After endorsing UNL's entrance into the Big Ten -- in part because of its strong academics -- leaders at Wisconsin and Michigan apparently helped oust UNL from an elite academic
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"I think it would lack integrity to pretend that academics drove the process [of the Big 10 adding Nebraska]," [Wisconsin Carolyn Chancellor] Martin told the newspaper.
Martin reversed course [from her Big 10 vote to invite Nebraska]. She was a member of the [AAU] membership review committee that unanimously opposed Nebraska.
"We lost two Big Ten colleagues," [Nebraska Chancellor Havey] Perlman wrote in an April 11 email to his UNL vice chancellors while attending an AAU gathering in Washington.
"I guess I was disappointed," he said. However, he said, he respected their votes and doesn't think their votes contradicted their earlier decisions to accept UNL's entry into the Big Ten. "I am prepared to believe that they, in good faith, believed that we were a good university to join the Big Ten and that in accordance with the membership criteria of the AAU we were not eligible to continue there," he said.
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