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TT ^ ^ index £ jj ^gBMte| ..^<h iQ i^-.-,, 3k =_p gg Today, partly sunny and warmer, south wind 15- News Digest.2 ^BBk 1 Mf m SBr^Hpk f*11® jjr I H 125 mil--.5 per hour, high 65-70 Tonight, mostly Editorial 4 ^H§k H S£ 'ffifi ^ S| * al IS HB |B cloudy with 40 percent chance of rain, low near sports 7 SI H” E if m ^nH « I 40 Saturday, 30 percent chance of rain in the Arts & Entertainment 9 ^0| m_ mtW JS m B * j 1 miLfl B B 3n5i;g',hencloudyandcooler'h,ghinthelowto ciass,^ . n October 19, 1990_ University of Nebraska-Lincoln Vol 90 No 39 --—-:--— Committee declares need for recycling coordinator By Dionne Searcey Staff Reporter Recycling may become a full time job at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Members of the Chancellor’s Recycling Advisory Committee agreed Thursday that a part-time or full-time recycling coordinator would be needed if UNL installed a universitywidc recycling plan. Ray Coffey, UNL business man ager, said most recycling programs are started without paid coordinators. But “if we’re really going to get seri ous about it, it’s a full-time job,” he said. Wilbur Dasenbrock, director of UNL Landscaping Services, said the cost to get the program started and to hire a full-time coordinator would be at least $50,(XX). The committee is preparing a re port to submit to Martin Massengale, UNL chancellor and NU interim presi dent. The report would call for develop ment of a comprehensive program to reduce the amount of solid and liquid waste UNL produces. The program would establish pilot recycling projects to be financed and operated primarily with existing re sources, Coffey said. John Marker, operational manager of the custodial division in the De partment of Facilities Management, recommended that a pilot program be started requiring paper to be recycled. The program would target resi dence halls and the Nebraska Unions, he said. Classrooms and other facili ties also would be included. The paper recycling program could be established at little additional cost, Marker said. Another committee would develop policies and evaluate possible financ ing sources, such as grants and sales See RECYCLING on 3 IN U student regents present anti-spending lid statement From Staff Reports The 2 percent lid’s threat to slate and local spending “goes be yond politics and cuts deep into the heart of our system of higher education,” the University of Ne braska’s three student regents said Thursday. Students’ futures arc threatened by what seems to be an easy solution to a growing aggravation — high taxes, the student regents said in a statement given at a press conference in the Milo Bail Student Center at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. UNL Student Regent Phil Gosch, who read the statement, said voters should take a realistic look at the ramifications of Measure 405 before casting their ballots Nov. 6. The lid would limit stale and local govern ment spending increases to 2 percent each year. Gosch asked voters not to limit NU’s ability to develop fully. The university exists to develop minds, but top faculty arc needed to See STATEMENT on 6 Locker-room conflicts don t affect Huskers. officials say By Chris Hopfensperger Senior Repotler Recent lockcr-roorn clashes be tween professional football players and female journalists have had no effect on Nebraska’s interview policy, athletic officials said. Two incidents have stirred debate on the rights of women writers in the male-dominated profession: Boston Herald reporter Lisa Olson’s sexual harassment charges against the New England Patriots and Cincinnati Bengals coach Sam Wychc’s deci sion to bar USA Today reporter Den ise Tom from his locker room after a game. The small number of female re porters covering college football, however, has limited the debate to professional football, Nebraska Ath letic Director Bob Devancy said. The Nebraska football program’s post-game interview policy prevents such problems in the south stadium. See LOCKER ROOM on 3 . High Hopes Track team member Marc Rex road jumps over hurdles during a plyometrics drill Thurs day at Ed Weir track. The drill is designed to build muscles and concentration. Mother tells of son’s struggle against AIDS By Sara Bauder Schott Senior Reporter Gripping a picture of her family, Jeanne White came to the microphone and began to tell the story of discrimination against her son. White wiped away tears several times as she talked about Ryan, who was just 13 when he was diagnosed as having AIDS in 1984. A hemophiliac, Ryan got AIDS from a clotting agent used to thicken his blood. He died April 8, 1990, at the age of 18. White spoke Thursday at a conference on AIDS sponsored by the Nebraska Parcnt-Tcach ers Association and Nebraska Department of Education. After he was diagnosed with AIDS, Ryan had to face the disease and the prejudice that went with it. White said. Ryan was not allowed to attend school in Kokomo, Ind., because people were afraid casual contact with Ryan could spread the disease. Ryan’s mother said she could not believe how the community of Kokomo was affected by her son’s disease. When family members went to church, she said, they had to sit in a certain spot so people who didn ’ t want to sit by Ryan wouldn’t have to. During a part in the church service when the congregation would greet each other and shake hands, Ryan was left out, White said. Eventu ally, she said, it became unbearable to go to church. Church wasn’t the only thing that became unendurable. Carloads of teen-agers would dnvc past the White home, shouting and calling Ryan a “lag,” White said. When Ryan finally returned to school in Kokomo, he used separate restroom sand dr ink ing fountains and did not take gym class, White said. Ryan agreed to those things as a compro mise with the people who were scared of him, she said. People started rumors about Ryan being a troublemaker, saying that he bit people, spit on vegetables and cookies, and urinated on bath room walls, she said. As Ryan’s mother, White also suffered dis crimination. People called her an unfit mother, she said. When cashiers gave her change, they would not touch her hand. And she received degrading letters every day. White said she and Ryan tried not to let such things bother them. ‘‘We tried to ignore the injustice because we knew they were wrong," she said. The Whites moved to Cicero, Ind., in 1987, hoping desperately that the community would accept them, White said. The hope was answered, and Ryan became "just one of the kids” at his new school, she said. Ryan felt ‘‘really good" alter the move, she said, because he did not have to deal with discrimination daily. Being accepted in the community meant Ryan got to live the last three years of his life "doing the things he wanted to do" w ith many new friends, While said. The community was proud of Ryan instead of scared or jealous, she said. • Since Ryan’s death. White has traveled the country speaking on AIDS and her family’s experiences with it. She has been involved with the showing of the AIDS Memorial Quilt and is finishing a children’s book that Ryan started to write.