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Baldwin permanently paralyzed, doctors saty
By Chuck Green
Senior Reporter. «_ ■•
1^ octors at Omaha’s St. Joseph
1 M ^Medical Center determined
‘•-^Tuesday that University of
Nebraska-Lincoln student
Andrew Scott Baldwin would be per
manently paralyzed after being shot
by an Omaha police officer during a
scuffle this weekend.
Baldwin, 23,
was shot at 11:46
p.m. Saturday by
Omaha Police Of
ficer Anna Doyle
after repeated
warnings to stop
trying to grab the
revolver carried
by another offi
Baldwin cer, Peggy
Baldwin Tmckenbrod
The officers had been dispatched
to 3701 N. 30th St. to investigate
reports of a nude man trying to break
into an apartment, said Omaha Police
Chief Jim Skinner.
Bullet remains lodged close to spinal column
The officers became involved in a
physical struggle with Baldwin, and
Doyle shot Baldwin oijce in the lower
left chest after the former Cornhusker
football player allegedly tried to grab
Truckenbrod’s holstered gun.
The bullet apparently angled
through Baldwin’schcst to the middle
of his back, where it remains lodged
near his spinal column.
St. Joseph physicians reported in a
prepared statement that Baldwin suf
fered a complete spinal cord injury at
the level of the fourth thoracic verte
bra. Baldwin has no function below
that point in his spinal cord, which is
located at mid-chest between the
shoulder blades. Hospital officials
also upgraded Baldwin’s condition
from serious to fair Tuesday.
Baldwin was found not respon
sible by reason of insanity for the Jan.
18 assaults of Gina Simanek Moun
tain and Lincoln Police Officer Greg
Sims. During that incident, like Satur
day night’s, Baldwin was nude and
tussled with police.
Last Wednesday, Lancaster
County District Court Judge Paul
Merritt Jr. ordered Baldwin to con
tinue his psychiatric treatment pro
gram at Omaha’s St. Joseph Medical
Center. Baldwin’s program was de
veloped by Dr. Donald Swanson, an
Omaha psychiatrist who had evalu
ated and treated Baldwin since the
initial incident last January.
Swanson could not be reached for
comment Tuesday.
According to Skinner, the police
received a 911 call at 11:18 p.m.
Saturday from former Comhusker
quarterback Mickey Joseph, who told
the dispatcher that Baldwin had
jumped out of his car at 40th and
Dodge streets. Joseph told the dis
patcher that he didn’t know where
Baldwin was, and that he was con
cerned for Baldwin’s safety. •
A few moments later, police re
ceived a call from an employee at the
Stage II Lounge, where Baldwin al
legedly had collapsed on the floor and
had been escorted out.
After numerous reports of a nude
man in the area of 38th and Pratt
streets—37 blocks north of the inter
section where Baldwin was reported
to have jumped from Joseph’s car —
the police found Baldwin at the apart
ment complex. The shooting occurred
moments later.
Skinner said that when the officers
tried to physically restrain Baldwin, a
scuffle ensued, and the three tumbled
down a stairway to the ground level.
At that point, Skinner said, Baldwin
tried to grab Truckenbrod’s gun.
Douglas County Attorney Jim
Jansen said Monday the officers acted
responsibly during the incident, and
that the use of deadly force was justi
fied. He said Douglas County would
file no charges against Baldwin.
Lancaster County Attorney Gary
Lacey filed a motion with Merritt
Tuesday to have the case reviewed,
and asked that previous ruling for
outpatient status at St. Joseph be re
moved.
Baldwin was in Omaha Saturday
night for a 7 p.m. University of Ne
braska at Omaha football game, and
he and Joseph were on their way to a
friend’s house when Baldwin jumped
from the car.
Baldwin admitted to doctors that
he had stopped taking his daily medi
cation of lithium carbonate, an anti
depressant, and had consumed beer a
few hours before the shooting.
One of the stipulations of Merritt’s
outpatient ruling was that Baldwin
continue histwodailydosesoflithium,
and that contin ucd medication be con
firmed by weekly monitoring.
Officials work to revise
budget cutting process
By Shelley Biggs
Senior Reporter
UNL officials are awaiting the Sept. 21
special legislative session before pro
ceeding with plans for budget cuts, said
John Benson, director of institutional
research and planning for UNL.
Benson said nothing could be done to pre
pare for university budget cuts until the Ne
braska Legislature laid out its intentions.
