New center aids needs
of women on campus
By Ronda Vlasin
Staff Reporter
The University of Ncbraska
Lincoln’s Women’s Center is matur
ing with a new structure and a new
mission, said Judith Kriss, the re
cently appointed director of the cen
ter.
She said she thought the changes
would make the center more open to
women.
“The old mission seemed to be
rather narrowly defined,” Kriss said.
“The new mission, to provide a edu
cation center for the changing roles of
women and men in society, will hope
fully make thcccntcr more accessible
and be easier for women to under
stand what the center is all about."
The center will provide services
with more of a emphasis on education
rather than the activist role the center
was established on in the 1970s. But,
Kriss said, the center will still advo
cate social equality for all people. “
New to the center will be a video
tape library with an available televi
sion and VCR, individual counseling
and expanded support groups, she said.
A joint Rape Education Project
with the Association of Students of
the University of Nebraska and the
University Health Center is another
new program to the center, Kriss said.
She said that the Women’s Center
will offer support groups and counsel
ing, while the Health (Jenter will offer
trained rape educators and ASUN will
promote the project.
“My hope is the Women’s Center
will be a great place where women
can get together, network and move
into those positions of leadership and
change that men now dominate,” Kriss
said.
In the past, the center has been very
volunteer oriented, Kriss said, and
she hoped it would continue that way.
The staff will consist of students, a
full-time coordinator and a graduate
assistant counselor, she said. Mem
bers of a new advisory board will be
selected this fall and will be com
posed of students, faculty and staff,
Kriss said.
A women ’ s collective, a group that
makes decisions by a consensus of the
members, had been doing most of the
decision maki ng for the center since it
was founded.
The collective was dissolved and
a coordinator was put in charge in
hopes of making the center more ac
cessible to all women on campus.
Kriss said she didn't like the pro
cess in which the collective was dis
solved.
“It was done through a male domi
nated hierarchy, the very thing we are
fighting against,” she said. “Even
though I don’t like how it all came
about, I support the decision and think
we have arrived at the right outcome.”
Kriss said she hoped the collective
would continue to work with the cen
ter, but as a student organization in
which there is a financial account
available to support them. Vanessa
Spencer, member of the former col
lective, said the collective had been
promised at least one scat on the
center’s new advisory board.
“I feel like there is a obligation to
keep working,” she said. “We would
like to finish negotiating the rules and
responsibilities of the managementof
the Women’s Center.”
Nebraska museums earn grants
Sheldon among
443 recepients
By Jill O’Brien
Staff Reporter
Out of the 1500 museums that ap
plied for federal grants from the Insti
tute of Museum Services, the Univer
sity of Nebraska Slate Museum and
the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery
were two of the 443 chosen.
The museums were each awarded
$75,000 from IMS. IMS awarded a
total of $295,000 to Nebraska muse
ums.
George Neubert, director of the
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, said
that Sheldon was the only art museum
in the state to be awarded.
“It reflects the standard of quality
for the Sheldon in collection of pro
grams and our professional staff,’’
Neubert said.
Charline Saddler, administrative
coordinator for the State Museum,
said this was the fourth year the mu
seum has received IMS funding. Sad
dler said the funds are for general
operating support, such as buying copy
paper, supplies, paying phone bills
and the secretary’s salary for a year.
“We can’t buy any capital equip
ment,’’ she said, “but it frees up other
dollars to accomplish other projects.”
Nor can IMS funds be used for
construction or acquisitions, Neubert
said.
Neubert said the IMS funding for
Sheldon will be primarily used for
support of the exhibitions to be pre
sented next year.
One of the forthcoming programs
will be “Akari,” sculpted Japanese
lamps designed by Isamu Noguchi, an
internationally-known Japanese
Amcrican sculptor who recently
passed away.
The funding helps pay the “Akari”
shipping costs and for the purchase of
Noguchi’s lamps. However, since the
lamps will be offered for sale after the
exhibition, Neubert said the lamps
arc not considered an acquisition. He
added that IMS funding also will be
used to promote a special showing of
the photography of Ansel Adams,
planned for February, 1993.
Neubert said Sheldon relies heavily
on public support and outside fund
ing, such as the grants disbursed by
IMS.
“This is typical of the way we
exist,” he said.
Most of the State Museum’s fund
ing also is from public support, Sad
dler said. “And we do depend on
generated income.”
Next year, IMS funding will
change, Saddler said.
“The amount will increase hope
fully and be for two years,” she said.
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