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No special treatment given
regent’s son, officials say
By Sean Green
Senior Reporter __
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln made
no special considerations when it used a
state plane to fly a Teachers College
professor to McCook to supervise the son of an
NU regent, officials said Wednesday.
Larry Andrews, a professor of curriculum
and instruction at UNL, flew to McCook five
times to supervise Regent Don Blank’s son, a
UNL senior who is student teaching in McCook.
The cost of using the plane was S3,442.40.
The university did what it would have done
for any student, said Neale Copple, an assistant
to Jack Goebel, the interim chancellor at the
time the plane was used.
“Any lime money is spent to contribute to
instruction, I think it’s legitimate,” he said.
“This case involved a professor who volun
teered to do the supervising but didn’t have the
lime to drive 250 miles to McCook.”
Copple said no special treatment was given
in the case because it involved a regent’s son.
However, he said he didn’t think a plane had
ever been used in that exact set of circum
stances before.
Blank said he now understood why some
students with parents in administration went to
different schools from where their parents
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Baldwin enters pleas -
of insanity to charges
By Jeremy Fitzpatrick
Senior Reporter
Andrew Scott Baldwin entered a dual
plea — not guilty by reason of insanity
and not responsible by reason of insan
ity — to two assault charges at his arraignment
Wednesday in 2nd District Court.
Judge Paul Merritt Jr. scheduled Baldwin’s
trial for April 6.
Baldwin, a 22-year-old student at the Uni
versity of Ncbraska-Lincoln, was charged with
first- and third-degree assault after allegedly
beating Gina Simanck, 23, and attacking a
police officer Jan. 18. On Feb. 18, he was ruled
psychologically competent to stand trial.
Following Baldwin’s plea, Lancaster County
Attorney Gary Lacey asked Merritt to set bail
for Baldwin at $500,000. Baldwin’s attorney,
Hal Anderson, said the request was too high
and asked for a bond between $30,000 and
$50,000. Merritt said he would determine bond
Monday.
Lacey said there was little challenge to facts
that “certainly make it clear Mr. Baldwin did
the acts complained of and has said as much.”
A high bond was required, he said, because
Baldwin did not have any tics to the Lincoln
community, such as family, a job or financial
resources, that would deter him from leaving.
Lacey also said Simanck’s family had told
him she was concerned that if Baldwin was
released on bond, she would be in personal
danger.
“This is a very serious case,” he said. “It’s
one in which a young woman was hurt in a very
serious way.”
Anderson said a $500,(XX) bond was unreal
istic.
“1 can assure the court lhat if bail is set at
$500,000, Mr. Baldwin can’t meet it,” he said.
He said Baldwin had no intention of con
tacting Simanek, and gave the judge a letter
from Dr. Louis Martin, a psychiatrist at the
Lincoln Regional Center, that said Baldwin did
not pose a significant threat to the community.
Anderson said that if Baldwin was released
on bail, he would be willing to submit himself
to the St. Joseph Center for Mental Health in
Omaha and accept its judgment of his condi
tion.
He said Baldwin would remain at the center
as long as doctors recommended. When doc
tors released him, Anderson said, Baldwin would
continue outpatient treatment.
After Baldwin was released, Anderson said,
he would live with fellow football players
Mike Grant and Jon Bostick for further super
vision. Baldwin lived alone before the Jan. 18
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Women unfairly represented
in UNL faculty, officials say
Regents establishing
gender equality goals
Editor’s note: This the fourth part of a series
on faculty salaries at UNL.
By Cindy Kimbrough
Senior Reporter
Over the past decade, equity between men
and women’s salaries at UNL has been
an issue gaining increasing attention.
But several university officials said the is
sue may no longer be pay equity, but rather the
shortage of women among UNL faculty.
Mary Beck, chairperson of the Chancellor’s
Commission on the Status of Women, said
equality in faculty salaries was not the most
important issue of the status of women at the
University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
According to a commission study, which
took into account years of experience and serv
ice, tenure, rank and department, women fac
ulty make an average of $600 less than men a
year.
