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Keeping Searches Secret

On a clear April morning in Lincoln, Neb., four members of a search committee assigned to find the University of Nebraska’s next president piled into a white 2003 Mercury Marquis, motored onto State Highway 2, and set out for Kansas City, Mo., nearly 200 miles away. Keith R. Olsen, the committee’s co-chairman, drove. Harvey S. Perlman, chancellor of the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, rode shotgun. (Subscription required.)