Baldwin
transfers
to Lincoln
By Shelley Biggs
Senior Reporter
District Court Judge Paul Merritt
Jr. ordered former University
of Ncbraska-Lincoln student
Andrew Scott Baldwin transferred to
a state mental hospital Wednesday.
Baldwin was moved Wednesday
afternoon from St. Joseph Center for
Mental Health in Omaha to the Lin
coln Regional Center.
Merritt would not comment on
what Baldwin’s care would entail at
the regional center, but he said Baldwin
was sent there for “medical reasons.”
According to Merritt’s order,
Baldwin must be under direct super
vision whenever he goes outside.
Merritt’s order gave regional cen
ter staff the authority to determine
whether Baldwin would live in a se
curity unit or other housing.
Carole Smith, volunteer and com
munity relations coordinator for the
regional center, said that for now,
Baldwin had been placed in a short
term care unit, as opposed to a secu
rity unit.
Smith said the unit was accessible
to people who used wheelchairs.
Bald w in was paralyzed from the chest
down after being shot by an Omaha
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Japan game
causes mass
NU exodus
By Chuck Green
Senior Reporter __
uiic a few offices al the Uni
versity of Ncbraska-Lincoln
will be empty until next
week.
And their usual occupants aren’t
just in a different town, they’re in a
different day.
More than 150 administrators, re
gents, athletic department officials,
coaches, trainers and football players
left Lincoln Tuesday for an 18-hour
trip toTokyo for the Coca-Cola Bowl,
a football game between the
Comhuskers and the Kansas Stale
Wildcats.
The game, which is the 16th an
nual matchup, will be played Sunday
afternoon Tokyo time, which is late
Saturday nightCcntral Standard Time.
Gary Fouraker, assistant athletic
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Participants in a performance sign language workshop practice their skills in the Nebraska Union Ballroom Wednesday
night.
Songs in sign language
Director of diversity interprets art for hearing impaired
By Matthew Grant
Staff Reporter
To pay for his senior year in
college and graduate school, Eric
Jolly worked as a performance
signer.
Wednesday night, Jolly shared
the skills he learned with those
interested in learning more about
the art.
Performance signing conveys
to hearing-impaired audiences
the full impact of songs, poetry
and other performances in which
rhythm and emotion is as
important as words. Jolly said.
He is assistant to the chancellor
and director of affirmative action
and diversity at the University of
Ncbraska-Lincoln.
Jolly began the workshop by
demonstrating performance
signing to a Bee Gees song called
“Tragedy.” During the introduc
tion, he mimed the actions of a
person confined in a room. When
the singing began, he used his
hands to sign, but also danced
with his entire body.
Performance signers use
artistic license in translating
words and make use of large
gestures and mime, he said.
Performance signing also
lakes account of dialectical
differences in language, Jolly
said. He said he signed with an
East Coast accent.
“If a performer has an accent,
the signer wants to capture that,”
Jolly said.
Jolly’s accent is a result of his
stage work, which was mostly on
the East Coast. He toured clubs
for the hearing impaired, per
forming mainly theater and
poetry.
Jolly also worked as an
interpreter on television, where
he signed for a number of well
known people, including Nobel
laureate Roy Curtis III and
Pulitzer Prizxi-winning author
Maxine Hong Kingston.
Jolly learned performance
signing from Phyllis Froclich,
Tony Award winner for the
Broadway show, “Children of a
Lesser God.” Jolly said he met
her by chance when she came
into a grocery store where he
worked.
He said he hoped the work
shop would inspire people who
were learning sign language to
stay with it and to develop their
skills.
To learn sign language lakes a
year or two, he said, but to be
proficient takes longer.
“I’m still working at it,” Jolly
said. He knows U.S., French,
Russian and Plains Indian sign
language.
Jolly said people with hearing
impairments seemed to like
performance signing more after
they had been exposed to it a
number of times. He compared
this to the experience of hearing
a song on the radio for the first
time.
“People don’t catch the words,
but they do catch the emotion,”
he said.
Minority groups need recognition, otiicial says
By Lori Stones
Staff Reporter --
he University of Ncbraska-Lincoln is a
S black and white campus in the eyes of
the attendants at a brown bag sympo
sium Wednesday at the Nebraska Union.
Many of the 65 students, staff and faculty
members said they believed that Chicanos,
Hispanics and Latinos needed more recogni
tion at UNL.
They said the university had made only
small strides toward full representation of mi
norities. They also said they would like Latinos
and Chicanos to be recognized as a separate
minority group from Hispanics.
Universities use Hispanic as a term of con
venience, but they must recognize the differ
ences among Chicanos, Hispanics and Latinos,
said Miguel Carranza, an associate professor of
sociology and ethnic studies.
We are not against blacks, but when we see them make signifi
cant strides, it is an issue.
Ramirez
counselor and psychologist, University Health Center
Chicanosarcof Mcxican-American descent.
Hispanics have a Spanish or Portuguese ances
try. Latinos are from Latin American countries.
Marty Ramirez, a counselor and psycholo
gist at the University Health Center, who was
the moderator, asked participants to suggest
how the university could increase
multiculluralism.
Eric Jolly, director of the Affirmative Ac
tion and Diversity Office, told participants to
become vocal and make their opinions known.
By doing this, he said, minorities will make
UNL responsible for giving them a “bigger
piece of the pie.”
“We don’t need to solve problems,” Jolly
said. “The system has failed the students and
staff.”
He encouraged students to be persistent in
voicing their concerns because the university
had new administrators who wanted to hear
them.
Ramirez said that in the 20 years he had been
at UNL, the number of Chicanos who had
leading faculty and staff positions had de
clincd. Fifteen ycarsago, there were 11 Chicanos
in leading positions at UNL, he said, and now
there arc about six.
“We don’t exist,” he said.
The reason for this non-existence, he said, is
that historically, African-Americans have been
viewed as the only minority group. African
Americans make up 90 percent of the minority
population, he said, but people must recognize
smaller minority groups.
“We are not against blacks,” he said, “but
when we see them make significant strides, it is
an issue.”
Florcncio Flores Palomo, a junior and co
president for the Coalition of People of Color,
said he believed African-Americans were rec
ognized more because they spoke out on any
issue that disturbed them.
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