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Center hires coordinator I
By Laura Smith
Staff Reporter
Gina Matkin will begin duties as Coordi
nator for Women’s Programs and
Women Resource Center Coordinator
at the University of Ncbraska-Lincoln Aug. 21.
Matkin currently is program coordinator for
the Margaret Sloss Women’s Center at Iowa
State University,
“I’ve always been aware of the injustice
around me concerning gender issues,’ ’ Matkin
said.
Matkin, who has worked at the ISU center
for three years, said she is looking forward to
working at UNL,
She said she decided to come to the UNL
women’s center because she finds its collective
decision-making process appealing. In this
process:, staff and volunteers have input in
decisions.
Matkin said she is interested in having the
Women’s Resource Center provide a wider
variety of programs for the university. She also
would like to do more outreach programs, she
said.
“Anything that is done will be a collective
decision, though,’* she said.
Matkin would like to introduce the center to
a wider variety of people, she said.
At ISU, Matkin said, the center put on
programs in residence halls, sororities and fra
temities, as well as for groups on campus.
Programs included self-confidence and asser
tiveness training, she said.
Some of their programs were presented to
all men’s groups, she said.
“Men need to know they can use the cen
ter,” she said.
Sara Boatman, Director of Campus Activi
ties and Programs, said Matkin’s duties will
include managing the Women’s Resource
Center and working with the Women’s Re
source Center Collective and the Women’s
Resource Center Advisory Board.
The collective consists of volunteer and
student staff at the center. The advisory board
is a committee which is trying to expand the
services of the center.
Boatman said Matkin also will be in charge
of the University Program Council Women’s
Words and Music Committee, which is respon
sible for women’s programming.
Her duties will include working with
Women’s Studies faculty.
Boatman said applicants spent a day inter
viewing on campus. Thirty-one people applied
for the job. A screening committee set up to
interview applicants recommended Matkin for
the job.
The last Women’s Resource Center Coordi
nator, Katherine Araujo, resigned in January.
Araujo told the Daily Nebraskan in January
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UNL student gets
probation, fine
University of Nebraska -
Lincoln student David
Kuszaj was sentenced
Monday in Lancaster County
, Court to one year of probation
and an $800 fine after pleading no
contest to a charge of third degree
assault
Kuszaj is one of six students
who was charged in connection
with the robbery of a 31 -year-old
California man in May. The other
men charged were John
Mikkelsen, Ward Elliott, Leodis
Wiley, Todd Zimmerman and
Mitchell Hope.
The students allegedly at
tacked the man after he invited
them to his Comhusker Hotel
room, according to the police.
A ring, briefcase, watch and
$115 in cash were taken from the
man’s room, according to the
police.
Elliott and Mikkelsen are
scheduled for sentencing Aug. 28
and Sept. 1 respectively on re
vised misdemeanor charges, said
Deputy County Attorney Jan
Lipovsky.
She said Zimmerman is set to
change his plea Friday. He had
previously pleaded not guilty,
Lipovsky said.
Wiley and Hope arc still
awaiting trial, she said.
Hill touts new UNL system; Varner wants action
By C. J. Schepers
Staff Reporter
and Ryan Sleeves
Senior Editor
Former University of Nebraska
President D.B. “Woody”
Varner said he thinks the NU
Board of Regents should study the
role of Central Administration now
and decide whether it can be im
proved.
“If there is going to be any
change, it should be done now, while
there is a vacancy in die presidency,”
said Varner, now the University
Foundation Consultant.
Varner said he doesn’t know if a
better system exists. But regents
“would be wise” to examine alterna
tives during the interim period, he
said.
Once a new president is found, he
said, it will be more difficult to initi
ate changes in the structure of Central
Administration.
Since the regents ousted former
NU President Ronald Roskens on
July 31, many legislators and offi
cials have questioned the role of the
regents and central administrators.
Bryan Hill, president of the Asso
ciation of Students of the University
of Nebraska, said he thinks the NU
Central Administration should be
abolished.
Hill said central administrators
don’t provide direction and leader
ship for three campuses like they
should.
“When there’s a tough issue,
Central Administration doesn’t take
a stand,’’ he said.
Hill also said central administra
tors and individual campus adminis
trators often waste manpower by
duplicating tasks.
Central administrators are too
“removed’’ from campus issues to
make good decisions, Hill said.
Campus administrators, who are
more intimately familiar with and
closer to such issues, are better able to
make decisions, he said.
Many universities similar in size
and scope to UNL don’t have Central
Administrations, he said.
Hill said he favors a system in
which the chancellor of the flagship
campus, UNL, acts as university
president
The structure would be different
from the current system, he said,
because the UNL chancellor would
be held responsible for shortcomings
of the other campuses. Thus, the UNL
chancellor would take an interest in
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Be wary of postcards bearing girts, officials say
By Pattie Greene
Staff Reporter
If consumers receive a postcard
in the mail telling them they
have won a prize, assistant at
torney general Denise Frost says to
“throw it away, whatever they’re
selling.”
Frost said businesses are sending
postcards in the mail promising
prizes to customers if they call a cer
tain number.
But these “prizes” are often part
of a gimmick fraudulent companies
employ so their victims will pay high
shipping rates to receive the prize,
Frost said.
Often the prize is not what the
victim expects.
Detective Jim Peschong of the
Lincoln Police Department’s White
Collar Crime Unit said people have
won 1989 Jeep Cherokees through
such schemes, only to find that the
jeep is a small model.
Those taken by the scheme can
pay $300 to $500 for shipping their
“jeep,” Peschong said.
‘Tm not aware that has happened
in Lincoln,” he said, ‘ ‘although it has
happened in other parts of the coun
try.”
Even if the prize is legitimate,
Peschong said, consumers often wait
45 to 60 days for the prize and still
pay high shipping rates.
When they call the company’s
complaint number, often it has been
disconnected, he said.
‘ These go on everyday in the mail
in Nebraska and clear across the
United States,” he said.
Peschong said the businesses op
erate in a variety of ways, often ask
ing for cashier’s checks or money
orders.
‘‘They are trying to get the check
in their hands and cashed before the
person has time to think about it,” he
said.
“Mail order fraud is a big busi
ness,” he said.
Earlier this spring the technical
investigations unit of the Lincoln
Police Department found a mail
fraud company operating out of Cali
fornia set up in Nebraska, Peschong
said.
The company ripped off $880,000
from Nebraskans in six months. ,
Investigating these companies is
hard, Peschong said, because they
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