Baseball interview vs. Purdue

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04/08/2019 Added

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Ronnie Green talks about the university's response to flooding and blizzard conditions in Nebraska. This includes student support and flexibiilty extended to prospective students seeking to enroll in the university. It also includes Nebraska Extension's work in delivering resources to all Nebraskans.

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[00:00:00.350]So Nebraska and Purdue getting ready for game number two,
[00:00:03.250]gonna be another gorgeous day here for baseball in Lincoln.
[00:00:06.261]Before we get to the first pitch,
[00:00:07.782]voice of the Huskers Greg Sharpe had a chance
[00:00:10.280]to catch up with chancellor Ronnie Green.
[00:00:12.332]Get the very latest with chancellor Green,
[00:00:15.473]here's Greg Sharpe.
[00:00:16.588]Okay, Nick.
[00:00:17.505]Delighted to have the chancellor
[00:00:19.700]of University of Nebraska with us here.
[00:00:21.690]Today, chancellor, is our seventh home game.
[00:00:23.670]We missed eight in March.
[00:00:25.120]That's an inconvenience,
[00:00:26.340]but what's really been bad is the weather that did cause
[00:00:29.180]so much devastation and flooding around our state.
[00:00:32.040]I know it has impacted so many Nebraskans.
[00:00:34.168]The school, the university, has certainly been there
[00:00:37.410]in many ways to try to help this out.
[00:00:38.908]Well, Greg,
[00:00:39.872]we did have a kind of up and down and all around March,
[00:00:44.742]there's no other way to put it, in the state.
[00:00:47.975]It did set us back a few baseball games,
[00:00:50.370]so it's great to be here today for a game against Purdue.
[00:00:54.466]See the sun shining, you know?
[00:00:56.542]We are, of course, working on the flood recovery
[00:01:01.194]and the disaster recovery from the flooding
[00:01:04.596]and the blizzard conditions that we had last month.
[00:01:07.657]Including in athletics, you might remember the NIT game
[00:01:11.980]when $27,000 was donated from fans to go to
[00:01:15.610]flood relief and victims of that flooding,
[00:01:18.320]and we got the same thing coming up here shortly
[00:01:20.070]in the spring game in a few weeks.
[00:01:21.750]So, great to see those things happening.
[00:01:24.405]But it is a challenging time, as communities
[00:01:27.695]and individuals who have had property affected,
[00:01:31.350]some loss of life as we know, as well.
[00:01:33.635]Across a wide swath of the state and the region,
[00:01:37.326]and as a university of course,
[00:01:39.480]we are absolutely first and foremost concerned
[00:01:43.212]about our students and their families
[00:01:45.813]and prospective students who will be coming to us
[00:01:49.064]in the coming year who may be right
[00:01:51.764]in the middle of this disaster recovery.
[00:01:54.805]As we've responded,
[00:01:56.801]I'm very proud of our academic affairs
[00:01:59.743]and student affairs folks,
[00:02:01.480]lead by Donnie Plowman and Laurie Bellows,
[00:02:03.652]in reaching to the students as they came back
[00:02:06.740]from spring break, here recently,
[00:02:09.033]in assuring that we were doing everything we could
[00:02:13.008]to assist student who might have been directly impacted.
[00:02:16.446]From their studies being disrupted,
[00:02:18.646]and being able to continue in their spring semester,
[00:02:22.460]as well as in the fall, for the incoming freshman class,
[00:02:26.245]prospective students that we've been working with to assure
[00:02:29.350]that we can do everything we can for them not to be set back
[00:02:32.833]as they were in this flood recovery.
[00:02:36.039]We also have Nebraska Extension,
[00:02:38.696]we have an international and national
[00:02:41.690]leading extension effort in Nebraska
[00:02:44.569]through Nebraska Extension and they've really stepped up
[00:02:47.960]to take a leadership role for the university, as a whole,
[00:02:50.853]across all of the campuses of the University of Nebraska
[00:02:54.873]in working with communities and individuals
[00:02:58.160]in this recovery effort.
[00:02:59.360]That's gonna be some time ahead, a lengthy time ahead.
[00:03:02.997]Emergency assistance fund has been set up
[00:03:05.863]by the University of Nebraska Foundation,
[00:03:08.940]for individuals wanting to donate for assistance,
[00:03:12.261]for people that have been impacted by the flooding.
[00:03:16.395]And then our law school also has been working
[00:03:19.825]to provide legal aid, particularly as people respond to
[00:03:24.143]and seek disaster assistance, and the process of that,
[00:03:28.438]providing legal aid and legal assistance, as well.
[00:03:32.512]So, a lot happening in response to,
[00:03:35.405]as Nebraskans will do to rebuild
[00:03:37.803]and build back stronger than ever before.
[00:03:41.010]Nebraska Extension can be so valuable in this.
[00:03:43.160]If there's anyone interested in connecting with Extension,
[00:03:45.865]where can they get some information?
[00:03:47.830]And what kind of resources are available
[00:03:49.580]out there for folks?
[00:03:50.560]Well, you might remember back now, seven, eight years ago
[00:03:54.300]the Missouri river flooding that we had in 2011
[00:03:57.060]that impacted Nebraska's oil at that time.
[00:03:59.717]And we set up at that time a flood.unl.edu website
[00:04:03.668]through Nebraska Extension and that's been curated
[00:04:07.739]and kept active, and we've of course ramped that up
[00:04:11.360]even further now. So, you can go there for information.
[00:04:15.095]There also is a lot of outpouring of wanting to help
[00:04:19.267]through donations or through volunteering,
[00:04:22.460]in flood recovery areas of the state.
[00:04:24.973]So individual volunteers and organizations
[00:04:28.086]should register with the county or the community
[00:04:30.770]where they're volunteering, for safety reasons,
[00:04:32.920]and to help offset the costs for some of these communities.
[00:04:36.580]One of the things that Extension is helping
[00:04:39.532]to coordinate or telling folks
[00:04:41.175]is that tracking those volunteer hours
[00:04:43.992]is very important in terms of federal disaster support.
[00:04:47.870]So, Extension is helping to do that, as well.
[00:04:52.973]And then, I should mention, of course,
[00:04:55.700]The Ag community has certainly taken a big hit here,
[00:05:00.076]through crop losses, through land losses,
[00:05:03.377]through livestock losses, we've read and lot about that
[00:05:07.130]over the last several weeks.
[00:05:08.906]So the Extension is helping in many ways,
[00:05:12.390]to help coordinate that recovery
[00:05:14.210]and doing everything from collecting hay
[00:05:16.280]for livestock producers at points throughout the state,
[00:05:18.857]through resources to help with flood recovery,
[00:05:22.385]land recovery and so forth.
[00:05:24.631]So, lots of places to go through Nebraska Extension
[00:05:29.030]and through the university as we move further
[00:05:32.970]into this flood recovery.
[00:05:34.470]Well, fantastic, we want those folks to know
[00:05:36.846]that we haven't forgot them,
[00:05:37.821]we're not gonna forget about them,
[00:05:39.487]and hope that a baseball game today
[00:05:41.003]may be a nice distraction for everybody.
[00:05:42.616]Enjoy the game today and we look forward
[00:05:44.091]to seeing you next week.
[00:05:44.924]Go Big Red
[00:05:46.410]With us here before the Huskers matchup
[00:05:48.210]with the Purdue Boilermakers,
[00:05:49.340]we're back with the first pitch
[00:05:50.590]in game two of the series, coming up next,
[00:05:52.996]from their field IMG College.
[00:05:53.829]This is the Husker's Sports Network.

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