 25th Infantry
Division based at Schofield
Barracks.
The helicopters crashed in a
military area accessible only by
four-wheel-drive vehicles, said
Mandy Shiraki, district chief of
the city ambulance services.
Daily Nebraskan Editor
The 2001-02 editor in chief will formulate editorial poli
cies, determine guidelines for the daily operation of the
newsroom, hire the senior editorial staff, help determine
the content of the newspaper and prepare the editorial
wage budget. Applicants must have one year of news
paper experience, preferably at the Daily Nebraskan.The
position begins Aug. 1,2001 and lasts until May 10,2002.
The editor earns $1,000/month (except in December, March and
May) and reports to the UNL Publications Board.The editor must be
enrolled in at least six credit hours during each of the two 2001-02
semesters, maintain a 2.0 minimum G.P.A., and not be on academic probation. Applications are
available at the Daily Nebraskan office, basement of the Nebraska Union, and must be
returned with up to five clips by noon,February 21.
University Briefs
Haroer-Schramm-Smitn to host dinner
ana entertainment for Black History Month
Food, music and a welcoming spirit will mark
Friday’s Black History Month Dinner.
The dinner, which takes place at the Harper
Schramm-Smith residence hall complex, 1140 N.
14th St., on the UNL City Campus, is open to all
students.
Darryl White, a jazz trumpet player and UNL
trumpet professor, will perform along with One
Voice, a quartet of teenage singers; Step 2 G, a step
group from Lincoln High School; and The
Sonshine Singers, a group of children from
Southview Christian Church.
The menu includes BBQ ribs, fried chicken,
fried redfish, combread, black eyed peas, collard
greens, sweet potato pie and peach cobbler.
The dinner runs from 4:30 to 6:1& p.m.
For ticket information and any other informa
tion concerning the event, contact Janet
Prochaska at (402) 472-1069.
Audobon society offical to lecture about
migration of Sandhill cranes
The annual gathering of Sandhill cranes on the
banks of the Platte River is something Nebraska is
known for.
The.cranes also are the topic of an upcoming
lecture, “One of the World's Greatest Natural
Spectacles - the Gathering of the Sandhill Cranes
on the Platte River.”
The lecture, given by Paul Tebbel, manager of
the Audobon Society’s Rowe Sanctuary near
Gibbon, is part of the ongoing Paul A. Olsen
Seminar in Great Plains Studies series.
For more than 25 years, Tebbel has studied the
cranes, which flock in numbers upward of a half
million along the Platte in central Nebraska to
feed in the nearby fields. The spot-marks a rest
stop for the cranes as they migrate to the
Canadian arctic.
When the cranes come to the river at night or
leave in the morning, it creates one of nature’s
most intriguing spectacles.
Tebbel will describe this migration phenome
na and show some of the best video footage ever
taken of the Platte River.
The talk takes place Wednesday, Feb. 21, from
3:30 to 5 p.m. in the Great Plains Art Collection’s
Christlieb Gallery, 1155 Q St. in Hewit Place.
The seminar as well as a 3 p.m. opening recep
tion in the gallery are free and open to the public.
For more information, contact Linda Ratcliffe
in the office of Great Plains Studies at (402) 472
3965.
Activist to speak about discrimination
pertaining to women's dress
The struggle of Muslim women is the subject
of a lecture on the UNL campus next week.
“Veiled Women and War,” a talk by human
rights activist Catherine Daly, takes place
Monday.
As a Fulbright Scholar in Pakistan, Daly exam
ined the textile craft economies of refugee and
immigrant Afghan women living in camp and
non-camp settings in Peshawar. She also taught at
the National College of Art in Lahore, Pakistan.
Daly is a cultural consultant and human rights
activist as well as a research associate with the
Center for Afghanistan Studies at die University of
Nebraska at Omaha.
She is a recognized authority on Muslim
women’s dress and appearance as it relates to
human rights and discrimination issues. She is a
former faculty member in the department of tex
tiles and clothing design at UNL.
Her talk will focus on the politics of appear
ance, clothing and human behavior, human rights
and discrimination issues, and economic sustain
ability via women’s textile craft economies.
The lecture is free and open to the public and
will take place at 3:30 p.m. in the Nebraska Union,
1400 R St
For more information, contact the UNL
Department of Anthropology at (402) 472-2411.
Black history month to bring scholarly panel
discussions about Africa's part in history
A symposium examining the African presence
in world history makes its way to the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln campus next week.
“Bridging the African Diaspora in the New
Millennium” takes place Feb. 23 and 24.
Scholars from across the United States and
Africa will gather to hear and take part in a series
of panel discussions, keynote addresses and a
host of other events.
Topics will include the international dimen
sion of the African presence in world history, the
dispersion of Africans through history, the emer
gence of a cultural identity based on origin and
social condition, and the physical and psycholog
ical return to the African homeland.
All sessions will take place in the Nebraska
Union, 1400 R St., save for a reception and lecture
on the Cargo Quilt Collection at the Sheldon
Memorial Art Gallery at 3:30 p.m. on Feb. 23.
The symposium opens with “Vodou, an
African Haitian Religion and Politics in Haiti,” a
lecture by Guerin C. Montilus, an anthropology
professor at Wayne State (Mich.) University.
The opening lecture begins at 8:15 a.m. on the
23rd.
For a schedule of keynote addresses, registra
tion or other information about the event, contact
the African American and African Studies
Program at (402) 472-7973 or visit the symposium
Web site at http://www.unl.edu/unlies/sympo
siumJschedule, html.
Compiled by Sarah Baker
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