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Simanek donations ton $34,000 at snrins same
By Cindy Kimbrough
Senior Reporter
Nebraska football coach Tom
Osborne said Monday he was
pleased about the $34,832
donated for Gina Simanck at Satur
day’s Red-White spring football game.
Simanck, the victim of an alleged
Jan. 18 assault by Nebraska football
player Andrew Scott Baldwin, had
spent almost a month and a half in the
hospital recovering from various in
juries, including permanent brain
damage.
Baldwin, 22, watched the scrim
mage from the press box.
The University of Ncbraska-Lin
coln Athletic Department did not
jml y
Osborne says team will stand behind Baldwin
charge admission to this year’s game,
but instead encouraged fans to donate
what they normally would pay for
tickets to the game.
The highest donation was about
$250, Osborne said, and almost $2,000
was received before the game by those
who could not attend.
Osborne said he had hoped dona
tions would rise above the $30,000
mark, considering that about 25,000
people attended the game.
The amount donated was quite high
considering, on the average, the spring
game brings in about SI5,000 to
517,000, he said.
Osborne said the money was not
necessarily pegged for Simanek’s
medical expenses. The 23-year-old
Lincoln woman has a major medical
plan that should cover most of her
expenses, he said.
Instead, he said, the money will
compensate for her suffering from
injuries and for any lost lime from
work.
“It is to be used any way (the
Simaneks) sec fit,” he said.
Osborne said the idea to exchange
donations for admission to provide
help for Simanck had received re
sponses ranging from anger to sup
port.
“This has been a real strange pe
riod in football history,” he said.
But Osborne said the idea to use
the game to raise money for Simanek
was never a response to public pres
sure.
He said members of the football
team had taken the altitude that they
were going to do what they thought
was right — no matter what the re
sponse.
Everything the athletic department
has done to help Simanek has helped
to fulfill a promise Osborne and assis
tant football coach Frank Solich made
to Simanck at the start, Osborne said.
He said he thought they had ful
filled that promise.
“We’ve done what we could do,”
he said.
Because Nebraska law prohibits
UNL or the athletic department from
making direct payments to Simanck
or her family, Osborne said contribu
tions from the game was one way
they could help.
He added that Baldwin was slay
ing with Solich and is continuing to
work on 6 hours of credit this semes
ter.
Baldwin needs about 18 credit hours
See SIMANEK on 6
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Robert Danielson stands in front of the gate that used to be the entrance to UNL. After
leaving the university just a few credit hours short of an agricultural degree in 1930,
Danielson is graduating in May.
Long time coming
Retiree to graduate after 60-year hiatus
By Jana Pedersen
Editor__
When a student in a high
school horticulture class
asked Robert Danielson
for advice on finding a job, the
UNL senior lectured the class
about the importance of hard
work.
The sermon later gave him a
guilty conscience.
“I thought 1 must have hit
them kind of hard,” he said. “So
next time, I brought these
azaleas, a little peace offering.”
The gifts of flowers were ap
propriate.
After leaving the University of
j Nebraska
r» ci Lincoln just a
rrOulQ fcw crcdit
hours short of
an agriculture
degree in
1930, Daniel
son helped run
Danielson Floral Co. for 59
years.
On May 9, after two semesters
and 21 credit hours of study,
Danielson will receive a degree
in general agriculture — a degree
he left behind more than 60 years
ago.
It was a long time coming, he
said.
“I think it’s a great morale
builder to be able to do this —
for me, anyway,” he said. “This
idea that you might be all washed
up is no good, and (graduating)
will be a nice feeling.”
Danielson, bom in 1909 in
Osceola, has lived in Lincoln
since age 7. He retired from the
See DANIELSON on 6 ,
Spanier optimistic
about UNL’s future
By Jeremy Fitzpatrick
Senior Reporter
Graham Spanicr declared ai his
installation as chancellor
Monday that he wanted the
University of Ncbraska-Lincoln to
becomcan institution concerned with
people and human development.
