DOG DAYS AT QUIKICKRIchard Zierke, of the Nebraska Union food service, grills hot dogs Monday at the Dog Days at the Qwikick in the Stadium Drive Parking Garage. As part of the celebration, hot dogs were served and parking was only $2 for the whole day. (Photo: Richard Wright) |
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Because of Spring Break, the Scarlet will not publish March 27. The next Scarlet will be published April 3. Deadlines for that issue are 5 p.m. March 27.
The statewide tornado watch/warning test will begin about 10 a.m. March 25. The university will participate in this drill, testing its alarm systems when the outdoor sirens are sounded. Faculty, staff and students are requested to participate to familiarize themselves with the location of tornado shelters in campus buildings. Shelter areas are marked with orange signs. Check the March 13 Scarlet for more information or contact Bruce Berndt at 472-2131.
Four finalists have been identified for the position of dean of the College of Business Administration.
They are Yash P. Gupta, dean and professor of management, College of Business, University of Colorado at Denver; Barron H. Harvey, interim dean, School of Business, Howard University, Washington, D.C.; Paul Ronald Hill, dean, School of Business Administration, University of Portland (Ore.); and Cynthia Milligan, president, Cynthia Milligan and Associates, Lincoln, consultants to the banking industry.
Gupta has been dean and professor of management at Colorado-Denver since 1992. Gupta earned a bachelor's degree in production engineering with first-class honors at Punjab University in India (1973), a master of technology degree in production management at Brunel University of West London (England, 1974) and a doctorate in management sciences at the University of Bradford (England, 1976).
Gupta was ranked the No. 1 production and operations management scholar in the country in terms of contributions made to the field of production and operations management by the Journal of Operations Management in 1996.
Harvey, who has more than 25 years of experience as an educator, university administrator and faculty member, earned both his doctorate in organizational behavior/management theory and his MBA in accounting at the University of Nebraska.He joined the Howard faculty in 1983 and has been interim dean since 1994.
Since 1981, he has been president and chief executive officer of Harvey and Co. Inc., a Washington, D.C., consulting firm that provides comprehensive management and financial services for domestic and international clients. Among his honors and awards, he was named Accounting Educator of the Year in 1996 by the National Association of Black Accountants.
Hill, who has been at Portland since 1996, earned all of his degrees at the University of Maryland, bachelor's cum laude (1976), master's (1978) and doctoral (1984) in business administration.
An internationally recognized scholar in the areas of social and public policy issues in marketing and consumer behavior, Hill has published his work in the premier journals in those fields. He has been ranked among the top teachers at five different universities over the last 20 years and three times was a finalist for the teacher of the year award at Villanova, where he taught from 1989 to 1996.
Milligan has been active in the Nebraska business community for 20 years and has practiced tax and corporate law in Nebraska for 10 years. She was education adviser to Gov. Kay Orr and director of the Nebraska Department of Banking and Finance from 1987 to 1991, serving as the chief regulator of the financial and securities industries in the state. She founded Cynthia Milligan and Associates in 1991.
Milligan earned a bachelor's degree with honors at the University of Kansas (1967) and a juris doctorate with honors at George Washington University (1970). She practiced law in Washington, D.C., from 1970 to 1977, then was senior partner in the Lincoln law firm of Rembolt Ludtke Parker Milligan and Berger from 1977 to 1987. She has held adjunct professorships at Nebraska and Georgetown.
All four candidates will be invited for on-campus interviews with the search committee, business faculty and other interested parties. The dates of the visits are being arranged.
Senior Vice Chancellor Richard Edwards said he is pleased with the finalists.
"These are outstanding candidates, and each offers exceptional leadership prospects for the college," he said. "They present quite varying backgrounds, so it will be fun to watch the excitement build during the campus visits."
John W. "Jack" Goebel has served has served as business dean since 1995. Goebel, who was vice chancellor for business and finance from 1981 to 1995, plans to return to the NU accountancy teaching faculty, which he first joined in 1959.
-Tom Simons, Public Relations
The Psychological Consultation Center in the University of Nebraska psychology department is offering Project SAFE, a group treatment program for sexually abused children and adolescents and their nonoffending parents.
David Hansen, who supervises the treatment program as director of the clinical psychology training program in the center, said group therapy is widely recognized among researchers and therapists as a good way for children to talk about their abuse. He said they learn that others have had similar experiences and that they are not alone.
