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October 19, 1990_ University of Nebraska-Lincoln Vol 90 No 39
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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.
