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NCAA to let NU pay Baldwin’s expenses
By Jeremy Fitzpatrick
Senior Reporter
The University of Nebraska can
pay for Andrew Scott Bald
win’s psychiatric expenses
without violating NCAA bylaws, an
NCAA official said.
Craig Angelos, legislative assis
tant at the NCAA’s national office in
Overland Park, Kan., said the NCAA
decided Friday that NU did not need
special permission — an incidental
Special permission not needed, official says
expense waiver — to pay for Bald
win’s psychiatric treatment.
Baldwin, a 22-year-old student and
football player at the University of
Ncbraska-Lincoln, was charged with
assault for the beating of Gina Sima
nck of Lincoln and a Lincoln police
officer Jan. 18. He pleaded not guilty
by reason of insanity Feb. 27 to the
two charges.
If convicted, he could face up to 25
years in prison.
Baldwin was released March 2 on
a S1(),(XX) bond and is undergoing
treatment at St. Joseph’s Center for
Mental Health in Omaha.
Angelos said NCAA officials based
their decision to allow NU to pay for
Baldwin’s psychiatric care on NCAA
bylaws, which slate that a university
may provide medication and physical
therapy to student-athletes for their
injuries — whether they occur on or
off the playing field.
He said UNL officials had asked
the NCAA if psychiatric care could
be considered as medication and
physical therapy.
Alter reviewing the NCAA’s by
laws and a similar ease in December
1990, in which another institution was
allowed to provide psychiatric ther
apy for a student-athlete, the NCAA
approved the request, Angelos said.
“They didn’t need an incidental
expense waiver for psychiatric care,”
he said. “(NCAA) bylaws slate that
institutions'may provide medication
and physical’therapy for their stu
dent-athletes whether they were hurt
in athletics or not.’’
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Author:
Women
fighting
for peace
By Jill O’Brien
Staff Reporter
While Palestinian and Israeli
soldiers fight for their claim
to the occupied territories,
the women behind the scenes are fight
ing for peace, an author told a group
of about 45 people Sunday.
Penny Roscnwasser, who wrote
“Voices form a Promised Land: Pal
estinian & Israeli Peace Activists Speak
Their Hearts,” spoke in the Nebraska
Union and gave a slide show on her
travels to Israel.
In December,
Roscnwasser said,
she accompanied
the Women’s a •
Peace Delegation Ul
to Israel. There, Mf
she chronicled the ”
story of Palestinian and Israeli women
and their efforts to slop the Israeli
occupation of the West Bank and
Gaza Strip.
Roscnwasser said that Palestinian
women, tired of seeing the continu
ous bloodshed and being forced to
pay taxes to the Israeli government,
arc now standing up to the army.
In turn, Israeli soldiers confiscate
household property and business goods
when Palestinians refuse to pay these
taxes.
Because of the settlement of the
occupied lands, domestic abuse and
murder have increased significantly
in Israeli homes, she said.
The government is doing nothing
to protect these women, she said.
The settlement has created prob
lems both for the Israelis and the
Palestinians. For example, Roscnwas
scr said, more than 2,000 Palestinian
homes have been destroyed, 12,000
children have been disabled by sol
diersand 120,000 fruit and olive trees
have been uprooted.
She also said more than 600 Pales
tinian women have miscarried be
cause of tear gas used in demonstra
tions. - _
Jeff Haller/ON
Stidin’ through a song
Heath Prehelm of Slide sings during the Big Red Rock-O-Rama Thursday night at the
Nebraska East Union. See story ana photos on pages 6 and 7.
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Michelangelo virus infects 1 UNL computer
By Cindy Kimbrough
Senior Reporter
After all the scrambling and hype,
only one computer at the
University of Ncbraska-Lin
coln was infected with the Mich
elangelo virus, an employee at the
Computing Resource Center said
Friday.
Allen Hall said one computer in
the College of Business Administra
tion was scanned Wednesday with
detection software and was found to
have the virus.
But the computer was disinfected
before the virus could take effect,
Hall said.
The virus was not found prior to or
after its activation lime in any other
university machines, he said. •
The Michelangelo virus was planted
in the internal coding of IBM-com
paliblc computers worldwide and
would be triggered in an infected
machine on or after March 6, the
517th birthday of the Renaissance
artist.
The virus is thought to have origi
nated in the Netherlands or Sweden
more than a year ago. It was transmit
ted to computers by floppy disks and
via telephone from electronic bulle
tin boards and other sources.
If the virus had gone undetected, it
would program a computer to over
write its hard-drive files and destroy
any stored information. The virus is
thought to affect the first nine mega
bylcs of any IBM-lypc hard drive.
Hall said all deans and directors at
the University of Ncbraska-Lincoln
were notified last week by the Com
puting Resource Center about the virus
and the date it would take effect.
Software was made available
through the center to detect and disin
fect all computers, he said, and many
people took advantage of the offer.
“People were definitely made aware
of this and took the needed precau
tions ” he said.
Candidate
would alter
structure
of ASUN
By Cindy Kimbrough
Senior Reporter
The ACTION parly’s presiden
tial candidate announced at a
news conference Sunday that
if elected, she would like to change
ASUN’s structure.
Alyssa Wil
liams, a junior phi
losophy major,
said she thought
many aspects of
the Association of
Students of the
University of Nebraska could be
improved to better serve students at
UNL.
Williams said students at the Uni
versity of Nchraska-Lincoln needed
belter representation in student gov
ernment.
Restructuring the ASUN appoint
ments board is one way to accomplish
this, she said. The board consists of __—
three members who select students
for appointed ASUN positions.
The problem is that students serv
ing on the appointments board often
arc biased toward fraternity and so
rority members, Williams said.
Last year, she said, board mem
bers asked several students who were
interviewed for positions what house
they were in and if they were pushed
to get involved on campus.
Williams said ACTION would like
to increase the number of students on
the board to five: one representing the
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Tom Harkip is expected to
drop out of the primaries today.
Dana O
Dorm residents will not just
be choosing RHA officers March
19, they’ll also be asked to
complete a paper towel survey.
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Wire 2
Opinion 4
Sports 8
A & E 10
Classifieds 11