Hansen, an associate professor of psychology, said the literature indicates that parental support is an important factor in reducing the effects of sexual abuse on children.
Project SAFE is a free service. The groups meet for 1 1/2 hours once a week for 12 weeks. Topics include the child's feelings, talking about what happened, offenders, family issues, feelings of shame and guilt, depression and anxiety, sex education and prevention strategies. Parents also receive education on sexual abuse and skills to help their children.
Project therapists are clinical psychology doctoral students who are supervised by licensed clinical psychologists. The service is not meant to take the place of individual treatment. Project SAFE therapists will work with the families' private therapists in coordinating services. Referrals for individual and family treatment are made when appropriate. Free child care will be provided for children not involved in the therapy sessions.
Participants will be asked periodically to fill out questionnaires to help the therapists understand the difficulties they may be experiencing. The questionnaires also will provide therapists with information on how the project can better serve families with these problems.
For more information about the project or to arrange an appointment, call the Psychological Consultation Center at (402) 472-2351.
-Tom Simons, Public Relations
Quasars rank as one of the major unsolved problems in astronomy.
Scientists know they are the most luminous objects and the most powerful energy sources in the universe, giving off vast amounts of energy in all wavelengths. After that, however, things start to get murky.
"We think - and we're pretty definite about this - quasars are giant black holes in the center of galaxies," said Martin Gaskell, research associate professor of astronomy at the University of Nebraska. "And we think the quasar occurs when the black hole swallows matter, some of it goes into the black hole, but some of it is released as energy, which we see."
Gaskell said that although there is a consensus among astronomers that quasars are black holes, no one knows how they work.
The NU astronomer and 70 or so of his colleagues (roughly half from outside the United States) will try to get an answer to part of that problem at an international conference, "Structure and Kinematics of Quasar Broad Line Regions," March 23-26 at the Ramada Hotel and Conference Center in Lincoln.
The quasar broad line region is the gas closest to the black hole and the focus of the conference will be the distribution and motion of that gas.
"If we can understand what the gas is doing, we can understand how quasars work and why this black hole is giving out this enormous amount of energy," he said.
"There are some very fundamental questions to be answered. Some examples of things we don't know are: Is the gas moving in toward the black hole, in orbit around the black hole or moving away from it? Is it distributed in a disk or is it more spherical?"
Gaskell said the conference could see astronomers reach a measure of agreement on the answer to the second question.
"We're probably going to have a debate, but I can see from the papers coming in that opinion is probably going to be pretty one-sided. I think there's going to be a consensus that the gas we see is indeed in a disk.
"In science there are advances in theory and advances in observation. The theoreticians have thought for a long time that there should be a disk," he said. "It's only recently that we've had (observational) evidence that this is indeed happening. If we can settle this issue, then we can go on to ask the next question: What happens to the gas after it goes into the disk?"
Gaskell said he and other astronomers who study quasar broad line regions meet in international conferences roughly every two years, or when enough new knowledge has been accumulated to make a conference worthwhile. The two most recent similar conferences were in 1994 in Oxfordshire, England, and 1996 in Shanghai, China.
-Tom Simons, Public Relations
Decisions. Decisions. How does a person know what to do?
That will the topic of three days of formal and informal discussions when a hundred scholars from approximately 50 institutions from across the United States and some from overseas convene the Midwest Decision Science Institute in Lincoln March 26-28. Sponsored by the University of Nebraska College of Business Administration, the institute will be conducted at the Cornhusker Hotel and Burnham Yates Conference Center.
Although the institute is an academic conference, it will include many sessions that will appeal to people in the private sector, according to Marc Schniederjans, professor of marketing at NU and the institute's program chair.
"It's really an eclectic conference," Schniederjans said. "It will cover decision-making processes in accounting, finance, marketing, management - basically every discipline covered in the College of Business Administration."
He said the conference will include sessions dealing with decision-making in health-care issues, policy decisions in accounting, advertising, production and operations management, management information systems and state-of-the-art technologies in World Wide Web construction.
Schniederjans (pronounced snider-jans) said interested local business people and students can register for $50, half the regular registration price.
The full agenda for the Midwest Decision Science Institute can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.cba.unl.edu/m wdsi98/mwdsi.html.
The Decision Sciences Institute is a nonprofit professional organization of more than 3,500 researchers, managers, educators, students, and institutions interested in decision-making techniques and processes in private and public organizations. The Institute provides an international forum for presenting and sharing research in the study of decision processes across disciplines.
