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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.
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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
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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
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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
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