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Kimberly Anderson, a senior Russian and history major at UNL, will leave for Russia Jan. 31. Anderson said her
dog Kiesha was one of the things she would miss while she was abroad.
In Russia with love
UNL student spends time abroad caring for orphans
By Jill O’Brien __
Staff Reporter
When the Russian Ministry of Edu
cation came to the University of
Ncbraska-Lincoln for volunteers,
Kimberly Anderson answered its call for
help.
Anderson, a senior Russian and history
major at UNL, spent last August as a volun
teer at a Russian orphanage.
The ministry advertised at UNL for
Russian-speaking volun
~Btudent leers to work in under
j _J Profile staffed orphanages, and
'rsS^ ^ Anderson signed up.
She ended up working
in an orphanage in Kaluga,
90 miles south of Moscow.
Under the impression
that she would be leaching English to older
children, Anderson said she was disappointed
to discover that the older children had left
for camp. Instead of them, she said, she
cared for about 130 children ranging in age
from 3 to 17.
Anderson said her job — working with
preschoolers with speech, behavioral and
emotional problems — was challenging.
Although the Ministry of Education ar
ranged for volunteers to work in the “better
orphanages,” Anderson said, she was still
shocked by the living conditions.
Children lived in crowded barracks, she
said, and had very little privacy. She said
their possessions consisted only of tooth
brushes and occasional small gifts.
"I felt sorry for the kids,” she said.
Volunteers, on the other hand, were treated
like guests, she said.
In addition to the harsh living conditions,
Anderson said Russian workers at the or
phanage discriminated against gypsy chil
dren.
In Russia, gypsies live outside of the
government and are not required to attend
school, she said.
Most Russian children arc light-com
plected, with blue eyes and sandy-blond
hair, Anderson said. But the dark-complected
gypsy children with dark eyes and dark hair
make up the majority of orphans, she said.
“I was often asked if the United States
had any gypsies,” Anderson said.
Living in Russia for a month provided a
unique opportunity for Anderson to study its
language and people, she said.
Russians rarely smiled in public, she
said. When she asked someone why they
didn't, she said, the answer was, “We have
nothing to smile about.”
“Yet, at home, in private situations, like
picnics and dinners, the Russians arc the
happiest, most generous, fun-loving and
giving people,” she said. “They break open
the vodka and gel quite hospitable. Ameri
cans don’t match up to their hospitality.”
Anderson said her trip involved more
than learning Russian culture. She was able
to witness firsthand the aborted coup at
tempt that erupted last August, she said.
“Things were moving so fast,” she said.
“People were so fed up and disgusted with
the government. They were ready for radi
cal changes.”_
See ANDERSON on 3
Bill defines
legal death
Circulation, brain activity,
respiration would be key
to conclusion, senator says
By Andy Raun
Staff Reporter *
Nebraska law needs to be changed to
define when human death occurs, a state
senator said Thursday in a legislative
hearing at the State Capitol.
Sen. Dave Landis of Lincoln told the Ne
braska Legislature’s Health and Human Serv
ices Committee that LB906,
a bill he was sponsoring,
would establish that people
died when their circulatory
and respiratory systems had
irreversibly failed, or when
their brain activity had irre
versibly ceased.
Harvey Perlman, dean of the University of
Nebraska College of Law, said 32 to 34 states
already had established these criteria as stan
dards for legal death.
Perlman said Nebraska should add the bill to
its books to make the legal definition of death
the same as the medical one.
LB906’sdefinition would not interfere with
or change medical professionals’ decision
making about the terminally ill or people in a
vegetative state, Perlman said. *
Landis said a commission of the “best legal
minds in the country,” which proposed that all
50 states adopt the LB906 definition of death,
realized that “there is a need for people’s rights
not to fluctuate from one state to another”
regarding death.
When there is no nationwide uniform defi
nition of death, two people in the same medical
condition but different legal jurisdictions could
have different legal statuses, Landis said. One
could be alive, and the other could be dead, he
said.
See BILL on 3
Fund to aid both
Baldwin, victim
in rehabilitation
By Shelley Biggs
Staff Reporter
The UNL football team and the Lincoln
Foundation, Inc., announced plans
Thursday for a fund to help pay for some
of the rehabilitation costs of Gina Simanek and
Scott Baldwin.
Baldwin, a student at the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln, is charged with allegedly
assaulting Simanek last Saturday.
Frank Solich, assistant football coach, said
people have indicated they wanted to do some
thing to help both Simanek and Baldwin. The
fund has the support of Coach Tom Osborne
and the rest of the Nebraska football team,
Solich said.
See FUND on 3
ASUN, DN budgets approved I
By Sean Green
Senior Reporter
The Committee for Fees Allo
cation approved Thursday night
the budgets for the Daily Ne
braskan and ASUN, and heard budget
justification speeches from about half
of the UPC commit
tee chairs.
The Association of
Students of the Uni
versity of Nebraska’s
proposal was ap
proved after $350 was
cut from a request of $400 used to
count votes in elections. The cut
•r >
brought the total budget for 1992-93
to $143,236.
Lancaster County Computer Serv
ices may be used to tabulate votes for
ASUN this year, trimming that part oX
the budget to $50.
The Daily Nebraskan budget pro
posal was approved after a cut of
$6,500 for soy ink printing costs,
bringing the total budget for 1992-93
to $39,193.
University Program Council com
mittee chairs told CFA committee
members how much they spent dur
ing the 1990-91 school year, how
much they were spending in the 1991 -
92 school year, and how much they
planned to spend in 1992-93.
The committees represented were
African-American Special Events,
Chicano Special Events, Kimball-Lied
Performance Arts Committee, Inter
national Committee, Asian-American
Special Events, American Films, In
ternational Films, Native American
Special Events, COLAGE, Nebraska
Model United Nations and Home
coming Committee.
The rest of the UPC committees
will appear before CFA committee
members Tuesday night.
Charles Daniel, chairman of the
See CFA on 3
CORRECTION:A story in Thursday's edition of the Daily Nebraskan about a vigil at
Broyhill Fountain for Gina Simanek and Andrew Scott Baldwin incorrectly attributed a
quote to Rosetta Howard The quote should have been attributed to Fidel Nelson The
Daily Nebraskan regrets the error 'v 0
Forty-seven nations agree to
help feed hungry people in the
former Soviet Union. Page2
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The players at Kansas change,
but the results remain the same.
Page 5 __
Author continues his phibsophi
cal inquiries in new book. Page 6
Reporter seeks a new
perspective. Page 6
INDEX
Wire 2
Opinion 4
Sports 5
A&E 6
Classifieds 7