-Tom Simons, Public Relations
The 46th Annual Nebraska Symposium on Motivation occurs April 2-3 at the Wick Center. This year's topic is Motivation and Child Maltreatment.
Speakers April 2 are 9 a.m., Cathy Spatz Widom, University of Albany, "Motivation and Mechanisms in the Cycle of Violence;" 11 a.m., Joel S. Milner, Northern Illinois University, "Social Information Processing and Child Physical Abuse;" and 2 p.m., Dante Cicchetti, University of Rochester, "Self-Regulatory Processes in Maltreated Children."
Speakers April 3 are 9 a.m., Deborah Daro, National Comittee to Prevent Child Abuse, "Child Abuse Prevention: New Directions and Challenges," and 11 a.m., John Lutzker, University of Judaism, "Balancing Research and Treatment in Child Maltreatment: The Quest for Good Data and Practical Service." The symposium concludes with a panel discussion beginning at 2 p.m. featuring all guest speakers, moderated by Ross Thompson, professor of psychology at the University of Nebraska.
Featured presentations of the symposium are published annually by the University of Nebraska Press. Coordinator of the symposium and editor of the proceedings is David Hansen. The symposium series editor is Richard Dienstbier. Hansen is an associate professor and Dienstbier a professor in the Department of Psychology.
The Department of Psychology is authorized by the American Psychological Association to give continuing education credit for the symposium.
The conference is free but registration is encouraged due to limited space. For registration or continuing education information, contact Claudia Price Decker, at 238 Burnett Hall, Department of Psychology, University of Nebraska.
The symposium is supported by a gift from Cora L. Friedline to the University of Nebraska Foundation in memory of Harry K. Wolfe, founder of the department of psychology at the University of Nebraska.
-Kim Hachiya, Public Relations
There have been a high number of falls due to weather conditions. Landings often result in serious, painful injuries. Please take care when outdoor surfaces may be icy and indoor surfaces may be wet. Wear appropriate shoes for the weather. Look where you are going. Avoid icy patches or wet patches. On ice or snow, walk slowly, with a shuffle if necessary. When you get out of the car, turn your whole body out and plant both feet on the ground. Reverse the process for getting in the car. Walk with care; walk up or down stairs, do not run, and use the hand rails. If you notice icy patches outdoors in heavily traveled areas, call Landscape Services at 472-2679, and report the location of the problem. If a floor area needs mopping, call the Facilities Management and Planning Service Desk at 472-1550. After the snow melts, there may be loose gravel; take care when walking it as well, and report areas requiring sweeping to Landscape Services or the Facilities Management and Planning Service Desk. A little more care and attention can go a long way to prevent a fall.
-Rhonda Zugmier, University Services
The 1998 Norman and Helene Krivosha Lecture, "Scholars, Scrolls and Scandals - Judaism, Christianity and the Dead Sea ScrolIs," will be presented by Lawrence H. Schiffman at 7:30 p.m. April 2 in 104 Morrill Hall auditorium.
Schiffman, the Ethel and Irwin A. Edelman Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University, is among the world's foremost authorities on the Dead Sea Scrolls, Jewish religious, political and social history in late antiquity, and the history of Jewish law and Talmudic literature. His long list of publications includes Reclaiming the Dead Sea Scrolls (1994), and From Text to Tradition, A History of Judaism in Second Temple and Rabbinic Times (1989).
Schiffman's slide-illustrated lecture will address several recent controversies surrounding the publication and interpretation of the Dead Sea Scrolls, documents that are crucial to understanding the relationship between Judaism and early Christianity.
The lecture is sponsored by the Harris Center for Judaic Studies and the Departments of Classics and History
The Museum Lecture Series in Natural History will present "Inquiry Method in Informal Education," by Gordon Uno, at 5:30 p.m. April 3 in the Morrill Hall auditorium. A reception will begin at 4:30 p.m. in the Southwest Gallery, third floor.
Uno is David Ross Boyd Professor of Botany at the University of Oklahoma. His primary area of research is pedagogy, specifically the development and testing of inquiry methods in formal and informal settings in college and grades K-12. In 1991, Uno received the Charles E. Bessey Award for his contributions to botanical education, presented by the Botanical Society of America.
Cosponsors of lecture series are the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, School of Biological Sciences, the Teaching and Learning Center and the Research Council.