For now, he said, University of Nebraska
Lincoln officials will focus on revising the
procedures for making cuts. A draft of proce
dures was drawn up this summer to help univer
sity officials in the process.
Benson said the draft now was being stream
lined to eliminate some of the problems univer
sity officials had last year when budget cuts
were made.
UNL’s Academic Planning Committee has
taken on the task of strengthening communica
tion among all parties involved to keep proce
dures running smoothly.
UNL Chancellor Graham Spanier will es
tablish the foundation for the process and will
identify which colleges will be targeted for
spending reductions* At the same time, deans
from individual colleges will work on ways to
reduce spending.
University officials, faculty and students
will discuss the process before it is finalized.
The plan eventually will cement the criteria
used to decide whether a program or depart
ment should be eliminated, reduced or reorga
nized.
Final recommendations regarding the plan
will be sent to Spanier for approval. Spanier
may accept or reject the committee’s recom
mendations.
* Royce Ballinger, president of the Academic
Senate, said it was important to note that the
draft still was subject to considerable review
and revision.
“The new plans are still in the discussion
stage and are not yet finalized,” he said.
The document was revised to allow for
more faculty and administrator discussion,
Ballinger said, and to tie it to strategic planning
and programming evaluation. These are neces
sary steps in the budget-reduction process, he
said.
Renovation oj office completed
Official says health & safety
problems caused concern
By Susie Arth
Senior Reporter
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The $76,000 renovation of UNL Chancel
lor Graham Spanier’s office was neces
sary to rid the office of health and safety
problems, a UNL official said.
John Benson, director of institutional re
search and planning at UNL, said the renova
tion included two major projects on the ceiling
and on the floor to make the office in the
Administration Building a safer place.
The ceiling was replaced because asbestos
was flaking off of it, he said. An air condition
ing and healing system, located in the floor
above the chancellor’s office, was leaking onto
the chancellor’s ceiling, he said.
‘‘The condensation from the air conditioner
leaks and loosens the plaster and causes some
of the asbestos to drip,” Benson said.
Similar renovations were completed about a
year and a half ago in the graduate studies
offices, he said, which is directly above the
chancellor’s office.
The ceiling part of the project also included
the installation of a new' lighting system, he
said.
The other major renovation was recarpeting
the entire suite, he said.
Herbert Howe, associate to the chancellor,
said the new carpel was necessary because the
old carpet was lumpy and the seams were
splitting. Howe said it was difficult for physi
cally disabled people to move across the office,
and he feared others could trip and fall.
“I think the carpet had been in here for
decades,” he said.
Benson said the project also entailed refin
ishing walls, repainting the walls, and getting
new drapes.
“The drapes were literally rotting,” he said.
The new carpeting and the ceiling, he said,
were installed in the entire suite, which in
cludes several offices and the main conference
room.
Benson said the project also included re
moving and relocating a wall to provide more
space for the office’s secretaries. ,
He said about $10,735 of the renovations
were paid for by the University of Nebraska
Foundation. The remaining money came from
stale funds, he said.
Howe said those stale funds paid for many
similar renovations in classrooms and laborato
ries across campus.
Benson said the asbestos removal began on
July 10, and the entire project was completed on
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W.P/Zeek” Taylor of Humansville, Mo., shakes his 1930 Model A Ford, known
as “Old Heifer, to a smooth idle Tuesday at the State Fair.
Nothing to do? Go to the fair
By Andrea Kaser
Staff Reporter
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The few UNL students who were at the
Nebraska State Fair Tuesday afternoon
found that they didn’t have to battle long
lines at funnel-cake stands and that they
could have many of the rides to themselves.
Some students said they came to the fair
because they had nothing else to do on the last
day of vacation.
“My friends said, ‘Let’s go, there’s nothing
else going on today,’’’ said Susan Shields, a
junior speech pathology major.
* Aside from having nothing else to do, Corey
Huck, a senior agricultural economics major,
said the com dogs and “Zeek,” the hillbilly
jalopy, brought him back this year. Zeek is a
rusted-out Model A adorned with everything
from a brassiere and plastic flowers to cooking
utensils and a fish head.
He and his friend, Jason Voss, a sophomore
agribusiness major, said they planned to attend
the free open-air concert with country singer
Suzy Bogguss at 6 p.m.
Mark Frank, a senior agriculture education
major who was with Huck and Voss, said the
antique tractors interested him. Antique farm
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