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Doctor says
assault victim
to end stay
at hospital
By Sean Green
Senior Reporter_ __
Gina Simanek will be released Saturday
from the Madonna Rehabilitation Hos
pital in Lincoln after treatment for inju
ries resulting from her alleged beating Jan. 18
by a Nebraska football player.
Miss Simanck’s mother, Kathy Simanek of
rural Malmo, said her daughter was depressed
about her injuries and the long healing process
she faced.
Mrs. Simanek declined to comment on where
her daughter would be taken after her release.
Miss Simanek, 23, has been in the hospital
since she suffered head injuries and a dislo
cated shoulder during an apparently unpro
voked attack that look place while she was
walking her dog.
Andrew Scott Baldwin, a 22-ycar-old stu
dent and I-back for the football team at the
University of Ncbraska-Lincoln, is charged
with assault for allegedly beating Simanek of
Lincoln and injuring a Lincoln police officer
Jan. 18.
Simanck’s physician, Dr. Paul Guidos of the
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Virus prompts
owners to take
preventive steps
By Andy Raun
Staff Reporter
Many computer owners in Lincoln and
at UNL scrambled Thursday to save
themselves from a time-activated
plague on their hard drives.
ComputerLand and MicroAge Computer
Center, two Lincoln computer stores, were
inundated with calls from businesses, home
users and others who might be victimized by
the virus, known as Michelangelo. The com
puter owners were attempting to find a pro
gram that would eradicate Michelangelo, one
of the most virulent of more than 800 known
computer viruses.
UNL students, too, were taking eleventh
hour steps to avoid disaster, taking advantage
of an anti-virus program available from the
Computing Resource Center.
John Dughman, assistant retail manager at
the center, said eight or 10 students had come
in Thursday with blank diskettes to copy the
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Rain, rain, go away ...
Rain made umbrellas a common sight throughout Lincoln Wednesday. The drizzle is expected to continue today with
temperatures dropping over the weekend.
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NCAA rules on expense waiver
Athletic department
may pay travel costs
By Cindy Kimbrough
Senior Reporter__
he UNL Athletic Department will be
able to pay transportation expenses for
Andrew Scott Baldwin and members of
his family, an NCAA spokesman said Thurs
day.
Craig Angelos, an NCAA legislative assis
tant, said the incident-expense waiver requested
by the athletic department to pay for the trans
portation of Baldwin’s brother and sister from
New Jersey to Lincoln was legitimate.
Baldwin, a 22-ycar-old student at the Uni
versity of Ncbraska-Lincoln, was charged with
assault for allegedly beating Gina Simanck of
Lincoln and injuring a Lincoln police officer
Jan. 18. If convicted, he could face up to 25
years in prison.
Angelos said a 1990 NCAA incident-ex
pense waiver rule gave more leeway to univer
sities to pay for things not normally allowed,
such as Baldwin’s transportation costs. But the
funding cannot give a university an unfair
competitive advantage, he said.
The NCAA rule covers expenses such as
emergency transportation costs to visit a sick or
dying relative, he said, or parents’ transporta
tion costs to visit a player who received a seri
ous injury.
“There are a lot of precedents here,” Ange
los said. “It’s not anything new that we’ve
carved out just for him.”
He said the NCAA had not yet decided on
the athletic department’s request to pay for
Baldwin’s medical expenses.
Within the next few days, the NCAA legis
lative office will look for a precedent that
would allow the university to cover Baldwin’s
expenses, Angelos said.
The NCAA rule states it is permissible to
pay for medical expenses — medicine and
physical therapy — of a participant, regardless
of whether the injury occurred during competi
tion or practice, he said.
Angelos said the NCAA administrative
committee would meet March 11 to make a
decision.
Baldwin was released from jail Monday
after an anonymous source paid his $10,000
bail. He then was transferred to St. Joseph
Center for Mental Health in Omaha for psychi
atric treatment.