"Fossil Horses in Cyberspace" by Bruce McFadden of the University of Florida, begins at 7 p.m. April 30. A public reception follows the speech in Elephant Hall. Cosponsors are the Center for Great Plains Studies, the department of geosciences, the School of Natural Resource Sciences, the Center for Grassland Studies and the Research Council.
Admission to the lectures and the museum is free, but a $2 donation is suggested for Morrill Hall visitors over the age of 2. Parking is available next to the museum.
The first lecture, "Global Search for the Tapeworms of Sharks" by Janine Caira of the University of Connecticut, was March 5. Cosponsors of Caira's lecture were the council and School of Biological Sciences.
All lectures are free and open to the public.
UNOPA has extended the deadline for three awards to be presented April 14. The new deadline is March 23.
These awards are the Floyd S. Oldt Outstanding Staff Award, Floyd S. Oldt Silver Pen Award and the Rose Frolik Award. These awards are a great way to show appreciation for an Office/Service employee. All three carry a monetary award. The Rose Frolik award - $200, Floyd S. Oldt Outstanding Staff Award - $1,000 and the Floyd S. Oldt Silver Pen Award - $600. Everyone is urged to consider nominating someone for these awards.
More details can be found with guidelines and instructions on submitting nominations at their web site http://www.ianr.unl. edu/ianr/agecon/award.htm. For more information, contact Diane Wasser, UNOPA Awards Director, 472-6251.
The New Media Center is offering classes in April. The cost is $10 for students, $30 for faculty/staff. Payment is due with registration. Cancellations will be accepted for a full refund up to two working days before the class. Substitutions are allowed. Space is limited and advance registration is required. To register, call 472-0600.
For a complete schedule of classes check the New Media Center's web page at http://www.unl.edu/nmc/.
A final spring look at the Orion Nebula will be the featured attraction March 27 when the Student Observatory has its next free public viewing night.
The Orion Nebula is one of the most spectacular sights in the winter night sky, but it will dip below the horizon in the next few weeks and will not be visible again until late in the year.
Weather permitting, visitors will be able see the nebula and other deep sky attractions from 7-10 p.m. at the observatory, located atop the Stadium Parking Garage at 10th and T streets.
The Orion Nebula is a bright, diffuse nebula that is faintly visible to the naked eye in the sword of the hunter's figure in the constellation Orion. The nebula is about 1,500 light-years from Earth and contains hundreds of very hot young stars clustered around a nexus of four massive stars known as the Trapezium.
Public viewing nights at the Student Observatory are scheduled for the last Friday of every month, at least through October. The next following public night is April 24.
The dome is not heated, so visitors should dress appropriately.
The University's Year 2000 Task Force will meet at 1:30 p.m. March 25 in the Nebraska Union. Future meetings as well as University status reports for the Year 2000 can also be found on the web http://www.unl.edu/year2k. Call 472-7690 for more information.
The third annual "Festival for the Health of It!" will be from 10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. April 1 in the East Union.
Festival events and information will include body composition analysis, hearing and speech testing, fitness class demonstrations, physical therapy/back screenings, eating disorder awareness, healthy back and flexibility, blood pressure testing, optical screenings, fire prevention/safety, occupational safety and much more. Information also will be availabe from the American Heart Association, the American Cancer Society, Arthritis Foundation, the Employee Assistance Program, Environmental Health and Safety and Campus Ministries.
Adult CPR or CPR recertification courses also will be offered. To register for these, contact Kara Pfingsten, 472-2479.
John Gottschalk, president and chief executive officer of the Omaha World-Herald Co. and publisher of the Omaha World-Herald will deliver the S. Allen and Kathleen D. Seline Memorial Lecture at 10 a.m. April 3 in the Nebraska Union.
He joined the Omaha World-Herald in 1975, was elected president and chief operating officer in 1985, and became CEO in 1989.
Gottschalk will visit as part of the College of Journalism and Mass Communications J Week festivities March 30 to April 3.
Outstanding students will be honored when the College of Journalism and Mass Communications celebrates J Week March 30 to April 3.
Students in the top 10 percent of classes, students on scholarship and special award winners will be recognized at the journalism honors convocation at 10 a.m. April 3 in the Nebraska Union.
Richard Holden, executive director of the Dow Jones Newspaper Fund will receive the Journalism Innovator Award for his accomplishments in expanding and redefining the scope of the Fund's efforts to improve the quality of journalism education and professional development for those considering careers in journalism.
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