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T i Daily -g . I ^-I.smTH . X v L/JL d^JVCIX 1. I I Leslie Worrell, right, reads poetry by women who have been sexually abused, while Jude Alexander listens at Thursday night’s Stop Violence Against Women Rally. Women engaged in war, speaker says By Adeana Leftin Senior Reporter Women must stop seeking the ap proval of men, a speaker said at a rally against domestic violence Thursday. Sue Ellen Wall, executive director of the Lincoln Lancaster Commission on the Status of Women, told a group of more than 30 that women are engaged in a war. She said women don’t value themselves enough. If they did, Wall said, money would be invested and memorials built for the 44,000 women a year who die of breast cancer like the monuments constructed for the men and women who died in Vietnam. Not all men are bad, she said, but those good men need to do their part to help women win their war against violence. “Say to the good men, ‘it’s good to have you, but you have work to do,’” Walt said. Women must support eacTi dthcr 'even when it’s difficult, she said. “Somehow we have to find hope,” Wall said, “and I think we will find that in conver sation and communication with each other.” Cindy Douglas, assistant coordinator of the Women’s Resource Center, said the purpose of the rally was to encourage those who are concerned with domestic violence. “When you work in this type of field, you bum out fast,” she said. Pat Tetreault, education coordinator/client advocate with the Rape/Spouse Abuse Cri sis Center, agreed. “It becomes very difficult sometimes to see how many are treated on a daily basis and supposedly by people who love them,” she said. Another purpose of the rally, Douglas said, was to increase awareness of options available for battered women and their families. Tetreault said the crisis center offers a 24-hour crisis line, shelter, support groups, legal and medical advocacy and community education. The Friendship Home, another Lincoln shelter, also offers confidential shelter and safety counseling for women who choose to return to their homes and help in finding employment and housing for those wishing to leave their situation. At the Friendship Home, women are al lowed to stay with their children up to a six week limit. Schedule set for reaction to proposed budget cuts Response timeline adopted for programs, colleges By Wendy Mott and Roger Price Staff Reporters The Budget Reduction Review Commit tee accepted Thursday a proposed sched ule for responses to BRRC recommen dations. The committee voted that no recommenda tions for budget cuts would be accepted from vice chancellors after noon Oct. 30. The BRRC is currently hearing testimony Dl inf'CT on budget cuts proposed oUDut I Sept. 9 in response to a 1 next year’s budget. _ Steve Waller, chairman of the BRRC sub j committee on scheduling and format, said the i schedule was designed to accommodate a reso j lution passed by the Academic Senate. The I' resolution stated that colleges and programs must be allowed to respond to the BRRC’s recommendations. W after's commute© outlined separate re sponses for colleges and individual programs. College response, or “academic programs | with collegial program activity,” address all j areas affected by the cuts, not the separate responses that each program could make. The college response must be received in writing within four weeks of BRRC notifica ! tion of its recommendation. The college may request a public, verbal j response to the recommendation no sooner I than two days after receiving it. Speakers may include only the chairperson of the college committee authoring the response and the col lege dean. See HEARINGS on 6 “Dr. Death" praised. Page 2 Zeppelin cover band performs this weekend. Page 9 INDEX 0 Wire ^ Opinion 2 Sports L ME -2 Classifieds__ u Activist recalls his contentions with FBI By Lesli Thorn Staff Reporter //'M M y world did not end with my con •• \\/u viction in 1961,” the director of M. the First Amendment Foundation told about 50 faculty and students at the Col lege of Law Thursday. Frank Wilkinson, a former Los Angeles housing administrator and current director of the First Amendment Foundation, said the Supreme Court convicted him of “contempt of Congress” in 1961 for refusing to tell the House Un-American Activities Committee about his political activity. Since his release from federal prison in 1962, Wilkinson has fought the Federal Bureau of Investigation to clear his name of charges that he was “a national security risk” because of his involvement in the civil rights move i mcnt, he said. The fight against the FBI began in 1942, he said. “I was the first manager of an integrated housing area — Walts,” he said. “People were living in misery there, and we stood protesting the segregation of Watts.” ‘‘It was the first time I ever heard overtly See FBI on 6 ^——i Livings a dream UNL alumna attributes success to positive Nebraska attitude By Wendy Mott Staff Reporter A University of Nebraska Lincoln alumna admits she lives a dream life. Catherine McAward, 45, went from a childhood in small-town Nebraska to an executive position in a prominent New York firm, a Manhattan apartment and a 60-acre weekend farm. McAward is the president of ---- Macmillan/ McGraw-Hill International, the largest publisher of kindergarten through-12th grade educa - tional materials in the United States. “I love my job,” McAward said. ”1 gel lo run my own company within the protection of a large corporation.” McAward returned lo UNL this week to talk to students about career opportunities and success as part of UNL’s Master’s Week. She graduated from UNL in 1968 with a double English/spcech and theater major. Master’s Week, collectively sponsored by Mortar Board, Innocents Society and the Student Alumni Association, brings profes sionals from a variety of fields to UNL to describe their experiences. McAward offered advice to stu dents on how to fight their way up the corporate ladder. “You have to be willing to start at entry level positions, work hard and pay your dues,” she said. “It also helps to find a supervisor who you emulate and want to work for, to latch onto and have help you.” McAward said her job keeps her traveling 65 percent of the year. She travels all over the world represent ing publications to schools outside the United States. But McAward said she still finds time to return to her home town of Auburn to visit her parents once or twice a year. “Being from Nebraska has helped me in all my careers,” she said, adding that Nebraskans tend to have “a positive attitude about work and goals, and the belief that they have something to contribute.” And, McAward said, her experi ences at UNL helped prepare her for her career. Although impressed with the See McAWARD on 6 Catherine McAward, a UNL alumna, is the president of Macmillan/McGraw-Hill International, the largest publisher of educational material for kindergarten through 12th grade.