But that amount is not a large difference,
Beck said.
When considering past differences, such as
; a $600 disparity in 1978, she said, women have
fared well. A $600 difference now is not as
large an amount as it was then, she said.
Current differences in salary easily could be
solved by giving proper attention to salary
distribution so women are granted raises com
parably, she said.
Stan Liberty, interim vice chancellor for
academic affairs, said that given the level at
which women were employed, their salaries
were unequal.
The number of women in administrative
positions is very small at UNL, Liberty said.
“Where you tend to see the higher salaries at
UNL, you don’t tend to sec any women,’’ he
said.
Liberty said he believed the pay gap had
been almost completely closed, but he said he
would continue to check on it every year.
Richard Wood, NU general counsel, agreed
and said two regression studies on faculty sala
ries at UNL indicated little to no significant
inequity in faculty salaries. The regression
studies were done in 1989 and 1990 and took
into account numerous variables, such as edu
cational background and number of years at
UNL.
Wood said the regression study completed
in 1989 showed almost the same difference in
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Bill would permit all students to get loans.
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braskan an article on ASUN budget cuts
to the University Programs Council in
correctly quoted CFa Chairman Rob
Broomfield as saying CFA did not cut
any programming costs Rather, he said
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Wire 2
Opinion 4
Diversions 5
Sports 13
Classifieds 15
By Jeremy Fitzpatrick
Senior Reporter_ _
Government loans would be
available to all students wish
ing to attend college, regard
less of income, if a bill now on the
"fast track" in the U.S. Congress is
passed.
The proposed IDEA loan program
would allow undergraduate students
to borrow up to $5,000 a year, and
graduate students would be able to
borrow up to $15,000 a year. Under
graduates could not borrow more than
$25,000 and graduates not more than
$30,000.
IDEA is a direct loan program,
which means that the federal govern
ment would loan money directly to
students through colleges and univer
sities, without banks acting as mid
dlemcn.
Money would be withheld from z
person’s paycheck by the Internal
Revenue Service following gradualior
to pay off the loans. Repayment would
be based on income level after gradu
ation — students who made more
money after college would have tc
repay their loans faster than those
who made less.
The program originally was pro
posed by Sens. Paul Simon, D-III.
and David Durenbergcr, R-Minn., bui
stalled in the U.S. Senate because ol
controversy over a provision that would
have replaced the current govemmem
student loan program — in which
government loans are handled through
banks — with IDEA.
But after negotiation, Sen. Edward
Kennedy, D-Mass., endorsed a com
promise version of the plan Tuesday
which he introduced in the Senate.
The compromise would keep both
programs and test the IDEA plan in
300 schools in 1993-94. If the pro
gram was successful, it would be
offered to all schools in 1997-98.
David Carle, Simon’s press secre
tary, said the IDEA program would
be part of the economic recovery
package that President Bush asked
Congress to pass by March 20. He
said the bill’s inclusion in the recov
ery package put it on the “fast track”
to pass through Congress.
John Beacon, director of scholar
ships and financial aid at the Univer
sity of Nebraska-Lincoln, said he would
not comment on the IDEA plan be
fore it had been passed in its final
version.
Philosophically, he said, he ap
proved of direct-lending programs
because they make loans available to
a large number of students.
“It reaches out not just to the stu
dent who shows financial need,” he
said, “but it also makes money avail
able at a pretty good interest rate to
middle income families.”
However, Beacon said he was
concerned that making large loans
more readily available to students
might create problems in the future.
He said students who took on $5,000
a-year loans might have difficulty
paying them off after they graduated.
“Arc we setting pooplc up for having
to pay back large loan amounts?” he
asked.
Beacon said he also questioned
whether the governmcntcould handle
the paperwork and processing involved
with handling the IDEA program.