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Kristin McIntosh, a junior English major, said she posed for Playboy to create an
awareness that disabled people could be attractive and sensual.
Big Eight Playmate
Student poses to show disabled sexy, too
By Dionne bearcey
Senior Editor
While some women who
posed for Playboy were
signing pictures to men
that said, “You’re a stud,” at
autograph
sessions last
week, Kristin
McIntosh was
writing,
“Repent and
slack off.”
“Thai’s my
motto,” she said.
McIntosh, a junior English
major, was pictured in Playboy’s
Girls ol the Big Eight April
edition.
McIntosh is the second
disabled woman ever to be
pictured in the magazine.
Almost two months after
McIntosh graduated from Lincoln
East in 1988, she was involved in
a car accident that left her
paralyzed from the waist down.
She uses a wheelchair.
McIntosh spent the next year
in several hospitals receiving
therapy and learning to compen
sate for losing the use of her legs.
In 1990, she attended South
ern Illinois University in Carbon
dale because it was completely
handicappcd-acccssiblc.
“I looked ai the University of
Nebraska, but I got this really
bad karma,” she said, because
students who use wheelchairs arc
forced to enter buildings, such as
the Nebraska Union, by the side
or back door.
But SIU was a “party school,”
she said.
“That’s all I did.”
McIntosh said that although
she liked to slack off, she decided
to come to UNL last fall to
become more serious about her
studies.
See MeINTOSH on 3
Multicultural bill
voting postponed
By Cindy Kimbrough
Senior Reporter•
State legislators were unable to
vote Tuesday on a bill that
would ensure multicultural
programs in Nebraska schools be
cause of proposed amendments.
The bill, LB922, sponsored by Sen.
Ernie Chambers of
Omaha, was up for
second-round
approval Monday
and Tuesday, but
instead met with
a number of
amendments.
Sen. David Bcmard-Stcvcns of
North Platte proposed an amendment,
which later failed, to take the respon
sibility for ensuring multicultural
programs in Nebraska schools away
from the one or two people appointed
by the State Department of Educa
tion.
Instead, Bemard-Stevcns said he
wanted the education department to
include multicultural programming
in the almost 800 Nebraska schools’
accreditation audits to ensure that the
schools arc implementing such pro
gramming.
Chambers said he was opposed to
the amendment, as well as the others,
because he thought the senators pro
posing the amendments were uncom
fortable with the bill and wanted to
slow its progress.
“I would rather that those who
don’t like the bill just vote against it,”
he said.
But Bemard-Stevens said it was
unfair to classify senators who had
proposed amendments as wanting to
stop the bill because they did not
believe in multicultural education.
Bemard-Stevens said he thought
his amendment proposed a cleaner
way of ensuring that the programs
were implemented.
Chambers said if all the amend
ments were adopted on his bill, he
would request that the bill be brack
eted, which would allow area repre
sentatives to bring forward their own
bills on the issue next year.
Sen. LaVon Crosby of Lincoln,
one of the three co-sponsors of the
bill, spoke in support of it.
Crosby urged Chambers not to
bracket LB922 and to keep trying to
get the bill passed.
She said the state needed such
multicultural education, especially
after a recent incident in which two
Lincoln men painted swastikas on the
doors of Congregation B’Nai
Jeshurun’s South Street Temple at
2000 South St.
Sen. Dennis Baack of Kimball said
it was important to move on and pass
the bill to show that that kind of racist
mentality was unacceptable.
“As legislators, wc need to say we
will not condone that type of activ
ity,” he said.
The amendment failed by a vote of
18-19. The senators were forced to
move on to properly lax issues with
out voting on the actual bill.
Competition fosters
success, trio says _
Winning, losing
good for women,
panelists say
By Sean Green
Senior Reporter
When women compete athleti
cally or academically, they
learn how to face the chal
lenges of the business and academic
worlds, three members of a panel on
women in competition said Tuesday.
The panel discussion, part of
Women’s Week
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or school had
helped them become successful.
While winning builds self-confi
dence, losing helps the competitor
handle real-life problems, said panel
ist Norma Sue Griffin, an associate
professor of gifted education at the
University of Ncbraska-Lincoln.
“Losing in academics or athletics
gives perspective,” Griffin said.
“Through competition, I learned to
lose without feeling like a loser, and I
learned to take winning with a humble
attitude because I knew I might lose
the next time.”
Griffin said she competed in sports
such as tennis, badminton, volleyball
and field hockey during different stages
of her education.
“I learned more about myself than
I did about any of those sports,” she
said. “The process is more important
than winning or losing.”
Griffin also said competition helped
women break through the “glass ceil
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Icy spell nips UNL blooms in the bud
By Jeremy Fitzpatrick
Senior Reporter __
The cold return of winter has all
but done in UNL’s daffodils
and crocuses for this year, but
roses and other perennial flowers
should survive, a landscape official
said.
Kirby Baird, landscape manager
for the University of Nebraska-Lin
coln’s City Campus, said the recent
return of cold weather would kill plants’
blooms that had flowered early be
cause of February’s unseasonable
warmth.
But he said the plants would sur
vive and bloom again next year.
“I guess anything that is out there
and blooming and flowering is going
to die,” he said. “But the plants them
selves won’t die, and they will grow
next year; we’re just losing the first
blooms.”
Baird said trees — a total of 9,652
on East and City campuses — also
might suffer some damage. However,
he said, the trees can develop secon
dary buds to replace ones killed by
the cold.
Many of the trees on campus have
not yet started to bud and will suffer
little damage, he said.
Perennial flowers, such as roses
and mums, also should be safe be
cause they have not started to bud, he
said.
Baird said the planus lost to the
cold would not significantly hurt
landscaping efforts on campus. The
landscaping service plants flowers that
bloom at different times in ease of
problems with a certain variety, he
said.
“It’s just that this year things were
two weeks earlier than normal be
cause of the warm February we had,”
he said. “The plants just react to that
warm temperature.”
“It will hurl, but it’s not a total
thing — not a total loss,” he said.
“These first ones arc just the ones that
arc going to be damaged.
“We’ll have other flowers later.”
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