**FILE** This file photo from Sept. 5, 2003, shows Bob Kerrey saluting at an event in Lincoln, Neb. The former Democratic senator and Nebraska governor and current president of New School University in New York has told trustees at the university that he is contemplating running for the Senate again if Nebraska Republican Chuck Hagel announces his retirement. Kerrey has been the university's president since 2001.(AP Photo/Nati Harnik)