Angelos said the NCAA had been looking
into whether the university could pay Bald
win’s bond, but he made bond before a decision
could be reached.
After Baldwin is released from St. Joseph
within a week to 10 days, on condition of his
bond, he must slay with the Rev. Donald Cole
man of Lincoln or Frank Solich, a Nebraska
assistant football coach, until he appears in
court April 6.
If the NCAA agrees to the waiver, Baldwin
could receive financial help and stay with
Solich or Nebraska football coach Tom Osborne.
Baldwin might be able to stay with Osborne if
Judge Paul Merritt agrees to that condition.
A request that the university pay for Bald
win’s legal fees was deflated when UNL Chan
cellor Graham Spanicr said Tuesday that UNL’s
policy was not to pay for any student’s legal
fees.
However, Osborne said Tuesday that UNL
would support a request to the NCAA for a
waiver allowing individuals to establish a fund
for those wishing to contribute to Baldwin’s
expenses.
Correction: A story in Thursday s edition of the Daily Nebraskan incorrectly stated that
the 1968 Democratic Convention was held in Miami Beach, Fla The Republican Na
tional Convention was held in Miami Beach, while the Democratic National Convention
was hekf in Chicago.
In another story, it was incorrectly reported that the Lincoln Public Schools hired
drivers for the P O Pears shuttle service The drivers were hired from the Lincoln Public
Schools
The Daily Nebraskan regrets the errors
The Nebraska men’s basket
ball team looks to gain the num
ber two seed in the Big Eight
Tournament with a win over Okla
homa on Saturday Page 7
"The Big Red Rock-O-Rama”
is set to rock-and-roll with twenty
bands tonight and tomorrow. Page
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Opinion ?
Sports 7
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Classifieds 10
Sen.
Bob
Kerrey
Bob Kerrey returned home yes
terday, vowing to make another
run at the presidency. Page 2
Professor: Gender shapes behavior
By Taryn Gilster
Staff Reporter
Alice Kesslcr-Harris took an au
dience of more than 200 at the
Wick Alumni Center through
an exploration of genders and women’s
roles in American history Thursday
night.
Kesslcr-Harris, a professor of his
tory and director of women’s studies
at Rutgers University, arrived in Lin
coln Thursday — her .first trip to
Nebraska.
Her speech, “Gendered Interven
tion: Explorations in American His
tory,” was sponsored by the Graduate
Women in Business Organization
chapter at the University of Ncbraska
Lincoln.
A native of Wales, Kesslcr-Harris
said she believed “who we arc ex
plains how we view the world.”
Through an understanding of gen
der in the late 19th century, she fo
cused on equal rights for men and
women under the law, and the equal
ity of opportunity offered for both
sexes.
“Notions of gender reconstruct our
ideas,” she said. “In the 19th century,
these ideas of gender came naturally
and unconsciously to people.”
“Gender is like a class or race that
allows us to see the process of change,”
she said. “It’s a socially constructed
historic category that shapes our
behavior, expectations and ideas.”
Kessler-Harris said two types of
rights existed in the late 19th century:
universal human rights that everyone
should have, but that did not apply to
women or men who did not own prop
erty; and rights that were conferred
by social status.
Women derived their rights from
their place in society and through
their fathers or husbands, she said.
“Manliness was a quality reserved
to the true frontiersmen,” she said.
“He exhibited courage, ingenuity and
an individual achievement.”
“Womanliness meant obedience,
family-centered and reliance on the
community.”
“Together these two genders led
the nation to fruitfulness,” she said.
After the Civil War, she said,
opportunities in the labor force and
rights for women in the home shed
new light on the role of women.
Kessler-Harris said she hoped
audience members could belter un
derstand how gender shaped people’s
behavior and expectations about the
world around them.
She will give another lecture,
“Women’s Studies and the Multicul
tural Agenda,” today at 9 a.m. in the
Nebraska Union.
