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t i "Daily -g so/so . I I B^NIB. "iB^I ^^B Today sunny and warm, north ^B I B B B^ 1 B B ^ B ^ • B ^B^B m4 ^ /I west winds 5-15 mph. Tonight ^Bl B B B ^B ^^B IB ^^B B fl \§t^W^ clear with a low around 50. ^Bl B B B B ,^^B B^B. m^m B B //\j \J Tomorrow, sunny, breezy and X ^ VIL/XUL/JL%i4JL L i N 1 ^wes._| Members dispute collective’s dissolution By Cindy Kimbrough Senior Reporter Several members of the Women’s Resource Center collective made an official statement Tuesday that condemned the dissolv ing of the WRC advisory board and the failure to recognize the collec tive, a member said. Cindy Douglas said the group told reporters it was concerned that a col lective governing process of the cen ter was being ended. The collective is a group that be gan the WRC in the 1970s. Douglas said any person who worked at least one hour a week at the WRC could be a member of the collective with an equal voice, or vote. The advisory board was a group of Official says group may continue to operate students and faculty members ap pointed by the vice chancellor for student affairs to advise the WRC coordinator. The advisory board was dissolved by Campus Activities and Programs director Marilyn Bugenhagcn on April 12 because of disagreements over who was in charge of the center — the university-appointed coordinator, the advisory board or the collective. A new advisory board will be appointed in the fall. Douglas said the collective’s pri mary concern with the dissolution of the board was that women no longer would be able to experience leader ship roles in the WRC, including dealing with programming and deci sion-making. Following the press conference, the group made an appointment with Chancellor Graham Spanicr and vis ited the office of James Griesen, vice chancellor for student affairs. Griesen said that when collective members came into his office Tues day, he explained that he had not dissolved the collective, as collective members had said. The collective is not an official student organization, Griesen said, so he has no right to dissolve the group. But Douglas said the collective was being dissolved in the sense that Griesen was not recognizing it as the WRC’s decision-making body. Douglas also said Griesen was not being truthful about who officially was in charge of the WRC. “He continues to lie about the situ ation,” she said. Vanessa Spencer, a member of the collective and an cx-officio member of the dissolved advisory board, said many of the documents that described the coordinator’s job contradicted what Griesen had said. The documents, in effect, say the collective controls the advisory board, she said. Douglas said reviews of the WRC in 1983, 1985 and 1988 stated the collective was the decision-making body for the center. For 22 years the collective has been made up of students who have worked together governing the cen ter, Douglas said. In effect, she said, Griesen is saying that it never was a decision-making body. “It’s a pretty sad stalcmentof what the university thinks of students who speak their mind,” she said. Griesen said he never acknowl edged that the collective was the governing board of the resource cen ter. The collective is more of an advi sory body, he said. When the new advisory board is appointed next year, the WRC, which receives Fund-B money, will operate in the model of every other Fund-B student organization — under control of the university administration, he said. Stacl McKaa/DN Tearing up the turf Jan Drapal (left) and Don Snyder oversee the removal of the artificial turf in Memorial Stadium Tuesday morning. rootball tans, ; communities rally to help assault victim By Cindy Kimbrough Senior Reporter The mother of an assault victim said T ucs day that the nearly $35,000 raised at Ne braska’s Rcd-Whiic spring football game to help her daughter was unbelievable. But Kathy Simanck said she should not have been surprised,considcringall the supportGina Simanck already had received. Simanck said her daughter had received an amazing number of cards, letters, visits and support from Nebraskans since the Jan. 18 alleged assault by Nebraska football player Andrew Scott Baldwin. After the attack, Gina Simanck spent almost a month and a half in the hospital recuperating from various injuries, including permanent brain damage. Authorities said the alleged attack was caused by atypical psychosis suffered by Baldwin, who was charged with first-degree assault and assaulting a police officer and is awaiting a preliminary hearing. He has pleaded innocent and not responsible by reason of insanity to the charges. Nebraska football coach Tom Osborne announced Monday the total amount — $34,832 — that was raised at the spring game, in which fans were asked to contribute what they would normally pay for scrimmage tickets to a fund for Gina Simanck. __ See SIMANEK on 3 Blank says tight funds a concern Incumbent regent’s big concern focuses on finances of future 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 second of a three-part series on the candidates. By Sean Green Senior Reporter The university’s toughest challenge in the coming years will be to maintain academic excellence in tough financial limes, Don Blank, chair of the NU Board of Regents, said. Blank, who will be the incumbent in the May 12 District 7 scat primary, said his expe rience as a regent showed him that lack of funding was tnc biggest concern facing the university. “Dollars arc going to be lough and that means tough decisions,” he said. “If funding doesn’t increase, more cuts will have to be made, and nobody enjoys doing that.” Blank. 56, is a dentist in McCook, and has served on the board for six years, two of those years as chairman. He is being challenged for the regent position by John Massey and Russ Hilliard, both of Scottsbluff. Blank said he thought the board of regents was better now than it was when he began serving and said it would continue to improve. “I think we’ve made some major strides in refocusing the regents over the last six years,” - — ( hc saicj “We’re starting to look more closely at some priority items and that’s a step in the right direction.” In addition to financial _ _problems. Blank said, the university, including the board, must continue focusing on issues such as minority concerns, gender equity and faculty salaries. Blank said Ihc university’s best asset was its people. “We’ve got to remember that bricks and mortar don’t teach students or conduct re search—-pwplc_do/Mie_said:J^thinkjve^ve See BLANK on 3 Blank Correction: A story in Tuesday's Arts and Enter tamment section should have reported that Babe Ruth played his final game in 1935 with the Boston Braves, not the Atlanta Braves The Daily Nebraskan Regrets the error Clinton beats Brown in Pennsylvania primary Page 2 LECTION | Results Richards Hall in need of reparations, officials say. Page 6 Nebraska baseball team beaten by Kansas State in the ninth inning. Page 8 UNL dance instructor doubles as Rock ette and mother. Page 9 ~e I Opinion 4 Sports 8 A & E 9 Classifieds 11