“Put simply, I sec the 1990s as the
era when this university rededicates
itself to the people it serves: our stu
dents, staff, faculty, alumni, citizens
of Nebraska and those we reach be
yond our borders,” he said. “I wish to
direct our attention to the university’s
role in human development.”
Spanicr’s installation at the Lied
Center for Performing Arts was at
tended by about about 1 ,(XX) people
including Gov. Ben Nelson, mem
bers of the NU Board of Regents, NU
President Martin Masscngalc and
Samuel Proctor, Martin Luther King
Jr. memorial professor emeritus at
Rutgers University.
Proctor gave the keynote address
at the ceremony. The UNL Wind
Ensemble, the Faculty Brass Quintet,
the Afrikan People’s Union Choir and
Tina Salac, a sophomore music major
at UNL, gave musical performances.
Spanicr said the opportunity to
attend college had changed his life,
and expressed hope that UNL could
have that kind of impact on its stu
dents.
“As with many of you, the univer
sity experience changed my life,” he
said. “My own development has been
enhanced every day that 1 have been
associated with higher education.
“My goal is to ensure that all of the
university’s constituents comes to find
as increasingly responsive to the human
side of our mission.”
Spanicr said universities in the
1970s and 1980s were focused pri
marily on economic development.
Now, he said, ihcy must broaden their
mission and place as strong an em
phasis on the humanities and fine arts
as they do on the sciences.
“My goal is that (UNL) be known
as a university that builds on science
and technology to reach people; a
university that appreciates the rela
tionship between science, technol
ogy and society; a university that seeks
to produce graduates who are both
technically skilled but steeped in
understanding of the human condi
tion. ..he said.
As chancellor, Spanicr said he
would work to improve services for
UNL students, faculty and employ
ees.
He said he would support improved
advising, reduced class si/.cs and
increased private fundraising for
scholarships to aid students. Faculty,
he said, can expect to play a greater
role in initiating improvements and
making decisions to improve UNL.
Spanicr concluded by saying he
was optimistic about the university’s
future.
“I am optimistically confident about
the prospects for progress toward a
university committed to the advance
ment of human development,” he said.
“I know each and every one of you
arc proud of this university . .. and
you have great hopes for its future. I
pledge to do my best to help all of us
realize those hopes.”
Businessmen enter race for Regent
Massey says strong
programs at UNL
need more emphasis
Editor's note: The Nebraska primary will be
May 12, and the ballot will include the race
for the District 7 seat on the NU Board of
Regents. This is the first of a three-part
series on the candidates.
By Sean Green
Senior Reporter__ _
Two Scotlsbluff businessmen have entered
the race for the District 7 N U Board of Regents,
the scat now filled by board chairman Don
Blank of McCook.
John Massey and Russ Hilliard will chal
lenge Blank for the regent position in the May
12 primary.
Massey, 33, is the vice
president of J.G. Elliot Co.,
a family-owned insurance
company in Scoilsbluff.
A graduate of the Uni
versity of Nebraska-Lin
coln’s College of Agricul
ture and the College of Law,
Massey said he had been considering running
for the board position for several years.
This year he said he felt the timing was
right.
“I have always been interested in the univer
sity,” he said. “Now I’m at an age where I can
become involved and possibly make a differ
ence at the university.”
Massey said his experience with business
and civic organizations, such as the United
Way and the Chamber of Commerce, would be
of use to the regents.
“As a regent, you have to become very
involved in the financial aspects of university
administration,” he said. “I hope to bring a
good business sense to the board.”
Negative publicity recently has been hurt
ing the University of Nebraska, Massey said,
emphasizing the need to focus on the positive
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Bill Clinton attacks President Bush
as the candidate of economic decline.’
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Johnny Mitchell is picked by the
New York Jets. Page 7
It’s a home run! John Goodman
swings for the fences in ‘Babe.’ Page
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