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About The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 27, 1992)
67/38 Partly sunny today. Tomorrow highs will reach only into the 50's. i _i Al Schaben/DN Sandra Spanier, an associate professor of English at UNL, holds her book about Kay Boyle. Spanier, whose studies are highlighted by rediscovering women writers, said she wanted to “recover women’s voices in American literature.” Lauding women writers Authors’ experiences prompt professor’s compilation, writing By Kristine Long Staff Reporter MarthaGellhom and Kay Boyle arc two unfamil iar names for most readers. But Sandra Spanicr, an associate professor of English at UNL, has discovered their talents and is working to give these women writers ■ |j M k the recognition ■r they deserve. H/ Spanicr, who began teaching LJ J literature at the j University of j Nebraska 1 Lincoln this fall, said she wanted to “recover women’s voices in American literature.” Spanicr leaches late American literature and a Hemingway/ Fitzgerald class. She published a critical study of Kay Boyle in 1986, and is editing a collection of letters from the 90-ycar-old writer. Boyle always “had a knack for being wherever the action was,” Spanicr said. Boyle lived in Austria in the 1930s and watched as the Nazi party rose to power, Spanicr said. She wrote the first novel about the French resistance in World War II. Boyle v.as friends with novelist James Joyce, poet William Carlos Williams and many other famous writers, Spanicr said. Boyle had six children and two step children, Spanicr said, but she still found lime to write more than 40 books. “Kay Boyle was a very impressive example of a woman | who was able to have a family and be a writer also.” Spanicr is trying to locale Boyle’s personal letters, which are scattered throughout the United States, to combine them into a book as a record of her life. Spanicr also is writing a critical study of the works of Martha Gcllhorn, Ernest Hemingway’s third wife. Gcllhom is 83 and lives in London, Spanicr said. She was a war correspondent during the Spanish Civil War and World War II. But Gcllhorn’s work is overshadowed by her identity as Hemingway’s wife, Spanicr said. “It’s a grave injustice that in the United States, Gcllhom is best remembered as Hemingway’s wife, rather than for her own accomplishments,” she said. Spanicr contacted Gcllhom in 1990 to ask her permission to write a book about her. See SPANIER on 3 Park plan brings end to DaVincis Recreational area proposed for land near City Campus By Kristin Armstrong Staff Reporter___ Restaurants are disappearing from a block of university-owned land, partly because of a plan to build a park on that land. DaVinci’s Pi/./.a & Hot Hoagies restaurant on 13th and Q streets will close Dec.31, and two other restaurants near the University of Nc braska-Lincoln’s City Campus shut down re cently. The Hole Works and Taco Inn, both near 14th and R streets, closed last summer. The park that may lake their place is part of a plan to build an “extension of the campus,” Bob Carpenter, campus architect at UNL.said. The park would be on the land that extends from 12th Street to 13th Street and from Q Street to R Street, Kim Todd, campus land scape architect said. —-—.-— The park would serve a number of purposes, Todd said. It would mainly be a meeting place, she said, and students arriving for New Student Enrollment might gather there. Theater audiences from both the Lied Cen ter for Performing Arts and the Temple Build ing also might use the park before and after performances. Several details about the park have yet to be decided, Carpenter said. Although many ideas have been suggested, he said, planners have no knowledge of what the park would contain. “We would like to make this area more campus-like and accommodate the needs of the university,” Carpenter said. Officials have no knowledge of when the park would be built or how much construction would cost, Todd said. The park niay cover the entire block of land, which now includes a parking lot and a univer sity-owned building. The parking lot would be placed elsewhere if it displaced parking spaces, Carpenter said. The Hole Works and Taco Inn were in the building owned by the university. That build —ing now houses only.thc Office of International Affairs and a computer center used by the College of Business Administration. The proposed park was not why The Hole Works closed, owner Sharon Kuhn said. Al though the restaurant was busy during the fall, it could not make up for the slow business during the summer, Kuhn said. Taco Inn closed when its lease expired. The university had offered the owners a month-to month lease when its long-term lease expired, but the owners declined. John Benson, director of institutional re search and planning, said the building still was serving an important function by housing the Office of International Affairs. CBA also still uses the space for a computer center, Nancy Stara, associate dean of CBA, said. The computer center will move back to the CBA building once construction on the build ing is completed in June 1994. The university has not decided what to do with the building, Carpenter said. He also said he did not know if the university would force the Office of International Affairs and the CBA computer center to leave when plans for the See DAVINCI 'S on 3 Funds focus of minority recruitment, official says By Chuck Green Senior Reporter Although the University of Nc braska-Lincoln is lagging be hind other schools in the race for top minority students, one official said the competition should not be the main focus. James Gricscn, vice chancellor for student affairs at UNL, said he would like to sec an increase in funding for recruiting academically gifted minor ity students, “but not at the expense of other (minority) students who could also use the money.” The university reserves only about S70,9(X) for minority student recruit ment. The money comes from two scholarship endowment funds: the Larsen and Gupta fund and the Davis scholarship fund. Gricscn said the See RECRUITMENT on 3 Art exhibit promotes awareness of AIDS By Steve Smith The issue of AIDS awareness mcl the art world Monday evening when about 100 stu dents, faculty members and adminis trators attended a student art exhibit and fund-raiser for AIDS research. The fund-raiser, which was in the Richards Hall gallery, was sponsored by the Coalition of People of Color and the University Health Center, said Florcncio Flores Palomo, coalition co-president and event organ i/.cr. The exhibit included about 30 paintings and drawings by minority students. Art majors as well as stu See AIDS on 3