Garden’s plants
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lege of Arts and Sciences dean’s
office, Drohman said.
Not long after Drohman began
construction, he received a call
from the arts and sciences dean,
asking what the garden would be
used for and if itcould bededicated
to Harry Lloyd Weaver.
Weaver, an associate dean of
the college, was preparing to retire
at the time.
While most of the plants are
native to Nebraska, there is at least
one notable exception: the cycad, a
tropical plant that looks like a cross
between tree ferns and palms. The
cycad, located in the center of the
garden near the wall of the green
house, is planted in a large trash
can.
But even the cycad has a place in
a Nebraska collection. About 100
million years ago cycads were one
of the dominant plants of this re
gion, which had a warmer climate
then.
Margaret Bolick, assistant pro
fessor of biological sciences and
curator of botany at Morrill Hall,
said the Nebraska area had a sub
tropical climate 10 to 12 million
years ago.
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The native Nebraskan plants in the Harry Lloyd Weaver Native Garden east of Oldfather
Hall are preparing for winter. While the native plants remain in the garden, one plant, a
cycad — a tropical plant growing in the trash can against the wall — soon will be moved
into the greenhouse behind it.
Race to honor former UNL professor
By Mike Kluck
Staff Reporter
This Sunday, friends of former
associate professor of English War
ren Fine will have a chance to honor
him in a different way than most
professors are honored.
Sunday afternoon, the Warren
Fine Memorial Race will be run at the
State Fair Park in Lincoln.
Fine, who came to the University
of Nebraska-Lincoln in 1976, died in
August of complications associated
with diabetes. Fine was 44.
English department chairman
Frederick Link said he thought Fine
would appreciate the race in his
honor.
“Fine uas not an athlete himself
and would probably like this more
than a watch or plaque or something
like that. He would be happy that
people care enough to do this in h:s
memory,” Link said.
The race was organized by Tim
Creek, a former student of Fine ’ s w ho
is now a meteorologist.
Peter Waters, a bartender at the
Zoo Bar and a full-time student who
helped Creek organize the race, said
10 to 15 former students and friends
of Fine gave money to establish the
race in his memory. They donated a
total of $74 to pay for a lettered
blanket for the race.
The money for the race was raised
at the Zoo Bar, 136 N. 14th St., and
O’Rourke’s 14th St. Lounge, 121 N.
14th St. Fine was one of the original
founders of the Strat-O-Matic base
ball league at O’Rourke’s and read
poetry at the Zoo Bar.
Fine didn’t like formal activities
and liked to be with undergraduate
and graduate students, Link said.
“Fine wasn’t your typical aca
demic professor,” he said. “He was a
writer and liked to be associated with
the ordinary people. He didn’t associ
ate much with the other professors.”
People at O’Rourke’s and the Zoo
Bar said Fine was funny and person
able.
“Warren was a sports fan and avid
horse-racing fan. He was a nice,
funny guy, once you got to know
him,” Waters said.
Waters said he doesn’t know if the
race will be a yearly event, but said
organizing for it this year has been
fun.
NCLU director
speaks on Bork
By Dan Paez
Staff Reporter _
The biggest mistake Ronald Re
agan made was touting Robert Bork as
a “moderate, mainstream jurist,” John
G. Taylor, executive director of the
Nebraska Civil Liberties Union, told a
group of 25 students Thursday night.
Taylor analyzed the U.S. Supreme *
Court justice nominee’s judicial and
academic records in a speech to
members of the University of Ne
braska-Lincoln’s Young Democrats
in the Heritage Room of the Nebraska
Union.
According to Taylor, Bork is a
“states’ rights” advocate and believes
that states alone should decide
whether things such as discrimination
on the basis of race are illegal.
Taylor said Bork also doesn’t be
lieve that political speech is protected
under the constitution when that
speech advocates the breaking of
laws. Martin Luther King would not
have been protected then, when he
spoke out against the infamous “Jim
Crow” laws, Taylor said.
There might not have been so much
controversy over Bork’s nomination
had Reagan presented h im as a conser
vative jurist, Taylor said. When Bork
was nominated, Taylor said, the
NCLU’s legal staff did a very exten
sive analysis on Bork’s judicial and
academic background. He said the
staff researched some of Bork’s un
published speeches dating back about
30 years and sent a 50-page memo on
their findings to the American Civil
Liberties Union.
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Abuse growing problem
By Mary Nell Westbrook
Staff Reporter
Victims of domestic and sexual violence
need to know they aren’t alone, and society
needs to know this problem exists more than
people realize, said a Lincoln crisis counselor.
Because of this growing problem, October is
Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Aware
ness Month in Lincoln. Officials say they hope
people will become more aware of the problem
and thus make it easier for the victims to come
forward and not feel alone.
From January to August this year, Lincoln’s
Rape-Spouse Abuse Crisis Center received
3,962 calls, said Lczlic Hartford, crisis coun
selor at the center.
In August alone, the center received 594
calls, Hartford said.
If the issue became less stigmatized, more
victims would seek help, she said. In smaller
communities, abused people arc less likely to
report the problem.
“It still happens, but they just don’t tell
anyone about it," she said.
While Lincoln is about average national ly in
terms of violent and sexual assault problems,
Hartford said, these crimes are as prevalent in
Lincoln as they are anywhere else.
“There has steadily been an increase in calls
throughout the years,” Hartford said. “Sex
abuse, including incest, happens a lot.”
The Rape-Spouse Abuse Crisis Center be
came active in the early 1970s. The organiza
tion was officially established in 1976 under the
Family Service Association of Lincoln, she
said.
Victims feel isolated after the incident,
which is one reason for the push of awareness,
she said. Sometimes victims think they are the
only one it happens to, she said.
Abuse isn’t restricted to the home or to
marriages, she said. Abuses go on in dating
relationships even with university couples, she
said.
The crisis center offers counseling, not only
for recent victims but for those who may have
been victims in the past, she said.
The center counsels people and offers sup
port groups on prevention, domestic violence,
sex ual assault and how to help a friend or fam i I y
member who may be experiencing abuse.
The center has a resource library and pro
vides speakers to speak on any kind of abuse to
any group.
All of the crisis center’s services are free, she
said, and a hotline is open 24 hours. The hotline
number is 471-7273.
In conjunction with Domestic Violence and
Sexual Assault Awareness month, the crisis
center is offering a variety of speakers and
activities throughout the month.
Exon's request approved
Climate center gets funds
i
The Senate Appropriations Committee has
approved U.S. Sen. J.J. Exon’s request to fi
nance the High Plains Regional Climate Center
at the University of Ncbraska-Lincoln for 1988.
Exon said the High Plains Regional Climate
Center provides climatq information for Ne
braska. Iowa, Kansas, Colofido. Wyoming and
South Dakota. The Nebraska climate center it
one of four in the naliafi.
The Senate Appropriations Committee
approved $1,280,000 to operate the four re
gional climate centers. Each center is expected
to receive $320,000 of the total.
“The climate centers provide valuable cli
mate information which is important in accu
rately predicting where severe weather like
floods and droughts may occur,” Exon said.
Exon said the information collected by the
climate center is used in Nebraska’s Agnet
computer system. Agnet offers management
information to farmers throughout the Mid
west.
Last May, Exon urged the Senate Com
merce Appropriations Subcommittee Chair
man to continue financing the Regional Cli
mate Centers operated by the National Oceanic
and Atmospheric Administration.
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